I know, I know. The "Its name is..." bandwagon, initiated by madduck, is already over. But I've seen so many interesting hostnames, that I'd like to contribute my hostnames as well. For my personal systems I usually use names of characters from the simpsons family: maggie, homer, moe is what I currently have. For systems in the company for which I work, the naming schema is usually more pragmatic: Starting with a three-character-string (the initials of the company I work for), followed by a dash and a suffix which identifies more or less the usage of the server or something that makes it special. An example for this scheme is imr-wsvn which is a VM hosting a web-svn tool. But there is also at least one exception to that scheme: I called my desktop at work teekanne (which is a german word meaning teapot) for no special reason.
Oh and there is another exception: Till yesterday I made a 2-weeks experiment using Fedora on my notebook in order to learn something about this system. I called this fedora system fixit.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Hi Planet!
Today I got a mail from weasel, that my Debian account has been created. So in the end of my NM process everything went pretty fast. Now that I finally became a Debian Developer it feels like the end of a long journey, so I'd like to reflect on my process.
I started my "career" in Debian around 2006, when I got a co-maintainer of the smstools package. From then I got more involved with adopting some more packages etc. till I finally applied to become a DD on 31th August 2007. Until then most of my uploads where sponsored by Daniel Baumann (panthera), who therefore helped me learn a lot, and so he got my advocate. From that point on the most time of my NM process I've been waiting. Waiting for an AM, waiting for my AM (well, he also needed to wait for me because we both had busy times during my active processing), waiting for front desk. After all I had luck, because the DAM problem has been solved recently. I know that a part of the time I didn't feel like pushing my application forward fast, because I did not see where this would lead, except to a situation where I'd again wait for the DAM.
Now I'm quiet happy. And that is a good moment to thank some people, who helped me to get to this point: panthera for beeing my sponsor and advocate for some time, Thijs for beeing a sponsor and quiet helpful when it was about fixing security issues in mantis, naoliv for beeing a very reliable sponsor, pabs for beeing my AM, Myon for several actings on my NM application and off course the people involved in account creation. Thanks.
I started my "career" in Debian around 2006, when I got a co-maintainer of the smstools package. From then I got more involved with adopting some more packages etc. till I finally applied to become a DD on 31th August 2007. Until then most of my uploads where sponsored by Daniel Baumann (panthera), who therefore helped me learn a lot, and so he got my advocate. From that point on the most time of my NM process I've been waiting. Waiting for an AM, waiting for my AM (well, he also needed to wait for me because we both had busy times during my active processing), waiting for front desk. After all I had luck, because the DAM problem has been solved recently. I know that a part of the time I didn't feel like pushing my application forward fast, because I did not see where this would lead, except to a situation where I'd again wait for the DAM.
Now I'm quiet happy. And that is a good moment to thank some people, who helped me to get to this point: panthera for beeing my sponsor and advocate for some time, Thijs for beeing a sponsor and quiet helpful when it was about fixing security issues in mantis, naoliv for beeing a very reliable sponsor, pabs for beeing my AM, Myon for several actings on my NM application and off course the people involved in account creation. Thanks.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Hello blog! (or: Byebye, self-hosting)
Okay, so if finally decided to go with blogger.com instead of a self-hosted blog. Why? There are several reasons for it. One of the main reasons is that in the past my dedicated server hasn't been as stable as it should have been, because I used it more like a playground instead of a productive system.
Another reason is that I searched a while for a specific blogging solution, that would have been perfect for me. The goals were quiet simple (at least that is what I thought, but appearently I was wrong):
Update: Thanks for the note, that I started a sentence and missed to end it :-)
Another reason is that I searched a while for a specific blogging solution, that would have been perfect for me. The goals were quiet simple (at least that is what I thought, but appearently I was wrong):
- Be sane!
Well, that sounds a bit overloaded. But in fact its only a question of an acceptable effort for setting it up and maintaining it. That means a blog software with 1 distinct security issue a week is definitive out of scope. - Make it possible to post in two languages!
Hey, whats so problematic about providing a sane way to post in two different languages and use AcceptLang (and an optional LangChooser for people who are not satisfied with the AcceptLang choice?) to negotiate the proper display language? The only solutions were for blosxom (which was out of scope due to different reasons) and for Wordpress, but which needed additional effort (modifying a plugin to add AcceptLang support) and was out of scope because of its security history. - Provide a sane way to add and position images
Update: Thanks for the note, that I started a sentence and missed to end it :-)
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