Thursday, 18. September 2014 Week 38
Friday, 12. September 2014 Week 37

Fancy blog statistics

The about page now features some fancy blog statistics, check it out :-)

The statistics are created with the help of Cal-Heatmap which allows to easily create calendar heatmaps similar to the activity heatmap of GitHub.

Update: couldn't stop playing around and thus added another chart, this time with the help of C3.js (a D3.js based reusable chart library).

Thursday, 4. September 2014 Week 36
Saturday, 30. August 2014 Week 35
Friday, 25. July 2014 Week 30

Native IPv6

Yesterday I switched our DSL Link to green.ch. Now we not only have a higher bandwidth (thanks to VDSL) but also native IPv6 connectivity!
Especially nice is that it all works out of the box. After plugging in the pre-configured FritzBox, it automatically gets an IPv6 prefix via Prefix Delegation and announces it to the clients in the LAN.

08:05 [ aj @ actuarius : ~ ] % mtr -rc5 www.open.ch
Start: Fri Jul 25 08:06:42 2014
HOST: actuarius.fritz.box         Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- fritz.box                  0.0%     5    0.8   0.8   0.7   0.8   0.0
  2.|-- 2a01:2a8::121              0.0%     5    8.6   8.7   8.5   9.2   0.0
  3.|-- 2a01:2a8:0:5a::1           0.0%     5    8.4   8.2   8.0   8.4   0.0
  4.|-- 2a01:2a8:1:7::4            0.0%     5    8.1   8.6   8.1   9.6   0.0
  5.|-- 2a00:db0:9:a06::5          0.0%     5    8.8   8.6   8.3   8.8   0.0
  6.|-- www.open.ch                0.0%     5    8.9   8.7   8.6   8.9   0.0
Tuesday, 3. June 2014 Week 23

12 Years

12 years ago I started this weblog with a link to www.2advanced.com.
It's now 555 posts later and I think what is most unexpected (besides that this weblog is still existing 12 years later), is that this first link from my first post is still valid (and still pointing to some Flash-only website...).

So far this weblog has survived 2 different domains, 3 different servers, multiple versions of a self-made blogging-engine, about 6 different layout designs, a database-crash, recovery via archive.org and a migration to Jekyll.

No guarantee that it will last another 12 years, but for the meantime: Cheers, and enjoy the ride!

12 years, Cheers!

Wednesday, 28. May 2014 Week 22

It's alive!

Wandtelefon Modell 50 with SIP ATA

Wandtelefon Modell 50 from January 1970 now talks SIP (and it only took two converters, a bit of cable-fiddling and some luck :-)

Thursday, 22. May 2014 Week 21
Friday, 18. April 2014 Week 16

Load PKCS#8 SSH key files in Mac OS X 10.9

There is currently a bug in Mac OS X 10.9 which causes that ssh-add is no longer able to read SSH key files in PKCS#8 format.

Fortunately ssh-add still reads PKCS#8 keys when provided through STDIN and openssl is able to decrypt PKCS#8 keys.

Thus the following workaround so that PKCS#8 SSH keys can be loaded again:

openssl pkcs8 -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa | ssh-add -
Sunday, 23. March 2014 Week 12