Makura no Soshi

Once in a while my 3ware SATA RAID controller reports a hard disk error. Often the disk can be checked manually and turns out to be still usable. This is a short walkthrough how to check the drive.

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I got my pre-ordered “Das Keyboard” a week ago and it rocks!

Fuzzing is a great way to find input validation errors.

Just don’t use it in debug mode whith all input printed verbatim to the poor terminal… :-|

Now that I wrote my midterm summary and completed the survey for GSoC it is once again time to update the Trac-pages. The syslogd is my first try with Trac and so far it has not been too sucessful.

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Now the latest internet draft for transport-tls is out for two weeks now and it looks like a consensus on the text is found — at least there were no comments so far. I spent the better part of these two weeks changing and debugging my own implementation of transport-tls, which is far beyond the schedule but at least in time to have a working and usable program for mid-term evaluation…

So this is a good time to re-read the draft and check its requirements against my current syslogd code:

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