Because i wanted to use open-id authentication, i finally had to upgrade my templates to the MT4 version. The templates got a lot more complicated, but now hopefully it looks nearly as good as before.
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Author: arved
New Era
Recently i have been pretty busy, because i have moved to a new flat. I don’t have an Internet connection yet, so it will be a few weeks until i will fully reappear on the net.
The new flat is more central, so i will spend a lot less time on public transport.
Policies and Peer-review
Yesterday a thread started on freebsd-cvs-ports about peer-reviews and policies. So here is my opinion on this:
Unfortunately recently there have been two tendencies that I dislike.
First several people got a ports commit bit, that take peer-reviews as a personal
offense. This discourages people from doing peer-reviews, which is bad.
I am all with dougb: “Peer review IS a critical part of what makes any open source project successful.”
So i think mentors should pay attention, that their mentees understand the concept of peer reviews, before they let them fly solo.
Second there are way too many policies. E.g. I don’t think there is a need for a policy about silencing mkdir commands and similar issues (BTW: I only use @ in Makefiles for silencing echo or printf). Trying to add policies like this will either end in a bikeshed or unhappiness.
To quote Pav: “Oh no more policies, please!”
MT 4.1 Update
I have upgraded my blog to MT 4.1, the first final version under GPL license. This is a testentry, let’s see if it works..
strigi ports looking for testers
Today i have made experimental ports of strigi and strigiapplet. If you like to try them, take a look at this page.
I have also started working on upgrading QT4 to 4.3.3.
Now for really working on KDE4 i should really think about getting at least a new hardddisk or even better a new machine.
But first of all i have to master this terms university exams….
FreeBSD around the world
Today i got an email about one of my FreeBSD ports, help2man. Usually this means the person emailing me, is using a system with a 4.x base system perl 5.0 together with a more recent perl version from ports.
What was unusal about this email, the sender mailed from an ISP in Tanzania, Arusha Node Marie. This is really cool, that FreeBSD is running on some system in such a remote area.
Guten Rutsch ins Jahr 1984 – 24C3 Day Four
I am back home and by now have recovered from 24C3.
On the last day I attended the following talks:
– GPLv3 – Praktische Auswirkungen
– Smartcard protocol sniffing:
– Ruby on Rails Security
After that i spend some time in the lobby recharging my laptop, and preparing for the way home. For the first time in several years i have taken the night train and arrived in Vienna on 31 at around 9ish.
I liked this congress better than the last time i was in Berlin 6 years ago. So i plan to attend the next one in December 2008.
Today i updated my last 6.x system to 7.0, the remote server. Recompiling the ports in all 4 jails is still in progress, so the system will be a bit slow on the weekend.
24C3 – Day Three
I attended the following talks:
– Grundlagen der sicheren Programmierung: okish, but lacked something cool to show off
– Hacking ideologies part 2: most blabla talk of the congress
– Wahlchaos – Paradoxien des deutschen Wahlsystems: nothing really new for me.
– Die Wahrheit und was wirklich passierte: quite interesting insights. The second time this week someone recommends “Freakonomics”
– From Ring Zero to Uid 0: I only attended the first part about Solaris/Sparc and not the part about Windows. quite interesting
– Reverse Engineering Embedded Systems: mentioned some interesting tools, but i missed some more details about toolchain/cross compiling issues.
– Sex 2.0: This was the first talk i attended, that went just totally wrong. The speaker wanted to talk about gay dating communities, but because this is a really special interest topic, he did not mention this in the talk description of the program, but instead just promised insights on “a satisfying sex life”. Of course now the Saal 1 was filled to the last seat. And 99% of the people (all heteros and women) were disappointed when he only talked about gays. Some loudly complained, but the speaker only showed his ignorance. Someone from the audience tried to jump in, but this got even more embarassing. In the end the audience started to clap until the speaker left the stage.
– The day finished with the Hacker Jeopardy. At my last congress 6 years ago, i was very impressed by the mad hacker skillz, but this time it was quite embarassing, when the candidates confused the 8088 with the 80286 and haven’t heard about
xkcd addicts
Today is ….
Looks like i am not the only one confused.