Tim Berners-Lee im Interview mit Wired: we need to re-decentralise the web! …und natürlich auch gleich ein Projekt dazu: redecentralize.org ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/22j

„Pfefferles Open Web“ wird 20 ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1XN

NixOS 13.10 released
We have released NixOS 13.10, the first stable branch of NixOS.
Its goal is to provide a safe branch for production environments
that need bug fixes and security updates, but not the
potentially destabilising changes that sometimes occur on the
unstable branch. You can get NixOS 13.10 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. See the announcement
for … ⌘ Read more

NixOS sources merged into Nixpkgs
The NixOS Git tree has been merged into the Nixpkgs tree in
order to simplify development. The sources now live in the nixos\
 subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository on GitHub. See the
announcement
for more information. ⌘ Read more

NixOS sprint in Slovenia
A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26\
 July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia. It is organised by Termitnjak and
sponsored
by LogicBlox. ⌘ Read more

NixOS presentation at EuroPython
Domen Kožar gave a presentation at EuroPython\
 2013: “NixOS\
 Operating System: Declarative Configuration Distribution”. ⌘ Read more

NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem Schöner Artikel von Ben Werd über das IndieWeb und Idno! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1W6

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

NixOS switched to systemd
NixOS has switched from Upstart to systemd!
Systemd brings many advantages such as better dependency
management, socket-based activation of services, per-service
logging, cgroup-based process management, and much more. (Read
the announcement.) ⌘ Read more

Ohne Facebook kein Dezentrales-Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1NC

Create files on GitHub
There is a new feautre on GitHub, and this one allows you to create files directly from the web interface. This is very handy, for those of us running Jekyll.

This is my first test of the feature, I had to try it right away. Only wishing now to have a friendlier Markdown/kramdown editor. But it’s a start. I like it! ⌘ Read more

web+custom://scheme ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1M1

Pfefferles OpenWeb: Web Intents ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1BY

Web Intents – Die Lösung für das NASCAR-Problem? ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1AF

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved. The address is now
nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl ( web\
 interface). ⌘ Read more

Web Actions/Web Intents ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/16H

The Indie Web: Who owns your identity? ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13w

New repository: aquilax/malko-erp - Tiny web based ERP

Mozilla: Web FWD ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/13c

A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V

Chris Saad über das „Synaptic Web“ ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/10N

Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM

FOSDEM talk about NixOS

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Малко ретро WEB носталгия (пазете си очите, евентуално и ушите): http://diggbg.com/home/html1

The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws

OpenWeb-Notizen: OpenID, XRD 1.0, Simple Web Discovery ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wE

ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more

NixOS talk at LSM
Ludovic Courtès gave a talk about Nix and NixOS at the Libre Software\
 Meeting
in Bordeaux, entitled “NixOS:\
 The Only Functional GNU/Linux Distribution” ( slides). ⌘ Read more

Video quality while on 3G
The same day I got the iPad 3G, I noticed a very contrasting video quality while using Wi-Fi and while using 3G. Videos watched on Youtube would have HD quality (Wi-Fi); same videos, while on 3G, would show horribly. Yet, videos on Apple, while on 3G or Wi-Fi, would show perfectly. All that whether using the app or the web browser, tested both.

Is it Youtube serving a very low quality video to 3G users? Is it AT&T doing it? Is it something built-in on iOS? ⌘ Read more

Thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs shared with us this month his thoughts on Flash:

“Flash was created during the PC era —for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards —all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch vi … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.12 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.12 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. Meanwhile, the Nixpkgs trunk has been
updated
to GCC 4.3.3, Glibc 2.9 and X.org 7.4. ⌘ Read more

Hydra
Nix
and NixOS
releases are now built in Hydra, the new Nix-based
continuous build system. Hydra replaces our old Nix-based\
 build farm, which will be phased out soon. There are
several advantages over the old build farm: the build tasks for
a project are scheduled and published separat … ⌘ Read more

Linux.com article about Nix
There is an article on Linux.com about Nix: “Nix fixes dependency\
 hell on all Linux distributions”. ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.12 released
Nix\
 0.12 has been released. The most important change is that
Nix no longer needs Berkeley DB to store metadata, but there are
many other improvements. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

DisNix paper accepted at HotSWUp
The paper “Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems” (by Sander
van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra and Merijn de Jonge) has been
accepted for presentation at the First ACM Workshop on Hot\
Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp). A draft\
of the paper is available. It describes Sander’s master’s
thesis research on DisNix, an extension … ⌘ Read more

NixOS paper accepted at ICFP!
The paper “NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution” (by
Eelco Dolstra and Andres Löh) has been accepted
for presentation at the 2008\
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP).
It describes NixOS in much greater detail than last year’s
HotOS paper, an … ⌘ Read more

Website / SVN repositories moved
The Nix website has moved to nixos.org (hosted at TU Delft). The Subversion
repositories have moved to svn.nixos.org. See
this\
mailing list posting for information about moving existing
SVN working copies. ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more

Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
The Jacquard\
program of
NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull
Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the
deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous
environments. The grant consists of 368 K€ for a PhD student (4
years) and a postdoc (3 years). If you’re interested in these
positions, please h … ⌘ Read more

Within ten days!

Thank you for submitting your registration to Microsoft Heroes Happen Here: 2008 Launch Events.

You can print this page for your records using the “Print” button at right. Please expect to receive a confirmation email from [long email] within ten business days.

The key words here are “within ten business days”. Ten “business” days. A confirmation email! Do you find that as crazy as I do? What in the world!? If there are using Exchange, and Microsoft web technologies to … ⌘ Read more

New NixOS ISOs

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New NixOS installation CD images for i686 and
x86_64 are available,
which is a good thing as the previous ones were already a few
months old. The new images are Nix 0.11-based, contain Memtest86+ as a
convenience, should support more SATA drives, an … ⌘ Read more

Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft – despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses – to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between the … ⌘ Read more

Nix 0.11 released
Nix\
 0.11 has been released. This is a major new release
representing over a year of development. The most important
improvement is secure multi-user support. It also features many
usability enhancements and language extensions, many of them
prompted by NixOS, the purely functional Linux distribution
based on Nix. See the [release\
 notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20140913055323/https://releases.nixos.org … ⌘ Read more

Want the darn thing?
Beta of XP update made public, A blog by Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Microsoft issued a release candidate version of XP SP3 in November and expanded its testing earlier this month, promising the public test version would come at some later date.

For anyone who still wants to try the darn thing, Microsoft says, the beta should be up on Microsoft’s Web site later Tuesday and ready in final for … ⌘ Read more

Nixpkgs 0.11 released
Nixpkgs\
 0.11 has been released. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more

OpenOffice in Nixpkgs

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Commits mailing list
There is now a mailing\
list (nix-commits@cs.uu.nl) that you can
subscribe to if you want to receive automatic commit
notifications from the Nix Subversion repository. ⌘ Read more

Two visions?
Mark posted yesterday that he will be working for Google, since out of the “ two visions” of the web, he says, Google is the right one. I am not web savvy nor I really care much about it, but I am sure there is more than two visions on the web, there is not right and wrong, but many, many, many shades in between. But the way I see it, the bottom line in my mind: he is going to work for someone who will pay him very well. Yes, bottom line is all a … ⌘ Read more

New build farm hardware at TUD

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Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more