coloncolonone.net
Posted by on January 31, 2011
For some reason I decided it was a good idea to register the domain coloncolonone.net. Currently it is only used to serve a static html page, proclaiming the following message. There’s no place like ::1 Any ideas on other, possible slightly more creative, ways to use the domain name?
OpenSSH 5.7, SFTP and hard links
Posted by on January 24, 2011
OpenSSH 5.7 just got released. You can read the full announcement at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.7. Personally I especially appreciate the following improvement to their SFTP stack. sftp(1)/sftp-server(8): add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is available through the “ln” command in the client. The old “ln” behaviour of creating a symlink is available using [...]
Tarsnap Nagios checks
Posted by on January 23, 2011
While I have been using Tarsnap for a while now it is first recently I have gotten around to make Nagios monitor those backups. Given that I really don’t want to give the nagios user any actual access to my backups, I instead take the approach of having my backup script create a status file [...]
Managing passwords using GnuPG, Git and Emacs
Posted by on January 12, 2011
Like any other security conscious and/or slightly paranoid computer geek I have lots and lots of unique and nontrivial passwords to keep track of. My solution to this problem involves having one GnuPG encrypted text file per username/password pair. andreas@stilgar:~/safe$ gpg < example.gpg You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: “Andreas [...]
Server configuration and version control
Posted by on January 9, 2011
One of the (few?) good habits I managed to pick up during 2010 was that I became serious about keeping server configuration under version control. While it might primarily have been something I was taught at work it is definitely a practice I have adopted privately as well. The most obvious benefit, and potentially the [...]
Returning from FSCONS 2010
Posted by on November 8, 2010
Back in Linköping, after enjoying yet another FSCONS conference. In case you want to know if there is something you might want to ask me about, these are the talks I attended: Kaizendo: Customizable schoolbooks, A Labour Process Perspective on the Development of Free Software, Are you weak in the middle?, The Inanna Project, Scalable application layer transfers, The Future [...]
Reassembling Das Keyboard
Posted by on September 12, 2010
Ok, first some background. Earlier this year, I bought myself a Das Keyboard Ultimate. Time passes, and I am still very happy with the keyboard. Accident happen, forcing me into some serious keyboard cleaning. According to daskeyboard.com/support it is perfectly safe to remove the small/regular keys (letters, numbers, etc). The larger keys (enter, shift, etc) on [...]
Now on Skype
Posted by on September 7, 2010
Against all previous principles, I have now began using Skype. If you know me, feel free to me to your contact list. Just do not expect me to be Online all the time. Skype Name: andreasolsson.se …and no, that principle I mentioned has nothing to do with free vs proprietary software. It is more about [...]
Vacation summary, by flickr and twitter
Posted by on September 1, 2010
Now back in Sweden, after my vacation to New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC. For starters I have put a few photos online, in my flickr collection USA Vacation ’10. Then there are the tweets I wrote (@andol). While incredible incomplete, they do provide some kind of summary. Now in New York City. “My exit [...]
