Left-Leaning Red-Black Trees
Red-Black Trees were originally designed by taking a 2-3-4 tree and unrolling the big nodes into a cluster of simpler binary tree nodes. The 2-3-4 node operations are mapped to binary tree operations....
View ArticleFree?!
Yesterday was my last day officially working for Novell. Today is the “Labor Day” in Germany and I’m unemployed now.
View Articlekio_sftp using libssh
I wanted to reimplement kio_sftp with libssh since some month. This week is another openSUSE Hack Week. I’m in the SUSE office in Nürnberg with some KDE developers. Dirk Müller helps me with the...
View ArticleFinally it is out, Samba 4.0.0!
We just released version 4.0.0 of Samba. About 10 years in development this is a huge milestone. It is the first version that can be a domain controller in an Active Directory domain!
View ArticleNew PGP Key
I’ve updated my PGP key. I’ve signed it with my old key. You can find the key here. The fingerprint of the new key is: 8DFF 53E1 8F2A BC8D 8F3C 9223 7EE0 FC4D CC01 4E3D
View ArticleSamba AD DC in Fedora and RHEL
Several people asked me about the status about the Active Directory Domain Controller support of Samba in Fedora. As Fedora and RHEL are using MIT Kerberos as its Kerberos infrastructure of choice, the...
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Android 5 on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Another milestone, I got CyanogenMod 12.0 (Android 5.0.1) nearly fully working on the Samsung Galaxy Alpha (SLTE) Exynos version. Video playback is not working but I’m sure it will just be a matter of...
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Samba and GnuTLS
TL;DR SMB3 file transfer with encryption will be 4-6 times faster with Samba 4.12Samba is getting out of the crypto businessGnuTLS >= 3.4.7 requiredFIPS compliance ahead Introduction More or less...
View Articlesocket_wrapper 1.3.0 and fd-passing
A new version of socket_wrapper has just been released. In short, socket_wrapper is a library passing all socket communications through unix sockets. It aims to help client/server software development...
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