Category Archives: English

Thank you Conduit, hello Tuwunel

I have known the Matrix project, always very active at FOSDEM, for a long time. The idea of a decentralised, end-to-end encrypted messenger that does not use mobile phone numbers as the (only) identifiers and that treats desktop and mobile … Continue reading

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The Evolution mailer in a headless Wayland remote desktop, on an Xorg system

Having accumulated a fair number of old computers, and being unable to throw any of them away as long as they are not absolutely totally broken, I use x2go a lot. I also would like to use the Evolution mailer … Continue reading

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Docker, iptables, and NAT routing

Really understanding and debugging iptables (or better these days, nftables) is an art. Of course a sysadmin should know what s/he’s doing, but there are also the moments where a non-sysadmin might need to set up, say, a laptop or … Continue reading

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Weird hangers on a Debian 8 system?

If everyday actions on your Debian Jessie with systemd start to hang forever: Pulseaudio clients cannot connect to their servers any more… “ifup” of a network device needs to be Ctrl-C’ed (but has accomplished its work)… Trivial daemons refuse to … Continue reading

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Video recordings of the FOSDEM 2013 Cloud devroom available

I had the honour of speaking in the Cloud devroom at this year’s FOSDEM. With me, I brought a little camera and recorded most talks. Finally I managed to make them ready for publication. They are also linked on the … Continue reading

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