Compile kernels using make-kpkg

Assorted notes for getting Linux up and running on a Macbook Air (2013)

Replying to @Habbie and @marcodavids works perfectly well on my Mac.... Sat Aug 31 08:38:22 +0000 2013 Replying to @thatcks I’ve settled upon tweetdeck, seems quite nice Sat Aug 31 11:51:44 +0000 2013 Replying to @martinbarry ah thanks, never can remember the order of that in markdown Sat Aug 31 17:47:33 +0000 2013 pondering \(software\) versions and releases. A release only says: X+1 is newer than X. A git hash says the same, but has an indirection

Feestje 25 augustus

In my quest to write a DNS server in Go I found myself lacking an interface to PKCS#11, so I wrote one. PKCS#11 is the interface to HSMs (including SoftHSM), and even though the interface sucks, I think a DNS server should store its keys in an HSM, by default. So… here it is. I’m still putting in the finishing touches and some general polish, but it is already usable.

Replying to @jeroenbulten and @IrisvRijswijck Ik kom ze hier ook nog tegen :-) #ATianen Wed Jul 31 13:34:17 +0000 2013 Replying to @IrisvRijswijck and @jeroenbulten Ze lijken heel erg veel op JC Wed Jul 31 16:03:44 +0000 2013 SkyDive? #MSFT Wed Jul 31 21:01:48 +0000 2013

Have an I-D laying around and sick of typing XML? You want to use Pandoc2rfc, but you don’t want to manually convert the XML (or the generated text) into Pandoc? Well, now finally you can do this automatically. I created a little stylesheet, that can be used to transform the XML to Pandoc. Note the transformation is not perfect, there are a few cases where you still have to edit the Pandoc, most notably:

In this post you can find pointers to documentation and source code for the pandoc2rfc package. Pandoc2rfc source code: github.com/miekg/pandoc2rfc, if you are not using the shell script (pandoc2rfc), you should just copy transform.xsl and perform the conversions manually (see documentation pointers below) Packages: for both xml2rfc and pandoc2rfc can be found at launchpad, these can probably also be installed on Debian and definitely on older Ubuntu versions. Documentation: This draft is the canonical documentation.

cinavia Fri Jun 28 21:34:08 +0000 2013

… or any other document format for that matter. I thought it might be nice to have some sort of split window view in that allows you to edit a Pandoc file on the left and see the generated I-D on the right (in vim, with no extra daemons and not relying on inotify). Turns out you can do that, though it is not optimal, but it works. The jury is still out if this works well enough to actually make it useful.

GNOME3 in the default install is unusable, not as bad as Unity, but bad. Luckily with some minor tweaking it can be made to work quite nicely. These are some assorted notes on how I got stuff working the way I like. From a fresh Ubuntu install, install GNOME3: sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment Then: Normal focus mode: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode 'sloppy' gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise false Extensions: Caffeine - disable screensaver manually Frippery Move Clock Media player indicator Remove Accessibility Remove Panel App Menu Status Area Horizontal Spaces - reduces space used Weather - nice weather applet Windows Alt Tab (from: tglman, there are multiple) - alt-tab sanity Workspace Grid (from: mathematical.

Wat voor een mongolen werken er eigenlijk bij de #NS? Prutswerk eerste klas! #fyra #italiaansVakwerk Fri May 31 18:33:00 +0000 2013 mond valt open http://nos.nl/video/512947-gehele-persconferentie-over-de-fyra.html #fyra Fri May 31 18:42:54 +0000 2013

Replying to @letoams basically this: http://tbaggery.com/2011/08/08/effortless-ctags-with-git.html, but I run it manually from within vim. \(also use vim \+ fugitive\) Tue Apr 30 07:02:21 +0000 2013 oh, het is al gebeurd... Tue Apr 30 08:46:43 +0000 2013 Replying to @jpmens :-) Hopefully soon! #republican Tue Apr 30 08:52:09 +0000 2013 What actually happened during the abdication #beatrix http://youtu.be/Pk4AiCnMqpg?t=3m55s Tue Apr 30 10:15:41 +0000 2013 Why didn’t TALINK fly? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wijngaards-dnsop-trust-history-02 Tue Apr 30 12:33:26 +0000 2013

RT @petdance: “I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres.” “Why do you want to do that?” “I don’t, I just wish I had e ... Sun Mar 31 20:42:50 +0000 2013

Go dns in action http://dns-status.ntppool.org/# #ntp #go #dns Thu Feb 28 08:16:22 +0000 2013 Replying to @sneakatdatavibe Wasn’t created by me, so can’t tell \(and i'm a html noob\) Thu Feb 28 08:22:17 +0000 2013 https://launchpad.net/~miek/+archive/golang #golang #debian #package #ppa Thu Feb 28 12:01:36 +0000 2013 Die Boogerd is echt zo dom als die eruit ziet... #doping Thu Feb 28 12:06:01 +0000 2013 After “eventual consistency” should come “PHP consistency” #YMMV

I was wondering how to make my touchpad settings permanent in Ubuntu. I could find a few pointers on the net, like: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/11/06/persistent-touchpad-configuration-in-ubuntu-11-10/ http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1538147.html But sometimes it makes sense to look at your own system’s documentation: % cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d % head 50-synaptics.conf # Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver # to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on # InputClass. # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite # it when updating.

Last week, the Dutch public broadcaster (NOS) decided to “fix” their online teletext offering, there breaking [an old script I had laying around](/2008/july/15/teletext_nl_script/index.htm l). Their new web interface (displaying gifs) can be found here. After @bdekruijff discovered their newly, hidden text feed, I decided to adapt the old script to this new situation. Thanks to this page I was able to (partially) reconstruct the feed. Most escape sequences are working, I’m still fiddling with finding Unicode chars for the “Contiguous Graphics Set”.

#zsh #shell #roulette SOURCE ~/.zsh_history Thu Jan 31 08:34:28 +0000 2013 I’m using Source Code pro v 1.013, but 1.017 is out... So right now I’m upgrading Thu Jan 31 08:37:26 +0000 2013 http://livestream.nucleus.be/ Puppet camp live stream Thu Jan 31 08:42:31 +0000 2013 RT @Stephan007: Actually really sad! > “@1Pr0grammer: How to tell HTML from HTML5. #LoL ” Thu Jan 31 08:50:40 +0000 2013 Replying to @jgraham909 thanks! \(\.

We all know this comic: And now in zsh! With the following snippet all commands that are started with an uppercase word will be prefixed with sudo and then executed. So MAKE me a sandwich, becomes sudo make me a sandwich. accept-line() { local B B=(${=BUFFER}) if [[ "$B[1]" != [A-Z]* ]]; then zle .accept-line return fi if [[ $B[1] != "" && $B[1] == $B[1]:u ]]; then BUFFER="sudo $B[1]:l $B[2,-1]" fi zle .

Thanks to the help of Marc Petit-Huguenin I have been able to create (and upload) debian packages (install fine on Ubuntu) for Pandoc2rfc and xml2rfc. For Pandoc2rfc I choose to add a little shell script that calls pandoc and xml2rfc for you. So creating an I-D is as simple as: pandoc2rfc *.mkd # or a few other extensions The shell script depends on transform.xsl to be installed in /usr/lib/pandoc2rfc/, allthough this can be overridden with a flag.

I like Vim, so I try to use it at many places. Like in my shell (set -o vi), and when writing and coding. After some Googling I found that Vim can also be used as a MANPAGER. But there is one nagging issue. To quit viewing the manual page you have to type ‘:q’, which is one keystroke more then when using less as your MANPAGER… Needless to say: this is unacceptable.

Iedereen met een IQ van onder de 50 is al druk bezig vuurwerk af te steken Mon Dec 31 14:28:48 +0000 2012 godoc perlrun....#yeah Mon Dec 31 19:21:53 +0000 2012 RT @letoams: The ARPANET transitioned to TCP/IP on 1 January 1983. That was 30 years ago http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc801.txt Happy death anniversary to ... Mon Dec 31 21:39:38 +0000 2012

In the standard library the DNS types have been renamed from RR_MX to MX which I think is a good change. So I made the same change in Go DNS, but this time I’m providing gofmt -r rewrite rules. They all have the form: gofmt -r 'RR_A -> A' -w *.go And then for all the types, so it’s quite a list. Download the rewrite rules here and use it like $SHELL rewrite.

I’m starting to get really happy about the Go DNS API, so invasive API changes are less and less likely. We want to create a little program that prints out the MX records of domains, like so: % mx miek.nl miek.nl. 86400 IN MX 10 elektron.atoom.net. Or % mx microsoft.com microsoft.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.messaging.microsoft.com. We are using my Go DNS package. First the normal header of a Go program, with a bunch of imports.

NSEC3 - A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a record who does not exist. Denial of Existence, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the non-existent, in a world of records who operate above the law.

Inspired by NLnet Labs and PowerDNS, I figured I couldn’t stay behind, so here is how to add new RRs to Go DNS. A small note before I delve into the details, I haven’t optimized Go DNS for adding new types, as this is a relative infrequent event. There are a few items that need to be added before Go DNS understands the new RR type. Adding the type itself (as a structure) and the four methods needed to implement the RR interface; Adding the type number and the text string belonging it; Parsing from text, i.

Replying to @Nijmeegsebus je hebt nu toch een LEEG flesje? Just saying... Fri Nov 30 13:46:18 +0000 2012 RT @PowerDNS_Bert: DNS-OARC is good, please consider this job! http://lnkd.in/sGxGuW Fri Nov 30 20:17:47 +0000 2012 Can drop7 get a table interface! Please Fri Nov 30 21:41:30 +0000 2012

This is an official announcement from SIDN also published here. Summary In the course of Sunday 28 October, an error occurred during the publication of a new ZSK (with key tag 20331). Because of the error, the new ZSK was not published in the DNS when it should have been. However, the software used by SIDN (OpenDNSSEC) continued to work on the basis that the ZSK had been published successfully.

Replying to @gitaar yeah, but xlstproc doesn’t do 2 on Linux AFAIK Wed Oct 31 07:03:22 +0000 2012 Who is Kroah-Hartman? https://lwn.net/Articles/522088/ Wed Oct 31 11:37:36 +0000 2012 Replying to @jpmens and with those words hell froze over. #hotel #wifi Wed Oct 31 16:08:12 +0000 2012 Ubuntu’s mainline kernels dont install anymore... Who should I tell this? 3.6.4 and 3.6.5 fail on quantal Wed Oct 31 19:20:10 +0000 2012