Haven't heard about POSS (post open source software) before, but have realised this lack of any license statement often recently. For example when looking for jQuery plugins and such things. Always confused when I did not find any statement and so never used them.

This article by Luis Villa could provide an explanation:

Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture - Luis Villa on Tieguy

tl;dr: the open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can’t (or even shouldn’t) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses. What if “post open source” is an implicit critique of that assumption – saying, in essence, “I reject the permission culture”?

But I doubt that for most projects this is a real deliberately decision to express distaste for the permission culture.

I like this #CSS3 and jQuery image gallery.

Photobox - CSS3 image gallery modal viewer on Dropthebit

A lightweight CSS3 image gallery that is pretty to look and and easy to use

Last week I have read this blog post from last summer about #systemd and what philosophically changes happening in the basic concepts of Linux.

Linux Future | PAPPP's Rambling by pappp on Pappp

Some time ago I came across yet another angry discussion [1]about systemd, and have been reading and thinking a great deal about the design of Systemd, and what it says about Linux. I’ve come to realize that the strife in the Linux community is because an active and well-funded group of developers who have been driving the direction of various co...

I think it has some really intersting points and mostly I agree with it. Yesterday I came across another interesting blog post by Lennart Poettering which is explaining some myths about systemd.

Wunschkonzert, Ponyhof und Abenteuerspielplatz on 0pointer

Since we first proposed systemd for inclusion in the distributions it has been frequently discussed in many forums, mailing lists and conferences. In these discussions one can often hear certain myths about systemd, that are repeated over and over again, but certainly don't gain any truth by constant repetition. Let's take the time to debunk a few ...

I haven't done much with systemd yet, but his points sound reasonable and as a sysadmin I can understand it good and would like to have some of these features, too. But I think it is really a more philosophically question and I am quite ambivalent. I really love #Slackware for its #KISS principles and use it since many years because of this. But I also like working with #SELinux, #Kerberos and I also see some benefits for systemd.

It is also intersting to look at developments like #TYPO3 #Flow with a very strong Convention over configuration pattern which is also following KISS principles actually.

Nice article by Paul Venezia at InfoWorld.

Addicted to IT: Quitting is not an option by Paul Venezia on Infoworld

Ever yearn for the simple life? Sure you have. But don't fool yourself into thinking you'll ever escape your cage of cables and blinking lights

Damn that's so true.

That's why I'm in IT. As exhausting as it can be, it provides rich mental rewards if done right, and to many that's as addictive as heroin. I've had this addiction for so long, I'm way past therapy or treatment. I'm a lifer.

"The main BIOS is corrupted." what a nice greeting in the morning.
At least it had a backup BIOS and could recover, but then Windows did not want to start anymore, because the hardware changed too much and it started a system recovery.

Great tutorial by Tom Limoncelli about what design patterns could provide for system administration.

Tutorial: Design Patterns for Sysadmins, Part 1 (LISA 2009) by TomOnTime on YouTube

Tutorial: Design Patterns for Sysadmins, Part 2 (LISA 2009) by TomOnTime on YouTube

Too bad these last two videos have broken audio

Tutorial: Design Patterns for Sysadmins, Part 3 (LISA 2009) by TomOnTime on YouTube

Tutorial: Design Patterns for Sysadmins, Part 4 (LISA 2009) by TomOnTime on YouTube

Did someone read the books by Avinash Kaushik? Are they more general or only Google Analytics based?

Creating a Data Driven Culture by Avinash Kaushik by Google on YouTube

What a bad idea.

DRM in HTML5 | The Beautiful, Tormented Machine by ManuSporny on Sporny

Art, technology and leaving the world better off than we found it. A few days ago, a new proposal was put forward in the HTML Working Group (HTML WG) by Microsoft, Netflix, and Google to take DRM in HTML5 to the next stage of standardization at W3C. This triggered another uproar about the morality and ethics behind DRM and building it into the Web....

Being a storyteller at Google's DiRT must be really fun. You could start reading the green sidebar at the bottom of this article and read the first part if interested, or first read this interesting article and looking forward for a nice final.

Weathering the Unexpected - ACM Queue on Acm

Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them. KRIPA KRISHNAN, GOOGLE
Whether it is a hurricane blowing down power lines, a volcanic-ash cloud grounding all flights for a continent, or a humble rodent gnawing through underground fibers—the unexpected happens. We cannot do much to prevent it, but there is a lot we can do to be prepared for it. To this end, Google runs an annual, company-wide, multi-day Disaster Recovery Testing event—DiRT—the objective of which is to ensure that Google's services and internal business operations continue to run following a disaster.

Very interesting presentation by Eric Pickup at #ConFoo 2012. I want #Varnish.

Building a Website To Scale by confooca on YouTube

But that was enough youporn for today.

If you are an EU citizen you should support this ECI (European Citizens' Initiative).

Water is a Human Right on Right2water

Water is a public good, not a commodity. We invite the European Commission to propose legislation implementing the human right to water and sanitation as recognised by the United Nations, and promoting the provision of water and sanitation as essential public services for all. The EU legislation should require governments to ensure and to provide all citizens with sufficient and clean drinking water and sanitation.

Everyone updated their #owncloud installation? 
When reading such commit diffs I actually want to switch off my server.

https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/c05c8ab077152ccce23e759cdd364ec0d5db5a71

Oh noooo... 27tonnes of norwegian brown goat cheese burning 5days in a tunnel. I love #brunost!
The staff in the supermarket here is always confused when I ask for a complete package of this cheese. They are mostly only selling it in peaces. One whole block costs over €20 here.

Norway cheese fire closes tunnel on Bbc

Some nice ideas to recruit web developers. I like all of them, but I think "Browser Console" could be the most effective one.

4 Creative Ways to Recruit Web Developers on Davidwalsh

I've recently spotted a few more creative ways to advertise tech jobs and wanted to share them with you.

Why is this a parody?
There would be so many more points you could add to this.

/dev/blog: On the state of Windows on the desktop on Brankovukelic

Random thoughts, projects, code... I have this Linux system on my PC which has become a bit boring (no, it's not crashed or anything... I just got a bit bored), so I decided to replace it with Windows 7 (some friends told me to not even try Windows 8 because it has an advanced interface nobody was able to figure out yet). I really did not set the b...

Was ist da auf einmal diese helle, runde Scheibe am Himmel? Was ist das?

Großteil der Frauen täuscht regelmäßig Sarkasmus vor on Der-postillon

München (dpo) - Eine neue Umfrage des Meinungsforschungsinstituts Opinion Control hat ergeben, dass ein Großteil der Frauen nur sehr unregelmäßig zum Sarkasmus kommt. Rund 56 Prozent der Frauen, die sich in einer festen Beziehung befinden, spielen daher ihrem Partner oder Liebhaber den beißend-subtilen Hohn und Spott, wie man ihn sonst nur von...

Tolle Kolumne Mal sehen was da noch alles kommen wird.

Mäkel-Kinder: Nein, meinen Brokkoli ess' ich nicht! - SPIEGEL ONLINE on Spiegel

Sie gehen zum Frühyoga, lernen im Kindergarten Englisch und essen Gurkensalat - aber nur ohne Dill. Der Individualisierungsehrgeiz vieler Eltern verwandelt ihre Kinder in Mäkel-Monster, die man am liebsten zu einem Monat kaltem Spinat verurteilen möchte. Wenn sie ihn nur äßen.

Habe heute auf voller Linie versagt und kapituliert. Ich habe echt angefangen Browserweichen für Webkit Browser zu schreiben.

How is it possible that someone who read these TOS really signs up for such a service?!?!
Path - Terms of Use on Path

A great summary. I have read the book, but should reread it again.

Time Management for System Administrators | USENIX on Usenix

Ever since I interviewed Tom Limoncelli before LISA '10, I've wanted to take his time management training. Ironically, I never seemed to find the time, until this year. I was pleased to see that the local attendees already had sufficient time management skills to be in the room on time. We have no way of knowing if the remote attendees were similar...

♲ Bob Mottram
On the further ambiguities of "free"  http://mako.cc/writing/hill-freedom_for_users.html
Link

Alice and Bob in Cipherspace " American Scientist on Americanscientist

A new form of encryption allows you to compute with data you cannot read
Alice hands bob a locked suitcase and asks him to count the money inside. “Sure,” Bob says. “Give me the key.” Alice shakes her head; she has known Bob for many years, but she’s just not a trusting person. Bob lifts the suitcase to judge its weight, rocks it back and...

#godtnyttår2013

♲ Brigita Claudia
2013
#happynewyear2013! #selamattahunbaru2013! #frohesneuesjahr2013
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This evening I have reactivated my first and so much loved mobile computer as a virtual machine. Impressive how easy this is with some tools and #VirtualBox. It's a HP omnibook xe4500 and I got it from my parents around 2003. It is a really amazing machine and I have learned a lot about Linux and OpenSource with it and spent really A LOT of time with it! I have compiled and experienced so many and some of the most amazing free and opensource software on this machine. It never had any failures, very solid and I really treated it bad and used it very intensively. Working every day on it for programming, entertainment, communication, studying, gaming, running 29days 8h8min with Linux 2.6.12-rc2 since Fri May 13 16:11:41 2005, transport in a bag while running, I took it two years to Norway and traveling to Indonesia and Norway, completely disassembled and setting it together again several times, etc. Only the battery died after some years and it only survived few minutes, but then the final death was a problem with the power jack that got more and more unreliable. Damn I really need to disassemble it completely again and fix that! There must be a shrine in our new house for it.  The only bad thing about this notebook was that the fan was terrible loud.


Some quick notes how to recover an old PC, for sure I will need this again:
Plug the HDD into an external USB connector for ATA and SATA HDDs.
$ ddrescue /dev/sdX /tmp/hp.img /tmp/hp_ddrescue.log
No read error at all after 10years! IBM Travelstar (Model: IC25N030ATCS04-0) 30GB from JUN-02. Man I have already recovered so many HDDs and machines that did not get treated that hard over such a long time.
$ VBoxManage convertfromraw /tmp/hp.img /opt/VirtualBoxHDDs/hd.vdi --format VDI --variant Standard
Create a new virtual machine and use this VDI HDD and power it up. That's it basically.

It boots directly into runlevel 4 after run fsck after 629 days without being checked. Only had to delete my xorg.conf that I put together in many sleepless nights and I had my full desktop back. #Slackware 12.2 and the great #KDE 3.5.10 and my desktop was loaded with a nice green KDE wallpaper. It presented me all my open browser tabs, konsole and kwrite sessions and even opened eMails again that I was still writing! I love this feature from KDE!!! And I got greated from hundreds of reminders from KOrganizer.

There is still bit work left, like cleaning up some omnibook kernel modules and hdparm settings, changing the network and sound drivers, installing the VirtualBox guest additions, but that should be no big deal anymore.

@Brigita Claudia und habt ihr schon alle Mäuse bei euch ausgetauscht? #fairtrade

Fairtrade-Maus aus Bayern on Heise

Nachhaltige Elektronik ist schwierig, aber möglich. Bessere Arbeitsbedingungen in der Computerindustrie lassen sich durchsetzen. Man muss einfach damit anfangen.

Auch eine ziemlich schicke und umfangreiche Homepage haben die: http://www.nager-it.de/

Ich will eine #NagerIT Maus.

Ein guter Kommentar finde ich auf DW.

Kommentar: Gegen den Waffenwahn | Amerika | DW.DE | 22.12.2012 on Dw

Die US-amerikanische Waffenlobby NRA fordert nach dem Massaker von Newtown mit 27 Toten, darunter 20 Kindern, Schulen durch bewaffnetes Sicherheitspersonal zu schützen. Christina Bergmann kommentiert.

News | GUUG - German Unix User Group on Guug

Die Ausgabe 3/2012 der GUUG-Mitgliederzeitschrift UpTimes steht wieder (ausschließlich) zum Download bereit.

Should be enough for Christmas.

The shortest day of the year is over.

Am 24. Dezember 2012 sollen es bis zu +16°C werden! Na tolle Aussichten. So viel zu #dieletzteAKS

XtreemFS - a cloud file system - Features - Replication

XtreemFS replicates your file data across multiple storage servers, which can be distributed worldwide. Our replication algorithm is designed to cope with all the problems and failure scenarios that can occur in truly distributed systems: message loss, network partitions, server crashes etc.

I like the video.

XtreemFS replication with failover - live demo by xtreemfs on YouTube

RemoteBox : VirtualBox Client on Knobgoblin

RemoteBox: A client for the virtualization tool VirtualBox
If you haven't heard of VirtualBox, it's virtualization software primarily intended for desktop machines, similar to VMWare Workstation, Parallels or Virtual PC. RemoteBox allows you to administer an installation of VirtualBox residing on another machine such as a server, as if it was installed locally. You can also interact with the displays of the guests. This allows you to treat VirtualBox much more like an installation of Xen, KVM or VMware ESX. A summary of some of the features of RemoteBox are listed below.

#VirtualBox

Was quite surprised when I found this site:
http://www.oslic.org/

Zeitreise: Das Ethernet-Patent " ADMIN Magazin on Admin-magazin

Fast auf den Tag genau heute vor 35 Jahren, am 13. Dezember 1977, wurde in den USA ein Patent auf einen "Apparat zur Ermöglichung der Kommunikation zwischen zwei oder mehr Datenverarbeitungseinheiten mit Hilfe eines in verzweigten Segmenten verlegten Kabels" gewährt: Ethernet.

Saturday was such a beautiful view outside with the sun and snow. But this Sunday it was just raining and wet and everything is gone again.

After breakfast building snowman with the kids.

Very intersting article and analysis by Simon Phipps about the report from the German city of Freiburg about the decision to end their open source migration.

Intended To Fail? by Simon Phipps on Computerworlduk

We recently saw the news that the German city of Freiburg had decided to end its open source migration and instead switch to using Microsoft products again. The rationale provided seemed curious to me - after all, at the same...