Comments now with OpenID

Since Microsoft and Google now decided to support OpenID. So now even more people have an OpenID without knowing it. So i think it's a good time to finally install the OpenID WordPress plugin to give my readers the possibility to leave comments with their OpenID account. I already used OpenID in some django [...]

Slow progress in ucplib

I don't currently work a lot on ucplib. First because I have a lot of other work to do at the moment, and second because there is currently no need for me to get it finished. If there is somebody interested or even needs this library I will find some time to finish it, [...]

Freebsd jails are cool

After the last OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland I decided to take a deeper look at FreeBSD. What impressed me most was the jail mecanism that makes it very easy to setup isolated environments on a single machine.

I currently mostly use Linux (Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS) on my servers, but I always thought FreeBSD [...]

Still no clean solution to flash Openmoko from Mac OS X

Unfortunately I still was not able to get dfu-util working properly under Mac OS X. But at least I can work around the problem. Here a small resume of the workaround:

Boot the Openmoko into U-Boot (AUX+POWER) Plug in the Openmoko via USB Execute the dfu-util command you want. To flash the rootfs execute: [...]