Centroid.EU Blog

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Removed moon.virgostar.net from nameservers

August 12th, 2014

I updated 5 out of 6 domains with success. Only centroid.eu had a failure that was unrelated to me taking out moon.virgostar.net from my nameservers. As of today I'm running on only 2 nameservers probably until November/December. On those dates I'll probably get another VPS in the european region and set it up for DNS. Moon.VirgoStar.Net was a nameserver for my domains for 22 months and was always available. The vps will get reclaimed by the hosting provider in less than 30 days so I'm moving everything from it.

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Asylum for Snowden

August 12th, 2014

It was announced last week or so that Edward Snowden would be getting an extension of 3 years permanent residency in Russia. But while he's busy there there is an ongoing debate whether Snowden should get asylum in Germany. I found this article (in german) that says that in 1951 article 7 of the NATO mandate in Germany the american military have their own parallel judicial and disciplinary track, on top of Germanys. This means that anyone who belongs to the american armed forces is tried in an american court. Now Snowden worked for the NSA. It's debateable whether he is military but he did work with military secrets so he may fall into this jurisdiction. I have been fearing this all along and have written before not to give Snowden asylum here in Germany. Because what would happen is he'd be extradited and then everyone would hate us, and it just needn't be. It's better to be blunt about it and say we have AIDS before everyone gets f*cked! Us, Germany's citizens probably have work ahead to regain sovereignty, but I don't see a chance for that as long as NATO troops still occupy us (as friends/allies of course).

Regarding the occupation the americans are largely gone in the Ledward and Conn baracks here in Schweinfurt. The "keys" to the castle, so to speak, are going to be turned over around September 30th, 2014. The discontinuation of american forces in Schweinfurt was decided by US president Obama in 2012 or so. I personally am pretty grateful that the US forces are leaving, and pretty grateful for the service that the USA did for our protection in the cold war. So I'm soso about it. The US are leaving us with a lot of infrastructure and our community college is already reserving the right to use buildings for housing 100 students in October onwards.

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Holidays in 5 days

August 11th, 2014

I go on vacation in 5 days. Looking forward to it. I'll be back at work on September 2nd. What will I be doing? You may have guessed it. I'm going to be programming on Wildcarddnsd. Looking to get one feature working, which will beef security of zone transfers somewhat.

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OpenBSD has a new HTTPD

August 11th, 2014

I've been watching the CVS logs at OpenBSD for a while now where Reyk committed a new httpd at OpenBSD. It's a very secure lightweight server and I think it may be great for me. I'm going to be possibly porting/testing it out on FreeBSD next week during my holidays.

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nginx + fastcgi stopped working

August 11th, 2014

The jail admin on americas.centroid.eu upgraded all binaries in my jail. While this was nice of him/her it broke everything. So while googling and searching and finding nothing I came across the fix by strings'ing the php-fpm binary. Here is the fix to my config file for fastcgi:

--- /tmp/www.conf.orig  2014-08-11 13:20:25.777728000 +0200
+++ www.conf    2014-08-11 13:19:09.737666000 +0200
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 group = www
 
 listen = /tmp/www.sock
+listen.owner = www
+listen.group = www
 
 pm = dynamic
 pm.max_children = 25

So I hope anyone who has similar problems will be able to come here. However you can't google this since this blog has a robots.txt deny entry. You can keyword search on this blog though.

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Ordered a book yesterday

August 4th, 2014

I ordered this book: Elemente optischer Netze: Grundlagen... by Volkmar Brueckner. This book is in german and will replace a book I once had in .ca regarding optical networks. I'm looking forward to getting it on the 6th.

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My next .ca vacation

August 4th, 2014

Will likely be in summer 2016. I already touched up on the subject with a few friends, that leaves 2015 unplanned. Who knows what I'll be doing but in 2014 I'm coding.

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Tunnels vs. Submarines

August 2nd, 2014

The tunnels in Gaza I believe are much like the cargo-submarines that Germany had before the breakout of WW1. Germany had created or wanted to create these because certain goods weren't able to get past the British Navy. So my opinion is that Gaza should disarm and make all tunnels available to the Israeli armed forces, so that they can be scuttled. It's too bad about the people living in Gaza that they have terrorists amid their midst and below them in tunnels, many of those people are innocent and victims of war.

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40 days til end of Moon

August 1st, 2014

My VPS moon.virgostar.net will cease working in 40 days, it will get reclaimed by Host Virtual. In 2 weeks, during my holidays, I'm going to move major services off it such as web and dns. What will remain is just a shell server until it stops working.

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My Prayer

July 27th, 2014

I'm not very religious. Yesterday I was lying in bed and listened to 2 hours of music, and I made up a little prayer of all things connected before I went to sleep. It goes a little something like this:

We are all connected
the earth is our home
the cosmos
the earth
blackness
the earth
green blue yellow light
the earth
white light
the earth
I solidify my roots
the earth
all sorrow is gone
the earth
painful events don't mean so much
the earth
our planet will live on
the earth
through the test of time
the earth
it will take us along 
the earth
starshine!
the earth
live the earth love the earth
our divine

In thought this prayer gave me a real home-bound feeling, my body felt very relaxed. Because we aren't just disconnected entities on earth, we are all connected biologically. Us as an invasive species or not.

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