Froscon 2011 - They did not want my paper

This spring, I wrote and submitted a paper for the FrOSCON conference on how to use FreeBSD in conjunction with ZFS to put up a virtualized server inside another virtualized server to provide for process separation in the spirit of Poul-Henning Kamp's Jails: Confining the omnipotent root. For some unexplained reason, they did not take me. (And yes, I asked them and they did even not answer, which I consider bad style.)
However, I do not need to be ashamed of my paper and presentation and do not want both go to waste, so I post them here. The FreeBSD section of my site was lacking some content, anyhow.

Migration

Being unnerved by Linux distros for some time now, I have finally migrated a part of my webserver to FreeBSD. Both www.cruwe.de and academics.cruwe.de now run inside a FreeBSd jail on my new vServer.

Minor Redesign

Curiosity how to properly embed typefaces in xhtml/css sites made me redesign the css-stylesheets of this site. www.cruwe.de is now “typeset” in Gillius, a free font from the Arkandis Digital Foundry, leading to a more aesthetically pleasing appearance. As you might guess from the name, Gillius is a free derivative of Gill Sans. Enjoy ... I do

Atom 1.0 Feed

Whilst the predecessor to this site was of a rather static nature, this state does not necessarily need to continue. At this time, I do not believe that my site will develop into something similar to a blog. However, I sometimes do allow myself to fiddle with technology and might wish to brag about the results thereof, so now I syndicate using the Atom protocol (RFC 4287).

It certainly took it's time, but as a result, you can now subscribe to my own hand-crafted Atom-Feed. I am not entirely sure whether this achievement (which I am enormously proud of, of course) merits any specific howto.

Mark Pilgrims howto style weblog, How to make a linkblog in Atom (atom, blogging, howto) provided me with the knowledge necessary to create a tag-ID - ID-creation. That was by far the biggest problem for me, it took me some time to grasp that urn-identification is not necessary.

Mark Pilgrim's site is a bit outdated now (it dates as of May 27, 2004). Another invaluable resource was Tip: Use Atom's structure to avoid duplicates in aggregate feeds - Correctly formulate atom:id elements and keep them unique of IBM, which allowed me to set the information on Mark Pilgrim's into modern context. These two are, in my humble opinion, entirely sufficient to create (hand-craft?) Atom-feeds, so I will reference to these two and leave the implementation "as an exercise to the reader".

Welcome

Having not touched my website for some months now it is time to examine the underlying reasons. I flatly admit that I do not find enough spare time, or, conversely, elect to spend my spare time elsewhere.

An interesting job, long-distance learning (additional) university courses and an active, purely private life haven proven to be enough.

Therefore I will put my web-presence to a rest for the time being. I will continue to make my little academic achievements available on my resource academics.cruwe.de. I myself consider most of these to be outdated by now, however, as long as my downloads statistic continues to yield significant numbers, no harm is done by continuing that offer. After all, I do not think that I have made very serious errors there. So if somebody finds them of use, please, help yourself. I ask but one thing: Use it BSD-style - Cite me and don't sue me.