Martin Geisler Online

With this post I’ve made 33 posts this month, one more than in June, 2000, which held the “record” until now. What was special about this month was probably that I moved to a new server hosted at NEXCESS — that renewed my interest in my site for I then wanted to make things as nice as possible (including making posts for people who come here looking for showsource.php and PHP Weather).

I might relax some more next month, especially considering that I’ll have two exams at the end of the month.

The release of Sarge, the next version of [Debian][], is coming nearer and nearer — in the last release update sent out the target is Monday, June 6th (I’m making a link already, for I imagine that I will write about it… :-)

I hope they are going to make it — the Release Team and the Debian developers have worked very hard the last couple of months to make Sarge a super release. I’ve been following the mailinglists and I’ve been stunned to see the amount of care and hard work these guys put into this: upgrades are being tested (on eleven architectures…), translations are being updated, and bugs are being fixed. Very impressive!

Today at the lecture on System Security I asked the lecturers and teaching assistants (Germano Caronni, Stefan Frei, and Senn Diana) if they would sign my GnuPG key.

And they agreed and promptly brought out their wallets to show me some legitimation and to give me their key fingerprints. I had brought my fingerprint with me as a bunch of paper slips with the output from gpg --fingerprint 7E45DD38 — they had their fingerprints as part of their business cards! Very cool!

So now I expect to become part of the strongly connected set of OpenPGP keys. This set contains 30,552 keys according to the status (see the bottom) latest keyanalysis report.

Another good source of information about this set is Web of trust statistics and pathfinder (Wotsap) by Jörgen Cederlöf, which makes nice graphs showing the trust relationship between the keys. Unfortunately the server is out of service at the moment — I hope they get it back online again soon. The PGP pathfinder & key statistics service by Henk P. Penning is a good way to trace paths to and from keys, but without the fancy graphics.

Next up on the list of things that people mistakenly still believe is to be found here on my site is [PHP Weather][]. I created PHP weather some five years ago, and in the beginning it lived its live on my site.

But it has since been moved to SourceForge, and has even gotten it’s own nifty domain name: http://phpweather.net/. So please update your links to point to that site instead of mine.

[SourceForge][] has finally lunched their new statistics system! So now we have gotten small cute graphics with lots of colors to look at :-) Take a look at the statistics for [PEL][], for example — don’t it look cute?

The best thing about the new system is probably that it now works once again… As many of you know, then the old system couldn’t scale with the growt of SF, and so they disabled it for over nine months until today.

Now I’m just looking forward to them getting the promissed [Subversion][svn] service up and running, for this is just so much better than [CVS][].