Category Archives: Other
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
OpenPGP key transition
Posted by on August 15, 2010
I’ve recently set up a stronger (4096R) OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old (1024D) one. To a large extent this is about being able to use the SHA-2 family for signatures. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all future correspondence to come to [...]
Vacation in New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC?
Posted by on August 12, 2010
Hello Lazyweb Currently I have my vacation coming up. During that time off me and a friend will be spending the last two weeks in August visiting the north-east part of the US. More specifically we will be visiting the cities New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Any suggestions on things to do, places to [...]
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?
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.)
