I didn't comment the rest of, because that's silly enough, so I'll comment only that one. The problem with Firefox vs Iceweasel is located at the Mozilla foundation, which refuses that someone uses the name Firefox (and it's logo) if patches are added. Other distributions might just ignore that fact, but Debian cares about licenses and trademarks. If you want this to change, then you are welcome to ask Mozilla to change its trademark policy.

This is only your view, but not the one of the Debian Multimedia team within Debian. In many ways, d-m.o broke upgrades, disrespecting the version numbers and such.

And by that, supporting a website which provides packages that breaks upgrades in Debian? Thanks but no thanks.

Not what happened. We asked Christian Marilla (the old owner of debian-multimedia.org) to stop doing things separately, and work with the Debian Multimedia team. He was also asked to stop building packages which are constantly breaking upgrades from one Debian version to the next. But it seems he prefers doing things alone...

Stop the non-sense, and read the man page for apt-key and how the Release.gpg file works.

See what I wrote above. This is simply wrong. There's a Release.gpg file which is signed by the FTP masters, and which validates the repository.

Please don't spread such non-sense. This can't happen, unless the user choose to dismiss the warnings that apt is shouting...

man apt-key ...

I think here, you are mistaking Debian with RedHat ... Packages are signed individually by their maintainer. But that is used only to validate an upload to the Debian repository. What is in use by Debian users, unlike on a RPM based system, is the Release.gpg file, which is the signature for the repository. This, in the official Debian repositories, is signed by the FTP masters (and the key used to sign the repository is signed by multiple Debian Developer, all in the web of trust).

It's not the role of Debian to back-hack the cruft of a sysadmin. If a sysadmin decided to add a non-official repository, it's his responsibility to maintain it. If the non-official repository goes away this way, Debian isn't to blame.

The Debian community is in fact very concerned by it, but there's very little that we can do. Intrusively hacking the sources.list isn't a nice thing to do. The one to blame is the old owner of debian-multimedia.org, not Debian itself. debian-multimedia.org (and deb-multimedia.org by the way) was non-official anyway, and not supported (and in fact, disliked by the Debian Multimedia team (notice the space instead of the dash...)).

For this, we have apt-key. If you blindly trust a non-signed source, that's your fault.

How many centuries ago did you last try Linux? If there's something that works these days, it really is sound.

I would have say that 8 months ago. Now, with the latest release (code name Grizzly, version 2013.1.x), we are up to a very good level, with quantum finally working correctly. For storage, I would suggest Ceph rather than Swift + Cinder. Thomas

VLAN used to be the common solution for networking with OpenStack. Though there are major drawbacks with that (limitation in the number of VLAN, hardware needs to support it, etc.), so these days, mostly everyone (me included) prefer the GRE tunnel solution.

What the article was about was fooling the reader into believing there's a consensus. Truth is, there is none, and it is extremely hard to know how much human activity plays a role. Anyone who pretend that WE KNOW is a fool. Making a model of the entire earth isn't an easy task.

The problem is not the change, but what change. As I wrote, everyone agrees that human activity has consequences. By how much, nobody agrees. Which is why asking such question has very little importance.

But the question is: by how much is it caused by humans. And that's a very difficult question to answer.

Yes, the acidic waters are a big problem which should be addressed. Yet I fail to see how this is related to temperatures.

Maybe you could start by reading my post before answering. I haven't taken such side.