Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Am heutigen Sonntag, den 28. September 2008, demonstrierten ab 15 Uhr etwa 500 Menschen gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung und staatlichen Überwachungswahn sowie für Freiheit und Grundrechte in Leipzig. Ausrichter der Veranstaltung war die Ortsgruppe Leipzig des Arbeitskreises Vorratsdatenspeicherung.
Bei bestem Wetter brach die Menge mit zahlreichen Transparenten und Schildern ausgestattet etwas verspätet gegen ...
Posted in AK-Vorrat, German | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
...and you're a bloody novice like me, you'll probably stumble upon Marc Merlin's "Very detailled and featureful configuration example". If you use that one and you wonder why on earth people can't authenticate against your local SMTP via PAM, you seek hours and hours in different places, forums, IRC and ...
Posted in Debian/Ubuntu Administration, Tips | No Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Only 20 days are left until the biggest, globally concerted action day for freedom and against angst, terror and surveillance takes place. So lets see what we have right now:
Protest Marches: Berlin (Germany), Paris (France), Stockholm (Sweden), London (UK), Sofia (Bulgaria), Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Parties: Kopenhagen (Denmark), Berlin (Germany), Stockholm (Sweden), Prag ...
Posted in Data Retention | No Comments »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
An interesting film I was pointed to today.
For her film "Faceless", the London-Austrian filmmaker Manu Luksch used only recordings of British surveillance cameras. The people, who've been defaced with black oval to protect their identity, are unsuspecting victims of a totalitarian state, whose citizens are constantly monitored.
(German source, with an ...
Posted in Data Retention | 2 Comments »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
So I was about to SSL-secure my new webmail setup, created a new cert on CAcert, installed it, configured my vhost accordingly, went to the webmail login page and... boom. Login was not possible. No error message, no log message, nothing.
What happened?
To make a long story short, the PHP superglobal ...
Posted in Debian/Ubuntu Administration, Tips | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
I finally got sick of my SuSE 9.3 V-Server when a good friend of mine pointed me to this really fancy and sexy IMAP web frontend called RoundCube last week. Written entirely in PHP 5 there was no real chance that I could get this easily working on my oldish ...
Posted in Debian/Ubuntu Administration, Work | No Comments »
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I've been in Hamburg today with two other colleques to show off a milestone of our current project at work. Since the customer was quite satisfied, I was in the mood and finished a short hack for the next guitone release: A node info panel. Here is the obligatory screenshot:
The ...
Posted in Coding, guitone, monotone | 1 Comment »
