Yesterday there was a retro computing event at my university. Here you get some impressions:

Have you seen the beautiful game running on the Amiga? It's Dragon's Lair :)

Yesterday I listened to 2 interesting episodes of 2 different programming podcasts:

The first one is called New Rustacean and covers the Rust programming language, which was created by Mozilla as an alternative to low-level language like C/C++. Of course you can write high-level code as well, but I …

Auf Living Dolls: Warum junge Frauen heute lieber schön als schlau sein wollen von Natasha Walter bin ich durch den deutschsprachigen, feministischen "Lila-Podcast" aufmerksam geworden. Das Buch wurde dort bereits mehrfach lobend erwähnt, was mich zum Kauf verleitet hat.

Klappentext

Der Klappentext spricht von "rosa Spielzeug", Kinderkleidung mit "eindeutig sexuellen …

"I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire …

I had to do a talk in December for university about cloud computing security. Here are some interesting links I found during my research:

• Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours
• Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security Certificate
• CloudFlare Was Down Due To Edge Routers …

In case anyone can use my source materials I used for my talk/paper about 'game usability':

• Cognitive Flow: The Psychology of Great Game Design.
• Designing a “playable” UI that secretly teaches how to play.
• Design 101: Playtesting.
• Designing Usable and Accessible Games with Interaction Design Patterns.
• Usability Breakthroughs: Four …

• Write in C
• Write in Go
• WTF??? Lady Java
• Related. The "Java Life" Rap Music Video
• QBasic Nerd
• The SysAdmin Song
• The Day The Routers Died...
• Coder Girl

'I recently saw Neil Gaiman give a talk at which someone asked him how he felt about piracy of his books. He said, "Hands up in the audience if you discovered your favorite writer for free -- because someone loaned you a copy, or because someone gave it to you? Now …

Several months ago I have converted my mail server from Postfix to OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD. When you want to know the basics I suggest you read William Orr's article first.

Related articles

In the last couple of weeks it's trendy to blog about OpenSMTPD:

• OpenBSD Mail Server series

• Opensmtpd and dovecot …

This is a short English howto for installing OpenBSD on a vServer from Hetzner.

Preparation

The first step is to install a VNC client on your host system (ssh connection didn't work out for me as the keyboard layout was havocked - perhaps a tmux problem?). If you need a suggestion …