Tag Archives: FOSS

identi.ca

Ich bin ja wirklich ein Freund von Open Source, aber auch nur solange halbwegs die Qualität stimmt. Ehrlich gesagt ist diesbezüglich bei identi.ca nicht viel zu verspüren. Meiner Meinung nach ist es der Prototyp dieser FLOSS-Software, welche man gemeinhin als … Continue reading

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nerds at the bar

… ein echter Bulo :-]

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WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1

Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension. With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly. To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we … Continue reading

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FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 auf dem EEE

Just erschienen und schon auf dem Kleinsten installiert, funktioniert bisher tadellos mal abgesehen von einem Reset im Zusammenhang mit if_ath. Bis dato konnte ich diesen Fehler (reset HAL) nicht reproduzieren und auch unter Last brach der EEE nicht zusammen. Wenn … Continue reading

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oops I did it again

Well as I said, there are certain advantages while using Windows, Photoshop and Office. Office 2007 e.g. has got a better workflow nowadays and in terms of stability it’s getting better1 while OpenOffice 2/3 for example stands in the shadow of its … Continue reading

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a new FreeBSD Portmgr is born

Martin Wilke has been one of our active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team. FreeBSD ML Congrats to Miwi aka Martin Wilke. The … Continue reading

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upgrade to OpenWrt 8.09

I upgraded1 OpenWrt on my Wrt54GL to v8.09 — works like a charm. I’m using the 2.4.x kernel at the moment, because I’m not sure whether the 2.6.x variant is okay in terms of the Broadcom driver. The new frontend alone … Continue reading

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Lackdose-Allergie: grml 2009.05 RC1

Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.05 codename «Lackdose-Allergie» is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.05/ As usual we have different flavours available: the … Continue reading

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ZFS v13 in FreeBSD 7 stable

In case you missed the mfc: ZFS v13 in 7-STABLE. This means a major advance for FreeBSD 7 users in terms of quality and reliabilty. And if I’m correct you don’t even need tunables anymore, at least while using AMD64. Well, this … Continue reading

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scrypt — a new key derivation function

In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing «best practice» solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible. In addition to the … Continue reading

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