Texts for friends. Irrelevant stuff.
- Boared in the office?
Everyone remembers the EepyBird’s Mentos and Diet Coke experiments. Here is their latest idea: The Sticky Note experiment.
- In eigener Sache: Bcfg2 im Linux-Magazin
In the new issue (10/2008) of LiNuX mAgAzIn you can find my new article on Bcfg2 - a configuration management system not only for Linux.
- Planet LinuxTag
Probably the first visible result of the LinuxTag 2009 bootstrap camp is the release of planet.linuxtag.org.
There we aggregate blogs of the makers of Europe’s leading exhibition and conference on Open Source and Free Software. With our planet we want to introduce you the persons behind LinuxTag and give you some insights in the organization.
- Unboxing2
After watching this video, you really want to have this smart phone:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

