To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.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.)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.28th february 1999

Not a nice day, 34 hours without contact to Aya.
Most of the time, waiting nervously for eMail.

Tried videotext on 2.2.2 again with new drivers,
but this bttv stuff freezes my machine every time
after 10-15 minutes.
And I always loose lots of RC5 buffers in proxy !
I hate that ! (Also about 5000 input buffers.)

jwotd: (samui/feel cold)

27th february 1999

Sleeping hopefully,
after 21 days without one free day,
not even weekend.

Successfully running on kernel 2.2.2 !

jwotd: (nemuru/sleep)

26th february 1999

Compiled 2.2.2 again and fixed that msp3400 problem from yesteday
night,
or is it this morning ??? )

And again, another server crashed too.
I can’t tell you how I hate when they call me just after 4-5
hours
of sleep, even when I’m not on emergency support list.
Who do you think I am ? Jesus ? Can I cross over water ?

Tonight I wish that I can celebrate my uncle’s birthday
together
with the family. I hate to be busy with work at these times.

jwotd: (tanjoobi/birthday)

25th february 1999

Ok, I’m mad now.
But lots of mail from Aya. Thanks, my darling.

Another two servers crashed.

Upgraded all the RedHat stuff on my machine to be kernel 2.2
prepared, and after tried to compile 2.2.2, but just as
usual,
if you want to change everything in one day, halted with an
error.

jwotd: (okaerinasai/welcome home)

22nd to 24th february 1999

I’m in Stuttgart, for education.
Cisco Catalyst Switches.

I hope that I can get internet access there, Aya.
Otherwise I’ll go mad !
I love you !

jwotd: (kyooiku/education)

20th and 21st february 1999

Power shutdown weekend at work.
But the best is, that our emergency center didn’t know )))))))

Managed some calls to Cisco TAC via France to UK to USA and
back to UK.

Checked management dial-ins for Berlin.

And finally shut down all the Unix and Netware servers.
9 hours of work.

Used 10 minutes in the gallery of the bank, to play on a
grand piano, when the security people suggested me to do.

Wrote many many many eMails to Aya, as she did to me this
day,
but I was so busy for long time. Sorry Aya.
Our correspondence is now 1.8 MB in just four weeks. WOW
!!!!!

jwotd: (motto motto/more and more)

19th february 1999

At work:
I reconfigured a lot of 18 GB drives to remirror on our
biggest netware server. Some new AIX problems with local
printing
and some new DNS entries.

At home:
Configured fetchmail today and rerouted all my local
mailservers
to my working machine. Also internet mail is collected
through
fetchmail now. GREAT WORK GUYS !!!!!!!! ))))
Mail delivery to the internet stays on netscapes messenger
for
security reasons, but sendmail would also do.

Got nice eMails from Aya today.
Don’t work so hard, ok ?

jwotd: (insatsu suru/print)

18th february 1999

Some more preparations for the weekend power shutdown.

Cetin has successfully killed the SYS volume on our support
server,
and of course my only netware RC5 too. Thanks ! (((

Upgraded Gnome-FVWM and some libs.

jwotd: (denryuu/electrical power)

17th february 1999

Spent my birthday alone, because everyone is ill, and Aya
is still in Japan !

Therefore had lots of phonecalls this day.

Set up paging service for incoming internet eMail.
So I now get informed by pager whenever Aya writes eMail to
me.
Nice feature. ))))))))))))
(Perfect solution to meet online within a few minutes.)

jwotd: (denwa/phone)

16th february 1999

Did some planning for the power shutdown this weekend.
Lots of AIX machines and clusters affected.

Printed out a visual japanese dictionary, which could be very
useful for faster learning.

jwotd: (gashoo/picture)

15th february 1999

Another free monday, because of my emergency support work.

Started translating the book “Making out in japanese” into
german.
Maybe Aya can use it, too. And it’s good training for me as
well.

I also restarted learning from Assimil book which is
perfectly
for me. I hope to be able to read and write Kana and
understand
and speak japanese in good quality to the end of this year.
Aya, I’m very good student !
Let’s start teaching you german some more !

jwotd: (hon-yaku suru/translating)

14th february 1999

Valentines Day !
Aya, you know the URL.
Present will follow, I promise !

Downloaded tons of video stuff to get my webcam working
again.
And I wonder if I should upgrade my Matrox BIOS or not.
Better not.

Video works, and also cable TV on my X-Display and also
videotext.
I can’t believe it, it seems they did good work the last two
months.
So my webcam is finally up and running. You can go there by
visiting
the dynamic link on andys.stun.de.
Otherwise there’s also a pic of the day at: Here !

jwotd: (okurimono/present)

13th february 1999

Had to work today. Fix some network problems and test some
more ADSM client functions.

Upgraded to the new XFree Server 3.3.3.1-1 and some newer
patches released due to security issues.
GIMP runs again. Wow.

jwotd: (kinoo/function)

12th february 1999

Updated all ADSM clients of our servers at work and did
finish
the most OS patches and library updates that are necessary
for
Year 2000 compliance.
But I think there will be some more patches even after Year
2000.

Surprised by updating PC-BIOS which seems to have destroyed
the
harddisks partition table. Never seen that before.
System partition boots. DOS partition even after fdisk /mbr
reactivating, sys a: c: and some other tools cannot force the
drive to boot. What’s up here ?
Any hints ?

jwotd: (odoroki/surprise)

11th february 1999

Fighted with a netware server which doesn’t want to work 100 MB
half, nor
full duplex, due to inoperational driver parameters.

Almost finished with Y2K BIOS upgrades of all our communication
servers.

Did some finetuning on the scanned in pictures from London
holiday,
and AYA, check the URL again. a232 and a233 are really sexy !

Reyk: Buy Yakult for me, and rice crackers, please !!!!!!!!!

I’ll go to bed now,
Oyasumi nasai, Munich.
Ohayou, Tokyo !

jwotd: (kau/buy)

10th february 1999

Got the pictures from London today.
Hey Aya, you’re looking really sexy !
You know the URL !

Another emergency at work. This time a netware server crashes
all the time, when we try to mount volumes.
Vrepair doesn’t seem to work, and a mirrored device was used
with so much space that we cannot remirror with new drive.
GREAT !

jwotd: (hijooji/emergency)

9th february 1999

More Y2K updates, and a big server meeting again.
I was so fascinated updating BIOS and OS-Patches, that
I forgot about time. So I’ll start two hours later
on tomorrow. Hopefully.
And another week emergency service started for me, to make
money.

jwotd: (kane/money)

8th february 1999

Enjoyed my free day,
slept a long time,
learned japanese,
and booked my flight to japan for end of march,

jwotd: (tobu/fly)

7th february 1999

Downloaded kernel 2.2.1 and the RedHat 5.2 to kernel 2.2 upgrade
RPM’s.
But I don’t dare to install now. INET connection is to important
at
the moment.

More eMails. And japanese learning !
Now learning how to write Kana !

jwotd: (narau/learn)

6th february 1999

Finally reached my long weekend.

glibc 2.1 has been released, and the big surprise:
StarOffice 5.0 doesn’t work with it ! Perfect ! (

Wrote many eMails to Aya and we tried to meet in chat.

jwotd: (hanasu/talk)

5th february 1999

Did not fix the problem on a netware server which displays
symbol errors after every update I made. I hate that !
I need RPM for netware ? Somewhere hacking in progress ???

Changed my holiday to be in Japan in April !

jwotd: (nihon/japan)

4th february 1999

It’s official now, I’m the “one” (poor one) (armes Schwein)
that
is responsible for making every netware server in the company
ready for the next millenium.
A hint for all people with the same “order”:
Don’t try to migrate more than five servers a day, you’ll
start
making mistakes. Suddenly human again. I know that now.

Two of the three stale servers are stable again, but we need
more
hardware for swapping, that’s because there’s already the next
weak
machine.

Got 100 MB and 16 MB together working now in a 3.12 machine,
which had severe library problems with IPXRTR.NLM.

The first day I can feel harmony again, Aya didn’t start
working
and I think we’re both happy now.

jwotd: (haamonii/harmony)

3rd february 1999

Oh god, what a day !
Three netware servers damaged at once.
One defective motherboard, two SIMM chips and a very obscure
problem with a harddisk array.

Worked 14 hours today. That’s enough for me.
But my colleagues worked 22 yesterday and stayed at home for
today.
Now who’s baaka ? I think it’s me.

Had no time to learn japanese today, and I’m missing Aya so
much.

jwotd: (baaka/blockhead)

2nd february 1999

Had so much work to do today, I could shout !
Configured some firewall stuff.
Patched Arcserve and some netware servers to become Y2K
compliant.

Learned a lot new japanese sentences and grammar.

Called to Aya and felt happy after I heard her voice.
Aya called me back four hours later and I felt very sad
again.
(What are you doing with me girl !)

Talked to Reyk about the FFM server (soon the MUC server),
and after that talked to Tom about his upcoming MCSE exam
on friday.

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

1st february 1999

Had to fight with some SNA problems on a AIX machine…

Upgraded to 434 RC5 clients and 304 perproxy.

Downloaded some japanese songs in MP3 format, but they are all
encrypted.
Maybe some decryption time tomorrow

Wrote six eMails to my love. Ganbatte kudasai.

jwotd: (aishiteru/I love you.)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.28th february 1999

Not a nice day, 34 hours without contact to Aya.
Most of the time, waiting nervously for eMail.

Tried videotext on 2.2.2 again with new drivers,
but this bttv stuff freezes my machine every time
after 10-15 minutes.
And I always loose lots of RC5 buffers in proxy !
I hate that ! (Also about 5000 input buffers.)

jwotd: (samui/feel cold)

27th february 1999

Sleeping hopefully,
after 21 days without one free day,
not even weekend.

Successfully running on kernel 2.2.2 !

jwotd: (nemuru/sleep)

26th february 1999

Compiled 2.2.2 again and fixed that msp3400 problem from yesteday
night,
or is it this morning ??? )

And again, another server crashed too.
I can’t tell you how I hate when they call me just after 4-5
hours
of sleep, even when I’m not on emergency support list.
Who do you think I am ? Jesus ? Can I cross over water ?

Tonight I wish that I can celebrate my uncle’s birthday
together
with the family. I hate to be busy with work at these times.

jwotd: (tanjoobi/birthday)

25th february 1999

Ok, I’m mad now.
But lots of mail from Aya. Thanks, my darling.

Another two servers crashed.

Upgraded all the RedHat stuff on my machine to be kernel 2.2
prepared, and after tried to compile 2.2.2, but just as
usual,
if you want to change everything in one day, halted with an
error.

jwotd: (okaerinasai/welcome home)

22nd to 24th february 1999

I’m in Stuttgart, for education.
Cisco Catalyst Switches.

I hope that I can get internet access there, Aya.
Otherwise I’ll go mad !
I love you !

jwotd: (kyooiku/education)

20th and 21st february 1999

Power shutdown weekend at work.
But the best is, that our emergency center didn’t know )))))))

Managed some calls to Cisco TAC via France to UK to USA and
back to UK.

Checked management dial-ins for Berlin.

And finally shut down all the Unix and Netware servers.
9 hours of work.

Used 10 minutes in the gallery of the bank, to play on a
grand piano, when the security people suggested me to do.

Wrote many many many eMails to Aya, as she did to me this
day,
but I was so busy for long time. Sorry Aya.
Our correspondence is now 1.8 MB in just four weeks. WOW
!!!!!

jwotd: (motto motto/more and more)

19th february 1999

At work:
I reconfigured a lot of 18 GB drives to remirror on our
biggest netware server. Some new AIX problems with local
printing
and some new DNS entries.

At home:
Configured fetchmail today and rerouted all my local
mailservers
to my working machine. Also internet mail is collected
through
fetchmail now. GREAT WORK GUYS !!!!!!!! ))))
Mail delivery to the internet stays on netscapes messenger
for
security reasons, but sendmail would also do.

Got nice eMails from Aya today.
Don’t work so hard, ok ?

jwotd: (insatsu suru/print)

18th february 1999

Some more preparations for the weekend power shutdown.

Cetin has successfully killed the SYS volume on our support
server,
and of course my only netware RC5 too. Thanks ! (((

Upgraded Gnome-FVWM and some libs.

jwotd: (denryuu/electrical power)

17th february 1999

Spent my birthday alone, because everyone is ill, and Aya
is still in Japan !

Therefore had lots of phonecalls this day.

Set up paging service for incoming internet eMail.
So I now get informed by pager whenever Aya writes eMail to
me.
Nice feature. ))))))))))))
(Perfect solution to meet online within a few minutes.)

jwotd: (denwa/phone)

16th february 1999

Did some planning for the power shutdown this weekend.
Lots of AIX machines and clusters affected.

Printed out a visual japanese dictionary, which could be very
useful for faster learning.

jwotd: (gashoo/picture)

15th february 1999

Another free monday, because of my emergency support work.

Started translating the book “Making out in japanese” into
german.
Maybe Aya can use it, too. And it’s good training for me as
well.

I also restarted learning from Assimil book which is
perfectly
for me. I hope to be able to read and write Kana and
understand
and speak japanese in good quality to the end of this year.
Aya, I’m very good student !
Let’s start teaching you german some more !

jwotd: (hon-yaku suru/translating)

14th february 1999

Valentines Day !
Aya, you know the URL.
Present will follow, I promise !

Downloaded tons of video stuff to get my webcam working
again.
And I wonder if I should upgrade my Matrox BIOS or not.
Better not.

Video works, and also cable TV on my X-Display and also
videotext.
I can’t believe it, it seems they did good work the last two
months.
So my webcam is finally up and running. You can go there by
visiting
the dynamic link on andys.stun.de.
Otherwise there’s also a pic of the day at: Here !

jwotd: (okurimono/present)

13th february 1999

Had to work today. Fix some network problems and test some
more ADSM client functions.

Upgraded to the new XFree Server 3.3.3.1-1 and some newer
patches released due to security issues.
GIMP runs again. Wow.

jwotd: (kinoo/function)

12th february 1999

Updated all ADSM clients of our servers at work and did
finish
the most OS patches and library updates that are necessary
for
Year 2000 compliance.
But I think there will be some more patches even after Year
2000.

Surprised by updating PC-BIOS which seems to have destroyed
the
harddisks partition table. Never seen that before.
System partition boots. DOS partition even after fdisk /mbr
reactivating, sys a: c: and some other tools cannot force the
drive to boot. What’s up here ?
Any hints ?

jwotd: (odoroki/surprise)

11th february 1999

Fighted with a netware server which doesn’t want to work 100 MB
half, nor
full duplex, due to inoperational driver parameters.

Almost finished with Y2K BIOS upgrades of all our communication
servers.

Did some finetuning on the scanned in pictures from London
holiday,
and AYA, check the URL again. a232 and a233 are really sexy !

Reyk: Buy Yakult for me, and rice crackers, please !!!!!!!!!

I’ll go to bed now,
Oyasumi nasai, Munich.
Ohayou, Tokyo !

jwotd: (kau/buy)

10th february 1999

Got the pictures from London today.
Hey Aya, you’re looking really sexy !
You know the URL !

Another emergency at work. This time a netware server crashes
all the time, when we try to mount volumes.
Vrepair doesn’t seem to work, and a mirrored device was used
with so much space that we cannot remirror with new drive.
GREAT !

jwotd: (hijooji/emergency)

9th february 1999

More Y2K updates, and a big server meeting again.
I was so fascinated updating BIOS and OS-Patches, that
I forgot about time. So I’ll start two hours later
on tomorrow. Hopefully.
And another week emergency service started for me, to make
money.

jwotd: (kane/money)

8th february 1999

Enjoyed my free day,
slept a long time,
learned japanese,
and booked my flight to japan for end of march,

jwotd: (tobu/fly)

7th february 1999

Downloaded kernel 2.2.1 and the RedHat 5.2 to kernel 2.2 upgrade
RPM’s.
But I don’t dare to install now. INET connection is to important
at
the moment.

More eMails. And japanese learning !
Now learning how to write Kana !

jwotd: (narau/learn)

6th february 1999

Finally reached my long weekend.

glibc 2.1 has been released, and the big surprise:
StarOffice 5.0 doesn’t work with it ! Perfect ! (

Wrote many eMails to Aya and we tried to meet in chat.

jwotd: (hanasu/talk)

5th february 1999

Did not fix the problem on a netware server which displays
symbol errors after every update I made. I hate that !
I need RPM for netware ? Somewhere hacking in progress ???

Changed my holiday to be in Japan in April !

jwotd: (nihon/japan)

4th february 1999

It’s official now, I’m the “one” (poor one) (armes Schwein)
that
is responsible for making every netware server in the company
ready for the next millenium.
A hint for all people with the same “order”:
Don’t try to migrate more than five servers a day, you’ll
start
making mistakes. Suddenly human again. I know that now.

Two of the three stale servers are stable again, but we need
more
hardware for swapping, that’s because there’s already the next
weak
machine.

Got 100 MB and 16 MB together working now in a 3.12 machine,
which had severe library problems with IPXRTR.NLM.

The first day I can feel harmony again, Aya didn’t start
working
and I think we’re both happy now.

jwotd: (haamonii/harmony)

3rd february 1999

Oh god, what a day !
Three netware servers damaged at once.
One defective motherboard, two SIMM chips and a very obscure
problem with a harddisk array.

Worked 14 hours today. That’s enough for me.
But my colleagues worked 22 yesterday and stayed at home for
today.
Now who’s baaka ? I think it’s me.

Had no time to learn japanese today, and I’m missing Aya so
much.

jwotd: (baaka/blockhead)

2nd february 1999

Had so much work to do today, I could shout !
Configured some firewall stuff.
Patched Arcserve and some netware servers to become Y2K
compliant.

Learned a lot new japanese sentences and grammar.

Called to Aya and felt happy after I heard her voice.
Aya called me back four hours later and I felt very sad
again.
(What are you doing with me girl !)

Talked to Reyk about the FFM server (soon the MUC server),
and after that talked to Tom about his upcoming MCSE exam
on friday.

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

1st february 1999

Had to fight with some SNA problems on a AIX machine…

Upgraded to 434 RC5 clients and 304 perproxy.

Downloaded some japanese songs in MP3 format, but they are all
encrypted.
Maybe some decryption time tomorrow

Wrote six eMails to my love. Ganbatte kudasai.

jwotd: (aishiteru/I love you.)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.31st january 1999

Alone again.
Waiting for a sign.
(no further comment)

jwotd: (kodooku/lonelyness)

30th january 1999

Back from London.
Aya missed her plane yesterday, so she will leave this noon.

jwotd: (hikooki/airplane)

21th to 29th january 1999

Hopefully Aya will be back in one piece, so we can leave to
London.

jwotd: (nozoomu/hope)

20th january 1999

Designed a new spreadsheet for calculating price values for
old server systems. Nice work… 80 servers listed by their
single
components and price drop over the past three years.
Thanks to KAP for his iteration formula.

Joined the always important server meeting to discuss some
more
theories how to handle year 2000 ))) Talking, talking….
Maybe it will disapear if we would talk overtime…?

Hey Aya, I’m waiting for your call… Heiki ?

jwotd: (yobidaashi/phone call)

19th january 1999

Had to play with some HACMP cluster machines… boring….
if everything would work !

Did some more Y2K updates especially for storage management.

DES-II-3 is running and we have done about 25% on one whole
day.
(Cracked on the same day 3 PM by Deep Crack !)

Still waiting for Ayako to return.

jwotd: (kaaeru/return)

18th january 1999

Had to play a little bit with firewalls, but not that much action
as
usual.

Bought many new books for learning japanese.

DES-III has started at 17:00 UTC and all my machines have
successfully
switched over to !

Waiting for Aya to return…

jwotd: (matsu/wait)

17th january 1999

Sunday. Did nothing special, had not much fun to do anything.
Met with Thomas, gave him the chopsticks from Aya and we
watched
Forbidden Planet and finally ended in Shannanigans Irish Pub
together
with Florian. Talked to Aya from there. That’s all for today.

jwotd: (hashi/chopsticks)

16th january 1999

More japanese language practising. If I only could understand
when
to use which particle. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

Scanned in some more images. I wonder if the parallel port
scanner
will also work on my Linux workstation ??? But no time yet.

Watched a documentation about Kyoto and ZEN on TV. Very
interesting.

Installed RC5 proxy 303 and upgarded my personal clients to
2.105.430

And finally found the time to install my halogen spots in my
bathroom,
almost one year gone )) Ups….
And one of the spots is defect, just as usual.

Hey Aya, I’ve received some answers from universities.
Kimi-nashi-da to tsurai. Karada-ni yoku ki-o tsukete.

jwotd: (naraau/learn)

15th january 1999

Played around with ADSM trace options, but on netware it’s
rather
uninteresting.

Lots of culture studies about Japan. Not only culture shock for
them.
Printed about 200 pages. Also first answer from our
University.
All for Aya.

Installed japanese fonts on my computer, and I’m totally
fascinated
to be able looking up in japanese indexes on the web !!! Great
!!!
This is much better training then reading books.

Printed some Meishi’s (business cards). Meishi suki ?

jwotd: (kakikataa/font)

14th january 1999

Made some system backups from AIX cluster machines.
Did a lot of fine-tuning on netware scripts.

Bought a walkman to be able of recording from tapes
to my computer for making MP3’s.
Of course, for japanese songs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aya I got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And also a new flatbed scanner which was so unbelievable
cheap that I could buy one for each of my noisemakers.

Also just for scanning very very important pictures !

jwotd: (shashiin/photo)

13th january 1999

Documented two new AIX cluster machines today. 22 harddisks, wow
!

Discovered a dying harddisk in a novell server, something for
the
night shift. I hope that it’ll be swapped this week
because
I’m on night shift next week.

Played around with the new ADSM client on a 3.12 netware
server
and ! surprise ! the same problems as on 4.10 but saving goes
on
after five minutes of locked file state.

Gone to the japanese embassy today, to check if Aya can study
here
in Munich. Received a lot of hints, thanks, more work to now
!

jwotd: (mondaai/problem)

12th january 1999

DES-III TEST I DAY

Installed the RC5 proxy analyzer which is a very funny tool
for those who can enjoy seeing different machines on
different
OS’s and architectures calculating RC5 keys.

Did some more updates on the RC5 clients and watched the
switching on 18:00 GMT which IMHO was a little bit to
struggling. Manual updates are working much better.

Wrote some more cards for learning japanese sentences.
Aya, aishiteru !

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

11th january 1999

Had to go to work again, just as Aya told me to, but I think I
couldn’t
really enjoy working…
Would be nice if I could retire and just travel around the world
with her.
Someone to give me a lottery checkpot ???

Again Year 2000 discussions, they’re getting nervous because
there
appear to be more patches available on every day. )))
But no one was listen to me first…. 😎

Updated most of the RC5 clients to 2.100.427 which is DES-III
optimized,
for the first world-wide test on tomorrow morning.

jwotd: (discussion/tooron)

8th to 10th january 1999

Celebrated Ayas birthday and had a big dinner in a japanese
restaurant.
Hmmm… Yammi !

Visited the castle of Herrenchiemsee. Long live the King !

Met with some of my best friends and had so much to talk
about,
time was so short.

Had to say good-bye again, because she left to go to Italy.
Come back soon….

jwotd: (birthday/tanjoobi)

4th to 7th january 1999

Hopefully in Switzerland… no entries up to 8th ?
Yes, I was…. We spent some beautyful days there together.
No further comment.

jwotd: (isshoo-ni/together)

3rd january 1999

Printed out a lot of cartoons against Microsoft and decorated
our
big white wall of the operation and supervision room.
Just want to see the faces of my colleagues…… ))))

Surfed the internet concerning London accomondation,
hey these Fish’n’Chips guys are crazy,
no standard, no comfort, bad food, dirty rooms and
so expensive……. I can’t believe….
I thought London would be a civilized city.

Guys I think I go mad….
Will meet tomorrow with my sweet girl in Switzerland.

jwotd: (yasumi/holiday)

2nd january 1999

Did a lot of Y2K updates at work. And it seems that we’ll be
ready
just right in time. The funny thin is that most of the BIOS and
OS
patches are brand new from december 1998. I think we’ll have to
do
some more updates in the last seconds before 2000.

Kisses for my Lady.

jwotd: (sanchoo/mountain top)

1st january 1999

Got my first telephone call, and guess who called me:
Thank you very very very much, I miss you too.
If you have time to come to munich before we meet in London
feel free to come whenever you want. I’ll be there.

Hey Reyk, mach schon mal die Tickets klar, am besten mit
Unterkunft.

Very sleepy today, but have to go to work at 10 PM.
Thanks God that everything will be normal again after 5th so
that I can go to sleep in the evening and not in the
morning…
simply just not my timezone.

jwotd: (ooyorokobi/great pleasure)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.31st january 1999

Alone again.
Waiting for a sign.
(no further comment)

jwotd: (kodooku/lonelyness)

30th january 1999

Back from London.
Aya missed her plane yesterday, so she will leave this noon.

jwotd: (hikooki/airplane)

21th to 29th january 1999

Hopefully Aya will be back in one piece, so we can leave to
London.

jwotd: (nozoomu/hope)

20th january 1999

Designed a new spreadsheet for calculating price values for
old server systems. Nice work… 80 servers listed by their
single
components and price drop over the past three years.
Thanks to KAP for his iteration formula.

Joined the always important server meeting to discuss some
more
theories how to handle year 2000 ))) Talking, talking….
Maybe it will disapear if we would talk overtime…?

Hey Aya, I’m waiting for your call… Heiki ?

jwotd: (yobidaashi/phone call)

19th january 1999

Had to play with some HACMP cluster machines… boring….
if everything would work !

Did some more Y2K updates especially for storage management.

DES-II-3 is running and we have done about 25% on one whole
day.
(Cracked on the same day 3 PM by Deep Crack !)

Still waiting for Ayako to return.

jwotd: (kaaeru/return)

18th january 1999

Had to play a little bit with firewalls, but not that much action
as
usual.

Bought many new books for learning japanese.

DES-III has started at 17:00 UTC and all my machines have
successfully
switched over to !

Waiting for Aya to return…

jwotd: (matsu/wait)

17th january 1999

Sunday. Did nothing special, had not much fun to do anything.
Met with Thomas, gave him the chopsticks from Aya and we
watched
Forbidden Planet and finally ended in Shannanigans Irish Pub
together
with Florian. Talked to Aya from there. That’s all for today.

jwotd: (hashi/chopsticks)

16th january 1999

More japanese language practising. If I only could understand
when
to use which particle. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

Scanned in some more images. I wonder if the parallel port
scanner
will also work on my Linux workstation ??? But no time yet.

Watched a documentation about Kyoto and ZEN on TV. Very
interesting.

Installed RC5 proxy 303 and upgarded my personal clients to
2.105.430

And finally found the time to install my halogen spots in my
bathroom,
almost one year gone )) Ups….
And one of the spots is defect, just as usual.

Hey Aya, I’ve received some answers from universities.
Kimi-nashi-da to tsurai. Karada-ni yoku ki-o tsukete.

jwotd: (naraau/learn)

15th january 1999

Played around with ADSM trace options, but on netware it’s
rather
uninteresting.

Lots of culture studies about Japan. Not only culture shock for
them.
Printed about 200 pages. Also first answer from our
University.
All for Aya.

Installed japanese fonts on my computer, and I’m totally
fascinated
to be able looking up in japanese indexes on the web !!! Great
!!!
This is much better training then reading books.

Printed some Meishi’s (business cards). Meishi suki ?

jwotd: (kakikataa/font)

14th january 1999

Made some system backups from AIX cluster machines.
Did a lot of fine-tuning on netware scripts.

Bought a walkman to be able of recording from tapes
to my computer for making MP3’s.
Of course, for japanese songs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aya I got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And also a new flatbed scanner which was so unbelievable
cheap that I could buy one for each of my noisemakers.

Also just for scanning very very important pictures !

jwotd: (shashiin/photo)

13th january 1999

Documented two new AIX cluster machines today. 22 harddisks, wow
!

Discovered a dying harddisk in a novell server, something for
the
night shift. I hope that it’ll be swapped this week
because
I’m on night shift next week.

Played around with the new ADSM client on a 3.12 netware
server
and ! surprise ! the same problems as on 4.10 but saving goes
on
after five minutes of locked file state.

Gone to the japanese embassy today, to check if Aya can study
here
in Munich. Received a lot of hints, thanks, more work to now
!

jwotd: (mondaai/problem)

12th january 1999

DES-III TEST I DAY

Installed the RC5 proxy analyzer which is a very funny tool
for those who can enjoy seeing different machines on
different
OS’s and architectures calculating RC5 keys.

Did some more updates on the RC5 clients and watched the
switching on 18:00 GMT which IMHO was a little bit to
struggling. Manual updates are working much better.

Wrote some more cards for learning japanese sentences.
Aya, aishiteru !

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

11th january 1999

Had to go to work again, just as Aya told me to, but I think I
couldn’t
really enjoy working…
Would be nice if I could retire and just travel around the world
with her.
Someone to give me a lottery checkpot ???

Again Year 2000 discussions, they’re getting nervous because
there
appear to be more patches available on every day. )))
But no one was listen to me first…. 😎

Updated most of the RC5 clients to 2.100.427 which is DES-III
optimized,
for the first world-wide test on tomorrow morning.

jwotd: (discussion/tooron)

8th to 10th january 1999

Celebrated Ayas birthday and had a big dinner in a japanese
restaurant.
Hmmm… Yammi !

Visited the castle of Herrenchiemsee. Long live the King !

Met with some of my best friends and had so much to talk
about,
time was so short.

Had to say good-bye again, because she left to go to Italy.
Come back soon….

jwotd: (birthday/tanjoobi)

4th to 7th january 1999

Hopefully in Switzerland… no entries up to 8th ?
Yes, I was…. We spent some beautyful days there together.
No further comment.

jwotd: (isshoo-ni/together)

3rd january 1999

Printed out a lot of cartoons against Microsoft and decorated
our
big white wall of the operation and supervision room.
Just want to see the faces of my colleagues…… ))))

Surfed the internet concerning London accomondation,
hey these Fish’n’Chips guys are crazy,
no standard, no comfort, bad food, dirty rooms and
so expensive……. I can’t believe….
I thought London would be a civilized city.

Guys I think I go mad….
Will meet tomorrow with my sweet girl in Switzerland.

jwotd: (yasumi/holiday)

2nd january 1999

Did a lot of Y2K updates at work. And it seems that we’ll be
ready
just right in time. The funny thin is that most of the BIOS and
OS
patches are brand new from december 1998. I think we’ll have to
do
some more updates in the last seconds before 2000.

Kisses for my Lady.

jwotd: (sanchoo/mountain top)

1st january 1999

Got my first telephone call, and guess who called me:
Thank you very very very much, I miss you too.
If you have time to come to munich before we meet in London
feel free to come whenever you want. I’ll be there.

Hey Reyk, mach schon mal die Tickets klar, am besten mit
Unterkunft.

Very sleepy today, but have to go to work at 10 PM.
Thanks God that everything will be normal again after 5th so
that I can go to sleep in the evening and not in the
morning…
simply just not my timezone.

jwotd: (ooyorokobi/great pleasure)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.31th december 1998

Wish you all a happy new year !

Hey Reyk, are you prepared for videoconferencing on midnight
?
No, he was not, because he didn’t had to work ! BUUUHHHH !!!!!

After a few hours of bored working:
Celebrated the new year on Munichs Königsplatz.
Many crazy students there, making big fireworks, but had to
go
back to work immediatley.

Finished a statistics about all our systems which are not yet
Year 2000 compliant and why. Huahhh, there’re so many of
them….

jwotd: (shinnen/the new year)

30th december 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.37 pre patch and there’s a lot of new RAID
stuff
in it. Also some completely rewrited code for i386
processors.
Memory detection is now done automatically up to 900 MB and
when
done manually up to 3 GB, which should also be enough for the
crazy
ones of you.
A lot of new PCI identification routines are also added.

The new 2.2.0 kernel is 54 MB in size… wow, a new record !
Some new features: NTFS filesystem support, Acorn, Sparc64 and
SGI
architecture support, IRDA and video support.
For those of you trying the new code and wanting to report
bugs
maybe first take a look on this page: Alan’s Joblist.

Studied a little bit more japanese today, trying to build
sentences
when just looking up some words in the dictionary. But it’s so
much
harder than in other languages.
Will need your help with this Aya.

Have to go to work from 22:30 to 6:00 am, and on sylvester
too…
If someone wants to talk to me or wish me good new year feel
free
to call me: +49-89-2171-8516

A big kiss from the tiger to the dragon !

jwotd: (narau/to learn)

29th december 1998

Kernel 2.2.0 is out. But I had no time and absolutely no fun
to take a look at it.

Just to lovesick.

jwotd: (koi no nayami/lovesick)

22th to 28th december 1998

Ayako from Japan is here. Finally.
What a X-mas gift for me.

We’ve visited castles (Neuschwanstein, Hohen Schwangau),
visited Salzburg, celebrated christmas, toured around
Munich and much more private things…

And she left…. very hard for me….

I love you !
(And don’t forget to check your eMail.)

jwotd: (meisho/sightseeings)

21th december 1998

Gone to work today, and a fileserver crashed. Cool….
Also some minor problems, but who cares…. Xmas is near.

Printed some Alpha compatibility stuff and also some information
of
different cluster software packages.

Reconfigured my RC5 machines to use a local proxy at work, next
will be
fine tuning on contest switching and DES block flow to the
internet.

jwotd: (butaniku/pork)
jwotd: (gyũniku/beef)
jwotd: (toriniku/chicken)

20th december 1998

Programmed some database applications using a web-interface with
serverside
Perl-script and MySQL as the backend database.
Pretty cool, but I think I prefer flat files. Much easier to repair
and
modify. (As long as I can live with two dimensions.)

Planned for the future is to use a MySQL database for all the
information
about boogie woogie piano players and to easily create on the
fly
webpages. Also to enable advanced search criterias and simple
update and
modification handling… (long way to go…)

Played Xshipwars together with Reyk and did exchange some of the
newest
RedHat 5.2 updates. (We also tried to install Gnome on Reyks
laptop,
bad idea…. don’t know… almost anything broke.)

New mail from Aya, so it seems she has found an internet-cafe in
Frankfurt.
So here begins the crash course:
jwotd: (bo, fu/mother, father)
jwotd: (shukubo, shukufu/aunt, uncle)

19th december 1998

Don’t ask me ! Everybody needs some relaxing !

jwotd: (gogo/afternoon)

18th december 1998

Almost nothing to do today.

Another X-mas party at work….
(The same procedure as every year…….)

Found someone from Digital who will hopefully sell me four
Alpha-Workstations
to set up clustering for private testing with some friends.
I hope we can make the deal.

jwotd: (chũi/watch out !)

17th december 1998

Tidied up my desk at work and finished all open cases.
My colleagues tried to make some jokes, but I had no time to listen
to them.
You should have seen their faces as I told them that I’m on holiday
next
week. ))))
Panic… so it seems you’ve to do your jobs yourselves again !

jwotd: (iriguchi/entrance)

16th december 1998

Get more and more in touch with clustering. Another two machines at
work,
and some news on a project by a friend.

Ordered Madge token-ring drivers for Linux today, and they gave
them only
when filling out some forms about limited support alpha-release and
so on.
But the Presto version isn’t supported yet, and those dumbs gave me
only
a part of the developement libraries so I couldn’t recompile a
modified
version for my needs…

Now my rooms are perfectly clean ! Makes me think they never were
before…
And where is the visitor ???? Hey Ayako, no eMail and no phone
calls yet,
what’s up. Do you want to stay forever in the Netherlands ???

Finally built up my 16 channel mixer and connected almost
everything
which offered a connector useful or not.
Sounds really great when you can watch TV, tune in another channel
on the
VCR, hear a CD, get the PC sound of two machines and play E-guitar
at the
same time 8-)))))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (sei/clean)

15th december 1998

Doing the DNS administration at work from today on. Yeah….

Finished to pin in all my Australia photos. 8-)))
Now it’s showtime.

Downloaded Beowulf to get some more know-how on clustering
technique.

jwotd: (terebi/tv)

14th december 1998

Swapped some router interfaces on a cisco 7206. Plug and play
)
Had to remove a token-ring probe which produces automatic
beacon
wraps on a hub port almost every minute, very obscure…

Investigated the new 2.0.37pre2 kernel features, which contains a
lot of
raid controller support addition on network drivers (especially for
my cards)
and some new hardware detection and description routines.

Downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.5 already fortyfied and the
Apache 1.3.3
which is already compiled with SSL support. (Yep, I still was
unable to
compile it myself. SSLeavy is a little bit too tricky for
me.)

Collected some fun stuff for the upcoming hard working days.
(Audio-samples from the series “Married with children”, sure
MP3!)

Seen the new bttv 0.5.22 which now has videodat support and the
vbidecode
included in the package. Maybe I can reactivate my vidcam and
lifevideo feed
because the latest driver seems to break eveything.

jwotd: (samukatta/it was cold)

13th december 1998

Burried in eMail again…. hooohooo ( I hate it, don’t you !!!!!!!!!!

Reyk and myself decided to buy Alphas in january and do some
experiments on Linux clustering.

Tidied up my bathroom and kitchen completely.
Hey man that was just the right time !

Learned some new japanese phrases. Hey I seem to love that
language.

jwotd: (yasumi/holiday)

12th december 1998

Had a fascinating night, working from highnoon to 6 AM after a
colleague
has destroyed some of the contents of three different netware
servers.
((((((

Since this day had no real beginning, I did go to bed when
arriving
from work.

Completed another part of my Australia photo album.
Only 350 pictures left. ))))

jwotd: (eki/railway station)

11th december 1998

In the morning did some japanese phrases practising.
Now I can understand what time it is in steps of five
minutes.
And also colours, countries and some other stuff.
(It only takes 2 hours to learn 200 new words. I’m surprised by
myself…)
WoW !

Get called by my colleagues because of some problems on two
netware
servers after a planned movement of volumes.

jwotd: (Nani o kaimashita ka?/What did you buy?)

10th december 1998

And again a netware server installed. So they’re moving to NT, I
see ))

Time to get my castle polished. Tidy up day.

Installed my 100 MBit hub today ! So the every six hour plug
swapping
comes to an end. And RC5 can work uninterrupted.

jwotd: (Nihon-go ga wakarimashita ka?/Did you understand the
japanese?)

9th december 1998

Did some fine tuning on our netware servers.

Enjoyed our company’s X-mas party.

jwotd: (p&atile;tĩ/party)

8th december 1998

Installed another netware server to get some load sharing
effect.
But this requires moving some of the users. Stress……

Upgraded Markus’s Linux machine and enabled netware
emulation,
samba and pnp sound, everything without having to reboot
!!!!!!!!!

jwotd: (made/until)

7th december 1998

Martin Schmitt plays at Jan’s Bistro, I hope to get there in
time.
Nope. To much to work for today, sorry.

The main harddisk of www.stun.de seems to be defect, because I
heard
it respinning this morning. Reyk will give me his 2 GB UW
harddisk
for swapping.
BTW: next install date (yes it’s still here) is the 12.12.98
Hope the best. Password rotation and SSL needs to be completed on
friday.

jwotd: (getsuyõbi/monday)

6th december 1998

Results of the last 9 hours (CCNACHT):

– world record for the biggest heterogenic Linux cluster
– german internet backbones glowing in the dark nicht
– ISPs overloaded due to multiple the videostreams
– 140 MB internet traffic through my local network
– IRCed and Videoconferenced until late morning
– Transferred 2 GB of MP3 stuff internally
– Tom, Martin and me are very tired, but not bored at all.

Good night for now.

jwotd: (nemu/tired)

5th december 1998

Tonight is the big ComputerClub night, so don’t expect to
much
details. Instead go to: http://www.ccnacht.de

jwotd: (hitoban/the whole night)

4th december 1998

Another quart gone, time for statistics at work. This weekend
a
year 2000 compatibility test is planned. Wish you much fun
folks,
without me.

My perl scripts displaying web activity and counting page
accesses
are up and running. Fascinating !

Wrote some emergency stuff for www.stun.de.

Tonight there’s a Guinness Book record to fight for in every
Irish
Pub in Germany. I wont miss that.

Will get visited by Ayako from Japan in about two weeks. Time to
get
all the words in my head. 8-))

jwotd: (raihõ/visit)

3rd december 1998

Got my big 19 inch network rack today, thanks to Cetin for
driving,
so I can move all my machines in the rack and close the door to
get
my silence back.

Tried the BIND 8 configuration and everything runs beautyful and
fast.

Hacked some more perl code to do page access counting and web
server
statistics as on-the-fly images. Hey I think I love it…

Configured masquerading today so that we can start the long
CC-Night
without any problems. Next step will be load sharing with a second
ISP.

jwotd: (todana/cupboard)

2nd december 1998

Installed another (it was the same, but on a different hardware)
4.11
netware server, and on the old (newer) hardware a 3.12 one, at
work.

Bought two new books to be prepared for sylvester at work

One is “Goto Perl 5” and the other “CGI programming for the
WWW”,
I’m still waiting for the “CGI programming in Perl” to become
available.

Revised the whole nameserver configuration today, since the
RedHat
5.2 update has changed from BIND 4 to BIND 8, which is
completely
different.
Takes a lot of time, and you can do a lot of mistakes too.
(www.stun.de and zuse1.fps-net.mbox are totally tuned now.)

Maybe some performance problems are resolved too, I just didn’t
have
the time to verify this. (gatewaying and BIND 8 DNS through
firewalls)

jwotd: (moto/basics)

1st december 1998

Configured gatewaying and some firewalling stuff to be
prepared
for the spectacular Computer Club Night coming up this
weekend.
Here is a first part of the upcoming program:

FR 4.12.98
16:00 Computerclub Spezial (TV: WDR)
– 17:00
21:00 Essen
23:00 Irish Pub (Guiness Buch Rekordversuch):
(Gerd, Andy, Thomas, Reyk)
– 0:00
SA 5.12.98
0:00 Irish Pub (Deutschland Rekordversuch)
– 2:30
4:00-14:00 SCHLAFEN !!!
14:30 Computerclub Praxis live (TV: WDR)
18:00 Aufbau Hardware / Internettest (Routing) Proxy
20:00 Essen
21:00 Computerclub Vorschau Programm (TV: WDR)
23:00 Computerclub Nacht Paderborn live
(TV: WDR/Phoenix ; RADIO: 3 Stations ; INET: 60 WEBCAMS !!!)
– 0:00
SO 6.12.98
0:00 Computerclub Nacht (Linux Cluster WeltRekord Versuch)
– 6:15
6:30 Hardware Abbauen
– 8:00
9:00-18:00 SCHLAFEN !!!

jwotd: (mojõshimono/event)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.31th december 1998

Wish you all a happy new year !

Hey Reyk, are you prepared for videoconferencing on midnight
?
No, he was not, because he didn’t had to work ! BUUUHHHH !!!!!

After a few hours of bored working:
Celebrated the new year on Munichs Königsplatz.
Many crazy students there, making big fireworks, but had to
go
back to work immediatley.

Finished a statistics about all our systems which are not yet
Year 2000 compliant and why. Huahhh, there’re so many of
them….

jwotd: (shinnen/the new year)

30th december 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.37 pre patch and there’s a lot of new RAID
stuff
in it. Also some completely rewrited code for i386
processors.
Memory detection is now done automatically up to 900 MB and
when
done manually up to 3 GB, which should also be enough for the
crazy
ones of you.
A lot of new PCI identification routines are also added.

The new 2.2.0 kernel is 54 MB in size… wow, a new record !
Some new features: NTFS filesystem support, Acorn, Sparc64 and
SGI
architecture support, IRDA and video support.
For those of you trying the new code and wanting to report
bugs
maybe first take a look on this page: Alan’s Joblist.

Studied a little bit more japanese today, trying to build
sentences
when just looking up some words in the dictionary. But it’s so
much
harder than in other languages.
Will need your help with this Aya.

Have to go to work from 22:30 to 6:00 am, and on sylvester
too…
If someone wants to talk to me or wish me good new year feel
free
to call me: +49-89-2171-8516

A big kiss from the tiger to the dragon !

jwotd: (narau/to learn)

29th december 1998

Kernel 2.2.0 is out. But I had no time and absolutely no fun
to take a look at it.

Just to lovesick.

jwotd: (koi no nayami/lovesick)

22th to 28th december 1998

Ayako from Japan is here. Finally.
What a X-mas gift for me.

We’ve visited castles (Neuschwanstein, Hohen Schwangau),
visited Salzburg, celebrated christmas, toured around
Munich and much more private things…

And she left…. very hard for me….

I love you !
(And don’t forget to check your eMail.)

jwotd: (meisho/sightseeings)

21th december 1998

Gone to work today, and a fileserver crashed. Cool….
Also some minor problems, but who cares…. Xmas is near.

Printed some Alpha compatibility stuff and also some information
of
different cluster software packages.

Reconfigured my RC5 machines to use a local proxy at work, next
will be
fine tuning on contest switching and DES block flow to the
internet.

jwotd: (butaniku/pork)
jwotd: (gyũniku/beef)
jwotd: (toriniku/chicken)

20th december 1998

Programmed some database applications using a web-interface with
serverside
Perl-script and MySQL as the backend database.
Pretty cool, but I think I prefer flat files. Much easier to repair
and
modify. (As long as I can live with two dimensions.)

Planned for the future is to use a MySQL database for all the
information
about boogie woogie piano players and to easily create on the
fly
webpages. Also to enable advanced search criterias and simple
update and
modification handling… (long way to go…)

Played Xshipwars together with Reyk and did exchange some of the
newest
RedHat 5.2 updates. (We also tried to install Gnome on Reyks
laptop,
bad idea…. don’t know… almost anything broke.)

New mail from Aya, so it seems she has found an internet-cafe in
Frankfurt.
So here begins the crash course:
jwotd: (bo, fu/mother, father)
jwotd: (shukubo, shukufu/aunt, uncle)

19th december 1998

Don’t ask me ! Everybody needs some relaxing !

jwotd: (gogo/afternoon)

18th december 1998

Almost nothing to do today.

Another X-mas party at work….
(The same procedure as every year…….)

Found someone from Digital who will hopefully sell me four
Alpha-Workstations
to set up clustering for private testing with some friends.
I hope we can make the deal.

jwotd: (chũi/watch out !)

17th december 1998

Tidied up my desk at work and finished all open cases.
My colleagues tried to make some jokes, but I had no time to listen
to them.
You should have seen their faces as I told them that I’m on holiday
next
week. ))))
Panic… so it seems you’ve to do your jobs yourselves again !

jwotd: (iriguchi/entrance)

16th december 1998

Get more and more in touch with clustering. Another two machines at
work,
and some news on a project by a friend.

Ordered Madge token-ring drivers for Linux today, and they gave
them only
when filling out some forms about limited support alpha-release and
so on.
But the Presto version isn’t supported yet, and those dumbs gave me
only
a part of the developement libraries so I couldn’t recompile a
modified
version for my needs…

Now my rooms are perfectly clean ! Makes me think they never were
before…
And where is the visitor ???? Hey Ayako, no eMail and no phone
calls yet,
what’s up. Do you want to stay forever in the Netherlands ???

Finally built up my 16 channel mixer and connected almost
everything
which offered a connector useful or not.
Sounds really great when you can watch TV, tune in another channel
on the
VCR, hear a CD, get the PC sound of two machines and play E-guitar
at the
same time 8-)))))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (sei/clean)

15th december 1998

Doing the DNS administration at work from today on. Yeah….

Finished to pin in all my Australia photos. 8-)))
Now it’s showtime.

Downloaded Beowulf to get some more know-how on clustering
technique.

jwotd: (terebi/tv)

14th december 1998

Swapped some router interfaces on a cisco 7206. Plug and play
)
Had to remove a token-ring probe which produces automatic
beacon
wraps on a hub port almost every minute, very obscure…

Investigated the new 2.0.37pre2 kernel features, which contains a
lot of
raid controller support addition on network drivers (especially for
my cards)
and some new hardware detection and description routines.

Downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.5 already fortyfied and the
Apache 1.3.3
which is already compiled with SSL support. (Yep, I still was
unable to
compile it myself. SSLeavy is a little bit too tricky for
me.)

Collected some fun stuff for the upcoming hard working days.
(Audio-samples from the series “Married with children”, sure
MP3!)

Seen the new bttv 0.5.22 which now has videodat support and the
vbidecode
included in the package. Maybe I can reactivate my vidcam and
lifevideo feed
because the latest driver seems to break eveything.

jwotd: (samukatta/it was cold)

13th december 1998

Burried in eMail again…. hooohooo ( I hate it, don’t you !!!!!!!!!!

Reyk and myself decided to buy Alphas in january and do some
experiments on Linux clustering.

Tidied up my bathroom and kitchen completely.
Hey man that was just the right time !

Learned some new japanese phrases. Hey I seem to love that
language.

jwotd: (yasumi/holiday)

12th december 1998

Had a fascinating night, working from highnoon to 6 AM after a
colleague
has destroyed some of the contents of three different netware
servers.
((((((

Since this day had no real beginning, I did go to bed when
arriving
from work.

Completed another part of my Australia photo album.
Only 350 pictures left. ))))

jwotd: (eki/railway station)

11th december 1998

In the morning did some japanese phrases practising.
Now I can understand what time it is in steps of five
minutes.
And also colours, countries and some other stuff.
(It only takes 2 hours to learn 200 new words. I’m surprised by
myself…)
WoW !

Get called by my colleagues because of some problems on two
netware
servers after a planned movement of volumes.

jwotd: (Nani o kaimashita ka?/What did you buy?)

10th december 1998

And again a netware server installed. So they’re moving to NT, I
see ))

Time to get my castle polished. Tidy up day.

Installed my 100 MBit hub today ! So the every six hour plug
swapping
comes to an end. And RC5 can work uninterrupted.

jwotd: (Nihon-go ga wakarimashita ka?/Did you understand the
japanese?)

9th december 1998

Did some fine tuning on our netware servers.

Enjoyed our company’s X-mas party.

jwotd: (p&atile;tĩ/party)

8th december 1998

Installed another netware server to get some load sharing
effect.
But this requires moving some of the users. Stress……

Upgraded Markus’s Linux machine and enabled netware
emulation,
samba and pnp sound, everything without having to reboot
!!!!!!!!!

jwotd: (made/until)

7th december 1998

Martin Schmitt plays at Jan’s Bistro, I hope to get there in
time.
Nope. To much to work for today, sorry.

The main harddisk of www.stun.de seems to be defect, because I
heard
it respinning this morning. Reyk will give me his 2 GB UW
harddisk
for swapping.
BTW: next install date (yes it’s still here) is the 12.12.98
Hope the best. Password rotation and SSL needs to be completed on
friday.

jwotd: (getsuyõbi/monday)

6th december 1998

Results of the last 9 hours (CCNACHT):

– world record for the biggest heterogenic Linux cluster
– german internet backbones glowing in the dark nicht
– ISPs overloaded due to multiple the videostreams
– 140 MB internet traffic through my local network
– IRCed and Videoconferenced until late morning
– Transferred 2 GB of MP3 stuff internally
– Tom, Martin and me are very tired, but not bored at all.

Good night for now.

jwotd: (nemu/tired)

5th december 1998

Tonight is the big ComputerClub night, so don’t expect to
much
details. Instead go to: http://www.ccnacht.de

jwotd: (hitoban/the whole night)

4th december 1998

Another quart gone, time for statistics at work. This weekend
a
year 2000 compatibility test is planned. Wish you much fun
folks,
without me.

My perl scripts displaying web activity and counting page
accesses
are up and running. Fascinating !

Wrote some emergency stuff for www.stun.de.

Tonight there’s a Guinness Book record to fight for in every
Irish
Pub in Germany. I wont miss that.

Will get visited by Ayako from Japan in about two weeks. Time to
get
all the words in my head. 8-))

jwotd: (raihõ/visit)

3rd december 1998

Got my big 19 inch network rack today, thanks to Cetin for
driving,
so I can move all my machines in the rack and close the door to
get
my silence back.

Tried the BIND 8 configuration and everything runs beautyful and
fast.

Hacked some more perl code to do page access counting and web
server
statistics as on-the-fly images. Hey I think I love it…

Configured masquerading today so that we can start the long
CC-Night
without any problems. Next step will be load sharing with a second
ISP.

jwotd: (todana/cupboard)

2nd december 1998

Installed another (it was the same, but on a different hardware)
4.11
netware server, and on the old (newer) hardware a 3.12 one, at
work.

Bought two new books to be prepared for sylvester at work

One is “Goto Perl 5” and the other “CGI programming for the
WWW”,
I’m still waiting for the “CGI programming in Perl” to become
available.

Revised the whole nameserver configuration today, since the
RedHat
5.2 update has changed from BIND 4 to BIND 8, which is
completely
different.
Takes a lot of time, and you can do a lot of mistakes too.
(www.stun.de and zuse1.fps-net.mbox are totally tuned now.)

Maybe some performance problems are resolved too, I just didn’t
have
the time to verify this. (gatewaying and BIND 8 DNS through
firewalls)

jwotd: (moto/basics)

1st december 1998

Configured gatewaying and some firewalling stuff to be
prepared
for the spectacular Computer Club Night coming up this
weekend.
Here is a first part of the upcoming program:

FR 4.12.98
16:00 Computerclub Spezial (TV: WDR)
– 17:00
21:00 Essen
23:00 Irish Pub (Guiness Buch Rekordversuch):
(Gerd, Andy, Thomas, Reyk)
– 0:00
SA 5.12.98
0:00 Irish Pub (Deutschland Rekordversuch)
– 2:30
4:00-14:00 SCHLAFEN !!!
14:30 Computerclub Praxis live (TV: WDR)
18:00 Aufbau Hardware / Internettest (Routing) Proxy
20:00 Essen
21:00 Computerclub Vorschau Programm (TV: WDR)
23:00 Computerclub Nacht Paderborn live
(TV: WDR/Phoenix ; RADIO: 3 Stations ; INET: 60 WEBCAMS !!!)
– 0:00
SO 6.12.98
0:00 Computerclub Nacht (Linux Cluster WeltRekord Versuch)
– 6:15
6:30 Hardware Abbauen
– 8:00
9:00-18:00 SCHLAFEN !!!

jwotd: (mojõshimono/event)