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

30th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

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

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

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

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

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

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

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

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

17th november 1998

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

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

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

15th to 16th november 1998

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

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

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

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

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

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

12th november 1998

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

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

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

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

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

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

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

11th november 1998

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

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

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

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

10th november 1998

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

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

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

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

9th november 1998

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

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

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

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

8th november 1998

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

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

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

7th november 1998

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

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

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

6th november 1998

Not my day…

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

5th november 1998

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

4th november 1998

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

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

3rd november 1998

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

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

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

2nd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

1st november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

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

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

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

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

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

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

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

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

17th november 1998

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

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

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

15th to 16th november 1998

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

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

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

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

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

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

12th november 1998

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

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

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

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

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

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

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

11th november 1998

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

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

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

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

10th november 1998

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

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

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

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

9th november 1998

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

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

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

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

8th november 1998

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

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

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

7th november 1998

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

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

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

6th november 1998

Not my day…

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

5th november 1998

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

4th november 1998

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

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

3rd november 1998

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

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

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

2nd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

1st november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

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

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

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

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

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

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

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

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

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

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

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

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

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

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

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

17th november 1998

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

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

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

15th to 16th november 1998

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

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

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

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

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

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

12th november 1998

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

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

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

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

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

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

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

11th november 1998

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

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

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

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

10th november 1998

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

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

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

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

9th november 1998

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

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

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

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

8th november 1998

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

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

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

7th november 1998

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

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

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

6th november 1998

Not my day…

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

5th november 1998

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

4th november 1998

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

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

3rd november 1998

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

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

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

2nd november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

1st november 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31st october 1998

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

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

30th october 1998

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

Prepared SSA harddisk drives for installing on tomorrow.

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

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

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

29th october 1998

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

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

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

28th october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

27th october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

26th october 1998

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

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

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

25th october 1998

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

Much stories from my parents to listen to…

24th october 1998

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

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

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

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

23rd october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

22nd october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

21st october 1998

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

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

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

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

20th october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

19th october 1998

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

18th october 1998

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

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

Never trust a schedule….

17th october 1998

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

Did some Chinese cooking with Tom at his new apartment.

Will have to work tomorrow….

16th october 1998

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

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

15th october 1998

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

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

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

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

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

14th october 1998

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

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

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

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

13th october 1998

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

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

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

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

Gerd is hopefully working on the FFM password rotation
concept.

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

12th october 1998

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

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

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

11th october 1998

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

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

10th october 1998

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

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

9th october 1998

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

8th october 1998

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

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

Met with Tom at Shanannigans.

7th october 1998

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

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

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

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

6th october 1998

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

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

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

5th october 1998

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

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

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

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

4th october 1998

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

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

Also did IP address change just for testing without problems.

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

3rd october 1998

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

2nd october 1998

Did some Excite page updates on the FFM server.

1st october 1998

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.