Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2015

The day before: “Oh great, several hours on my own. I will pack books and I am gonna get so much reading and writing done.”
On the train: “Argh, I am tired, and it is too loud, I cannot concentrate on anything.”
The day after: “Where went all that time? What did I do?”
The day before: “There will probably be some kind of Wi-Fi available. It is 2014 and it has to be better now than it was the last time.”
On site, after a painful experience including ridiculous prices and/or asking for silly access codes, counting it a success if there is decent signal strength (even without reasonable bandwidth) in the lobby: “Thank god for my smartphone data plan.”
9am: “I wonder why they keep so many snacks and cake arround. I just had breakfast and I am fine till lunch.”
After 2-3h of talks or a workshop: “Hunger! I want sugar… and caffeine… and then some more sugar!”

After I could not make it last year I was glad to come back to Chemnitz for this years Linux-Tage.
This time I did not have any talk and did not sign up for the BSD booth. So I had more time and attended more talks than usual and the (possibly subjective) impression that talks were better than in previous years. The only (small) drawback of success: with ever more guests everything becomes more crowded.
One particularly interesting presentation was the one on structured logging by Jens Kühnel. — That is more or less the long overdue follow-up for my very old talk on Syslog (pdf).
I have been quite lazy with my PGP key. At some time I even removed its expiration date, because I was too busy to generate a new one. But lazy or not… a key of 1024 bits has to be considered legacy now, furthermore it is time to remove my different university addresses.
So this years resolution is to switch to a new key — which is now online on my contact page and public keyserver. (The old one is also online and still usable for some time).
Liebes Internet-Tagebuch… manchmal sind die banalen Dinge die besten Anlässe das verwaiste Blog weiterzuführen. Und so verkünde ich der Welt: meine iPod-Kopfhörer haben nach gut zwei Jahren mal wieder einen Kabelbruch und ich musste mir neue kaufen. Read the rest of this entry »
Jetzt habe ich die Wohnungssuche hinter mir… Zeit für ein paar Beobachtungen.
Schon nach einigen Tagen entwickelt man den völligen Tunnelblick;Ganz ohne Ankündigung hat mein DNS-Provider irgendwann in letzter Zeit seinen Nameservern endlich auchIPv6-Adressen gegeben.
Das war der letzte Schritt um meine Website aus einem IPv6-only-Netz heraus erreichen zu können. Und gleichzeitig der letzte Schritt für mich um ein schönes T-Shirt von HE.net zu bekommen ;-)
A nice surprise last week: textproc/libcrm114 became my first official FreeBSD port. :-)