Author: johayek

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http://sendxmpp.hostname.sk The software also moved to a new maintainer. Two modules involved showed warnings like this: Use of uninitialized warnings … …/XML/Stream/Parser.pm – method: new …/Net/XMPP/Debug.pm – method: Init They both have their github repositories: https://github.com/dap/XML-Stream https://github.com/dap/Net-XMPP I forked them both, introduced my changes, and committed pull requests. I wonder, whether they will get…

emacs on OS X: error in dired sorting – that patch makes me happy

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in emacs, Uncategorized

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4076360/error-in-dired-sorting-on-os-x

Hibiscus Payment Server – successfully upgraded to 2.6.10

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http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/download.php

backing up my new openSUSE VM to my Synology NAS – using my beloved Ruby Rakefile

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in Synology

Of course the Rakefile needed a few changes, and it also got a few long awaited changes applied. One VM like that on the Mac mini (alternate Special Edition) hosting the VM is like nothing. A new openSUSE, a new VM – with all the same minimal contents inside – that will be fun.

“Luther” (episodes #3.3 and #3.4 (2013)) – to be broadcast on ZDF on 2014-12-14

Dec 13, 2014

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2740968/synopsis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2922128/synopsis – next episode – actually #3.3 and #3.4 belong together In episode #3.3 “Krav Maga” got quoted as the martial art, the negative main character had exercised.

frequent ongoing changes to Google’s SSL certificates – how should fetchmail deal with this?

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http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail http://www.fetchmail.info http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html – this topic is actually not covered there these are the keywords I use in my occasional web searches, when this topic worries me again: fetchmail google ssl certificates

on SSL certificates, their fingerprints, their changes, the bad guys, our trust, …

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http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/26/2250227/ask-slashdot-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know Worth reading, really.

a question on the web: “has gmail’s SSL certificate changed, how would we know?” – and its funny answer: “… they own your computer and will take care of it for you”

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http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/26/2250227/ask-slashdot-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/blob/master/fetchmail–extract_fingerprints.pl Google can easily revoke certificates. They can even install what ever they want on my computer as a replacement for google chome with their automatic background updates. Don’t worry about it, they own your computer and will take care of it for you. I came across this thread, when I searched for a…

my 2nd Thursday evening movie at the Sony Center: The Drop

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