Weblog + homepage online again

On October 31st, 2014, I had reeboote my main server for a kernel upgrade, and could not mount the LUKS crypto volume ever again. While the techincal cause for this remains a mystery until today (it has spawned some conspiracy theories), I finally took some time to recover some bits and pieces from elsewhere. I didn't want this situation to drag on for more than a year...

Rather than bringing online the old content using sub-optimal and clumsy tools to generate static content (web sites generated by docbook-xml, blog by blosxom), I decided to give it a fresh start and try nikola, a more modern and actively maintained tool to generate static web pages and blogs.

The blog is now available at http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/ (a redirect from the old /weblog is in place, for those who keep broken links for more than 12 months). The RSS feed URLs are different from before, but there are again per-category feeds so people (and planets) can subscribe to the respective category they're interested in.

And yes, I do plan to blog again more regularly, to make this place not just an archive of a decade of blogging, but a place that is alive and thrives with new content.

My personal web site is available at http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ while my (similarly re-vamped) freelancing business web site is also available again at http://hmw-consulting.de/.

I still need to decide what to do about the old http://gnumonks.org/ site. It still has its old manual web 1.0 structure from the late 1990ies.

I've also re-surrected http://openezx.osmocom.org/ and http://ftp.gpl-devices.org/ as well as http://ftp.gnumonks.org/ (old content). Next in line is gpl-violations.org, which I also intend to convert to nikola for maintenance reasons.