http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl Ambachtelijk bereide beschouwingen. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:27:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bijna een jaar geleden vertrok ik naar Zweden om een paar maanden in Umeå te gaan wonen. Nu zat ik in de foto's te rommelen (heimwee?) en sommige daarvan zijn best aardig als je benieuwd bent naar hoe het daar was/is. [gallery meta="true" showorig="true"] http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2010/02/fotos-van-noord-zweden/ Some quick numbers for those looking for performance figures on the CESA crypto accelerator. Like I was, since my SheevaPlug has one. From the kernel config: CRYPTO_DEV_MV_CESA This driver allows you to utilize the Cryptographic Engines and Security Accelerator (CESA) which can be found on the Marvell Orion and Kirkwood SoCs, such ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2010/02/sheevaplug-hardware-crypto/ There are times you need to connect to 'dirty' networks such as public WiFi hotspots. Hopefully you're ensuring that sensitive information is encapsulated in transport layer security enabled protocols such as SSL, because anyone on the same link (in the case of WiFi, that's the air surrounding you. A vacuum ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2010/01/network-security-101-stealth-mode-arp-cache-inoculation/ Ik ben kwaad. Sacha vertelt waarom: Dus. We hebben een regering van gekozen volksvertegenwoordigers. Goede zaak zou je zeggen, want die maken beleid dat het algemeen belang dient. Het algemeen belang. Maar wat doet je minister, Camiel Eurlings? Die gaat nog even exclusief aan de leden van één (1!) belangenvereniging vragen of ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2010/01/democratietje-spelen/ Access remote X11 servers that have their TCP socket disabled This happens to me regularly. Someone brings a machine along and I want to display some app, running on my machine, on their display. Networked X11 to the rescue, you say? No, their X11 server is started with '-nolisten TCP' wich ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2010/01/socat-access-your-x-servers-domain-socket-over-tcp/ Here's a trick. Many laptop trackpads lack a middle mouse button. On a regular mouse input device, the middle mouse button is the scroll wheel, and when you press it down it emits a button event. In X11 this button event is used to paste the X selection buffer into ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2009/12/paste-the-x-selection-buffer-with-a-keyboard-shortcut/ Today we talk usability. Specifically, desktop interaction differences between the X11 windowing system and the windowing systems that come with those operating systems you can actually buy in a shop downtown. Select - Copy - Positionyourcursor - Paste Say I'd like to copy some text from some window (which may or may ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2009/12/windowsmac-focus-models-and-copy-pasting-doing-it-wrong-both-of-you/ Just finished up a 0.1 version of a LIRC (Linux Infrared Control) plugin for the Exaile media player. Now you can use your remote with Exaile efficiently. The plugin is in the public repository and is called Lircaile. I haven't touched Python much as of yet, but I'm pleased with it: ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2009/12/lirc-plugin-for-exaile/ Er was eens een handige networksoundserver gebruikmakend van PulseAudio en een USB-soundcard. Dat werkte dan leuk. Voor een poosje. Soms duurde het poosje lang, soms duurde het poosje kort. Maar het eindigde altijd zo: hub 2-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling... usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2 En dan ging ik maar ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2009/11/ja-hoor-de-deuropener/ Instead of cleaning out the kitchen I've prepared two fortune modules and ebuilds to go with them. One contains quotes from "Fight Club", both the movie and the novel. The other one contains the Slashdot history of the world (posted AC). Get them here. Teasers From fightclub-0.1: That old saying, you always kill the ... http://smorgasbord.gavagai.nl/2009/11/fortune-files-for-fight-club-and-slashdot-world-history/