Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

I have uploaded my paper AntiPatterns — Theory and Practice (PDF) today. I wrote this as accompanying paper for a talk about AntiPatterns I gave in late 2004 at the Technical University of Munich.

The paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License, so you are free to redistribute and modify it, as long as you obey the terms of the license.

There are not too many updates here as of late. I'm busy playing Wesnoth, trying out a few MUDs (especially Aardwolf, which seems to be really nice), coding my own game Holsham Traders (a first release should be out in one or two weeks) and lots and lots of other more seriuos work...

I have just uploaded fw_laptop, the firewall script I use to secure my laptop and/or desktop machines (but not my servers), in the Security section of my homepage. The script is GPL'ed and work in progress. I'm happy to receive feedback and/or corrections and suggestions regarding the script.

I will publish other similar scripts for different purposes when time permits.

So from 2007 onwards The Man™ wants all Germans to pay "Internet-Rundfunkgebühr" (a fee which one was forced to pay if one owned a TV or radio. Now it suffices to own a computer which can be connected to the Internet).

(via Telepolis)

Linux 2.6.11.10 has been released, which fixes two locally exploitable security issues. Another similar bug has been fixed recently by 2.6.11.9.
Every Linux box with local users should be upgraded ASAP. My laptop is already compiling away happily (although I'm the only one who has an account on it of course, but you never know)...

(via Heise)