Die Schwabenmafia

11 Oct 2010

Einen interessanten Artikel über Hintergründe zu S21 gibt es von Spiegelfechter

Not my president!

02 Jun 2010

openssl 1.0

30 Mar 2010

Yay, openssl 1.0 has been released!

openssl 1.0

Optimize Firefox startup times

10 Jan 2010

I did some research on my prolonged firefox startup time and alas I found something cool:

Vacuum your Firefox databases

Basically you have to do the following:

• Install sqlite3:

  sudo apt-get install sqlite3

• Vacuum your Firefox DBs:

  find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 \{\} VACUUM \;

• Reindex your Firefox DBs:

  find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 \{\} REINDEX \;

Bug in hsolinkcontrol...

09 Oct 2009

I stumbled over a bug in hsolinkcontrol, which also seems to be reported in this pharscape forum post

Bug description:

• Ubuntu 9.04, with NO(!) resolvconf package installed
• hsolink 1.0.118 package
• HSOconnect 1.2.18 beta
• /etc/resolv.conf is saved to /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp
• the permissions of the created /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp file are 660 and root:root
• when the saved /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp is moved back to /etc/resolv.conf, this file also gets the 660 permissions
• after that, only root can read /etc/resolv.conf
• the effect is, that DNS resolution does not work except when you are root
• installing resolvconf will work around this issue

This can probably be easily fixed, by making sure that the /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp has the same permissions as the original /etc/resolv.conf file. Since installing the resolvconf package makes the bug go away, I did not fix the source, but just sent a notice to the author.