I have learned that there are plans for an ESIB alumni meeting, to be held in Belgrade on May 10-14, 2006 (at the same time as BM50).
I just thought I’d let the old ESIB hacks among my visitors know. Drop me a note if you want more info, and I’ll let Marija Mitrovic, the brain behind all this, know.
Update
Marija is actually reporting on her progress with tracking peole down on her blog.
I’m pretty annoyed by the fact that the DomainKeys plugin to SpamAssassin doesn’t work on my sparc64 OpenBSD box. I get a bus error and a core dump… I have tried to figure out what the problem is, and it seems to be somewhere in Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA — but I can’t make seem to write a test program that crashes.
Students and representatives from the political parties’ youth organisations gathered today at the University of Oslo to voice their demands for freedom and democracy in Belarus.
Update
A similar event took place in Stockholm and other European cities.
Ihr wollt mehr Fotos… ich hab’ mir jetzt jedenfalls ein Programm installiert, womit das etwas schneller gehen sollte. Aber ich muß die Fotos trotzdem machen.
Vorgestern trat also der Universitätsrat der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität in der Landesvertretung Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns in Berlin zusammen.
Zwei Mitglieder des Rates waren leider verhindert, an der Sitzung teilzunehmen.
Auf der Tagesordnung stand diesmal vor allem die Zielvereinbarung der Universität mit dem Land. Das Verhandlungsergebnis war, im Vergleich zu dem was man befürchten konnte, recht positiv. Besonders die Tatsache, dass die Finanzierungszusage langfristig (5 Jahre) ist, ist für die Universität gut. Bei den Bauvorhaben waren die Zusagen des Landes aber leider sehr begrenzt.
Im Rat haben wir dann diskutiert, wie man die Universität auf Grundlage der Zielvereinbarung und der darin vorgeschlagenen Profile weiter entwickeln kann, um die Uni international hervorzuheben. Das Krupp-Kolleg wäre hier zum Beispiel eine Möglichkeit.
Die nächste Sitzung des Rates ist am 17./18. Oktober in Greifswald, zur selben Zeit wie der Festakt zum 550-jährigen Jubiläum der Uni.
I’ve had the pleasure to evaluate Université Paris V — René Descartes with the CNE and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) with EUA so far. I will also be going to Molde University College with NOKUT, and maybe I will get a chance to see a german university also.
Both the EUA and the CNE evaluations were quite peculiar. On the one hand, these two agencies don’t regularily include students in their review teams, so I had to find my place in those teams. Luckily, this was made very easy by the other team members in the respective teams. It was more difficult to define my role towards the representatives of the universities under review; in France in particular where most of the meetings were just me from the team meeting one, two or more people from the university.
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Heute abend fliege ich mit Germanwings nach Hamburg, und morgen früh geht’s mit dem ICE weiter nach Berlin. Dort trifft sich, in der Landesvertretung des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, der Universitätsrat der Universität Greifswald.
Angesichts der hochschulpolitischen Situation wird’s sicher interessant. Aber was genau die Rolle des Universitätsrats ist, ist mir leider immer noch nicht ganz klar. Vielleicht das, was wie daraus machen?
Update
Check out my RRdtool graphs for qpsmtpd!
I thought I’d display some statistics on how qpsmtpd has performed in the last week.
Surely, adding the contents of me to the HELO hosts that aren’t allowed stopped a considerable amount of spam. Whether the same is true for localhost or whether those are misconfigured hosts trying to send legit e-mail is open for discussion.
I’m not using SPF yet as the required perl module was a bit of a hassle to install.
SpamAssassin is also quite effective as you can see, even though the Bayeisan filter isn’t in effect yet — it’s only had about 50 spam e-mails to train on so far, and the module won’t come into effect until it’s received 200. Of those 50 spam e-mails, about 30 were e-mails that were so spammy that spamd auto-learned them, 10 were spam messages I actually received, and 20 were from the junk I got on the previous server. I’ve had no ham that got scores of more than 5.0 (my munge_headers threshold), although some may have had a score over 10, in which case they were denied.