Since some time, Deutsche Bahn [http://www.db.de] rolled public wireless lan called "WLAN am Bahnhof" out at 25 railroad stations, you can choose between 4 providers. Sounds really nice, but beside the economical conditions, there is also at least one security issue. Connecting to the network…
Today I was crawling through my mail logs for various reasons. I was really surprised, that I saw a mail to a dedicated mailaddress which I'm using for communication with performancing.com [http://performancing.com]. I was short checking, if this mailaddress is anywhere published at performancing.com,…
Today I was reconfiguring a Cisco 7513 [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps359/ps362/index.html] with a RSP 16 [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps359/products_data_sheet09186a008009201c.html] and a FastEthernet [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/…
Since etch [http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/] php [http://www.php.net] is compiled with large file support. This breaks binary compatibility to other packages, which are commonly not compiled with LFS and leads into trouble with 3rd party extensions, cause these are precompiled against the ABI of upstream…
Since one week eGroupware 1.4RC1 [http://www.egroupware.org/] is available. Peter did upload it into experimental [http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/egroupware/news/20070521T124705Z.html] and I did repackage it for etch, for a smarty integration (dpkg -i for > 15 packages sucks). You can download it…
Yesterday my ordered HP Thin Client T5725 [http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3221863.html] arrived. The clue is, Debian sarge [http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/] is and no moving parts (no noise) are inside. It's a really nice thin client and it…
I did rebuild the brand new version of wordpress for etch. New user requests and etch-bpo [http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20070419.092600.5007052f.en.html] stated: > * Is the backport neccessary? I don't think we should upload packages to bpo simply because we can do it…
Since some days I'm trying to install windows into a domU just for fun. All went fine until accessing discs. Sometime partition is not formatable [http://kaoso.org/pics/xen-windowsxp.png], sometimes files could not read from cdrom. To be sure, it's not the disc image,…