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August 4th, 2018
My mother is turning 80 in a few days. I want to wish her a happy 80! When
I look at her life it wasn't easy but we managed to have a lot of fun in our
family. Whether I will be able to live to 2056 and thus 80 years old? Well
we better all have cottages on the moon or something! :-) btw that's 18 years
after the 32 bit time_t wraparound (2038), will we even live through that?
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Applied for the grant
August 1st, 2018
I have applied to the grant from prototypefund.de. Their registration period
is from now until September 30th. Then I hope I'll be selected to do 6 months
coding on delphinusdnsd. I can get up to 47K EUR, but I likely won't get that
much as those are team efforts. Still a nice gesture from the german
government to pay open sourcers. Until the decision is made, I'll be working
on powerpc64 port and hopefully get a booting kernel, but who knows.. there is
several areas that can go wrong. My biggest problem is having to teach myself
powerpc asm (for 64 bit). But I have books that I can fall back on.
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I've switched back to chrome (security de jour)
July 30th, 2018
I've gotten hold of word that chrome is more secure than firefox, due to
being able to be pledged and unveil'ed properly. So I've switched to this
for now. It's a bit faster than firefox anyhow.
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64 bit PowerPC
July 29th, 2018
The last few weeks I've been working hard. I'm attempting to make a powerpc64
port for OpenBSD. Whether I'll succeed is written in the future. I've been
fantasizing a little about this, if I succeed the world opens up a bit in terms
of architectures that can be run since the G5 which I'm using as a start, is
a little old.
For example there is the following computers I'd be willing to port to:
Both of these are powerful computers dating back to 2016, so fairly new.
At my last job I registered the domain "enhancedrisc.de" and I feel this is
a suitable page to document my efforts. Visit it here. Wish me luck on the port!
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Donation time, this time recurring!
July 22th, 2018
I have set up a recurring donation to Theo de Raadt and OpenBSD. The amount
is for 5 EUR every month. At the end of the year, this will give OpenBSD
130 EUR from me, with the money that I've already donated. This is likely
what's coming from me this year as I've fallen on hard times. I'm positive I
can get out of this though and an occasional bonus will make it along with
the recurring donation. Cheers.
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Delphinusdns 1.3.0 released
July 17th, 2018
I have released version 1.3.0 of Delphinusdnsd. I did a short release cycle this time because like told I'm
applying for some funding to work on this. When I'm done with the work the
1.4.0 version will be released. Check the news for official word that 1.3.0 has been released. The SHA256 of the tarball is 17dc9b77810096e646ef5545efed30e1caccf7454b6e425f5db814ecd461ed66.
Enjoy!
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4000 Watthours for the year?
July 16th, 2018
As you know I have a solar panel on one side of my living room windows.
I'm currently at 3500 Watthours consumption or so and I'm guessing I'll
have enough capacity to get past 4000 Watthours by October for the year. The
load on the battery/panel is a 3 Watt Freifunk router. So what is 4KWh's?
About 1 EUR worth of electricity from the grid. The most joyous moment was
getting ~30 days continuous operation centered around the summer solstice.
With better timing on the battery I could perhpas get 45-60 days next year.
Will have to see. The investment of the solar panel at this rate will pay
itself off in 500 years considering I don't move it to a more sunny spot.
Update: below are the users and load of the router where a 30 day sprint
with about 2500 watthours were consumed. In three days I'm turning that
router off, until the battery is recharged fully.
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Delphinusdnsd now has zinclude's
July 11th, 2018
zinclude is like an include, but it restricts further include's downtree.
It also restricts everything but zone { } declarations hence the z before
include. This I felt was valuable. This bumps the config file version to
8.
In other matters in and around delphinusdnsd I'll likely release 1.3 version
next week. I'll have 1 more round of checking it on other platforms than
OpenBSD and then roll the release. Cheers!
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Yesterday I bought a used computer
July 3rd, 2018
I bought a used Apple G5 Power Mac for 185 EUR inlcuding shipping. It's
coming from Germany north of here. AFAIK. It'll be here in the next few
days. It has dual CPU, 4 GB RAM and should hopefully run OpenBSD/macppc.
I'd be interested in making it work in 64 bit mode, but we'll see. I bought
this off ebay as a guest and paid with paypal.
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In a bilingual poetic mood
July 1st, 2018
A Computer is a machine | Ein Computer ist eine Maschine
it does not hate, it does not love | Es tut nicht hassen, Es tut nicht Lieben
it does not strike you lucky | Es tut kein Glueck bringen
all it does is wait for input | Alles was es tut is es wartet auf Eingaben
and then it processes the output | und dann erarbeitet es die Ausgabe
A Computer is not a gambling machine | Ein Computer ist keine Zock Maschine
You don't play games on it for feelgoods| Du spielst keine Spiele damit es dir gut tut
It will suck you in and spit you out | Es wird dich einsaugen und ausspucken
if you don't treat it for what it is | wenn du Es nicht behandelst fuer was Es ist
It is a machine, waiting for programs | Es ist eine Maschine, wartend auf Programme
A Computer wants to be programmed | Ein Computer moechte Programmiert werden
a billion "hello worlds" it is bored of | Eine Milliarde "Hallo Welt" findet es langweilig
It wants you to pick up a book and read | Es will das Du ein Buch Liest
on how to program it with care | ueber wie es Programmiert wird mit Sorgfalt
And then the source code you'll share | Und dann den Quellcode wirst du teilen
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