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.
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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 […]
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es wird wieder mal an der zeit, etwas mit den gängigen bikerklischees abzurechnen… und welche klischees sollen diesmal auf die schippe genommen werden? na, da gibt es einige, die es auf jeden fall wert sind, durch den kakao gezogen zu werden, oder?
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.