Michal Čihař - Archive for 9/2009

Enca 1.11

After month of collecting little fixes flying around, I release Enca 1.11. If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

The full changes are short:

  • Dropped scanf configure test which is not used at all.
  • Fixes some wrong format strings.

You can download from http://dl.cihar.com/enca/.

Fun with blacklists

Yes, blacklists are great, especially if wrongly used. Currently I can not renew SSL certificate I used to have from StartSSL, because they somehow use blacklist from Google to block sites with malware. The word somehow is important here, because I am not listed as being suspicious, but they still see me blacklisted.

And the more funny thing seems to be that Google found sometimes some malware on my site, but there is no way to find out what it was. Maybe it is somehow related to the broken antivirus complaining that NSIS binary contains a virus, but who knows...

As the funny story goes on, I get to know that it is because I'm on AS:15685 network. Well I am. And as well are about other thousands of servers hosted in that place. So what?

PS: Just to be sure, I just did full scan of all files on dl.cihar.com and here is the result:

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 621888
Engine version: 0.95.2
Scanned directories: 133
Scanned files: 3975
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 14546.95 MB
Data read: 2462.58 MB (ratio 5.91:1)
Time: 1093.524 sec (18 m 13 s)

Gammu stable version 1.26.1

Gammu 1.26.1 is out! This release just fixes few bugs in AT driver.

Full list of changes:

  • CPIN reply is handled like regular one except in A2D case (bug #994).
  • Fix finding first empty position when memory is empty (bug #996).
  • Fixed parsing of SMS status reports.
  • Fixed parsing of text messages with new lines (bug #995).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.

Debian users will find packages in unstable soon, SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva users can check repository in OpenSuse Build Service and Ubuntu in my PPA.

Gammu stable version 1.26.0

Gammu 1.26.0 is out! There is reduced memory usage, tons of bugfixes, better support for reading messages from Motorola phones.

Full list of changes:

  • Fixed handling of RunOnReceive error code.
  • Fixed crash when encoding USSD dials.
  • Fixed decoding of phonebook entries on Motorola (bug #988).
  • Fixed decoding of long text messages (bug #990).
  • Fixed location of saved message (bug #989).
  • Added ID for Nokia 1681c.
  • Fixed reading of phonebook from Samsung (bug #980).
  • Add ID for Nokia 3390b (bug #982).
  • DCT3 dependent code reports error when phone is not DCT3 (bug #982).
  • Fixed reading of DCT4 file folders (bug #986).
  • Reworked RPM packages (separate libraries and SMSD).
  • Huawei E160 uses encoded USSD requests.
  • Better support for messages on Motorola, thanks to Quintin Hill.
  • Fix reading of SMS backups without text (bug #963).
  • Send message even if SendingTimeOut is null (bug #977).
  • Disabled automatic OBEX for Motorola phones.
  • Increased limits for message length, bump soname to 7 because of this.
  • Changed SMSD tables to be able to handle longer messages from Motorola phones.
  • Documented most commands in man page.
  • Completed Czech translation of Gammu.
  • Avoid crash on some Nokia smses (bug #959).
  • Added support for Bluetooth on more BSD systems, thanks to Iain Hibbert.
  • Added new command setsmsc.
  • Added option to disable checking for battery and signal in SMSD.
  • Fixed getting firmware revision on AT phones (bug #951).
  • Added support for home/work mobile number (bug #952).
  • Fixed handling of error response for security status in AT.
  • Fixed segfault on systems with very low memory limits.
  • Development now goes on in Git repository, please check README.
  • 6510 driver now dynamically allocates memory for file caches, what reduces Gammu memory usage by 800 MiB.
  • Added testcases for AT+CNMI replies.
  • Fixed range parsing in AT engine.
  • Added reconnect support in PostgreSQL driver in SMSD.
  • Gammu debug level no longer can be controlled separately in SMSD.
  • Fix loop when Nokia phone does not allow to access files (bug #954).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.

Debian users will find packages in unstable soon, SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva users can check repository in OpenSuse Build Service and Ubuntu in my PPA.

Problems with phpMyAdmin website

Our website currently shows a bit wrong information about file downloads. The single reason for this is that we take this data from sourceforge.net and all they exports are currently broken in some way.

Per file RSS (which was only working source of information few days ago) seems to be disabled recently, RSS for all files just repeats same metadata for all files and the old releases RSS does not list recent releases.

I did not want to blame them again, but it has been already three weeks from my last complains and bug reports and all that changed is that they broke (or removed?) the last working feed.