As part of my job a senior Linux systems engineer and freelance consultant, I am often asked to do staff training on various Unix and linux related topics. One such training is “UNIX and Linux – an introduction”, a 2-day intensive course which I developed.
The content is aimed individuals who are familiar with Windows back-office operations.
Click on the Slideshare link to access a read-only copy of the presentation.
I’m gonna play with RetroShare a bit.
RetroShare is a serverless, p2p based communications platform where every single piece of transferred data is encrypted. You find your contacts by their pgp key.
Here’s a link to the homepage.
If anyone wants to poke me on retroshare, my pgp key is on the public key servers with the key id 0x27BD763C.
RetroShare for openSUSE is on the build service.
I don’t have an iPad (yet).
Maybe I will buy one at some point.
You can help if you want 
Sorry for this, just trying to be funny. This link might explain what is going on. Sometimes the media is just getting way too hyped for their own good.
Here are the results from the survey:
75% answered “yes” on the question whether they use kontact or not. Those who answered “no” did not get to the rest of the survey. All questions except the last two were multiple choice.
Component usage:
| 93,42% | |
| Contacts | 78,95% |
| Calendar | 77,63% |
| Feedreader | 53,95% |
| Task list | 35,53% |
| Summary | 19,74% |
| Yellow Notes | 17,11% |
| Journals | 10,53% |
| Time tracking | 9,21% |
| Other | 9,21% |
Mail protocols:
| IMAP | 72,6% |
| POP3 | 47,9% |
| Local Maildir | 17,8% |
| Other | 11,0% |
Calendar sources:
| Vcard files | 75,0% |
| Google contacts plugin | 29,4% |
| CardDAV | 11,8% |
| LDAP | 10,3% |
| Kolab etc | 10,3% |
| Other | 7,4% |
| Novell Groupwise | 1,5% |
Address sources:
| iCal file | 66,1% |
| Google calendar plugin | 32,3% |
| CalDAV | 21,0% |
| Kolab etc | 14,5% |
| Other | 11,3% |
Quality compared to other PIM applications or email clients:
| Poor | 11,1% |
| Below average | 16,7% |
| Average | 34,7% |
| Good | 33,3% |
| Excellent | 4,2% |
Has kontact improved over time:
| Improved | 23,9% |
| The same | 25,4% |
| Worse | 50,7% |
For various reasons I had to setup a Debian box. Debian 5.
For building software that would be distributed in binary form and should run on any linux.
The original software that mine derives from is being built on a debian 5 system.
So, I needed one as well.
Enter: VirtualBox for Mac + Debian 5 netinstall.
So far, so good, until I actually cloned my hg repo onto the deb box, and found that the clone had two heads.
… debian uses mercurial 1.0.1 on debian 5.
1.0.1.
seriously.
that is old.
very old.
It’s a miracle that debian has heard of unicode by now.
At least I think they have heard of unicode …
gotta check that.
You might have noticed that there’s no “FB” button under the posts anymore.
Here’s why. https://plus.google.com/114753028665775786510/posts/QSUEfgdjKPx
I can just not condone facebook’s anti privacy behaviour.
Cute. just cute.