On customer site, I am quite often forced to use a Windows machine to access the Linux boxes I work on. This means I will not have an ssh-agent (nor a gpg-agent) running on the machine I’m sitting at (the Win box) and the Linux boxes I access via putty tend to have shared home directories.

Long story short, I need one agent per Linux box taking into account that I may have more than one login shell to the Linux box (i.e. multiple putty windows) and config files including the hostname.

from time to time I need to configure an apache httpd with Kerberos authentication, a quick braindump follows.

New SSL certificate.

This is an update of the post from 2013-09-13

If you intend to build native graphical applications for the Jolla phone, then by all means follow the official docs.

If, OTOH, you are used to writing spec files and feeding another build system (for me it’s mainly Koji), then read on.

While I do like Lennart’s blog posts on systemd, I waste way too much time finding specific articles. So here are my own links with post title.

Testing QR codes.

Why Octopress? Well I’m spending an awful lot of time chasing updates for my Wordpress and Drupal instances. Octopress, seems to be a saner choice for my simple blogging needs.

At http://www.pcfe.net/boot/ I have dropped the files necessary to iPXE boot. While my set up will not serve you, you can follow the steps in 00-readme.txt if you want to build your own.

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.