New stuff, good stuff
Recently, a few larger packages on alpha have seen major updates. There are caveats here and there. Thus, I'll point them out in this post. xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 After long last, we've...
View ArticleWorking together
Recently, I've noticed some behaviour by package maintainers that really annoys me. I'm talking about the way stabilization requests are made. Normally, a package maintainer opens a stabilization...
View Articleudev and Titans
Here's a quick rundown on what's going on in alpha land (i.e. what's currently broken): First of all, starting with version 147, sys-fs/udev uses a syscall from inotify (inotify_init1) which isn't...
View ArticleOn Backups
Since today is Backup Awareness Day, I thought I'd write about how I handle backups. In contrast to most articles, I won't talk about the gritty details of making backups but more about what and where...
View ArticleRestoring and Disaster Recovery
I know I'm late with this post, but there's a lot going here currently. So, without further delay, on to my Backup Awareness Day post. Lets' talk about restoring and disaster recovery. I guess it's one...
View ArticleTesting TLS and SSL services
Testing an SSL service or TLS enabled service isn't all that easy using common techniques: using telnet or netcat you can only see that something answers on a given port. However, you'll get no useful...
View ArticleGauging interest
I do a fair amount of stuff using RRDTool. When developing a new thing to store in and graph with RRD, it often happens that you get data that is wrong. On top of that, rollover (aka cycling or...
View ArticleFerd
Feedback to my las post was mostly positive, so here it is, Ferd v0.3 (homepage)TGZ
View ArticleTravel
As some of you have already heard, I'll be on the west coast of the US for three weeks, starting Monday (I'll arrive at 16:00 local time). The reason for my stay is work-related so it doesn't have to...
View ArticleWhy aren't we helping?
As long as I can remember, HowTos, blog posts and books have recommended to compile kernels (or, actually, any piece of software) as a normal user. That is to say: do not compile the kernel as root....
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