2013/09/06

bruce schneier for guardian

Bruce Schneier shared his expertise about the surveillance scandal the whole world seems to be involved in. read here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

First time reading this it sounded extremely paranoid, ... but its simply true.
3) Assume that while your computer can be compromised, it would take work and risk on the part of the NSA – so it probably isn't. If you have something really important, use an air gap. Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet. If I want to transfer a file, I encrypt the file on the secure computer and walk it over to my internet computer, using a USB stick. To decrypt something, I reverse the process. This might not be bulletproof, but it's pretty good. 
 and ...
I understand that most of this is impossible for the typical internet user. Even I don't use all these tools for most everything I am working on. And I'm still primarily on Windows, unfortunately. Linux would be safer.

2013/08/22

boxee vs. alfresco

after some days of unsuccessful configuration of a "simple" alfresco cluster i gave up. i had enough. alfresco - you beachy beach. so i cracked a cold one and sat down to watch some game of thrones.
i started up boxee and after a couple of seconds i realized: wtf? on - off. nothing. boxee boot loop. yeah, its a real thing. ahh. jeez. i know theres the hard way of going into recovery mode and resetting everything. everything! i really wasnt seeing myself typing in extremely long passwords for shared folders of my diskstation with this crappy little keyboard on the backside of boxees remote. so i did it old school. switching stuff off and on to check if some device is fighting against me. against boxee i mean. diskstation on/off - nothing. xbox on/off - nothing. router on/off - nothing. do i restart my pc? no. takes too much time.
but wait - i have the two alfresco nodes from the cluster running. well... its worth a try. so i shut both alfresco instances down.
BINGO. boxee is coming up again. i am still laughing while writing this.

will investigate this in detail in the coming days.

solution: kids. whenever you want to run boxee and alfresco in the same network, you might want to consider putting cifs.enabled=false into your alfresco-global.properties. 
i am enjoying some GOT now.

yo - btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpzjhxmDA8Q 

2013/08/20

time? dont have.


i need a new machine. installing 2 nodes (yeah in parallel, whatever) takes forever.
guess im going with a lenovo workstation (dual socket!) with an intel xeon e5 and plenty of ram.