Monthly Archives: March 2010
OpenID relying parties
Posted by on March 15, 2010
Being a big fan of the OpenID concept I’m quite happy that at least a few of the sites I like to visit are relying parties. Primarily I’m thinking of these sites: bitbucket linuxportalen Server Fault SourceForge Where do you login using your OpenID?
Using the YubiKey
Posted by on March 7, 2010
One of the keys I carry around on my keyring is a YubiKey. This post really isn’t about the YubiKey itself, but more about me sharing a few insights I’ve gained on using the key. If you already run a WordPress blog you can easily turn it into an OpenID provider to be used with [...]
xkcd system administrator
Posted by on March 6, 2010
Seems like there has been quite a few visitors coming to this blog after having done a google search on xkcd system administrator. To spare future visitors the disappointment I might just as well post the content I believe they were looking for. (See xkcd #705 for the full size original.)
zfs-fuse.net
Posted by on March 6, 2010
Yet again things are happening in regards to the FUSE version of ZFS. That is something you very well might have missed if you, like me, had satisfied yourself with subscribing to the zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com RSS feed. Apparently zfs-fuse.net is where all the action takes place nowdays. Yes I know that Btrfs most likely is the [...]
free domain names
Posted by on March 4, 2010
As part of the gandi.net 10th birthday I received three promo codes, each worth a free domain name. As I have no real use for them myself I’m giving the promo codes away. 10YRS-8206-D3B6-2E0A (taken) 10YRS-9225-B0BF-E19C (taken) 10YRS-0418-6875-90E7 (taken) Do note that the promo codes are only valid up until the 31th of Mars, and [...]
ssh-agent without the Gnome keyring
Posted by on March 1, 2010
In a default Ubuntu, and probably any other modern Gnome based Linux desktop, the Gnome keyring takes the role of the ssh-agent. If this is not desirable you can tell the keyring not to do that by setting the gconf variable /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. $ gconftool -s –type bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false At the next login [...]
