Recently, two mails of a conspiracy theorist sneaked past my spam-filter. Pure flashback to the heyday of the good old Usenet kooks. Consider this quote: The Jewish nazis also continued to send ‘messages’ and ‘feedback’ to me through the media and internet and through the EBL &emdash; Electronic Brain Link – whereby, among other things, […]
I always knew Bill Watterson is a genius. (I stumbled upon the strip while re-reading my C&H books. Picture from here.)
As mentioned before, I disabled xen before the etch->lenny upgrade. Now I’ve re-enabled xen, and the following bits may be of wider interest: My server at the Hetzner hosting center has one static IP address and a small network that is routed towards that IP address. So my plan was to use this small network […]
Just in case somebody was wondering why this blog was down over the weekend: I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my server from Debian etch to Debian lenny. And while doing that ran into Bug #541371. Otherwise the upgrade was pretty painless. But as timid (some might say sane) as I am, I disabled […]
CAcert has tried for some time to provide free X.509 certificates based on automatic checks and a web of trust. They never managed to get the root certificate included in the default installations of the major browsers. As I read it, they’ve given up on Mozilla for now. Aaron forwarded me a link to a […]