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Small things with a huge effect

Every time computers are running smooth and things are looking fine and you think of looking at the items at the top of your Todo-list, things that you should have done weeks ago but couldn’t because of things preventing you, another one of such blockers kicks in: something does not work.

But IT work can be a bitch as the true error hides behind side effects. In our case here it was the mailserver queuing up messages for no reason. A longer research pointed us to the solution, but those solutions aren’t always what we believe in: “Such a small switch cannot cause problems like that, can it…?”

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MySQL Replication

Replication of MySQL databases is an easy thing if you disregard its complicated documentation. So this is a short howto on how to do it:

The my.cnf file of the Master server needs to have the following entries added:

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ThinStation

I love simple workstations. Especially if they do what you expect them to – and nothing more. You can imagine that I like ThinClients, web terminals and stuff like those.

Those days I stumbled over ThinStation, a small build environment to do such thin client images. I guess you can already smell the advantages here: Old hardware could be deployed again where you don’t need a huge CPU.

For my current project, I’m checking out ThinStation using their git repository:

git clone git://thinstation.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/thinstation/thinstation-2.5

Initializing the build environment:

cd thinstation-2.5
./setup-chroot

Having those commands hammered into the keyboard, I’m chrooted into the build-environment. The build environment got its stuff in /ts/2.5; build.conf and thinstation.conf.buildtime are the configuration files for customizing the build process. After reviewing those (well documented) files, ./build –allmodules starts the building process, resulting in a couple of images in /ts/2.5/boot-images/ – I used the ISO file for my project, burning a CD… booting.

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brutal!!!

optische körperverletzung oder moderne schönheitsideale

es ist frühling und die temperaturen steigen. Nun wird es langsam Zeit, die Grills rauszuholen und die Leckereien zu bruzeln. Was noch steigt, sind die Rocksäume oder mit böser Zunge könnte man behaupten, die Gürtel würden breiter… wurscht! Denn eigentlich sind wir motorradfahrer naturgegebenermaßen nicht nur wilde hunde, sondern auch genießer, was natürlich implementiert, daß wir auch optische reize genießen würden, wenn sie ansprechend wären…

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Worn out

Men are simple. That’s an old statement, maybe you’ve heard it quite a couple of times, but it’s not far off the truth – and I have to know that, as I am a man by myself. We do not have twenty pairs of shoes piling up at home. Usually we just wear the ones we have as long as possible, usually until they fall apart as the worn out ones are the most comfortable ones. And once they are in a comfortable state, they’re usually pretty very worn out and ready to be replaced.

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Keyboard or Touchscreen?

I am using a Motorola Atrix since quite a while now. So it’s time to look back and think about if my habits changed a little – and yes, they did: As the Atrix does not offer a hardware keyboard I don’t use it that much for sending text messages or e-mails as it’s a little troublesome to do so. The Nokia N900 which I used before had a decent hardware keyboard and I used to type a lot on it.

Even if modern (Android) phones offer autocompletition and other tools to make typing more easy, it’s still nothing that can replace a hardware keyboard. My current solution for typing on the Atrix is using an external keyboard or connecting it to the PC.

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