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Diary Import October 1998

October 31, 1998 kobaan

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.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import October 1998

October 31, 1998 kobaan

31st october 1998

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

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.

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.

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

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 ?

26th october 1998

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.

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

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

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

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.

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-(=)

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.

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

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.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import September 1998

September 30, 1998 kobaan

30th september 1998

Net-Fu is now up and running on the FFM server.
You now can see that our Kung-Fu is still the best

(Remind me that I include pragma no-cache in all CGI
outputs.)

25th to 29th september 1998

I’m ill ! Tonsilitis and a flu, just as usual.

24th september 1998

Installed the Excite search engine on the FFM server and
started
first indexing. Also set up automatically updating every
highnoon.

23rd september 1998

What a horrible day for me. 10 hours without any electricity
because they are intalling a new counter.
This will gonna throw me back several places on RC5
statistics.

Power restored. Everything went fine. Also the OS/2 box came
up
without any circumstances as usual.

22nd september 1998

Did some shopping today, and bought a new frame for my
planned
boogie woogie collage to hang over my piano.

Time for a Guinness tonight, so I met with Gerd, Chris and Birgit
at
Shananigins and enjoyed the folksdance evening.

Discoverd some beautiful compositions by George Gershwin on a
TV
documentation in the late evening and decided to buy a CD
tomorrow.
Maybe some of his songs can give me new inspiration on playing
the
piano.

21st september 1998

Did some minor updates on my personal homepages.
Just forgot to add one of my favourite music styles: A
Capella

Again some updates on the boogie pages. Hey what’s going on, here
!
Everybody got internet access for free ?

Another breakthrough in FFM server configuration, finally got
the
nameservice running with domain only addressing.
Type http://stun.de and you’ll get transported to
http://www.stun.de

20th september 1998

Reconnection time to the FFM server after pulling the plug is also
very
obscure. Sometimes the session isn’t cancelled at all and the other
time
you have to wait about 3 minutes getting a ping replied.

Some more boogie-page updates on the way, especially new
images.

Got in touch with m4 macro processing, and it’s really
amusing.
I’ll try to code some of my HTML pages in m4.

19th september 1998

Did lots of boogie page updates, not only text also some new
images.

Experienced problems with BeroFTPD, and it seems that shadow
passwords are
not supported yet ???

Tried to configure sendmail with multidomains and virtusertable,
but
I think it wasn’t the great idea after restarting. Grrhgihateit
!
This one’s for Gerd.

Played around with Net-Fu with the currently downloaded X virtual
frame
buffer. But there are still some problems around as long as it
isn’t
recompiled completely I think.

Also checked out the new version of bttv 0.5.16, but it still has
problems
on millenium II when using 1024x768x16bpp resolution.

Watched Virtuosity on TV, also a very strange story, Lownmower-Man
is better.

18th september 1998

Did some fine tuning on the FFM servers configuration files and
gave up
RAID-1 configuring, it’s really hard, and without the possibility
to repair
a crashed disk, it is not useful in our minds.

Downloaded some more packages to upgrade libs that made
problems.

Hacked some new pages for the admins, added new users,
configured
sendmail aliases, encountered problems in named MX records.
Set up logfile rotation, installed shadow passwords and got the
hardware
finished (drive bays installed and harddisks plugged in).

17th september 1998

Got BeroFTPD running on the FFM server as well as Apache
completely
configured including virtual hosts and server status.
Also the monitoring of the Winbond chip, some howto pages for
us
admins and the complete nameserver configuration are set up.

SSH is running perfectly, I’m configuring the whole machine
through
this encrypted and compressed link. And the best, I can unplug
the
ethernet for 300 seconds without loosing link nor synchronisation
!

16th september 1998

Installed lots of missing packages on the FFM server,
enabled dial-up for tty sessions so far, fascinated played
around with monitoring of temperatures.

Gone working just to join a little party of our team-leader.

Visited Tom in his new flat. And as I mentioned before it is
now smaller than it looked like before. You wont believe that
?
We then went to the “all you can eat” chinese, and ended up
just a few meters away at Shanannigans Irish pub. Hmm, Guinness
!

Got secure shell running on FFM. Will now try md software
raid,
just in case something goes wrong when almost everything is
set up and configured.

15th september 1998

Holiday for the next three weeks now.

Did big shopping, to get my food storage filled up again.

Installed RC5 on the FFM server, and benchmark testing showed
up 2.5 Mkeys/sec in DES and 860Kkeys/sec in RC5-64. Wow !

14th september 1998

Had some important meetings today, describing the scenarios
from last weekends netware changes action.

Played around with the winbond monitoring code, and surprise
it works ! There must be a second temperature sensor onboard
of the Gigabyte 686BX. But I can’t imagine where this should
be.
Maybe inside the BX chipset itself, or inside the 83977
winbond.

Showed Gerd the FFM server, and after that had some Guinness
at
Shanannigans.

13th september 1998

The floppy seems to be really damaged, I used mine instead.
RedHat 5.1 got installed. Fast-Ethernet works great.
Temperature of the Celeron 300 is just about 24 degrees. Wow
!

Don’t want to do too much, this will be a positive day.
Except, writing my team-leader, what went wrong yesterday at
work.

12th september 1998

Oh what a day. Motherboard and processor are ok, the latter
one
had to be pressed with much force into the slot 1. Now it
works.
Except that Toms floppy wont boot. I’ll check this tomorrow.

Wasted 7 hours at work, trying to move netware volumes to 18
GB
harddisks. But volume file compression is gonna killing me.
Hope that they’ll not cancel my vacancy plans.

11th september 1998

What a bad day. Swapped the motherboard and the new one is
also
damaged. Maybe the processor itself is bad.

10th september 1998

FFM Status:
Couldn’t get any swapable disk drive bays for SCSI so I used
mine instead.
Also took out some memory chips from my machine to get the
FFM
server up. But then, had to give back the new motherboard,
because it had some obscure power problems.
I hope that’s all and that they’ll give me a new one.
Damn, everything was ready screwed and set up. I wanted to
install RedHat today, and start configuring.

Opened a new case at Computer 2000, oh I forgot the server
crash yesterday. Again Netware 4 dead-lock problems.

And, meanwhile as usual, a backbone crash for about 10
minutes.

9th september 1998

Bought and installed a slot fan for the FFM server.

Did some more configuration work on the apache.
Hey I love those virtual hosts. But we’ve to learn how to
use ../ links, because they break when chrooted.

Mounted drive bays for removeable disks into the FFM server.
It’s worth it believe me. Oh I hate those micro screws !!!!!

Tried to find some more documentation on BeroFTPD. Nothing.
Maybe I should take a look at the man pages they are big
enough.

Got a 3 1/2 inch floppy from Tom, and installed it.
So main memory and big harddisks are the last.

8th september 1998

Downloaded and reviewed the 2.0.36pre8 code. Hey they’ve
moved
some unstable code back ?!?

Received a new boogie CD and bio by Henning Pertiet. Many thanks
!

Exchanged a servers storage unit which reported fan failure.
Eyhhhh, what a dirty matter. All three server pairs were
covered
with 5mm fine dust. Needed two hours to clean that up.

Met with Gerd and had a cool Guinness at O’Reillys.
After that had some sushi at Shoya. Hmmm, delicious !

Did almost any boogie pages updates that were pending in my
eMails inbox. There are just a few images to be scanned.

2:40 AM, virtual hosts are working on HTTP !
Server includes don’t, but this should be minor.

7th september 1998

How I love monday mornings. The entire network stands still at
work.

Bought motherboard and processor together with Reyk for the FFM
server.

Screwed and cabled the server components, but don’t want to
test
it right now. I think that this will avoid a sleepless night.

Updated the FFM page with some of the FIX costs.

6th september 1998

Met Gerd online. What a surprise !

It looks like that Netscapes related server has gone !
What a pity, it’s a real nice feature.

Installed Net-Fu, which works now in some parts. But there
are
many additional packages needed not mentioned in the
documentation.
Maybe I’ll complete that tomorrow.
Let me tell you that this version is much much better than
the
Net-Fus installed at webgfx pages.

5th september 1998

Visited the sports festival, of the insurance company where
my
mum is working. It rained all the time, really nice.
But food and drinking was for free, so it was well balanced.

Exchanged some new CD’s with Uli. Time to get the FPS 98/III
released. Maybe this will be a triple set this time.

Experimented with some new GIMP plugins like fire and photo
stack.
Really nice features. There are some examples in here.

4th september 1998

And again a backbone crash at highnoon ! Fantastic.

Interactively designed some logos for the FFM machine at
www.webgfx.ch.
They’re using the same NET_FU GIMP plugins available for
download.
So anyone can setup such a interactive logomaker with
webfrontend.

Met with Gerd and discussed some of the FFM stuff.

Had a nice talk to two young girls at the Chinese where Gerd
and me had dinner. And after saying goodbye, learned that we
don’t
even know their names. This had to be corrected in our minds,
with some cool Guinness at Shanannigans.

3rd september 1998

Tidied up my PC’s harddisk at work and some servers, I was
connected
at that time, too.

Installed the currently released bttv 0.5.15 video device
driver,
but haven’t seen a correct video yet. What are they doing
?????

Maybe it’s only my system that has gone unstable.
Time for RedHat Mustang, to be released on CD !

Tried to install Freeciv in the latest version from sep 2nd,
a civilization II clone, but that one doesn’t work either,
because of some missing libraries on my system. My fault.

Just took a quick look at the Streamserver package, which
seems
to be exactly what I was looking for. A realtime videoserver
distributing streamed GIF or JPEG sequences. And there’s a
special bttv add-on, which I tried to compile. Guess !

Installed PHP to get database access working on Apache, and
this
one looks very very good, and has very easy code to implement
on
HTML pages. PHP also makes possible beautiful serverside
includes
and interactivly designed web-pages. (dynamic images and so
on.)

A little bit frustrated, began to play LinCity and got asleep
after a few hours when income shows up negative values.

2nd september 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre7 patch, lots of network stuff in here
and some important information on Cyrix and AMD CPU’s.

Prof. Chaos called again, but I don’t mind picking up the
phone.
Give them your finger… you know !

Created lots of Compaq ROMpaq disks for upgrading our
big netware servers bios, config and harddisk firmware
to support an array of 18.2 GB harddisks.

Spent the whole night at work, improving our backbone and
doing some address changes on netware servers.

Finally got the 19 inch chassis for WWW.STUN.DE at home,
thanks to KAP’s big car.

Upgraded to GIMP 1.0 with all the surroundings, gtk+, glib,
…
I have to say that I’m not satisfied with this version, my
machine locks after temporary diskspace disappeared when
creating big images. I’d never seen that before on 0.99.
It seems everything gets more worse when upgraded.
First the 2.0.35 kernel with its obscuring EIP exceptions
when almost every bit of physical memory is used.
Now the new GIMP and its enormous memory hunger.

Maybe, I should just add another 128 MB stripe.
Time to get the first GB complete. ))))))
Would be much fun to watch the machine testing memory on
boot.

1st september 1998

Another day of experience when one of our backbones crashes
down.
Do you know other companies running there token ring backbone
on
90 pc utilization ! Maybe we’ll take money for a look, in
future.

Professor Chaos called me, because his AIX workstation
network
connection failed again. If you could see that shaky
connector.
So I told him about solar flares and clickety !

Printed out and studied the new linux gazette.

Learned how to set up virtual FTP servers, if needed, using
the
HOST command, which is also a newer feature of FTP clients.
But I guess we wont need that for FFM.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import September 1998

September 30, 1998 kobaan

30th september 1998

Net-Fu is now up and running on the FFM server.
You now can see that our Kung-Fu is still the best

(Remind me that I include pragma no-cache in all CGI
outputs.)

25th to 29th september 1998

I’m ill ! Tonsilitis and a flu, just as usual.

24th september 1998

Installed the Excite search engine on the FFM server and
started
first indexing. Also set up automatically updating every
highnoon.

23rd september 1998

What a horrible day for me. 10 hours without any electricity
because they are intalling a new counter.
This will gonna throw me back several places on RC5
statistics.

Power restored. Everything went fine. Also the OS/2 box came
up
without any circumstances as usual.

22nd september 1998

Did some shopping today, and bought a new frame for my
planned
boogie woogie collage to hang over my piano.

Time for a Guinness tonight, so I met with Gerd, Chris and Birgit
at
Shananigins and enjoyed the folksdance evening.

21st september 1998

Did some minor updates on my personal homepages.
Just forgot to add one of my favourite music styles: A
Capella

Again some updates on the boogie pages. Hey what’s going on, here
!
Everybody got internet access for free ?

Another breakthrough in FFM server configuration, finally got
the
nameservice running with domain only addressing.
Type http://stun.de and you’ll get transported to
http://www.stun.de

20th september 1998

Some more boogie-page updates on the way, especially new
images.

Got in touch with m4 macro processing, and it’s really
amusing.
I’ll try to code some of my HTML pages in m4.

19th september 1998

Did lots of boogie page updates, not only text also some new
images.

Experienced problems with BeroFTPD, and it seems that shadow
passwords are
not supported yet ???

Tried to configure sendmail with multidomains and virtusertable,
but
I think it wasn’t the great idea after restarting. Grrhgihateit
!
This one’s for Gerd.

Played around with Net-Fu with the currently downloaded X virtual
frame
buffer. But there are still some problems around as long as it
isn’t
recompiled completely I think.

Also checked out the new version of bttv 0.5.16, but it still has
problems
on millenium II when using 1024x768x16bpp resolution.

Watched Virtuosity on TV, also a very strange story, Lownmower-Man
is better.

18th september 1998

Did some fine tuning on the FFM servers configuration files and
gave up
RAID-1 configuring, it’s really hard, and without the possibility
to repair
a crashed disk, it is not useful in our minds.

Downloaded some more packages to upgrade libs that made
problems.

17th september 1998

16th september 1998

Installed lots of missing packages on the FFM server,
enabled dial-up for tty sessions so far, fascinated played
around with monitoring of temperatures.

Gone working just to join a little party of our team-leader.

Got secure shell running on FFM. Will now try md software
raid,
just in case something goes wrong when almost everything is
set up and configured.

15th september 1998

Holiday for the next three weeks now.

Did big shopping, to get my food storage filled up again.

Installed RC5 on the FFM server, and benchmark testing showed
up 2.5 Mkeys/sec in DES and 860Kkeys/sec in RC5-64. Wow !

14th september 1998

Had some important meetings today, describing the scenarios
from last weekends netware changes action.

Showed Gerd the FFM server, and after that had some Guinness
at
Shanannigans.

13th september 1998

The floppy seems to be really damaged, I used mine instead.
RedHat 5.1 got installed. Fast-Ethernet works great.
Temperature of the Celeron 300 is just about 24 degrees. Wow
!

Don’t want to do too much, this will be a positive day.
Except, writing my team-leader, what went wrong yesterday at
work.

12th september 1998

Oh what a day. Motherboard and processor are ok, the latter
one
had to be pressed with much force into the slot 1. Now it
works.
Except that Toms floppy wont boot. I’ll check this tomorrow.

Wasted 7 hours at work, trying to move netware volumes to 18
GB
harddisks. But volume file compression is gonna killing me.
Hope that they’ll not cancel my vacancy plans.

11th september 1998

What a bad day. Swapped the motherboard and the new one is
also
damaged. Maybe the processor itself is bad.

10th september 1998

Opened a new case at Computer 2000, oh I forgot the server
crash yesterday. Again Netware 4 dead-lock problems.

And, meanwhile as usual, a backbone crash for about 10
minutes.

9th september 1998

Bought and installed a slot fan for the FFM server.

Did some more configuration work on the apache.
Hey I love those virtual hosts. But we’ve to learn how to
use ../ links, because they break when chrooted.

Mounted drive bays for removeable disks into the FFM server.
It’s worth it believe me. Oh I hate those micro screws !!!!!

Tried to find some more documentation on BeroFTPD. Nothing.
Maybe I should take a look at the man pages they are big
enough.

Got a 3 1/2 inch floppy from Tom, and installed it.
So main memory and big harddisks are the last.

8th september 1998

Downloaded and reviewed the 2.0.36pre8 code. Hey they’ve
moved
some unstable code back ?!?

Received a new boogie CD and bio by Henning Pertiet. Many thanks
!

Exchanged a servers storage unit which reported fan failure.
Eyhhhh, what a dirty matter. All three server pairs were
covered
with 5mm fine dust. Needed two hours to clean that up.

Met with Gerd and had a cool Guinness at O’Reillys.
After that had some sushi at Shoya. Hmmm, delicious !

Did almost any boogie pages updates that were pending in my
eMails inbox. There are just a few images to be scanned.

2:40 AM, virtual hosts are working on HTTP !
Server includes don’t, but this should be minor.

7th september 1998

How I love monday mornings. The entire network stands still at
work.

Bought motherboard and processor together with Reyk for the FFM
server.

Screwed and cabled the server components, but don’t want to
test
it right now. I think that this will avoid a sleepless night.

Updated the FFM page with some of the FIX costs.

6th september 1998

Met Gerd online. What a surprise !

It looks like that Netscapes related server has gone !
What a pity, it’s a real nice feature.

5th september 1998

Visited the sports festival, of the insurance company where
my
mum is working. It rained all the time, really nice.
But food and drinking was for free, so it was well balanced.

Exchanged some new CD’s with Uli. Time to get the FPS 98/III
released. Maybe this will be a triple set this time.

Experimented with some new GIMP plugins like fire and photo
stack.
Really nice features. There are some examples in here.

4th september 1998

And again a backbone crash at highnoon ! Fantastic.

Met with Gerd and discussed some of the FFM stuff.

3rd september 1998

Tidied up my PC’s harddisk at work and some servers, I was
connected
at that time, too.

Installed the currently released bttv 0.5.15 video device
driver,
but haven’t seen a correct video yet. What are they doing
?????

Maybe it’s only my system that has gone unstable.
Time for RedHat Mustang, to be released on CD !

Tried to install Freeciv in the latest version from sep 2nd,
a civilization II clone, but that one doesn’t work either,
because of some missing libraries on my system. My fault.

A little bit frustrated, began to play LinCity and got asleep
after a few hours when income shows up negative values.

2nd september 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre7 patch, lots of network stuff in here
and some important information on Cyrix and AMD CPU’s.

Prof. Chaos called again, but I don’t mind picking up the
phone.
Give them your finger… you know !

Created lots of Compaq ROMpaq disks for upgrading our
big netware servers bios, config and harddisk firmware
to support an array of 18.2 GB harddisks.

Spent the whole night at work, improving our backbone and
doing some address changes on netware servers.

Finally got the 19 inch chassis for WWW.STUN.DE at home,
thanks to KAP’s big car.

Maybe, I should just add another 128 MB stripe.
Time to get the first GB complete. ))))))
Would be much fun to watch the machine testing memory on
boot.

1st september 1998

Another day of experience when one of our backbones crashes
down.
Do you know other companies running there token ring backbone
on
90 pc utilization ! Maybe we’ll take money for a look, in
future.

Professor Chaos called me, because his AIX workstation
network
connection failed again. If you could see that shaky
connector.
So I told him about solar flares and clickety !

Printed out and studied the new linux gazette.

Learned how to set up virtual FTP servers, if needed, using
the
HOST command, which is also a newer feature of FTP clients.
But I guess we wont need that for FFM.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import September 1998

September 30, 1998 kobaan

30th september 1998

Net-Fu is now up and running on the FFM server.
You now can see that our Kung-Fu is still the best

(Remind me that I include pragma no-cache in all CGI
outputs.)

25th to 29th september 1998

I’m ill ! Tonsilitis and a flu, just as usual.

24th september 1998

Installed the Excite search engine on the FFM server and
started
first indexing. Also set up automatically updating every
highnoon.

23rd september 1998

What a horrible day for me. 10 hours without any electricity
because they are intalling a new counter.
This will gonna throw me back several places on RC5
statistics.

Power restored. Everything went fine. Also the OS/2 box came
up
without any circumstances as usual.

22nd september 1998

Did some shopping today, and bought a new frame for my
planned
boogie woogie collage to hang over my piano.

Time for a Guinness tonight, so I met with Gerd, Chris and Birgit
at
Shananigins and enjoyed the folksdance evening.

21st september 1998

Did some minor updates on my personal homepages.
Just forgot to add one of my favourite music styles: A
Capella

Again some updates on the boogie pages. Hey what’s going on, here
!
Everybody got internet access for free ?

Another breakthrough in FFM server configuration, finally got
the
nameservice running with domain only addressing.
Type http://stun.de and you’ll get transported to
http://www.stun.de

20th september 1998

Some more boogie-page updates on the way, especially new
images.

Got in touch with m4 macro processing, and it’s really
amusing.
I’ll try to code some of my HTML pages in m4.

19th september 1998

Did lots of boogie page updates, not only text also some new
images.

Experienced problems with BeroFTPD, and it seems that shadow
passwords are
not supported yet ???

Tried to configure sendmail with multidomains and virtusertable,
but
I think it wasn’t the great idea after restarting. Grrhgihateit
!
This one’s for Gerd.

Played around with Net-Fu with the currently downloaded X virtual
frame
buffer. But there are still some problems around as long as it
isn’t
recompiled completely I think.

Also checked out the new version of bttv 0.5.16, but it still has
problems
on millenium II when using 1024x768x16bpp resolution.

Watched Virtuosity on TV, also a very strange story, Lownmower-Man
is better.

18th september 1998

Did some fine tuning on the FFM servers configuration files and
gave up
RAID-1 configuring, it’s really hard, and without the possibility
to repair
a crashed disk, it is not useful in our minds.

Downloaded some more packages to upgrade libs that made
problems.

17th september 1998

16th september 1998

Installed lots of missing packages on the FFM server,
enabled dial-up for tty sessions so far, fascinated played
around with monitoring of temperatures.

Gone working just to join a little party of our team-leader.

Got secure shell running on FFM. Will now try md software
raid,
just in case something goes wrong when almost everything is
set up and configured.

15th september 1998

Holiday for the next three weeks now.

Did big shopping, to get my food storage filled up again.

Installed RC5 on the FFM server, and benchmark testing showed
up 2.5 Mkeys/sec in DES and 860Kkeys/sec in RC5-64. Wow !

14th september 1998

Had some important meetings today, describing the scenarios
from last weekends netware changes action.

Showed Gerd the FFM server, and after that had some Guinness
at
Shanannigans.

13th september 1998

The floppy seems to be really damaged, I used mine instead.
RedHat 5.1 got installed. Fast-Ethernet works great.
Temperature of the Celeron 300 is just about 24 degrees. Wow
!

Don’t want to do too much, this will be a positive day.
Except, writing my team-leader, what went wrong yesterday at
work.

12th september 1998

Oh what a day. Motherboard and processor are ok, the latter
one
had to be pressed with much force into the slot 1. Now it
works.
Except that Toms floppy wont boot. I’ll check this tomorrow.

Wasted 7 hours at work, trying to move netware volumes to 18
GB
harddisks. But volume file compression is gonna killing me.
Hope that they’ll not cancel my vacancy plans.

11th september 1998

What a bad day. Swapped the motherboard and the new one is
also
damaged. Maybe the processor itself is bad.

10th september 1998

Opened a new case at Computer 2000, oh I forgot the server
crash yesterday. Again Netware 4 dead-lock problems.

And, meanwhile as usual, a backbone crash for about 10
minutes.

9th september 1998

Bought and installed a slot fan for the FFM server.

Did some more configuration work on the apache.
Hey I love those virtual hosts. But we’ve to learn how to
use ../ links, because they break when chrooted.

Mounted drive bays for removeable disks into the FFM server.
It’s worth it believe me. Oh I hate those micro screws !!!!!

Tried to find some more documentation on BeroFTPD. Nothing.
Maybe I should take a look at the man pages they are big
enough.

Got a 3 1/2 inch floppy from Tom, and installed it.
So main memory and big harddisks are the last.

8th september 1998

Downloaded and reviewed the 2.0.36pre8 code. Hey they’ve
moved
some unstable code back ?!?

Received a new boogie CD and bio by Henning Pertiet. Many thanks
!

Exchanged a servers storage unit which reported fan failure.
Eyhhhh, what a dirty matter. All three server pairs were
covered
with 5mm fine dust. Needed two hours to clean that up.

Met with Gerd and had a cool Guinness at O’Reillys.
After that had some sushi at Shoya. Hmmm, delicious !

Did almost any boogie pages updates that were pending in my
eMails inbox. There are just a few images to be scanned.

2:40 AM, virtual hosts are working on HTTP !
Server includes don’t, but this should be minor.

7th september 1998

How I love monday mornings. The entire network stands still at
work.

Bought motherboard and processor together with Reyk for the FFM
server.

Screwed and cabled the server components, but don’t want to
test
it right now. I think that this will avoid a sleepless night.

Updated the FFM page with some of the FIX costs.

6th september 1998

Met Gerd online. What a surprise !

It looks like that Netscapes related server has gone !
What a pity, it’s a real nice feature.

5th september 1998

Visited the sports festival, of the insurance company where
my
mum is working. It rained all the time, really nice.
But food and drinking was for free, so it was well balanced.

Exchanged some new CD’s with Uli. Time to get the FPS 98/III
released. Maybe this will be a triple set this time.

Experimented with some new GIMP plugins like fire and photo
stack.
Really nice features. There are some examples in here.

4th september 1998

And again a backbone crash at highnoon ! Fantastic.

Met with Gerd and discussed some of the FFM stuff.

3rd september 1998

Tidied up my PC’s harddisk at work and some servers, I was
connected
at that time, too.

Installed the currently released bttv 0.5.15 video device
driver,
but haven’t seen a correct video yet. What are they doing
?????

Maybe it’s only my system that has gone unstable.
Time for RedHat Mustang, to be released on CD !

Tried to install Freeciv in the latest version from sep 2nd,
a civilization II clone, but that one doesn’t work either,
because of some missing libraries on my system. My fault.

A little bit frustrated, began to play LinCity and got asleep
after a few hours when income shows up negative values.

2nd september 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre7 patch, lots of network stuff in here
and some important information on Cyrix and AMD CPU’s.

Prof. Chaos called again, but I don’t mind picking up the
phone.
Give them your finger… you know !

Created lots of Compaq ROMpaq disks for upgrading our
big netware servers bios, config and harddisk firmware
to support an array of 18.2 GB harddisks.

Spent the whole night at work, improving our backbone and
doing some address changes on netware servers.

Finally got the 19 inch chassis for WWW.STUN.DE at home,
thanks to KAP’s big car.

Maybe, I should just add another 128 MB stripe.
Time to get the first GB complete. ))))))
Would be much fun to watch the machine testing memory on
boot.

1st september 1998

Another day of experience when one of our backbones crashes
down.
Do you know other companies running there token ring backbone
on
90 pc utilization ! Maybe we’ll take money for a look, in
future.

Professor Chaos called me, because his AIX workstation
network
connection failed again. If you could see that shaky
connector.
So I told him about solar flares and clickety !

Printed out and studied the new linux gazette.

Learned how to set up virtual FTP servers, if needed, using
the
HOST command, which is also a newer feature of FTP clients.
But I guess we wont need that for FFM.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import August 1998

August 31, 1998 kobaan

31th august 1998

Made the stupid failure not to talk to this beautiful girl at
McDonalds yesterday evening. Damn, this is gonna drive me mad
!

Did some server-care on our AIX machines, cleaning coredumps,
logfiles, unread mail spools, etc.

Met with Gerd and Michael at O’Reillys, and had pretty much
fun
talking about girls and previous relationships, like the
woman
do usually.

30th august 1998

Updated another two of my new personal homepages.

Did a little bit fine-tuning on SSH.

Tried to set up hourly passwords on the system, but that’s
really
hard. You always have to watch out not to lock up yourself.

Gerd called for some Guinness, so, by4now !

29th august 1998

Successfully installed SSH on my system.
Fascinating, also the X-Session is lightning fast !

28th august 1998

The hardware internals page for the FFM server is completed,
and I’m very satisfied with the result. You wanna take a
look.

Received our 19 inch server case for FFM today !
Yep, time for big shopping next week !

Finally got my tax forms completed, so I hopefully can ignore
the reminder, which will come for sure in the next few days.

27th august 1998

Spent almost the whole day, resolving hostnames and IP
addresses
to complete a list containing all our unix machines. The
funny
thing is, how to lookup DNS without knowing IP nor hostname.
I guess, God knows why he created MAC adresses ?

Finally got a solution for our FFM virtual host problems:

The default webserver is
www.stun.de:80

links to all other webservers on the different ports are listed
on
/index.html

including virtual hosts
linux.stun.de:80
etc.stun.de:80

additionally we setup separated webservers for each
linux.stun.de:81
etc.stun.de:8x

Now, let’s see what our requests do:

HTTP/1.0 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests /something/other from linux.stun.de root
www.stun.de replies 404 and may redirect to
www.stun.de/index.html

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

HTTP/1.1 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de
linux.stun.de:80 replies /index.html from virtual host
linux.stun.de:80

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

Any questions ?

26th august 1998

Collected some informations on digital still video cameras,
and tried to buy one, but every model I wanted was not
available at the moment.

Gone mad with Apache !!!
Talked to Netscape describing my Apache HTTP/1.1 problems
on Communicator 4.06. Damn, I can’t believe it, full 1.1
support will be available in 5.0 only. And MSIE 4 HTTP/1.1
support is so bad that it is disabled by default on most
web-servers.

HTTP/1.0 Request Principle:
===========================
Client: http://test.stun.de/index.html
DNS-Lookup test.stun.de -> IP
send request GET /index.html to IP
Server: reply http://www.stun.de/index.html (which is wrong)

HTTP/1.1 Request Principle:
===========================
Client: http://test.stun.de/index.html
DNS-Lookup test.stun.de -> IP
send request GET test.stun.de/index.html to IP
Server: reply http://test.stun.de/index.html (which is
correct)

So it seems we have no chance to enable name-only-based
virtual hosts with only one IP address. F**k It !
W3C has released HTTP/1.1 in 1994 and Netscape nor MS have
implemented it yet correctly. What’s up Mozilla-guys !

Hey Reyk ! Did some updates to the FFM-page.

25th august 1998

Upgraded my Apache to 1.3.1 to get the virtual hosts working
without the need for more IP adresses, but since that update
everything is forbidden.

Discovered a nice statement for the programmers of you:

while (! asleep()) sheep++;

As I guessed we’re only four at O’Reillys than the expected
seven. The first time, we didn’t get our meals. I hope
they’ll
change that in future.

24th august 1998

Fortified my Netscape Communicator 4.06 again, to do some
128-bit encrypted homebanking.

Compared some data sheets of digital still video cameras,
but I’m not satisfied with price and quality at the moment.

Called many people by phone, and the odds are good that we’ll
have a big gig at O’Reillys tomorrow evening.

Printed out the Securing RedHat Manual by Kurt Seifried.

Discovered the Bastard User from Hell release, but it is far
from
being half as good as the original BOFH, therefor it isn’t
linked
either.

Urgently have to find out how to install differnt desktop
themes
for Gnome from the GTK+ packages.

23rd august 1998

Time to say goodbye to some good friends and there dog,
which will move to spain the next days.
So this will be a barbeque-only day.

22nd august 1998

An aweful day, started with an emergency call at 1:30 AM,
the backbone had problems, fortunately everything went OK
just 40 minutes later, so I get back to sleep, just to
get into the same situation at 7:30 AM.

I hate those saturdays.

Tried to do the volume changes on a netware server, that I’ve
planned a few days ago and had to learn, that some stupid
users have filled additional 600 MB’s of the first volume.
The bad thing is thess are 400 MB too much.
Now I’ve got to do a full backup and restore someday to get
the
changes affect, instead of simply copying on the same
harddisk.

Got the new Netscape 4.06 but don’t know how to use the
internet
keywords yet. Also my 128 encryption support has gone with
this
update. Time to get a new fortifier.

Tried to update gnome from 0.13 to 0.28 but missed to
download
one or two essential libs. Also gnotes, ee-0.2 wont work.

Analyzed the 2.0.36pre6 patch, but there’s nothin of interest
for me. Just Linux ROSE updates (X.25 PLP) some 3com
netdriver,
pci, processor and smp update stuff.

21st august 1998

Did I mention the Netware server crash yesterday evening ???
Mirroring wasn’t even completed this morning.

But I now know why the discport doesn’t connect in the last
days.
Just plug it into a neighbour network, so that a router
answers
the GNS-Queries instead of the server, and you’ll never
experience
timing problems.

Processed all our AIX’s and deleted logfiles and error
reports.

Got some great lyrics from Tom, Beatles for Sysadmins.
I’ll put them right here tomorrow.

Payed the bill for my second ISP.

20th august 1998

Did some cost calculation for our FFM stuff and had a
phonecall
with Gerd who is designing the first LINUX.STUN.DE logos.

Get very angry when trying to reconnect a Microtest Discport
to a Netware server. Damn, I hate those graphical interfaces.

19th august 1998

Had a workshop day and got introduced into Newbridge
Mainstreet
Multiplexers. Really fascinating, especially how easy it must
be
for the secret service agencies to spy out phone and data
connections, without need to be in range. Just copy timeslots
and send them round the globe. Wow….

Yesterday we founded the Linux User Group LINUX.STUN.DE,
so I’ve picked up all the various penguins available on
the web to design our new logo.

18th august 1998

Touch down ! Hey ya I don’t want to see that Maestro
statistics,
this time a Netware-GPF occures when loading servman.
Who said there’s a running Netware 4 server available for
Linux.

Thought about the next saturday reorganization of Netware
volumes.
Could be very easy if nothing stupid happens.

Identified the crying harddisk in our management-Sun, which soon
will
only be good as a sonic stunner for mosquitos.

Tried to get all the Admin-Gurus under one hat, but could
only convince Gerd and with big luck (thanks SUN) Reyk.
See ya at 20:30 at O’Reillys guys.

17th august 1998

Played around with the pilot tools for linux.
Really nice features, you’ll never see somethin’ on MS.

Yet another three CD’s converted. Now my archive is almost
1GB of MP3 audio, which is equal to 1000 minutes or 67 hours
of CD quality music.

Let’s play with DVD-RAM values:
5.2 GB on one DVD-RAM media would be equal to 347 hours or
14.4 days and nights or 2 weeks of audio. Hey that’s a jukebox,
babe.

16th august 1998

A boring day. I think I’ll do nothing today.
Except of converting some more CD’s.

15th august 1998

Faxed some high grade security stuff about Cisco’s IOS to
Reyk.
So if anyone of you is using a public accesible Cisco, get
the
latest security information from CERT.

Converted 5 CD’s today. Time to get the DVD-RAM drive with
5.2GB.
The media-price is just amazing: 70.-DM ! The drive itself
1200.-DM.
This way you should be able to store 130 hours audio in MP3
format
on just one DVD-RAM and you can delete and overwrite it as often
as
you want.

14th august 1998

Today our whole team got introduced into ATM and how to
handle
a faulty backbone, fast-uplink, trace etc…
Great presentation, thanks to Ecky !

Got the answer from C2000, that the BIOS on the harddisk
itself
has some serious bugs and that they should be upgraded before
used for the first time. Great, so if you have an IBM 9 or
18GB
harddisk check for revision 01c0 or later to get lucky.

Mucky is doin’ a 15 hours job today, and don’t seem to be
that
delighted when calling him on the phone. I think I’ll visit
him now, to ease his pain.

And another day comes to an end with a cool Guinness and a
really tasty 8 oz sirloin at O’Reillys.

13th august 1998

Just a more private day…

Opened another case at Computer 2000 to check if there are
problems to Compaq-BIOS or Netware-OS when using 18GB
harddisks.

Yet another CD in MP3 format.

12th august 1998

Got the bill for our domain-registration today.
(Hey, thanks Peter, pretty nice offer.)

Created the first version of the STUN.DE logo
but remember, it’s the first version, just an idea.

Tried to find a web-based notepad for multiuser usage, but
the guestbook applications arond, don’t fulfill these
requirements yet. So I fear we’ll fall back to MS-Access.
(1:0 for World-Domination 99)

Tried some of the ciders, Woody’s drinks , a rusty nail
and Guinness together with Tom in my favourite Irish pub
“Shanannigans”.

11th august 1998

Another day our biggest netware machine crashed.

Did some shopping with Reyk, who will try to install
RedHat 5.1 tonight on his laptop, I guess.
I just hope there are already updates on the new powertools
CD.

It seems that Alan’s 2.0.36pre3 is out.
Damn, if I only would get the time to test the last one.

10th august 1998

Tried to wrote a letter in Kanji, but gave up after the
first sentence. Huhhh… it’s really hard….
I guess, I’ll just try writing a few words in Kana and
the rest of it in english.

Heard some serious critics about RedHat 5.1, for those who
installed it from scratch, which changes my plans running
RH 5.1 on our FFM-box. Maybe we should first install 5.0
and after that upgrade to 5.1.

For myself, I’ll try Debian 2.0 the next days.

9th august 1998

Coverted another three CD’s into MP3 to get my Blues Brothers
Monster Album completed. (est. 3 hours of music on one CD)

Just wait for my Monster Boogie Woogie CD, 13 hours music
on one CD !

Discovered someone holding my PPP-dialup link up for 23 hours
!
Hey, I don’t want to see that bill. God bless you. 0:-]

8th august 1998

Made some important advances in playing boogie piano,
listening to Peter Heger’s CD “Na endlich !”.

Updated my newly designed personal homepage.
I’ll change the layout again, because it’s not really
my style in its curent form.

7th august 1998

Again, updated the boogie pages with Christian Bleiming’s
bio.
Called Henning Pertiet by phone, and in a few days will
receive
some bio too.

Converted CD’s from Alanis Morisette and Eros Ramazotti into
MP3 files.

6th august 1998

Moved to a new system in determining my lottery numbers for
cracking the 35 mio. DM Jackpot this saturday.

Printed out the Linux Gazette august issue.

5th august 1998

Registered our domain stun.de today.

Did a lot of updates to my RedHat system with all the
latest published RPM’s.

Played around with some of the new Gnome applications
and found the useful gicq, gpgp and xwhois.

Downloaded the 2.0.36pre2 patch and discovered 1 MB
new isdn diffs in it !
Maybe this one becomes essential in a few days.

4th august 1998

Install WWWThreads at work, and they were fascinated by it.
So we think about using it as a ToDo list or better as an
case management archive.

Investigated some free domains to register for FFM,
and found one, I’ll register it tomorrow.

Experimented with SAINT, the next generation of SATAN !

3rd august 1998

Installed UFP-Terminal from Ronald Bieber, to enhance my
Intranet
content, for my StarTrek fascinated mailbox-users.
This one is created from UFP-Info and is completely designed in
HTML.

Set up the phone line in Tom’s new appartment. Lot of work to do
Tom,
better start working today than tomorrow, lot of work !!!
Unbelievable lot of work.

2nd august 1998

Just enjoyed the day, lying lazy on my bed and watching TV.

1st august 1998

Bought the Pro-Pilot flightsimulator today and I’m totally
fascinated by its authentic behaviour. The bad thing is,
that this software needs Win 95, the good news: the simulator
itself is from Sierra not MS !
Maybe they’ll port it someday ???

Sabre for Linux is just too far away from Pro-Pilot, but who
knows, Sabre developement is still in progress…

Received Christian Bleiming’s boogie CD’s, many thanks !!!
Updated the boogie pages.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import August 1998

August 31, 1998 kobaan

31th august 1998

Made the stupid failure not to talk to this beautiful girl at
McDonalds yesterday evening. Damn, this is gonna drive me mad
!

Did some server-care on our AIX machines, cleaning coredumps,
logfiles, unread mail spools, etc.

Met with Gerd and Michael at O’Reillys, and had pretty much
fun
talking about girls and previous relationships, like the
woman
do usually.

30th august 1998

Updated another two of my new personal homepages.

Did a little bit fine-tuning on SSH.

Tried to set up hourly passwords on the system, but that’s
really
hard. You always have to watch out not to lock up yourself.

Gerd called for some Guinness, so, by4now !

29th august 1998

Successfully installed SSH on my system.
Fascinating, also the X-Session is lightning fast !

28th august 1998

The hardware internals page for the FFM server is completed,
and I’m very satisfied with the result. You wanna take a
look.

Received our 19 inch server case for FFM today !
Yep, time for big shopping next week !

Finally got my tax forms completed, so I hopefully can ignore
the reminder, which will come for sure in the next few days.

27th august 1998

Finally got a solution for our FFM virtual host problems:

The default webserver is
www.stun.de:80

links to all other webservers on the different ports are listed
on
/index.html

including virtual hosts
linux.stun.de:80
etc.stun.de:80

additionally we setup separated webservers for each
linux.stun.de:81
etc.stun.de:8x

Now, let’s see what our requests do:

HTTP/1.0 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests /something/other from linux.stun.de root
www.stun.de replies 404 and may redirect to
www.stun.de/index.html

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

HTTP/1.1 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de
linux.stun.de:80 replies /index.html from virtual host
linux.stun.de:80

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

Any questions ?

26th august 1998

Collected some informations on digital still video cameras,
and tried to buy one, but every model I wanted was not
available at the moment.

Hey Reyk ! Did some updates to the FFM-page.

25th august 1998

Upgraded my Apache to 1.3.1 to get the virtual hosts working
without the need for more IP adresses, but since that update
everything is forbidden.

Discovered a nice statement for the programmers of you:

while (! asleep()) sheep++;

As I guessed we’re only four at O’Reillys than the expected
seven. The first time, we didn’t get our meals. I hope
they’ll
change that in future.

24th august 1998

Fortified my Netscape Communicator 4.06 again, to do some
128-bit encrypted homebanking.

Compared some data sheets of digital still video cameras,
but I’m not satisfied with price and quality at the moment.

Called many people by phone, and the odds are good that we’ll
have a big gig at O’Reillys tomorrow evening.

Printed out the Securing RedHat Manual by Kurt Seifried.

Discovered the Bastard User from Hell release, but it is far
from
being half as good as the original BOFH, therefor it isn’t
linked
either.

Urgently have to find out how to install differnt desktop
themes
for Gnome from the GTK+ packages.

23rd august 1998

Time to say goodbye to some good friends and there dog,
which will move to spain the next days.
So this will be a barbeque-only day.

22nd august 1998

I hate those saturdays.

Got the new Netscape 4.06 but don’t know how to use the
internet
keywords yet. Also my 128 encryption support has gone with
this
update. Time to get a new fortifier.

Tried to update gnome from 0.13 to 0.28 but missed to
download
one or two essential libs. Also gnotes, ee-0.2 wont work.

Analyzed the 2.0.36pre6 patch, but there’s nothin of interest
for me. Just Linux ROSE updates (X.25 PLP) some 3com
netdriver,
pci, processor and smp update stuff.

21st august 1998

Did I mention the Netware server crash yesterday evening ???
Mirroring wasn’t even completed this morning.

Processed all our AIX’s and deleted logfiles and error
reports.

Got some great lyrics from Tom, Beatles for Sysadmins.
I’ll put them right here tomorrow.

Payed the bill for my second ISP.

20th august 1998

Did some cost calculation for our FFM stuff and had a
phonecall
with Gerd who is designing the first LINUX.STUN.DE logos.

Get very angry when trying to reconnect a Microtest Discport
to a Netware server. Damn, I hate those graphical interfaces.

19th august 1998

Yesterday we founded the Linux User Group LINUX.STUN.DE,
so I’ve picked up all the various penguins available on
the web to design our new logo.

18th august 1998

Touch down ! Hey ya I don’t want to see that Maestro
statistics,
this time a Netware-GPF occures when loading servman.
Who said there’s a running Netware 4 server available for
Linux.

Thought about the next saturday reorganization of Netware
volumes.
Could be very easy if nothing stupid happens.

Identified the crying harddisk in our management-Sun, which soon
will
only be good as a sonic stunner for mosquitos.

Tried to get all the Admin-Gurus under one hat, but could
only convince Gerd and with big luck (thanks SUN) Reyk.
See ya at 20:30 at O’Reillys guys.

17th august 1998

Played around with the pilot tools for linux.
Really nice features, you’ll never see somethin’ on MS.

Yet another three CD’s converted. Now my archive is almost
1GB of MP3 audio, which is equal to 1000 minutes or 67 hours
of CD quality music.

Let’s play with DVD-RAM values:
5.2 GB on one DVD-RAM media would be equal to 347 hours or
14.4 days and nights or 2 weeks of audio. Hey that’s a jukebox,
babe.

16th august 1998

A boring day. I think I’ll do nothing today.
Except of converting some more CD’s.

15th august 1998

Faxed some high grade security stuff about Cisco’s IOS to
Reyk.
So if anyone of you is using a public accesible Cisco, get
the
latest security information from CERT.

14th august 1998

Today our whole team got introduced into ATM and how to
handle
a faulty backbone, fast-uplink, trace etc…
Great presentation, thanks to Ecky !

Mucky is doin’ a 15 hours job today, and don’t seem to be
that
delighted when calling him on the phone. I think I’ll visit
him now, to ease his pain.

And another day comes to an end with a cool Guinness and a
really tasty 8 oz sirloin at O’Reillys.

13th august 1998

Just a more private day…

Opened another case at Computer 2000 to check if there are
problems to Compaq-BIOS or Netware-OS when using 18GB
harddisks.

Yet another CD in MP3 format.

12th august 1998

Got the bill for our domain-registration today.
(Hey, thanks Peter, pretty nice offer.)

Created the first version of the STUN.DE logo
but remember, it’s the first version, just an idea.

Tried some of the ciders, Woody’s drinks , a rusty nail
and Guinness together with Tom in my favourite Irish pub
“Shanannigans”.

11th august 1998

Another day our biggest netware machine crashed.

Did some shopping with Reyk, who will try to install
RedHat 5.1 tonight on his laptop, I guess.
I just hope there are already updates on the new powertools
CD.

It seems that Alan’s 2.0.36pre3 is out.
Damn, if I only would get the time to test the last one.

10th august 1998

Tried to wrote a letter in Kanji, but gave up after the
first sentence. Huhhh… it’s really hard….
I guess, I’ll just try writing a few words in Kana and
the rest of it in english.

For myself, I’ll try Debian 2.0 the next days.

9th august 1998

Coverted another three CD’s into MP3 to get my Blues Brothers
Monster Album completed. (est. 3 hours of music on one CD)

Just wait for my Monster Boogie Woogie CD, 13 hours music
on one CD !

Discovered someone holding my PPP-dialup link up for 23 hours
!
Hey, I don’t want to see that bill. God bless you. 0:-]

8th august 1998

Made some important advances in playing boogie piano,
listening to Peter Heger’s CD “Na endlich !”.

Updated my newly designed personal homepage.
I’ll change the layout again, because it’s not really
my style in its curent form.

7th august 1998

Again, updated the boogie pages with Christian Bleiming’s
bio.
Called Henning Pertiet by phone, and in a few days will
receive
some bio too.

Converted CD’s from Alanis Morisette and Eros Ramazotti into
MP3 files.

6th august 1998

Moved to a new system in determining my lottery numbers for
cracking the 35 mio. DM Jackpot this saturday.

Printed out the Linux Gazette august issue.

5th august 1998

Registered our domain stun.de today.

Did a lot of updates to my RedHat system with all the
latest published RPM’s.

Played around with some of the new Gnome applications
and found the useful gicq, gpgp and xwhois.

Downloaded the 2.0.36pre2 patch and discovered 1 MB
new isdn diffs in it !
Maybe this one becomes essential in a few days.

4th august 1998

Install WWWThreads at work, and they were fascinated by it.
So we think about using it as a ToDo list or better as an
case management archive.

Investigated some free domains to register for FFM,
and found one, I’ll register it tomorrow.

Experimented with SAINT, the next generation of SATAN !

3rd august 1998

Installed UFP-Terminal from Ronald Bieber, to enhance my
Intranet
content, for my StarTrek fascinated mailbox-users.
This one is created from UFP-Info and is completely designed in
HTML.

Set up the phone line in Tom’s new appartment. Lot of work to do
Tom,
better start working today than tomorrow, lot of work !!!
Unbelievable lot of work.

2nd august 1998

Just enjoyed the day, lying lazy on my bed and watching TV.

1st august 1998

Sabre for Linux is just too far away from Pro-Pilot, but who
knows, Sabre developement is still in progress…

Received Christian Bleiming’s boogie CD’s, many thanks !!!
Updated the boogie pages.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import August 1998

August 31, 1998 kobaan

31th august 1998

Made the stupid failure not to talk to this beautiful girl at
McDonalds yesterday evening. Damn, this is gonna drive me mad
!

Did some server-care on our AIX machines, cleaning coredumps,
logfiles, unread mail spools, etc.

Met with Gerd and Michael at O’Reillys, and had pretty much
fun
talking about girls and previous relationships, like the
woman
do usually.

30th august 1998

Updated another two of my new personal homepages.

Did a little bit fine-tuning on SSH.

Tried to set up hourly passwords on the system, but that’s
really
hard. You always have to watch out not to lock up yourself.

Gerd called for some Guinness, so, by4now !

29th august 1998

Successfully installed SSH on my system.
Fascinating, also the X-Session is lightning fast !

28th august 1998

The hardware internals page for the FFM server is completed,
and I’m very satisfied with the result. You wanna take a
look.

Received our 19 inch server case for FFM today !
Yep, time for big shopping next week !

Finally got my tax forms completed, so I hopefully can ignore
the reminder, which will come for sure in the next few days.

27th august 1998

Finally got a solution for our FFM virtual host problems:

The default webserver is
www.stun.de:80

links to all other webservers on the different ports are listed
on
/index.html

including virtual hosts
linux.stun.de:80
etc.stun.de:80

additionally we setup separated webservers for each
linux.stun.de:81
etc.stun.de:8x

Now, let’s see what our requests do:

HTTP/1.0 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests /something/other from linux.stun.de root
www.stun.de replies 404 and may redirect to
www.stun.de/index.html

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

HTTP/1.1 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de
linux.stun.de:80 replies /index.html from virtual host
linux.stun.de:80

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

Any questions ?

26th august 1998

Collected some informations on digital still video cameras,
and tried to buy one, but every model I wanted was not
available at the moment.

Hey Reyk ! Did some updates to the FFM-page.

25th august 1998

Upgraded my Apache to 1.3.1 to get the virtual hosts working
without the need for more IP adresses, but since that update
everything is forbidden.

Discovered a nice statement for the programmers of you:

while (! asleep()) sheep++;

As I guessed we’re only four at O’Reillys than the expected
seven. The first time, we didn’t get our meals. I hope
they’ll
change that in future.

24th august 1998

Fortified my Netscape Communicator 4.06 again, to do some
128-bit encrypted homebanking.

Compared some data sheets of digital still video cameras,
but I’m not satisfied with price and quality at the moment.

Called many people by phone, and the odds are good that we’ll
have a big gig at O’Reillys tomorrow evening.

Printed out the Securing RedHat Manual by Kurt Seifried.

Discovered the Bastard User from Hell release, but it is far
from
being half as good as the original BOFH, therefor it isn’t
linked
either.

Urgently have to find out how to install differnt desktop
themes
for Gnome from the GTK+ packages.

23rd august 1998

Time to say goodbye to some good friends and there dog,
which will move to spain the next days.
So this will be a barbeque-only day.

22nd august 1998

I hate those saturdays.

Got the new Netscape 4.06 but don’t know how to use the
internet
keywords yet. Also my 128 encryption support has gone with
this
update. Time to get a new fortifier.

Tried to update gnome from 0.13 to 0.28 but missed to
download
one or two essential libs. Also gnotes, ee-0.2 wont work.

Analyzed the 2.0.36pre6 patch, but there’s nothin of interest
for me. Just Linux ROSE updates (X.25 PLP) some 3com
netdriver,
pci, processor and smp update stuff.

21st august 1998

Did I mention the Netware server crash yesterday evening ???
Mirroring wasn’t even completed this morning.

Processed all our AIX’s and deleted logfiles and error
reports.

Got some great lyrics from Tom, Beatles for Sysadmins.
I’ll put them right here tomorrow.

Payed the bill for my second ISP.

20th august 1998

Did some cost calculation for our FFM stuff and had a
phonecall
with Gerd who is designing the first LINUX.STUN.DE logos.

Get very angry when trying to reconnect a Microtest Discport
to a Netware server. Damn, I hate those graphical interfaces.

19th august 1998

Yesterday we founded the Linux User Group LINUX.STUN.DE,
so I’ve picked up all the various penguins available on
the web to design our new logo.

18th august 1998

Touch down ! Hey ya I don’t want to see that Maestro
statistics,
this time a Netware-GPF occures when loading servman.
Who said there’s a running Netware 4 server available for
Linux.

Thought about the next saturday reorganization of Netware
volumes.
Could be very easy if nothing stupid happens.

Identified the crying harddisk in our management-Sun, which soon
will
only be good as a sonic stunner for mosquitos.

Tried to get all the Admin-Gurus under one hat, but could
only convince Gerd and with big luck (thanks SUN) Reyk.
See ya at 20:30 at O’Reillys guys.

17th august 1998

Played around with the pilot tools for linux.
Really nice features, you’ll never see somethin’ on MS.

Yet another three CD’s converted. Now my archive is almost
1GB of MP3 audio, which is equal to 1000 minutes or 67 hours
of CD quality music.

Let’s play with DVD-RAM values:
5.2 GB on one DVD-RAM media would be equal to 347 hours or
14.4 days and nights or 2 weeks of audio. Hey that’s a jukebox,
babe.

16th august 1998

A boring day. I think I’ll do nothing today.
Except of converting some more CD’s.

15th august 1998

Faxed some high grade security stuff about Cisco’s IOS to
Reyk.
So if anyone of you is using a public accesible Cisco, get
the
latest security information from CERT.

14th august 1998

Today our whole team got introduced into ATM and how to
handle
a faulty backbone, fast-uplink, trace etc…
Great presentation, thanks to Ecky !

Mucky is doin’ a 15 hours job today, and don’t seem to be
that
delighted when calling him on the phone. I think I’ll visit
him now, to ease his pain.

And another day comes to an end with a cool Guinness and a
really tasty 8 oz sirloin at O’Reillys.

13th august 1998

Just a more private day…

Opened another case at Computer 2000 to check if there are
problems to Compaq-BIOS or Netware-OS when using 18GB
harddisks.

Yet another CD in MP3 format.

12th august 1998

Got the bill for our domain-registration today.
(Hey, thanks Peter, pretty nice offer.)

Created the first version of the STUN.DE logo
but remember, it’s the first version, just an idea.

Tried some of the ciders, Woody’s drinks , a rusty nail
and Guinness together with Tom in my favourite Irish pub
“Shanannigans”.

11th august 1998

Another day our biggest netware machine crashed.

Did some shopping with Reyk, who will try to install
RedHat 5.1 tonight on his laptop, I guess.
I just hope there are already updates on the new powertools
CD.

It seems that Alan’s 2.0.36pre3 is out.
Damn, if I only would get the time to test the last one.

10th august 1998

Tried to wrote a letter in Kanji, but gave up after the
first sentence. Huhhh… it’s really hard….
I guess, I’ll just try writing a few words in Kana and
the rest of it in english.

For myself, I’ll try Debian 2.0 the next days.

9th august 1998

Coverted another three CD’s into MP3 to get my Blues Brothers
Monster Album completed. (est. 3 hours of music on one CD)

Just wait for my Monster Boogie Woogie CD, 13 hours music
on one CD !

Discovered someone holding my PPP-dialup link up for 23 hours
!
Hey, I don’t want to see that bill. God bless you. 0:-]

8th august 1998

Made some important advances in playing boogie piano,
listening to Peter Heger’s CD “Na endlich !”.

Updated my newly designed personal homepage.
I’ll change the layout again, because it’s not really
my style in its curent form.

7th august 1998

Again, updated the boogie pages with Christian Bleiming’s
bio.
Called Henning Pertiet by phone, and in a few days will
receive
some bio too.

Converted CD’s from Alanis Morisette and Eros Ramazotti into
MP3 files.

6th august 1998

Moved to a new system in determining my lottery numbers for
cracking the 35 mio. DM Jackpot this saturday.

Printed out the Linux Gazette august issue.

5th august 1998

Registered our domain stun.de today.

Did a lot of updates to my RedHat system with all the
latest published RPM’s.

Played around with some of the new Gnome applications
and found the useful gicq, gpgp and xwhois.

Downloaded the 2.0.36pre2 patch and discovered 1 MB
new isdn diffs in it !
Maybe this one becomes essential in a few days.

4th august 1998

Install WWWThreads at work, and they were fascinated by it.
So we think about using it as a ToDo list or better as an
case management archive.

Investigated some free domains to register for FFM,
and found one, I’ll register it tomorrow.

Experimented with SAINT, the next generation of SATAN !

3rd august 1998

Installed UFP-Terminal from Ronald Bieber, to enhance my
Intranet
content, for my StarTrek fascinated mailbox-users.
This one is created from UFP-Info and is completely designed in
HTML.

Set up the phone line in Tom’s new appartment. Lot of work to do
Tom,
better start working today than tomorrow, lot of work !!!
Unbelievable lot of work.

2nd august 1998

Just enjoyed the day, lying lazy on my bed and watching TV.

1st august 1998

Sabre for Linux is just too far away from Pro-Pilot, but who
knows, Sabre developement is still in progress…

Received Christian Bleiming’s boogie CD’s, many thanks !!!
Updated the boogie pages.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import July 1998

July 31, 1998 kobaan

01.07.1998 23:44 | Diary

31st july 1998

Had a crashed netware server today with 1000 users. What a
day.
Mirroring of the 112 gigs is still running after 14 hours.

Prited out the USB specifications. So I’m sure that I’ll
play around with this hardware stuff soon, since Linux can
handle it better than Win98, according to Alan’s smoke party.

30th july 1998

Updateted the emergency documentation of our AIX machines.

Configured automatic indexing on my local search engine.

Started to write a script to collect the status of all my
HTML pages. Maybe this will gonna be something for the
masses,
when finished. If you already know such a tool, let me know.

The output will look like this:

Current project status in category: general
Location: Filename: Filedate: Filesize: Version:
/ index.html 07/10/98 6807 3.00.001
/diary diary.html 07/30/98 14079 unknown
Current project status in category: boogie
Location: Filename: Filedate: Filesize: Version:
/boogie bpage_1.html 07/29/98 3469 3.00.012

Organized a network administrator meeting at O’Reillys
Irish Pub, so that Tom, Reyk and myself could exchange
our experiences and pains in this business.
(You know the name O’Reilly, don’t you ?
Just the right name for a pub to attract Linux fanatics.)

You could say this evening was the foundation of the
“Bavarian Linux Administrators Group”.
Short: BLAG & PLAY !

29th july 1998

Gave my Pentium II some work to do: 750 MB wave files
converted to 67 MB mp3 files. Cool compression rate 11:1 !

Played again with my webcam. Take a look.
It’s bad in quality I know, but the cam was very cheap,
therefore, you can almost forget using it with artificial
light.

Got in touch with HP-UX 10.20, nice they also support volume
groups as in AIX. Anyone make me a gift ?!?

Did a lot of updates to the boogie pages.

28th july 1998

Collected all the debugging stuff for Alan.
I hope that I don’t steal his valueable time.

Had big problems with SNA on an AIX. And discovered four
hours later, that they had changed the hostname yesterday.
The documentation of the SNA application says: If you ever
change the hostname, you have to install the application
from scratch. Well done, guys !

Again tested my billard center. Closed again !
So I had some Guinness with Gerd at Shanannigans.

27th july 1998

Discovered a new problem in 2.0.35 memory management,
when loading previously brandnew compiled bttv modules
(0.5.6 and also 0.5.8), I could reproduce the GPF
problems I ran into yesterday. Not a process, but the
kernel himself seems to grab all available memory.
Unloading modules, doesn’t free up memory.

Wrote that immediately to Alan, before he releases 2.2 !

And another day rebooting my machine, to get the system
stable, and uptime counting starts from the beginning !

Learned that simply taring files doesn’t include
pointfiles. Ahhh that’s what find is good for.
Maybe my personal uptime is just to long, since I had
no weekend for a while.

26th july 1998

Set up live video on my webserver, now you can take
a look at me while working. It takes me a bit time to get
the BTTV capture and transformations working.
CGI scripting was easy instead.

(The above link is on an Intranet !
So if you want to take a look on me live, you first have to
identify my dynamic IP while I’m online, but you should have
a fair chance !!!)

Spent another day at work, since our monitoring alarmed me
that one of our primary backbones has some trouble.
It for sure was not a network failure. Our tftp-server SUN
was unhappy with its disappearing disk space on the root
partition.

Had a mysterious GPF problem (general protection fault) when
su-ing to other users. So I had some practice in debugging
the EIP symbols. Lynx was grabbing all available memory ! F**k
!
(As I said some days before, it’s hard to measure uptimes.)

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre1. Don’t know if I’ll compile another
kernel tonight. But the TLAN 1.0 update would concern me.

One of these neverending days….
Again been alarme by our monitoring, and again the same
management module in our primary backbone. So I decided
on the spot to swap the whole management board.
Lord, please let me sleep now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wont believe that, but in some countries the 26th of
july is a sunday. And believe it or not, some people don’t
work on sundays. Maybe I’ve chosen the wrong religion.
Which one says: “On the seventh day, you should rest !” ?

25th july 1998

Had to work today. They tried to update our hosts OS390,
but failed when trying to run IMS on 18 GB harddisks,
so the had to go back to the old release.
Rebooting the host makes much fun if you have 40 SNA
links to netware for SAA servers. Uhhh..my legs.

Printed out all of this year published Linux-Gazette
issues. Lots of stuff to read, but always helpful.

Discovered the www.freshmeat.net and immediately subscribed
to their mailing list. You wanna subscribe too ?

24th july 1998

Installed WWWthreads, a nice little blackboard system
completely designed in Perl for easy cgi installation
on webservers. Great ! ))))

Reorganized lots of logical volumes on an AIX, missed
to shutdown one database, so I had to repair DB2 too.

Downloaded Alan’s 2.0.36pre1, hope thats the last one
before 2.2. (It’s hard to measure and assess uptimes
when installing a new kernel every second day.)

23rd july 1998

Did a lot of documentation on an AIX for reorganizing
volume groups tomorrow afternoon.

Nobody at work believes me that multiple seperate duplexed
disks on a fileserver are much more efficiently on
performance
than one big single duplexed disk. I hate those pigheaded
guys.

Debugged XDM sessions on a Sparc 20, which had refused to
startup xclients from the initscripts.

Taught Markus a little bit C programming.
Maybe he’ll write a better database software someday ?

Received the advertisments for the Amacom Flipdisk, which
would be a very nice backup device on Linux.

Discoverd how to debug crashed kernels. Heya that makes fun !
Have to try debugging a running kernel, nice feature !

The day was long Willis !

22nd july 1998

Had to do escalation procedures to Novell and Computer 2000
because of our SNA problems.

Played around with AIX printing filters.
Why is noone using PostScript ?
It could be all so easy.

Had a BBQ chicken pizza at Munich’s Planet Hollywood,
not bad, but not the right place for me.

21st july 1998

My first day at work, after holiday.

Experimented with the LexLink Tools for AIX. IP is better !

Tried a little bit Netware programming, there are some
dirty tricks around.

20th july 1998

Changed the diary dates to full month names, and made them
Y2K-compliant.

Did another four pages of my new 28 big new homepages.

19th july 1998

Enjoyed the day, did some work on my new homepage.
If you want to take a first look: New Homepage
I’m not satisfied with the colours font size and background yet,
but
this should be minorities.

18th july 1998

Worked on my new personal homepage V3.xx, which will consist
of 28 very personally documents. Looks fine so far.

Created lots of fine web arts with Gimp.

17th july 1998

Enjoyed the day.

Enjoyed Armageddon and Mercury Puzzle with Reyk and Babsi
at the royal cinema. Great ciname, great movies.

Damn, they have cracked DES-II-2 in 56 hours, but not by
distributed.net members. They’ve built up a special crypto
processor just to crack DES !!!

Security live long and prosper, goodbye….

16th july 1998

Removed Squid from my configuration and installed
WWWOffle instead. And believe me, it’s much more
comfortable.

Installed my venetian blind on my big living room window,
so I guess it’ll be a cool day tomorrow ! 8-}

15th july 1998

My last week on holiday.

Tried to poll news from my fidolink, but it seems there are
many many bit failures during transfer. Have to check this
in more deep.

Did dozens of minor updates in the local configs.
Checked security for the whole filesystem.
Added banners for the dial-up services.

Answered a few questions on news://linux.redhat

Tried to write down my PPP device/interface problems.

14th july 1998

Compiled and installed the final 2.0.35 kernel.

Compiled the tricky CDDA2WAV, now it works.

13th july 1998

DES-II-2 has started, so all my machines are working on it.
Overall rate is about 8 Mkeys/second. I’ll know that exactly
in a few days. (Lot of work to update all the different
machines
on the different OS’s.)

Encoded the blues brothers 2000 soundtrack to MP3 for my
ultimate mp3-blues-cd.

Disconnected a lot of harddisk drives and fans from my pc’s
to make my sleep more softly.

12th july 1998

Did some updates on the boogie-woogie pages.

Had lots of fun at a friends birthday party.

11th july 1998

Played around with VIC, nice video conferencing tool for
linux.

Updated the boogie-woogie event calendar.

10th july 1998

Set up DNS for my internal fidonet. Found a solution for my
net-pf-4, net-pf-3 error messages. (RTFM may help sometime.)

Convinced Tom to join the DES-II-2 contest on monday.

Used the time to answer and update all the boogie news in
my inbox folder.

Will go to the little octoberfest tonight.

9th july 1998

Played around with LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control),
nice tool !

Found some more tools for my bttv-driver, but had no time
to test it so far.

Did a complete backup of my mailbox areas via ftp.
TCP/IP and FTP are such stupid protocols !
You need to acknowledge 300MB for 1GB to transfer. Great !
&-{

Got ifcico and ifmail working over VModem/Telnet, now I can
get all my fidomail via TCP/IP as a new virtual line !
Pretty cool !

Reyk had to fight with dummy devices on a sun, hope he got
it.

8th july 1998

Updated my PalmPilot’s OS to 2.05, works fine under linux.

Tested incoming and outgoing faximiles, had no problems,
many thanks to the c’t team !

Tried to compile some new gnome-pre-alpha software, but
without
success. What have they done with the C-compiler ??? Had no
chance to compile anything without parsing errors !

Had some crashs with gnome when video4linux runs for more
than
20 minutes. Just console blocking.

7th july 1998

Edited a few HTML pages for my new PPP-based mailbox-system.
Thought about transparent proxying for ftp, when allowing
users just to make connections to the dialin-server.

Played around with Kanji-term, and hunted for some japanese
language training programs on the linux-os.
(wnn, canna, skk, ng, mule) Pretty cool !

Set up hourly fortunes for every login session. )))

6th july 1998

Another big shopping day, finally I got a lamp for my
kitchen.

Now leeching the last few megabytes to complete my updated
RedHat 5.1 CD image.

Got Gnome running, as I like it ! Wow !
So all you outthere having problems with KDE change to Gnome.

5th july 1998

PalmPilot PPP now works fine, but without authentication.

Compiled 2.0.35pre5, which runs so far.

Tried to get KDE running, now with 200 MB of RAM, but after
five minutes swaps again to disk with crash. Great !

4th july 1998

New RC5 clients are now available, so I had to go through all
my
RC5 condemned machines. Join us on 13 july with DES-II-2 !

Got big brother running more or less. Nice tool.

The Germans lost against Croatia ! What a fool !

Experimented most of the day with PalmPilot’s direct PPP link
to my server, but without any success.
mgetty seems to loose connection after receiving the first
string.
Ignoring carrier detection don’t seem to work properly.

The normal modem line, now works without any failures.
(FAX, UUCP, FIDO, PPP and LOGIN) Great !
Time to get the Fido-mailer linux-based.

3rd july 1998

Ohhh, my head…. I guess the fourth Guinness was the bad
one…

Reyk seems to be in trouble, because one of his linux
machines
can’t mount it’s root partition anymore. Bad luck !

Tested the IPPP dialup with Chris, and obviously we have the
same problem with multiple interfaces and IPPP-daemons.
(Calls are accepted on ippp1 instead of ippp4, the daemon
started
for ippp2 answers on ippp4, the static IP from ippp1 becomes
overwritten with the dynamic IP of ippp4, GREAT f.ck !!! )

Maybe I should change to FreeBSD someday.

2nd july 1998

The firewall configuration is broken again… but finally INN
seems to work now. Just waiting for Chris’s feed.

Registered my linux machines at counter.li.org, this time
without form-failures from netscape.

Updated the system with the newest redhat updates.
Fighted around with the 2.0.35pre patches…

Installed the excite search engine for private webservers,
works
great, but was a little bit tricky since we don’t use the old
perl 5.001 anymore.

Will have some Guinness tonight with Reyk and Babsi at
O’Reillys.

1st july 1998

Bought an effect processor for my e-guitar, sounds great !

Tried again to get up INN running….. no chance….
But found two new patches, one for netscape’s form problem
and
the other for the INN path problem ! Ahh, amazing…

Phoned to Chris, but it seems it’ll take some more time until
he can feed me with news. Also dialup still isn’t working
yet.

Had to notice, that my preferred billard center started its
summer break today for the next 2 months, sorry Gerd.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import July 1998

July 31, 1998 kobaan

31st july 1998

Had a crashed netware server today with 1000 users. What a
day.
Mirroring of the 112 gigs is still running after 14 hours.

Prited out the USB specifications. So I’m sure that I’ll
play around with this hardware stuff soon, since Linux can
handle it better than Win98, according to Alan’s smoke party.

30th july 1998

Updateted the emergency documentation of our AIX machines.

Configured automatic indexing on my local search engine.

Started to write a script to collect the status of all my
HTML pages. Maybe this will gonna be something for the
masses,
when finished. If you already know such a tool, let me know.

The output will look like this:

You could say this evening was the foundation of the
“Bavarian Linux Administrators Group”.
Short: BLAG & PLAY !

29th july 1998

Gave my Pentium II some work to do: 750 MB wave files
converted to 67 MB mp3 files. Cool compression rate 11:1 !

Played again with my webcam. Take a look.
It’s bad in quality I know, but the cam was very cheap,
therefore, you can almost forget using it with artificial
light.

Got in touch with HP-UX 10.20, nice they also support volume
groups as in AIX. Anyone make me a gift ?!?

Did a lot of updates to the boogie pages.

28th july 1998

Collected all the debugging stuff for Alan.
I hope that I don’t steal his valueable time.

Again tested my billard center. Closed again !
So I had some Guinness with Gerd at Shanannigans.

27th july 1998

Wrote that immediately to Alan, before he releases 2.2 !

And another day rebooting my machine, to get the system
stable, and uptime counting starts from the beginning !

Learned that simply taring files doesn’t include
pointfiles. Ahhh that’s what find is good for.
Maybe my personal uptime is just to long, since I had
no weekend for a while.

26th july 1998

Set up live video on my webserver, now you can take
a look at me while working. It takes me a bit time to get
the BTTV capture and transformations working.
CGI scripting was easy instead.

(The above link is on an Intranet !
So if you want to take a look on me live, you first have to
identify my dynamic IP while I’m online, but you should have
a fair chance !!!)

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre1. Don’t know if I’ll compile another
kernel tonight. But the TLAN 1.0 update would concern me.

25th july 1998

Printed out all of this year published Linux-Gazette
issues. Lots of stuff to read, but always helpful.

Discovered the www.freshmeat.net and immediately subscribed
to their mailing list. You wanna subscribe too ?

24th july 1998

Installed WWWthreads, a nice little blackboard system
completely designed in Perl for easy cgi installation
on webservers. Great ! ))))

Reorganized lots of logical volumes on an AIX, missed
to shutdown one database, so I had to repair DB2 too.

Downloaded Alan’s 2.0.36pre1, hope thats the last one
before 2.2. (It’s hard to measure and assess uptimes
when installing a new kernel every second day.)

23rd july 1998

Did a lot of documentation on an AIX for reorganizing
volume groups tomorrow afternoon.

Nobody at work believes me that multiple seperate duplexed
disks on a fileserver are much more efficiently on
performance
than one big single duplexed disk. I hate those pigheaded
guys.

Debugged XDM sessions on a Sparc 20, which had refused to
startup xclients from the initscripts.

Taught Markus a little bit C programming.
Maybe he’ll write a better database software someday ?

Received the advertisments for the Amacom Flipdisk, which
would be a very nice backup device on Linux.

Discoverd how to debug crashed kernels. Heya that makes fun !
Have to try debugging a running kernel, nice feature !

The day was long Willis !

22nd july 1998

Had to do escalation procedures to Novell and Computer 2000
because of our SNA problems.

Played around with AIX printing filters.
Why is noone using PostScript ?
It could be all so easy.

Had a BBQ chicken pizza at Munich’s Planet Hollywood,
not bad, but not the right place for me.

21st july 1998

My first day at work, after holiday.

Experimented with the LexLink Tools for AIX. IP is better !

Tried a little bit Netware programming, there are some
dirty tricks around.

20th july 1998

Changed the diary dates to full month names, and made them
Y2K-compliant.

Did another four pages of my new 28 big new homepages.

19th july 1998

Enjoyed the day, did some work on my new homepage.
If you want to take a first look: New Homepage
I’m not satisfied with the colours font size and background yet,
but
this should be minorities.

18th july 1998

Worked on my new personal homepage V3.xx, which will consist
of 28 very personally documents. Looks fine so far.

Created lots of fine web arts with Gimp.

17th july 1998

Enjoyed the day.

Enjoyed Armageddon and Mercury Puzzle with Reyk and Babsi
at the royal cinema. Great ciname, great movies.

Damn, they have cracked DES-II-2 in 56 hours, but not by
distributed.net members. They’ve built up a special crypto
processor just to crack DES !!!

Security live long and prosper, goodbye….

16th july 1998

Removed Squid from my configuration and installed
WWWOffle instead. And believe me, it’s much more
comfortable.

Installed my venetian blind on my big living room window,
so I guess it’ll be a cool day tomorrow ! 8-}

15th july 1998

My last week on holiday.

Tried to poll news from my fidolink, but it seems there are
many many bit failures during transfer. Have to check this
in more deep.

Did dozens of minor updates in the local configs.
Checked security for the whole filesystem.
Added banners for the dial-up services.

Answered a few questions on news://linux.redhat

Tried to write down my PPP device/interface problems.

14th july 1998

Compiled and installed the final 2.0.35 kernel.

Compiled the tricky CDDA2WAV, now it works.

13th july 1998

Encoded the blues brothers 2000 soundtrack to MP3 for my
ultimate mp3-blues-cd.

Disconnected a lot of harddisk drives and fans from my pc’s
to make my sleep more softly.

12th july 1998

Did some updates on the boogie-woogie pages.

Had lots of fun at a friends birthday party.

11th july 1998

Played around with VIC, nice video conferencing tool for
linux.

Updated the boogie-woogie event calendar.

10th july 1998

Set up DNS for my internal fidonet. Found a solution for my
net-pf-4, net-pf-3 error messages. (RTFM may help sometime.)

Convinced Tom to join the DES-II-2 contest on monday.

Used the time to answer and update all the boogie news in
my inbox folder.

Will go to the little octoberfest tonight.

9th july 1998

Played around with LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control),
nice tool !

Found some more tools for my bttv-driver, but had no time
to test it so far.

Did a complete backup of my mailbox areas via ftp.
TCP/IP and FTP are such stupid protocols !
You need to acknowledge 300MB for 1GB to transfer. Great !
&-{

Got ifcico and ifmail working over VModem/Telnet, now I can
get all my fidomail via TCP/IP as a new virtual line !
Pretty cool !

Reyk had to fight with dummy devices on a sun, hope he got
it.

8th july 1998

Updated my PalmPilot’s OS to 2.05, works fine under linux.

Tested incoming and outgoing faximiles, had no problems,
many thanks to the c’t team !

Tried to compile some new gnome-pre-alpha software, but
without
success. What have they done with the C-compiler ??? Had no
chance to compile anything without parsing errors !

Had some crashs with gnome when video4linux runs for more
than
20 minutes. Just console blocking.

7th july 1998

Edited a few HTML pages for my new PPP-based mailbox-system.
Thought about transparent proxying for ftp, when allowing
users just to make connections to the dialin-server.

Played around with Kanji-term, and hunted for some japanese
language training programs on the linux-os.
(wnn, canna, skk, ng, mule) Pretty cool !

Set up hourly fortunes for every login session. )))

6th july 1998

Another big shopping day, finally I got a lamp for my
kitchen.

Now leeching the last few megabytes to complete my updated
RedHat 5.1 CD image.

Got Gnome running, as I like it ! Wow !
So all you outthere having problems with KDE change to Gnome.

5th july 1998

PalmPilot PPP now works fine, but without authentication.

Compiled 2.0.35pre5, which runs so far.

Tried to get KDE running, now with 200 MB of RAM, but after
five minutes swaps again to disk with crash. Great !

4th july 1998

New RC5 clients are now available, so I had to go through all
my
RC5 condemned machines. Join us on 13 july with DES-II-2 !

Got big brother running more or less. Nice tool.

The Germans lost against Croatia ! What a fool !

The normal modem line, now works without any failures.
(FAX, UUCP, FIDO, PPP and LOGIN) Great !
Time to get the Fido-mailer linux-based.

3rd july 1998

Ohhh, my head…. I guess the fourth Guinness was the bad
one…

Reyk seems to be in trouble, because one of his linux
machines
can’t mount it’s root partition anymore. Bad luck !

Maybe I should change to FreeBSD someday.

2nd july 1998

The firewall configuration is broken again… but finally INN
seems to work now. Just waiting for Chris’s feed.

Registered my linux machines at counter.li.org, this time
without form-failures from netscape.

Updated the system with the newest redhat updates.
Fighted around with the 2.0.35pre patches…

Installed the excite search engine for private webservers,
works
great, but was a little bit tricky since we don’t use the old
perl 5.001 anymore.

Will have some Guinness tonight with Reyk and Babsi at
O’Reillys.

1st july 1998

Bought an effect processor for my e-guitar, sounds great !

Tried again to get up INN running….. no chance….
But found two new patches, one for netscape’s form problem
and
the other for the INN path problem ! Ahh, amazing…

Phoned to Chris, but it seems it’ll take some more time until
he can feed me with news. Also dialup still isn’t working
yet.

Had to notice, that my preferred billard center started its
summer break today for the next 2 months, sorry Gerd.