Purpose of this Website

This website is a moving target. As of now, it is used as a digital platform to take notes, report and/or discuss certain things and publish knowledge — a piece of technology used to mirror my thoughts into the net and see what echos back from there.

What the visitor will come across in essence is a lot of tech stuff, financial and/or business related information, how I live my life in liberty and peace, the knowledge about knowledge, culture, motion pictures, travelling, leisure and lots of stuff I do not even know by myself right now. Enough said, feel free to walk around ...

Siteindex

My website consists of three parts — weblog, schedule and the wiki part. Those who are interested in the weblog just click Weblog in the menu to the left. Use the same magic if you are interested in my schedule i.e. click My schedule in the menu at the left.

Below you got a siteindex of the wiki part. It lists all the pages on my website/platform except for the weblog and schedule part — they have their own, follow links above — in alphabetical order. Also, please make sure you read at least this before you dive deeper into this website in order do understand the information on my website.

• about_me
• about_this_site
• aep
• agnostic
• apache
• appearance
• bash
• business
• business_company_types
• business_exchange_trade
• business_finances
• business_franchise
• business_global
• business_law
• business_management_and_leadership
• business_marketing
• cli_vs_gui
• contact
• context
• contribute
• datacenter
• debian
• debian_contribute
• debian_notes_cheat_sheets
• debian_security
• dm-crypt_luks
• dt
• emacs
• emacs_notes_cheat_sheets
• fai
• faq
• firewall
• ggm
• gnus
• gtd
• hardware
• linux_containers
• lvm
• mail_system
• misc
• mongodb
• muse
• my_schedule
• network
• openvz
• org
• package
• photography
• planner
• porn
• postgresql
• python
• python_sre
• python_web
• scm
• screencasts
• ssh
• time
• udev
• unison
• vsftpd
• warranty
• weblog

Contexts

Well, whereas the index above is great since it lists all pages on this website/platform so folks can start from there and/or get an overview it does not reflect certain connections among pages or even dedicated sections onto some particular pages.

This section is used to inform about contexts i.e. several pages and/or sections onto pages forming a semantically related context. However, any page, section, subsection listed here can of course be found in the above index ... it is just that this section might save a lot of time and confusing for folks who just stepped in here ;-]

About Me

This context lists a few things that I felt belong somehow here since they are either about me as a person or those are things I spend time on. In the simplest case, things listed here are stuff that I have an interests/fond for.

Miscellaneous

• If you want to get get in touch with me.

Who is Markus Gattol? What is this Website/Platform about?

• My name is Markus Gattol.
  • Markus and religion.
• Go here if you wanna know what this Website/Platform is about.
• If you want to become a contributor to this little project of mine.
• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • Screencasts.
• Muse is what I use to write/manage this website.
• Planner, my PIM (Personal Information Manager) is the second tool next to Muse used to create this website.

AEP

• AEP (Autonomous Expedition Platform) is my long-term dream that I am working on to become true.
• One step towards the final goal of self-determination, freedom, self-reliance, adventurousness that comes with AEP is my doctoral thesis.

My Schedule

This context is called Markus's Scheduling and self-management System. Following pages are considered being part of this context:

• GTD (Getting Things Done)
• The Schedule of Markus Gattol which links to
  • The index of Markus's to-the-net-published schedule data
• The PIM (Personal Information Manager) system existing of
  • GNU Emacs and some add-on software which is
  • planner-mode and
  • org-mode

My Weblog

• Cool kids have weblogs ;-]

Appearance

This context is about creating the looks and feels of web applications.

• The main page about shaping the looks and feels of web applications.

Business

This context is about doing business in the 21st century, how to sense profitable investments and how to manage. It is also about how to proof expertise, social/ethical competence as well as unfaltering will for steadily improvements of all sorts to others. Last but not least it is about how to be happy with work, how to create win-win situations for you, co-workers, superiors etc.

• The main page about business on my website/platform.
• Globalization, what it is and how we can benefit from it.
• What is the right type of company for me/us? How can I reduce costs and increase revenue simply by picking the right type of company? And last but not least, which jurisdiction is the one that suits me best? Is one company enough or shall we found more than one — if so shall they be placed in the same jurisdiction?
• No business without finances.
• Business needs rules.
• Most of business is with exchange and trade.
• Management and leadership is an utterly important part of business success.
• Sharing is good.
• Marketing — what is the best product worth if no one knows it?!
• Creating outstanding documents for business purposes.
  • This page is the business part of my schedule.

Datacenter

This context is about datacenters and related information.

• My main page about datacenters.

DBMSs

This context is about DBMSs (Database Management Systems) and related information.

• PostgreSQL, probably the best FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) DBMS in existence.
• MongoDB is also a so-called NoSQL database. It has similarities to CouchDB in how it works. It is very fast and can scale to huge amounts of data. Drivers are available for all major languages like for example Java, C# and Python.

Debian

This context is about DebianGNU/*, a free OS (Operating System).

• The main page for DebianGNU/*.
• For short notes and the cheat sheet about Debian click here ...
• IT (Information Technology) related security — all centered around DebianGNU/*. Jump now ...
• My contributions/involvements to/with DebianGNU/* got a dedicated page as well.
• FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) is what makes the difference if you have to spend 2 weeks or just 2 hours to set up a bunch of new computers.
• Udev.
• What I think about currently available UIs (User Interfaces).
• A page providing miscellaneous information
  • Linux & Partition Types
  • some Iceweasel add-ons I use
  • Linux and its System Request Keys
  • How to name a host and what about the naming of users on a host? Clearly, we need a naming scheme!
• Installing, configuring and maintaining vsftpd, a professional FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server.
• SSH (Secure Shell) is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure (encrypted) channel between two computers. SSH is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding arbitrary TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) or SCP (Secure Copy)protocols.
• File Synchronization using Unison
• Firewalling got its dedicated page.
• LVM (Logical Volume Manager) has its dedicated page too.
• A page providing information about the Bash (Bourne again shell).
• A lot of things have to do with time e.g. triggering things/stuff based on time or events.
• Information about software packages can be found here.

Emacs

This context is about GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife that allows for hyperspace travelling ;-]

• The main page for GNU Emacs.
• For short notes and my GNU Emacs cheat sheet click here ...
• I use Gnus to do email and news - it is the biggest GNU Emacs package and thus deserves a dedicated page.
• Another two packages that should go on a dedicated pages are planner-mode respectively org-mode, my PIM (Personal Information Manager) tools.
• For the those interested in my .emacs file (note, that those are automatically updated and transferred to this website whenever I change them — thus you are looking at up-to-date data)
  • Go here for the HTML version or download the
  • plain text version
• Muse is what I use to write/manage this website.
• Document engeineering with ConTeXt.
• Python hacking with GNU Emacs.

Hardware

This context is about hardware in particular.

• My main page about hardware.

Mobility / Communication

This context covers mobility and what IT solutions to think about in this regards. This context also covers communications e.g. email.

• My dedicated page for those on the go.
• Gnus and Gmane ... things I simply love.
• A decent mail system is what I like a lot.

Networking

I became obvious I needed a networking context. This context is a view onto several pages/sections/etc. on this website/platform which are somehow related to networking i.e. computer networks.

• Computer/IT (Information Technology) Networks, the main page for networking on my website (Theory).
• Networking hardware on my dedicated hardware page.

Python

This context is about applications and frameworks using Python as their foundation. See main page for Python as well as software context, the web applications page and the system administration page.

Software

This context about software development and computer science. It is not so much about administering and the like. If you are more interested into system administration you might want to check out the Debian and/or Security context on this page. Last but not least, the Networking context might also be of interest ...

• SCM (Software Configuration Management).
• Python
  • Web Application development in Python.
  • System administration and automation in Python.
  • Python hacking with GNU Emacs.
• For an amusing/sad story about common practices go here.
• Information about software packages with regards to Debian can be found here.

Security

This context is about security in various domains e.g. network, local machine, etc. Following pages are considered being part of this context:

• Debian and Security in general.
• Full-disk encryption
  • Network Exploration/Reconnaissance and Security Auditing
  • SSH (Secure Shell) is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure (encrypted) channel between two computers. SSH is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding arbitrary TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) or SCP (Secure Copy)protocols.
• Firewalling got its dedicated page.

Virtualization

This context is about virtualization. In computing, virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. One useful definition is: A technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such as a server, an operating system, an application, or storage device) appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices or servers) appear as a single logical resource.

• OpenVZ
• LXC
• Storage virtualization with LVM (Logical Volume Manager).

Webserver

This is a context about the Apache web server (probably the most-used industry-class werbserver on the net today) and related software within this domain that helps to serve data to the WWW (World Wide Web).

• The Apache main page.