Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 31

Some days ago, I bit the bullet and accepted the Tor Challenge. Sadly, after only four days of having a Tor relay node happily sitting at home (and, of course, giving a nice function to this little friend). The inconveniences were too many. I understand anonimity can be used for many nefarious things, but I was surprised and saddened to see the amount of blocking services. Most notorious to me were the Freenode IRC network, friendly home to many free software projects, and the <a href=”http://wikimedia.org/>different Wikimedia projects</a>, which ban editting from IP addresses idenitfied as Tor relays. I’m saddened...

I must echo John Sullivan’s post: GPG keysigning and government identification. John states some very important reasons for people everywhere to verify the identities of those parties they sign GPG keys with in a meaningful way, and that means, not just trusting government-issued IDs. As he says, It’s not the Web of Amateur ID Checking. And I’ll take the opportunity to expand, based on what some of us saw in Debian, on what this means. I know most people (even most people involved in Free Software development — not everybody needs to join a globally-distributed, thousand-people-strong project such as Debian)...

As often is the case, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic (http://smbc-comics.com/ gets it right. And I cannot help but share today’s comic. The picture explains it much better than what I ever could.

My guest and good friend Kaz, ready to start explaining the ext4 filesystem (and kernel module)

With eclectic sushi and several other goodies.

A full group of students following on Kaz’s thorough explanation

With eclectic sushi and several other goodies.

After the projector blew up at the beginning of the class, all of the exposition had to be directly in Kaz’s laptop screen… Comments gwolf 2014-05-17 19:06:57 Good reference! Thanks for your attention to detail. Kaz 2014-05-17 16:57:21 The credit for this image The credit for this image goes to M. Tim Jones, Consultant Engineer, Emulex Corp. and was used only with explanatory purposes (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-filesystem/) I will add a bibliography for your students and send it ASAP so they have an idea where they can start in the case they require to develop drivers. Best Regards!

A full group of students following on Kaz’s thorough explanation