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eduroam, wpa_supplicant and openbsd

eduroam works quite well on openbsd, provided that ones network card is supported. The “standard tutorial” seems to be this one. However for me the problem is, that it requires us to store the eduroam password, which often is also the single-sign-on (e-mail, services, etc.) for a university, in plain text. To avoid this, I …

Slow start-up times for jetty and the lack of entropy

The Google App Engine offers a maven project that uses jetty to launch a local test server. This is convenient and works quite well, but jetty suffers from one problem when running in a virtual machine: It needs a full entropy pool to start-up (probably to generate encryption keys?). The problem is that virtual machines …

Compiling gstreamer from source

I have to compile gstreamer on different computers and thus wrote this little script to fetch the sources and compile them. Note that you need to install dependencies first. gstreamer will usually compile when they are not present, but will then not work properly. You can download it here: gstreamer_build.sh #!/bin/bash   # you might …

First updates with unattended-upgrades

Running it for the first time, it seams to work well. It upgraded the packages and send me an e-mail. Here are the config files I used: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic: 1 2 3 4 5 6 APT::Periodic::Enable "1"; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "5"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; APT::Periodic::RandomSleep "3600";APT::Periodic::Enable "1"; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "5"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; …

Connecting facebook and wordpress

I finally got around to connect my blog to my facebook account and run into trouble enabling a developer account. To use the wordpress facebook plugin you need to create a facebook app that can post to your facebook account.  To create the app you need a facebook developer account. So far so simple. The …

Frist p0st!

So finally I was convinced to try out wordpress and start my own blog. And I avoided it for so many years. Damn Web 2.0 ;-) I am not sure if I will blog regularly (or at all) nor do I know what I will blog about; but thank you for reading this anyway :)