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Katzenjammer…

By vorlon | August 8, 2009

Today I stumbled upon an interesting band from Norway: Katzenjammer (MySpace, last.fm). They got an refreshing mix of genres combined with great vocals and quite some instruments. Besides that they are currently on tour and selling their debut album (Le Pop)… Definately worth to check out…

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“Picard, Jean-Luc Cpt.” living in Göttingen!?

By vorlon | March 17, 2009

Found in the local phone book. Picture taken from telefonbuch.de:

And I believed he would be living in France…

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Network Security Breaches at NASA

By vorlon | December 5, 2008

Bruce Schneier points to an article at BusinessWeek about repeated attacks on the NASA networks and successful intrusions. The article also mentions a possible connection of the problem of ROSAT pointing too close to the sun in September 1998 to such attacks.

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Thunderbird: Reply to List

By vorlon | November 17, 2008

Mozilla Thunderbird lacking a reply-to-list function is quite annoying sometimes and is often worked around by using a patched version with an extension.
Recently while looking at extensions, I came across one which does not require a patched version, but also works with the regular binary. It is still considered experimental, but has worked well for [...]

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IT Cheat Sheets

By vorlon | November 17, 2008

Found some useful IT- especially network-related cheat sheets over at Packetlife
[via ISC]

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Stop Software Patents

By vorlon | September 24, 2008
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Serious DNS vulnerabilities – update for bind available

By vorlon | July 9, 2008

In the light of yesterday’s large coordinated release of DNS related updates to various products, I would like to point you to the updated bind packages in the portage tree.

net-dns/bind-9.4.2_p1 is currently being marked stable on all supported architectures
net-dns/bind-9.5.0_p1 has been committed with unstable keywords

Nameservers should be updated quite soon, since this issue should be [...]

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Ma(r)x Planck!?

By vorlon | April 24, 2008

Yesterday was the 150th birthday of Max Planck, one of the probably most famous physicists. But was his name really Max or was it actually Marx, as Spiegel Online reports. According to an old church book, it appears to be Marx, which is said to be common for the latin name Marcus. Let’s wait what [...]

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etckeeper – keeping /etc in a git repository

By vorlon | February 28, 2008

When having a look at git yesterday, I stumbled upon etckeeper, a tool to keep /etc in a git (or mercurial) repository and also keeps the metadata (file permissions, …) in the repo making use of metastore.
It hooks into apt but I used /etc/portage/basrc to call it before and after installing a package:
case “$EBUILD_PHASE” [...]

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2009 – The International Year of Astronomy

By vorlon | December 21, 2007

Earlier this week the UN has declared 2009 the “International Year of Astronomy”.
Information can be found at http://www.astronomy2009.org/

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