Texts for friends. Irrelevant stuff.
- I follow the frog!
This weekend will be the third edition of one of my favourite conferences in Germany: FrOSCon.
FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.I will was asked to [...]
- LinuxTag 2009 organization started last week!
This year’s LinuxTag closed it’s doors exactly two month ago. Time for the core team to get together and reflect the second of five years in Berlin.
It has become a tradition that this meeting takes place at Linuxhotel, a gorgeous hotel in a private park situated half way between Essen and Bochum. For those who [...]
- openSUSE @ FrOSCon - call for volunteers
In about four weeks a quite nice free and open source conference (FrOSCon) will open it’s doors for the third time and in my opinion openSUSE should not be missed there.
Hence I asked the organizers if they can provide the openSUSE project some space for an openSUSE booth and generously they agreed to this. Now [...]
- To all sysadmins: thank you!
Traditionally - mainly because I also have worked as sysadmin for years - I enjoy to celebrate SysAdminDay every last Friday in July.
I would like to thank especially all system administrators which support my work and keep the stuff running. For my work at SUSE/Novell this mainly is the SUSE R&D-Admin team. Kudos to [...]
- Childrens interview german politicians on observation
Yesterday I found this nice video at YouTube.
- Trust metrics for the openSUSE Build Service
After a lot of inspiring conversations with co-workers at SUSE and friends from the open source community I finally published a first abstract draft how we could add some metrics to openSUSE build service to create a trust system.
This article does not go much into particular neither explains concrete implementation details. Main target of this [...]
- Quite handy sample letters
Even though these sample letters are in terms of webpages already shop-soiled, I lost my bookmark for them. So I would like to share it with you and conserve it by the way.
- Firefox 3 and SSL certificates - Part II
As written yesterday, Firefox 3 displays all SSL certificate errors as error pages. In the openSUSE default config, you need at last four clicks to accept a certificate with an unknown signature.
By setting the following two values you can reduce this to two clicks:browser.ssl_override_behaviour = 2
browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert = trueThen Firefox 3 behaves like it’s predecessor and [...]
- Firefox 3 and SSL certificates
In Firefox 3, SSL certificate errors are displayed in the browser as error pages.
I really like this improved new error page, because the click path you have to follow requires that you read through all information once and hopefully remember the correct click path next time you encounter a SSL certificate with an unknown signature.
Unfortunately [...]
- Fussball-Weisheit des Tages
Ich hoffe, daß die deutsche Mannschaft auch in der 2. Halbzeit eine runde Leistung zeigt, das würde die Leistung abrunden… Günther Netzer
