Chrisus zlog

Since yesterday I have changed my ISP from FunkLan to AON. Quite simple to do and quite fast. Wonder what happens during the next thunderstorm. Only the Thompson Router is a bit tricky, but I managed most of the things like changing the two AON-TV ports to ethernet ports, so now I have four ports again.

The PSU (power supply unit) of bender died. Probably a capacity is damaged. So he didn't start again. Today I changed the PSU and bender woke up again. Now with 400 W instead of 320 W.

Today my netconnection feels like liquid tar. Not nice.

We installed a terminalserver for my school. As the other server, this one runs also with skolelinux.
First hurdle was the hardware raid controller: It didn't work. Bernies solution was to disassemble the part and install a software-raid which worked finally.
The second hurdle was a broken setup-routine: It stopped at a point and Gregoa discovered in the syslog an unanswerable question, because the the apt-key was expired. Gregoas solution was to install the new key direktly in the "target"-system, that is the new, but not yet installed system. Then all was ok.
The third hurdle occured after the first reboot without CD. It found nothing to boot from. My question was, wether the first disc was set as "bootable"? No it wasn't. After setting the boot-flag, the system booted as expected.
The fourth hurdle were different IP-addresses from different net-ranges for the clients. My solution was to use a switch for the thin clients to be in a different net.

Well after solving all problems the terminal-server works fine, the clients have access to their /home on the dhcp/ldap server and we can reuse old computers further more. I am looking forward to the praktice during school-duty.

I am amused about a flickr translation. Opening a picture it shows me were it was taken. As my programs appears in german, the picture said it was taken in "Süd Karolina".

After an update with caliban with Gregors help I had KDE 4 on my laptop. Doing the same with bender I missed any file-manager. Doing the same at Claudias Arwen I had no problem. After chosing kde-full at bender I even have a file manager. So all three PCs were updated to KDE 4.x. Well, a new feeling to discover.

Today I did an update of Claudias PC from Etch - stable to Lenny - stable. And after a short break of thoughts I changed from stable to actual testing. So I had a lot of traffic but the upgrade was successful and I had no question to any debian developer. I even managed the sound to act again. Well, that was pretty good!

In the last days I tried some editing of photographs on bender, my PC. I turned off all not currently used programs. Watching munin I thought bender will swallow:



I thought, this cannot be topped, but the next day I tried another photography: 12 layers with each a 9 MPixel picture. It took quite a while to calculate all data and to finish the picture:



Here you can have a glimpse a the final pic.

While having holidays I wanted myself to do a lot of things that were waiting for a long time. So one of the things was to make the router running that was lying beside me since the thunderstorm last July. Again a Linksys WRT54GL. The first thing I installed was OpenWRT without webinterface. Great! I took the router with me and together with Gregoa I installed webif. We made all settings and back at home:
"tata"
The router named Atoz works well and does his job. With a hint from Albert I installed a little script, so now I can switch WLAN on and off by pressing a button on Atoz. Well! The next Thunderstorm can come!

And now from bender: öäü ÖÄÜ ß Well, thanks to gregoa and it was interesting for me too!

Here are my new öäü ÖÄÜ ß

Still kein bißchen besser: Früchte, Rösti, Jägermeister

Since sunday my blog shows the wrong characters at äöü ß
So in the calendar Jänner is written wrong. And german words in the blog also Früchte, Röster, Jägermeister.

Our annual meeting of the CUG was at this weekend and first I produced a tasteful dinner: "Kaspressknödl auf Sauerkraut", "Kartoffellauchcremesuppe mit glasierten Champignons", "Putenrouladen mit Gnocchi auf Spinat und Gorgonzola", "Kokospofesen mit Zwetschkenröster, alkoholisierten Früchten und Schlag". I think, I filled up my friends 'till the top (except Bernd). We fixed some problems, installed some new programs and had a lot of fun. Sleeping startet at 8 a.m. and endet at 3 p.m. Well ...

With the help of Bernd and Gregor I was setting up our school-server with Debian-edu and Bernhard was with us too. In very short time the server was up and running and we had enough time to make some littel things work fine.
I am happily looking forward the work with our new schoolserver, called Tjener.