Solved what’s probably everbodys most neglected problem: backups (or better their absence).

• bought a bluetooth stick to backup the phone (with gammu/wammu)
• bought a 2TB HDD and an USB/eSATA case to backup my systems (with rsnapshot)

It definitly was a very relaxing moment when I finished the first backup. Rsnapshot is certainly the tool to use for such home backup purposes. It allows you to have multiple virtual full snapshots of the system while only needing the space of the first full backup plus all your changes (it uses hardlinks for unchanged files). One thing I noticed: As I’m a bit of a paranoid, I set the disc encryption algorithm to AES256 in contrast to dmcrypts default AES128 setting. Now it seems like that takes up a considerable amount of CPU cycles more then AES128 (no real measurement, just quick observation). The result is that on my Atom 330 board, the encryption process runs at 100% CPU usage, eating up a full core and I only get 15MB/s writing speed (as opposed to 30MB/s on a Core2Duo 1.6GHz — maxing out the USB port). It’s still OK, it’s just that I don’t even have to bother using the eSATA port with the system. The good thing is, that on the next weekly backup, the disk speed will not matter very much as only the diff will get rsynced :)

Now … my nights will be much better, I think :)

And if you don’t have home backups yet, I hope your nights will be very restless!

Baz Luhrmann — Tragt Sonnencreme

:)

Mr. Scruff — Get A Move On

and a personal update: after some struggling, I will go to work at 9:00 today. Finally. :)

Lützenkirchen !!!!11

Gentoo users compile their stuff on their own. This is a fun thing to do and provides you with a lot of flexibility. Every gentoo system is unique. Sadly this sometimes is exposed to the internet. For example Firefox contains the compile-date in it’s useragent string. Goodbye privacy.

Then again, we can easily fix this. Take a common useragent from useragentstring.com and paste it into the “general.useragent.override” option in the about:config settings editor of firefox. (If the setting does not exist, create it.) Done.

You can check your uniqueness on the EFF Panopticlick site. I reach a level of “one in 13,247 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours” (which is pretty good already). This is with a Windows-Firefox 3.6.3 useragent string and javascript disabled.

This is more or less a reblog from Joel on Software:

She explains how businesses get successful. Nothing more, nothing less. And I think she is right.

Federleicht - On The Streets (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Let Freedom Ring RMX)

… as even economists (the scientists, not the practicioneers) find/found out:
Ernst Fehr: How I found what’s wrong with economics.

Fehr studies the outcomes of economic experiments. He finds that the theoretical hard-core “homo economicus” model produces completly different (and often worse) outcomes than the emprical real-life experiments. People seem to put a certain value at fairness.

highly inspiring:

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”

(Elektro Bass) Enola - Words in a Bottle