Als politisch weitestgehend unmotivierter Mensch musste ich im März 2008 unfreiwillig die Konsequenzen eines unscheinbaren Details der Gesundheitsreform (GKV-Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz) ausbaden, die am 2. Februar 2007 in Berlin im Deutschen Bundestag verabschiedet und am selben Tag wirksam wurde: Zwangsmitgliedschaft in der gesetzlichen Krankenkasse (GKV). Read the rest of this entry »
Dear Friends! 2008-02-19 was a special day in the history of lotterer.net messaging. For the first time in history I decided to leverage a spam filter to defeat all the crap coming into my mailbox. I always disliked the approach of anti-spam solutions tagging messages for manual review. My approach is far more aggressive and puts the sender in charge of sending proper messages. Read the rest of this entry »
Fast schon eine Tradition geworden ist der Zeitvertreib an Silvester, mit vier Spielern gleichzeitig “Bomberman 2″ auf dem Super Nintendo zu spielen. Read the rest of this entry »
Die Christbaumbeleuchtung vom letzten Jahr hatte schon ein paar defekte Lämpchen. Der Kauf einer neuen Lichterkette war nötig. Diesmal in Farbe. Das Anbringen wurde von Julia und Thomas erledigt, welche von Petra fortan “Symmetriekind” und “Monk” genannt werden. Read the rest of this entry »
After using 3rd party tools to improve reply and signature handling in Novell Groupwise, I recently gave vanilla GW702 a try. The signature had a horrible empty line in it and here is how to remove it. Read the rest of this entry »
You may know that OpenPKG makes it easy to create a custom software stack for any Unix from source. The included tools also allow easy reuse of the binaries created during the build process, enabling users to run setups using one build host for each platform, then distributing the binaries across a large number of compatible machines. Read the rest of this entry »
Auf freundliche Einladung der Fa. Cyvaned Systems GmbH&Co.KG hin habe ich die Novell Work Groups Tour 2007 im Holiday Inn City Centre in München besucht. Da hat sich Novell nicht lumpen lassen, so einen Event auf den Zeitraum vom Oktoberfest zu legen. Themen waren Open Enterprise Server 2, ZENworks Configuration Management, GroupWise 8 und GroupWise Mobile Server sowie Teaming + Conferencing. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I was evaluating Berkeley DB usability when multiple unrelated processes try to write to the same database. My early attempts to create a small working example code failed badly and I was unsure whether the multiple writer approach is something that isn’t supposed to work at all or if there was a bug in the DB or in my exploration code. Issue resolved now. Read the rest of this entry »
Lessons learned from attempting to create a pure 64bit OpenPKG instance on a system made from mixed 32bit/64bit parts. OpenPKG builds and runs fine in any “pure” environment where parts are either all 32bit or all 64bit. Problems and limitations arise from any attempt to mix 32/64. Read the rest of this entry »
OpenPKG development has been shrunken to CURRENT. Here is how I recently switched a lot of instances running releases and snapshots version to CURRENT. Read the rest of this entry »