As Grazer was posting a comment on my statement that I wouldn’t drive my scooter again until springtime, nobody would have guessed the truth into his words. Right, I was starting the engine again after some smalltalk with my kickstarter. But I think you don’t know the feeling of driving down the road, feeling the wind in your […]
SQLgrey
I am using Greylisting since quite some time to keep malware away and I have to admit, it is a blessing: As many malware and spam programs do not respect the RFC, they just try to deliver their load just once – so they fail and we do not have to do analytics work on it.
No 2.6.23 yet
There was really big noise around the new kernel 2.6.23. But is it really worth it? I have waited for the gentoo-sources patchset, added my patches and started testing to satisfy my curiosity. But there were more problems around than good news. So I stepped back to the old gentoo-sources, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 with my swap prefetch pachset and uvesafb […]
Dead drunk
Standing outside, it is easy to look at problems in an objective way and giving an advice. But it is hard, if it’s about you – whether in a direct or indirect way. This Saturday, a young man died – senselessly. He was just 18 years old. In fact as he drunk himself to death. He was as […]
Cool
Did you miss me during the last days? Sorry, but I had to take a break of blogging. Have you noticed, that it’s getting cold outside? Everytime you’re in a hurry, you’ve got to clean the windscreen. If you don’t have an ice scraper, don’t worry – an old CD case will do the job. A real nice […]
Upgrade failed
It is not pretty if you need to wait for websites being loaded. To avoid that, we decided to do an upgrade to 4 Mbit. 4 Mbits should be a fine reason to accept a little downtime, shouldn’t it? After the upgrade the telekom line broke down as it did not work with two SDSL lines…