http://www.fladi.at Waiting for the revolution ... to be televised. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:46:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/29/mercurial-redirector-for-debian-uscan/ http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/29/mercurial-redirector-for-debian-uscan/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:37:18 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2546 While working on Debian packages for the Mozilla Sync Server, I came across the task to provide a URL for uscan to identify new releases. Mozilla does only provide Mercurial tags for each new release in their repository. To be able to use those tags as pointers to the tarballs of the new releases I [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/29/mercurial-redirector-for-debian-uscan/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/28/speeding-up-liferea-on-btrfs/ http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/28/speeding-up-liferea-on-btrfs/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:24:12 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2539 A  while ago I migrated my /home LVM volume to the new (experimental) btrfs in order to take advantage of snapshots for backup. Despite my overall satisfaction with btrfs in terms of usability and features, it turned out that there is one major issue with applications making excessive use of fsync(3). The symptom of this [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2011/06/28/speeding-up-liferea-on-btrfs/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:12:20 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/ On Sunday, August 22nd 2010 there will be a outage of the mailsystem from 13:00 to 17:00. The reason is the installation of a new SMTP system. I ‘am migrating from Courier-MTA to Exim4, ultimately bringing some new features to the mail system like Sieve, greylisting and two-stage-spamassassin-checks. Downtime is intended to be kept at [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:05:57 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2187 I wanted to upgrade the BIOS of my desktop at work which is a Dell OptiPlex 960. Dell provides some minor help on flashing a new BIOS version under GNU/Linux but as of today it’s outdated and unusable. Sadly they do not provide images for use with flashrom either, so one is stuck with their [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 12:44:01 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2175 I have the need to work on some of my systems with my LDAP/Kerberos5 user while not being connected to any network. By now I have managed to get around this by using pam-ccreds and nss-db which would locally cache user credentials. Now there’s a new approach to this whole situation: SSSD, a project introduced [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 12:40:41 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2172 For years there has been the problem with SSL/HTTPS requiring a separate IP per X.509 certificate. Almost all webservers serving unencrypted plain HTTP/1.1 support a mechanism called name-based virtual hosts which enables a theroeticaly unlimited number of different doamins on on IP. This was not the cast for HTTPS since SNI arrived. Now it was [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:35:21 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2167 A new package has made it into the Debian repository: slapd-smbk5pwd It’s purpose is to provide a way to synchronize LDAP passwords with Kerberos5 and Samba passwords. For instructions on how to set it up can be found here: http://student.physik.uni-mainz.de/~reiffert/smbk5pwd.html]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:31:32 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2165 I’m proud to announce that I found a sponsor for my first four packages which were uploaded to the official Debian repository: django-auth-ldap django-countries django-markupfield django-picklefield They are currently in Unstable and are awaiting migration to Testing if there are no bugs filed against them. Thanks to my mentor Jakub Wilk for guiding me through [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:40:04 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2140 For the last week I was without IPv6 connectivity on all of my client machines. Running traceroute6 from the tunnel-end-point worked fine, although i could not get any further than to the first hop from the clients. The IPv6 prefix is advertised over a IPv4-OpenVPN from the server running the tunnel. I dug really deep [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:19:32 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2125 I’ve spent the last week on helping Jens Diemer to develop a Weave server for the Django framework: django-weave By now the result is a fully working Weave server, already in use at my own server and syncing my bookmarks and my history across 4 devices: all Debian desktops, yet no mobile device, testers are [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/feed/ 0