Don’t expect any blog updates for the next two weeks.
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Chief not in tipi, out in the woods elk stalking.
More and more video streaming/clip viewing portals have arisen in the last few years.
One of the biggest is YouTube (which will convert its contents to a higher quality h.264 MPEG4 codec video for the AppleTV(by the way just upgraded)), and many more like GoogleVideo, MySpace and the newer Veoh. Most of them hold amateur video content or at least are uploaded by amateurs. Copyrighted material isn’t allowed but can be found such as complete anime series if you’re interested.
But, all of those were bad quality unlike real TV.
On the other side P2P video exchange became popular on sharing networks like bittorrent, the bad thing is, that most of the content offered in these networks is also pirated copyrighted material, thus must be the reason for Vuze? (former Zudeo, an enhanced version of the bittorrent cross-platform client Azureus) and Tribler? to establish a user-friendly and comfortable video sharing platform for LEGAL content. (Try it out, it’s really great.)
And again, downloading millions of bits for high quality video hence the problem that you have to wait for the download to finish, or even worse, you’ll have no real preview.
This is were Zattoo?, Joost?, Babelgum?, Joox? and TV-Links come in, the latter one more illegally I guess.
All of the above offering P2P realtime video for free with depending on service/channel and your own bandwidth, HD-quality TV.
This could be the future, at least giving competition to our cable-tv and internet-providers. Pay one bill get Internet/Phone/TV/Mobile. That’ s called Quadruple Play.
Yet no update on my site, and still no native german content, but things are piling up so fast that I’ll post some quick news now.
Google Maps now has a new service called StreetView, which enables user to virtually walk through the streets and look around in 360 degrees of freedom.
(The service is available for some US cities only so far, if you have trouble accessing switch your browsers default language to english.)
A video will say more than a thousand words 😉
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Just in case you want to buy a new computer, and you can’t wait any longer for AMD biggest battleship to arrive, at least you want to wait for Intel’s price-drop on available processors.
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The highest category price-drop is almost 50%, this could also mean that the yet not publicly available QX6800 Core 2 Quad with 2,93GHz will be around the price of the Q6700 now. (950-1050US$)
By the way, my northbridge fan just cracked of the mainboard this afternoon. Is that a sign or what ? 😉
Hi Folks,
lang time no see ya….
No, it’s not because I upgrade my RapidWeaver blogging software finally, but because of the final steps at work moving to another building which now lasted almost one and a half years. Those last weeks in april and may I had to work all the weekends and some nightshift, that’s why the blog lost my attention.
Quite like my wife’s blog which is also unmaintained since she is just finishing her studies now. But the good thing is, that I have lots of content in the back which I just noted down from time to time and which is just waiting to be published.
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Ahhh, forgot one more bad thing for you guys, I’ll be on holiday next week, so don’t expect too much activity soon.
Further I want to redesign the blog content (without killing the permalinks) to be more informative, such as writing in german and english since my readers are germans, most of them. And I also want to start a new blog category about architecture which is one of my hobbies. Although I’m not sure yet how to bundle all these different contents into one blog, I hope you’ll soon be able to enjoy the first articles.
For the RapidWeaver Upgrade itself I must say, I’ve got absolutely no idea why I spent the money for the upgrade since I can’t see any difference yet. Hopefully I’ll discover some new features in the future, and don’t experience one or more of the known/unknown bugs. At least my old content and layout loaded without warnings.
Let’s see if everything breaks when I press publish…..
…yours Kobaan. I’m back.
Ah, I forgot to mention chinas newest ability to destroy satellites…so, the correct way to take care of your keys is:
List your secret keys:
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –list-secret-keys
/Users/kobaan/.gnupg/secring.gpg
———————————
sec 1024D/9DC0387E 2006-02-21 [expires: 2007-02-21]
uid Andreas Kobara (privat)
ssb 2048g/E5122423 2006-02-21
sec 1024D/F373037D 2006-02-21 [expires: 2007-02-21]
uid Andreas Kobara
ssb 2048g/712EA6D2 2006-02-21
sec 1024D/5BD5E033 2007-02-15 [expires: 2008-02-20]
uid Andreas Kobara
ssb 2048g/ACE9BC3A 2007-02-15
sec 1024D/06F5B3D4 2007-02-15 [expires: 2008-02-20]
uid Andreas Kobara
ssb 2048g/B5A90C83 2007-02-15
As one can see, I have to keys, taht are already expired, and that
I have already created a follow-up key for.
As long as I do not revoke the expired public key, others can still
encrypt mails to me ignoring the expired key,
and I (or someone who has stolen my old secret key) will be able to
still decrypt an expired key encrypted mail.
Usually you should create a revocation certificate for a newly
generated key, to be able to revoke it later, in case it was
stolen, or just expired.
In my case, I will create a revocation certificate now, to revoke
my key from the keyservers.
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –gen-revoke 9DC0387E
sec 1024D/9DC0387E 2006-02-21 Andreas Kobara (privat)
Create a revocation certificate for this key? (y/N) y
Please select the reason for the revocation:
0 = No reason specified
1 = Key has been compromised
2 = Key is superseded
3 = Key is no longer used
Q = Cancel
(Probably you want to select 1 here)
Your decision? 3
Enter an optional description; end it with an empty line:
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Reason for revocation: Key is no longer used
(No description given)
Is this okay? (y/N) y
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: “Andreas Kobara (privat) ”
1024-bit DSA key, ID 9DC0387E, created 2006-02-21
ASCII armored output forced.
Revocation certificate created.
Please move it to a medium which you can hide away; if Mallory
gets
access to this certificate he can use it to make your key
unusable.
It is smart to print this certificate and store it away, just in
case
your media become unreadable. But have some caution: The print
system of
your machine might store the data and make it available to
others!
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin)
Comment: A revocation certificate should follow
iEkEIBECAAkFAkYZKk0CHQMACgkQSA/XCJ3AOH71eACeO+XLUL2pihKbaK2YkHUj
2kQshtgAn0GXcpByipSaJ6VRwbhch90YKwhk
=ijDs
—–END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Nothing happened so far, you can store your revocation certificate
now, or use it, based on your needs.
Lets check the status of my key before and after revocation:
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –check-sig 9DC0387E
pub 1024D/9DC0387E 2006-02-21 [expired: 2007-02-21]
uid Andreas Kobara (privat)
sig!3 9DC0387E 2006-05-07 Andreas Kobara (privat)
sig!3 9DC0387E 2006-02-21 Andreas Kobara (privat)
Now import the certificate:
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –import
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin)
Comment: A revocation certificate should follow
iEkEIBECAAkFAkYZKk0CHQMACgkQSA/XCJ3AOH71eACeO+XLUL2pihKbaK2YkHUj
2kQshtgAn0GXcpByipSaJ6VRwbhch90YKwhk
=ijDs
—–END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
gpg: Total number processed: 1
And check the keyring again:
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –check-sig 9DC0387E
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust
model
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 2 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f,
2u
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2008-02-20
pub 1024D/9DC0387E 2006-02-21 [revoked: 2007-04-08]
rev! 9DC0387E 2007-04-08 Andreas Kobara (privat)
uid Andreas Kobara (privat)
sig!3 9DC0387E 2006-05-07 Andreas Kobara (privat)
sig!3 9DC0387E 2006-02-21 Andreas Kobara (privat)
Now it shows “revoked”.
We can now publish this key back to the keyservers to tell everyone
that this key is not any longer valid for signing and
encryption.
kobaans-computer:~ kobaan$
gpg –send-key 9DC0387E
gpg: sending key 9DC0387E to hkp server
subkeys.pgp.net
Although, as long as I do not delete this key from my own secret
keyring, it will be always posible to open very old mail archives
which used that old key.
Useful for someone ?
