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 […]
Month: November 2009
Out for hunting
You know, it is hunting season and it is wonderful weather. As I am doing reenactment of the medieval scene, perfect weather to step out for a hunting trip. But regarding the financial crisis, my budget is cut down so I cannot afford an eagle to go on a hunting trip. But I am always a creative mind. […]
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.
aus dem tagebuch eines alten bikers 23
das leben kann so ungerecht sein, jawohl! ungerecht und gemein! und wie! und das mir! also, was geschehen ist? nun, vor ein paar tagen hat meine wing wegen stromproblemen mal wieder temporär den dienst quittiert. beim ersten mal ging’s ja noch mit anschieben, auch wenn das anschieben nicht grad einfach oder gar lustig war, aber selbst ist der […]
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 […]