performancing.com and privacy

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,…

Booting Linux on Cisco 7513

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/…

recent eGroupware for debian

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…

Pimp my T5725

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…

New Wordpress (2.2.0) etch-backport

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…

windows in domU on etch. where is the showstopper?

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,…

Is DNSSEC ready for wild life?

Today the RIPE DNS for LIRs Training Course [http://www.ripe.net/training/dns/index.html] did take place. (some not up to date course material can be found here [http://www.ripe.net/training/dns/material/]) Managing some thousands of zones inclusive nameserver infrastructure behind since several years, I…