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Another year is over and so here is my new gpg-key.

ID:

• 0×13794A82

Fingerprint:

• FCE5 1A34 7527 0F2B 7531 F917 FBF0 7A8B 1379 4A82

computerstuff gpg | 250 views

The GNU Project turned 25, time to celebrate. Since i am a big fan of open source software and use linux for more than 10 years now, I’m happy this project survived so long and is stronger than ever. Once founded by Richard “rms” Stallman brought a hole new approach of thinking to the software community. Hand in hand with the Free Software Foundation it brings liberty to users and developers. You can read more about the history of both organizations here and here.

To celebrate this day comedian Stephen Fry has made a video for that purpose, enjoy :)

computerstuff birthday, fsf, gnu | 217 views

I just found this nice blogpost on planet larry. Since git is my favourite vcs i found it quite usefull. This way you’ll never miss any changes and can revert any mistakenly changed files.
In other news: There finally will be a book about git! The release it scheduled for december 2008 but amazon says it will ship on 15th of september. Anyway i allready preordered and am excited. Walking through the manpages sometimes is a pain in the ass so probably this will make it easier to dig into git’s “secret” features.

Update: I changed the cronscript to reflect the changed files:

#!/bin/bash
MYDATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"`
echo "\n" >> /var/log/etc_git.log
echo "etc_git - $MYDATE" | tee -a /var/log/etc_git.log
pushd /etc
git add . 
git diff --name-status HEAD > /tmp/gitstatus
git commit -a -F /tmp/gitstatus | tee -a /var/log/etc_git.log
popd

computerstuff git, linux | 228 views

In a row with the USA, the UK and Germany now Sweden joins the league of surveillance states. Europe is sliding more and more into a democratic dictatorship (in germany we call that Demokratur. At least a bit of resistance rose in sweden but apparently not enough. Let’s see who’s next :/

politics politics | 212 views

Na da bin ich ja fast vom hocker gefallen als mein irc-rss-newsbot greade diese beiden schlagzeilen hintereinander ausspuckte:

[11:36:12] ( NewsFlash) [heise] Britische Regierung will zentrale Datenbank für TK-Vorratsdatenspeicherung – http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Britische-Regierung-will-zentrale-Datenbank-fuer-TK-Vorratsdatenspeicherung–/meldung/108147

[11:41:21] ( NewsFlash) [spiegel] Kundenakquise: SAP liefert Software an Scotland Yard – http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,554258,00.html

Das passt so schön zusammen, das kann ja nur in die hose gehn. Diesmal isses ja wirklich eine premiere, dass deutschland mal ein überwachungsprojekt _vor_ den briten hatte. Das können die natürlich nicht auf sich sitzen lassen. Ich bin mal gespannt was daraus wird :)

politics politics | 216 views