How to solve a credit crisis …
Anand Kumria wrote: If IBM were to go bankrupt, would the government step in? Unlikely. Investors would lose (money), staff — another word for investors — would lose (jobs), but customers would win...
View ArticleRe: Silly translations
In Silly translations, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote about some rather silly translations. This reminded me of a finding by a colleague a few days ago. He had recently updated his Ubuntu installation to...
View Articleanother vote
Well, following some other posts on Planet debian, I decided to also publish my vote on the GR regarding Firmware blobs in Debian. Here is my vote: V: 7112113 In other words, I rank the first option as...
View ArticleAbout Usability
Sami Haahtinen wrote a nice post about usability. I do mostly agree with him, except for one little thing: A few years back, I noticed that I often started as a kind of “Joe User” with new...
View ArticleRescueing files from lost+found
Oh well, I tried to search for it but failed miserably, so I’m blogging about it hoping the original author might read my post on planet.debian.org (where I read the original post): A friend of mine...
View ArticleApache SSL oddity
If you ever have the problem described below, you have to realize that Apache HTTPD is selecting the SSL certificate (and/or key) not based on you VirtualHost definition, but based on the ServerName in...
View ArticleLink collection 2009/03
Well, I normally despise of thinks like this link collection, but I thought I might add it anyway, since these are useful links for me and if I don’t post them here, I’m likely to forget where to find...
View ArticleLink collection 2009/05/18
Marco d’Itri about adding support for yet-unknown-to-kernel-drivers devices. More specifically: how to make udev tell ftdi-sio that it should accept a certain VendorID/ProductID combination in addition...
View ArticleAnother link collection 2009-06-22
I seem not to post anything but links lately, but anyway, Eddy Petrișor has a post about transitioning from lilo to grub2 (considering usage of LVM). Romain Beauxis writes about what he dislikes about...
View ArticleRHEL/CentOS bi-arch problems
Oh well, I think RHELs support for multiple architectures installed at the same time (and thus the same support in CentOS) really needs some rethinking. While the following might not be able to happen...
View ArticleStrange iptables error with kernels >= 2.6.32 – solved
Alright. If you ever come into the same situation I was in and need a newer kernel (2.6.32 or up, perhaps also 2.6.31) on some system with old iptables package (versions below 1.4.0 I think, 1.3.5 in...
View ArticleStrange MySQL (5.0) issue with authentication
Dear Lazyweb…. I ran into a very strange issue with MySQL authentication. The initial situation is as follows: Two MySQL servers, let’s name them a0.my.do.main and a1.my.do.main. Their my.cnf...
View ArticleEx-TSA lead on air traffic security woes
I came across this article today and really found it noteworthy: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html Original title: Why Airport Security Is Broken—And How To...
View ArticleUK going completely crazy on cryptography law.
It seems that the UK government recently passed a law that makes it illegal to be unable to decrypt what the law enforcement entities think is encrypted: From...
View ArticleIngress
As some may have noticed, Google launched something that is unusual for the company: A game. A mobile alternate reality game, to be precise. See allthingsd article for a bit more information. In my...
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