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 …

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• 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.

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

"Die wohlfeilste Art des Stolzes hingegen ist der Nationalstolz. Denn er verrät in dem damit Behafteten den Mangel an individuellen Eigenschaften, auf die er stolz sein könnte, indem er sonst nicht zu dem greifen würde, was er mit so vielen Millionen teilt. Wer bedeutende persönliche Vorzüge besitzt, wird vielmehr die …