http://www.fladi.at Waiting for the revolution ... to be televised. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:15:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/29/why-oracles-rebranding-failed-at-least-for-windows/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/29/why-oracles-rebranding-failed-at-least-for-windows/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:20:16 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2237 There is this bug filed against Eclipse: #319514 Photo by James JordanAt first it looks like a stupid thing for Eclipse to look at a property defined in the java.exe file to determine the vendor. A lot of people are currently complaining that Eclipse should use the java.vendor and java.vm.vendor properties available from within the [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/29/why-oracles-rebranding-failed-at-least-for-windows/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/2010/07/06/installing-windows-7-and-failing/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/06/installing-windows-7-and-failing/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:32:57 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2212 Behold the hilarious result of my latest attempt to install Windows7 x86_64: It’s clearly superior to Vista!]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/06/installing-windows-7-and-failing/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 Dell provides some minor help on flashing a new BIOS version under GNU/Linux but as of today it’s outdated and unusable.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/2010/06/02/sieve-of-stoffel/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/sieve-of-stoffel/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:32:01 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2180 There is a guy named Felix Stoffel somewhere in Switzerland who calls himself a “communications analysts” and now he released a press text on primes and their determinism. The headline sounds great: Primes finally completely defined (translation by Google) Photo by mainblancheThe text is currently only available in German but after reading it, it turned [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/sieve-of-stoffel/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/2010/05/12/the-day-germany-went-offline/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/12/the-day-germany-went-offline/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 13:19:20 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2169 DENIC messed up their DNS servers today rendering most of the domains in .de unreachable. In technical terms requests to their servers either timed out or returned a NXDOMAIN answer, which states that the domain does not exists. Kristian Köhntopp came up with the following URL to the DENIC homepage: http://www.denic.de/typo3temp/pics/i_64bbbffdb3.jpg I think if this [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/12/the-day-germany-went-offline/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