a good friend is gone ...

i read about it today and still have a sms from him from last week. bernd luevelsmeyer, a good friend of mine, is gone. he was probably one of the most important influences in my work live and guided me on my way to UNIX and the console. he was the best sysadmin i ever had and was always a good friend.

sad to see the real geeks leaving this planet.

an interesting read about a openvpn deployment for distributed computing (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915)

it would be there ... but it keeps timing out. now we have two mobile platforms worth developing for: android and the iphone. link

as is NSIs front running ... everyone else blogged about it already so i'll just post the link to the icann meeting minutes: http://www.icann.org

finite state machines are an essential part of protocol parsing and this one is exceptionally fast and is used in mongrel

i found a long searched feature for OS X today: sidenote is a note taking application that just works the way you like it

can be destructive or supportive. here are some fancy ones.

manu posted some pictures from otaki forks

it is a pitty, not because the design is so nice but because of the fact that governmental entities are so 20th century from time to time ... the answer to the question if i am allowed to open source the HAd that i wrote they told me that "it is not the way we do it here" ... so, no, i can't release it. sorry