Posted on Wed 24 February 2016 in english
"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 …
Posted on Sun 07 February 2016 in english
I had to do a talk in December for university about cloud computing security. Here are some interesting links I found during my research:
Posted on Tue 05 January 2016 in english
In case anyone can use my source materials I used for my talk/paper about 'game usability':
Posted on Sun 29 November 2015 in english
Posted on Fri 30 October 2015 in english
'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 …
Posted on Fri 02 October 2015 in english
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.
In the last couple of weeks it's trendy to blog about OpenSMTPD:
Posted on Thu 27 November 2014 in English
This is a short English howto for installing OpenBSD on a vServer from Hetzner.
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 …
Posted on Wed 29 October 2014 in english
Since Google shut down its Reader you were desperately looking for an alternative? Or you would simply like to have a
central place to follow your favourite news sites?
For all of you: tt-rss to the resque!
"What's tt-rss?" you ask?
tt-rss is an open source news feed reader and …
Posted on Wed 06 August 2014 in english
I copied this setup for a FreeBSD based git server with nginx and cgit from various sites and thus I should call it my Frankenstein jail...
First we must create a new jail, copy the resolv.conf, followed by the installation of various packages, namely:
# pkg install nginx fcgiwrap git …Posted on Sun 13 July 2014 in english
Today I tried to get my Wacom Bamboo graphic tablet into a working state. The result is depending on how you define "working".
I plugged it into an active USB-hub attached to an USB3 port, which seems to be the root of all evil. The dmesg message is:
[ 62.112449 …