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Nicht viel dazu zu sagen:- Zu voll+ interessante Vortraege- zu voll- teilweise musste man um einen Platz in einem Vortrag zu bekommen 3 Stunden vorher im Saal sein und durfte diesen dann nicht mal zum...
View Articlezone_reclaim_mode is the essence of all evil
For months, I've been trying to track a problem we had on one of our new (mini-)clusters. Symptoms included (but were not limited to):Trivial system calls, such as reading a file in /proc, took a full...
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Conrad Electronic spinnt
Gerade eben wollte ich eine Kleinigkeit bei Conrad bestellen. Ich bestelle nicht gerne da, weil der Laden meiner Meinung nach zu teuer und der Onlineshop ein absolut unübersichtlicher Graus ist. In...
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Nur gut dass das draufsteht...
Nur gut, dass dieser wichtige Hinweis auf dem Karton steht. Man stelle sich vor, der würde fehlen - da könnten Leute glatt auf die Idee kommen, die >200 kg schwere Palette durch die Gegend zu...
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Nur gut dass das draufsteht Teil 2...
Nur gut, dass dieser wichtige Hinweis auf die Tüte gedruckt ist. Sonst kämen sicherlich irgendwelche Leute auf die Idee, sich die Tüte ueber den Kopf zu ziehen. Die würden sich sicher auch von der...
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Grosses Paeckchen
Oh, ein Päckchen (Euromünze für Grössenvergleich). Was mag da wohl tolles drin sein? Mal sehen: 6 (sechs!) Seiten A4 Papier. Darunter 3 Seiten mit irgendeinem Standarddisclaimer in chinesisch und eine...
View ArticleKDE 4 sucks
With the update from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, I had the "joy" of trying out KDE4 yet again. Like Ubuntu and all other distributions before, Debian dropped KDE3 with Squeeze and only delivers KDE4 now....
View ArticleTelefon-Nerver zurücknerven
In den letzten Wochen gingen mir zwei besonders penetrante Telefonspammer- Callcenter auf die Nerven: Die einen wollten regelmässig irgendwelche "Umfragen". Die anderen haben mindestens 20 mal...
View ArticleS2API and the complete lack of documentation
While adding support for DVB-S2 to getstream-poempel, i had the joy of having to figure out how S2API works. S2API is the new API for DVB on linux, and it is the only way to tune DVB-S2 channels, as...
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Doppelboden-modding, oder: Pimp my Doppelboden
Im Doppelboden des Serverraums gibt es neuerdings ein Loch Sichtfenster, durch das man die Rohre fuer das Kühlwasser des neuen Clusters sehen kann. Was man aufgrund der schlechten Bildqualität kaum...
View ArticleRooting Samsung Galaxy S2 with Heimdall
Please note: This article simply describes what I did to root my Samsung Galaxy S2. It is provided in the hope that it will helpful for others. Neither will I assist you in doing the same to your...
View ArticleFlashing stock firmware with Heimdall
Please note: This article simply describes what I did to my Samsung Galaxy S2. It is provided in the hope that it will helpful for others. Neither will I assist you in doing the same to your phone, nor...
View ArticleStrange coincidences
At work we have a few external RAID arrays from a major manufacturer, lets call him "HAL", bought as part of a bigger storage system. From the beginning, they were pretty annoying - aside from their...
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Building my own spice rack in the FAU fablab
There currently is a Fablab being established at Friedrich-Alexander-University (site is in german, see Wikipedia for an explanation of fablabs in general). Although they're not fully equipped yet,...
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Sgwd yr Eira and the four waterfalls trail
During a recent vacation, I visited the four (water-)falls trail and the Sgwd yr Eira (Waterfall of the snow). The Sgwd yr Eira is probably the most famous waterfall in South Wales, because it is...
View ArticleConverting the osm2pgsql planet_osm_nodes table to the new flat-nodes file
If you are using osm2pgsql to keep an up-to-date copy of the relevant parts of the Openstreetmap database, e.g. because you're running a tile-server, you will be happy to learn that it has a new...
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Foxis crappy GPXVisualizer
I was recently trying to generate static pictures from GPX tracks for putting into a photo album. However, all the tools I looked at had some deficits in that usage mode. For example, gpsprune does...
View ArticleFake traceroute
About a month ago, the Star Wars Traceroute circled the Internet. I found it quite amusing - and thought that I could improve on that idea. My first experiments to generate something similar with...
View ArticleIntel MIC/Xeon Phi MPSS on Ubuntu
I recently tried to get the Intel Xeon Phi Software Stack (Manycore Platform Software Stack, MPSS) to run under Ubuntu 12.04. More exactly, the version KNC_gold_update_1-2.1.4982. Ubuntu is not...
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KLM and Schiphol Airport - where incompetence complements incompetence
TLDNR: KLM sells/advertises trips with short 40 minute stopovers at their main european hub airport Amsterdam Schiphol. Avoid these. While in theory they have everything that is needed to make this...
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