Privates Blog
Some very personal thoughts on what the open source community means to me and why contributing can enrich your life
The following text is a translation of the German blog post I wrote earlier this year.
Everytime I tell my friends about my hobby which noawadays has also become my job I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?!
How to create your own SSL certificates with StartSSL and deploy them to your server
For several years, I’ve been using StartSSL already to create my personal website’s SSL certificate. Just recently, the Israel-based CA has revamped their website not only with a more modern and fresher look, but also improved usability by implementing new wizards. In this little howto I’ll show you how to create your own web server SSL certificate in just a couple of minutes.
This article shows how you can register your IRC nickname to protect it, and gives an overview on the most important commands
IRC, the Internet Relay Chat, is a key component for many people working in free software projects. While these days a chunk of – especially mobile – messengers promote their services, IRC is known as a proven, reliable and recognized way of communication amongst open source people.
Many rely on the generous services of Freenode to power their chatrooms. While IRC per se is not complicated to setup, what often is a miracle to newbies is how to claim and register your IRC nickname, which I’ll show in the following guide.
„Florian’s guide to IRC: Register your nickname“ weiterlesen
A first look at the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority including a walkthrough how to create your first SSL certificate
On a testing machine I installed over the weekend, I had a chance to give Let’s Encrypt a try.
An overview of noteworthy GnuPG configuration options, including instructions on having strong ciphers and group encryption
Following my recent blogpost series about Thunderbird, I’d like to show you my GnuPG configuration today. I’m for sure no expert, so feedback on improvements is highly welcome. I run GPGTools on OS X, but this guide should be applicable to all recent versions of GnuPG.
How Thunderbird CSS file customizations help to enhance and extend the Mozilla e-mail client to adapt it perfectly to your needs
For more than a decade, Thunderbird has been my e-mail client of choice. It provides flexibility and customization via plugins and configuration files that helps me to adapt it specifically to my needs. Over the years, I’ve compiled my very own configuration set and selection of plugins which I’m sharing with my fellow readers, hoping that some of these customizations also make your e-mail life easier, especially when you have to deal with a huge amount of messages.
In a first posting, I’ve shared my favorite plugins with you, and showed you how to adapt the configuration to your very own needs in a subsequent posting. Today, I’d like to show you how you can improve the program’s appearance by tweaking some Thunderbird CSS files.
„My Thunderbird configuration: Make it look pretty“ weiterlesen
How Thunderbird configuration settings help to enhance and extend the Mozilla e-mail client to adapt it perfectly to your needs
For more than a decade, Thunderbird has been my e-mail client of choice. It provides flexibility and customization via plugins and configuration files that helps me to adapt it specifically to my needs. Over the years, I’ve compiled my very own Thunderbird configuration set and selection of plugins which I’m sharing with my fellow readers, hoping that some of these customizations also make your e-mail life easier, especially when you have to deal with a huge amount of messages.
In a first posting, I’ve shared my favorite plugins with you. In this subsequent posting, I’ll now show you my configuration tweaks.
„My Thunderbird configuration: Tweaking the Settings“ weiterlesen
How Thunderbird addons and plugins help to enhance and extend the Mozilla e-mail client to adapt it perfectly to your needs
For more than a decade, Thunderbird has been my e-mail client of choice. It provides flexibility and customization via plugins and configuration files that helps me to adapt it specifically to my needs. Over the years, I’ve compiled my very own configuration set and selection of Thunderbird addons which I’m sharing with my fellow readers, hoping that some of these customizations also make your e-mail life easier, especially when you have to deal with a huge amount of messages.
In this first posting, I’ll share my favorite Thunderbird addons with you. In a subsequent posting that follows soon, I’ll show you my configuration tweaks.
My review of the LibreOffice Conference 2015 that took place in Aarhus, Denmark from September 23-25, organized by the local community
“On Monday after the conference we will all miss each other,” my colleague Leif said to me, who was one of this year’s LibreOffice Conference organizers. Seems he was right.
LibreOffice Conference 2015 is over, and it was an amazing and incredible event. With approximately 150 participants from more than 30 countries, we not only had a conference, but a true family meeting. It was so exciting catching up with colleagues whom we haven’t seen for months, meeting new friends, and sharing good times and joyful moments in beautiful Aarhus in Denmark, in an exciting venue called Dokk1, which supported our creative gathering with its fresh, inspiring and open architecture – a perfect match for the LibreOffice community.