I am on the move yet again. This time, I chose to move to a linode 360 VPS from a DS8000 dedicated server from Hetzner. The server and the hosting at Hetzner is great, I just do not have the need for such a big server.
I plan to document what I have done to set up the server – but later :)
Finally.
After months of waiting on the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency to make their final decision on who is going to administer the .dk TLD, they finally announced that it is not going to be dotDK afterall. As it turned out, they were unable to gain the needed support from the Danish Internet community to be allowed the responsibility. Instead, DK-Hostmaster and DIFO is going to continue the administration.
I can only support this decision – in my mind, it never seemed to be a terribly good idea to break the centralized control with the TLD and use a shared registry. It is nice to always know where the .dk domains are administered from (especially when you need to make changes to them). My only hope is that DK-Hostmaster is going to implement some of the nice suggestions that have been put forward during the last months (like DNSSEC and a better administration interface).
Source: Version2 (Danish)
Via Miia Ranta’s Blog I discovered that Adobe launched a Flash Linux plugin for the x64 architecture. The fastest way to install it on a Ubuntu 8.10 system is to download the package flashplugin-nonfree – 10.0.12.36ubuntu2~ppa1 from Kees Cook’s PPA. But if installing it, be warned that there is no guarantee that the plugin works. Also, before installing the package, remove the package nspluginwrapper by doing
sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper
Though there is no guarantee that the plugin works as expected (it is an alpha prerelease version afterall), it seems to work perfect for me. It has made it possible for me to watch the full episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Yay!
In respect for my tradition to disappear from the blogosphere once in a while, I have limited posting to exactly 0 during the last month or so. I am proud of myself.
Anyway, I would like to go abroad to universities in Singapore (NUS, NTU), London (UCL) or Troy, New York (RPI) during my master’s degree studies which I expected to begin next September. I would like to go abroad in my 2nd semester of the master – spring of 2010. To be allowed to go abroad, DTU requires me to have completed 20 ECTS points of my master (which is a little less than a full semester).
The thing is, though, that I have not taken the ECTS points that I need to finish my bachelor’s degree in July (as it was otherwise expected). And due to a rule I just found out about today, I am unable to start my master before my bachelor degree is fully completed. I am not even able to take any ECTS points other than what I need to complete my bachelor in the fall next year, if I continue on this track.
All of this leaves me with a choice:
What to do? I am quite split about what to do – both choices leave me with downsides, and both also has advantages to them. Any advice?
The contents of the is stolen directly from the Debian user forum.
To disable the system beep, blacklist the module snd_pcsp. Add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:
blacklist snd_pcsp