Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Hmmm....
alex@brithombar:~$ finger tolimar@db.debian.org
[db.debian.org]
uid=tolimar,ou=users,dc=debian,dc=org
First name: Alexander
Last name: Reichle-Schmehl
Email: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
URL: http://www.schmehl.info/
IRC nickname: Tolimar
Jabber ID: tolimar@jabber.ccc.de
Fingerprint: 46CD D292 0692 D5A2 8F81 2E48 0717 74E0 00D8 CD16
Key block: finger tolimar/key@db.debian.org
alex@brithombar$ gpg --edit-key 00D8CD16
Secret key is available.
pub 1024D/00D8CD16 created: 2002-09-28 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
sub 1024g/C5F3F285 created: 2002-09-28 expires: never usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
[ultimate] (2) Alexander Schmehl (privat) <alexander@schmehl.info>
[ultimate] (3) Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
[ultimate] (4) Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org>
[ revoked] (5) Alexander Schmehl < deleted >
[ultimate] (6) Alexander Schmehl <schmehl@uni-hildesheim.de>
Please note that the shown key validity is not necessarily correct
unless you restart the program.
Command> adduid
Real name: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Email address: tolimar@debian.org
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
"Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Alexander Schmehl (university)
1024-bit DSA key, ID 00D8CD16, created 2002-09-28
pub 1024D/00D8CD16 created: 2002-09-28 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
sub 1024g/C5F3F285 created: 2002-09-28 expires: never usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
[ultimate] (2) Alexander Schmehl (privat) <alexander@schmehl.info>
[ultimate] (3) Alexander Schmehl (university) <schmehl@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
[ultimate] (4) Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org>
[ revoked] (5) Alexander Schmehl < deleted >
[ultimate] (6) Alexander Schmehl <schmehl@uni-hildesheim.de>
[ultimate] (7) Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org>
Command> save
alex@brithombar$ gpg --send-key 00D8CD16
gpg: sending key 00D8CD16 to hkp server keyserver.noreply.org
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Thu, 24 Apr 2008
Open Source Census
Meike wonders about Open Source Census and their 45 MB tarball (and several other strange things).
The good news is: There is a 270KB ruby
thingy which seems to do the same, and even while marked as Expert
User Only
it seems to run just fine... I think; I lost patience after
it scanned my /home for 6 minutes, and I didn't found a possibility to
tell it not to scan my /home (which I don't wont him to scan) or /srv
(which just contains a lot of files where it won't find anything
usefull).
BTW: While we are at complaining at them: Please make the system so, that I don't need to register to send you my data. Thanks.
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Sun, 20 Apr 2008
Planet as mailing list? Why not DPN?
Jörg Jaspert wonders, if planet.debian.org should be available as a mailing list, too. That's a proposal to solve the problem, that planet has been used by more or less official announcement and discussions, but not all people have time / want to read planet.
An other solution would be to make sure, that important blog posts are mention in the next issue of the Debian Project News (which have just been started and could still need some help).
postet at 14:14 into [] permanent link
Sun, 06 Apr 2008
Bad timing, is...
deciding to go on a diet the day before you are invited to a all you can eat pasta & co restaurant.
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Fri, 22 Feb 2008
Home Alone
I'm wondering...
$ find debian/uploads/ -iname \*.changes -mtime -10|wc -l 22
Maybe it isn't that bad, if your girlfriend leaves you for some days alone at home?
PS: Of course it is... but you get some work done.
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Thu, 10 Jan 2008
About Apache, Basic Authentication, Location and regular expressions
The other day, I had an interesting problem, regarding Apache, the
LocationMatch directive and regular expressions. I'll put it
here, so I'll be able to find it again...
Actually it was a quite simple problem: A simple web page, where all web
pages are protected with a password. No big Problem: Use a <location
/> and AuthType basic, problem solved.... or isn't
it?
Some documents might be needed to be available without the authentication... for example robots.txt... or the funky custom error document, which explains how to get the authentication data, in case the authentication fails.
Looking at the documentation, found a solution:
LocationMatch exists, where you specify a regular
expression, which must match, for the following configuration to
apply.
What isn't mentioned in the documentation, that the obvious
solution... something like <LocationMatch
!"^/(robots.txt|my401handler.html"> doesn't work. See apache bug
10932. Needed quite some time, to find this out...
Luckily Meike found the bug report above, which has a workaround for
that problem: Use <LocationMatch
"^/(?!robots.txt|my401handler.html)">
Oh... and if your customized error handler references some pictures or style sheets, don't forget to add them to the regular expression above, too.
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Thu, 09 Aug 2007
No smoking area
Today is the 9th of August and we've been at a restaurant (well... a self service cafeteria). Nothing fancy so far about it, but it was the first time this month, which makes it kind of special: On the first a new law come into effect in Lower Saxony (and some other parts of Germany) prohibiting smoking in public restaurants (save in closed, separate rooms).
Being a non-smoker it was a nice experience to see how the former smoking area had vanished from the restaurant. Especially, since in that special case you couldn't avoid the smoking zone: To get to the toilette you needed to go through the smoking zone. And where do you bring your tablet back? Right, in the smoking zone.
Nice.
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Sun, 05 Aug 2007
Second anniversary
So an other happy year has passed.
I hope for many more to come :) Love you, Schatz.
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Fri, 15 Jun 2007
How do you explain Debian?
While I already have some experience in explaining this Debian thingy
to people, who are more or less familiar with Linux and free software, next
week I have a special job: Explain Debian -- and how free software projects
work -- to people, who aren't familiar with that.
It's a university course, which just learned the boring theory. Licence work, a bit of history, etc. A complete different audience than I used to speak to: So far all but one of my talks where with people who visited my talk because they were interested in the topic... some came even, just because they like my talks! I'm not yet sure, how to handle that.
Beside the difficult audience (which might be even more difficult, because
it's rather hot here), it might be further complicated by the techniques: It's
a kind of shared course, a cooperation of the University of Hildesheim and the
University of Saarland; slides are transmitted via vnc, audio and video are
transmitted in both ways via a software I haven't seen before; half of the
audience here half there... and if you ever visited one of my talks, you might
know, that I'm a walker
type of guy: I run around, gesticulate, point
things out on my slides, sometimes I even go right into the audience and talk
to people directly. And now I can't really do this, urg.
But all that's solvable, the main questions remains: How do you explain how Debian works, what Debian is, to people who just learned about the four freedoms?
I was asked to aus dem Nähkästchen plaudern
. That's a German idiom;
don't know how to translate that. In this case it means more or less that they
would like to hear stories, not see organigrams.
Well... so far my Idea is to reuse some of my old slides from an
old talk1 and add some nice examples, showing the see the
need, solve the problem
approach. Perhaps I'll use reportbug-ng and
debtags as examples.
If you have any ideas, better examples: Feel free to mail me. Would be perfect if I could get your ideas before Monday. Thanks.
1: Note to myself: I really need to sort my talks page out.
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