Subtle
I just stumbled across this great coding error of mine and thought I could share it while waiting for the corrected program to finish its run. …
Something that I should have done waaaay earlier: I finally collected some of the configuration files that I would like to have on every computer (and that I mostly only stole from someone else myself) into a dotfile repository for me to keep in sync and everybody else to copy and use ad libitum. …
Sometimes I wonder “Why on earth didn’t I think of this before?”. Today was such a day, when I thought: Why not get notified automatically when long running commands in a terminal finish? Actually, there’s a mechanism in the window manager for highlighting windows needing attention. Why shouldn’t a terminal prompt after a long running command be such a situation? …
Yesterday, my interest in sandboxing a program I didn’t fully trust finally surpassed my laziness to look at namespaces again. And after a few hours of coding, I created a small script that uses unshare to encapsulate the newly launched process in new namespaces of all kinds (not much work there) and hardens the filesystem so that effectively, (hopefully) the only writable persistent directory is $PWD, the process sees a minimal /dev and fresh copies of temporary filesystems. In case you are interested in the script, here it is: …
Der Grund für unseren bereits im letzten Blogpost erwähnten Kurzurlaub in Berlin war – ebenfalls am Dienstag – der Besuch des Musicals „Chicago“. Der stand eigentlich schon sehr lange an, schon als das Musical noch in Stuttgart aufgeführt wurde, aber irgendwie hat es nie geklappt. Da es Mitte Januar wieder weiterziehen sollte, und diesmal leider ziemlich weit weg (München), war der Urlaub um den Jahreswechsel herum also quasi unsere letzte Chance. Und was soll ich sagen: Es war toll! …