Today is a wonderful day, the Linux Day in Dornbirn – the place to gather my CAcert points to become an active assurer for the Web of Trust. As it was possible to take the assurer test on site – god bless the inventor of wireless lan – I could start to assure people immediately and gain the […]
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That’s where logic ends
Virtual machines vs clock
Virtual machines and their clocks can be quite nasty – at least if I am working with them. Maybe it is because it is impossible to kick against virtual machines? Are they that nasty because they know they are safe?
Remember the Milk!
Today a colleague pointed me towards a nice little web service namedRemember The Milk. I am sure you all know about many little task list applications and stuff – one of the most famous is integrated in MS Outlook. So you might say, this service is nothing new especially that it is a playful website.
Trash or No-Trash, that’s the question
Recently I came across a blog posting of Dominik who blogs at banym.de. In his article he mentioned that he keeps the installation CDs of all the old Linux distributions to make sure he can generate the old filesystem versions. As an old sysadmin, I disagree a little with that, because even recent filesystem tools have compatibility options […]
syslog-ng trap
Today syslog-ng acted up as the most bitchy program of the day – which I won’t forget that soon. Due to a configuration issue the program ate 100% CPU power of one core. This was quite annoying as it happened without a trace in a logfile.
The second glance at Windows 7
I am running Windows 7 since a little while now and I guess it was my talent of finding all of the problems left on my machine at once. But hey, that’s life regarding early adoption of such stuff as I couldn’t wait to test it.