https://cord.de/en/ Recent content on Cords Virtual Home Hugo -- 0.161.1 en-GB Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:35:45 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/t-online-german-provider-enhances-spam-protection-and-blocks-legit-listmail/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:35:45 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/t-online-german-provider-enhances-spam-protection-and-blocks-legit-listmail/ Just a quick pointer to an article in German for those 350+ Subscribers with a t-online-Mailaddress. T-Online verbessert den Spamschutz - Legitime Mails werden abgelehnt. Summary: T-Online now blocks non-spam Mail from Debians Listserver. https://cord.de/en/blog/geocaching-with-the-n810/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:08:30 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/geocaching-with-the-n810/ Today i tried the first time to do GeoCaching with my Nokia N810 running the Maemo (which is a Debian-based Distribution). I already own a Garmin Geko 201 with which i found 100+ Caches, so this is my reference. The GPS-Receiver of the N810 is better than the one in the Geko (at least since i use th https://cord.de/en/blog/being-busy-request-for-help/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:08:02 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/being-busy-request-for-help/ Because of some modifications at my Real Life Orkplace, I decided to reduce other duties to get a better chance to deal with my new duties. So i requested help for my four packages in the Distribution. RFH : jove My first package. A small, but powerful Emacs-relative, with all those uneeded things s https://cord.de/en/blog/today-i-kicked-560-mailaddresses-off-listsdebianorg/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:11:37 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/today-i-kicked-560-mailaddresses-off-listsdebianorg/ ... because they are bouncing. In my ongoing attempt to investigate and fix problems of our mailinglist-server, i found that we only had a working bounce-detection for lists starting debian-* minus debian-private and the three digest-lists. So i rewrote some parts of the bounce detection: We now hav https://cord.de/en/blog/debian-lists-vs-mail2news-gateways/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:09:06 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/debian-lists-vs-mail2news-gateways/ While analysing the pole setters in our internal bouncers-Hitlist i found that some of them run a mail2news-Gateway. The problem is: our Mailinglists leave Mail-Headers mostly untouched, and so headers like X-Trace or X-Complaints-To are passed through without modifications. If a mail containing tho https://cord.de/en/blog/spamwaves-on-lists-or-oops-i-did-it-again/ Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:43:08 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/spamwaves-on-lists-or-oops-i-did-it-again/ Just a quick note: while wading through the list-archives, drop-boxes and list-configuration to find false positives and possiblities to optimise our mailinglists spam level i accidently removed the inclusion of our spamfilters from most lists. I appologise for this. Luckily zobel discovered my erro https://cord.de/en/blog/precedence-mail-headers/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:16:11 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/precedence-mail-headers/ I'm just wadeing through Debian-Mailinglists on the search for enhancements and false-positives. and i just came over debian-security-announce, a lists that sends a helpful message back to submitters that aren't allowed to send out advisories. That message didn't contain a Precedence-Header so i add https://cord.de/en/blog/happy-new-year-its-1984-in-germany/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/happy-new-year-its-1984-in-germany/ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/ https://cord.de/en/blog/scratchbox-you-must-close-your-other-scratchbox-sessions-first/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:22:40 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/scratchbox-you-must-close-your-other-scratchbox-sessions-first/ after playing around a little bit with maemo inside scratchbox, i managed to break the packetsystem beyond repair... so i wanted to start again, but the maemo-sdk-install_4.0.sh told me: E: You must close your other scratchbox sessions first so... where to go from here? http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog https://cord.de/en/blog/scratchbox-inconsistency-detected-by-ldso/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:11:23 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/scratchbox-inconsistency-detected-by-ldso/ As i blogged before i'm going to be the happy (?) owner of a Nokia N810 . On this device runs a Linux with a special distribution and there is also a Development SDK, which can be run on ia32-machines. This SDK relies on Scratchbox , so i just downloaded and tried to install it. This works smoothly, https://cord.de/en/blog/n810-maemo-submission-accepted/ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:02:51 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/n810-maemo-submission-accepted/ Yes, I just received the following mail: Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the device is available in your selected shop (soon). maemo team - http://maemo.org So christmas is saved. https://cord.de/en/blog/rip-telekommunikationsgeheimnis/ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:59:55 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/rip-telekommunikationsgeheimnis/ Explaination for non German Readers: Today the german parliament passed an act, which orders all communication-connection data (caller-ids, times, email-communication, other internet-transactions) have to be stored for 6 months. More info on vorratsdatenspeicherung.de https://cord.de/en/blog/mutt-autoviewing-text-html/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:17:19 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/mutt-autoviewing-text-html/ it sometimes funny, i'm working with mutt since about 10 years, (the 5 years before i was using elm) and just found out how i can view pure text/html-Mails without fiddeling with piping and things. set implicit_autoview in .muttrc does the trick. but now mutt also prefers the text/html-part of multi https://cord.de/en/blog/sendmail-uses-ident-by-default/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:52:16 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/sendmail-uses-ident-by-default/ I have no idea how the other major MTAs handle this, but sendmail seems to issue an ident-auth-request on each connect it gets. As i think this is rather useless, as most hosts don't answer it, and, even if they would, the answer is easily fakeable, i switched it off. adding define(`confTO_IDENT', ` https://cord.de/en/blog/analysis-of-subscribed-domains-on-debian-listserver/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:21:40 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/analysis-of-subscribed-domains-on-debian-listserver/ From time to time we have the problem that a mail posted to a list triggers an autoresponse (vacation, bounce, tdma) from an unexpected source. Sometimes it isn't possible to identify the subscriber who is causing this. One example for this was "petsupermarket". So i wrote a small tool, which takes https://cord.de/en/blog/xlib-maximum-number-of-clients-reached/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:35:33 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/xlib-maximum-number-of-clients-reached/ Every two weeks i get this: $ xterm & Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 and it looks that something eats up the possible number of Clients: $ xlsclients |wc -l 56 when i restart X i can open about 100 xterms https://cord.de/en/blog/im-a-criminal/ Sat, 26 May 2007 10:38:59 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/im-a-criminal/ The German parliament changed the law on 25th may 2007. It's now forbidden to build, program, give, distribute or get software, which can be used to attack computers. that's something i do on a daily basis. (think nmap) so it is only a question of time that i get caught. German pressrelease of the C https://cord.de/en/blog/packaging-simple-php-blog-postponed/ Fri, 18 May 2007 00:02:44 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/packaging-simple-php-blog-postponed/ We found out that Simple PHP Blog, the software that is used for this Blog, can't be packaged for Debian at the moment, because the License looks like this: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the Simple PHP Blog. All changes must be uploaded https://cord.de/en/blog/browsercrash-sucks-loosing-work-even-more/ Sat, 12 May 2007 13:32:40 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/browsercrash-sucks-loosing-work-even-more/ Do you know this? you write a brilliant entry for a blog, a blog-comment or something in a textarea-field in your browser. after finished, you press the Send-Button, and ... the browser crashes, or nothing happens because Javacript or Cookies were disabled in your browser. the result is, the brillia https://cord.de/en/blog/private-spamstats-april-2007/ Fri, 04 May 2007 23:15:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/private-spamstats-april-2007/ you see my Spamstats for the time i run an own server for my domain. The input consists mainly from cord@Wunder-Nett.org that is in existence since mid-1996, and a (tuned) catch all on cord.de. Unreadable is the stuff encoded as russian, chinese, korean, ... Backscatter are Bounces due to misused Ma https://cord.de/en/blog/debian-weekly-news-is-late-blame-listmasters/ Tue, 01 May 2007 23:32:28 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/debian-weekly-news-is-late-blame-listmasters/ Hi. We were notified that German DWN, and the Original DWN weren't sent out. Investigation showed that Diplomats (in German translation Diplomaten) matched the bad word 'Diploma', so it is dropped in our spambox. I resent German DWN yesterday and the Original DWN some minutes ago. sorry for the inco https://cord.de/en/blog/listmaster-vs-gmail/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:24:47 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/listmaster-vs-gmail/ We get regular requests from Gmail-Users that don't receive their own mails back, when they post something on a mailinglist to which they are subscribed. So if this happens to you, first check if your mail shows up in our mailarchive . If it appears there (wait some time that the archive can catch u https://cord.de/en/blog/blog-established/ Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:54:18 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/blog-established/ I sometimes find myself in a state that needs to write out what i feel or mean to a topic. So i decided to establish an own blog. And here it is. I read for some time the Blogs of my friends and cow-orkers corona and wusel and both decided to use this nice Blogsoftware called Simple PHP Blog . It is https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-5-jan-2001/ Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-5-jan-2001/ work the 4th day at the new company Mediaways ... all in all it is the same as my previous employer ABACOM , the main difference by now is that it had 20 times more employees and a better internet connection ;-) https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-13-dec-2000/ Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-13-dec-2000/ ok... i tried to write before, but my Netscape shit itself and i don't wanted to start over again... ok, now i try lynx and here we go: home i'm happy that i found a new home yesterday. Now the stress starts... moving... buying furniture, install infrastructure ... Debian after a long time thinking https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-3-nov-2000/ Fri, 03 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0100 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-3-nov-2000/ hmmm... long time not here. ok. what's on: Calamaris Calamaris is now stable on V2.40. I've asked on the announcement-Mailinglist if i should move development to Sourceforge, but no response :-/ Sun-Monitor The Master of Monitors found a bug, fixed it and it worked... for a few hours... then somethi https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-13-oct-2000/ Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-13-oct-2000/ Calamaris so i decided to call the last beta-version 'stable', and promptly someone finds a bug... ok, easy to fix... and yet another release... i think (again) that the next step for Calamaris is adding graphics... CoCaLoRes after releasing a first beta a few weeks ago, i now decided to announce it https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-25-sep-2000/ Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-25-sep-2000/ Calamaris It looks like the current beta-Version is stable, so i'm going to promote it in the next days. Cocalores I've started a new project over at Sourceforge: Cocalores is the Co nfigurable ca ching lo gfile res olver, a small tool which runs fine for me, and should parse every kind of logfile w https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-15-sep-2000/ Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-15-sep-2000/ Calamaris Build another beta of Calamaris and fixed parsing of Extended LogFileFormat for use with the Novell Internet Caching Service and its relatives. SPARCstation 5 So, that Solaris could hold its position for ca. 2 more hours and than i installed Debian GNU/Linux. While transporting that monste https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-5-sep-2000/ Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-5-sep-2000/ Telco I can't believe it... they fixed it within 26 hours. As far as i can see, the cable was broken somewhere where they build a cycleway or something... SPARCstation 5 I got it... i'm going to call it kurn as my other computers are named worf, alexander, mogh and jadzia... it has 64MB RAM and a 1G https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-4-sep-2000/ Mon, 04 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-4-sep-2000/ Telco Fsck! they did it again... they cut off the whole village i live in from telephone service... (Last time is 9 months ago... it took 4 days before they started to work on the problem.) No Internet@$HOME since sunday afternoon... calling the service-hotline with the cell phone... after 30 minute https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-3-sep-2000/ Sun, 03 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-3-sep-2000/ Calamaris finally: another beta-release of Calamaris. changes: bug fix on logfile-guessing. rudimentary support for Netscape Extended-Logfiles. I only had 7 lines of Logfile of that, so if someone have such a beast somewhere, it would be nice if he can provide me with a few hundred lines, so i can c https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-1-sep-2000/ Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-1-sep-2000/ Calamaris Found the time to look over the sources and found that in the current unstable is a bug... and that in the next unstable this bug is fixed and introduced another... no fun... hope i can fix this this weekend and release another unstable... Those people i asked for support, after they repor https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-30-aug-2000/ Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0200 https://cord.de/en/blog/advogato-diary-30-aug-2000/ First Post! *duck* LUG-mailserver I'm just building the mailinglists on the new server of my LUG . The server is a 10 years old alpha with Debian on it... my chosen Mailinglistsoftware is Mailman . Calamaris I also have to work on Calamaris towards the next stable release... there are a few bugrepor https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-1/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-1/ I was a good computer programmer and a new college student. I was trying to find the BASIC compiler and could not. Sooo... I call the operator (I did not know it was the BOFH.) Phone rings..."Hello" BOFH "Who is this?" Me. "It's me I think" BOFH No joke turkey breath. I think. "Me Who?" Me. "Is this https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-10/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-10/ I had just finished redoing the furiture in the house (I wonder why) (Thank You Uncle Sam). When a rentee comes in and turn on the TV. I am not paying much attention except when they mention the Japanese Super Model Alica Naksone would be in town. What..... It spring.... Has the Bastard User From He https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-11/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-11/ I am at home after reading a bunch a people e-mail... nothing interesting, when Hank comes in. "What do you know about the spell checker program on the school's computer?" "Its flawed, why?" I say. "Well Pete called in for instructions and is calling him back for some reason." Hanks says. "I better https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-12/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-12/ Graduation had come. It was my turn to get even with the school for putting through four years of the BOFH and the BPFH. SSSSSOOOOOOO........ The schools play got a roaring round of laughter when the CO2 canisters were also filled with NO2 (laughing gas). The Dean's graduation speech got really mess https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-2/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-2/ I come into the lab and signed in (using someone elses id) [funny, you offer to help a girl do her program and you can copy her user id and password from her typing, especially if they are slow. "What the?????" I get all these messages on her e-mail from alt.singles.with.severe.social.disfunctions. https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-3/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-3/ After reading up on operating systems I got in really quickly and learned how to up the priority for my job on the queue. Being the Bastard User From Hell means never having to wait for another users program to run. I did not try to get superuser privileges right away. That BOFH might check and find https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-4/ It was thursday. I had to be in the lab. Not that I wanted to, but some professors tell us (the students) we HAVE to use the school computer. Something about funding, I guess. Some one has been trying to call the operator for about two hours. He has been swearing up a blue streak. Me, I just finish https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-5/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-5/ Its friday. The BOFH has not been in all morning. How do I know... well the computer is running fine for one thing. The other is that I paid a freshmen to watch the door while he does his homework. When the BOFH comes in he will let me know. There is someone here who has been trying to get ahold of https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-6/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-6/ It lunch hour and the BOFH is not in. I saw him leave just after the janitor went in to the sysop room. The must confer. That janitor likes to bust in on people in the restrooms. So.. what do I do. I grep all the e-mail readers for erotic word. What? Has the Bastard User From Hell gone in for porn. https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-7/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-7/ I end up in one of the required class. Psych. Yeah, let me near a computer and I'll psych you out all right. And the teacher. She is one of those b***** (excuse me, female dog) who blames all of the world's ill on the male gender. Jesss give me a break. If it was not for some male she would not even https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-8/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-8/ I had just got done withdrawing some cash from an ATM and was taking off the picture mask (for the video cams) of my French teacher when I notice the police ticketing my Vette RATS! I go over and talk really polite to the officer (He has a gun! OK) Of course I get his name and badge number and say I https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-9/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/bastard-user-from-hell-9/ It had been one of those semesters. The BUFH ran into the BPFH (Bastard Professor From Hell). And he was in the computer science department at that. This guy was every student's WORST nightmare. He was so good he even has a quadruple encypher on his academic records that changed everytime he used it https://cord.de/en/calamaris-english/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/calamaris-english/ parses logfiles from Squid , NetCache , Inktomi Traffic Server , Oops! proxy server , Novell Internet Caching System , Compaq Tasksmart or Netscape/iplanet Web Proxy Server and generates a report. Written in perl5. Calamaris V2 (V2.59, V3-beta-version: V2.99.4.7) Reports: Summary Peak-usage report R https://cord.de/en/frutti-di-mare-tools-for-squid/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/frutti-di-mare-tools-for-squid/ Calamaris parses the Squid V1.1.x, V1.2.x and V2.0.x Native Log Format and generates a report. shrimp.pl filters the Squid Native Log Format (V1.0.x AND V1.1.x) into Common Log Format. scacot.pl (Squid CAche COnversion Tool) converts different Cacheconfigurations and the associated data in another. https://cord.de/en/funnies-and-truths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/funnies-and-truths/ Local Bastard User From Hell ... and somewhere else ... Bastard Operator From Hell Christoph's gesammelte Werke (Comics) Die Texthalde und das T@geBuch (German) Gedankenspaziergänge (German) Die Unabhängigkeitserklärung (German) Vella's Fun Collection Bastard Assistant From Hell (German) https://cord.de/en/news-stuff/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/news-stuff/ inpath2dot.pl This tool takes the data generated out of inpath written by Olaf Titz and puts it in a format usable with dot and neato of the Graphviz -Software. Demo-Reports can be found here: PNG-Format (65k, 4354 x 2880), PostScript-Format (49k, 4354 x 2880). syncgroups.pl A small tool which conne https://cord.de/en/selfmade/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/selfmade/ Frutti di mare ;-) (Tools for Squid ) News-Stuff Solutiondatabase, problem management and user application form (Software (commented in English) out of my diploma which is only in German) CoCaLoRes , the COnfigurable CAching LOgfile RESolver. PGP2Schnippsel , puts as much as possible PGP/GnuPG-Finge https://cord.de/en/the-bastard-operator-from-hell-bofh/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cord.de/en/the-bastard-operator-from-hell-bofh/ I've decided to remove these pages, because the original autor 'Simon Paul Travaglia' has put up all his works himself now. So you'll find more than ever was here at his homepage http://bofh.ntk.net/