jengelh” stems from the traditional username creation pattern used in scientific institutions — ancient systems seemed to have a limit of eight characters, and the usual pattern was taking one character from the given name, and seven from the surname, the 8th position being used for a digit (if needed) to enumerate users that would have the same login name.

Documents

libHX 3.x Documentation
Introduction to Xtables-addons (presentation)
Writing your own Netfilter modules (Xtables, iptables)
Towards the Perfect Ruleset (iptables)
Detecting and deceiving network scans with Chaostables
Implementation of a Turing simulator (English)
Implementation eines Turingsimulators (German)
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Software Projects

ccgfs – Transport-agnostic network filesystem
Chaostables – Detect, deceive and slowdown portscans
hxtools — Collection of tools and shell scripts
libHX – Library for commonly needed tasks in C
posixovl — POSIX overlay filesystem
ttyrpld – Multi-platform tty keylogger/screenlogger
Vitalnix User Management Suite – Storage-independent useradd/etc.
Xtables-addons – additional extensions for iptables
(more...)

Software repositories for SUSE are at http://jftp.medozas.de/.

Images

Netfilter packet flow and hook/table ordering
Netfilter Components
German keyboard with US/CCJ+DE mapping (The Perfect Keyboard)
GIT tree/changeset flow
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Web Articles

(continuously updated over time)
Recurring errors (C)
Recurring errors (Shell)
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A new system

November 21, 2009; updated January 08, 2010

[ares] Linux 2.6.32-jen93-default sparc64 | 24x UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) | Load: 0.26 Tasks: 409 | MemUse: 805/7975MB | DiskUse: 54/108GB (output from hxtools's sysinfo tool) has a nice ring to it, in the midst of an x86-deluded world. (read more...)

Linux Kernel developed by hackers

October 18, 2009

If one looks at the authoring date of all commits, and sorts that by frequency per hour, you get these results: (read more...)

Package building on OpenSUSE with lbuild-jplus

September 08, 2009

lbuild-jplus is the name for a August 2009 package of Novell's “build” tool, plus changes from Ludwig Nussel, plus my changes, which add per-user configuration files, additional build environment defaults, and other fixes. (read more...)

Unreal Tournament Key Bindings

August 08, 2009

There seems to be a bug in UT99 v451 in that the voice menu, as triggered with the “V” key by default, just retracts even while you hold the key. To counter this you can define key bindings. (read more...)

Linux Intern 03/2009 Interview, ungekürzte Version

August 01, 2009

In der Zeitschrift liegt nur eine gekürzte Version vor. Als Ergänzung dazu hier der volle Text wie er ursprünglich von mir entsendet wurde. (read more...)

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