Living in Berlin, part 5

In General () – 2017-01-21, edited Leave a comment

Also see part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

Autumn and winter in Berlin…

I’ve been living nearly nine months in this city now and I will soon have experienced all seasons here. It was certainly a good decision to move here in spring and not in winter – because this can be quite uncomfortable in Berlin. The group Seeed expressed this quite spot on in their song “Dickes B”: “Dickes B, home an der Spree, im Sommer tust Du gut und im Winter tut’s weh.” (fat B, home at the Spree, in summer you’re good and in winter it hurts).

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Periodical 0.30

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Today Periodical 0.30 was published. Changes included:

  • You can change the length of the luteal phase if it does not match the standard value of 14 days.
  • In Android 6 or later the required permission for data backup is requested if needed.
  • The wrong sort order in the list view with the calendar entries was fixed.

Good bye Pebble :-(

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Now it’s official: Pebble shuts down and the remaining stuff will be sold to Fitbit as you can read in the blog post. Pebble Time 2 or any of the other announced products will not be available at all.

Very sad – since I just bought my first Pebble in the beginning of 2016 and was always very pleased so far. The battery still lasts more than a week and besides notifications about new SMS or e-mails I also really like apps like “Nav Me” – as long as it will be possible.

Postgrey doesn’t start

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Recently I’ve noticed that greylisting didn’t work any longer on my server. The reason for this was, that the service “postgrey” did not start any longer.

A manual start using the command line was still possible but not starting it as daemon.

A quick fix for this is to modify the file /etc/sbin/postgrey as following: change the shebang in the first line.

Old:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T -w

New:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

However this also makes the script less safe as well. The better solution is a modification of the script as described on https://github.com/yasuhirokimura/postgrey/commit/9673b54064691a5b9c295ffea340d8a1f9ee1cb8.

Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgrey/+bug/1252441.

Living in Berlin, part 3

In General () – 2016-10-28, edited Leave a comment

Also see part 1, part 2.

I’ve been living in Berlin for half a year now – and nearly three months in the new flat. By now I can say that I arrived, even though there are still many unknown places in the city and many things to explore. I find my ways to the office and to friends without a map and I still enjoy it to be able to use my bicycle most of the time.

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