But, there are still some things to report:

• I participated in the OpenPGP keysigning party. This will allow me to completely obsolete the old key and fully switch to the new stronger one.
• I also has been assured by CACert enough times to become an assurer myself. I did not passed new assurer challenge yet. I want to use smart cards for X.509 certs like I do it for my new PGP key. I will need to choose and buy a Linux compatible smart card reader for ExpressCard slot. Based on my assurance experience looks like buying a black light lamp is also needed.
• Of cause I now have more cool t-shirts. This is expected from any open source conference.
• And finally I got addicted to a morning latte with a croissant. I did not like coffee before, but now I feel a daily need. There is simply nothing else to do daily early in the morning on a cold railway station than drinking coffee with a croissant. Now I just continuing this practice, but without a cold railway station.

And by the evening I checked my last.fm profile and realised that with a few exceptions I only listen to black Americans and pretty French women. Quite a simple rule.

Rheinradweg really surprised me with diversity of surfaces. Besides trite asphalt and not less trite ground there is a plethora of different surfaces ranging from smooth panels up to round and not so round cobblestones. Feelings from tightly pressured slicks riding on such a surface are similar to a visit to a sadistic dentist equipped by an industrial perforator. The pain is everywhere and the gel is not a helper. You really feel what the guys riding Paris–Roubaix or the Tour of Flanders feel.

But at the road end when you sense that you did not brake and that your bicycle did not brake either the real feeling comes. The feeling of a great pleasure. Only due to this pleasure one need to do a cobblestone ride on a road bicycle. And now lack of smooth asphalt does not sound like a big problem to me. Since I want to return to that hardest cobblestones in order to complete them one more time. On a road bicycle of cause.

But it is not a time to switch off IPv4 yet, tunnel is still in use at my home.

Few examples that I met so far:

Hosting provider giving /64 subnet for the use on the dedicated server.

/64 is a network with 18446744073709551616 hosts in it, sounds enough right? Wrong. Because IPv6 is all about routing. I can and I would want to have virtual machines on a dedicated server. I need to pass IPv6 addresses to them, but here I cannot route and should have a bridge with physical host interface added to it. But I want to have another network routed to me instead, so I can route it on the host to the virtual machines and have a firewall there. Just because there is no NAT anymore.

Discussion on Russian ISP forum about the fact that /64 is too much for end users (/128 should be enough, yeah). Or well if SLAAC will not work otherwise then /64 is a maximum that should be given.

Actually /64 is a minimal prefix for a unicast address in IPv6 and such a network has 18446744073709551616 hosts not because somebody will have one network with that many hosts, but to make SLAAC working. It is not a waste of the resources. it is just designed this way. And also there is no reason to assume that only one network is needed at home. It is only because in IPv4 it is hard to have several routed networks at home, but with IPv6 it is not hard at all. I would want to have one network for me and one for the guests or one for wireless and one for wired and I would want some separate DMZ network for “production services” like my VoIP phone. And I will want to have all those networks routed to me, because there is no NAT anymore. /32 that LIR receives has 16777216 of /56 networks, if somebody is lucky to have more than that customers it is possible to get another /32 for 16777216 more. Not much reasons not to give /56 to the end users. And those end users should not be better computer experts to manage it than now. Soap-box SOHO routers can do NAT right now. Manufacturing of SOHO routers that can route and firewall is no way harder, it is just was not common in IPv4.

1. If you signed my old 1024D/FC4FBF28 key.
2. If you are satisfied with the transition statement content.

your signature would be welcomed on my new 4096R/3E25796F key.

• Bruce Perens “Open Source Hardware”
• Gianluca Martino “Arduino” (partial video)
• Steve Song, David Rowe “The Village Telco (Mesh Potato)”
• Александр Чемерис “Как начать свой проект”
• Александр Чемерис “Опорный генератор для радиоустройств ClockTamer”
• Антон Марчуков, Дмитрий Белимов, Михаил Мантулов “Программно-аппаратный комплекс мониторинга объектов GPFix”
• Николай Ковач “Проект плата Марсоход”
• Олег Садов “Ben Nano Note”
• Олег Садов “Открытое и свободное аппаратное обеспечение”
• Ольга Филиппова “Elphel Inc Open Hardware Company” (на русском/in Russian)
• Павел Косенков “Коммерческий путь OSHW”
• Павел Косенков “Открытый одноплатный компьютер”
• Павел Фролов “Свободное аппаратное обеспечение Arduino. Scratchduino”

The prefered way to obtain the video is by using BitTorrent:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b0255178d749ef236767184beab5fd4317f82b2a&dn=rosh%2010.10&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%2Fannounce

http://www.oshec.org/rosh1010/rosh1010.torrent

Besides that the following HTTP link will be available for some time for those who are unable to use BitTorrent:

http://www.oshec.org/rosh1010/

In both cases you have an ability to download only specific files.

All of us know about open source software, but only few heard about open source hardware. And there are even less people who dealt with it. On the conference you will not be only able to get an idea about what the open source hardware is, but also be able to communicate with the developers of open source projects, get familar yourself with what things happen in this field in Russia and in the World. We plan the presentations to be made by developers from Russia as well as from the other countries (remotely).

For example I will be presenting our project GPFix — GPS monitoring system of remote objects there.

You can visit conference at no charge, but only standing places are left available. However, we will try to support an online video streaming with an ability to ask a question remotely. Thus it is possible to participate right from your home. Information about online streaming will be published on the conference web site and on the open source hardware mailing list. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide a realtime translation, but we may find time later to either audio translate or create subtitles of the recorded videos.

Irish discount air company Ryanair launched a regular connection between Finnish town Lappeenranta and German town Weeze on March 2010. Lappeenranta is about fifty kilometers away from Russian town Vyborg. This means that it is quite easy to get there from Saint Petersburg. Even on a bicycle if you use a commuter train from Saint Petersburg to Vyborg. I think this alternative can even make a competition to a car when there are queues on the border.

Round trip flight including transportation of a bicycle was just €126 when booked ahead (€45 passenger fare plus €80 bicycle cargo). I have noted no major damages to the bicycle after the transportation. The bicycle has been packed to a standard transportation bag produced by the PIK-99 company. Additionally using rods and strainers I have fixed a rudder the way it does not move freely, also I tied previously removed front wheel to the frame. One needs to be prepared that the bicycle will have to be fully tunned after the transportation. This will most likely include things like tightening wire ropes and steering. In order not to pay for the second baggage item all the camping gear and other items have been put to a rag bag and taken as a cabin baggage. All things that are not allowed to take to the cabin went out in the bicycle bag along with the bicycle.

I need to say that Ryanair has quite a restrictive baggage allowance policy. This is a side effect of discounted airlines. Such restrictions can be loosen by additional payments. But since I did not want additional payments I took the restrictions into account when staffing the things. I counted that everything should fit into a bag with 55сm x 40сm x 20сm dimensions and weighted no more than 10 kilos. Of cause I also counted that something will go along with the bicycle in one bag that has a limit of 30 kilos and higher dimensions. Even if a bicycle would weight 15 kilos, there are 15 more kilos for useful stuff left. However, I tried to lower the amount of things traveling along with the bicycle since I worried to soil or damage them (a bicycle is big, made of iron and has lubricants).

We took trains from Weeze to the Constance – a starting point of our route. Happily a group railway ticket makes such travelling not that expensive at all although with lots and lots of train changes. Such a route direction also makes sense. It is more convenient to ride from the Alps down than the opposite. Those are relief peculiarities.

Weeze has another attracting point besides the airport. A semaphore railway signalling is still in use there.

Such a route when going by the official cycle way may impress one by variety of different surfaces and steepness of curves. The surface easily changes from smooth asphalt to stones and wet dirt after the rain. Constant curves and artificial barriers right across the cycle way do not allow to keep the rate constant. But, there are also long descents where one can relax and rest. Definitely recommended to go on a race bicycle as part of preparations to the Paris–Roubaix race competition.

Along with restoring my mind I will do a set of additional postings regarding the different aspects of the route.

Погода в Санкт-Петербурге. Прогноз погоды в СПБ от РГГМУ (Российский государственный гидрометеорологический университет). Официальный сайт погоды.

Also on the next day a pike of 1.49 kg has been caught. All the fish have been eaten with pleasure.

Having this on the background, blames to any next Saint Petersburg marina that is for some reason not yet closed by city government look quite cynical.

The weather on Monday was nasty with 8 m/s head wind and rain of different power over the day. Before the trip I bought winter cycling trousers and jersey from Aktivitude collection by Biemme. Italian winter cycling wear fits our spring season well. It was almost never too warm for me. And same for too cold besides the stops. But it looks like that for stops one needs to take additional wear. WindTex layer worked sufficiently well against winds and the rain. Probably it still lets more rain and wind pass through than with classic membrane wear, but it is not notable during the ride at all.

First time of this year we made just a little, around 140 km in total for two days. In some inexplicable way we met Finnish friends near the Biltema shop. This changed our plans a little and to the better alternative. Looks like Lappeenranta is that small town that everybody visits the same shop on weekends making it a nice meet point. Big thanks to Tommi and Susanna for hospitality!

anton@martchukov.com

Older JID will be purged after some time. The reason for that is to remove the dependency on external services in legally unstable regions.

Seven killometers far from Kronstadt, on the south coast of the gulf there is a town called Lomonosov also known as Oranienbaum. In 1966 year, icebreaking ferries “Nikolay Kaplunov” and “Andrey Korobitsyn” had been introduced as a replacement to the winter road Lomonosov-Kronstadt going on the frozen gulf. The ferries were designed to take passengers and cars and they are operating to this day providing the link between two towns all the year round. When the south area of the dam will be finished, the ferries may become a history passing their role to a bus connection.

A week ago on January 20 2010, we took a commuter train to Oranienbaum-1 station in order to experience still functioning icebreaking passenger connection between the towns.

“Andrey Korobitsyn” is one of two ferries on the route between passenger dock of Lomonosov and winter dock of Kronstadt. This time we took another ferry of the same construction – “Nikolay Kaplunov”. The one way ticket costs just 35 rubles. Trip to Kronstadt takes approximately 30 minutes. Ferry timetables are available on the site of Kronstadt town (in Russian).

When boarding it was possible to see a tug turning a tanker “Gazpromneft East” to the exit of Lomonosov harbor. The tanker went out of the harbor followed by the tug before us.

Now it is our time to follow the tanker, leave the harbor and take the course to the Kotlin island along the fairway #7. In spite of frost we took a place on the deck. There is a heated place for the passengers on the ferry equipped with seats, but there is not much possible to see through a porthole.

Kronstadt is quite near. We are crossing the fairway #2 also known as Saint Petersburg Sea Channel. The channel is used for vessel traffic to the sea port of Saint Petersburg located at shallow Neva Bay. Winter traffic is supported by icebreakers. You can see the above noted tanker and tug going to the Saint Petersburg along the channel.

And now after short period of time we are entering Srednyaya harbor of Kronstadt through Lesnyye gates where the final point of our voyage Zimnyaya dock is located. Traffic to and from the port of Kronstadt is mostly using Lesnyye gates and controlled by the signs posted on the signal beacon located near the gates.

This ferry is at the moment the affordable and easy way of having a winter sea voyage in the east part of the Gulf of Finland. The ferry connection most likely will not close till the end of the winter navigation, thus everybody who wants to try still has the time to do it.