28th-31st march 1999

Can’t wait for you Aya !.
(only 2 days left ! being nervous !)

jwotd: (/)

27th march 1999

No time for long sleep, some last shopping needed.
Learning vocabulary for Japan.

No more entries until 21st April I think.

jwotd: (/)

26th march 1999

Last day at work, after a nice server crash.
Had a meeting how to upgrade all servers to 100MB ethernet.
But finished the time at work with a cool guiness )))

BIG SECURITY ALERT: Linux-WORM found.
See RedHat’s Linux-Security Newsgroup for details.

Discovered my ISDN interface dialing every 8 minutes since
yesterday highnoon !
Oh my god, I don’t want to get this bill !!!!!!!!! ((((

jwotd: (/)

25th march 1999

Quit church finally. So much trouble in office just for
one easy step. Unbelievable. I had to go to three people
and into 5 different rooms.

Played a little bit on our 622MB ATM testing network.
And discovered some nice IPX trouple with old revision
boards.

NATO attacks Serbia, and german pilots have to join for
first time since WW II. Bad feeling.

My parents invited me for last “gscheit’s”(bavarian: really
usefull) dinner, before I leave to Japan. Nice thanks !

jwotd: (/)

24rd march 1999

Kernel patch 2.2.4 released, but had no time for update yet.
But it needs to be upgraded because of the same IP delay
problems
as before thought fixed.
Especially www.stun.de cannot go online without these.

Got more mail from Aya, so she’s finished now with her study,
and passed exam and ceremony. Congratulations !!! Kiss you.

jwotd: (/)

23rd march 1999

Gnome 1.03 installed. Enlightenment and Sound activated.

Thomas is back safe from Equador. Thanks god, because they
seem to have civil war now.

jwotd: (/)

22nd march 1999

New Mysql installed. 3.22

Luggage packing (more planning) for my Japan trip.

HTTPD and FTPD and NWShell installed on test Netware server.
Year 2000 patches again.

Escalators work from highnoon on. Great work ))) Be ashamed !

jwotd: (/)

21st march 1999

Power on at work.
More problems, one dead server, two defect harddisks,
escalators and entrance security still inoperative.
Nice sunday. And so much backbone and other problems that
we gave up in the evening to be fresh for the next day.

MP3 for Linux installed.
Shoutcast Icecast Server downloaded.

jwotd: (/)

20th march 1999

Power shutdown at work.
Much trouble because our entrance security system to every
network room doesnt work, and all escalators don’t work
either.

Soundcard installed.

jwotd: (/)

19th march 1999

Pick up copies of the London photos for Aya.

Got my Traveler Cheques, lying in front of the door.
Nice work UPS, $1500US unsigned where everyone can take them
!

jwotd: (/)

18th march 1999

Got school interview, and checked what Aya needs to come to
Germany in Sep/Nov ?

jwotd: (/)

17th march 1999

Power shortage at work. Too much work.
Complete server dead.
Can’t remember the rest.

jwotd: (/)

16th march 1999

Had big meeting at work today. About network and server
troubles.

Found some nice backdoors for MS-IIS ))) Stupid MS.

Aya still writes eMail to me which doesn’t arrive, but she
called
me in the very early morning. Thank you my darling.
First design of Aya’s Homepage is now online.

jwotd: (ashita/tomorrow)

15th march 1999

Have no power to go anywhere or do anything…
…why should I. Waiting for Aya’s mail…
Had no contact for 82 hours !!!!!!!!!!

jwotd: (kanashimi/sorrow)

14th march 1999

Everything on my local machine (except Root-Boot, I’m not tough
enough
for that yet) set up as Raid1 now.

Compiled and installed kernel 2.2.3 for WWW.Stun.de,
updated lots of RPMs and wrote some new pages for the Admins.
Everyone has his own server-statistics-graph now !

Hey, someone give me a one or two 4 GB drive and we switch to Raid1
or Raid5.

Listened to my japanese learning CD, and slept in. Sorry.

jwotd: (tasukete/Help !)

13th march 1999

Raid-5 destruction-and-rebuild test was successful, but is
very slow, sure on one single harddisk !
But I also miss one additional harddrive to switch to Raid-5.

Redesigning my system partitions, to match Raid-1 mirroring,
for my old disks 1G/4G/4G.
If there’s no entry in diary tomorrow you should know what
happened.

Sent away tax and international insurance.

jwotd: (kagami/mirror)

12th march 1999

Tried to quit from church, because in Germany you have to
pay by law for christian church, but the office changed
to another location. So maybe next time.

Again a server crash, but who cares, netware is promised
dead and it’s Bill’s turn now.

More DNS entries today, and I think their concept also
leeks. If they do round robin, they’ll get surprise…
…but let’s see if they find out themselves.

Had no contact to Aya for 42 hours, which made it a really
bad day too.

Configured Raid-5 on one single harddisk just for testing
repair capabilities.
And wonder….
RedHat starts and stops them without having configured
anything.
That’s nice guys…. how long is that code in rc.system and
K99halt now ? I’ve never seen before.

jwotd: (kyookai/church)

11th march 1999

Did some necessary network tracing and discovered
wrong static route entries… Oh wonder…

Hacked in some DNS stuff.

Coworker had heart-attack and we had ambulance at work.
Nobody is listening if I say, don’t panic, no stress,
keep cool, try to think first…

Waiting for mail from Aya, and feel down.

jwotd: (zeikin/tax)

10th march 1999

Did some tracing on IP timeouts at work and reinstalled
our private netware server including RC5

RC5 is now approaching the TOP4 1400, I guess it will
balance out around 1000. (ab031ns)

Tried to compile Apache 1.3.4 with PHP 3.0.7 and MySQL
3.22.19
but everytime I miss some other strange libraries.
Grrrrrrr…

jwotd: (tsuki/month)

9th march 1999

Hey Aya, once in Microsofts arms, and you can’t escape ))))))
Or Yahoo doesn’t accept former hotmailers DD

Kernel 2.2.2 tcp timeout problems seems solved.
For those who can’t wait for patchfix here’s a small
workaround,
which “makes it a little bit better.”
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack enter 0
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps enter 0
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling enter 0

If you even can’t download the 2.2.3 version, because of
stalled
transfers, try to shoot “ping” your way free.

jwotd: (toshi/year)

8th march 1999

They’re are so BAKA sometimes at work. Told me to come to work but
also
signed me in for emergency support, which tells me that I got free
day
for today. But I even didn’t know that I’m signed in, only for next
week.
So I got two weeks in colon again.
What shells, good for money and holiday.

What should I tell you now:
Everything change a few hours later, and I had to go to work.

(I love you Aya ! Count seconds for me.)

jwotd: (byoo/second)

7th march 1999

Tidied up the cellar, so that’s enough place to put
more things in when Aya arrives.

jwotd: (fun/minute)

6th march 1999

Lazy day again, watching documentation about Australia
on TV and eating cake in bed.

jwotd: (jikan/hour)

5th march 1999

Gnome 1.0 has been released, but yet no time to test it.

Big shopping day. Bought new leather jacket, from birthday
money.
And bought tons of Yakult, for my daily health ))))
(Aya, I need you !)

jwotd: (hiru/day)

4th march 1999

What a day for Microsoft ))))))))
They announced that Windows 95/98 will hang after 49.7 days uptime
!
HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Met with one of my best friends, who’s visiting his former
hometown. After working in circus, he’s now studying
informatics
and running to use Linux. (unbelievable, for a former clown)

(Sorry Erwin ! Don’t take it too serious with the “clown”.)

jwotd: (shuukan/week)

3rd march 1999

Have to fix that “IP frame delayed” problem on IPPP devices.
Seems to be a kernel fault.
But didn’t find “time” nor “fun” to do so.

Put it in the category “unsolved obscurities”, Scully !

jwotd: (namakemono/lazy)

2nd march 1999

Big meeting at work, because of the massive server crashes in
the
last days (and today another two.)

jwotd: (michita/full)

1st march 1999

The last 28 days until I see my love again !

At work another two server crashes. (No, I’m not repeating !)
Don’t ask me why. It’s unbelievable.

jwotd: (aishiteru/I love you.)