Sun, 20 Apr 2008
Planet as mailing list? Why not DPN?
Jörg Jaspert wonders, if planet.debian.org should be available as a mailing list, too. That's a proposal to solve the problem, that planet has been used by more or less official announcement and discussions, but not all people have time / want to read planet.
An other solution would be to make sure, that important blog posts are mention in the next issue of the Debian Project News (which have just been started and could still need some help).
postet at 14:14 into [Debian] permanent link
Sun, 06 Apr 2008
Bad timing, is...
deciding to go on a diet the day before you are invited to a all you can eat pasta & co restaurant.
postet at 01:48 into [Debian] permanent link
Fri, 22 Feb 2008
Home Alone
I'm wondering...
$ find debian/uploads/ -iname \*.changes -mtime -10|wc -l 22
Maybe it isn't that bad, if your girlfriend leaves you for some days alone at home?
PS: Of course it is... but you get some work done.
postet at 18:54 into [Debian] permanent link
Thu, 10 Jan 2008
About Apache, Basic Authentication, Location and regular expressions
The other day, I had an interesting problem, regarding Apache, the
LocationMatch directive and regular expressions. I'll put it
here, so I'll be able to find it again...
Actually it was a quite simple problem: A simple web page, where all web
pages are protected with a password. No big Problem: Use a <location
/> and AuthType basic, problem solved.... or isn't
it?
Some documents might be needed to be available without the authentication... for example robots.txt... or the funky custom error document, which explains how to get the authentication data, in case the authentication fails.
Looking at the documentation, found a solution:
LocationMatch exists, where you specify a regular
expression, which must match, for the following configuration to
apply.
What isn't mentioned in the documentation, that the obvious
solution... something like <LocationMatch
!"^/(robots.txt|my401handler.html"> doesn't work. See apache bug
10932. Needed quite some time, to find this out...
Luckily Meike found the bug report above, which has a workaround for
that problem: Use <LocationMatch
"^/(?!robots.txt|my401handler.html)">
Oh... and if your customized error handler references some pictures or style sheets, don't forget to add them to the regular expression above, too.
postet at 22:43 into [Debian] permanent link
Thu, 09 Aug 2007
No smoking area
Today is the 9th of August and we've been at a restaurant (well... a self service cafeteria). Nothing fancy so far about it, but it was the first time this month, which makes it kind of special: On the first a new law come into effect in Lower Saxony (and some other parts of Germany) prohibiting smoking in public restaurants (save in closed, separate rooms).
Being a non-smoker it was a nice experience to see how the former smoking area had vanished from the restaurant. Especially, since in that special case you couldn't avoid the smoking zone: To get to the toilette you needed to go through the smoking zone. And where do you bring your tablet back? Right, in the smoking zone.
Nice.
postet at 16:36 into [Debian/other] permanent link