Yep, also me antended some talks yesterday.

Started yesterday morning in the drupal room. Drupal 6 has just been released, but can't wait for Drupal 7 Killer Release.

Then headed to the xen talk, hmm, crowded and did reminds me off my post of saturday. Then I went back to the drupal room for the theming talk. Nice, but I expected more, for sure now with all the changes that came with Drupal 6.

Then I headed to the OpenQrm talk, but since it was almost the same presentation as I saw last time, I went back to the drupal room.

After lunch I visited the LVM and MySQL-proxy talk. Both very interesting talks. Next year I expect to see a full talk about the MySQL-proxy.

So after visiting the OpenWRT and the PostgreSQL HA talk, I was able to see the last few slides of Drupal and MySQL HA. This was for me the end of a nice weekend Fosdem.

By next year we need more bigger rooms. Not more rooms, cause then you will have to much talks at the same time, but more space is very welcome.

A speaker should definitly share their presentation at the moment they start their presentation. I'm always sitting in the back of room, at the moment the mozilla dev room, and like it was a bit crowed with the previous talk, it would be nice if you just could follow the presentation on your screen.

This reminds of a movie called "Hackers", I think, were they had some software that just could take over every screen. A bit more realistic is the idea of you logging in to a presentation server, and when the speakers continues along his presentation you see that active slide in your browser. Some dev with a bit spare time? :)

Of course you can go sit a bit more in front, but sitting in the back is some behavior of me inherited from my time at school.

Update: the mozilla dev room had just some update. It's called sauna.fosdem.org. Just says it all ...

It's been a year since the first implementations around eID started showing up. Yeah indeed, just before FOSDEM or maybe that's just coincidence, but my thoughts are still the same.

I think, and I'm not alone in this case, there is a security flaw. And not just one that's quickly solvable, but a flaw in design. The thing is, you get your card with a private key and you just don't know who else has your key. Ain't it the goal of keys, that you create a private key and you distribute your public key?

And now some other really nice thing about it. It's not writable. Of course not you say, but listen up.

Say, you move to an other place. Wouldn't it be nice, to just be able to change that? I can understand you need to go to the city hall of your new place, and prove you come to live there, but that it is at least a quick write over. But no, it's not. You need to go back home, cause they have to order a new eID for you. After 2 weeks, you get your new card, with your new address, but also with a new private/public key pair. Now you can warn all your friends, who have signed your key, you have a new one, again.

So, instead of using an eID, use a smart-card with your own keys, this way you at least can control them.

Indeed, this is my first blog post on my first blog ever.

In future you'll find all kinda stuff about things that keeps me busy.

This is it for now. :)

Cheers,

Raf