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August 15th, 2012
There was a fire in my building. But I'm OK. Also my computers survived other
than getting a coat of soot. The fire department said I had to shut my servers
down until everything is settled after they let me into my apartment. However
my newly migrated sources (from sourceforge) are offline for the time being.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Left Sourceforge
August 14th, 2012
I left sourceforge.net, as I was playing around with viewvc and realised I
can have my own repo served from home. The advertising on sourceforge also
made me a bit mad, but what can you do it's their business model. They did
agree to be targetting their ads less on my pages but it was too late for them.
I have the capacity to be serving my projects without advertising and thus I'm
gonna go for it. If you're looking for my projects based at sourceforge
check out my cvs repository
that includes commit history of everything dating back to 2002. Also the
project pages that I created over the years are now found off my open source
site here. That's
the big news for now.
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Public letter to Sourceforge
August 11th, 2012
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:40:37 +0200
From: "Peter J. Philipp"
To: sfnet_ops [at] geek.net
Cc: me
Subject: advertising a bit too much
Hi,
Take a look at this: http://ipv4.goldflipper.net/private/ad-trash.jpg
Where is there room left for my project? Please tone down 1 of those
ads (preferably the one on the bottom) or I will move my project offsite
which is a shame since I've been a member for 10 years now.
I intend to make this a public letter by placing it on my blog.
-peter
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The distance of mars today
August 7th, 2012
With xephem and gimp I managed to get the angle between mars-sun-earth and
with a bit of trigonometry I solved how far Mars is currently from us.
I used the cosine formula from this page to help me.
Here is the manpulated image with gimp. I determined the angle to be 78.25
degrees.
Then I got the mean distances between sun and earth
(151.7 million kilometers)
and sun and mars
(229.7 million kilometers).
So then I had a,b and C and want
to solve for c (so c^2 = b^2 + a^2 - 2ba * cos(C)). And the distance I
calculated was 248.1591965 million kilometers. So then light speed between
earth and mars would take 827 seconds given that lightspeed is approximately
299,792 km
per second. That's 13.79 minutes!
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Why landing on Mars may not be a good idea (for humans)
August 5th, 2012
Mars may be toxic. So what do you do? I have a "backup" plan for landing
humans on mars. Instead of landing them on Mars itself, a craft lands on
the moons Phobos or Deimos. This puts them so close to mars that a round
trip time with communications between any point on mars is likely less than
500 ms. So if you think back to the movie "Avatar" there was a human
commanding an avatar and sensed what the avatar sensed. I propose that we do
this with robotics that land on mars instead of humans. While the humans are
getting comfy on the moons (little gravity unfortunately) and controlling
the robots they will have almost instant feedback of what a robot sees, hears
and feels. I think this will be enough quarantine to explore Mars even if it
harbours biological virii that could wipe out the human race when brought
back to earth on a human. Something to think about anyhow.
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Why I don't trust the ITU
August 4th, 2012
The Internet is a dream come true for both techs and non-techs. It
revolutionized communication costs big time. This is why I do not like
hearing about the ITU wanting control of the Internet.
This article from the BBC writes the following:
The ITU is hosting a conference in December in Dubai to which representatives from 178 nations have been invited to review the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR).
The ITR is a 1988 treaty which set out rules for how traffic should flow between different telecom networks, and how to calculate charges for traffic exchanged between carriers in different countries.
This is why I don't like the ITU because the ITR is mainly out of date. It's
people that made the Internet happen and people that drove costs down. And
they did this mainly from 1995 onwards. A 1988 treaty could not have conceived
of the explosiveness of the Internet's expansion.
Finally I'd like to say we're more than just customers to a telecom (who is
a member of the ITU), we are the Internet. Right now as it seems to me the
Internet is controlled by the US but it's in good hands. The ITU would
tear us apart and raise costs.
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Five technologies of the future
August 2nd, 2012
Here are
10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist.
I kinda laughed reading this and thought I'd create my own that will
exist. Here, then, are five technologies that I predict will make it in
the future.
- Quantum Computers
There is a lot of people working on these now with semi-successful attempts.
I believe in the next 10-15 years we'll see the first desktop quantum
computers.
- Artificial Intelligences
In the future there may only be 2 types of programs. Operating Systems and
Artificial Intelligences. The latter can program you anything you wish,
from a game (interpreted or compiled) to a complex astronomy program.
- Lunar Space Elevator
Unlike the Earth Space Elevator the LSE has a lot more going for it. No
thunderstorms, no atmosphere that eats away at the fibres. The LSE is almost
a perfect invention. And there can be 2 of them, one at the near side and
one at the far side of the moon.
- L5 rotational space stations
You know those wheels that rotate in space? Well when the LSE is finished
these will also be easier to do. Mining on the moon will likely make these
possible. They will be constructed of iron or steel rather than light alloys.
- Pseudo Time Machine
If an event happens on earth and you want to look back to see the events that
happened just prior you can. By placing earth observing telescopes very far
away, so that light travels on the matter of hours to their mirrors you can
create a "Way-back-machine" and it's due to the laws of physics (speedlimit
of light) that this works.
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Cloudcracker, does it make economic sense?
July 30th, 2012
Came across this from a
heise.de article. And I'm thinking...this is such a waste of resources.
It's contributing to global warming quite possibly just to crack a silly
password.
Perhaps we need "cloudbroker" an entity that corporations sign up
to and they broker access to a corporations system considering the data that
would be used for a crack. It would save the economy money for one and
you could give it a certain amount of penalty before the broker rats on the
cracker, and then the corporation is alerted.
Now if the cloudcracker was powered 100% off-grid by solar panels, I'd like
the idea.
There may be a good side to this however. If enough people use such blatant
climate-killing services perhaps they will introduce low-cost, low-power
quantum systems sooner than later. At that point all crypto would be mute
anyhow and cryptosystems would live a renaissance most likely.
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Donated 50 euros to OpenBSD
July 13th, 2012
I've been in contact with some OpenBSD developers the last few days and they
managed to create a patch in the kernel that I needed. I promptly wrote Theo
a transaction for 50 euros. The money should go through in the next few
days. Thanks to Claudio, Henning, Otto, and if I didn't mention your name
a thanks goes out to you as well.
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A bit disappointed with dspam
July 6th, 2012
In May of 2011, I
identified
an issue with the FreeBSD mail server for the
company I work for. Dspam was coring on signal 8 repeatedly. I investigated
the issue and produced a workaround, it is written about
here.
So then when doing upgrades just recently I noticed the signal 8's were back
on the FreeBSD port, and also on the newest version of dspam. So I put my
patch to good use again and the signal 8s disappeared. All in all I'm a bit
disappointed that my "hint" to dspam development did not see a concrete fix
and I'm sure others must be having these problems as well.
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