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.

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)

30th november 1998

Had a free day and watched the Truman Show at the movies together
with Tom.

After that we had some Guinness at Shans.
In our heated discussion about MCSE’s and Windows NT the
barkeeper
suddenly joined in and suggested Tom to try Linux as an
alternative.
Unbelievable ! I never heard so many fu..ing bullsh.ts in one
sentence
before as he told about the bugs in NT.
This really was a very surprinsing evening. When the barkeepers
propose
you to install Linux (and give Unix’s just two more years on the
market)
who will this all come to an end ??? 8-))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

Thinking about two 10GB harddisk for my MP3 suite ????
Maybe a christmas gift to myself. 8-)))))))

Downloaded some of the RedHat updates and did a re-rsync to the
CDROM
tree of RedHat 5.2 (some packages were missing. tetex-stuff)

Martin Schmitt is giving a gig tonight. Boogie Woogie Piano of
course.

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

Improved my Perl programming to the usage of the CGI.pm
subroutines.

Was invited at Tom’s inauguration party because of his new
flat.
A lot of people there and almost everyone has discovered Tom’s
one
and only passion: Food !

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

Finished the tragedy of mirroring several partitions on the
ultras
diskarrays. Quite complex…. if you do it for the first time.

(Who else wants its SUN’s mirrored, call me !!!)

Had no time to install the Firewall-1 yet, so this one
moves…
…maybe next month ?

Discovered the world of Perl since c’t has explained the
basics.
m4 has gone. Perl is coming.

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

The day is long Willis !
(Do you have Netscape 4 ? Type: about:Willis)

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

Planned to install linux on both ultrasparcs but this architecture
isn’t
currently supported….. damn !!!!!!!!!!!

Fooled around trying to set up mirroring with disk suite which is
much
more complex in the gui environment, than the old text based
version.
(Did I mention wrong way mirroring ??? 8-))) Ups…..)

Birgit and Chris invited me for dinner at the Saigon. Yammi.

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

Installed an novell netware 4.11 server today for the first
time,
crazy what have they done ??? 4.10 was such easy and the 4.11
installation broke four times. Simple hang-ups. Never had that
problem
before. So “I did it my way”, copying everything by hand, which
worked
in just 20 Minutes.

Installed StarOffice 5.0 now, which really works fantastic if you
still
know the original 4.0 version based on linux.

Discovered tons of high-quality games at the game tome for linux
and
a few petitions to remember the commercial game hacker(coder) clubs
)
such as Westwood, Warner, Lucas Arts, Simon & Schuster,
…
that there are some people out in the woods with non-MS OS’s on
their
machines. But maybe they’re just all extorted by the
Helloween-monster.
M8-[=]S

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

Encountered some really strange netware problems.
Volumes that obviously have mashed FAT entries ??? Ugly !
Informed everyone about an emergency repair and just one
minute
before shutdown the error was gone ?!?

Axel Zwingenberger is giving a gig tonight at Landshut, so I
don’t
wont to miss this. BTW he now has his own location on the
net:
www.boogiewoogie.net

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

The new official 2.0.36 RH5.2 Kernel has to be downloaded and
installed.
I think I’ll wait for some more stuff to get the complete update
directory
at updates.redhat.com.

Downloaded some more themes for the Enlightenment window
manager.
Hey, this one is real fun ! 😎
Even if you mix it with the Gnome panel.

Have to install two firewalls in the second week of 1999 on E250
SUNs.

This thursday and friday might be a linux day we’ll see.
Someone tries to install a SNA server which can handle 1000
simultaneously
and in addition they’ll be encrypted in realtime.
Can you guess what the operating system will be ))))))))))))))))))))))))

Trash all your exchange servers and set up linux clusters
!!!!!!!!!!
(All of those pig noses, who wont believe me that linux takes its
chance.)

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

Downloaded StarOffice 5.0 for linux today. 70 MB no problems.
But you’ll have to get your installation code at
StarDivision.
Just for those of you who’ll install it in a few years.
8-))))

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

Markus has used my machine to compute MP3’s and disabled the RC5
task.
Gonna kill him !!!!!!!!!!! =)

Had to go to work today and reloaded 80 HUB’s with new
images.
Plus tried to install Winword across a 5KB/sec line. Huahhh…..

Totally fascinated discovered the “Enlightenment” window manager
for
linux. Which makes every machine looking really freaky.
8-))))))
(Just like the laptop desktop in the movie “Hackers”.)

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

Three of my four reported bugs on RH5.2 bugzilla have already
been
solved. Hey those guys are lightning fast. |->

Tested my new Langenscheid Japanese language training
program,
pretty cool….

c’t reported about the halloween documents and wrote that the
Microsoft
employees themselves are totally fascinated of Linux’s features
and
development. Ahhh, they’re getting cold feet ???? )))))))))

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

Got the IP address for the FFM server today, so now it really
becomes
a serious thing. )) Here it is 62.144.162.100

Somebody tell me how this works http://4563862512 ????
How do I know my own magic number ???

Reyk bought the RedHat 5.2 CD today, so you’ll see him having
a
install party tonight ??? 8-))))))

BTW: Have you heard of the Third Linux Install Party in
Munich
some days ago ? Don’t know the URL now, look back here later.
Has something to do with CompuPlus and the Munich Linus Users
Group.

Have to cook for my mom now…. see ya tomorrow…

Met with Gerd, Eva and Tom at Shans, where the E.Z. Pieces are
having
a gig tonight as every wednesday in november.
(Didn’t know that Alanis Morisette has a twin sister who sings
Ironic
more powerful than she does.)

17th november 1998

Had a meeting with Novell today, how to increase netware
performance
on our biggest server and the entire campus.
Too bad that someone said from the beginning that everything will
be
migrated to NT next year. (unbelievable st… you know what I
mean…)

Again had trouble at work because of the disability of some
people
that don’t know what their work is and who and for what they’re
paid.

Someone send me an offer… those guys here are just to stupid
to
survive the market.

15th to 16th november 1998

My mom had an accident at home and has brought to a hospital
because of very serious injuries.

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

Discovered another three bugs in the new RedHat 5.2 release which
I
started to track down and inform RedHat about.

Met with Gerd and enjoyed the live band at Shans after some
delicious
chinese food. )))))

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

Compiled and installed the 2.0.36 linux kernel.
But that didn’t solve some obscure shared lib problems.

12th november 1998

Lexmark problem now fixed. The updates will last ’til
tomorrow.

Got my 16 channel mixer today, yippi !!! 8-))))))))))

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

Is there a language in the world that is understandable for
normal
human beings ???

Tried balsa mail reader for Gnome, but POP3 seems not to be
supported
at the moment. (To the programmers, I need multiple POP3’s !!!
min.5)

Tried to configure MPPP 128kBit ISDN syncppp but it doesn’t seem
to
work even no entries about added channels in the debug
output.
Very strange….

Wrote my first bug report on RedHat 5.2. The shipped
procinfo-14.2
has its problems displaying all 16 IRQ’s correctly. instead of
IRQ
8 to 15 it shows up 16 to 23. Never heard of them ?? ))))
procinfo 13 is ok !

11th november 1998

Solved the SNA problems on the AIX machines. An power outage
yesterday
did some funny things to the PU’s and SNA gateways.

Another problem occured and seems solved, which occures when
printing
from a netware server through the ATM backbone to a marknet xle
printerbox.
Old images like 3.62.1 seem to have a problem here and are
unable
to receive anything bigger than 1kB. The new image 4.133.1 works
and
also the marknet pro 3 version. But the big item is that we cannot
flash
the 3.x images to 4.x ones. ) Hey, what a mess for Lexmark support
)

Played a little bit with PHP 3, but IMHO it’s very hard to learn
for
what you earn with it. I think it’s better to get familiar with
perl
and SSI then. (Also not my favourite choice. m4 would be
better)

Gone at the movies together with Tom and watched Antz !
A really great cartoon movie with a touch of Woody Allen’s
kind of neurotic.

10th november 1998

Upgraded the ffm-server to RedHat 5.2 Apollo.
Wow ! Absolutely no problems.
Everything went fine, three rpmsaves had to be renamed and
finished.
Pretty cool.

Dial-Up is again connected to ffm and fax receive is for sure
down.

Tomorrow there’s a really hairy job for me to do, because one
of
our AIX machines at work suddenly refuses to speak SNA.
What a wise decision )))

Who needs IP ? When you’ve got a big wide ATM backbone there’s
much
enough space for broadcasters like SNA, NETBEUI, NETBIOS, etc..

9th november 1998

The new ATM backbone runs perfectly. Everything is lightning
fast.
Great work guys !
Route tracking is now some more complicated since you have to
check
virtual paths through the backbone. But I love this. )))

We cancelled the installation date tomorrow for the ffm
server.
It’s much to expensive to go there by train instead of
waiting
one or two more weeks and go there by car with a friend.

Also the backup telnet access isn’t done yet. And believe me,
I don’t want to start without that, because no other out of
band
access is possible.

Finished downloading RedHat 5.2 with an average of 8.2kB/s
which
is really great for ISDN and german ISP connections into the
UK.

8th november 1998

Had a bad night. Our network supervision called me at 1am and
again
at 3:30 pm so I had to take a quick look whats going on at
work.
My colleagues just finished their ATM construction half an hour
before
and missed some things that didn’t work 100 pc. So it was my job.

Intensified my knowledge in m4 HTML writing, and I found the
first
weak point. m4_define is limited in size. About 100 chars
????
Another problem is the inclusion of multiple macros into one
single
definement. And the last bad behaviour seems to be in the
string
processing. Sometimes the “`” and “‘” work and sometimes not.
Depends on how many spaces, lines or included-defines you use
????

Downloading the next piece of redhat 5.2.
No sponsors found yet

7th november 1998

Another saturday at work, had to stop and restart two AIX HACMP
clusters.
What fun…. but everything went fine. Some other problems occured
on
cisco routers where standby ip was configured but udp had its
problems.

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

Downloaded almost the half redhat 5.2 now, don’t want to see my
bill
for this. Somebody give me a 8MBit link ???
At this place some compliments to my provider netsurf.de:
Most of the time 8,2kB/sec to everywhere in the world and never
busy
phone lines, really fantastic.

6th november 1998

Not my day…

Several problems with netware for SAA host connections and a
crashed
fileserver at highnoon plus phone terror the whole day.

5th november 1998

Continued RSyncing redhat5.2 which I started yesterday late
night.

4th november 1998

More MP3s done. I urgently need a very huge random access
media
to store all my MP3 converted CDs. Anyone experienced on DVD-RAM
?

FFM-server installation will be tuesday, definetely I hope.

3rd november 1998

Hey, saw that RedHat 5.2 was released yesterday.
But didn’t find time to start downloading yet.

Did a lot of new MP3 plus installed a new 4.3 GB harddisk in
our
netware server at work to get them stored.

Radio is past, realtime streaming is now ! 8-)))

2nd november 1998

Installation was cancelled. Not at least as there is a new
security
hole discovered in ssh 1.2.26. We ran 1.2.22 ups….

Now 1.2.26-3 from RedHat is installed in which according to
RedHat
itself this vulnerability is already fixed.

Wrote some automatic scripts for the FFM-server to restart
daemons,
shutdown, rebooting, mirroring (on demand using rsync) and so
on…

An emergency script has to be written to start up an
independent
sshd or telnetd to ensure accessing the system in case of a
died
inetd. This should be activatable by special http-request,
since
this is the only daemon running standalone.
(sshd runs lightning fast from inetd, so it’s started by the
superdaemon instead of running all the time standalone)

Hey Gerd, whats up with those passwords ???
(Dialup isn’t reactivated yet.)

Next installation date is this thursday or at latest next
tuesday.

1st november 1998

Completed work on the FFM server for the installation on
tomorrow.
Also installed an additional fan for the baramundi ))

Dial-up is disabled guys ! Fax-receiption is back online !

Tried to sample from an old single record. Oh it’s horrible,
without a real mixer and preamp it’s almost impossible.
After 5 hours of plugging sampling and thinking the thing was
done and ended up (guess) yep as a MP3.

Rebuild my private machine which was divided into several
pieces
to complete the FFM server in the last two months.

Switched off the mailbox, since most of the valueable
contents
have moved to the FFM server.

Tomorrow evening you should be able to contact the server at
http://www.stun.de
If nothing went wrong.

Don’t be shocked there are no pages done yet !!!
It’s all under construction. Pages will be set up by the
individuals.

30th november 1998

Had a free day and watched the Truman Show at the movies together
with Tom.

After that we had some Guinness at Shans.
In our heated discussion about MCSE’s and Windows NT the
barkeeper
suddenly joined in and suggested Tom to try Linux as an
alternative.
Unbelievable ! I never heard so many fu..ing bullsh.ts in one
sentence
before as he told about the bugs in NT.
This really was a very surprinsing evening. When the barkeepers
propose
you to install Linux (and give Unix’s just two more years on the
market)
who will this all come to an end ??? 8-))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

Thinking about two 10GB harddisk for my MP3 suite ????
Maybe a christmas gift to myself. 8-)))))))

Downloaded some of the RedHat updates and did a re-rsync to the
CDROM
tree of RedHat 5.2 (some packages were missing. tetex-stuff)

Martin Schmitt is giving a gig tonight. Boogie Woogie Piano of
course.

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

Improved my Perl programming to the usage of the CGI.pm
subroutines.

Was invited at Tom’s inauguration party because of his new
flat.
A lot of people there and almost everyone has discovered Tom’s
one
and only passion: Food !

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

Finished the tragedy of mirroring several partitions on the
ultras
diskarrays. Quite complex…. if you do it for the first time.

(Who else wants its SUN’s mirrored, call me !!!)

Had no time to install the Firewall-1 yet, so this one
moves…
…maybe next month ?

Discovered the world of Perl since c’t has explained the
basics.
m4 has gone. Perl is coming.

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

The day is long Willis !
(Do you have Netscape 4 ? Type: about:Willis)

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

Planned to install linux on both ultrasparcs but this architecture
isn’t
currently supported….. damn !!!!!!!!!!!

Fooled around trying to set up mirroring with disk suite which is
much
more complex in the gui environment, than the old text based
version.
(Did I mention wrong way mirroring ??? 8-))) Ups…..)

Birgit and Chris invited me for dinner at the Saigon. Yammi.

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

Installed an novell netware 4.11 server today for the first
time,
crazy what have they done ??? 4.10 was such easy and the 4.11
installation broke four times. Simple hang-ups. Never had that
problem
before. So “I did it my way”, copying everything by hand, which
worked
in just 20 Minutes.

Installed StarOffice 5.0 now, which really works fantastic if you
still
know the original 4.0 version based on linux.

Discovered tons of high-quality games at the game tome for linux
and
a few petitions to remember the commercial game hacker(coder) clubs
)
such as Westwood, Warner, Lucas Arts, Simon & Schuster,
…
that there are some people out in the woods with non-MS OS’s on
their
machines. But maybe they’re just all extorted by the
Helloween-monster.
M8-[=]S

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

Encountered some really strange netware problems.
Volumes that obviously have mashed FAT entries ??? Ugly !
Informed everyone about an emergency repair and just one
minute
before shutdown the error was gone ?!?

Axel Zwingenberger is giving a gig tonight at Landshut, so I
don’t
wont to miss this. BTW he now has his own location on the
net:
www.boogiewoogie.net

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

The new official 2.0.36 RH5.2 Kernel has to be downloaded and
installed.
I think I’ll wait for some more stuff to get the complete update
directory
at updates.redhat.com.

Downloaded some more themes for the Enlightenment window
manager.
Hey, this one is real fun ! 😎
Even if you mix it with the Gnome panel.

Have to install two firewalls in the second week of 1999 on E250
SUNs.

This thursday and friday might be a linux day we’ll see.
Someone tries to install a SNA server which can handle 1000
simultaneously
and in addition they’ll be encrypted in realtime.
Can you guess what the operating system will be ))))))))))))))))))))))))

Trash all your exchange servers and set up linux clusters
!!!!!!!!!!
(All of those pig noses, who wont believe me that linux takes its
chance.)

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

Downloaded StarOffice 5.0 for linux today. 70 MB no problems.
But you’ll have to get your installation code at
StarDivision.
Just for those of you who’ll install it in a few years.
8-))))

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

Markus has used my machine to compute MP3’s and disabled the RC5
task.
Gonna kill him !!!!!!!!!!! =)

Had to go to work today and reloaded 80 HUB’s with new
images.
Plus tried to install Winword across a 5KB/sec line. Huahhh…..

Totally fascinated discovered the “Enlightenment” window manager
for
linux. Which makes every machine looking really freaky.
8-))))))
(Just like the laptop desktop in the movie “Hackers”.)

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

Three of my four reported bugs on RH5.2 bugzilla have already
been
solved. Hey those guys are lightning fast. |->

Tested my new Langenscheid Japanese language training
program,
pretty cool….

c’t reported about the halloween documents and wrote that the
Microsoft
employees themselves are totally fascinated of Linux’s features
and
development. Ahhh, they’re getting cold feet ???? )))))))))

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

Got the IP address for the FFM server today, so now it really
becomes
a serious thing. )) Here it is 62.144.162.100

Somebody tell me how this works http://4563862512 ????
How do I know my own magic number ???

Reyk bought the RedHat 5.2 CD today, so you’ll see him having
a
install party tonight ??? 8-))))))

BTW: Have you heard of the Third Linux Install Party in
Munich
some days ago ? Don’t know the URL now, look back here later.
Has something to do with CompuPlus and the Munich Linus Users
Group.

Have to cook for my mom now…. see ya tomorrow…

Met with Gerd, Eva and Tom at Shans, where the E.Z. Pieces are
having
a gig tonight as every wednesday in november.
(Didn’t know that Alanis Morisette has a twin sister who sings
Ironic
more powerful than she does.)

17th november 1998

Had a meeting with Novell today, how to increase netware
performance
on our biggest server and the entire campus.
Too bad that someone said from the beginning that everything will
be
migrated to NT next year. (unbelievable st… you know what I
mean…)

Again had trouble at work because of the disability of some
people
that don’t know what their work is and who and for what they’re
paid.

Someone send me an offer… those guys here are just to stupid
to
survive the market.

15th to 16th november 1998

My mom had an accident at home and has brought to a hospital
because of very serious injuries.

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

Discovered another three bugs in the new RedHat 5.2 release which
I
started to track down and inform RedHat about.

Met with Gerd and enjoyed the live band at Shans after some
delicious
chinese food. )))))

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

Compiled and installed the 2.0.36 linux kernel.
But that didn’t solve some obscure shared lib problems.

12th november 1998

Lexmark problem now fixed. The updates will last ’til
tomorrow.

Got my 16 channel mixer today, yippi !!! 8-))))))))))

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

Is there a language in the world that is understandable for
normal
human beings ???

Tried balsa mail reader for Gnome, but POP3 seems not to be
supported
at the moment. (To the programmers, I need multiple POP3’s !!!
min.5)

Tried to configure MPPP 128kBit ISDN syncppp but it doesn’t seem
to
work even no entries about added channels in the debug
output.
Very strange….

Wrote my first bug report on RedHat 5.2. The shipped
procinfo-14.2
has its problems displaying all 16 IRQ’s correctly. instead of
IRQ
8 to 15 it shows up 16 to 23. Never heard of them ?? ))))
procinfo 13 is ok !

11th november 1998

Solved the SNA problems on the AIX machines. An power outage
yesterday
did some funny things to the PU’s and SNA gateways.

Another problem occured and seems solved, which occures when
printing
from a netware server through the ATM backbone to a marknet xle
printerbox.
Old images like 3.62.1 seem to have a problem here and are
unable
to receive anything bigger than 1kB. The new image 4.133.1 works
and
also the marknet pro 3 version. But the big item is that we cannot
flash
the 3.x images to 4.x ones. ) Hey, what a mess for Lexmark support
)

Played a little bit with PHP 3, but IMHO it’s very hard to learn
for
what you earn with it. I think it’s better to get familiar with
perl
and SSI then. (Also not my favourite choice. m4 would be
better)

Gone at the movies together with Tom and watched Antz !
A really great cartoon movie with a touch of Woody Allen’s
kind of neurotic.

10th november 1998

Upgraded the ffm-server to RedHat 5.2 Apollo.
Wow ! Absolutely no problems.
Everything went fine, three rpmsaves had to be renamed and
finished.
Pretty cool.

Dial-Up is again connected to ffm and fax receive is for sure
down.

Tomorrow there’s a really hairy job for me to do, because one
of
our AIX machines at work suddenly refuses to speak SNA.
What a wise decision )))

Who needs IP ? When you’ve got a big wide ATM backbone there’s
much
enough space for broadcasters like SNA, NETBEUI, NETBIOS, etc..

9th november 1998

The new ATM backbone runs perfectly. Everything is lightning
fast.
Great work guys !
Route tracking is now some more complicated since you have to
check
virtual paths through the backbone. But I love this. )))

We cancelled the installation date tomorrow for the ffm
server.
It’s much to expensive to go there by train instead of
waiting
one or two more weeks and go there by car with a friend.

Also the backup telnet access isn’t done yet. And believe me,
I don’t want to start without that, because no other out of
band
access is possible.

Finished downloading RedHat 5.2 with an average of 8.2kB/s
which
is really great for ISDN and german ISP connections into the
UK.

8th november 1998

Had a bad night. Our network supervision called me at 1am and
again
at 3:30 pm so I had to take a quick look whats going on at
work.
My colleagues just finished their ATM construction half an hour
before
and missed some things that didn’t work 100 pc. So it was my job.

Intensified my knowledge in m4 HTML writing, and I found the
first
weak point. m4_define is limited in size. About 100 chars
????
Another problem is the inclusion of multiple macros into one
single
definement. And the last bad behaviour seems to be in the
string
processing. Sometimes the “`” and “‘” work and sometimes not.
Depends on how many spaces, lines or included-defines you use
????

Downloading the next piece of redhat 5.2.
No sponsors found yet

7th november 1998

Another saturday at work, had to stop and restart two AIX HACMP
clusters.
What fun…. but everything went fine. Some other problems occured
on
cisco routers where standby ip was configured but udp had its
problems.

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

Downloaded almost the half redhat 5.2 now, don’t want to see my
bill
for this. Somebody give me a 8MBit link ???
At this place some compliments to my provider netsurf.de:
Most of the time 8,2kB/sec to everywhere in the world and never
busy
phone lines, really fantastic.

6th november 1998

Not my day…

Several problems with netware for SAA host connections and a
crashed
fileserver at highnoon plus phone terror the whole day.

5th november 1998

Continued RSyncing redhat5.2 which I started yesterday late
night.

4th november 1998

More MP3s done. I urgently need a very huge random access
media
to store all my MP3 converted CDs. Anyone experienced on DVD-RAM
?

FFM-server installation will be tuesday, definetely I hope.

3rd november 1998

Hey, saw that RedHat 5.2 was released yesterday.
But didn’t find time to start downloading yet.

Did a lot of new MP3 plus installed a new 4.3 GB harddisk in
our
netware server at work to get them stored.

Radio is past, realtime streaming is now ! 8-)))

2nd november 1998

Installation was cancelled. Not at least as there is a new
security
hole discovered in ssh 1.2.26. We ran 1.2.22 ups….

Now 1.2.26-3 from RedHat is installed in which according to
RedHat
itself this vulnerability is already fixed.

Wrote some automatic scripts for the FFM-server to restart
daemons,
shutdown, rebooting, mirroring (on demand using rsync) and so
on…

An emergency script has to be written to start up an
independent
sshd or telnetd to ensure accessing the system in case of a
died
inetd. This should be activatable by special http-request,
since
this is the only daemon running standalone.
(sshd runs lightning fast from inetd, so it’s started by the
superdaemon instead of running all the time standalone)

Hey Gerd, whats up with those passwords ???
(Dialup isn’t reactivated yet.)

Next installation date is this thursday or at latest next
tuesday.

1st november 1998

Completed work on the FFM server for the installation on
tomorrow.
Also installed an additional fan for the baramundi ))

Dial-up is disabled guys ! Fax-receiption is back online !

Tried to sample from an old single record. Oh it’s horrible,
without a real mixer and preamp it’s almost impossible.
After 5 hours of plugging sampling and thinking the thing was
done and ended up (guess) yep as a MP3.

Rebuild my private machine which was divided into several
pieces
to complete the FFM server in the last two months.

Switched off the mailbox, since most of the valueable
contents
have moved to the FFM server.

Tomorrow evening you should be able to contact the server at
http://www.stun.de
If nothing went wrong.

Don’t be shocked there are no pages done yet !!!
It’s all under construction. Pages will be set up by the
individuals.

30th november 1998

Had a free day and watched the Truman Show at the movies together
with Tom.

After that we had some Guinness at Shans.
In our heated discussion about MCSE’s and Windows NT the
barkeeper
suddenly joined in and suggested Tom to try Linux as an
alternative.
Unbelievable ! I never heard so many fu..ing bullsh.ts in one
sentence
before as he told about the bugs in NT.
This really was a very surprinsing evening. When the barkeepers
propose
you to install Linux (and give Unix’s just two more years on the
market)
who will this all come to an end ??? 8-))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

Thinking about two 10GB harddisk for my MP3 suite ????
Maybe a christmas gift to myself. 8-)))))))

Downloaded some of the RedHat updates and did a re-rsync to the
CDROM
tree of RedHat 5.2 (some packages were missing. tetex-stuff)

Martin Schmitt is giving a gig tonight. Boogie Woogie Piano of
course.

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

Improved my Perl programming to the usage of the CGI.pm
subroutines.

Was invited at Tom’s inauguration party because of his new
flat.
A lot of people there and almost everyone has discovered Tom’s
one
and only passion: Food !

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

Finished the tragedy of mirroring several partitions on the
ultras
diskarrays. Quite complex…. if you do it for the first time.

(Who else wants its SUN’s mirrored, call me !!!)

Had no time to install the Firewall-1 yet, so this one
moves…
…maybe next month ?

Discovered the world of Perl since c’t has explained the
basics.
m4 has gone. Perl is coming.

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

The day is long Willis !
(Do you have Netscape 4 ? Type: about:Willis)

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

Planned to install linux on both ultrasparcs but this architecture
isn’t
currently supported….. damn !!!!!!!!!!!

Fooled around trying to set up mirroring with disk suite which is
much
more complex in the gui environment, than the old text based
version.
(Did I mention wrong way mirroring ??? 8-))) Ups…..)

Birgit and Chris invited me for dinner at the Saigon. Yammi.

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

Installed an novell netware 4.11 server today for the first
time,
crazy what have they done ??? 4.10 was such easy and the 4.11
installation broke four times. Simple hang-ups. Never had that
problem
before. So “I did it my way”, copying everything by hand, which
worked
in just 20 Minutes.

Installed StarOffice 5.0 now, which really works fantastic if you
still
know the original 4.0 version based on linux.

Discovered tons of high-quality games at the game tome for linux
and
a few petitions to remember the commercial game hacker(coder) clubs
)
such as Westwood, Warner, Lucas Arts, Simon & Schuster,
…
that there are some people out in the woods with non-MS OS’s on
their
machines. But maybe they’re just all extorted by the
Helloween-monster.
M8-[=]S

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

Encountered some really strange netware problems.
Volumes that obviously have mashed FAT entries ??? Ugly !
Informed everyone about an emergency repair and just one
minute
before shutdown the error was gone ?!?

Axel Zwingenberger is giving a gig tonight at Landshut, so I
don’t
wont to miss this. BTW he now has his own location on the
net:
www.boogiewoogie.net

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

The new official 2.0.36 RH5.2 Kernel has to be downloaded and
installed.
I think I’ll wait for some more stuff to get the complete update
directory
at updates.redhat.com.

Downloaded some more themes for the Enlightenment window
manager.
Hey, this one is real fun ! 😎
Even if you mix it with the Gnome panel.

Have to install two firewalls in the second week of 1999 on E250
SUNs.

This thursday and friday might be a linux day we’ll see.
Someone tries to install a SNA server which can handle 1000
simultaneously
and in addition they’ll be encrypted in realtime.
Can you guess what the operating system will be ))))))))))))))))))))))))

Trash all your exchange servers and set up linux clusters
!!!!!!!!!!
(All of those pig noses, who wont believe me that linux takes its
chance.)

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

Downloaded StarOffice 5.0 for linux today. 70 MB no problems.
But you’ll have to get your installation code at
StarDivision.
Just for those of you who’ll install it in a few years.
8-))))

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

Markus has used my machine to compute MP3’s and disabled the RC5
task.
Gonna kill him !!!!!!!!!!! =)

Had to go to work today and reloaded 80 HUB’s with new
images.
Plus tried to install Winword across a 5KB/sec line. Huahhh…..

Totally fascinated discovered the “Enlightenment” window manager
for
linux. Which makes every machine looking really freaky.
8-))))))
(Just like the laptop desktop in the movie “Hackers”.)

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

Three of my four reported bugs on RH5.2 bugzilla have already
been
solved. Hey those guys are lightning fast. |->

Tested my new Langenscheid Japanese language training
program,
pretty cool….

c’t reported about the halloween documents and wrote that the
Microsoft
employees themselves are totally fascinated of Linux’s features
and
development. Ahhh, they’re getting cold feet ???? )))))))))

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

Got the IP address for the FFM server today, so now it really
becomes
a serious thing. )) Here it is 62.144.162.100

Somebody tell me how this works http://4563862512 ????
How do I know my own magic number ???

Reyk bought the RedHat 5.2 CD today, so you’ll see him having
a
install party tonight ??? 8-))))))

BTW: Have you heard of the Third Linux Install Party in
Munich
some days ago ? Don’t know the URL now, look back here later.
Has something to do with CompuPlus and the Munich Linus Users
Group.

Have to cook for my mom now…. see ya tomorrow…

Met with Gerd, Eva and Tom at Shans, where the E.Z. Pieces are
having
a gig tonight as every wednesday in november.
(Didn’t know that Alanis Morisette has a twin sister who sings
Ironic
more powerful than she does.)

17th november 1998

Had a meeting with Novell today, how to increase netware
performance
on our biggest server and the entire campus.
Too bad that someone said from the beginning that everything will
be
migrated to NT next year. (unbelievable st… you know what I
mean…)

Again had trouble at work because of the disability of some
people
that don’t know what their work is and who and for what they’re
paid.

Someone send me an offer… those guys here are just to stupid
to
survive the market.

15th to 16th november 1998

My mom had an accident at home and has brought to a hospital
because of very serious injuries.

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

Discovered another three bugs in the new RedHat 5.2 release which
I
started to track down and inform RedHat about.

Met with Gerd and enjoyed the live band at Shans after some
delicious
chinese food. )))))

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

Compiled and installed the 2.0.36 linux kernel.
But that didn’t solve some obscure shared lib problems.

12th november 1998

Lexmark problem now fixed. The updates will last ’til
tomorrow.

Got my 16 channel mixer today, yippi !!! 8-))))))))))

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

Is there a language in the world that is understandable for
normal
human beings ???

Tried balsa mail reader for Gnome, but POP3 seems not to be
supported
at the moment. (To the programmers, I need multiple POP3’s !!!
min.5)

Tried to configure MPPP 128kBit ISDN syncppp but it doesn’t seem
to
work even no entries about added channels in the debug
output.
Very strange….

Wrote my first bug report on RedHat 5.2. The shipped
procinfo-14.2
has its problems displaying all 16 IRQ’s correctly. instead of
IRQ
8 to 15 it shows up 16 to 23. Never heard of them ?? ))))
procinfo 13 is ok !

11th november 1998

Solved the SNA problems on the AIX machines. An power outage
yesterday
did some funny things to the PU’s and SNA gateways.

Another problem occured and seems solved, which occures when
printing
from a netware server through the ATM backbone to a marknet xle
printerbox.
Old images like 3.62.1 seem to have a problem here and are
unable
to receive anything bigger than 1kB. The new image 4.133.1 works
and
also the marknet pro 3 version. But the big item is that we cannot
flash
the 3.x images to 4.x ones. ) Hey, what a mess for Lexmark support
)

Played a little bit with PHP 3, but IMHO it’s very hard to learn
for
what you earn with it. I think it’s better to get familiar with
perl
and SSI then. (Also not my favourite choice. m4 would be
better)

Gone at the movies together with Tom and watched Antz !
A really great cartoon movie with a touch of Woody Allen’s
kind of neurotic.

10th november 1998

Upgraded the ffm-server to RedHat 5.2 Apollo.
Wow ! Absolutely no problems.
Everything went fine, three rpmsaves had to be renamed and
finished.
Pretty cool.

Dial-Up is again connected to ffm and fax receive is for sure
down.

Tomorrow there’s a really hairy job for me to do, because one
of
our AIX machines at work suddenly refuses to speak SNA.
What a wise decision )))

Who needs IP ? When you’ve got a big wide ATM backbone there’s
much
enough space for broadcasters like SNA, NETBEUI, NETBIOS, etc..

9th november 1998

The new ATM backbone runs perfectly. Everything is lightning
fast.
Great work guys !
Route tracking is now some more complicated since you have to
check
virtual paths through the backbone. But I love this. )))

We cancelled the installation date tomorrow for the ffm
server.
It’s much to expensive to go there by train instead of
waiting
one or two more weeks and go there by car with a friend.

Also the backup telnet access isn’t done yet. And believe me,
I don’t want to start without that, because no other out of
band
access is possible.

Finished downloading RedHat 5.2 with an average of 8.2kB/s
which
is really great for ISDN and german ISP connections into the
UK.

8th november 1998

Had a bad night. Our network supervision called me at 1am and
again
at 3:30 pm so I had to take a quick look whats going on at
work.
My colleagues just finished their ATM construction half an hour
before
and missed some things that didn’t work 100 pc. So it was my job.

Intensified my knowledge in m4 HTML writing, and I found the
first
weak point. m4_define is limited in size. About 100 chars
????
Another problem is the inclusion of multiple macros into one
single
definement. And the last bad behaviour seems to be in the
string
processing. Sometimes the “`” and “‘” work and sometimes not.
Depends on how many spaces, lines or included-defines you use
????

Downloading the next piece of redhat 5.2.
No sponsors found yet

7th november 1998

Another saturday at work, had to stop and restart two AIX HACMP
clusters.
What fun…. but everything went fine. Some other problems occured
on
cisco routers where standby ip was configured but udp had its
problems.

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

Downloaded almost the half redhat 5.2 now, don’t want to see my
bill
for this. Somebody give me a 8MBit link ???
At this place some compliments to my provider netsurf.de:
Most of the time 8,2kB/sec to everywhere in the world and never
busy
phone lines, really fantastic.

6th november 1998

Not my day…

Several problems with netware for SAA host connections and a
crashed
fileserver at highnoon plus phone terror the whole day.

5th november 1998

Continued RSyncing redhat5.2 which I started yesterday late
night.

4th november 1998

More MP3s done. I urgently need a very huge random access
media
to store all my MP3 converted CDs. Anyone experienced on DVD-RAM
?

FFM-server installation will be tuesday, definetely I hope.

3rd november 1998

Hey, saw that RedHat 5.2 was released yesterday.
But didn’t find time to start downloading yet.

Did a lot of new MP3 plus installed a new 4.3 GB harddisk in
our
netware server at work to get them stored.

Radio is past, realtime streaming is now ! 8-)))

2nd november 1998

Installation was cancelled. Not at least as there is a new
security
hole discovered in ssh 1.2.26. We ran 1.2.22 ups….

Now 1.2.26-3 from RedHat is installed in which according to
RedHat
itself this vulnerability is already fixed.

Wrote some automatic scripts for the FFM-server to restart
daemons,
shutdown, rebooting, mirroring (on demand using rsync) and so
on…

An emergency script has to be written to start up an
independent
sshd or telnetd to ensure accessing the system in case of a
died
inetd. This should be activatable by special http-request,
since
this is the only daemon running standalone.
(sshd runs lightning fast from inetd, so it’s started by the
superdaemon instead of running all the time standalone)

Hey Gerd, whats up with those passwords ???
(Dialup isn’t reactivated yet.)

Next installation date is this thursday or at latest next
tuesday.

1st november 1998

Completed work on the FFM server for the installation on
tomorrow.
Also installed an additional fan for the baramundi ))

Dial-up is disabled guys ! Fax-receiption is back online !

Tried to sample from an old single record. Oh it’s horrible,
without a real mixer and preamp it’s almost impossible.
After 5 hours of plugging sampling and thinking the thing was
done and ended up (guess) yep as a MP3.

Rebuild my private machine which was divided into several
pieces
to complete the FFM server in the last two months.

Switched off the mailbox, since most of the valueable
contents
have moved to the FFM server.

Tomorrow evening you should be able to contact the server at
http://www.stun.de
If nothing went wrong.

Don’t be shocked there are no pages done yet !!!
It’s all under construction. Pages will be set up by the
individuals.

31st october 1998

Wrote a script to do root mirroring on demand for the FFM
server.
This one includes redundancy in case of usage failures or
even
complete crash of the first harddrive. The second part
mirrors
the home, usr and var areas to set up a fully functional
webserver
with the most recent data in case of an emergency due to
drive
failure of the main data harddisk.
I think this way is much better than the current raid-1
option.

Heard from Computrclub on WDR that they’ll set up a cluster
of
300 Linux machines and will report live all the night from
december 5th to 6th. So stay tuned. Live on the internet.

30th october 1998

Had some AIX trouble at work, where the ulimit says unlimited
and
an uncompress to an archived +2GB file says ulimit reached.
Maybe its just uncompress itself, that can only handle files
smaller
2GB. How boring…..

Prepared SSA harddisk drives for installing on tomorrow.

Kept looking for a tool to easy created an interactively
update
HTML pages, through a browser page itself and groups or users
should be support with read only and write access. Any proposes
?

Reactivated the CD-ROM drive of my fathers computer, which
hasn’t
been turned on for a half year now. (Meanwhile it may happen,
that
Win95 forgets its hardware settings and drivers…????)

Played with Tom a few rounds of “You don’t know Jack !”

29th october 1998

Installed a netware 4.1 server at work to catch all the
NOT-LOGGED-IN
connections of the whole campus produced by our NT machines
because
of a failure in the old intranetware client 4.11(+a).

Met with Gerd and had japanese sushi dinner at Munichs Enshu.

Spent the rest of the night at the “Vogler Bar” where Lutz is
giving
a boogie piano gig. Met there with Karl and everyone of us played
a
short boogie medley. (I hate that cold
wheater….fingerfreezer…)

28th october 1998

Wrote to Novell to ask for any suggestions on making our
netware
server as fast as possible including software and OS updates
as
well as for any cost.

Discovered a giant archive of MP3s at work. Urgently need
something
to store all the files. It’s growing day for day, almost
scaring.
A 650 MB CD-ROM cannot be the final solution. Also DVD-RAM
seems
to be dying because of its low dimensioned capacity.

Installed Gimp on NT4, if you delete the script-fu part it’ll
work. Not fast and sometimes very odd in graphics redraw, but
it
works. Maybe this will force Adobe to lower prices for PS5.

Experimented with some new diary styles, but after showing
the
first results to some colleagues and reviewing the extended
code
I decided to live with the old style layout.

Copied the whole mailbox and a few archives of japanese
programs
into the FFM servers ftp area. As long as locally possible.

Lutz is playing boogie tomorrow evening so I’ve to go there.
Hey Karl, Reyk, Babsi and Gerd would you like to join ?

27th october 1998

Had a big meeting at work today. Although we gave the
responsible
persons many different solutions, they wont accept anything
that
fixes problems finally. Instead they’re giving up more and
more
of the fine features. And IMHO it’s simply unfair to compete
with
a netware 4 750 user ppro200 machine against a 100 user p2/350 NT
4.
I regret it not being allowed to give them a linux samba machine
on
a p133. Maybe death rate of NT admins would increase to
much…

Made big plans how to increase performance of a netware 4
server
updating several hardware and software components.

Installed a scsi tape drive and made backups from my mailbox
and
the FFM server. Can’t remember how to store only files from
within
a list, so I discovered “taper”. Hey, what’s tar, doc ?

Got a big problem solved.
It’s not easy to rsync a big directory tree when you
configure
a module for /home/ftp/ab and try to search the files in
/home/ab.
8-)) (This costs me two weeks of my life.)
Now the backups have to be remade….. grrrrr….

I forgot to mention that I discovered autoexpect about three days
ago.
It’s like a macro recorder which makes it very easy to cron
file
transfers and telnet sessions….
(Take a look at it ! The output is a fully functional expect
script.)

26th october 1998

What a day of horror today. Arrived at work and instantly
joined
a group of six other technicians to fix some serious problems
on
our new fast-ethernet migrated secondary network.
Most of the NT machines showed up blue screen after about 10
minutes
running. Switch to switch connectivity was ok, but every
connection
from a PC to its default gateway had about 40 pc misses.
Wow…..
And a third failure seems to be a problem on the UPS power
line.
If two lasers heat up at the same time, some of the newer
ATX-PCs
showed “Out of scan range” monitor messages because of the
graphics
adapter failed to work immediately.
Now think again what would happen if we would use cheaper
monitors.
Blast away…. )))))))))))))))

Have to install a fan on the 4 GB harddisk of the FFM server
because
it heats up much too high. Ouch.

BTW: Aussies would call them Barramundi harddisks ))))))))))

25th october 1998

My parents arrived early morning 5:40 AM directly from Kuala
Lumpur,
so I got to get up much to early for a sunday morning.
Uahh…

Much stories from my parents to listen to…

24th october 1998

Bought 128MB memory for the FFM server, installed it and rerun
lilo
with the memory option. Time that they add automatic memory
detection
for more than 64MB main memory in the next Linux kernel.

Updated the FFM page. Hey Gerd, would you recalculate costs ?

One of my colleagues had panic at work, since he discovered
that
no one has joined him to track the secondary network
problems.
I’m sorry, but today is the big meeting with my old school
friends.

First time, I saw that crazy Beatles movie “Yeah, yeah, yeah” on
TV.
Looks like the male version of “Spice World”.

23rd october 1998

Reached place 3500 at RC5 statistics. But I’m sure I’ll fall in
the
next estimated 20 years… )))))
RC5 64-bit encryption seems to be enough for this century.

Tried to get RSync running when copying many files to the
server
but yet I don’t know how to automaticaly create the neede
directory
branch structure.

Wrote the FFM admin kernel howtos using m4 macro language for
design changes.
Hey Gerd: please upload me the m4 for NT. Thx.

Again much trouble at work, this time most of our bigger
secondary
networks, experienced heavy load problems on routers and
switches.
And additionally they wont upgrade their 1500 intranetware
clients,
which at the moment is only a fourth of all planned NT
workstations.

ts, ts, ts… You know most people are lazy, but those are
really
stupid ones. You want support ? If so, do it, and don’t ask,
or move over to Linux, finally.

Gone for chinese dinner together with Gerd and finished the
evening
with a cool Guinness. (It seems I found someone to translate all
the
boogie text stuff, I never had time for.)

22nd october 1998

Installed GNOME 0.30 completely with all the newest packages
available. Had absolutely no problems uninstalling the old
GNOME
core, libs, gtk, glib etc. Really good work !!!!!!!!!
(For those of you doing the same: Be informed to install the
glib and gtk compatibility versions (gtk+10 and glib10)
before,
and the developement versions 1.1.x after.)

Found the solution how to get rid of the NOT-LOGGED-IN
connections
on our Netware 3.x and 4.x servers when using NT clients on
the
same network. (Hey that will be much fun to upgrade the
intranetware
clients on all NT machines installed to version 4.2)

Made MP3s of four older CDs on NT 4. Hell, they’d never heard
of
process priority and correct memory management, I guess.

Ever tried to remove a CDROM when NT is under heavy load ?
After load goes back to normal the explorer refuses to do
anything
before you put back the SAME CD into the drive.
Of course you can feel free to reboot your machine to solve this.
)))

Got invited for roastbeef dinner by my uncle and aunt. Thanks,
yummie !
Finally got my Skokiann by Louis Armstrong (+6min version) from
my
uncle. (Just know, whom to ask.)

21st october 1998

And again, tons of stuff to do at work. Had to restore 160 MB
file structures with ADSM, but server load and stone old
tapes
made it a real horror trip. (Did I mention users, which can’t
wait ’til it’s all done. So I earned some nice file locks.)

It seems that no one was delighted of working this morning,
when I arrived at highnoon.

Collected almost all available images of didgeridoos on the
net
to set up a new personal didge homepage. Since someone ask me
for that yesterday.

Wrote two new admin howtos for www.stun.de.
Using Rsync and Secure Shell.

20th october 1998

Tried to configure telnet forwarding via ssh to the FFM
server,
but this looks like there are some tricks needed.

At work they told me that the server crashed two times after
our
big work. But IMHO this will be another mans problem.
As far as I can say, the server is up and running from that
minute
on when I walked through the door this morning. You know.
God loves some people.
Maybe because of the bible. (Linux in a nutshell, you remember
???)

Installed new harddisks on a netware server and did some
profiling.

Wrote a really cool HTML page, where you can have an overview
of
all german TV stations at once. )) Pretty cool, this is something
for FFM (http://andys.stun.de/tv)

Played around with some Winamp audio plugins.
Hey Azzurro speeded up to 50 pc could be the next chartbreaker.

I’ll look forward to mix a new techno version of it. Be
tensed…

19th october 1998

Finished the server reconstruction early 5 AM in the
morning….
Damn, we’re now working for 21 hours. Mad, really mad…..
Now it’s urgently time to get some sleep.

18th october 1998

Started rearranging Netware volumes on our big 4.1 server
together with Cetin early morning at 8:30 AM.

We expected to have everything done at latest 8 PM, but
our estimated schedule differs more and more…

Never trust a schedule….

17th october 1998

Installed and tested around the RSync-Server on the FFM
machine,
which still resides in Munich. Hey Reyk what’s fact ???

Did some Chinese cooking with Tom at his new apartment.

Will have to work tomorrow….

16th october 1998

Did some documentation of new AIX systems and a run around
hunting
for the serial numbers of all AIX storage sub systems.

Spent the rest of the day at Birgit’s birthday party.

15th october 1998

Hey I’m on place 3600 with RC5. Not bad for an individual.

Had some (human) trouble at work, sometimes they drive me mad.
8-(=)

Got another two job announcements for web page design.
Thanks, but first of all, I even got no time to update my own
pages
and second, I regret your ignorance for all the really cool
web sites around. Maybe later when I reached that level too.
(Wait for my new boogie pages…)

A propos boogie pages:
My scanner is still inactive, so you all have to wait for the
new
pictures you sent to me. (It’s more a problem of space on my
desk
to put the scanner in range of the computer.)

I also need a solution for my 300 CDs, maybe someone make me a
gift?
A 500 disk changer should be ok for the beginning.

14th october 1998

Met with IBM for AIX hardware support. Hey those guys are lightning
fast.

Installed the 4 GB harddisk on the FFM server and moved some
filesystems.
Works great, absolutely no problems, also the mirror copy of the
whole
root partition disk. So we now can boot from the second disk, just
in case.

Hey, I got innd working as news-server. Great ! Subscribing,
posting
and reading with Netscape. Pretty cool.

My ISP is again unreachable…. hey guys don’t go on with that, I
don’t
want to move again that soon.

13th october 1998

HACMP now works again after some praying, but the lf-terminal
is defect. Will met with IBM on thursday.

Installed Winamp 2.03 at work, hey who needs that CD-Audio drivers
????
Instead use the whole space on CD for MP3’s )))))))

Deinstalled my future network cupboard for soon transport next week
or so.

Discovered how to install stable and unstable code libraries for
use
at the same time. (I hope that works also on the next stable
version update.)

Gerd is hopefully working on the FFM password rotation
concept.

Invited my uncle and aunt to japanese dinner. Very delicious…

12th october 1998

HACMP trouble on an AIX cluster….huahhhh, not my day.
Introduced Alex into real web-chat, not just company-wide.
Maybe she’ll manage IRC someday. I’m working on it !

Gerd still has trouble connecting via PPP to the FFM-server
but I’m sure not for long, cause it’s moving on saturday.

We’ll discuss that this evening with some Guinness at Shans.

11th october 1998

Studied the new c’t magazine. And seen a documentation on TV
how to easy implementing structures of real AI to machines.
Hey that looks like a new project to me:
Simple, cheap and fascinating(c)Spock.

Tried to recompile BeRo-FTPD for use with shadow passwords
and
statistics. But suddenly everything seems broken. ???
First compilation was without any problems, I thougth…

10th october 1998

Bought a new videorecorder. Hey this one has some really nice
features like synchronizing the channles from my TV and
indexing
videotapes via videotext onto special chiplabels.

Hey that works great, but I’m missing RS232 and /dev/sony-vcr0 ?

9th october 1998

Had much trouble at work, lots of network problems.
Did some buffer tuning on 14 Cisco routers, much work….

8th october 1998

Some new AIX problems. 9 GB disks on 4 GB volume groups with 4
MB
PP size. Hmm….

Installed my japanese word processor and dictionary tools on
my
new machine at work. Hey that works…. Kanji, Kata-,
Hiragana….

Met with Tom at Shanannigans.

7th october 1998

L0pht has done it’s work Only 13 hours )))))))))
Now, everything works and gets installed.

Again did some code tracing on the Newbridge software, after
some
of the newest patches have found their way into the machine.
I hate those script writers and environment exporters.

Encountered some obscure sendmail failure messages when emailing
to
unknown users. Somehow the whole process did some funny
things.

Had dinner at my preferred Chinese with Gerd and showed the
world
some snooker after that. (Without Guinness, bad quote.)

6th october 1998

Did some debugging on Solaris XDM and on the newbridge
management
software. Ugly. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Maybe a NT
WS
licensed connections problem.

A propos NT, tried to install some programs and gone crazy.
Now it’s time for L0pht

RC5 got 1,1Mkey/sec on the 400MHz machine, maybe it’d be
better
running Linux instead of NT. Just for performance. ))

5th october 1998

Got my 400 MHz Pentium II at work today.
They’ve installed NT and restricted almost everything. Ugly.
What shells, as long as RC5 gets more power ))))

Had to solve sendmail problems on an Ultra-Sparc at work.
Torture that man who had installed this machine ! >

Now the POP3 server on the FFM machine works fine.
Also tried to setup temporary PPP dialin. Try again Gerd.

Finally my videorecorder is broken. Damn, have to buy a new
one
this week. Unrepairable defect. But a good stand-by tuner with
IR.

4th october 1998

Sendmail now works fine, also on my own system with fidonet and
uucp,
since I downgraded to the glibc compatible version 8.8.7.

Mail delivery between www.stun.de and zuse1.fps-net.mbox were
completely
successful, I hope that’s enough testing offline. Time for
SPOP.

Also did IP address change just for testing without problems.

The Net-Fu server is now running without problems as it
seems,
but I think it’s better we’ll start it only when we need to.

3rd october 1998

Configured sendmail on the FFM server. Some of the host
aliasing
function don’t work, but the rest is fine.

2nd october 1998

Did some Excite page updates on the FFM server.

1st october 1998

Played around with WGET which is really a fantastic tool, almost
like
Netcat but much better for automatic download scripts of all
kind.
With the ability to mirror or index whole websites.

But I was not able to get it work on the FFM’s raw RH51.
My personal daily upgraded systems had absolutely no
problems.