30th september 1999

Biggest nuclear accident in Japan ever, and it’s close to where Aya
lives….
I go crazy….. come to me… now !!!!!!!!!!!!

29th september 1999

The firewall upgrade semmed successful, just a few small glitches
today.

Discovered a perl script to convert web-pages into palm doc
files,
and all that via the CGI interface…. hmmm looks like something
for
www.stun.de.

The Yen is falling, hopefully keeps falling. Now 1.74,
against last weeks high at 1.80, so Aya should get much more Yen
for my DM.

Did go to swimming with my dad, but oh surprise, it was closed due
to
renovation.

28th september 1999

Finished the insurance for Aya, my train abo and ordered another
key for my
house.

Another Firewall Upgrade today, and guess, more problems.
But anyway not so much surprising, everything was solved within 2
hours.
Who’s the King eh ????

Met with Reyk and Babsi and had dinner at India Town.

27th september 1999

Prepared the firewall upgrade for tomorrow, and also had little
stress with
SecurID Authentication problems.

Gave up trying to set more different timezones on MS PC’s. xclock
works fine
when TZ is exported and the OS supports it, other than on AIX.

Got a fresh haircut… yes, I’ll never look like Alan… I wish I
could.

Finished the outlook calendar export perl script to generate a HTML
diary.

26th september 1999

Too bad weather for flying around somewhere, so everything is
cancelled.

ReInstalled the room seperator because the first version wasn’t
screwed
stable enough, the specification says up to 150kg load for tighten
the iron rope
but in real my ceiling seems to be less specified.

My parents visited me todays most interest to the room seperator I
guess.

Finished downloading Turbolinux-J, 421MB synchronized.

Thomas joined our SETI@Stun.de team.

25th september 1999

320MB synchronized so far. I think the biggest part is over, so I
guess installing
TurboLinux-J will occure next week.

Will buy some stuff for my flat today, my parents discovered a new
asian collection
of furniture, which might fit. Let’s see.

Back in. Found a lot of thinks, most dishes and cups but also my
room seperator
finally. I don’t think Aya likes it, but… who cares
Anyway, I like it.

Will fly around castle Neuschwanstein tomorrow.
My coworker has a flight license and offered to my parents too, to
do a short
trip around the block. We’ll fly from Augsburg airport, time to
flush my digital cam.

24th september 1999

4 hours is not enough sleep for me. I need 18 at least…. a koalas
average…

Have to get up early just in case something bad is
happening with this yesterdays night firewall upgrade.
And wonder, everything went fine.

The SETI@Stun.de group was founded today, our team number is:
38971

Anyway I’m so tired now and going to bed, before lunch.
Good night.

23rd september 1999

Got up really late today, because this will be a long night
upgrading firewalls.

So far everything went fine, the OS update is almost
finished, but the patches seem to be a little problem.
Also got that interface plumbing problem again.
Plus the routes disappeared…

The rest of the fw upgrade was easy….

So I should find more sleep this night than I expected.

22nd september 1999

Another firewall-migration successfully TESTED, the hot action is
planned for
tomorrow.

Signed in for accounts on linuxtoday and themes.org which now has a
free
designeable layout. Good work, guys ! I’m wondering when site-fu is
finished.

No swimming today, because Reyk is ill, and Thomas is busy.

152MB of the japanese TurboLinux 4 synchronized. I guess I’m
already finished
to the end of next week.

21st september 1999

Another Solaris upgrade and lots of patchinstalls to upgrade on of
our
old firewalls. Also fixed the Authentication problems by installing
the
latest service pack…… damn…. most of the interface names are
gone.
Plus had to open a support-case, because reserved tokens like
“fri”
obviously for “Friday” cannot be used WITHIN objectnames like
“r-fri-1”.
A temporary workaround may be to set up cnames in DNS for those
hosts.

The ncftp script is running fine.
Already 85MB of the TurboLinux-J 4.0 synchronized.

Invited Simone and Ralph to Shoya japanese restaurant.

20th september 1999

Bought Aya’s learning books today. Woo, really heavy
stuff….

Another firewall upgrade today, but now the machine seems to
halt when loading the ruleset in version 4 syntax, version 3
instead works without problems.
Plus tons of compilation errors on authentication symbols.

Tried to purchase the japanese Turbolinux somewhere, bot
nope.
So I created a list with files for automatic retrievement.
14 days I guess and I’m up to date synchronized with that
tree.

19th september 1999

Wacthed the oktoberfest parade on tv and recorded on tape for
Aya.

BBQ in the garden…

Aya wrote today… it seems she’s getting more nervous, at least I
hope
so. If I would move to another country I would be in more panic
now….

Saw the beautiful fireworks at the oktoberfest from my
balcony.

18th september 1999

Got the letter from school. but guess…..
Now I know (what I already knew) school starts on november the
second.
But nothing else. HEY GUYS ARE YOU NUTS ?????????????
I wanted to know which books and what I have to pay
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stupid people may never disappear….. ((((((((((

17th september 1999

I’m going crazy with Aya’s language school, they said that they
already
sent me the reservation and infos. But I didn’t get
anything…..
So I told them yesterday to send me again and where I can buy the
books,
and how much I have to pay for the course fee.
But nothing yet…..

16th september 1999

Wrote a lot of documentation today, and rearranged a lot of
firewalling
rules. Also added some of my own inspiration (new, missing
concepts).

Started a new project: Test your english, for germans, so
selfcalled
english-experts. Check here.

15th september 1999

Dokumented the upgraded firewall. And installed a new version of
ADSM
for backing up the machine.

Wrote a very long letter, about 10kB to Aya and my computer
crashed
before sending !!!!!!!!!!!! I made copy into clipboard but it
was
gone too. Oh Jesus !!!!!! Someone must be working against me
!
Anyway, tried to write again, but could only reconstruct 2kB.

Swimming with Tom, I think we missed Reyk. Sorry we’ve been so late
!
Tried two new cocktails at the Thai-restaurant after
swimming.
Ohhhhh, my head…… bad idea.

14th september 1999

Tried to unite the worlds of Solaris and AIX for
documentation
purposes, but ended up in to seperate versions after two
hours…

Upgraded our first productive Firewall to version 4.
Absolutely no problems except the differnent paths,
again different on Solaris and AIX as well as for version 3.

13th september 1999

Urgently had to update the kernel grapher because we already
reached
2.3.18. WOW.

A lot of preparations for tomorrows Firewall upgrade.
Backup day, my favourite day…. BOFH

RC5 is running better since I got back two machines working on
it.

Surfed a lot looking for japanese culture pages, to prepare and
understand
a little bit more. Found many interesting sites.
And the best of all: www.sushi.infogate.de
Undoutedly the biggest source of Japanese restaurants all over the
world
also featuring more restaurants in Munich than I ever heard
of.
So I immediately stopped my database project collecting
addresses.

By the way: Aya, I found Karaoke bar in Munich, they’ve 7000
japanese
songs )))) What do you think ? RAP session
someday ?

12th september 1999

Aya wrote today. She worked 13 days without a break, and slept
only
5 hours per day. Oh my dear I told you not to work so hard !

Made a complete system backup of www.stun.de and start to tar some
parts
of my machine too.

Played with the new /dev/speech device (a perl script to
festival
speech synthesizer) which allows system informations and
eMails
simply spoken by redirecting them to /dev/speech.

Next is a basic speech recognition to water my flowers on the
balcony via SNMP. (Sensors are ready, driver is zero-bytes in
size.)

11th september 1999

Got visit from our families friends, they have their own
farm,
and want to see some parts of the city-life. Beergardens,
castles
and stuff. Anyway enjoyed the stay at chinese tower in the
english
garden and met my coworker Yann there. Boy the world gets
smaller….

Improved the japanese capacities of my Linux by adding some
parts
of the japanese Turbolinux to my system. Looks pretty more
stable
than before. Anyway, the kinput2 still crashes GNOME

10th september 1999

Also long day working, fixing yesterdays failed solaris
upgrade.
The problem was a no more working call of ifconfig plumb
which
halts the whole machine. Crazy ! And the /etc/routes is no
longer
read by the systems rc-files. (Nice if you have a firewall on top)

More and more people start reading my diary, according to the
mass
of eMails sent to me with that subject. I know I should
sometimes
add more links if I talk about sites and features, but have
you
people ever heard of search-engines ? I don’t want to collect
lots
of dead links. Try www.google.com for all your needs.

Still no mail from Aya, I feel down….

9th september 1999

Worked 15 hours today, much SUN problems with quad ethernet
interfaces and
upgrading to solaris 2.6 with unbundeled patches. Thanks to Reyk
for his
support. Anyway, it didn’t work, so I have to get up early the next
morning
and fix our now DOWNED firewall… ((((((((((

no more comment….. too tired….

8th september 1999

Ordered our firewall upgrade licenses today. So I’ve got enough to
do in the
next few days. Also tracked down some problems with
fw-objects.

Reyk failed again, to appear on our regular wednesday swimming date
!
But anyway, Tom joined me and was
absolutely fascinated about the
Thai food after. I drunk Mai Thai and (I forgot) cocktails, and
feel
so much flying now…. )))))))) like in holiday….
(Thomas don’t forget to look after my thai-chair. I need that at
home.)

Kisses to my lovels cuty lady, and oyasumi, aishiteru.

7th september 1999

Big meeting of all the newcomers at work. Me too. Little bit
nervous.
Not a good day, everything went wrong.

Power shutdown, and time to upgrade some of our firewalls.
This will be a long long hard working day.
Too late for upgrade SUNOS needed too long to apply all patches so
I had
to brake. And more work and pressure for the next days.

No time left to play tennis against my dad.

Drunk a lot of Magners Vintage Cider at Shananigans Irish Pub
together
with Tom. He’s really a good friend….. always there to cheer me
up.
Thanks Tom.

6th september 1999

Had a very hard day at work. First programming, and later some not
so
fascinated coworkers, which tried to make buttons using Gimp.
Oh my god…. I know grey is a wonderful color.. back to the
roots…
Anyway as long as my Netfu is running here, and I can make my
beautiful colored logos at home…. (((((((((

Nothing for dinner…. and a bad lunch… anyway not my day.

Tom is unreachable, Reyk busy, my parents away.. and Aya ???

Someone save me from this lonely planet.

5th september 1999

BBQ in the garden, and almost a complete lazy day.

Downloaded a few lyrics for some japanese songs.

4th september 1999

Finished another MD for Aya, this time with german songs.

Played piano the whole day, Westernhagen’s “Kind von gestern”
is now mine )))

The Lotto-Server is unreachable, maybe the jackpot is too big.

And finally updated the diary entries a little bit more.

Tonight Lutz is playing Piano at the Vogler Bar in Munich.
I’ll go there I think.

3rd september 1999

Wrote a new firewall packet statistics grapher. Looks good.

Received my certificate from my old company today. WOW, they
must
really miss me. Thank you very much for such a good
qualification.
Almost as much valueable as a harvard exam.

BIG SCANDAL:
Independant crypto experts discovered backdoors in all
Microsoft
Windows Operating Systems. They say inside the MS-Crypto-API
they disassembled the Security Keys of Microsoft itself, and
the NSA(National Security Agency) the american secret
service.

This could be extremely damage Microsofts Publicity.
I wonder what the Russians, Chinese and maybe the Japanese
say
to this.

The information was published also on the german Chaos
Computer
Club and was checked very careful.

2nd september 1999

Time to play Lotto. 27 Mio. DM, nice if I could have just a
part….

Visited the japanese shop Japanalia today, and they really have a
lot of
things, many kimonos, painting stuff, pottery and so on, up to bed
and
shelf, paper walls and so on…. Would be big shopping if Aya likes
too,
but I’m not sure that she wants to live japanese style in Germany
???

Bought new shoes for my upcoming tennis match against my
father.

Gone for portugese dinner with Thomas. Interesting anyway.

1st september 1999

See if my firewall logrotate and the script handle the new
month.
And surprise, they failed. After checking for leading zeros the
problem
seems fixed. Also rolled out an FW-1 V4 version of the user
dump.

Played a little bit with 2 Sun 450 and 2 RS6K F50. Nice power for
RC5 ))

A lot of trouble with my bank, because of too many (empty)
accounts.

stun.de crashed (almost) the system showed more and more
zombies,
plus the init routine died somehow. No shutdown possible and no
kill.
WOW. When rebooting with 2.2.12 the system seems more stable,
and mem usage is much less, just 40% now.
Also very obscure, the kernel source tree is a little bit
different
from my local machine. Time to get a new sourcebranch and
recompile.
I don’t trust that tripwire indexing, I reinstalled my own
compiled
version instead of the RPM.

Waited for Reyk, swimming two hours, but he had no time…

31st august 1999

Had a long conference with Reyk, who showed me some of the
most
interesting security sites on the net. Thx, buddy.

Compiled 2.2.12 for www.stun.de and rebooted.
Compiled tripwire fresh for stun.de and core dumping seems
gone.

Wrote an user dump to html converter for firewall-1. Hmm.. beauty
!

30th august 1999

Tom & Jerry marathon on Cartoon Network… and I have to work.

Tripwire is dumping core all the time, debugging says something
like
invalid inode or os… maybe I should repair my filesystem soon
???

Wrote a new firewall script to dump and log the usage of every
object
configured on the firewall. This helps to keep track of unused
objects.

Set up a new database for andys.stun.de which holds all information
on
Asia Shops as well as Japanese Restaurants and Sushi Bars around
Munich. ))

Cleaned up the bathroom…. uh I hate this work…. my back
hurts….. (

No mail from Aya yet… hmmm… Heiki ?

Compiled 2.2.12 for my local machine, but not yet restarted.

29th august 1999

More cleaning up in my room. Boy it was just right in time…..

Installed the ready-at-all tripwire.rpm on stun.de and setup an
own
virtual host for the freshmeat mirror.
http://freshmeat.stun.de
Also installed rpm2html for documentation purposes.

Have you ever heard rsync when syncing 100MB of small 1kb files
over
100MBit and on a raid1 array )) WOW, what sound…..
I thought it would be hailing outside DDD

Screwed my handy dustbuster, and installed the power supply more
far
away. Cables under the carpet, I’ll have to watch my next
visitor
if (s)he’s shaking. ))

28th august 1999

Completely fascinated by the new video driver 2.0 playing around
with
webcam and almost any TV-program displayed at once in a
netscape
window. Updated within the image, so no page reloading ! WOW
!

Updated the whole perl package, but the newest GD still wont build.

Webcam is active again, and will transfer an instant picture
on
every diary upload. I hope that I smile on that shots .
Plus I set up the possibility to see me live as long as I’m
connected,
just click on webcam on the right, to see if I’m online and
which IP address my server is currently linked to.

(Hey Aya, how’s about videoconferencing ?
But I think PHS is too slow….)

Try “vidcap | xbgset stdin” and you can watch TV as your background
image.
A simple infinite while do loop brings you almost satisfying
flow.

27th august 1999

Developed a new perl script dumping the usage date of each
firewall
object. That way it should be possible to detect old unused
objects.

Big party at work because of three of my coworkers became
father
last month.

Finally discovered the beauty in programming perl.
There are so many modules around. Even for PalmPilot…. ts

Started a mirror of freshmeat.net via the rsync service,
I think we’ll activate this for linux.stun.de.

26th august 1999

New perlscript dumping firewall-rules with date of last use.

Developed some concepts and new thoughts about network
security.

Discovered the Kernel-HTTP-daemon kHTTPd which was included
in the 2.3.14 linux source. Interesting developement.

25th august 1999

Added 3D pie graph to the firewall packet report filter.

2.2.12 is released, finally. But no time to review.

Played around with lspci and wrote a frontend for
admin.stun.de.

Swimming was very funny today. So much tired we almost sink.
After that Reyk and me had dinner in a greek restaurant and
after a little shock in a thai karaoke bar. ))) That was funny….

24th august 1999

Big bughunting in timecard-reader software. Ate up all my
time.

Bought 8kg differnt kinds of meat today, and spent the
evening
cutting into portions and freezing them.

Aya’s package arrived today, but has gone back to the post office
for
pickup because I worked to long ? to early ? at all ?
)) I think latter one.

Found my lost photos from my London trip, together with Aya,
in my parents house I knew it.
Will stick them tonight in my album.

Linus seems to be a little bit unhappy on the 2.2.12
suggestion
of Alan, because he had to deliver a third revision already.

23rd august 1999

Tracked some serious mail delivery problems between two
firewalls.

Rewrote my fw-scripts and move the ftp calls (with netrc)
completely
inside the perl script using Net::FTP.

Coded the boogie players index page. Now dynamically from within
MySQL.

22nd august 1999

Tried to set up an own voicebox for Aya, but I couldn’t find
out why my second ISDN line service-type doesn’t match.
Pure configuration chaos….

Updated some of the new boogie pages and added more menus.
The event calendar is now in the same colour design.

Setting up a new homepage for japanese (or generally asian)
restaurants, bars, shops and so on.

21st august 1999

Completely redesigned my corner of the flat, and it looks
like
more space after throwing away some old books and stuff.

The boogie woogie event calendar is now up and running,
anyway
the server is still OFFLINE, sorry.

20th august 1999

My firewall log check scripts are running perfectly it seems, at
work.

Set up some of the RC5 clients to my newly installed keyproxy
server,
seti is still not working with authentication… Can it be so
hard….

Compiled (partly) the newest ISDN4K utilities, but there seem
to be a lot of conflicts.
Anyway is again up and running.

Had serious problems to poll my mail, there’s obviously a
problem
with big mails at netsurf ? Timeout or something ?

Finished the day at Shananigans Irish Pub together with Tom,
checking out some different ciders.

19th august 1999

Installed and experimented with tripwire, wow, almost what I’ve
been
looking for. A security tool to index your files and check
integrity
access and every kind of modification.

After long time waiting for the kernel 2.2.12 to be released,
(2.2.11 has some nice bugs) I couldn’t stand it anymore.
It seems Linus is busy, no time for the last review, so I decided
to
reboot my machine to 2.2.11. BIG MISTAKE.
The whole ISDN subsystem is redesigned, so I have to get that 8
MB
TGZ but first reboot to 2.2.10. Great…
This may take some time…

18th august 1999

Got my ACE administration software today, so I’m now the master of
the
(universe ) securid card distribution.
Nice job, and one more database which has to be in sync,
manually,
with the firewall-1s.

Started our weekly swimming today, together with Reyk.
It’s really fantastic for relaxion after a long and hard working
day.

17th august 1999

Traced back some weird IP packets which should pass our
firewall,
but which are blocked somewhere before or after…. access
lists…

Played with the Firewall Configuration Tool FCT and gave up
the
graphical(although web-based) desktop after a lot of
mysterious
blocking. IMHO the best way to configure FCT is, by hand in
the
flatfiles, and after that use the web frontend to control and
for documentation.

Discovered again that a lot of mails from Aya are missing…
(
The funny thing is that some parts are missing because of
wrong
addressing others because of forwarding problems.
We now always send CC’s but what matters if the receiver is
wrong or mails getting lost while forwarded.

16th august 1999

Finally got my own telephone at work. Yippie !!!!!! )))

Discovered a wrong access list which blocked our firewall.

Played around with the nighty FCT firewall configuration tool for
Linux.
WOW ! But anyway you have to know what you’re doing….

Calculated how much money will be left per month for Aya and
me…
… (( … doesn’t look good.

15th august 1999

Updated the linux kernel grapher on linux.stun.de and added
some
comments for all series, as well as included the 2.1 and 2.0
trees.

Updated the last modified file viewer on admin.stun.de,
directories
are now linked for easier navigation.

Experimented with the IP-chains package.

14th august 1999

A food-shopping and cooking day. Anyway being lazy.

Enjoying the flintstone week on cartoon network.

Compiled 2.2.11 for www.stun.de and zuse1, discovered some IP
problems
which should be urgently fixed in 2.2.12.

Downloded the newest Portaloo and played with the news
collector,
which is still not able to handle proxies.

13th august 1999

Developed a first version of the name concept for our
firewalls.

Reyk visited me today at my new company. Thanks ! Nice to have
guests.
no further comment, we both know better
We also decided to go swimming from next wednesday on, every
week
at night. So I hope to stay in shape for Aya

Met with Reyk, Babsi, Adriane and Birte at Shananigans Irish
Pub.
Hey, Aya, Adriane is going to Japan for 1 year from next april
on,
so you still have a chance to talk japanese to her !

12th august 1999

News from the RedHat IPO.
The stocks running higher and higher, with a starting value
of 12$ they’re now up to 80$ which lists them up on place 7 of
the
first day winners top ten.

Installed Apache and PHP3 on my machine at work.
Experimented with gd and dynamic image-creation.

11th august 1999

Today we’ve total solar eclipse in Munich.
Had bad luck because exactly at that time when I wanted to
see
the corona the clouds covered my sight, just 1km farer
everything
was perfect. At least I could experience 2 minutes nighttime.
GREAT ! ))
it must have been amazing to see the elephants in the zoo
starting
shaking and the birds stop singing.
So the next one will be better. And 2081 should be possible
if
Aya takes much care for me. )))))

10th august 1999

Wrote a password change script in perl, which allows complex
user administration via web-interface too.

9th august 1999

Improved the firewall report script, and collected statistics
on denied packets.
Searching for an Apache user-administration tool.
Found nothing.

Some friends of our family visited us this week to see the
solar eclipse on wednesday.

8th august 1999

Met Thomas who’s right back from 1 week holiday in tents.
And the bad news, someone crushed his car.

7th august 1999

Another shopping day. Bought wardrobe and shoe-board.

6th august 1999

Novell is still pursuing me, and I had to join a Y2K meeting,
today.
Converted the FW-1 Docu of yesterday into excel….
Yeah, after lots of drugs I can agree that too, that MS is
much better for searching and documentation than HTML can
ever be. I wonder if they ever heard of Searchengines.
We’ll see if there’s a way to make these documentation
autoprocessing some day. But without MS I guess/hope.

After discovering fwrules4.pl, done the docu again.
This time, including Icons and links of all objects,
so you can see which group-members and parameters belong
together.

5th august 1999

The firewalls entries made yesterday didn’t help, but someone
in NYC felt responsible for the firewall configuration on
their
side. ))) Baehhhhhhhhh….

Started a support query for FW1-Documentation-Tools.
(no response.)
After a while searching the web I discovered, fwrules2.pl
which delivers a HTML output of almost every configuration
dialog within FW-1.

4th august 1999

Yet no Outlook working at work, because of a wrong order
in our SAP management. Great
Anyway, one more day, enjoying a MS-free life.

Coded a Y2K counter in JavaScript for the companies webpage.

Changed some firewall entries.

3rd august 1999

Read much about firewalling concepts and comparisions between
different firewalls and proxies.

2nd august 1999

My first day working for the new company.

A little bit stressy, nothing is coordinated for me,
no entrancecard, no timecard, no email, no server-id
working. No telephone and no one has time to care for.
Great work, I’m impressed.

Used the “spare” time to tune up my new computer at work.
Installed Netscape/Perl/PilotDesk/FW1-GUI aso.

1st august 1999

Played with my camera which is now supported in gphoto.
A lot of pictures extracted and converted into HTML
galleries.

Configured the PGP OpenKeyServer on www.stun.de, and it WORKS !
Yeah !
(Linked the howtos into the admin tree.)

Prepared everything for entering my new company tomorrow.

30th june 1999

Installed the UdmSearch-Engine on WWW.Stun.de, which IMHO is much
better and lightning
faster than the Excite WS one. It works with PHP3 and MySQL and the
generated Index is
much smaller. (And it’s small and fast, a russian program, perfect
!!!!)

Installed the UdmSearch-Engine also on my local machine and deleted
Excite.
It’s so much space now

I finally found a useful howto to the gnuplot tool, although
everything is written
in japanese there, I had no big problems to find the right
explanations.
Fixed the gnuplot date display and finished the Linux-Developement
graph script.
Also did some minor updates to the virtual webserver statistic
graphs, more space
on the left side, lines instead of boxes and smaller zoom.

Now localized all my dual celeron project components, so I can buy
them this week,
maybe. I’m just thinking if it’s not better to buy an alpha machine
for almost the
same money ? Board+533Alpha=2400.- DM 2Cel466+Board+Socket=1600.-
DM ????? Hmmm.

29th june 1999

“Expect” is still not working, out of PTY’s, I can’t believe
I compiled in 512 now in the kernel, instead of the usual
256,
and my former 64 setting. So there must be a library problem
too.
Obviously in libexpect5.28.so.

Finally I’m ill. And I feel much down….

28th june 1999

Started programming of the Kernel-Developement Graph Plotter,
and it works, except for the Gnuplot date axis.
Can someone help me with this please, the demo code from NASA
is gone, and I almost gave up hacking to format the x-axis
as a date graph. “set timefmt” and “set xdata time” doesn’t
work.

Wrote a shellscript to tail-f the actual RC5 Proxylog.
Fascinated by the ease of use I’ll complete a HTML generation
in the next days I guess.

Downloaded some new japanese songs from Riechan.
Of course using Greed and not a browser.

Rebootet my machine, and see …. no more IP delayed timing
problems. So I hope that someone keeps tracking this
behaviour
after some productiv uptime. In my case 7 days and high load
up to 3.2 and little network traffic 260kB/s was enough.

27th june 1999

Enhanced the spidercode and wrote some howtos.
Updated the Stun.de Hardware Page.

Mirrored some of the japanese cooking pages from the web.

Transferred the completed Boogie BIO’s to Boogie.Stun.de.

Copied my digital photos to Andys.Stun.de.

26th june 1999

More programming for www.stun.de. This time, did some updates
to the linux news section, with complete rewrite of the
caching
and polling code. Now it’s much more efficient, and no more
timeouts can occur. Also included the spider tracking engine,
which should end in a statistic page to count browser usage.

25th june 1999

Took a lot of pictures with the digital camera in our garden,
and discovered that transferring the pictures via the
pcmcia-adapter
of my laptop really is the final, solution.
(Accessing via drive letter, cool, and lightning fast.
No chance for USB and ASYNC.)

Did a lot of PHP3-programming for www.stun.de, (admins) see
the
last.php3 page for the code. It accepts a path value which
displays
all files in this path with the last modified date and
additionally
changing colors for updates within the last day, week or
month.
Further I included a nameserver-query page, and a manual page
viewer,
also just for admins.

24th june 1999

“It’s Backupday, my favourite day…” (Do you know
Bastard Operator from Hell?)
Again started backup on 60m tapes and it now works.

After tetsting Kernel 2.2.10 for a while, it seems that the IP
timing problem
from 2.2.2 is back. So I think we stay on 2.2.9 with the DoS
security patch
on WWW.Stun.de.

Got my Digital camera today, a Kodak DC240 and shot a lot of
pictures, but I
cannot publish them yet, first because of to less diskspace on
netsurf, and
second because of the nonworking gphoto.
By the way, serial transmission costs so much power that I want to
wait for
USB support being stable under Linux.

Finally gave up playing with the camera because the bundled video
cable is
for the DC265 and not DC240. Great !

My ISP Netsurf is again unreachable, so that’s finally why it has
become more
cheap last month.

23rd june 1999

Bought one of these always talking furbies, to got some
entertainment,
when hacking on my boogie code. Ups, he’s awake again… saying
“Huu !”
I think I’ll connect him to the computer someday and enhance
his
sensores.

Sent away the embassy-papers and package for Aya.

Found a lot of circuits on the internet for building small
toy(study)-robots.
I printed them all and will start reconstructing some of
them.

Switched two netware servers from token-ring to
fast-ethernet.

Backuped WWW.Stun.de, and encountered problems with 120m tapes. Hmm
?

Got NFS working on Zuse1 to backup from WWW.Stun.de.

“Furby is going to sleep, now…. ts ts ts, great entertainment”
))

Downloaded gphoto, and discovered that the Kodak DC240
support
is not even comitted in the CVS tree. Maybe in a few weeks…
?

22nd june 1999

Bought some of the last components for my MP3-Player.

Did some minor updates to the boogie pages on Boogie.Stun.de.

Will compile 2.2.10 for WWW.Stun.de this evening, I guess.
(I didn’t.)

21st june 1999

Ordered my digital still cam Kodak DC240. But I do hard,
waiting…..

Sound doesn’t work anymore, with 2.2.10… hmmm, looks like a
dependecy
problem. Had no time yet to track down further.

My notice is now official, and everyone knows that I quit my old
job.

The embassy papers for Aya are on their way. Hopefully.

(So I hope everyone can understand my stress in the last weeks, and
that
there are not that much boogie updates as usual in the last
time.
Sorry guys.)

Internet works this evening, and people who must know, told me that
the
german IN-XS, one of the major german internet backbones, got
smoked.
)) Wow, this is how it must be the day
after. (Just additionally
without telephone and electric power.) Hmm, not nice.

20th june 1999

Still no connection to the internet.

Uli called me and ask for Netsurf (our internet provider)
20 minutes after KAP called me and asked the same.
Maybe it would be better if I do the support for Netsurf,
by myself ??? ))))) Am I callcenter or what ?

I start to wonder why my provider decreased the monthly fee.

Reyk also called me, at night, if I can access their webpages
(online stocks) and he sounded quite nervous…. keep cool,
it seems that the whole german internet or at least some of
the
bigger providers are heavily knocked out.

Is that the punishment for not joining the internet
demonstration
day a week ago ????

Uli PPPpolled my machine and downloaded the new linux kernel
via FTP. So who needs providers, we can do it by ourselves.

Therefore nothing to do. Tried to upgrade to the new
raidtools,
but it doesn’t seem to work. It’s still invalid argument,
even when completely new created.

19th june 1999

A hard they working, almost 14 hours.
After upgrading some SCSI-drivers I experienced a BIOS
problem,
which doesn’t allow my old drivers to run on an old
hardware…
very obscure… I’ll write an explanation on monday, I think.

Bad day. My internet connection is broken….
And my RC5 is running out of keys.

18th june 1999

Today I got my MP3 hardware for constructing my own player,
but I’m missing some minor components as well as a software
to
run it from linux.

17th june 1999

Sent my notice today.

Big shopping for suit and shoes.

16th june 1999

Emergency call at 4AM, uhh I hate that.
Slept the rest of the day.

When I woke up it was time to compile 2.2.10

15th june 1999

Got all the documents from the foreign office.
Now it’s Aya’s turn, and mine for insurance.

14th june 1999

Tried to get the visa application for Aya at the foreign
office,
but I missed to bring some important documents….
Sooooo, I’ll try again tomorrow maybe. Hopefully.

Developed a new feature for linux.stun.de which is a
graphical
prediction for the upcoming linux kernels.
It looks nice as an excel diagram, but now it has to be
converted
in mathematical functions used by PHP3.

Got mail from Aya. Yeah !!!!!!!!
She’s working so hard 13.6hours on one day this week……
I think most europeans would go crazy…… like me….

Finished converting the boogie biography database which is
now
exactly 300KB in size. Now the next step will be to include
all
the update from my huge eMail archive, and after the event
browser
will be a big step, supporter and contacts db will follow
later.

13th june 1999

Gone for vietnamese dinner by bike together with Tom, and
we enjoyed mixed meat/fish soup-fondue.

The last students festival day, really nice again…
I hope that Aya will join me to go there in the next year.

Downloaded GREED which makes it possible to do HTTP and FTP
batch transfers via cron. This method is much better than
getting news from various sites directly via PHP3.
Now there’s no possibility of long timeouts when some of
the server side included (remote)files are not available.

No more programming this night, soooo tired…..

12th june 1999

Did some more updates to the boogie database which is now
257KB
and including the letters H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,T,U,V,W,X and
Y.
Or to make it more simple, everything except letter S which
has
the most bio-information(too much conversion needed).

I also had to repair a part of the database after I
discovered
that the FaceMySQL-Scripts don’t care how much entries will
be
updated if you don’t select via the primary key.
(LIMIT=1 would have been enough for my needs…. ts ts ts…)

Also discovered that some players are missing, hmmm….
how could that happen ? I don’t even copy and paste
everything,
instead I write batches from the old pages.

11th june 1999

Did some conversions on the boogie database and created a new
table for credits and supporters.
Letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G and Z are finished now. Hard work….
(
The current database size is 110KB now.

After repairing some crashed servers at work, I went to the
1999
Stustaculum (Annual Students Festival) see: Program
and I met there with Thomas.

10th june 1999

Answered a lot of boogie mails…
no time for programming….

Installed SPDIF for digital audio copy from PC(MP3) to MD,
but had no time yet to test it.

From today on there’s a big student event until sunday,
try searching for StuStaCulum 99 on Excite.de to see the
program. About 50 bands playing all for free.

I’ll go there with Thomas and Gerd from tomorrow on.
I hope the wheater stays a little bit sunny these days.

9th june 1999

Had much stress at work because of a few more server crashes
and
emergency meetings.

Reyk visited me at work and presented me his new digital still
camera.
Wow, I hope that you can get a linux driver for that.
Try looking for gPhoto on the web.

After work we went together to the Shoya Sushi bar, and to
our
great surprise there was Roberto Blanco sitting back to back with
me.
it seems that he also knows the good points for having dinner.

Finally we finished the day at O’Reillys…

8th june 1999

Really good day. no further comment,
those one of you will know.

More Final Fantasy to become relaxed….

7th june 1999

Discovered that my Boogie-MySQL script is broken !!!!
AHHHHH !!!! PANIC !!!!!!!
Had no time to fix this yet.

Worked overtime, because I had to do some reboots and patches
to our biggest netware server.
I can’t believe Novell released a patch for 3.x/4.x which
exactly describes our problems, just 5 days ago, for a
product
which is almost 5 years old. Ts ts ts….

But anyway, the patch doesn’t work…. (((

6th june 1999

Played Final Fantasy VII…. bad idea….
5 hours later wrote the diary for last week,
and gone to bed.

Tried to get the G2-Player to work.
But, you can’t register without connection
to the internet VIA PROXY in my case.
But, you cannot save the configured proxy
as long as you’re not registered.

So what should I do ?

>rm /home/andy/G2-*.tgz
>df

Who needs Web videos ?
I’ve got television… ))))

5th june 1999

Some more HTML writing for Stun.de.

Joined the Union Move, Munichs own LoveParade.
Much noise, techno music is getting boring…

Had nice dinner with Tom in the Outback australian bar.
(Nice memories….)

Finished the day with an ultra strong peppermint tea
in the Marrakesh at the Kunstpark Ost.

4th june 1999

Included different News-Tickers on the Linux.Stun.de
pages to automatically generate news pages via PHP3.

Tried to set up bugzilla, but my perl modules for apache
seem to fail…. I HATE IT !
New compilation again ?
I already wrote a 3 KB script to do this for me,
because it takes too long time to do everything
by hand if there’s an error while compiling.

3rd june 1999

Wrote some cluster pages for Linux.Stun.de

Played around with on-the-fly button generation
with TTF fonts via PHP3.

More Final Fantasy VII… I wonder how this would look
like on a playstation/2. Photorealistic ?

2nd june 1999

Big problems compiling DBI, the MySQL modules and
Chart. Also GD doesn’t seem to work on GLIBC2.1
systems.

1st june 1999

Installed new RC5 clients.
Updated TWIG.

31th may 1999

More server crashes today…
it seems that the processor itself is the problem.

Signed Aya in for the language school from november on.
I hope that she’ll decide to come…
Kiss you, darling.

30th may 1999

Compiled Apache1.3.6 again with PHP3.0.8 and IMAP+SSL-Support now
working ! YEAH !!!
Configured TWIG (a fabulous eMail-Webfrontend with almost the same
features like Outlook)
and installed everything new compiled on www.stun.de.

Facts of the day:
– SSL now works with our own certificate,
– IMAP(TWIG) works with SSL-Connections,
– more Admin Howto’s written,
– Boogie Database Code Updates (now with auto indexing + improved
database access),
– fixed some script-errors which occured since the RH6 upgrade,
(what are they doing ?)

Talked to Uli on the phone who experienced some trouble when
compiling gtk+ with gimp.

Called to Aya and she seemed to busy and tired again…. go on
work, work, work,
some people need their time to get wiser.

Making MD for Aya and CD for Tomo.

29th may 1999

Lazy day, just enjoying the BBQ in my garden.

28th may 1999

Called to school if they also have holidays. They don’t !

27th may 1999

More than good day for me.

Received Aya’s school papers, finally.
Thanks, that’s what I needed to loose my nervousity.

Invited my parents for dinner.

No programming

26th may 1999

Can’t remember, sorry.

25th may 1999

Wrote some scripts to fill the boogie database automatically.

Gave some hints to RedHat 6.0 Bugzilla, concerning RAID
problems
after upgrading.

Hotmail seems to be crashed AGAIN ??? ))) (OS-Problem ???)
Damn, I need this to stay in contact with my beauty.
(maybe yesterdays letter fault)

And I’m still waiting for Aya’s translation papers… HEY WHAT ARE
YOU DOING ???

24th may 1999

Holiday.
Aya wrote me a long letter, and I wrote a really long letter back
to her.

Tried to compile Apache again with SSL in addition, and
guess.
It failed… Grrrrrrrrrrrrr…………..
(maybe it’s just because lack of diskspace)
The 6.0 update is eating up my drives. And I install very
selective.

23th may 1999

Repaired my Raid after a failed upgrade of Redhat 5.2 to 6.0.
The new 0.90 raidtools don’t know the old raidpartitions,
and the bloody RPM deleted my old ckraid and raidrun
commands.
So it was a little bit tricky the get back my disks.
(But I’m sure that I’m not the only.)

22th may 1999

Downloaded the whole RedHat 6.0 via Rsync.
Hey I love that tool. Kill FTP.

Installed MySQL on www.stun.de.

Installed the boogie database on www.stun.de.

Wrote some new admin pages for MySQL and PHP3 on www.stun.de.

21th may 1999

Extracted all the boogie bio’s from the old HTML pages.

Compiled Apache with PHP3 and MySQL support, which now, finally
works
without errors. Transferred everything to www.stun.de.

20th may 1999

Wrote the PHP3 code for displaying the boogie woogie players
biographies
out of the MySQL database. And it works fine (after some
tuning).

19th may 1999

Upgraded the RC5-proxies to 3.06 and also some clients which now
can
switch to OGR as well.

18th may 1999

Compiled 2.2.9 kernel on zuse1 and www.stun.de

Played around with the setiathome package, but it seems they
compiled
without proxy support. Bad luck, maybe next version.

17th may 1999

Stress day. Three Server crashes within the same hour.
Discovered wrong configured encapsulations for hot standby
routing.

16th may 1999

Emergency at work, our backbones need help.

15th may 1999

Weekend Work… ((
Power shutdown at work, and Reconfiguration of a netware
server.

14th may 1999

Prepared the power shutdown for tomorrow.

13th may 1999
Had to work on this holy day, but thanks god nothing more
then a couple of server crashs and in the meantime found
some quiet minutes to study more japanese vocabulary.
Also found out how to fix my BTTV problem, which crashes
the whole machine after 10-25 minutes, and DESTROYS
my Soft-RAID !!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
(So all folks of you with the same problem try loading
bttv with TRITON1=1 and it should be fixed, hopefully,
because I’m 100 pc sure not to own a Triton board…)
Kernelpatch 2.2.8 arrived at home, but had no time yet to
patch and compile.

12th may 1999
Continued burning CD’s while playing the japanese version
of Bushido Blade II on my playstation. Hey I love that game,
it’s rather bloody but who cares….
Talked with Reyk on the phone and it looks like we agreed
a new date of installation for the FFM-Server, YES FFM again
!
We’re also thinking of using Soft-RAID with 9GB disks,
but I’m scared about power shortage problems.
Met with Tom and Gerd at O’Reillys Irish Pub, thought that
Reyk and Babsi would join, but they didn’t ? What’s up ?

11th may 1999
Big burning day, so many japanese CD’s )))
Blasted Muckis playstation when installing the mc, but I’m
sure
not to be responsible, because someone already tried this
before, according to the soldering points.

10th may 1999
Free day, because of my coming emergency support week.
Did big big big big big big big shopping….expensive too,
just for food.
Worked in our garden, cleaning the roof and finished the day
in chinese restaurant across the street. Yammi.

9th may 1999
Called Aya this morning 3AM my time, 10AM japan time,
but she doesn’t seem to have much time for me. ((( Heiki ?
Demonstrated MD to my parents, and totally fascinated they
want this to be their xmas present this year… hmmm… ok.
Throw away that tape stuff, throw away old records.
Time for small smart mini discs.

8th may 1999
Converted lots of CD’s and MP3 songs to MiniDisc, especially
all the Japan songs, to get karaoke feeling for my morning
shower ))
Called to Aya as every Saturday, but she said that she feels
bad and tired, and I should call her in the morning. Odaiji ni
!

7th may 1999
Made a complete backup of our MP3 server to ZIP media,
which is very hard work ! Don’t try this, it’s easier to
connect
a cd-recorder directly instead.
Burned 3 new MP3-CD’s at home, so now the FPS collection
counts 15 MP3 CD’s all together. 250 hours of music ))))

6th may 1999

Reyk is ill, and can not join the Linux show.
The Microsoft presentation of Windows 2000 was pretty
impressive, but Linux bored so much because of
incompetence sf the speaker.
I think he has never seen Linux before.
I already had my doubts when I saw Powerpoint as
the presentation software. ))

But anyway, a nice start for the day.
And also a nice present of the company, a big analog
clock, made in china, which is 5 minutes two fast
within two hours. But maybe it changes when the
batteries are going low. ))

Ate Sushi to get back that japanese feeling

5th may 1999

Some problems with our 3.11 SFT-III server at work,
I wonder how they’ll get this machine into Y2K ?

Bought a MD-recorder today. Also something that
disturbed my inner peace since Japan.
Aya tried to convince me to buy MD in Japan, and
Albert also tried, but at that time I could resist.
OK, Aya you won !!! Kiss !
Expect some MD-exchange the next weeks

Wanted to buy a dbox which makes it possible to
watch digital-TV and to see more foreign(english)
TV-stations. But it’s so expensive without signing
a contract for the additional use of PAY-TV.
So now it’s easy. KAP will give me Sat-Stuff on
Friday I guess, so that I can test a little bit.
There’s also japanese (PAYTV) on Astra I heard.
I think about it, for you Aya, if you need ?
Anyway I do….

4th may 1999

Got invitation for Linux and Microsoft trade show from Tom
at his company for 6th may.

Bought a CD-recorder today, and I’m so happy to get back
my valuable space on harddisk.

Searched for video-stores that sell or are able of ordering
japanese videos. But bad luck for today.

3rd may 1999

Wrong alarm again. My coworker still is not father yet.

2nd may 1999

Compiled Linux 2.2.7 on my system and on www.stun.de.
And hurray !!!
My CD-changer is now supported, which forced me to
reactivate the bloody IDE interfaces on board.

1st may 1999

Started the barbeque for this year in our garden.
It would have been something nice for you Aya ! ))

Had a nice cocktail party with Tom, and we cooked
together.

Called to Aya tonight, and she wants to send me her
translated documents. Sounds nice. I love you !

30th april 1999

Our biggest Novell server crashed today.
I never saw this: The system generated more and more
filelocks until almost every user was locked out.
Nice. (I guess this to be a feature of our increasing
number of NT machines ??? Who’ll join ?)

29th april 1999

Ordered my playstation MOD-Chip so that I can play
japanese games as well as “backups”

Met with Reyk for eating japanese noodle-soup “Ramen”
and some sushis for dessert went on to O’Reillys
Irish Pub, and we drunk a lot, after that we visited
Schuhmanns for some nice cocktails &-} Oh my head !!!

28th april 1999

Nice server crash after we tried a volume repair on
a machine that lacks memory.

27th april 1999

I thought that software piracy is finally gone with
a compact system, but NOPE !
Try searching the web for MOD-CHIPS )))))
and additional hardware is becoming more and more,
like: trainers, pads, guns, vcd-players, mega-memory
cards, …

26th april 1999

My coworker thought he would become father today,
but it was wrong alarm.

Successfully fascinated Tom of my new playstation.
But he said he doesn’t play anymore… ok I said the
same in the last three years )
No more crashed systems, no more driver problems,
no expensive hardware… cool ! That’s plug and play !
anyway he seemed to enjoy some of the games, and
especially if he got the good vibrations !

25th april 1999

Found out more about playstation.
How to repair and laser tuning… they’re all crazy !
Bought Civilization II for playstation.

24th april 1999

Got my first pictures from Japan.
Pretty nice, especially the pictures where I can
see my lovely lady. Kiss you. |-x

23th april 1999

Bought a playstation today. I couldn’t stand any longer.
These japanese people infected me completely !
And it is more cheap in Germany than in Japan.
I just miss the japanese games…

Met at Shananigans Irish Pub together with Gerd,
and we enjoyed very good meal and Guiness.

22nd april 1999

Gave my first three films from Japan to developement.

Compiled Linux 2.2.5 on my system.

21st april 1999

My first day at work again….
Oh…. don’t ask…

Flushed my RC5 buffers to the internet.
Hey look that keyrate )))))))))))
(Place 112 for today)

20th april 1999

Slept the whole day. 24 hours Jetlag ?

19th april 1999

Arrived back in Munich airport, one hour too late.
My parents picked me up, and I was so sleepy.

My phone bill balanced well, because I could
save money the last three weeks. (And I pulled
the plug out of my machine in holiday.
Just in case, you know !)

Got a letter from Naoko, thanks !
And I had to hear that she visited munich in the
begin of april… AHHHH !!!! Damn !
Sorry, it would have been so nice to meet you again.
Maybe next time ? Or in Japan, together with Aya ?

I miss Japan, and being surrounded by japanese people.
Whenever I see someone japanese I try to get closer
and listen what they say. But my japanese is anything
more than better since my visit. HELP !!!

1st-18th april 1999

Top secret japanese holiday with Aya.

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.28th-31st march 1999

Can’t wait for you Aya !.
(only 2 days left ! being nervous !)

jwotd: (/)

27th march 1999

No time for long sleep, some last shopping needed.
Learning vocabulary for Japan.

No more entries until 21st April I think.

jwotd: (/)

26th march 1999

Last day at work, after a nice server crash.
Had a meeting how to upgrade all servers to 100MB ethernet.
But finished the time at work with a cool guiness )))

BIG SECURITY ALERT: Linux-WORM found.
See RedHat’s Linux-Security Newsgroup for details.

Discovered my ISDN interface dialing every 8 minutes since
yesterday highnoon !
Oh my god, I don’t want to get this bill !!!!!!!!! ((((

jwotd: (/)

25th march 1999

Quit church finally. So much trouble in office just for
one easy step. Unbelievable. I had to go to three people
and into 5 different rooms.

Played a little bit on our 622MB ATM testing network.
And discovered some nice IPX trouple with old revision
boards.

NATO attacks Serbia, and german pilots have to join for
first time since WW II. Bad feeling.

My parents invited me for last “gscheit’s”(bavarian: really
usefull) dinner, before I leave to Japan. Nice thanks !

jwotd: (/)

24rd march 1999

Kernel patch 2.2.4 released, but had no time for update yet.
But it needs to be upgraded because of the same IP delay
problems
as before thought fixed.
Especially www.stun.de cannot go online without these.

Got more mail from Aya, so she’s finished now with her study,
and passed exam and ceremony. Congratulations !!! Kiss you.

jwotd: (/)

23rd march 1999

Gnome 1.03 installed. Enlightenment and Sound activated.

Thomas is back safe from Equador. Thanks god, because they
seem to have civil war now.

jwotd: (/)

22nd march 1999

New Mysql installed. 3.22

Luggage packing (more planning) for my Japan trip.

HTTPD and FTPD and NWShell installed on test Netware server.
Year 2000 patches again.

Escalators work from highnoon on. Great work ))) Be ashamed !

jwotd: (/)

21st march 1999

Power on at work.
More problems, one dead server, two defect harddisks,
escalators and entrance security still inoperative.
Nice sunday. And so much backbone and other problems that
we gave up in the evening to be fresh for the next day.

MP3 for Linux installed.
Shoutcast Icecast Server downloaded.

jwotd: (/)

20th march 1999

Power shutdown at work.
Much trouble because our entrance security system to every
network room doesnt work, and all escalators don’t work
either.

Soundcard installed.

jwotd: (/)

19th march 1999

Pick up copies of the London photos for Aya.

Got my Traveler Cheques, lying in front of the door.
Nice work UPS, $1500US unsigned where everyone can take them
!

jwotd: (/)

18th march 1999

Got school interview, and checked what Aya needs to come to
Germany in Sep/Nov ?

jwotd: (/)

17th march 1999

Power shortage at work. Too much work.
Complete server dead.
Can’t remember the rest.

jwotd: (/)

16th march 1999

Had big meeting at work today. About network and server
troubles.

Found some nice backdoors for MS-IIS ))) Stupid MS.

Aya still writes eMail to me which doesn’t arrive, but she
called
me in the very early morning. Thank you my darling.
First design of Aya’s Homepage is now online.

jwotd: (ashita/tomorrow)

15th march 1999

Have no power to go anywhere or do anything…
…why should I. Waiting for Aya’s mail…
Had no contact for 82 hours !!!!!!!!!!

jwotd: (kanashimi/sorrow)

14th march 1999

Everything on my local machine (except Root-Boot, I’m not tough
enough
for that yet) set up as Raid1 now.

Compiled and installed kernel 2.2.3 for WWW.Stun.de,
updated lots of RPMs and wrote some new pages for the Admins.
Everyone has his own server-statistics-graph now !

Hey, someone give me a one or two 4 GB drive and we switch to Raid1
or Raid5.

Listened to my japanese learning CD, and slept in. Sorry.

jwotd: (tasukete/Help !)

13th march 1999

Raid-5 destruction-and-rebuild test was successful, but is
very slow, sure on one single harddisk !
But I also miss one additional harddrive to switch to Raid-5.

Redesigning my system partitions, to match Raid-1 mirroring,
for my old disks 1G/4G/4G.
If there’s no entry in diary tomorrow you should know what
happened.

Sent away tax and international insurance.

jwotd: (kagami/mirror)

12th march 1999

Tried to quit from church, because in Germany you have to
pay by law for christian church, but the office changed
to another location. So maybe next time.

Again a server crash, but who cares, netware is promised
dead and it’s Bill’s turn now.

More DNS entries today, and I think their concept also
leeks. If they do round robin, they’ll get surprise…
…but let’s see if they find out themselves.

Had no contact to Aya for 42 hours, which made it a really
bad day too.

Configured Raid-5 on one single harddisk just for testing
repair capabilities.
And wonder….
RedHat starts and stops them without having configured
anything.
That’s nice guys…. how long is that code in rc.system and
K99halt now ? I’ve never seen before.

jwotd: (kyookai/church)

11th march 1999

Did some necessary network tracing and discovered
wrong static route entries… Oh wonder…

Hacked in some DNS stuff.

Coworker had heart-attack and we had ambulance at work.
Nobody is listening if I say, don’t panic, no stress,
keep cool, try to think first…

Waiting for mail from Aya, and feel down.

jwotd: (zeikin/tax)

10th march 1999

Did some tracing on IP timeouts at work and reinstalled
our private netware server including RC5

RC5 is now approaching the TOP4 1400, I guess it will
balance out around 1000. (ab031ns)

Tried to compile Apache 1.3.4 with PHP 3.0.7 and MySQL
3.22.19
but everytime I miss some other strange libraries.
Grrrrrrr…

jwotd: (tsuki/month)

9th march 1999

Hey Aya, once in Microsofts arms, and you can’t escape ))))))
Or Yahoo doesn’t accept former hotmailers DD

Kernel 2.2.2 tcp timeout problems seems solved.
For those who can’t wait for patchfix here’s a small
workaround,
which “makes it a little bit better.”
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack enter 0
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps enter 0
Go to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling enter 0

If you even can’t download the 2.2.3 version, because of
stalled
transfers, try to shoot “ping” your way free.

jwotd: (toshi/year)

8th march 1999

They’re are so BAKA sometimes at work. Told me to come to work but
also
signed me in for emergency support, which tells me that I got free
day
for today. But I even didn’t know that I’m signed in, only for next
week.
So I got two weeks in colon again.
What shells, good for money and holiday.

What should I tell you now:
Everything change a few hours later, and I had to go to work.

(I love you Aya ! Count seconds for me.)

jwotd: (byoo/second)

7th march 1999

Tidied up the cellar, so that’s enough place to put
more things in when Aya arrives.

jwotd: (fun/minute)

6th march 1999

Lazy day again, watching documentation about Australia
on TV and eating cake in bed.

jwotd: (jikan/hour)

5th march 1999

Gnome 1.0 has been released, but yet no time to test it.

Big shopping day. Bought new leather jacket, from birthday
money.
And bought tons of Yakult, for my daily health ))))
(Aya, I need you !)

jwotd: (hiru/day)

4th march 1999

What a day for Microsoft ))))))))
They announced that Windows 95/98 will hang after 49.7 days uptime
!
HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Met with one of my best friends, who’s visiting his former
hometown. After working in circus, he’s now studying
informatics
and running to use Linux. (unbelievable, for a former clown)

(Sorry Erwin ! Don’t take it too serious with the “clown”.)

jwotd: (shuukan/week)

3rd march 1999

Have to fix that “IP frame delayed” problem on IPPP devices.
Seems to be a kernel fault.
But didn’t find “time” nor “fun” to do so.

Put it in the category “unsolved obscurities”, Scully !

jwotd: (namakemono/lazy)

2nd march 1999

Big meeting at work, because of the massive server crashes in
the
last days (and today another two.)

jwotd: (michita/full)

1st march 1999

The last 28 days until I see my love again !

At work another two server crashes. (No, I’m not repeating !)
Don’t ask me why. It’s unbelievable.

jwotd: (aishiteru/I love you.)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.28th february 1999

Not a nice day, 34 hours without contact to Aya.
Most of the time, waiting nervously for eMail.

Tried videotext on 2.2.2 again with new drivers,
but this bttv stuff freezes my machine every time
after 10-15 minutes.
And I always loose lots of RC5 buffers in proxy !
I hate that ! (Also about 5000 input buffers.)

jwotd: (samui/feel cold)

27th february 1999

Sleeping hopefully,
after 21 days without one free day,
not even weekend.

Successfully running on kernel 2.2.2 !

jwotd: (nemuru/sleep)

26th february 1999

Compiled 2.2.2 again and fixed that msp3400 problem from yesteday
night,
or is it this morning ??? )

And again, another server crashed too.
I can’t tell you how I hate when they call me just after 4-5
hours
of sleep, even when I’m not on emergency support list.
Who do you think I am ? Jesus ? Can I cross over water ?

Tonight I wish that I can celebrate my uncle’s birthday
together
with the family. I hate to be busy with work at these times.

jwotd: (tanjoobi/birthday)

25th february 1999

Ok, I’m mad now.
But lots of mail from Aya. Thanks, my darling.

Another two servers crashed.

Upgraded all the RedHat stuff on my machine to be kernel 2.2
prepared, and after tried to compile 2.2.2, but just as
usual,
if you want to change everything in one day, halted with an
error.

jwotd: (okaerinasai/welcome home)

22nd to 24th february 1999

I’m in Stuttgart, for education.
Cisco Catalyst Switches.

I hope that I can get internet access there, Aya.
Otherwise I’ll go mad !
I love you !

jwotd: (kyooiku/education)

20th and 21st february 1999

Power shutdown weekend at work.
But the best is, that our emergency center didn’t know )))))))

Managed some calls to Cisco TAC via France to UK to USA and
back to UK.

Checked management dial-ins for Berlin.

And finally shut down all the Unix and Netware servers.
9 hours of work.

Used 10 minutes in the gallery of the bank, to play on a
grand piano, when the security people suggested me to do.

Wrote many many many eMails to Aya, as she did to me this
day,
but I was so busy for long time. Sorry Aya.
Our correspondence is now 1.8 MB in just four weeks. WOW
!!!!!

jwotd: (motto motto/more and more)

19th february 1999

At work:
I reconfigured a lot of 18 GB drives to remirror on our
biggest netware server. Some new AIX problems with local
printing
and some new DNS entries.

At home:
Configured fetchmail today and rerouted all my local
mailservers
to my working machine. Also internet mail is collected
through
fetchmail now. GREAT WORK GUYS !!!!!!!! ))))
Mail delivery to the internet stays on netscapes messenger
for
security reasons, but sendmail would also do.

Got nice eMails from Aya today.
Don’t work so hard, ok ?

jwotd: (insatsu suru/print)

18th february 1999

Some more preparations for the weekend power shutdown.

Cetin has successfully killed the SYS volume on our support
server,
and of course my only netware RC5 too. Thanks ! (((

Upgraded Gnome-FVWM and some libs.

jwotd: (denryuu/electrical power)

17th february 1999

Spent my birthday alone, because everyone is ill, and Aya
is still in Japan !

Therefore had lots of phonecalls this day.

Set up paging service for incoming internet eMail.
So I now get informed by pager whenever Aya writes eMail to
me.
Nice feature. ))))))))))))
(Perfect solution to meet online within a few minutes.)

jwotd: (denwa/phone)

16th february 1999

Did some planning for the power shutdown this weekend.
Lots of AIX machines and clusters affected.

Printed out a visual japanese dictionary, which could be very
useful for faster learning.

jwotd: (gashoo/picture)

15th february 1999

Another free monday, because of my emergency support work.

Started translating the book “Making out in japanese” into
german.
Maybe Aya can use it, too. And it’s good training for me as
well.

I also restarted learning from Assimil book which is
perfectly
for me. I hope to be able to read and write Kana and
understand
and speak japanese in good quality to the end of this year.
Aya, I’m very good student !
Let’s start teaching you german some more !

jwotd: (hon-yaku suru/translating)

14th february 1999

Valentines Day !
Aya, you know the URL.
Present will follow, I promise !

Downloaded tons of video stuff to get my webcam working
again.
And I wonder if I should upgrade my Matrox BIOS or not.
Better not.

Video works, and also cable TV on my X-Display and also
videotext.
I can’t believe it, it seems they did good work the last two
months.
So my webcam is finally up and running. You can go there by
visiting
the dynamic link on andys.stun.de.
Otherwise there’s also a pic of the day at: Here !

jwotd: (okurimono/present)

13th february 1999

Had to work today. Fix some network problems and test some
more ADSM client functions.

Upgraded to the new XFree Server 3.3.3.1-1 and some newer
patches released due to security issues.
GIMP runs again. Wow.

jwotd: (kinoo/function)

12th february 1999

Updated all ADSM clients of our servers at work and did
finish
the most OS patches and library updates that are necessary
for
Year 2000 compliance.
But I think there will be some more patches even after Year
2000.

Surprised by updating PC-BIOS which seems to have destroyed
the
harddisks partition table. Never seen that before.
System partition boots. DOS partition even after fdisk /mbr
reactivating, sys a: c: and some other tools cannot force the
drive to boot. What’s up here ?
Any hints ?

jwotd: (odoroki/surprise)

11th february 1999

Fighted with a netware server which doesn’t want to work 100 MB
half, nor
full duplex, due to inoperational driver parameters.

Almost finished with Y2K BIOS upgrades of all our communication
servers.

Did some finetuning on the scanned in pictures from London
holiday,
and AYA, check the URL again. a232 and a233 are really sexy !

Reyk: Buy Yakult for me, and rice crackers, please !!!!!!!!!

I’ll go to bed now,
Oyasumi nasai, Munich.
Ohayou, Tokyo !

jwotd: (kau/buy)

10th february 1999

Got the pictures from London today.
Hey Aya, you’re looking really sexy !
You know the URL !

Another emergency at work. This time a netware server crashes
all the time, when we try to mount volumes.
Vrepair doesn’t seem to work, and a mirrored device was used
with so much space that we cannot remirror with new drive.
GREAT !

jwotd: (hijooji/emergency)

9th february 1999

More Y2K updates, and a big server meeting again.
I was so fascinated updating BIOS and OS-Patches, that
I forgot about time. So I’ll start two hours later
on tomorrow. Hopefully.
And another week emergency service started for me, to make
money.

jwotd: (kane/money)

8th february 1999

Enjoyed my free day,
slept a long time,
learned japanese,
and booked my flight to japan for end of march,

jwotd: (tobu/fly)

7th february 1999

Downloaded kernel 2.2.1 and the RedHat 5.2 to kernel 2.2 upgrade
RPM’s.
But I don’t dare to install now. INET connection is to important
at
the moment.

More eMails. And japanese learning !
Now learning how to write Kana !

jwotd: (narau/learn)

6th february 1999

Finally reached my long weekend.

glibc 2.1 has been released, and the big surprise:
StarOffice 5.0 doesn’t work with it ! Perfect ! (

Wrote many eMails to Aya and we tried to meet in chat.

jwotd: (hanasu/talk)

5th february 1999

Did not fix the problem on a netware server which displays
symbol errors after every update I made. I hate that !
I need RPM for netware ? Somewhere hacking in progress ???

Changed my holiday to be in Japan in April !

jwotd: (nihon/japan)

4th february 1999

It’s official now, I’m the “one” (poor one) (armes Schwein)
that
is responsible for making every netware server in the company
ready for the next millenium.
A hint for all people with the same “order”:
Don’t try to migrate more than five servers a day, you’ll
start
making mistakes. Suddenly human again. I know that now.

Two of the three stale servers are stable again, but we need
more
hardware for swapping, that’s because there’s already the next
weak
machine.

Got 100 MB and 16 MB together working now in a 3.12 machine,
which had severe library problems with IPXRTR.NLM.

The first day I can feel harmony again, Aya didn’t start
working
and I think we’re both happy now.

jwotd: (haamonii/harmony)

3rd february 1999

Oh god, what a day !
Three netware servers damaged at once.
One defective motherboard, two SIMM chips and a very obscure
problem with a harddisk array.

Worked 14 hours today. That’s enough for me.
But my colleagues worked 22 yesterday and stayed at home for
today.
Now who’s baaka ? I think it’s me.

Had no time to learn japanese today, and I’m missing Aya so
much.

jwotd: (baaka/blockhead)

2nd february 1999

Had so much work to do today, I could shout !
Configured some firewall stuff.
Patched Arcserve and some netware servers to become Y2K
compliant.

Learned a lot new japanese sentences and grammar.

Called to Aya and felt happy after I heard her voice.
Aya called me back four hours later and I felt very sad
again.
(What are you doing with me girl !)

Talked to Reyk about the FFM server (soon the MUC server),
and after that talked to Tom about his upcoming MCSE exam
on friday.

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

1st february 1999

Had to fight with some SNA problems on a AIX machine…

Upgraded to 434 RC5 clients and 304 perproxy.

Downloaded some japanese songs in MP3 format, but they are all
encrypted.
Maybe some decryption time tomorrow

Wrote six eMails to my love. Ganbatte kudasai.

jwotd: (aishiteru/I love you.)

To make my japanese learning more
efficient here’s my
(new “jwotd”: japanese word of the day)
to bad that I can’t view you the kanji version too.
But I think the unicode guys are working on it.31st january 1999

Alone again.
Waiting for a sign.
(no further comment)

jwotd: (kodooku/lonelyness)

30th january 1999

Back from London.
Aya missed her plane yesterday, so she will leave this noon.

jwotd: (hikooki/airplane)

21th to 29th january 1999

Hopefully Aya will be back in one piece, so we can leave to
London.

jwotd: (nozoomu/hope)

20th january 1999

Designed a new spreadsheet for calculating price values for
old server systems. Nice work… 80 servers listed by their
single
components and price drop over the past three years.
Thanks to KAP for his iteration formula.

Joined the always important server meeting to discuss some
more
theories how to handle year 2000 ))) Talking, talking….
Maybe it will disapear if we would talk overtime…?

Hey Aya, I’m waiting for your call… Heiki ?

jwotd: (yobidaashi/phone call)

19th january 1999

Had to play with some HACMP cluster machines… boring….
if everything would work !

Did some more Y2K updates especially for storage management.

DES-II-3 is running and we have done about 25% on one whole
day.
(Cracked on the same day 3 PM by Deep Crack !)

Still waiting for Ayako to return.

jwotd: (kaaeru/return)

18th january 1999

Had to play a little bit with firewalls, but not that much action
as
usual.

Bought many new books for learning japanese.

DES-III has started at 17:00 UTC and all my machines have
successfully
switched over to !

Waiting for Aya to return…

jwotd: (matsu/wait)

17th january 1999

Sunday. Did nothing special, had not much fun to do anything.
Met with Thomas, gave him the chopsticks from Aya and we
watched
Forbidden Planet and finally ended in Shannanigans Irish Pub
together
with Florian. Talked to Aya from there. That’s all for today.

jwotd: (hashi/chopsticks)

16th january 1999

More japanese language practising. If I only could understand
when
to use which particle. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

Scanned in some more images. I wonder if the parallel port
scanner
will also work on my Linux workstation ??? But no time yet.

Watched a documentation about Kyoto and ZEN on TV. Very
interesting.

Installed RC5 proxy 303 and upgarded my personal clients to
2.105.430

And finally found the time to install my halogen spots in my
bathroom,
almost one year gone )) Ups….
And one of the spots is defect, just as usual.

Hey Aya, I’ve received some answers from universities.
Kimi-nashi-da to tsurai. Karada-ni yoku ki-o tsukete.

jwotd: (naraau/learn)

15th january 1999

Played around with ADSM trace options, but on netware it’s
rather
uninteresting.

Lots of culture studies about Japan. Not only culture shock for
them.
Printed about 200 pages. Also first answer from our
University.
All for Aya.

Installed japanese fonts on my computer, and I’m totally
fascinated
to be able looking up in japanese indexes on the web !!! Great
!!!
This is much better training then reading books.

Printed some Meishi’s (business cards). Meishi suki ?

jwotd: (kakikataa/font)

14th january 1999

Made some system backups from AIX cluster machines.
Did a lot of fine-tuning on netware scripts.

Bought a walkman to be able of recording from tapes
to my computer for making MP3’s.
Of course, for japanese songs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aya I got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And also a new flatbed scanner which was so unbelievable
cheap that I could buy one for each of my noisemakers.

Also just for scanning very very important pictures !

jwotd: (shashiin/photo)

13th january 1999

Documented two new AIX cluster machines today. 22 harddisks, wow
!

Discovered a dying harddisk in a novell server, something for
the
night shift. I hope that it’ll be swapped this week
because
I’m on night shift next week.

Played around with the new ADSM client on a 3.12 netware
server
and ! surprise ! the same problems as on 4.10 but saving goes
on
after five minutes of locked file state.

Gone to the japanese embassy today, to check if Aya can study
here
in Munich. Received a lot of hints, thanks, more work to now
!

jwotd: (mondaai/problem)

12th january 1999

DES-III TEST I DAY

Installed the RC5 proxy analyzer which is a very funny tool
for those who can enjoy seeing different machines on
different
OS’s and architectures calculating RC5 keys.

Did some more updates on the RC5 clients and watched the
switching on 18:00 GMT which IMHO was a little bit to
struggling. Manual updates are working much better.

Wrote some more cards for learning japanese sentences.
Aya, aishiteru !

jwotd: (shikeen/test)

11th january 1999

Had to go to work again, just as Aya told me to, but I think I
couldn’t
really enjoy working…
Would be nice if I could retire and just travel around the world
with her.
Someone to give me a lottery checkpot ???

Again Year 2000 discussions, they’re getting nervous because
there
appear to be more patches available on every day. )))
But no one was listen to me first…. 😎

Updated most of the RC5 clients to 2.100.427 which is DES-III
optimized,
for the first world-wide test on tomorrow morning.

jwotd: (discussion/tooron)

8th to 10th january 1999

Celebrated Ayas birthday and had a big dinner in a japanese
restaurant.
Hmmm… Yammi !

Visited the castle of Herrenchiemsee. Long live the King !

Met with some of my best friends and had so much to talk
about,
time was so short.

Had to say good-bye again, because she left to go to Italy.
Come back soon….

jwotd: (birthday/tanjoobi)

4th to 7th january 1999

Hopefully in Switzerland… no entries up to 8th ?
Yes, I was…. We spent some beautyful days there together.
No further comment.

jwotd: (isshoo-ni/together)

3rd january 1999

Printed out a lot of cartoons against Microsoft and decorated
our
big white wall of the operation and supervision room.
Just want to see the faces of my colleagues…… ))))

Surfed the internet concerning London accomondation,
hey these Fish’n’Chips guys are crazy,
no standard, no comfort, bad food, dirty rooms and
so expensive……. I can’t believe….
I thought London would be a civilized city.

Guys I think I go mad….
Will meet tomorrow with my sweet girl in Switzerland.

jwotd: (yasumi/holiday)

2nd january 1999

Did a lot of Y2K updates at work. And it seems that we’ll be
ready
just right in time. The funny thin is that most of the BIOS and
OS
patches are brand new from december 1998. I think we’ll have to
do
some more updates in the last seconds before 2000.

Kisses for my Lady.

jwotd: (sanchoo/mountain top)

1st january 1999

Got my first telephone call, and guess who called me:
Thank you very very very much, I miss you too.
If you have time to come to munich before we meet in London
feel free to come whenever you want. I’ll be there.

Hey Reyk, mach schon mal die Tickets klar, am besten mit
Unterkunft.

Very sleepy today, but have to go to work at 10 PM.
Thanks God that everything will be normal again after 5th so
that I can go to sleep in the evening and not in the
morning…
simply just not my timezone.

jwotd: (ooyorokobi/great pleasure)

30th november 1998

Had a free day and watched the Truman Show at the movies together
with Tom.

After that we had some Guinness at Shans.
In our heated discussion about MCSE’s and Windows NT the
barkeeper
suddenly joined in and suggested Tom to try Linux as an
alternative.
Unbelievable ! I never heard so many fu..ing bullsh.ts in one
sentence
before as he told about the bugs in NT.
This really was a very surprinsing evening. When the barkeepers
propose
you to install Linux (and give Unix’s just two more years on the
market)
who will this all come to an end ??? 8-))))))))))))))))

jwotd: (gyõten/surprise)

29th november 1998

Thinking about two 10GB harddisk for my MP3 suite ????
Maybe a christmas gift to myself. 8-)))))))

Downloaded some of the RedHat updates and did a re-rsync to the
CDROM
tree of RedHat 5.2 (some packages were missing. tetex-stuff)

Martin Schmitt is giving a gig tonight. Boogie Woogie Piano of
course.

jwotd: (fushi/melody)

28th november 1998

Improved my Perl programming to the usage of the CGI.pm
subroutines.

Was invited at Tom’s inauguration party because of his new
flat.
A lot of people there and almost everyone has discovered Tom’s
one
and only passion: Food !

jwotd: (shukuga/party)

27th november 1998

Finished the tragedy of mirroring several partitions on the
ultras
diskarrays. Quite complex…. if you do it for the first time.

(Who else wants its SUN’s mirrored, call me !!!)

Had no time to install the Firewall-1 yet, so this one
moves…
…maybe next month ?

Discovered the world of Perl since c’t has explained the
basics.
m4 has gone. Perl is coming.

jwotd: (muzuka/difficult)

26th november 1998

The day is long Willis !
(Do you have Netscape 4 ? Type: about:Willis)

For me today, it’s SUN-day ))))))))

Planned to install linux on both ultrasparcs but this architecture
isn’t
currently supported….. damn !!!!!!!!!!!

Fooled around trying to set up mirroring with disk suite which is
much
more complex in the gui environment, than the old text based
version.
(Did I mention wrong way mirroring ??? 8-))) Ups…..)

Birgit and Chris invited me for dinner at the Saigon. Yammi.

jwotd: (hi/sun)

25th november 1998

Installed an novell netware 4.11 server today for the first
time,
crazy what have they done ??? 4.10 was such easy and the 4.11
installation broke four times. Simple hang-ups. Never had that
problem
before. So “I did it my way”, copying everything by hand, which
worked
in just 20 Minutes.

Installed StarOffice 5.0 now, which really works fantastic if you
still
know the original 4.0 version based on linux.

Discovered tons of high-quality games at the game tome for linux
and
a few petitions to remember the commercial game hacker(coder) clubs
)
such as Westwood, Warner, Lucas Arts, Simon & Schuster,
…
that there are some people out in the woods with non-MS OS’s on
their
machines. But maybe they’re just all extorted by the
Helloween-monster.
M8-[=]S

jwotd: (shigoto/occupation)

24th november 1998

Encountered some really strange netware problems.
Volumes that obviously have mashed FAT entries ??? Ugly !
Informed everyone about an emergency repair and just one
minute
before shutdown the error was gone ?!?

Axel Zwingenberger is giving a gig tonight at Landshut, so I
don’t
wont to miss this. BTW he now has his own location on the
net:
www.boogiewoogie.net

jwotd: (ongaku/music)

23rd november 1998

The new official 2.0.36 RH5.2 Kernel has to be downloaded and
installed.
I think I’ll wait for some more stuff to get the complete update
directory
at updates.redhat.com.

Downloaded some more themes for the Enlightenment window
manager.
Hey, this one is real fun ! 😎
Even if you mix it with the Gnome panel.

Have to install two firewalls in the second week of 1999 on E250
SUNs.

This thursday and friday might be a linux day we’ll see.
Someone tries to install a SNA server which can handle 1000
simultaneously
and in addition they’ll be encrypted in realtime.
Can you guess what the operating system will be ))))))))))))))))))))))))

Trash all your exchange servers and set up linux clusters
!!!!!!!!!!
(All of those pig noses, who wont believe me that linux takes its
chance.)

jwotd: (asobu/play)

22nd november 1998

Downloaded StarOffice 5.0 for linux today. 70 MB no problems.
But you’ll have to get your installation code at
StarDivision.
Just for those of you who’ll install it in a few years.
8-))))

jwotd: (chokoréto/chocolate) Yammi

21st november 1998

Markus has used my machine to compute MP3’s and disabled the RC5
task.
Gonna kill him !!!!!!!!!!! =)

Had to go to work today and reloaded 80 HUB’s with new
images.
Plus tried to install Winword across a 5KB/sec line. Huahhh…..

Totally fascinated discovered the “Enlightenment” window manager
for
linux. Which makes every machine looking really freaky.
8-))))))
(Just like the laptop desktop in the movie “Hackers”.)

jwotd: (gekido shiteiru/angry) =)

20th november 1998

Three of my four reported bugs on RH5.2 bugzilla have already
been
solved. Hey those guys are lightning fast. |->

Tested my new Langenscheid Japanese language training
program,
pretty cool….

c’t reported about the halloween documents and wrote that the
Microsoft
employees themselves are totally fascinated of Linux’s features
and
development. Ahhh, they’re getting cold feet ???? )))))))))

jwotd: (óyorokobi/great pleasure)

19th november 1998

Urged two more people to install Gnome.

Harddisk prices are falling dramatically. Pretty cool.

Try to download StarOffice 5 for Linux tonight.

18th november 1998

Got the IP address for the FFM server today, so now it really
becomes
a serious thing. )) Here it is 62.144.162.100

Somebody tell me how this works http://4563862512 ????
How do I know my own magic number ???

Reyk bought the RedHat 5.2 CD today, so you’ll see him having
a
install party tonight ??? 8-))))))

BTW: Have you heard of the Third Linux Install Party in
Munich
some days ago ? Don’t know the URL now, look back here later.
Has something to do with CompuPlus and the Munich Linus Users
Group.

Have to cook for my mom now…. see ya tomorrow…

Met with Gerd, Eva and Tom at Shans, where the E.Z. Pieces are
having
a gig tonight as every wednesday in november.
(Didn’t know that Alanis Morisette has a twin sister who sings
Ironic
more powerful than she does.)

17th november 1998

Had a meeting with Novell today, how to increase netware
performance
on our biggest server and the entire campus.
Too bad that someone said from the beginning that everything will
be
migrated to NT next year. (unbelievable st… you know what I
mean…)

Again had trouble at work because of the disability of some
people
that don’t know what their work is and who and for what they’re
paid.

Someone send me an offer… those guys here are just to stupid
to
survive the market.

15th to 16th november 1998

My mom had an accident at home and has brought to a hospital
because of very serious injuries.

…no further activities these days….

14th november 1998

Discovered another three bugs in the new RedHat 5.2 release which
I
started to track down and inform RedHat about.

Met with Gerd and enjoyed the live band at Shans after some
delicious
chinese food. )))))

13th november 1998

Did many flash updates on Lexmark printerports at work.

Downloaded the first three updates for RedHat 5.2 !

Compiled and installed the 2.0.36 linux kernel.
But that didn’t solve some obscure shared lib problems.

12th november 1998

Lexmark problem now fixed. The updates will last ’til
tomorrow.

Got my 16 channel mixer today, yippi !!! 8-))))))))))

Tried to understand the python scripting language. Gave up.

Is there a language in the world that is understandable for
normal
human beings ???

Tried balsa mail reader for Gnome, but POP3 seems not to be
supported
at the moment. (To the programmers, I need multiple POP3’s !!!
min.5)

Tried to configure MPPP 128kBit ISDN syncppp but it doesn’t seem
to
work even no entries about added channels in the debug
output.
Very strange….

Wrote my first bug report on RedHat 5.2. The shipped
procinfo-14.2
has its problems displaying all 16 IRQ’s correctly. instead of
IRQ
8 to 15 it shows up 16 to 23. Never heard of them ?? ))))
procinfo 13 is ok !

11th november 1998

Solved the SNA problems on the AIX machines. An power outage
yesterday
did some funny things to the PU’s and SNA gateways.

Another problem occured and seems solved, which occures when
printing
from a netware server through the ATM backbone to a marknet xle
printerbox.
Old images like 3.62.1 seem to have a problem here and are
unable
to receive anything bigger than 1kB. The new image 4.133.1 works
and
also the marknet pro 3 version. But the big item is that we cannot
flash
the 3.x images to 4.x ones. ) Hey, what a mess for Lexmark support
)

Played a little bit with PHP 3, but IMHO it’s very hard to learn
for
what you earn with it. I think it’s better to get familiar with
perl
and SSI then. (Also not my favourite choice. m4 would be
better)

Gone at the movies together with Tom and watched Antz !
A really great cartoon movie with a touch of Woody Allen’s
kind of neurotic.

10th november 1998

Upgraded the ffm-server to RedHat 5.2 Apollo.
Wow ! Absolutely no problems.
Everything went fine, three rpmsaves had to be renamed and
finished.
Pretty cool.

Dial-Up is again connected to ffm and fax receive is for sure
down.

Tomorrow there’s a really hairy job for me to do, because one
of
our AIX machines at work suddenly refuses to speak SNA.
What a wise decision )))

Who needs IP ? When you’ve got a big wide ATM backbone there’s
much
enough space for broadcasters like SNA, NETBEUI, NETBIOS, etc..

9th november 1998

The new ATM backbone runs perfectly. Everything is lightning
fast.
Great work guys !
Route tracking is now some more complicated since you have to
check
virtual paths through the backbone. But I love this. )))

We cancelled the installation date tomorrow for the ffm
server.
It’s much to expensive to go there by train instead of
waiting
one or two more weeks and go there by car with a friend.

Also the backup telnet access isn’t done yet. And believe me,
I don’t want to start without that, because no other out of
band
access is possible.

Finished downloading RedHat 5.2 with an average of 8.2kB/s
which
is really great for ISDN and german ISP connections into the
UK.

8th november 1998

Had a bad night. Our network supervision called me at 1am and
again
at 3:30 pm so I had to take a quick look whats going on at
work.
My colleagues just finished their ATM construction half an hour
before
and missed some things that didn’t work 100 pc. So it was my job.

Intensified my knowledge in m4 HTML writing, and I found the
first
weak point. m4_define is limited in size. About 100 chars
????
Another problem is the inclusion of multiple macros into one
single
definement. And the last bad behaviour seems to be in the
string
processing. Sometimes the “`” and “‘” work and sometimes not.
Depends on how many spaces, lines or included-defines you use
????

Downloading the next piece of redhat 5.2.
No sponsors found yet

7th november 1998

Another saturday at work, had to stop and restart two AIX HACMP
clusters.
What fun…. but everything went fine. Some other problems occured
on
cisco routers where standby ip was configured but udp had its
problems.

Few more CDs converted just like the days before.

Downloaded almost the half redhat 5.2 now, don’t want to see my
bill
for this. Somebody give me a 8MBit link ???
At this place some compliments to my provider netsurf.de:
Most of the time 8,2kB/sec to everywhere in the world and never
busy
phone lines, really fantastic.

6th november 1998

Not my day…

Several problems with netware for SAA host connections and a
crashed
fileserver at highnoon plus phone terror the whole day.

5th november 1998

Continued RSyncing redhat5.2 which I started yesterday late
night.

4th november 1998

More MP3s done. I urgently need a very huge random access
media
to store all my MP3 converted CDs. Anyone experienced on DVD-RAM
?

FFM-server installation will be tuesday, definetely I hope.

3rd november 1998

Hey, saw that RedHat 5.2 was released yesterday.
But didn’t find time to start downloading yet.

Did a lot of new MP3 plus installed a new 4.3 GB harddisk in
our
netware server at work to get them stored.

Radio is past, realtime streaming is now ! 8-)))

2nd november 1998

Installation was cancelled. Not at least as there is a new
security
hole discovered in ssh 1.2.26. We ran 1.2.22 ups….

Now 1.2.26-3 from RedHat is installed in which according to
RedHat
itself this vulnerability is already fixed.

Wrote some automatic scripts for the FFM-server to restart
daemons,
shutdown, rebooting, mirroring (on demand using rsync) and so
on…

An emergency script has to be written to start up an
independent
sshd or telnetd to ensure accessing the system in case of a
died
inetd. This should be activatable by special http-request,
since
this is the only daemon running standalone.
(sshd runs lightning fast from inetd, so it’s started by the
superdaemon instead of running all the time standalone)

Hey Gerd, whats up with those passwords ???
(Dialup isn’t reactivated yet.)

Next installation date is this thursday or at latest next
tuesday.

1st november 1998

Completed work on the FFM server for the installation on
tomorrow.
Also installed an additional fan for the baramundi ))

Dial-up is disabled guys ! Fax-receiption is back online !

Tried to sample from an old single record. Oh it’s horrible,
without a real mixer and preamp it’s almost impossible.
After 5 hours of plugging sampling and thinking the thing was
done and ended up (guess) yep as a MP3.

Rebuild my private machine which was divided into several
pieces
to complete the FFM server in the last two months.

Switched off the mailbox, since most of the valueable
contents
have moved to the FFM server.

Tomorrow evening you should be able to contact the server at
http://www.stun.de
If nothing went wrong.

Don’t be shocked there are no pages done yet !!!
It’s all under construction. Pages will be set up by the
individuals.

31st october 1998

Wrote a script to do root mirroring on demand for the FFM
server.
This one includes redundancy in case of usage failures or
even
complete crash of the first harddrive. The second part
mirrors
the home, usr and var areas to set up a fully functional
webserver
with the most recent data in case of an emergency due to
drive
failure of the main data harddisk.
I think this way is much better than the current raid-1
option.

Heard from Computrclub on WDR that they’ll set up a cluster
of
300 Linux machines and will report live all the night from
december 5th to 6th. So stay tuned. Live on the internet.

30th october 1998

Had some AIX trouble at work, where the ulimit says unlimited
and
an uncompress to an archived +2GB file says ulimit reached.
Maybe its just uncompress itself, that can only handle files
smaller
2GB. How boring…..

Prepared SSA harddisk drives for installing on tomorrow.

Kept looking for a tool to easy created an interactively
update
HTML pages, through a browser page itself and groups or users
should be support with read only and write access. Any proposes
?

Reactivated the CD-ROM drive of my fathers computer, which
hasn’t
been turned on for a half year now. (Meanwhile it may happen,
that
Win95 forgets its hardware settings and drivers…????)

Played with Tom a few rounds of “You don’t know Jack !”

29th october 1998

Installed a netware 4.1 server at work to catch all the
NOT-LOGGED-IN
connections of the whole campus produced by our NT machines
because
of a failure in the old intranetware client 4.11(+a).

Met with Gerd and had japanese sushi dinner at Munichs Enshu.

Spent the rest of the night at the “Vogler Bar” where Lutz is
giving
a boogie piano gig. Met there with Karl and everyone of us played
a
short boogie medley. (I hate that cold
wheater….fingerfreezer…)

28th october 1998

Wrote to Novell to ask for any suggestions on making our
netware
server as fast as possible including software and OS updates
as
well as for any cost.

Discovered a giant archive of MP3s at work. Urgently need
something
to store all the files. It’s growing day for day, almost
scaring.
A 650 MB CD-ROM cannot be the final solution. Also DVD-RAM
seems
to be dying because of its low dimensioned capacity.

Installed Gimp on NT4, if you delete the script-fu part it’ll
work. Not fast and sometimes very odd in graphics redraw, but
it
works. Maybe this will force Adobe to lower prices for PS5.

Experimented with some new diary styles, but after showing
the
first results to some colleagues and reviewing the extended
code
I decided to live with the old style layout.

Copied the whole mailbox and a few archives of japanese
programs
into the FFM servers ftp area. As long as locally possible.

Lutz is playing boogie tomorrow evening so I’ve to go there.
Hey Karl, Reyk, Babsi and Gerd would you like to join ?

27th october 1998

Had a big meeting at work today. Although we gave the
responsible
persons many different solutions, they wont accept anything
that
fixes problems finally. Instead they’re giving up more and
more
of the fine features. And IMHO it’s simply unfair to compete
with
a netware 4 750 user ppro200 machine against a 100 user p2/350 NT
4.
I regret it not being allowed to give them a linux samba machine
on
a p133. Maybe death rate of NT admins would increase to
much…

Made big plans how to increase performance of a netware 4
server
updating several hardware and software components.

Installed a scsi tape drive and made backups from my mailbox
and
the FFM server. Can’t remember how to store only files from
within
a list, so I discovered “taper”. Hey, what’s tar, doc ?

Got a big problem solved.
It’s not easy to rsync a big directory tree when you
configure
a module for /home/ftp/ab and try to search the files in
/home/ab.
8-)) (This costs me two weeks of my life.)
Now the backups have to be remade….. grrrrr….

I forgot to mention that I discovered autoexpect about three days
ago.
It’s like a macro recorder which makes it very easy to cron
file
transfers and telnet sessions….
(Take a look at it ! The output is a fully functional expect
script.)

26th october 1998

What a day of horror today. Arrived at work and instantly
joined
a group of six other technicians to fix some serious problems
on
our new fast-ethernet migrated secondary network.
Most of the NT machines showed up blue screen after about 10
minutes
running. Switch to switch connectivity was ok, but every
connection
from a PC to its default gateway had about 40 pc misses.
Wow…..
And a third failure seems to be a problem on the UPS power
line.
If two lasers heat up at the same time, some of the newer
ATX-PCs
showed “Out of scan range” monitor messages because of the
graphics
adapter failed to work immediately.
Now think again what would happen if we would use cheaper
monitors.
Blast away…. )))))))))))))))

Have to install a fan on the 4 GB harddisk of the FFM server
because
it heats up much too high. Ouch.

BTW: Aussies would call them Barramundi harddisks ))))))))))

25th october 1998

My parents arrived early morning 5:40 AM directly from Kuala
Lumpur,
so I got to get up much to early for a sunday morning.
Uahh…

Much stories from my parents to listen to…

24th october 1998

Bought 128MB memory for the FFM server, installed it and rerun
lilo
with the memory option. Time that they add automatic memory
detection
for more than 64MB main memory in the next Linux kernel.

Updated the FFM page. Hey Gerd, would you recalculate costs ?

One of my colleagues had panic at work, since he discovered
that
no one has joined him to track the secondary network
problems.
I’m sorry, but today is the big meeting with my old school
friends.

First time, I saw that crazy Beatles movie “Yeah, yeah, yeah” on
TV.
Looks like the male version of “Spice World”.

23rd october 1998

Reached place 3500 at RC5 statistics. But I’m sure I’ll fall in
the
next estimated 20 years… )))))
RC5 64-bit encryption seems to be enough for this century.

Tried to get RSync running when copying many files to the
server
but yet I don’t know how to automaticaly create the neede
directory
branch structure.

Wrote the FFM admin kernel howtos using m4 macro language for
design changes.
Hey Gerd: please upload me the m4 for NT. Thx.

Again much trouble at work, this time most of our bigger
secondary
networks, experienced heavy load problems on routers and
switches.
And additionally they wont upgrade their 1500 intranetware
clients,
which at the moment is only a fourth of all planned NT
workstations.

ts, ts, ts… You know most people are lazy, but those are
really
stupid ones. You want support ? If so, do it, and don’t ask,
or move over to Linux, finally.

Gone for chinese dinner together with Gerd and finished the
evening
with a cool Guinness. (It seems I found someone to translate all
the
boogie text stuff, I never had time for.)

22nd october 1998

Installed GNOME 0.30 completely with all the newest packages
available. Had absolutely no problems uninstalling the old
GNOME
core, libs, gtk, glib etc. Really good work !!!!!!!!!
(For those of you doing the same: Be informed to install the
glib and gtk compatibility versions (gtk+10 and glib10)
before,
and the developement versions 1.1.x after.)

Found the solution how to get rid of the NOT-LOGGED-IN
connections
on our Netware 3.x and 4.x servers when using NT clients on
the
same network. (Hey that will be much fun to upgrade the
intranetware
clients on all NT machines installed to version 4.2)

Made MP3s of four older CDs on NT 4. Hell, they’d never heard
of
process priority and correct memory management, I guess.

Ever tried to remove a CDROM when NT is under heavy load ?
After load goes back to normal the explorer refuses to do
anything
before you put back the SAME CD into the drive.
Of course you can feel free to reboot your machine to solve this.
)))

Got invited for roastbeef dinner by my uncle and aunt. Thanks,
yummie !
Finally got my Skokiann by Louis Armstrong (+6min version) from
my
uncle. (Just know, whom to ask.)

21st october 1998

And again, tons of stuff to do at work. Had to restore 160 MB
file structures with ADSM, but server load and stone old
tapes
made it a real horror trip. (Did I mention users, which can’t
wait ’til it’s all done. So I earned some nice file locks.)

It seems that no one was delighted of working this morning,
when I arrived at highnoon.

Collected almost all available images of didgeridoos on the
net
to set up a new personal didge homepage. Since someone ask me
for that yesterday.

Wrote two new admin howtos for www.stun.de.
Using Rsync and Secure Shell.

20th october 1998

Tried to configure telnet forwarding via ssh to the FFM
server,
but this looks like there are some tricks needed.

At work they told me that the server crashed two times after
our
big work. But IMHO this will be another mans problem.
As far as I can say, the server is up and running from that
minute
on when I walked through the door this morning. You know.
God loves some people.
Maybe because of the bible. (Linux in a nutshell, you remember
???)

Installed new harddisks on a netware server and did some
profiling.

Wrote a really cool HTML page, where you can have an overview
of
all german TV stations at once. )) Pretty cool, this is something
for FFM (http://andys.stun.de/tv)

Played around with some Winamp audio plugins.
Hey Azzurro speeded up to 50 pc could be the next chartbreaker.

I’ll look forward to mix a new techno version of it. Be
tensed…

19th october 1998

Finished the server reconstruction early 5 AM in the
morning….
Damn, we’re now working for 21 hours. Mad, really mad…..
Now it’s urgently time to get some sleep.

18th october 1998

Started rearranging Netware volumes on our big 4.1 server
together with Cetin early morning at 8:30 AM.

We expected to have everything done at latest 8 PM, but
our estimated schedule differs more and more…

Never trust a schedule….

17th october 1998

Installed and tested around the RSync-Server on the FFM
machine,
which still resides in Munich. Hey Reyk what’s fact ???

Did some Chinese cooking with Tom at his new apartment.

Will have to work tomorrow….

16th october 1998

Did some documentation of new AIX systems and a run around
hunting
for the serial numbers of all AIX storage sub systems.

Spent the rest of the day at Birgit’s birthday party.

15th october 1998

Hey I’m on place 3600 with RC5. Not bad for an individual.

Had some (human) trouble at work, sometimes they drive me mad.
8-(=)

Got another two job announcements for web page design.
Thanks, but first of all, I even got no time to update my own
pages
and second, I regret your ignorance for all the really cool
web sites around. Maybe later when I reached that level too.
(Wait for my new boogie pages…)

A propos boogie pages:
My scanner is still inactive, so you all have to wait for the
new
pictures you sent to me. (It’s more a problem of space on my
desk
to put the scanner in range of the computer.)

I also need a solution for my 300 CDs, maybe someone make me a
gift?
A 500 disk changer should be ok for the beginning.

14th october 1998

Met with IBM for AIX hardware support. Hey those guys are lightning
fast.

Installed the 4 GB harddisk on the FFM server and moved some
filesystems.
Works great, absolutely no problems, also the mirror copy of the
whole
root partition disk. So we now can boot from the second disk, just
in case.

Hey, I got innd working as news-server. Great ! Subscribing,
posting
and reading with Netscape. Pretty cool.

My ISP is again unreachable…. hey guys don’t go on with that, I
don’t
want to move again that soon.

13th october 1998

HACMP now works again after some praying, but the lf-terminal
is defect. Will met with IBM on thursday.

Installed Winamp 2.03 at work, hey who needs that CD-Audio drivers
????
Instead use the whole space on CD for MP3’s )))))))

Deinstalled my future network cupboard for soon transport next week
or so.

Discovered how to install stable and unstable code libraries for
use
at the same time. (I hope that works also on the next stable
version update.)

Gerd is hopefully working on the FFM password rotation
concept.

Invited my uncle and aunt to japanese dinner. Very delicious…

12th october 1998

HACMP trouble on an AIX cluster….huahhhh, not my day.
Introduced Alex into real web-chat, not just company-wide.
Maybe she’ll manage IRC someday. I’m working on it !

Gerd still has trouble connecting via PPP to the FFM-server
but I’m sure not for long, cause it’s moving on saturday.

We’ll discuss that this evening with some Guinness at Shans.

11th october 1998

Studied the new c’t magazine. And seen a documentation on TV
how to easy implementing structures of real AI to machines.
Hey that looks like a new project to me:
Simple, cheap and fascinating(c)Spock.

Tried to recompile BeRo-FTPD for use with shadow passwords
and
statistics. But suddenly everything seems broken. ???
First compilation was without any problems, I thougth…

10th october 1998

Bought a new videorecorder. Hey this one has some really nice
features like synchronizing the channles from my TV and
indexing
videotapes via videotext onto special chiplabels.

Hey that works great, but I’m missing RS232 and /dev/sony-vcr0 ?

9th october 1998

Had much trouble at work, lots of network problems.
Did some buffer tuning on 14 Cisco routers, much work….

8th october 1998

Some new AIX problems. 9 GB disks on 4 GB volume groups with 4
MB
PP size. Hmm….

Installed my japanese word processor and dictionary tools on
my
new machine at work. Hey that works…. Kanji, Kata-,
Hiragana….

Met with Tom at Shanannigans.

7th october 1998

L0pht has done it’s work Only 13 hours )))))))))
Now, everything works and gets installed.

Again did some code tracing on the Newbridge software, after
some
of the newest patches have found their way into the machine.
I hate those script writers and environment exporters.

Encountered some obscure sendmail failure messages when emailing
to
unknown users. Somehow the whole process did some funny
things.

Had dinner at my preferred Chinese with Gerd and showed the
world
some snooker after that. (Without Guinness, bad quote.)

6th october 1998

Did some debugging on Solaris XDM and on the newbridge
management
software. Ugly. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Maybe a NT
WS
licensed connections problem.

A propos NT, tried to install some programs and gone crazy.
Now it’s time for L0pht

RC5 got 1,1Mkey/sec on the 400MHz machine, maybe it’d be
better
running Linux instead of NT. Just for performance. ))

5th october 1998

Got my 400 MHz Pentium II at work today.
They’ve installed NT and restricted almost everything. Ugly.
What shells, as long as RC5 gets more power ))))

Had to solve sendmail problems on an Ultra-Sparc at work.
Torture that man who had installed this machine ! >

Now the POP3 server on the FFM machine works fine.
Also tried to setup temporary PPP dialin. Try again Gerd.

Finally my videorecorder is broken. Damn, have to buy a new
one
this week. Unrepairable defect. But a good stand-by tuner with
IR.

4th october 1998

Sendmail now works fine, also on my own system with fidonet and
uucp,
since I downgraded to the glibc compatible version 8.8.7.

Mail delivery between www.stun.de and zuse1.fps-net.mbox were
completely
successful, I hope that’s enough testing offline. Time for
SPOP.

Also did IP address change just for testing without problems.

The Net-Fu server is now running without problems as it
seems,
but I think it’s better we’ll start it only when we need to.

3rd october 1998

Configured sendmail on the FFM server. Some of the host
aliasing
function don’t work, but the rest is fine.

2nd october 1998

Did some Excite page updates on the FFM server.

1st october 1998

Played around with WGET which is really a fantastic tool, almost
like
Netcat but much better for automatic download scripts of all
kind.
With the ability to mirror or index whole websites.

But I was not able to get it work on the FFM’s raw RH51.
My personal daily upgraded systems had absolutely no
problems.