Recently we realized that proftpd misses several modules that are available but not included in the standard distribution. Therefore, we created an ebuild. As time was short today, we only included mod_dnsbl. In the near future, we will add more modules.

The ebuild is available on our SVN repository: http://dev.informations-compagnie.de/svn/gentoo/net-ftp/proftpd/proftpd-1.3.2b-r1.ebuild. Please have a look at our repository intro page for instructions on how to use the additional overlay.

Wolfram|Alpha is out. There’s a new player on the search engine market which is the first one with an innovation since google. The scene is something between enthusiatic and at least curious. So are we. Right in this moment, they are launching their service. This is being filmed. Like the guys’n'gals from CERN did last year. Here is the cast:

Watch live video from wolframalpha on Justin.tv

You know the scene: you’re just about to write a paper which refers to some websites and three weeks later you get bugged by someone saying that the referenced page doesn’t exist any more. There are some ways to handle the situation: you could save the page as HTML or make a screenshot, but that’s not that cool. Think of managing your sources, of linking them into the paper. Sounds pretty time-consuming, doesn’t it? Seems like you’re doomed to manual managing web-sources and in-paper-sources? Definitely not! There’s help around. Zotero is a firefox plugin which does exactly that job for you. Manage links for offline use? No problem, just choose your output format. Manage them for in-paper use? Just say which tool you use and it’s going to export the information into your preferred format. And: it is free! Heaven on earth, you say? Perhaps…

Seit einiger Zeit betreuen wir das nichtkommerzielle Vandalsquad-Projekt. Mehrere tausend Benutzer auf der ganzen Welt gehen hier ihrer Lieblingsbeschäftigung nach: sprayen. Aber anstatt den Groll der ordnungsliebenden Mitbürger auf sich zu ziehen, werden hier Denkmäler und U-Bahnen virtuell verschönert.
Ein Blick auf die Statistiken verrät nicht nur den üblichen Spaß von Häufigkeit und Uhrzeit der Zugriffe, sondern auch die Art der verwendeten Betriebssysteme und Browser. Plötzlich überkommt den gelangtweilten Admin das kalte Grauen… Längst tot geglaubte Veteranen überfluten die Listen regelrecht… Wer hätte denn gedacht, dass es noch immer hartgesottene Windows-3.x-Benutzer gibt? Oder, dass es das AmigaOS je in solch ein Ranking schaffen würde? Und was bitte ist Netscape 0.6? Vielleicht kann man ja mal Screenshots erfragen….

Links:

• http://www.vandalsquad.com
• http://www.vandalsquad.com/awstats