Makura no Soshi

Just some random observation: At LinuxTag a surprisingly frequent question was “what are the hardware requirements for BSD?”. Read the rest of this entry »

Plötzliche Erkenntnis auf dem LinuxTag: Es gibt einfach zu wenige Linux-Distributionen.  :->

I released my first CPAN module.

I finally played with libcrm114, a C library that implements several text classification algorithms. It is a potential replacement for the mailreaver.crm tool, which is the basis for my SpamAssassin plugin. Read the rest of this entry »

Yay, I received my 200th spam mail after I set up my own mailserver in January. – Now my SpamAssassin can use its Bayes classifier.  %-)

I decided to shorten my ever expanding “eternal ToDo list”, because I realized I simply will not have enough free time for all my ideas. I put this list of abandoned projects online because maybe you want to work on them, or someone else might find them useful and pay me to work on them.  ;-)

• syslog-sign library: take the syslog-sign code from syslogd and turn it into a general library to sign arbitrary streams of text or packets.
• timestamping: extend syslogd or the syslog-sign library to include qualified timestamps.
• PEAR::Payment_SEPA: write a free library to read and generate SEPA credit transfer messages, basically the next generation of Payment_DTA. Problem is it’s a big XML base specification and customer-to-bank messages may still use different formats; leading to the secondary problem that validation services to test such an implementation are expensive.
• Puppet package plugin for FreeBSD to use portmaster instead of portupgrade.