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drivers license?

pekdon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:16:15 +0000

I finally took the first step towards getting myself a drivers license, took my first driving lesson earlier this week. :)

wallpaperd

pekdon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:45:33 +0000

A friend of mine asked if it was possible to have different backgrounds on different desktops in pekwm, which it wasn’t as pekwm does not take care of setting the background. However, to solve this issue I’ve hacked up a small application during this week which is named wallpaperd. Wallpaperd is a simple daemon listening for workspace changes and then updating the background image.

The current release is 0.1.5, which is known to work under Ubuntu Linux, OS X, OpenSolaris and OpenBSD. Check it out!

selinux mystery

pekdon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:38:41 +0000

SELinux seems to be one of the technologies available with great potential but with little or no user-acceptance. I have often ended up disabling the security features due to limited time reading up on, and then configuring the it to fit my needs. However I thought I should give the policies delivered with CentOS a go.

To get started with the targeted policies have a look at the selinux and httpd_selinux manual pages:

$ man selinux
$ man httpd_selinux

Those two manual pages should give enough information to get started.

Something I find myself wanting to do is enabling CGI script to execute and then granting those scripts access to files. To run /path/to/file.cgi as a CGI script reading data from /path/to/read/directory and writing to /path/to/write/directory execute:

# chcon -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t /path/to/file.cgi
# chcon -t httpd_sys_script_ro_t -R /path/to/read/directory/
# chcon -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t -R /path/to/write/directory/

For debugging purposes SELinux for Apache can be disabled by:

# setsebool -P httpd_disable_trans 0
# service httpd restart

To list out what contexts files have use the -Z for ls:

$ ls -Z

For some more information on the subject check out:

Apache and SELinux

Certifications and grades

pekdon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:16 +0000

Moving towards Java land I recently took a SCJP certification and got reminded about how hard it is to measure knowledge and skill. Second up is, even if it would be possible to measure it in a good fashion what would you do with the score? Consider a person with both tons of knowledge and skill, but without sense for quality or ambition to do a good job. What would such values give you then?

Not providing any solution here, but it seems as if it is harder to give people a sense of quality and motivation to do a good job compared to improving their skills…

Gal Gtk+ UI

pekdon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:24:17 +0000

Today I did some updates on the Gal Gtk+ interface making use of some new shared code between the different player implementations. Showing the three level version of the interface (which is how the curses interface is laid out) in #pekwm (irc.freenode.org) it was suggested that it’s “better” to have previous two-level view.

Conclusion, as always, user interface design is tricky and for some things an extra configuration option is worth it!

PI

pekdon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:51:48 +0000

I’ve finally gotten around getting myself a tattoo, was this years x-mas gift to myself. It’s a PI (3.1415…) in the back of my neck. Check it out:

pekwm updates, bug fixes and posts

pekdon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:15:24 +0000

Not all that much going on in the pekwm world these days, there’s been some cleaning and bug fixes but I have still not done any work on 0.2.0. :-/ Anyway, I stumbled across a nice blog post on living with pekwm, check it out!

Changing employer

pekdon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:49:50 +0000

After more than 4 years working for FreeCode I’ve decided to move on looking for new challenges. I’m beginning at Bouvet where I’ll be focusing more on development and less system administration (if everything goes as planned).

While at it, I also have a great ambition of not working all that much giving myself time to do more development during my spare time, let us see how that goes. Right now phew-0.1.0 and ganeti-manager-0.1.0 is just around the corner so it’s not going all that bad. ;)

Please do arrive today…

pekdon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:54:22 +0000

1 x Drop The Lime / Black Ham - Ruff 01 (12")
1 x Rotator - Curses on your Ghettoblasters (12")
1 x Venetian Snares - Salt (12")
1 x Shitmat / Ladyscraper - Grungecore Vol. 1 (12")
1 x Broken Note - Let 'Em Hang / Meltdown (12")
1 x Broken Note / Starkey - War In The Making / No Struggle (12")
1 x Broken Note - Crux / Zealot (12")

Oslo Break Fest 09

pekdon — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:15:26 +0000

Was out on Saturday, Oslo Break Fest at The Villa, was awesome! I had to order some music afterwards:

1 x BROKEN NOTE: Dubversion (Ruff)
      12": (RUFF 006) - [4.34]
1 x ANTISERUM/RIPPLE: Dungeon Waltz (Mode Recordings)
      12": (MODE 006) - [4.24]
1 x ALIEN PIMP/ALCHEMYST/TAZ BUCKFASTER: Worldwide Babylon Vol 1 Sampler 2
(Dubkraft Romania)
      12": (DK 002WAX) - [5.21]
1 x TC: Where's My Money (Caspa remix) (D Style)
      12": (DSR 015) - [5.21]
1 x MUNGO'S HI FI: Babylon (Scrub A Dub)
      12": (SCRUB 001) - [5.21]
1 x ROOMMATE/ALIEN PIMP/ULTRABLACK: Strickly Reggae (Grinch)
      12": (GRINCH 002PWAX) - [5.21]
1 x AUDIO/FUTURE SIGNAL: Furyen (Subtitles Music)
      12": (SUBTITLES 072) - [4.78]
1 x BCEE/CINEMATIC: Glitter Balls (Future Retro)
      12": (RETRO 009) - [5.21]
1 x CABBIE/PAPA G/WARNING: Beer & Pussy (Function)
      12": (CHANEL 9630) - [5.21]
1 x CTRL Z/SCREWFACE present STEREO TYPE: Remix Sampler Part 2 Of 3 (Hardcore Beats)
      12": (HB 042) - [5.21]

Looking forward to have these in my mailbox!