Archive for June, 2008

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Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 13:58 | 0 comments
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Windows, version five point one,
Has died and gone to heaven.
I'm passing up on version six
And going straight to seven.

via.

Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 13:37 | 0 comments
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The first four chapters of the book are sealed, and ready for printing.
Spell checking, re-reading, removing overfull \hbox (you don't know what an overfull \hbox is? You haven't lived! ), re-reading, etc. Then there are the diagrams: move that box left a mm, un-bold that word, align the caption, highlight the arrow. [...]

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 22:19 | 2 comments
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First of all, thanks to Lawrence who pointed out to me that there were links oozing out of these pages, links that I'd probably not added myself. He was right, and it should be over now.
Unfortunately, I've been ignoring software updates to this site for almost three quarters of a year now, which is why [...]

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 21:20 | 2 comments
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An der Rechtschreibung muessen wir (na ja, die Gattin — ich kann es kaum besser) noch arbeiten, aber den Ein samel dinst den meine Tochter zuhause eingerichtet hat, brachte mich zum schmunzeln.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 at 18:57 | 1 comment
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Cleaned up a mail queue with many thousands of messages in it, resulting from aborted ClamAV updates that "somehow" trashed their .clv files.
Heard that a v.i.p. was given a BlackBerry device with a number that was reserved for someone else…
Implemented a schema change on our LDAP directory, and drove that out to all thirteen servers, [...]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 16:44 | 0 comments
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What company might this ad be referring to?

The only "world-renowned" software company I know of in or around Redmond, does the "other" OS. Makes one wonder…

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 16:19 | 0 comments
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It is high time that I show you the table of contents for the book Alternative DNS Servers so, without further ado, here it is:

Introduction to the DNS
How to represent zone data and where to store it
Preparing your implementation
MaraDNS
MyDNS
PowerDNS Authoritative Server
An overview of BIND
BIND's Simplified Database Interface
Bind DLZ
Name Server Daemon (NSD)
tinydns
ldapdns
dnsmasq
DNS on Microsoft Windows
DNS and [...]

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 15:51 | 1 comment
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