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November 12th, 2011
I'm worried about the human race. Ever since the great wars in the 1940's
we've been using gasoline and oil based fuels to power our economies. Our
economies pride themselves by having multiple trading partner, so as to not
be relied on one partner too much, yet we don't do this with transportation
means such as cars. People are lazy too. They will boycott buying gasoline
_for a day_ to make statements but it doesn't get any results. What we have
to do as a human race is to strip ourselves free of this dependency and create
a _mix_ of transportation means so that we don't fall into poverty when there
is no more oil. Guys ride your bikes more often! Mayors! Ban cars in cities
unless they are electric! We can't sleep on this or else we'll be poor as
we were in the beginning of the industrial revolution when the oil runs out.
Let's try to have 50% electric cars and 50% gasoline cars by 2020! I wager
that in 2022 the oil will run out if not sooner.
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Upgraded Anti-Virus
November 11th, 2011
Today I bought Anti-virus for my Windows 7 vm. I was 1 day away from losing
my support and subscription so I bought it for this and 2 other PC's for
a years subscription. I believe all windows computers need anti-virus and
I even bought anti-virus for my dad's Mac. It's very important to keep
malware out.
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Got a new VPS
November 7th, 2011
I got a new VPS. It's called io.solarscale.de.
I got this because goldflipper.net was down for 1.5 days and my DNS was hanging
on a string. The new host io doesn't do DNS just yet but it will in the next
few days. One bonus is that it does IPv6, and one drawback is that it's not
BSD. Oh well. I'll be comparing goldflipper.net and io for the next year and
a half and decide which one I will keep running. It's a matter of quality of
service.
$ host www.centroid.eu
www.centroid.eu has address 78.47.14.22
www.centroid.eu has address 200.46.208.61
www.centroid.eu has IPv6 address 2001:a60:f074:4::1
www.centroid.eu has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:d13:1980::22
As you can see www.centroid.eu is DNS load shared between three hosts. io and
goldflipper for IPv4 and uranus and io for IPv6.
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uranus upgraded
November 4th, 2011
I've upgraded my dear
box uranus to OpenBSD 5.0. Downtime was about one hour as I was upgrading
packages as well in single user mode. Some packages didn't want to be
upgraded, and I'll have to sort that out. Otherwise it worked like a
charm.
kern.version=OpenBSD 5.0 (GENERIC.MP) #59: Wed Aug 17 10:19:44 MDT 2011
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
That's the version of the kernel running on it now.
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OpenBSD 5.0 Released
November 1st, 2011
Well I was hoping to give you news of my CD's having arrived but they aren't
here yet. So I did an FTP of the install50.iso file for the amd64 architecture
and upgraded 2 vm's so far. I've made a screen shot:
Screenshot
Well as you can tell by the screenshot Libreoffice is in 5.0 instead of
OpenOffice. This is amazing! Also facebook stopped working for the 4.9
browser a few days ago. The browser bundled with OpenBSD 5.0 makes
facebook work again. Yay! Let's hope this will be as consistent and stable
as the 4.9 release. I'll be upgrading uranus.centroid.eu soonish.
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7 Billion Humans
October 26th, 2011
Here
is a United Nations report that says we'll hit 7 Billion (estimate) Humans
in five days. I gotta say congratulations to the human race, but at the same
time I'm worried because in the 1970's we had just 4 Billion people on earth.
Here is the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights that SHOULD give every human, every one of
our 7 Billion, the rights that are the foundation of freedom, justice and
peace.
I have some issues with the large number of people like mentioned above, but
let me ask some questions. How are we going to feed everyone? Oil is running
out, how can we keep relative comforts for everyone? More fresh water is
polluted every day, how can we ensure drinking water for everyone? Machinery
is taking away humans work, how can we accept being unemployed because of it?
We realise we live on a planet in space, how can we ever accept that there is
other species elsewhere?
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Rocket Scientists, why can't this be done?
October 24th, 2011
I was wondering why humans insert rockets in a circular orbit around the
earth first and then gun the engines to "escape". First a picture of
how it's done currently.
I envision space craft going directly up into the sun toward L1 Lagrange.
Basically it's ascending straight up, followed by a coast and then possibly
ION engines backed by possible lasers (for energy) from the ground, in order
to stay at this Lagrange point.
Basically up there it's like an eagles nest in the mountains. You experience
day at all times, see the earth lit all times, and are able to move between
other lagrange points with little to no chemical energy. Also accessing the
moon from there should be no problem.
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German Trojan, some thoughts
October 19th, 2011
This story is circulating. I noticed that the
programs being spied on are programs that use encryption and that's probably
what the police are out to get at, encryption keys or seeing what someone is
doing what they can't see by simply wiretapping the line. I noticed they are
interested in skype (which uses encryption). What it comes down to is that
there is a frustration out there that the cops want to see through the
encryption of end-users that they suspect for whatever reasons. In a way
this is a nicer way of peeking through encryption than installing X amounts
of supercomputers to crack the encryption used, it's likely also cheaper.
The underlying problem of creating a police state is real though. So where
do you find a median? We can't turn encryption off as some countries
dictate because organized crime will get to us before the cops can protect
us, and the losses will be huge. We can't install supercomputers because
they suck up too much energy and cost too much. So what can the cops do to
track criminals? It's not so easy, why don't you send me your thoughts?
Lastly we don't want to put the cops in a position where they can surveil
anyone or everyone without a court order.
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Did you know you could get BSD Certified?
October 16th, 2011
At EuroBSDCon I met and spoke a bit with Dru Lavigne. She does the BSD
Certifications at most major BSD events. All in all a good thing if you
live in a place where certifications are important. If I go to
EuroBSDCon next year I'll try to do the certification myself. The
website is here at bsdcertification.org
. I also made a photo of Dru but it turned out very blurred so I can't
share that, sorry.
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The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
October 15th, 2011
At EuroBSDCon I had the pleasure to speak to Benedict Reuschling who is
involved in the german documentation project. They are always looking for
more people able to translate from english to german. Here is
their website.
Als ich auf EuroBSDCon war hatte ich die Ehre mit Benedict Reuschling zu
reden der bei dem FreeBSD Deutschen Dokumentations Projekt arbeitet. Sie
suchen immer mehr Leute die Englisch zu Deutsch übersetzen können
Hier ist die Webseite des Projektes.
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