No more “FB” button, thank you.
You might have noticed that there’s no “FB” button under the posts anymore. Here’s why. https://plus.google.com/114753028665775786510/posts/QSUEfgdjKPx I can just not condone facebook’s anti privacy...
View ArticleDebian 5, or the joy of working with prehistoric software
For various reasons I had to setup a Debian box. Debian 5. For building software that would be distributed in binary form and should run on any linux. The original software that mine derives from is...
View ArticleSurvey results are in
Here are the results from the survey: 75% answered “yes” on the question whether they use kontact or not. Those who answered “no” did not get to the rest of the survey. All questions except the last...
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First thoughts about the new ipad
I don’t have an iPad (yet). Maybe I will buy one at some point. You can help if you want Sorry for this, just trying to be funny. This link might explain what is going on. Sometimes the...
View ArticleRetroshare – the next messenger?
I’m gonna play with RetroShare a bit. RetroShare is a serverless, p2p based communications platform where every single piece of transferred data is encrypted. You find your contacts by their pgp key....
View ArticleUNIX and Linux – an introduction
As part of my job a senior Linux systems engineer and freelance consultant, I am often asked to do staff training on various Unix and linux related topics. One such training is “UNIX and Linux – an...
View ArticleSetting the internal clock to UTC on dual boot systems
As anyone who has attended a RH124 or higher class, or has any experience in Unix/Linux knows, we usually set the system to assume that the local clock runs in UTC. This gives us the advantage that the...
View ArticleA little poll that I came across
Here is a little poll that I came across on a mailinglist just now: Loading poll…
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Jabber / XMPP
To whom it might concern: My regular email address now works as a jabber/XMPP address as well. If you do not know my regular email address this information does not concern you
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Is the internet broken?
…or is it maybe being broken by people who think it is broken? I’m pretty sure a lot of people here in Germany have heard the common complaint about end user internet connections being slow in the...
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