Während unseres kurzen Urlaubs in Berlin in den letzten Tagen haben wir bei eisigen Minusgraden und recht ordentlichem Schneefall den berühmt-berüchtigten Teufelsberg besichtigt – was gar nicht mal so einfach war. …
Today a small letter from Great Britain arrived: My new Yubikey NEO! ☺ When Yubico announced that they would be giving a 20% discount for Github users a few weeks ago, I decided to finally order this hardware token capable of (among other cool things) acting as a GPG smartcard via USB or NFC. Advantages of a hardware security token are obvious: The keys cannot be extracted and it can be used with whatever device has a USB port or NFC module. …
For a long time now, my primary webpage was based on Jekyll, a great little Ruby template system. Now, I finally decided to abandon Wordpress altogether and move my blog posts to Jekyll as well. The primary reasons were that I didn’t like the old layout and title of the blog, and now everything integrates nicely. Also, either my browser configuration or some change in my hoster’s configuration seemed to prevent various images (including the header image) from loading, which made the page really ugly. …
There was a time when I thought “Setting up a webserver? That’s easy!” Well yeah, not with fancy optimizations to reduce the mean response time by yet another microsecond, but you know, the usual shared webserver. …
Yesterday, I was again working on building a new webserver at work. I had already found a way to use php-fpm with Apache and sockets (not easy in Debian Wheezy by the way, I had to compile mod_proxy myself from a later Apache version). Every user had its own php-fpm pool and thus its own socket, everything was fine. …