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Erwin Lansing: FOSDEM 2012
In a few days, I’ll be heading to the FOSDEM conference in Brussels again this year. On Saturday, you’ll most likely find me around the FreeBSD booth representing the FreeBSD Foundation, so if you’re there drop by to say hi, discuss the Foundation’s work, pick up a Foundation flyer, check out the swag, or make a donation. On Sunday, I’ll be in the BSD DevRoom where there will be some interesting presentations and discussions. Remember, FOSDEM is free to attend. Hope to see you there!
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Peter Rude: Basisindkomst?
Det bliver talt meget om overførselsindkomster for tiden. Og mange politikere har gennem årene udtalt at det skal kunne betale sig at arbejde, uden at gøre noget ved problemet.
Der er rigtigt mange mennesker mennesker som lever på offentlige ydelser. Og endnu flere, som lever at at administrere disse ydelser, kontrollere modtagerne eller forsøger at gøre dem arbejdsparate til de jobs som ikke er der.
Det kan gøre meget enklere.
- Afskaf kontanthjælp, su, folkepension, førtidspension, boligsikring og andre lignende socialydelser.
- Giv alle myndige danske statsborgere, et skattefrit beløb på f.eks kr. 6000,- pr. md.
- Indfør flad skat på f.eks 50% og fjern alle fradrag.
- Tilbyd job til alle som ikke selv kan finde et arbejde. Et fuldtidsjob som giver yderligere f.eks kr. 6.000 skattefrit pr. md.
Hvad vil det betyde?
- En væsentlig offentlig besparelse på administration og kontrol af overførselsindkomster og personskat
- En højere livskvalitet, for de mennesker som ellers føler sig overflødige.
- Et højere offentligt serviceniveau, da der nu er personale til at udføre de opgaver som der ikke er råd til i dag.
- Bedre konkurrenceevne over for lavtlønslande, da det vil kunne betale sig at tage et job til lav løn.
- Bedre forhold for iværksættere og små virksomheder i yderområderne.
Det er slet ikke så svært.
/P
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Peter Hansteen: SSH Mastery: A Very Welcome Addition to Any Unix User's Bookshelf
"You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority of IT professionals! Congratulations".
That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the book up to that point and has incorporated at least some of the elements of the configurations it describes into their own environments.
"But why a book dedicated to a single command?", you might ask. Almost all Unixes and Unix-likes have incorporated OpenSSH, the free SSH that is developed as part of the OpenBSD project, and OpenSSH comes with excellent documentation in the form of several extensive man pages.
Well, that question in itself justifies this title's existence (there are in fact several programs in the OpenSSH suite), and readers familiar with Michael Lucas' work will appreciate hearing that his latest work is task-oriented and well written, covering anything from the basic secure shell access through to the peculiarities of setting up a virtual private network (VPN) using OpenSSH. An enterprising reader would be able to find all the information in this book or close equivalents using the OpenSSH man pages or other online sources, but this book provides a very concise guide to both the basics and some rather advanced concepts and provides you with the vocabulary and understanding that you will need in order to successfully navigate the man pages.
This book has several highlights, such as the very sensible and useful discussion of key based authentication and how to set things up for a passwordless existence, a number of suggestions on how to distribute and maintain both host keys and user keys as well as very readable and useful introductions to various kinds of tunneling, forwarding and proxying available using the OpenSSH tools.
In particular I enjoyed reading the description of SSH-based virtual private networks (VPNs) in Chapter 13. This is one of the most clearly written and useful treatments I've seen of that subject, and for many readers this chapter alone will be worth the price of the book or even considerably more.
The book very sensibly covers OpenSSH on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Ubuntu Linux, and users who are compelled to use Microsoft Windows desktops will be pleased to hear that configuration and use information for Putty, the most popular and free SSH client for their environment, is included too everywhere it's relevant to the task at hand.
Before Michael W. Lucas' new title was released in January 2012, the most recent widely available book about the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) and applications that support it was an O'Reilly title dated 2005. So even with high quality documentation available via the manual pages, it was time for a new title on the subject.
This title conveniently grew out of one of Michael W. Lucas' other technical writing projects, the second edition of Absolute OpenBSD. The SSH chapter of that manuscript simply kept growing until it made sense to branch the text off to a separate book. This probably means that the treatment of SSH in the upcoming OpenBSD title will be slimmer again, but separating out the OpenSSH parts as a separate book with information for several different environments added makes sense because it makes high-quality information about important tools available to a larger audience.
I am convinced SSH Mastery is a title that Unix users and system administrators like myself will want to keep within reach on their Kindles or other ebook readers for a quick and convenient refresh of important concepts. If you're a student or learning your Unix skills, you will certainly find this to be a very handy guide that helps you
grasp both the basics of SSH and several advanced concepts that are hard to find well described elsewhere.
The ebook is available in several formats via Amazon and other ebook outlets, a printed version is planned but was not yet available at the time of writing (January 22, 2012).
Title: SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys
Author: Michael W. Lucas
Publisher: Tilted Windmill Press (January 18, 2012)
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Bryan Østergaard: Open Source Days - Second call for speakers
Noteworthy news compared to the first call is:
- We moved the conference a week to make sure we have plenty of room for speakers, visitors and sponsors. The conference is going to take place at march 10 and 11 with training happening on march 9.
- We added information about conference size and being somewhat ambitious we're hoping to reach previous heights of 800-900 people.
- Extended the deadline for talk proposals. Deadline is now january 27th.
- User groups interested in a community booth also needs to start planning. Deadline is february 13th but you need to start thinking of activities, manning the booth and so on.
More information and details to be found on opensourcedays.org
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Peter Toft: Hvad skal jeg vælge til video-redigering på en Linux maskine?
Martin Schlander: PyG3T – Python gettext Translation Toolkit
PyG3T (Python gettext Translation Toolkit) is a very useful suite of python based command line tools for gettext translators. It’s developed by Danish translators Ask and Kenneth and it’s been a great help for me for quite some time – recently there was a new release adding even more tools to the suite.
PyG3T includes among others the following tools:
- podiff for creating diffs
- gtgrep which allows you to grep in PO files in msgid or msgstr only and ignoring accelerators
- poabc checks for common mistakes, inconsistent punctuation etc.
- gtmerge provides an alternative for msgmerge, for merging PO/POT files
- gtxml checks for ill-formed xml
1) Download the tarball and uncompress it
2) Enter the resulting folder and run ‘python setup.py bdist_rpm’. This builds an RPM in the ‘dist’ subdir
3) Install the resulting RPM e.g. with ‘zypper install /path/to/pyg3t-0.3.1-1.noarch.rpm’
4) Each tool has a useful help page, try e.g. ‘gtgrep –help’
5) Enjoy
Poul-Henning Kamp: Uidentificeret Programmeret Object
Andreas Bach Aaen: Godt skudt ind i det nye år
Vi har som mange andre en tæt pakket kalender med hensyn til familebesøg og spisning i julen. Foruden juleaften og 2 familejulefrokoster mellem jul og nytår, så har vi også lige to fødselsdage mellem jul og nytår. Så der er rigeligt tid til at se familien til bords i lidt forskellige konstellationer. På min fødselsdag d. 30 december skulle det være anderledes i 2011. Jeg valgte familemiddagen fra og tog i stedet min ældste søn på knapt 8 år med til København for at se Copenhagen Suborbitals rakettest. Det blev superhyggeligt. Togturen blev brugt til at læse Harry Potter højt for min søn, og det lod til at der var flere andre der hørte med. Til selve rakettesten var der mødt omkring 150 tilskuere op. Vi stod på måske 150 meters afstand fra betonafskærmningen til de to rakettests, der blev udført med en times mellemrum. Lyden var voldsom og kunne mærkes i brystet – især LES-testen, som afbilledet. Det var godt, at jeg havde taget høreværn med til os. Især for unge ører, der jo hører væsentligt bedre end gamle og koncerthærgede ører.
Peter Madsen tog sig tid til at underholde pubklikum i pausen mellem de to rakettests. Det blev blandt andet til en historie, der sammenlignede Copenhagen Suborbitals teknologi med tyskernes V2-raketter under anden verdenskrig. Peter fik historien fortalt således, at den fængede både mig og min søn, så ingen tvivl om, at Peter er en erfaren foredragsholder. Jeg får mulighed for at gense ham allerede d. 18. hvor Crisplant hvor jeg arbejder, har inviteret ham til at holde et inspirationsforedrag. Fint at kunne være med til at støtte Copenhagen Suborbitals på den måde også.
Efter rakettestene og den opligatoriske fotosession af hele holdet foran raketten bagefter var der åbent hus i HAB. HAB er Horisontal Assembly Building – en gammel rusten uopvarmet rundbuehal. Intet fancy tværtimod. Hele miljøet på det forlængst nedlagte B&W værftområde er der hvor alle actionfilm ender. I dette tilfælde er det her hvor actionen starter.
Vi fik set rakettests med drøn på, så nytårsraketterne dagen efter virkede noget tamme i sammenligning. Så vi havde blot fejret nytåret en dag for tidligt.
Søren Bredlund Caspersen: The never ending story…
Peter Toft har talt om det.
Siden har KanalTux (og Peter Lyberth) berørt emnet i deres 2. og 3. Hangoutcast.
… og tilbage i 2009 var der også debat og ideer.
Jeg taler selvfølgelig om organiseringen af det danske Open Source miljø.
Nu ser det ud til at der sker noget konkret. SSLUG, DKUUG, KLID og PROSA arrangerer et debatmøde i København på mandag d. 9. januar kl. 17. (Tilmelding og info: http://kortlink.dk/ab46.)
Som udgangspunkt ikke et møde med højtflyvende ideologiske overvejelser, men med en helt konkret problemstilling/arbejdsopgave:
Én fælles kalender for open source-aktiviteter i Danmark?
Jeg glæder mig!
Peter Makholm: ergoconsulting.dk – svar fra Klagenævnet
Efter min henvendelse til Jens Schovsbo om afgørelsen vedrørende ergoconsulting.dk har jeg nu fået svar fra Klagenævnets Sekrætariat.
Klagenævnet har modtaget Deres e-mail af 4. januar 2012, hvori De rejser et spørgsmål til klagenævnets afgørelse af 2. januar 2012 af sag 2011-0179 (ergoconsulting.dk). Klagenævnets omtalte afgørelse er begrundet, og klagenævnet kommenterer ikke efterfølgende sine afgørelser.
Det er jo klar tale. Men jeg vil nu stadigvæk gerne vide om Klagenævnet har undersøgt hvordan Paten- og Varemærkestyrelsen betragter indsigelsen mod det relevante varemærke. Så nu prøver vi med aktindsigt.
Poul-Henning Kamp: Skudsekund 30 juni 2012 23:59:60
Sune Vuorela: Vote verifications
In KDE e.V. (which is to KDE what SPI is to Debian, Jenkins and others) there is some times a need to vote. For example about accepting new members. Mostly about accepting new members. With the new vote system (ballot.kde.org), voters need to do a bit more to check their votes afterwards. basically
- Take username
- Your own secret
- The vote token
and sha256 it in the right order with the right separator chars and so on.
All sha256 sums are published together with where the vote was, so voters can verify that they are counted correctly.
After failing to construct a couple of times on the command line, I decided to write a small GUI app to help me instead.
There it is. Nice. Simple. Effective.
Sources available. http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fsune%2Fkrapyl.git&a=summary – have fun, and remember to verify your votes.
