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Harddisk failure

Today, for the second time in just a few weeks, one of my harddisks on alba failed. Both of them were less then a year old...

Anyway, I just took the chance to upgrade to a 2.6.17.13 kernel with the latest stable Linux-VServer patch applied.

friday, october 06, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Kernel upgrade

After almost 245 days uptime, I had to reboot this computer to install a new kernel. I upgraded from Linux 2.6.11.9 to 2.6.14.3 including the VServer patch. Strangely, the reboot took about 15 minutes - I have absolute no clue, why...

wednesday, march 01, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

jabber.tokkee.org

I had a jabber account on jabber.org so far. However, the server was not very reliable for the last couple of weeks/months. So I decided to setup my own jabber server. Now, jabberd2 is running on jabber.tokkee.org including an OpenLDAP backend for authentication. With the help of the official howto, the setup was fairly easy. My new JID is tokkee [at] jabber [dot] tokkee [dot] org.

friday, february 24, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

(Open)WRT

I bought a Linksys WRT54GS a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, it's already one of the new series (v4) which only has 4MB Flash and 16MB RAM. However, it is still able to run OpenWRT which I just installed a couple of minutes ago and which runs just great. Installation was as easy as browsing to the Linksys web administration tool and doing a firmware upgrade.

To this day I had my notebook directly connected to my DSL modem, which is definitely okay for a network consisting of only one computer, but I didn't like it. And I can use WLAN now, which is a huge benefit for my 25 square meters appartment ;-)

Having a fully functional GNU/Linux distribution on my router is just great. Well, lots of people I know are already using OpenWRT for a long time and this is nothing special any more, but I like doing all the configuration on the command line.

saturday, february 18, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Drupal and MySQL

drupal simply rocks! Unfortunately, the PostgreSQL support is somewhat rudimentary. Most contributed modules only support MySQL. It probably wouldn't be a big deal to use 'em with PostgreSQL but you will save yourself a lot of trouble if you just stick to MySQL...

wednesday, february 08, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Drupal and PostgreSQL

It might just be my own stupidity but (the Debian package of) drupal in combination with a PostgreSQL database backend seems to be completely broken. I just tried to setup a combination thereof and I kept running into new database-problems. As I'm not yet very experienced with PostgreSQL I will try to exactly track down the problem before writing any bug reports. For now, I just fell back to MySQL...

tuesday, february 07, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

I did some compiling today...

I think I do need a CPU upgrade ;-)

tuesday, january 17, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Installed websvn web-frontend for Subversion

Anyone may browse some of my SVN repositories using a nice webinterface (websvn) by browsing to http://svn.tokkee.org/, now.

friday, december 23, 2005 | path: /tech | permanent link

Upgraded to OpenZaurus 3.5.3

I've just upgraded the operating system on my Sharp Zaurus handheld to OpenZaurus version 3.5.3 using the GPE image. It really runs great. However, I do not recommend to enable visual effects in the "Look & Feel" settings dialog - it broke my system ;-)

tuesday, december 20, 2005 | path: /tech | permanent link

Altered the SVN repository setup to use https instead of svn

My Subversion repositories are no longer accessible by the svn-protocol. I'm no longer using the svnserve daemon to serve my SVN repositories but I setup my Apache webserver to access the repositories using the WebDAV extension to the HTTP-protocol. To checkout any repository you should now use svn co https://svn.tokkee.org/<repository>.

wednesday, november 30, 2005 | path: /tech | permanent link

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