In February 2013, I got a new work laptop. It’s a Lenovo ThinkPad x230.

These are my installation notes.

Today is not only Valentine’s Day, it is also I love Free Software Day.

If you use free software, do take a moment to say thank you to one of the dedicated hard-working people in the Free Software community.

my connection with Kabel Deutschland is finally up and running. On Friday my flat finally got it’s coax uplink.

this machine is now using a StartCom SSL certificate.

My old WordPress blog is now up again. I had run into RHBZ #891717.

sorry about this taking so long. As of now blog.pcfe.net uses a CAcert signed certificate.

Got myself 4m of ws2801 LED Strip and a Teensy 3.0

Turns out this is a neat combination.

Got this coaster from my good friend Taru.

To have chromium (and chrome) browser do Kerberos TGT for example.com web pages, one needs to pass --auth-server-whitelist="*.example.com"

changing providers I adjusted the old script to fit my router, using PPPoE but not NetworkManager.

Create /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with this content

SMS reception while online

Wanting to be able to use gnokii while I have a connection open with ModemManager, I created the following udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/98-pcfe-modem.rules

This is what I use to mess about my laptop’s power settings.