12December2008

Off to Mexico

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; travel.

I’ll be back in time for Christmas. I won’t be checking mail (hopefully)

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1December2008

Interesting software to keep an eye on

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; tech.

  • OpenVPN Manager : a new GUI for OpenVPN on windows is quite needed, given that the only current GUI is a dead project and it’s coded in C/MingW which doesn’t make much sense for such an app. Go Jochen!
  • Rancho : A project management software written in a sensible language and a rocking framework (unlike the myriad of PHP half-baked apps)
  • Dekiwiki : My favourite wiki. Extensible, with a great architecture, good APIs, clean design and great AD integration.

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30November2008

mozilla2pdf

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; tech.

Thanks to a hint (w/example code) of Eric Peers, I’ve added native PDF support to mozilla2ps. Just give it the –pdf=true switch and the output will be pdf. The extra ps2pdf step won’t be necessary any more.

mozilla2ps-0.7.xulapp contains all the changes.

I should probably rename it now ;)

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16November2008

Some just don’t get it

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; tech.

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26October2008

No Fear

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; life.

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13October2008

Autumn

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; life.

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22September2008

Back from ESC

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; life; tech.

Exhausting week-end in Veneto, with Zuc and Alessandro attending the ESC. Here are some pictures of it:














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18September2008

WTF?

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; life; travel.

While reading the news around the net, I come across this gem about Sarah Palin:

In 2006, Palin obtained a passport[83] and in 2007 traveled for the first time outside of North America on a trip to Kuwait. There she visited the Khabari Alawazem Crossing at the Kuwait–Iraq border and met with members of the Alaska National Guard at several bases.[84] On her return trip to the U.S., she visited injured soldiers in Germany.[85]

All of a sudden I have this “WTF? But seriously, WTF?!?!?”

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22August2008

mod-auth-cas and slow logins

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; music; tech; travel.

Today I dedicated some time to hunt down my “the logins via CAS on apache2 are awfully slow, but not always, just most of the time” problem. At first I thought I had some weird network/dns/whatever issues, but after proper investigation it turned out to be that /dev/random is being used for generating the CAS cookies and my entropy pool is depleted most of the time..badaboom..APR is blocking.

This machine is a virtual server so no way I can use any Hardware RNG or anything along those lines. Given that it only runs in an internal corporate network, I’ve started feeding the cryptographically-strong entropy pool with rng-tools and /dev/urandom. In /etc/default/rng-tools:

HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom

Finally, no more login times issues

ps. APR 1.3.0 has switched to urandom for apr_generate_random_bytes, so in the future this won’t be needed

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22August2008

Random stuff

Posted by Michele Baldessari under: en; tech.

In no particular order:

  • Signed the Fedora CLA in order to get some patches upstream into Fedora Directory Server
  • Committed the work I have done a few weeks ago on the FDS packages on Debian’s pkg-fedora-ds svn (still lots to do before asking for proper review..)
  • Together with Olivier Berger, started the pkg-cas project: an effort to coordinate the packaging of CAS-related applications
  • libapache2-mod-auth-cas looks now pretty decent and as soon as 1.0.8 with the GPL exception comes out, will retitle the RFP to ITP and seek sponsors
  • Moved the blog to wordpress 2.6.1 and thereby fixing some annoying issues while inserting hyperlinks
  • Still chasing down #492488 which is still haunting me

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