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Added "iw" support to Linux Sea
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 26 August 2010

The wireless driver developers are actively working on a new wireless toolset called "iw", slowly deprecating the older wireless-tools toolset (which contains the "iwconfig" command). Kasumi_Ninja reported to me in the Gentoo Forums that it would be nice to add information on iw to Linux Sea, so I did …

cvechecker 0.4 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 25 August 2010

Albeit with less updates than 0.3 had, cvechecker 0.4 brings in internal project files reorganization (more to the liking of the GNU autoconf/automake standards - I think), fixes a databaseleak (instead of memoryleak ;-) bug and introduces a teenie weenie bit more intelligent pullcves command (with multiple return code …

I remain impressed by the free software community
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 25 August 2010

My current personal projects, Linux Sea and cvechecker, are actively being watched by the free software community. For the Linux Sea book, I get nice feedback and ideas on the Gentoo Forums and on the cvechecker application, people such as Nigel Horne are helping out in various ways - including feature …

cvechecker userguide
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 22 August 2010

Just a quick note, I've created and uploaded the cvechecker userguide.

cvechecker 0.3 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 20 August 2010

Time for a new intermediate cvechecker release, so here it is. Changes include (beyond the usual bugfixes) different CSV output (with some sort of version support) so that it can be easily used for reporting purposes, removal of debugging/verbose items and added example files for reporting.

cvechecker 0.2 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 16 August 2010

I've made version 0.2 available of cvechecker. It fixes some build warnings and also supports the normal "make install" step. The pullcves command now also pulls in the latest versions.dat file. Special thanks to Per Andersson for reporting that the ./configure didn't fail if sqlite3 or libconfig wasn't …

cvechecker 0.1 released
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 14 August 2010

cvechecker version 0.1 is out. This is the first publicly available development release, so it's still far from production-ready yet. However, it is usable so it can now be publicly analyzed to remove all icky bugs and such. I'm not planning (m)any new features (apart from the reporting …

HP webcam on Linux
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 13 August 2010

Okay, getting the HP webcam running on Linux wasn't hard at all. Enable Video For Linux (CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) which can be found in the Linux kernel configuration at Device Drivers, Multimedia Support. Then, select Video capture adapters and inside that menu, select V4L USB devices and then USB Video …

New laptop, time to play
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 13 August 2010

I gave myself a nice treat and bought a new laptop. After some consideration, I decided to go with the HP Pavilion DV7 3150EB. Years ago, I didn't take an HP laptop as the reviews were not that satisfying. However, it looks as if that is past. So I first …

Linux Sea sources online, cvechecker still in development
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 23 July 2010

First of all, I've put the sources for Linux Sea online at GitHub. Not only does that safeguard any latest changes from not hitting my backup in time before my laptop dies (it's terminal, but I can't let him go yet ;-) but it also allows people who want to help …