Saturday, September 5. 200950.000 gegen Atomkraft in Berlin
Ich glaub mehr brauch ich gerade nicht zu schreiben, das spricht für sich selbst.
Bilder von der Demo Monday, August 24. 2009Trip to the UK
I'm currently in Scottland on a trip through the UK. I'm trying to get some contacts to the much more active environmental movement here. For those who don't know, the UK has probably the most active climate movement in the world. I just came from a gathering in the Lake District and now I want to visit a protest site against open cast coal mining in Mainshill.
Afterwards I'll visit the Climate Camp. It's quite interesting to see discussions here. The main topics at the moment are the third runway at the heathrow airport (see e. g. Plane Stupid) and the building of a new coal plant in Kingsnorth (done by the german company e-on). I heared quotes like »we shouldn't wait till they build the new plant, they're burning coal every day in the existing ones«, which is a large difference compared to the discussion in germany.
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Saturday, August 15. 2009OptOutDay am 17.9.
Die Piratenpartei ruft für den 17. September zum OptOutDay auf.
Damit soll ein Sachverhalt thematisiert werden, der vielen vermutlich nicht bekannt ist: Die Einwohnermeldeämter geben Daten unter bestimmten Umständen an Firmen oder Parteien weiter. Aber: Man kann dem Widersprechen. Deshalb sollen am 17.9. möglichst viele Menschen von dieser Möglichkeit gebrauch machen und auf ihren Meldeämtern der Weitergabe der eigenen Daten widersprechen. Außerdem bei dieser Gelegenheit: Am 12. September ist wieder eine Großdemonstration unter dem Motto Freiheit statt Angst in Berlin gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Internetzensur und zunehmende Überwachung. Wednesday, July 15. 2009Wikipedia unterschätzt
Ich stellte gerade fest, dass es eine Wikipedia-Seite von Tervola gibt (das ist in Lappland und da werd ich in ein paar Tagen sein).
Ich versuch mal grob den Dialog wiederzugeben. »Krass, es gibt eine deutsche Wikipedia-Seite zu Tervola - ich meine, das ist ja ungefähr so klein wie Sulzbach an der Murr.« (Sidenote: ist schon ein ganzes Stück größer als Tervola) »Aber Sulzbach an der Murr hat doch sicher auch eine Wikipedia-Seite.« »Ja, in der deutschen Wikipedia, aber bestimmt nur da.« Naja, so kann man sich irren. Sulzbach an der Murr hat eine Wikipedia-Seite in Englisch, Italienisch, Holländisch, Polnisch, Portugiesisch, Rumänisch, Russisch, Vietnamesisch, Esperanto und Volapük. Von letzterem wusste ich bis eben garnicht, dass es das gibt (ist wie Esparanto eine Kunstsprache, allerdings eine aus dem 19. Jahrhundert), geschweigedenn dass es darin eine Wikipedia gibt. Schon beeindruckend was die Community da in den letzten Jahren so produziert hat. Sunday, July 12. 2009Vortragsfolien Informationsfreiheitsgesetz
Für einen Seminarvortrag, den ich über das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz gehalten hab, sind diese Vortragsfolien entstanden (OpenDocument, PDF).
Da eine meiner Schlussfolgerungen war, dass das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz zu wenig bekannt ist, stelle ich die mal hier zur Verfügung. Thursday, July 9. 2009LPIC-1
After passing the second exam at the Linuxtag, I'm now officially allowed to call myself LPIC-1.
Thursday, June 11. 2009Looking for router firmware alternatives
A couple of projects exist for alternative router firmwares. I used to work with Buffalo Routers combined with DD-WRT.
Now DD-WRT became quite unusable for two reasons. First there was a Cross Site Request Forgery reported on bugtraq a while back, where one of the DD-WRT developers answered in a way that clearly showed he doesn't really understand what CSRF is - so already from a security point of view, DD-WRT seems to be a no-go. Beside, DD-WRT development more or less is stale at the moment - there are commercial spin-offs and there's been some controversy if everything they did was compliant to the GPL. Fact is there were no new releases since several months - with open security bugs. Now I've been looking for alternatives. What I'm looking for should be
For now, Gargoyle the only one suitable. It doesn't officially support my Hardware, but it works anyway. I haven't looked deeper into it (e. g. didn't do any security analysis myself), but it seems to do the basic tasks. If you have suggestions of other projects, please leave a comment. Sunday, June 7. 2009Wahl
Nebenstehendes Wahlplakat fand ich ja das schönste was mir untergelaufen ist - dabei tritt die Bergpartei nicht einmal an.
Zur Abwechslung werde ich bei dieser Wahl sogar mal wieder ein Kreuzchen machen - bei aller Skepsis hat die Piratenpartei gerade doch meine Sympathie. Ich denke es schadet zumindest nicht, wenn im Parlament irgendwann auch mal ein paar Menschen sitzen, die wissen was ein Browser ist. Tuesday, June 2. 2009The return of guybrush threepwood
This news sounds sensational for all fans of old adventure video games: A new episode of Monkey Island is planned. Ron Gilbert blogged about it a few days ago.
For those who don't know, a very short history of the game series. The first two Monkey Island games were already classics when I played them the first time. In super-pixel graphics, but with an ingenious humor. Already with the third part, many fans were sceptical. Graphics got better, but not 3Dish, which was already pretty common at that time. They even made fun of the tendency to bring all games to 3D back then - they had a 3DFX option, but clicking on that only gave you some sarcastic comment. At least I can say that I found Monkey Island 3 (The Curse of Monkey Island) a deserved successor of the series. With Monkey Island 4 (Escape from Monkey Island), things got much worse - it had 3D graphics (ugly ones in my opinion) and - probably worse - it completely changed the control. All classic adventures were point and click adventures through the famous SCUMM engine (although the control has changed quite a lot over the time). There even was a SCUMM bar in the first game. Part 4 had some kind of keyboard control. And the controlling was really bad. So this was the first game in the series I didn't play till the end. I'm excited to see how the new game will be. It will be released in episodes, I don't know if that's a good idea, but we'll see. I haven't found any information about the controls on their webpage. Maybe it's worth raising a petition for a Linux version? Seems they don't intend to plan one, though it might be a good idea, as probably a lot of Linux users are retro gaming fans as well.
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Saturday, May 30. 2009Atheistische Buskampagne startet in Berlin
Die Atheistische Buskampagne, die ich hier ja schon ab und an erwähnt habe, startete heute ihre Tour in Berlin.
Die Buskampagne war ursprünglich eine in England entstandene Idee, auf öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln atheistische Werbung zu schalten. Nach der Aktion in England gab es in vielen anderen Ländern Initiativen für ähnliche Aktionen. Bemerkenswerterweise hatte die Aktion in Deutschland deutlich mehr Schwierigkeiten, ihr Ansinnen durchzuführen: Alle öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe sagten ihr mit geradezu absurden Begründungen ab. Die BVG etwa behauptet, grundsätzlich keine weltanschauliche Werbung zuzulassen (solche wie auf dem Bild links). Der Kampagne brachte dies natürlich noch erheblich mehr Aufmerksamkeit, aber es wirft schon ein sehr trauriges Bild auf das Verständnis von Meinungsfreiheit und Zensur hierzulande. Die Bustour startete heute in Berlin mit einer atheistischen Stadtrundfahrt. Ein paar Bilder gibt's hier. In den nächsten drei Wochen fährt der Bus quer durch Deutschland. Aufgebrachte Christenmassen gab es heute zumindest noch keine, nur ein Flugblatt, in dem mir gesagt wurde dass es Gott aber doch gibt, wurde mir in die Hand gedrückt (mit Verweis auf die Seite gottkennen.de). Wednesday, May 27. 2009Gamer auf die Straße
Vor einigen Tagen wurde bekanntgegeben, dass die in Karlsruhe geplante Veranstaltung Intel Friday Night Games nicht stattfinden wird. Eine scheinheilige Koalition von CDU bis zu den Grünen wollte im Angesicht des Amoklaufs von Winnenden keine Zockerveranstaltung in ihrer Stadt. Um einem politischen Verbot zuvorzukommen, sagte der Veranstalter die IFGN ab.
Dagegen rufen jetzt Gamer der Webseite readmore.de zur Demonstration auf. Die Demonstration soll am 5. Juni, am ursprünglich für die IFNG vorgesehenen Termin, stattfinden. Ich bin kein Gamer, ich war noch nie auf einer LAN-Party. Als ich mich das letzte Mal für Ego-Shooter interessiert habe, liefen die noch unter DOS. Aber ich finde es absolut unerträglich, wie hier eine Gruppe von Menschen für etwas verantwortlich gemacht wird, obwohl ein Zusammenhang kaum seriös belegt werden kann. Deswegen meine volle (wenngleich vermutlich nicht persönliche) Unterstützung, wenn Gamer auf die Straße gehen. Via gulli. Update: Jetzt mit eigener Webseite. Saturday, May 23. 2009Gentoo is dangerous for children
Tobias Scherbaum already blogged this, but only in german, so I'm writing this again for the Planet Gentoo readers.
A german webpage called jugendschutzprogramm.de provides filters for webpages potentially dangerous for children. Now some people noticed that this page considers quite a lot dangerous. Both gentoo.de and gentoo.org are considered only suitable for people over 14. So if you ever thought about installing Gentoo on the PC of a kid, think again what you might do to that kid. Beside, my blog is even more dangerous: It's blocked by default. The page is supported by a couple of companies providing pornographic content. Interesting enough, it's also supported by a big german Newspaper (BILD) that regularly has pornographic images on their frontpage. However, their page is considered harmless. But what's really frightening is that jugendschutzprogramm.de is part of ICRA, an international system by big content and internet providers. It's even supported by the european union. Update: Page has XSS, maybe someone wants to play with it? <form action="http://jugendschutzprogramm.de/webmaster/label-generator.php" method="post"> <input name="URL" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>' type="text"> <input name="submit" type="submit"> </form>
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Saturday, May 9. 2009Big disappointment Star Trek XI
Before I start my review about the movie, I'd like to give some preface about my connection to Star Trek. Although I occasionally watched the series for a long time, I really started getting interested at the worst possible moment - shortly after it was announced that the last series »Enterprise« was stopped (although there were petitions and rallies - I just noted a bit too late to take part).
So with the last series stopped and the last film »Nemesis« being a flop, it was quite unlikely that Star Trek would continue at all in any way. So the only thing left was experiencing the vast majority of past series (which I'd suggest everyone to do - my favorite is Deep Space 9). So the message that there should be a new film was surprising and promising. Though from the beginning, I was quite sceptical - the concept of a prequel to the original series with new actors for famous roles seemed difficult. It rarely happened in the past that different actors played the same person in the Star Trek universe and it was only the case for side roles (e. g. Ziyal in DS9, Zefram Cochrane in TOS/ST8). But what was even more disturbing was the director J. J. Abrams - with movies like Armageddon I didn't find him very predestined for this job. But as I read some quite positive reviews, I gave the movie a chance and went to the cinema on the first day. To give a conclusion: I was absolutely right not to expect much from the film. It is a middle-class Hollywood action movie and has just nothing from the Star Trek spirit I liked so much. The no-gos are countless. I mean, product placement is a pity in films any way, but in a Star Trek movie? And have you ever heard a pop song from the 90s in ST? (Oh, you remember that scene from ST4 in the bus? Has the guy inventing that scene with Kirk in the car ever seen that movie?) The film introduces lot's of characters from other ST stories without any relation. Soval (was the name even mentioned?) has just nothing of the person known from TOS/TNG. Those Romulans - they look different, their ships look different, there's no connection to any previous Romulan story, it just seems like a randomly picked species name. And the old Spock - yeah, every real Trekkie likes to see Leonard Nimoy is still able to play his role. But if you remember the last time Spock appeared in the ST universe - a plot in TNG with an underground resistance movement on Romulus, where Spock stayed - a quite open end - it's just predestined to continue telling that story. ST11 doesn't do that. Then there's this thing with the parallel time line - parallel time lines are a common story methodology in Star Trek, so the idea has potential. But it seems it's just there so there's no need to stick with the Star Trek story too much - every mistake can just be explained as something happening in the alternative time line. It didn't really make any sense to me beside that. Well, maybe the buzz around the movie opens perspectives for new Star Trek material in the future - and hopefully with more talented directors behind the scenes. Till then, I'll watch some episodes of Hidden Frontier. Update: Only german, but nice review (WOZ). Thursday, May 7. 2009USB hard drives with SMART
A common way to check the health state of a hard disk is SMART. It gives various informations about occuring errors. In Linux, there's the smartmontools package containing tools to read SMART data of hard drives (smartctl -a /dev/[hddevice] gives you a bunch of information).
I found it always frustrating that SMART didn't work with USB drives. It's a standard bound to IDE/ATA. Although common USB-drives are internally IDE/SATA, sending the SMART commands to the drive requires proprietary extensions. But now, the smartmontools-developers have included support for some USB drives. It worked with the USB HDs I had available for testing. There's no release yet containing the USB-support. If you're on Gentoo, you can fetch a live-CVS ebuild here. Tuesday, May 5. 2009Internetzensur
Zugegebenermaßen habe ich es in letzter Zeit ziemlich versäumt, mich netzpolitischen Themen zu widmen - was leider nicht daran lag, dass es dazu nichts zu sagen gäbe.
Heissestes Thema momentan ist ja die Debatte um Internetzensur - die inzwischen so viele Facetten und obskure Geschichten vereint, dass ich garnicht erst versuche, das in Kürze abzuhandeln. Eine gute Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Aspekte und Argumente liefert dieser c't-Artikel. Dazu gibt es nun eine Petition an den Bundestag, die gute Chancen hat, die notwendigen 50000 UnterstützerInnen (ab denen sich der Bundestag damit befassen muss) innerhalb von Rekordzeit zu erreichen - nach gut einem Tag sind es bereits über 18000. Also alle, die noch nicht unterschrieben haben: JETZT ist der richtige Zeitpunkt! Da wir gerade bei netzpolitischen Themen sind: Die relative Ruhe bezüglich des skandalösen PirateBay-Urteils hierzulande finde ich schon etwas erschreckend. Und zu den versammelten Internetphobikern von taz bis Zeit könnte man auch einiges sagen. Ich hoffe ich komme in nächster Zeit dazu.
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