Weird music

Browsed the Tonspion and some other sites today including the strange universe of Richard von der Schulenburg. Some weird electronic sounds but I actually liked Elektrisch. Another song, "Dies ist nicht Amerika", is the german version of the Bowie song and worth listening to ... maybe once.

More weird stuff? rathergood.com is certainly a highlight in that area. The music is more into the direction of ska and the (flash) videos offered are slightly bizarre. "First drink of the day" somehow reminded me of my last visit to UK. "Looking for my leopard" has some eye candy for cat lovers but the songs not worth downloading. You might try "Your Mums Your Dad" which is another ska song from 7 seconds of love.

Enough weirdness for today.

Posted at: 20:57 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/media

Mercedes Mixed Tape

Just a short note that the Mercedes Mixed Tape 8 is available for free download.

With all those free downloads like the Mixed Tape, Live8 and the stuff from Tonspion or similar sites I really don't feel the need to buy any music anymore.

But I might consider spending it on a trip to Berlin to see Martin Jondo ...

Posted at: 00:13 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/media

CVS updates

Integrated the latest kolab cvs changes into the code.

I started wrapping up cyrus imapd but it will still take a few days to be convinced that all kolab features work.

The problem with ownership of /var/lib/openldap-data after bootstrapping should not appear anymore and Henning helped me to identify another bug in the perl-kolab ebuild.

Posted at: 00:00 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects/kolab

Kolab updates

I broke the kolab-webadmin and the kolabd ebuilds last week. Fixed that today and they should both work again.

I addded all recent diffs from the kolab cvs which hopefully allows to create domain maintainers. I did not check this yet.

My postfix checks are running fine now and I updated the comments on the postfix page concerning changes in the configuration as compared to the original kolab.

I also modified the postfix users so that the special kolab users are not used anymore. When using these new templates you need to empty your postfix spool directory:

rm -rf /var/spool/postfix/*

Posted at: 15:17 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects/kolab

New muse mode version

I updated my muse ebuild to the newest version 3.01.90. I thought it would just take ten minutes but I wanted to use the new configure statement for pyblosxom blogs.

Since I know practically nothing about lisp I missed the little apostrophe (`) in front of the statement.

      `(
	("Blog"
         (,@(muse-blosxom-project-alist-dirs "~/usr/devel/website/home"))
	 ,@(muse-myblosxom-project-alist-entry "~/usr/devel/website/home"
					     "~/usr/devel/website/test/home"
					     "blosxom-xhtml")
      ...

I had a quote (') there which messed things up. Probably just a hint that one should not try to work with languages one has no clue about.

Anyhow the muse-myblosxom-project-alist-entry did not handle my directory hierarchy too well. It entered all blog entries in subdirectories twice. So I modified the corresponding function to allow for subdirectories. Hopefully I did not break anything with that change.

(defun muse-myblosxom-project-alist-entry (entry-dir output-dir style)
  (cons `(:base ,style :path ,(expand-file-name output-dir)
                :include ,(concat "/" (file-name-nondirectory entry-dir)
                                  "/[^/]+$"))
        (mapcar (lambda (dir);
                  `(:base ,style
                          :path ,(expand-file-name dir output-dir)
                          :include ,(concat "/" dir "/[^/]+$")))
                (muse-blosxom-get-categories entry-dir))))

But it looks like it's working.

Enough about my lisp skills...

Posted at: 09:37 | Permalink | category: /english/technical

Pyblosxom rss plugin

I added the rss renderer to my pyblosxom-plugin ebuild. So now there is an additional section that allows to get some feeds from this site.

But rather than having a blog feed I'd like to be able to get an RSS feed from my subversion repository. I found two python scripts that allow to do this (subverssed and svn2rss) but both did not completely allow what I want. So I am going to delay that to a later time and probably write my own script.

Posted at: 00:40 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

CSS fixed

Finally took the time to fix the horrible CSS style I did last time. I still need to fix some of the pages so that they look ok in the new style but I hope it's better readable now. Must have been on drugs when I chose the colors last time.

The project section has been switched to the new format but the wiki section is still broken. Guess it will still take some time until I fix those pages.

Posted at: 21:25 | Permalink | category: /english/technical

Fixing template configurations

Updated the ClamAV, Amavisd-new, and the Spamassassin templates for Gentoo. This brings me a step closer to finally fix postfix so that the Kolab server can actually send mail ... which is a nice feature for a mail server.

Posted at: 22:59 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects/kolab

Ebuild for pyblosxom plugins

I am starting to extend the pyblosxom installation. This will be the ebuild that holds the plugins I add. So far it only contains the plugin for hardcoded dates in the postings. I'll add more when I need them and them and list the contents in the Gentoo www-apps section.

Posted at: 21:34 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Ensembl perl, RepBase, AutoPrime ebuilds

The ebuilds have been added to the gentoo section.

You find all necessary information on installing AutoPrime here.

Posted at: 08:17 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Postfix needs correct kolab-resource-handlers

The postfix ebuild in portage seems to be ok and the newer version of postfix (2.2.2) contains the patches that are being applied in the older OpenPKG version. But the new version needs some fixes on the master.cf template included in kolabd.

The postfix part of Gentoo-Kolab does not work yet since the kolab-resource-handlers need to be fixed first.

Posted at: 18:17 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects/kolab

Pyblosxom ebuild

Added the pyblosxom ebuild to the Gentoo section.

The complete ebuild (including digests) can be downloaded here.

There might be some more info here.

Posted at: 09:43 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Spiegel Online - Free Music - Part 3

A while ago Spiegel Online started a series of articles with links to free music. The links to the articles that have been published so far can be found here.

Many of the songs listed are quite good and here are the ones from part 3 that I really liked:

• Low: Monkey
• The Helio Sequence: Blood bleeds
• The Beeps: Tell me
• Iron & Wine: Woman King

Posted at: 09:01 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/media

Postfix ebuild for Kolab

Postfix is slightly more difficult than I initially believed. The new postfix 2.2.2 package available from portage (Kolab uses 2.1.5) contains the patches included in the current Kolab version but there are some differences in the configuration files. So I will have to fix the templates for postfix.

Posted at: 14:32 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/projects/kolab

Site destroyed

Well maybe not completely... Installing the blog needed some rearrangements and I was not able to wrap everything up. The projects should still work but the wiki part is broken. Tomorrow is another day...

But I do have a blog again which is definitely nice. Once again its basic but it provides what I need. Comments cannot be added at the moment and it will still take some time until fancy features will be added but it's a start.

Maybe I'll even get the time to fix the crappy CSS style one day... ;)

Posted at: 10:28 | Permalink | category: /english/technical

Muse ebuild

An ebuild for the muse mode (version 3.01) has been added to the gentoo section (category app-emacs). I need to learn how to cross link in this blog... ;) ... Ok, now I know...

Posted at: 08:05 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Ebuild repository

I added a rsync repository that holds my own ebuilds. There are some comments available in the gentoo section on how to set up such a repository. I did not clean up the repository yet so there will be some invalid ebuilds in there. I am going to remove them soon.

Posted at: 07:50 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo