Welcome

Obviously, there’s not much to see here, but you’re welcome to consume every single bit of information anyway. There is, though, some stuff that accumulated over time.

About me

I recently completed my Bachelor degree in physics at the Technical University of Berlin (Bachelor thesis). While my main focus is obviously on physics (and/or maths), I also take some interest in history as well as computer science.

I’ve been involved in Nightfall, a MUD since about 2005 and contributed a fair bit of code since summer 2006. A more recent project of mine is Concattan, a command-line application designed to sync contacts from org-contacts to the Nokia N9.

I carry an organ donor card with me and don’t see any problems with (i.e. consent to) donating any of my organs after my death.

If you are by any chance interested in getting to know me or have a specific question I might be able to answer or are just trying to contact me for reasons unknown to mankind, feel free to do so.

Contact details

Please find my contact details on a separate page, namely here. There is also a page about my GPG usage and a signed message regarding my OTR keys.

Have a nice day,
Claudius

News

$ buildbuilddep gmrun
Built package gmrun-build-dep_0.9.2-2.1_amd64.deb available in current directory.
# dpkg -i gmrun-build-dep_0.9.2-2.1_amd64.deb 
-- installs, but lacks dependencies --
# apt-get install -f
-- installs dependencies --
# do_stuff()
# apt-get --auto-remove remove gmrun-build-dep
-- removes everything again

This script also motivated me to fix up syntax highlighting in gitweb – at the moment, my shell scripts aren’t really recognised because they don’t end in .sh. However, the following adjustment to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi (or whatever else you copied wherever else) helps:

--- index.cgi	2013-03-17 18:40:51.263713028 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi	2011-09-21 19:36:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -3354,3 +3354,3 @@
      $basename =~ /\.([^.]*)$/;
-	my $ext = $1 or return 'sh' unless basename($file_name, 'in') eq 'README';
+	my $ext = $1 or return undef;
      return $highlight_ext{$ext}

Update March 21^st, 2013: Florian Ernst helpfully pointed out that this already exists in the form of mk-build-deps in the devscripts package. You would likely rather use that.

$ gpg --export DEADBEEF | gpg --list-packets | grep -Pzao ':signature packet:.*\n\t.*sigclass 0x20(\n\t.*)*'
:signature packet: algo 1, keyid DEADBEEFDEADBEEF
	version 4, created 1361391004, md5len 0, sigclass 0x20
	digest algo 8, begin of digest ef ce
	hashed subpkt 2 len 4 (sig created 2013-02-20)
	hashed subpkt 26 len 21 (policy: http://example.net/policy)
	hashed subpkt 29 len 23 (revocation reason 0x01 (I felt funny and wanted to revoke this key))
	subpkt 16 len 8 (issuer key ID DEADBEEFDEADBEEF)
	data: [4093 bits]

Sample output is obviously sample output. Section 5.2.3.23 of RFC 4880 documents the binary values in subpacket 29.

Unfortunately, it appears that my concept of a ‘good’ browser is modeled far too much after the one I’ve been using for more than eight years now: I want it to stay open even if I close all tabs, I want a nice speed dial (or none at all), I want the ‘new tab’ button at the far left of the tab bar (far right might be more intuitive, but it makes the button move around, which doesn’t facilitate quickly opening new tabs), I want a working password manager, I want some sort of settings window etc. In short, Chrom(e|ium) very much feels like MacOS X – perfectly usable if you have no idea what you want or can adapt sufficiently quickly to new usage patterns, but apparently not optimised for heavy users 😒.

/def -p1 -w'nf-claudius' -mregexp -h'PROMPT (?=== SMore .*)|(^Mail command .* -> $)|(^Claudius@[0-9:]* [^ ]* > $)|(^[0-9.]*\\].?$)|(^[A-Za-z0-9,.]*:?$)|(^.*[0-9F]\\] \\*\\*\\*.?$)' prompt_nfclaudius = /test prompt({P0})%;/set cur_prompt_nfclaudius=%P0
/def -p1 -w'nf-claudius' -mregexp -h'SEND ^(.+)$' print_input_claudius = /test echo(ftime(strcat("\%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M",{cur_prompt_nfclaudius},{P0}),time()),"",0,"wnf-claudius")%;/send %P0

It basically stores the prompt in a variable and outputs it when new input is added. The main problem is the prompt detection, which obviously strongly depends on your particular MUD.

/def -p1 -w'nf-claudius' -mregexp -h'SEND ^(.+)$' print_input_claudius = /test echo(ftime(strcat("\%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M Claudius > ",{P0}),time()),"",0,"wnf-claudius")%;/send %P0

you can use TinyFugue’s visual mode and have the input corresponding to the output properly logged. I didn’t figure out how to query the currently set prompt to use that instead of the time (in the first argument of ftime()), but OTOH, printing date and time is probably quite useful, too. Happy mudding & happy Easter! ☺