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 of RepRap and Free and Open Hardware, Women in FLOSS, Future Transports, GNU Parallel, Ethics of Intellectual Monopolies, Who are the Free Users? and Bits and bytes: the importance of free software in the industry.
That diversity in topics is by the way one of the things I really appreciate about going to FSCONS. Another nice thing is the people you get to meet. This year I had, among others, the pleasure of meeting up with a few members of the Danish Ubuntu LoCo.
Ok, first some background.
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 the other hand should be left alone, as they apparently are quite hard to get properly back in place.
The mistake I made was to assume that all those blank keys are the same. Trying to reassemble the keyboard I discovered that they actually come in four different heights and angles.
Luckily the friendly people at Das Keyboard Support managed to give me a few pointers. Apparently the keys are “horizontality” arranged. The picture below will hopefully illustrate which key types belong at which lines.
(The picture is used, and modified, by permission from Das Keyboard Support.)
If you look underneath the keys you will notice that some of them are marked as R1, R2 or R3. Yes, that marking correspond with the key types one, two and three, respectively. The exception being the keys belonging as F, J and numeric 5.
This blog post probably makes a lot more sense if you know that the Das Keyboard Ultimate is completely black, without any inscription on its keys what so ever. Knowing a tiny bit of German probably does not hurt either.
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 me not necessarily being a big fan of telephones.
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.
(Anyone who wants the full story will have to buy me and/or Pär a suitable cold beverage.)
A couple of months ago I wrote a Python script which parses my vCard address book and reminds me about upcoming birthdays. Given that it has worked well for me I figured I would share it with the rest of you.
I have not added any e-mail capabilities to the script, as I find it cleaner to simply let cron pass along the output. For more information, see the README file.
(The actual vCard parsing is handled by the Python vobject library.)
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 the new one. I would also like this new key to be re-integrated into the web of trust. Please see this statement signed with both keys, certifying the transition.
The old key was:
pub 1024D/FAF2463A 2006-11-20
Key fingerprint = 4947 BB72 9192 8645 CC8B F142 8AF2 8D1C FAF2 463A
The new key is:
pub 4096R/13CD4F59 2010-07-11
Key fingerprint = AFEB 2D24 4715 3F0D 9250 8A8B 5882 A0DC 13CD 4F59
uid Andreas Olsson
uid Andreas Olsson
uid Andreas Olsson
uid Andreas Olsson
sub 4096R/9A943D4A 2010-07-11
To fetch my new key from a public key server, you can simply do:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0x13CD4F59
If you already know my old key, you can now verify that the new key is signed by the old one:
$ gpg --check-sigs 0x13CD4F59
If you are satisfied that you’ve got the right key, and the UIDs match what you expect, I’d appreciate it if you would sign my key:
$ gpg --sign-key 0x13CD4F59
Lastly, if you could upload these signatures, I would appreciate it:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --send-key 0x13CD4F59
Please let me know if there is any trouble, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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 see, etc would be most welcome.
(Yes, I have found my way to wikitravel.org. Great site!)
