On actively avoiding solutions to keep problems alive
TIL that this observation I make over and over again actually has a name.
TIL that this observation I make over and over again actually has a name.
#UnpopularOpinion The current spam wave supports one of my suspicions that federated networks should be built as a web of trust, Friends of a Friend style. O...
Since I finished my 5-part E-Mail Done My Way series, I have made a few minor and bigger changes (replaced fail2ban with crowdsec being one of the bigger cha...
WARNING: As with all my technical posts, this is NOT a simple copy/paste description. If you want to use this proposed solution, I expect you to know how Jek...
TIL: With a simple #podman command I can install and run a container that monitors my services - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma from the wonderful L...
Today I read this, IMHO rather clickbaity blog entry by Heather Meeker called Is Copyright Eating AI?. And I was not impressed.
(A while ago I kinda complained that it is not easy to convert a thread on Mastodon to Markdown so I can turn it into a blog post. Well. Vadim saw that, thou...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
This is a corollary to E-Mail Done My Way, Part 3 - DKIM/DMARC/SPF. To really understand what problems exist with E-Mail since many years and how DKIM, DMARC...
I will update this entry and turn it into a consistent documentation. But right now I need to braindump and share. Please comment!
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It...
Recently, due to all the discussions around GitHub and Copilot and Software Freedom, I moved my repositories to Codeberg. I was an avid user of Github Pages,...
Long before NFT existed, we had other digital dreams - domain names! I have quite a bunch of them, still. A few times per year I look at them, think of all t...
“So how is the Corona pandemic going in Munich?” A question I ask myself every day since 2 years. And answering that question is kind of complicated. You’d h...
Below you see an embedded (rather stupid and pointless) video clip from my PeerTube instance.
2023-02-18 UPDATE: This hack/fix is not needed anymore as Github now allows up to 4 social accounts on user profiles which set the correct link with the rel=...
On my 50th birthday, back in January 2020, the first official PCR diagnosis of a new Corona virus in Germany was made here in Munich. This became later known...
Things are looking better. A short recap. On 2022-05-24 a lot, and I mean a LOT of Verifone H5000 payment terminals stopped working. Rebooting them didn’t he...
One single type of payment terminal (the Verifone H5000), a rather old platform, officially announced End of Life 2019, end of production 2020, with some sor...
Time to revive this blog. I let it linger in limbo for too long. Running on a WordPress instance I set up 9 years ago (but I kept it up2date, vigorously). I ...
Alright. I am not really sure where I am going to take this, but I now have a static blog here. I might move my existing blog over or I might keep this blog ...
Home Automation. The holy hipster and geek grail. I have played with it. I have tried. I have failed. But today I am proud to have a solution I can truly end...
Here’s the thing. Elon Musk doesn’t trust the patent system to protect his inventions. So instead of filing for more, he will simply not file at all and keep...
Just read an article by Matthew Garrett on why developers use Macs.
I don’t fear the bugs that get fixed (in OpenSSL and now GnuTLS) in an open, transparent way we open source people do. I fear the bugs in proprietary stuff w...
I have always been struggling with task management. Always. And will always do. I have tried a lot of things, paper based, digital (starting on my Apple Newt...
#geekporn Today it made “click” in my head. I finally understood the use of subkeys in GPG. The genius of it!
Edward Snowdens letter to german government/authorities
With the help of Google translate and my infinite wisdom I translated the statement of IT@M, the IT service company owned by the city of Munich. DISCLAIMER: ...
[UPDATE: My english translation of the statement now here]
Der Vorschlag wurde mir geleakt von einem befreundetem DevOps in einem ungenannten Verlag.
Basic Patent Knowledge #0: The patent system has a long history. It’s fundamental task is to incentivize sharing of knowledge. Not protection of the innovato...
This is a blog entry that you can safely ignore. The background story is quite interesting. Wife of former german Bundespräsident sues Google for adding keyw...
As one of my hobbies is 3D printing, I have built an eMaker Huxley 3D printer last year. It is fun, teaches me a lot and I try to keep the setup up2date. So ...
A candidate plan for a decentralized, distributed network that can complement and eventually replace a lot of proprietary stuff we use nowadays.
This case (SAS v WPL) has a lot in common with the Oracle v Google case in the US.
I think Smári McCarthy, a fellow transnational citizen, Uberhacker and admired activist, touched a special nerve when he recently twittered:
Florian Müller (or Mueller when he is quoted in english articles), a self-acclaimed “expert” on software patents and nowadays quite a mouthpiece for FRAND li...
“All proceedings from infringement MUST go to the original inventor.” “Ownership of a patent is bound to the inventor named in it and this is a non-tran...
What started as a post on Googleplus turned into quite a nice braindump of my struggle with the current patent system. Hence I decided to also turn it into a...
First read this:
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
DISCLAIMER: This post contains my personal opinion only.
So Google announced and introduced the games tab in Google Plus.
So the text of Apples complaint filed at a german court is available (I won’t link to it as I do not wish to promote the person that posted it) and after rea...
SSDs that disguise as hard drives make no sense IMHO. A cool architecture would have temporary storage (RAM) and stable storage (Flash) on the same bus. Imag...
German court grants injunction to Apple. German article here. Quite some more, but thy all paraphrase the original article that was sent out by dpa.
DISCLAIMER: This entry representy my personal opinion and is in now way related to my job nor does it reflect the opinion of my employer.
UPDATE 2 Rop Gonggrijp blogs, mentions this petition here. Explains there is no extradition request ATM and urges all to tone down.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is my PERSONAL blog. This article reflects my PERSONAL opinion and does not necessarily represent the position of my e...
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is my PERSONAL blog. This article reflects my PERSONAL opinion and does not necessarily represent the position of my e...
EXEC SUMMARY: Vodafone and Etisalat networks transport government scripted messages supporting Mubarak. These messages are not normal SMS. Seemingly they are...
Saturday evening from 20:30. 3 events meet at one place. Be there.
Continuing my efforts to alert registrars and hosting providers on IMHO defamatory domain names, which started here.
Peter T. King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
[UPDATE 2011-01-13 12:30 CET Trying to get at the domain owner of killassange.com via domainsbyproxy in seperate post [UPDATE 2011-01-12 18:20 CET: killassa...
In the next few weeks I will outline more parts of something we (a few friends of me) are calling FreeDentity. That’s why I have added a category and a tag t...
UPDATE My problems are fixed! I am impressed. Finally I can use Diaspora again. Thanks to the devs who finally looked at Bug #734 and fixed my problems.
Here is a very interesting document titled “Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information” by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Att...
Based on the PDF at http://www.justiceforassange.com/IMG/pdf/Assange_face.pdf I have created the following bitmap which I will now put up as profile picture ...
Meet Lars Petter Endresen, Senior Engineer R&D at Tandberg. He is the official “inventor” named in this patent application:
No reply so far.
Day 3 of POSSE is where the actual nwork in Open Source communities takes the front of the stage. So we discussed which projects to pick on, what to do. This...
So here we go again. Day 2 of POSSE SA as outlined in our schedule has just moved into the reflection and blogging phase.
So here we are, all in a room, running POSSE. Capetown, it’s warm, it’s sunny, it’s a very nice place to be. Following the schedule as planned.
How about this: History teachers, students across the world can “adopt” a Facebook account that represents a historical person. These historical persons have...
THIS BLOG ENTRY IS FULL OF SARCASM AND IRONY. IT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND IN NO WAY REFLECTS WHAT MY EMPLOYER THINKS. THOU HAST BEEN WARNED.
Die Kurzform: Sixtus macht tolle Filme/Spots. Er veröffentlicht diese Filme auf vimeo.de. Aber da gibt es auch noch die GVU, die im Namen der Gerechtigkeit g...
The discussion is quite on the roll after Dave Neary gave some insight into who commits how much code to the GNOME project.
I just changed my avatar picture on Facebook, Twitter, identi.ca to this very minimalitsic design:
[NOTE – this is my PERSONAL opinion and not the official opinion of my employer]
ASHMOB RULES
After I am grounded due to the volcano ash, I decided to fight back. Coordinated BBQ all across the world! #ashmob! Here’s the logo.
So over at Red Hat, we are quite proud that IBM has chosen KVM via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run their IBM Cloud as they announce here:
For years and years I am using and promoting the term Open Standards. And it has always been very clear what an Open Standard is and, more important, what it...
Original dutch source is here. I hunted it through google translate and cleaned up some of the translation mistakes. As I am a native dutch, I do know what I...
Lots of comments on my last blog entry. Let me make some points clear before you all turn the flamewar to full force.
DISCLAIMER: This post reflects my personal opinion and is in no way related to the company I work for.
Please all, spread the word and sign my pledge!
Breaking news. If your danish is good enough, read here, here, here, here.
Finally. A place to discuss, learn, promote everything open. With 5 channels:
From the decision: wrt MySQL:
Neelie Smit-Kroes, most famous for her decisions wrt Microsoft in the various competitive cases, is under dubious pressure:
DISCLAIMER: This post is my PERSONAL opinion.
So Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management, teaches us all on his understanding of “open” in various fields in this article over at the...
We all remember the discussions around the leaked EIFv2 draft. We know there is a lot of lobbying efforts in the background to make sure the principles of EI...
So I guess I was a bit too carried away in my previous post by assuming that the .NET Micro Framework is really something big. After doing my research, let m...
So this will be a minor rant. And as always, this is my pure personal opinion and not related to my job.
Glyn Moody pointed me to this article:
Interesting stuff.
When you use KVM in Rhel 5.4 Beta you will notice that there is no bridge setup to allow your virtual guests to directly connect to the local network.
I have activated Akismet and Yawasp for my WordPress blog here. It works. Here the current numbers:
… sounds ironical, doesn’t it? However, it is true. So what is going on?
Simple, if you know how to do it 🙂
So I have this cool little camera, the JVC GZ-MS100R, a SD camera that generates simple MPEG-2 files. The filenames are however a bit uncool:
Just in case you also want to use encryption and you have a SD card. Here’s what I did, step-by-step, to create a simple setup with:
OK, so I wanted to use my Aspire One to do presentations. However – getting dual screen to work was quite a lot of work.
So when you are running a GNOME Desktop and you frequently change locations/network connections, you might get annoyed by the “Connection Established” popup/...
So I did it. I took 199 € and got myself a Netbook. I went shopping in the Munich Bermuda Triangle, where you find something like 10 shops, all fighting with...
Every friday I will try to post a rant on a specific topic. Today I’m venting on journalism on the Failboat.
YouTube – Amazing sheep LED art.
Ronen Kadushin, famous designer in Berlin decides to do something quite interesting. He puts some of his designs under Creative Commons license.
Red Hat has released the new JBoss Developer studio. Find more details here and here. Why do I think this is important? Well – first of all I am proud of the...
I will try every sunday to wrap up the topics that kept me busy over the last week. Sort of like a braindump to make sure I capture those loose ends that oth...
Home Automation. The holy hipster and geek grail. I have played with it. I have tried. I have failed. But today I am proud to have a solution I can truly end...
Here’s the thing. Elon Musk doesn’t trust the patent system to protect his inventions. So instead of filing for more, he will simply not file at all and keep...
Just read an article by Matthew Garrett on why developers use Macs.
I don’t fear the bugs that get fixed (in OpenSSL and now GnuTLS) in an open, transparent way we open source people do. I fear the bugs in proprietary stuff w...
I have always been struggling with task management. Always. And will always do. I have tried a lot of things, paper based, digital (starting on my Apple Newt...
Edward Snowdens letter to german government/authorities
With the help of Google translate and my infinite wisdom I translated the statement of IT@M, the IT service company owned by the city of Munich. DISCLAIMER: ...
[UPDATE: My english translation of the statement now here]
Der Vorschlag wurde mir geleakt von einem befreundetem DevOps in einem ungenannten Verlag.
Basic Patent Knowledge #0: The patent system has a long history. It’s fundamental task is to incentivize sharing of knowledge. Not protection of the innovato...
A candidate plan for a decentralized, distributed network that can complement and eventually replace a lot of proprietary stuff we use nowadays.
This case (SAS v WPL) has a lot in common with the Oracle v Google case in the US.
I think Smári McCarthy, a fellow transnational citizen, Uberhacker and admired activist, touched a special nerve when he recently twittered:
Florian Müller (or Mueller when he is quoted in english articles), a self-acclaimed “expert” on software patents and nowadays quite a mouthpiece for FRAND li...
“All proceedings from infringement MUST go to the original inventor.” “Ownership of a patent is bound to the inventor named in it and this is a non-tran...
What started as a post on Googleplus turned into quite a nice braindump of my struggle with the current patent system. Hence I decided to also turn it into a...
First read this:
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
DISCLAIMER: This post contains my personal opinion only.
So Google announced and introduced the games tab in Google Plus.
So the text of Apples complaint filed at a german court is available (I won’t link to it as I do not wish to promote the person that posted it) and after rea...
SSDs that disguise as hard drives make no sense IMHO. A cool architecture would have temporary storage (RAM) and stable storage (Flash) on the same bus. Imag...
German court grants injunction to Apple. German article here. Quite some more, but thy all paraphrase the original article that was sent out by dpa.
DISCLAIMER: This entry representy my personal opinion and is in now way related to my job nor does it reflect the opinion of my employer.
UPDATE 2 Rop Gonggrijp blogs, mentions this petition here. Explains there is no extradition request ATM and urges all to tone down.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is my PERSONAL blog. This article reflects my PERSONAL opinion and does not necessarily represent the position of my e...
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is my PERSONAL blog. This article reflects my PERSONAL opinion and does not necessarily represent the position of my e...
EXEC SUMMARY: Vodafone and Etisalat networks transport government scripted messages supporting Mubarak. These messages are not normal SMS. Seemingly they are...
Saturday evening from 20:30. 3 events meet at one place. Be there.
Continuing my efforts to alert registrars and hosting providers on IMHO defamatory domain names, which started here.
Peter T. King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
[UPDATE 2011-01-13 12:30 CET Trying to get at the domain owner of killassange.com via domainsbyproxy in seperate post [UPDATE 2011-01-12 18:20 CET: killassa...
In the next few weeks I will outline more parts of something we (a few friends of me) are calling FreeDentity. That’s why I have added a category and a tag t...
UPDATE My problems are fixed! I am impressed. Finally I can use Diaspora again. Thanks to the devs who finally looked at Bug #734 and fixed my problems.
Here is a very interesting document titled “Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information” by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Att...
Based on the PDF at http://www.justiceforassange.com/IMG/pdf/Assange_face.pdf I have created the following bitmap which I will now put up as profile picture ...
Meet Lars Petter Endresen, Senior Engineer R&D at Tandberg. He is the official “inventor” named in this patent application:
No reply so far.
Day 3 of POSSE is where the actual nwork in Open Source communities takes the front of the stage. So we discussed which projects to pick on, what to do. This...
So here we go again. Day 2 of POSSE SA as outlined in our schedule has just moved into the reflection and blogging phase.
So here we are, all in a room, running POSSE. Capetown, it’s warm, it’s sunny, it’s a very nice place to be. Following the schedule as planned.
How about this: History teachers, students across the world can “adopt” a Facebook account that represents a historical person. These historical persons have...
THIS BLOG ENTRY IS FULL OF SARCASM AND IRONY. IT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND IN NO WAY REFLECTS WHAT MY EMPLOYER THINKS. THOU HAST BEEN WARNED.
Die Kurzform: Sixtus macht tolle Filme/Spots. Er veröffentlicht diese Filme auf vimeo.de. Aber da gibt es auch noch die GVU, die im Namen der Gerechtigkeit g...
The discussion is quite on the roll after Dave Neary gave some insight into who commits how much code to the GNOME project.
I just changed my avatar picture on Facebook, Twitter, identi.ca to this very minimalitsic design:
[NOTE – this is my PERSONAL opinion and not the official opinion of my employer]
ASHMOB RULES
After I am grounded due to the volcano ash, I decided to fight back. Coordinated BBQ all across the world! #ashmob! Here’s the logo.
So over at Red Hat, we are quite proud that IBM has chosen KVM via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run their IBM Cloud as they announce here:
For years and years I am using and promoting the term Open Standards. And it has always been very clear what an Open Standard is and, more important, what it...
Original dutch source is here. I hunted it through google translate and cleaned up some of the translation mistakes. As I am a native dutch, I do know what I...
Lots of comments on my last blog entry. Let me make some points clear before you all turn the flamewar to full force.
DISCLAIMER: This post reflects my personal opinion and is in no way related to the company I work for.
Please all, spread the word and sign my pledge!
Breaking news. If your danish is good enough, read here, here, here, here.
Finally. A place to discuss, learn, promote everything open. With 5 channels:
From the decision: wrt MySQL:
Neelie Smit-Kroes, most famous for her decisions wrt Microsoft in the various competitive cases, is under dubious pressure:
DISCLAIMER: This post is my PERSONAL opinion.
So Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management, teaches us all on his understanding of “open” in various fields in this article over at the...
We all remember the discussions around the leaked EIFv2 draft. We know there is a lot of lobbying efforts in the background to make sure the principles of EI...
So I guess I was a bit too carried away in my previous post by assuming that the .NET Micro Framework is really something big. After doing my research, let m...
So this will be a minor rant. And as always, this is my pure personal opinion and not related to my job.
Glyn Moody pointed me to this article:
So for all those people that still believe that OOXML is in good shape and might just need a few corrections. It might be a bit more complicated.
Interesting stuff.
I have activated Akismet and Yawasp for my WordPress blog here. It works. Here the current numbers:
… sounds ironical, doesn’t it? However, it is true. So what is going on?
Simple, if you know how to do it 🙂
So I have this cool little camera, the JVC GZ-MS100R, a SD camera that generates simple MPEG-2 files. The filenames are however a bit uncool:
Just in case you also want to use encryption and you have a SD card. Here’s what I did, step-by-step, to create a simple setup with:
OK, so I wanted to use my Aspire One to do presentations. However – getting dual screen to work was quite a lot of work.
So when you are running a GNOME Desktop and you frequently change locations/network connections, you might get annoyed by the “Connection Established” popup/...
So I did it. I took 199 € and got myself a Netbook. I went shopping in the Munich Bermuda Triangle, where you find something like 10 shops, all fighting with...
Every friday I will try to post a rant on a specific topic. Today I’m venting on journalism on the Failboat.
Ronen Kadushin, famous designer in Berlin decides to do something quite interesting. He puts some of his designs under Creative Commons license.
Red Hat has released the new JBoss Developer studio. Find more details here and here. Why do I think this is important? Well – first of all I am proud of the...
I will try every sunday to wrap up the topics that kept me busy over the last week. Sort of like a braindump to make sure I capture those loose ends that oth...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
This is a corollary to E-Mail Done My Way, Part 3 - DKIM/DMARC/SPF. To really understand what problems exist with E-Mail since many years and how DKIM, DMARC...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
0. The Journey - The basics and outlook (on the series, not the Microsoft mail client ;) 1. Postfix - the in and o...
Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It...
Recently, due to all the discussions around GitHub and Copilot and Software Freedom, I moved my repositories to Codeberg. I was an avid user of Github Pages,...
Long before NFT existed, we had other digital dreams - domain names! I have quite a bunch of them, still. A few times per year I look at them, think of all t...
Below you see an embedded (rather stupid and pointless) video clip from my PeerTube instance.
2023-02-18 UPDATE: This hack/fix is not needed anymore as Github now allows up to 4 social accounts on user profiles which set the correct link with the rel=...
#geekporn Today it made “click” in my head. I finally understood the use of subkeys in GPG. The genius of it!
As one of my hobbies is 3D printing, I have built an eMaker Huxley 3D printer last year. It is fun, teaches me a lot and I try to keep the setup up2date. So ...
When you use KVM in Rhel 5.4 Beta you will notice that there is no bridge setup to allow your virtual guests to directly connect to the local network.
Simple, if you know how to do it 🙂
So I have this cool little camera, the JVC GZ-MS100R, a SD camera that generates simple MPEG-2 files. The filenames are however a bit uncool:
Just in case you also want to use encryption and you have a SD card. Here’s what I did, step-by-step, to create a simple setup with:
OK, so I wanted to use my Aspire One to do presentations. However – getting dual screen to work was quite a lot of work.
So when you are running a GNOME Desktop and you frequently change locations/network connections, you might get annoyed by the “Connection Established” popup/...
TIL that this observation I make over and over again actually has a name.
#UnpopularOpinion The current spam wave supports one of my suspicions that federated networks should be built as a web of trust, Friends of a Friend style. O...
Since I finished my 5-part E-Mail Done My Way series, I have made a few minor and bigger changes (replaced fail2ban with crowdsec being one of the bigger cha...
WARNING: As with all my technical posts, this is NOT a simple copy/paste description. If you want to use this proposed solution, I expect you to know how Jek...
TIL: With a simple #podman command I can install and run a container that monitors my services - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma from the wonderful L...
Today I read this, IMHO rather clickbaity blog entry by Heather Meeker called Is Copyright Eating AI?. And I was not impressed.
“So how is the Corona pandemic going in Munich?” A question I ask myself every day since 2 years. And answering that question is kind of complicated. You’d h...
Time to revive this blog. I let it linger in limbo for too long. Running on a WordPress instance I set up 9 years ago (but I kept it up2date, vigorously). I ...
This is a blog entry that you can safely ignore. The background story is quite interesting. Wife of former german Bundespräsident sues Google for adding keyw...
YouTube – Amazing sheep LED art.
When you use KVM in Rhel 5.4 Beta you will notice that there is no bridge setup to allow your virtual guests to directly connect to the local network.
In the next few weeks I will outline more parts of something we (a few friends of me) are calling FreeDentity. That’s why I have added a category and a tag t...
On my 50th birthday, back in January 2020, the first official PCR diagnosis of a new Corona virus in Germany was made here in Munich. This became later known...