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.

30th september 1998

Net-Fu is now up and running on the FFM server.
You now can see that our Kung-Fu is still the best

(Remind me that I include pragma no-cache in all CGI
outputs.)

25th to 29th september 1998

I’m ill ! Tonsilitis and a flu, just as usual.

24th september 1998

Installed the Excite search engine on the FFM server and
started
first indexing. Also set up automatically updating every
highnoon.

23rd september 1998

What a horrible day for me. 10 hours without any electricity
because they are intalling a new counter.
This will gonna throw me back several places on RC5
statistics.

Power restored. Everything went fine. Also the OS/2 box came
up
without any circumstances as usual.

22nd september 1998

Did some shopping today, and bought a new frame for my
planned
boogie woogie collage to hang over my piano.

Time for a Guinness tonight, so I met with Gerd, Chris and Birgit
at
Shananigins and enjoyed the folksdance evening.

Discoverd some beautiful compositions by George Gershwin on a
TV
documentation in the late evening and decided to buy a CD
tomorrow.
Maybe some of his songs can give me new inspiration on playing
the
piano.

21st september 1998

Did some minor updates on my personal homepages.
Just forgot to add one of my favourite music styles: A
Capella

Again some updates on the boogie pages. Hey what’s going on, here
!
Everybody got internet access for free ?

Another breakthrough in FFM server configuration, finally got
the
nameservice running with domain only addressing.
Type http://stun.de and you’ll get transported to
http://www.stun.de

20th september 1998

Reconnection time to the FFM server after pulling the plug is also
very
obscure. Sometimes the session isn’t cancelled at all and the other
time
you have to wait about 3 minutes getting a ping replied.

Some more boogie-page updates on the way, especially new
images.

Got in touch with m4 macro processing, and it’s really
amusing.
I’ll try to code some of my HTML pages in m4.

19th september 1998

Did lots of boogie page updates, not only text also some new
images.

Experienced problems with BeroFTPD, and it seems that shadow
passwords are
not supported yet ???

Tried to configure sendmail with multidomains and virtusertable,
but
I think it wasn’t the great idea after restarting. Grrhgihateit
!
This one’s for Gerd.

Played around with Net-Fu with the currently downloaded X virtual
frame
buffer. But there are still some problems around as long as it
isn’t
recompiled completely I think.

Also checked out the new version of bttv 0.5.16, but it still has
problems
on millenium II when using 1024x768x16bpp resolution.

Watched Virtuosity on TV, also a very strange story, Lownmower-Man
is better.

18th september 1998

Did some fine tuning on the FFM servers configuration files and
gave up
RAID-1 configuring, it’s really hard, and without the possibility
to repair
a crashed disk, it is not useful in our minds.

Downloaded some more packages to upgrade libs that made
problems.

Hacked some new pages for the admins, added new users,
configured
sendmail aliases, encountered problems in named MX records.
Set up logfile rotation, installed shadow passwords and got the
hardware
finished (drive bays installed and harddisks plugged in).

17th september 1998

Got BeroFTPD running on the FFM server as well as Apache
completely
configured including virtual hosts and server status.
Also the monitoring of the Winbond chip, some howto pages for
us
admins and the complete nameserver configuration are set up.

SSH is running perfectly, I’m configuring the whole machine
through
this encrypted and compressed link. And the best, I can unplug
the
ethernet for 300 seconds without loosing link nor synchronisation
!

16th september 1998

Installed lots of missing packages on the FFM server,
enabled dial-up for tty sessions so far, fascinated played
around with monitoring of temperatures.

Gone working just to join a little party of our team-leader.

Visited Tom in his new flat. And as I mentioned before it is
now smaller than it looked like before. You wont believe that
?
We then went to the “all you can eat” chinese, and ended up
just a few meters away at Shanannigans Irish pub. Hmm, Guinness
!

Got secure shell running on FFM. Will now try md software
raid,
just in case something goes wrong when almost everything is
set up and configured.

15th september 1998

Holiday for the next three weeks now.

Did big shopping, to get my food storage filled up again.

Installed RC5 on the FFM server, and benchmark testing showed
up 2.5 Mkeys/sec in DES and 860Kkeys/sec in RC5-64. Wow !

14th september 1998

Had some important meetings today, describing the scenarios
from last weekends netware changes action.

Played around with the winbond monitoring code, and surprise
it works ! There must be a second temperature sensor onboard
of the Gigabyte 686BX. But I can’t imagine where this should
be.
Maybe inside the BX chipset itself, or inside the 83977
winbond.

Showed Gerd the FFM server, and after that had some Guinness
at
Shanannigans.

13th september 1998

The floppy seems to be really damaged, I used mine instead.
RedHat 5.1 got installed. Fast-Ethernet works great.
Temperature of the Celeron 300 is just about 24 degrees. Wow
!

Don’t want to do too much, this will be a positive day.
Except, writing my team-leader, what went wrong yesterday at
work.

12th september 1998

Oh what a day. Motherboard and processor are ok, the latter
one
had to be pressed with much force into the slot 1. Now it
works.
Except that Toms floppy wont boot. I’ll check this tomorrow.

Wasted 7 hours at work, trying to move netware volumes to 18
GB
harddisks. But volume file compression is gonna killing me.
Hope that they’ll not cancel my vacancy plans.

11th september 1998

What a bad day. Swapped the motherboard and the new one is
also
damaged. Maybe the processor itself is bad.

10th september 1998

FFM Status:
Couldn’t get any swapable disk drive bays for SCSI so I used
mine instead.
Also took out some memory chips from my machine to get the
FFM
server up. But then, had to give back the new motherboard,
because it had some obscure power problems.
I hope that’s all and that they’ll give me a new one.
Damn, everything was ready screwed and set up. I wanted to
install RedHat today, and start configuring.

Opened a new case at Computer 2000, oh I forgot the server
crash yesterday. Again Netware 4 dead-lock problems.

And, meanwhile as usual, a backbone crash for about 10
minutes.

9th september 1998

Bought and installed a slot fan for the FFM server.

Did some more configuration work on the apache.
Hey I love those virtual hosts. But we’ve to learn how to
use ../ links, because they break when chrooted.

Mounted drive bays for removeable disks into the FFM server.
It’s worth it believe me. Oh I hate those micro screws !!!!!

Tried to find some more documentation on BeroFTPD. Nothing.
Maybe I should take a look at the man pages they are big
enough.

Got a 3 1/2 inch floppy from Tom, and installed it.
So main memory and big harddisks are the last.

8th september 1998

Downloaded and reviewed the 2.0.36pre8 code. Hey they’ve
moved
some unstable code back ?!?

Received a new boogie CD and bio by Henning Pertiet. Many thanks
!

Exchanged a servers storage unit which reported fan failure.
Eyhhhh, what a dirty matter. All three server pairs were
covered
with 5mm fine dust. Needed two hours to clean that up.

Met with Gerd and had a cool Guinness at O’Reillys.
After that had some sushi at Shoya. Hmmm, delicious !

Did almost any boogie pages updates that were pending in my
eMails inbox. There are just a few images to be scanned.

2:40 AM, virtual hosts are working on HTTP !
Server includes don’t, but this should be minor.

7th september 1998

How I love monday mornings. The entire network stands still at
work.

Bought motherboard and processor together with Reyk for the FFM
server.

Screwed and cabled the server components, but don’t want to
test
it right now. I think that this will avoid a sleepless night.

Updated the FFM page with some of the FIX costs.

6th september 1998

Met Gerd online. What a surprise !

It looks like that Netscapes related server has gone !
What a pity, it’s a real nice feature.

Installed Net-Fu, which works now in some parts. But there
are
many additional packages needed not mentioned in the
documentation.
Maybe I’ll complete that tomorrow.
Let me tell you that this version is much much better than
the
Net-Fus installed at webgfx pages.

5th september 1998

Visited the sports festival, of the insurance company where
my
mum is working. It rained all the time, really nice.
But food and drinking was for free, so it was well balanced.

Exchanged some new CD’s with Uli. Time to get the FPS 98/III
released. Maybe this will be a triple set this time.

Experimented with some new GIMP plugins like fire and photo
stack.
Really nice features. There are some examples in here.

4th september 1998

And again a backbone crash at highnoon ! Fantastic.

Interactively designed some logos for the FFM machine at
www.webgfx.ch.
They’re using the same NET_FU GIMP plugins available for
download.
So anyone can setup such a interactive logomaker with
webfrontend.

Met with Gerd and discussed some of the FFM stuff.

Had a nice talk to two young girls at the Chinese where Gerd
and me had dinner. And after saying goodbye, learned that we
don’t
even know their names. This had to be corrected in our minds,
with some cool Guinness at Shanannigans.

3rd september 1998

Tidied up my PC’s harddisk at work and some servers, I was
connected
at that time, too.

Installed the currently released bttv 0.5.15 video device
driver,
but haven’t seen a correct video yet. What are they doing
?????

Maybe it’s only my system that has gone unstable.
Time for RedHat Mustang, to be released on CD !

Tried to install Freeciv in the latest version from sep 2nd,
a civilization II clone, but that one doesn’t work either,
because of some missing libraries on my system. My fault.

Just took a quick look at the Streamserver package, which
seems
to be exactly what I was looking for. A realtime videoserver
distributing streamed GIF or JPEG sequences. And there’s a
special bttv add-on, which I tried to compile. Guess !

Installed PHP to get database access working on Apache, and
this
one looks very very good, and has very easy code to implement
on
HTML pages. PHP also makes possible beautiful serverside
includes
and interactivly designed web-pages. (dynamic images and so
on.)

A little bit frustrated, began to play LinCity and got asleep
after a few hours when income shows up negative values.

2nd september 1998

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre7 patch, lots of network stuff in here
and some important information on Cyrix and AMD CPU’s.

Prof. Chaos called again, but I don’t mind picking up the
phone.
Give them your finger… you know !

Created lots of Compaq ROMpaq disks for upgrading our
big netware servers bios, config and harddisk firmware
to support an array of 18.2 GB harddisks.

Spent the whole night at work, improving our backbone and
doing some address changes on netware servers.

Finally got the 19 inch chassis for WWW.STUN.DE at home,
thanks to KAP’s big car.

Upgraded to GIMP 1.0 with all the surroundings, gtk+, glib,
…
I have to say that I’m not satisfied with this version, my
machine locks after temporary diskspace disappeared when
creating big images. I’d never seen that before on 0.99.
It seems everything gets more worse when upgraded.
First the 2.0.35 kernel with its obscuring EIP exceptions
when almost every bit of physical memory is used.
Now the new GIMP and its enormous memory hunger.

Maybe, I should just add another 128 MB stripe.
Time to get the first GB complete. ))))))
Would be much fun to watch the machine testing memory on
boot.

1st september 1998

Another day of experience when one of our backbones crashes
down.
Do you know other companies running there token ring backbone
on
90 pc utilization ! Maybe we’ll take money for a look, in
future.

Professor Chaos called me, because his AIX workstation
network
connection failed again. If you could see that shaky
connector.
So I told him about solar flares and clickety !

Printed out and studied the new linux gazette.

Learned how to set up virtual FTP servers, if needed, using
the
HOST command, which is also a newer feature of FTP clients.
But I guess we wont need that for FFM.

31th august 1998

Made the stupid failure not to talk to this beautiful girl at
McDonalds yesterday evening. Damn, this is gonna drive me mad
!

Did some server-care on our AIX machines, cleaning coredumps,
logfiles, unread mail spools, etc.

Met with Gerd and Michael at O’Reillys, and had pretty much
fun
talking about girls and previous relationships, like the
woman
do usually.

30th august 1998

Updated another two of my new personal homepages.

Did a little bit fine-tuning on SSH.

Tried to set up hourly passwords on the system, but that’s
really
hard. You always have to watch out not to lock up yourself.

Gerd called for some Guinness, so, by4now !

29th august 1998

Successfully installed SSH on my system.
Fascinating, also the X-Session is lightning fast !

28th august 1998

The hardware internals page for the FFM server is completed,
and I’m very satisfied with the result. You wanna take a
look.

Received our 19 inch server case for FFM today !
Yep, time for big shopping next week !

Finally got my tax forms completed, so I hopefully can ignore
the reminder, which will come for sure in the next few days.

27th august 1998

Spent almost the whole day, resolving hostnames and IP
addresses
to complete a list containing all our unix machines. The
funny
thing is, how to lookup DNS without knowing IP nor hostname.
I guess, God knows why he created MAC adresses ?

Finally got a solution for our FFM virtual host problems:

The default webserver is
www.stun.de:80

links to all other webservers on the different ports are listed
on
/index.html

including virtual hosts
linux.stun.de:80
etc.stun.de:80

additionally we setup separated webservers for each
linux.stun.de:81
etc.stun.de:8x

Now, let’s see what our requests do:

HTTP/1.0 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de document
root

HTTP/1.0 requests /something/other from linux.stun.de root
www.stun.de replies 404 and may redirect to
www.stun.de/index.html

HTTP/1.0 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

HTTP/1.1 requests / from www.stun.de
www.stun.de replies /index.html from www.stun.de

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de
linux.stun.de:80 replies /index.html from virtual host
linux.stun.de:80

HTTP/1.1 requests / from linux.stun.de:81
linux.stun.de:81 replies /index.html from linux.stun.de:81
root

Any questions ?

26th august 1998

Collected some informations on digital still video cameras,
and tried to buy one, but every model I wanted was not
available at the moment.

Gone mad with Apache !!!
Talked to Netscape describing my Apache HTTP/1.1 problems
on Communicator 4.06. Damn, I can’t believe it, full 1.1
support will be available in 5.0 only. And MSIE 4 HTTP/1.1
support is so bad that it is disabled by default on most
web-servers.

HTTP/1.0 Request Principle:
===========================
Client: http://test.stun.de/index.html
DNS-Lookup test.stun.de -> IP
send request GET /index.html to IP
Server: reply http://www.stun.de/index.html (which is wrong)

HTTP/1.1 Request Principle:
===========================
Client: http://test.stun.de/index.html
DNS-Lookup test.stun.de -> IP
send request GET test.stun.de/index.html to IP
Server: reply http://test.stun.de/index.html (which is
correct)

So it seems we have no chance to enable name-only-based
virtual hosts with only one IP address. F**k It !
W3C has released HTTP/1.1 in 1994 and Netscape nor MS have
implemented it yet correctly. What’s up Mozilla-guys !

Hey Reyk ! Did some updates to the FFM-page.

25th august 1998

Upgraded my Apache to 1.3.1 to get the virtual hosts working
without the need for more IP adresses, but since that update
everything is forbidden.

Discovered a nice statement for the programmers of you:

while (! asleep()) sheep++;

As I guessed we’re only four at O’Reillys than the expected
seven. The first time, we didn’t get our meals. I hope
they’ll
change that in future.

24th august 1998

Fortified my Netscape Communicator 4.06 again, to do some
128-bit encrypted homebanking.

Compared some data sheets of digital still video cameras,
but I’m not satisfied with price and quality at the moment.

Called many people by phone, and the odds are good that we’ll
have a big gig at O’Reillys tomorrow evening.

Printed out the Securing RedHat Manual by Kurt Seifried.

Discovered the Bastard User from Hell release, but it is far
from
being half as good as the original BOFH, therefor it isn’t
linked
either.

Urgently have to find out how to install differnt desktop
themes
for Gnome from the GTK+ packages.

23rd august 1998

Time to say goodbye to some good friends and there dog,
which will move to spain the next days.
So this will be a barbeque-only day.

22nd august 1998

An aweful day, started with an emergency call at 1:30 AM,
the backbone had problems, fortunately everything went OK
just 40 minutes later, so I get back to sleep, just to
get into the same situation at 7:30 AM.

I hate those saturdays.

Tried to do the volume changes on a netware server, that I’ve
planned a few days ago and had to learn, that some stupid
users have filled additional 600 MB’s of the first volume.
The bad thing is thess are 400 MB too much.
Now I’ve got to do a full backup and restore someday to get
the
changes affect, instead of simply copying on the same
harddisk.

Got the new Netscape 4.06 but don’t know how to use the
internet
keywords yet. Also my 128 encryption support has gone with
this
update. Time to get a new fortifier.

Tried to update gnome from 0.13 to 0.28 but missed to
download
one or two essential libs. Also gnotes, ee-0.2 wont work.

Analyzed the 2.0.36pre6 patch, but there’s nothin of interest
for me. Just Linux ROSE updates (X.25 PLP) some 3com
netdriver,
pci, processor and smp update stuff.

21st august 1998

Did I mention the Netware server crash yesterday evening ???
Mirroring wasn’t even completed this morning.

But I now know why the discport doesn’t connect in the last
days.
Just plug it into a neighbour network, so that a router
answers
the GNS-Queries instead of the server, and you’ll never
experience
timing problems.

Processed all our AIX’s and deleted logfiles and error
reports.

Got some great lyrics from Tom, Beatles for Sysadmins.
I’ll put them right here tomorrow.

Payed the bill for my second ISP.

20th august 1998

Did some cost calculation for our FFM stuff and had a
phonecall
with Gerd who is designing the first LINUX.STUN.DE logos.

Get very angry when trying to reconnect a Microtest Discport
to a Netware server. Damn, I hate those graphical interfaces.

19th august 1998

Had a workshop day and got introduced into Newbridge
Mainstreet
Multiplexers. Really fascinating, especially how easy it must
be
for the secret service agencies to spy out phone and data
connections, without need to be in range. Just copy timeslots
and send them round the globe. Wow….

Yesterday we founded the Linux User Group LINUX.STUN.DE,
so I’ve picked up all the various penguins available on
the web to design our new logo.

18th august 1998

Touch down ! Hey ya I don’t want to see that Maestro
statistics,
this time a Netware-GPF occures when loading servman.
Who said there’s a running Netware 4 server available for
Linux.

Thought about the next saturday reorganization of Netware
volumes.
Could be very easy if nothing stupid happens.

Identified the crying harddisk in our management-Sun, which soon
will
only be good as a sonic stunner for mosquitos.

Tried to get all the Admin-Gurus under one hat, but could
only convince Gerd and with big luck (thanks SUN) Reyk.
See ya at 20:30 at O’Reillys guys.

17th august 1998

Played around with the pilot tools for linux.
Really nice features, you’ll never see somethin’ on MS.

Yet another three CD’s converted. Now my archive is almost
1GB of MP3 audio, which is equal to 1000 minutes or 67 hours
of CD quality music.

Let’s play with DVD-RAM values:
5.2 GB on one DVD-RAM media would be equal to 347 hours or
14.4 days and nights or 2 weeks of audio. Hey that’s a jukebox,
babe.

16th august 1998

A boring day. I think I’ll do nothing today.
Except of converting some more CD’s.

15th august 1998

Faxed some high grade security stuff about Cisco’s IOS to
Reyk.
So if anyone of you is using a public accesible Cisco, get
the
latest security information from CERT.

Converted 5 CD’s today. Time to get the DVD-RAM drive with
5.2GB.
The media-price is just amazing: 70.-DM ! The drive itself
1200.-DM.
This way you should be able to store 130 hours audio in MP3
format
on just one DVD-RAM and you can delete and overwrite it as often
as
you want.

14th august 1998

Today our whole team got introduced into ATM and how to
handle
a faulty backbone, fast-uplink, trace etc…
Great presentation, thanks to Ecky !

Got the answer from C2000, that the BIOS on the harddisk
itself
has some serious bugs and that they should be upgraded before
used for the first time. Great, so if you have an IBM 9 or
18GB
harddisk check for revision 01c0 or later to get lucky.

Mucky is doin’ a 15 hours job today, and don’t seem to be
that
delighted when calling him on the phone. I think I’ll visit
him now, to ease his pain.

And another day comes to an end with a cool Guinness and a
really tasty 8 oz sirloin at O’Reillys.

13th august 1998

Just a more private day…

Opened another case at Computer 2000 to check if there are
problems to Compaq-BIOS or Netware-OS when using 18GB
harddisks.

Yet another CD in MP3 format.

12th august 1998

Got the bill for our domain-registration today.
(Hey, thanks Peter, pretty nice offer.)

Created the first version of the STUN.DE logo
but remember, it’s the first version, just an idea.

Tried to find a web-based notepad for multiuser usage, but
the guestbook applications arond, don’t fulfill these
requirements yet. So I fear we’ll fall back to MS-Access.
(1:0 for World-Domination 99)

Tried some of the ciders, Woody’s drinks , a rusty nail
and Guinness together with Tom in my favourite Irish pub
“Shanannigans”.

11th august 1998

Another day our biggest netware machine crashed.

Did some shopping with Reyk, who will try to install
RedHat 5.1 tonight on his laptop, I guess.
I just hope there are already updates on the new powertools
CD.

It seems that Alan’s 2.0.36pre3 is out.
Damn, if I only would get the time to test the last one.

10th august 1998

Tried to wrote a letter in Kanji, but gave up after the
first sentence. Huhhh… it’s really hard….
I guess, I’ll just try writing a few words in Kana and
the rest of it in english.

Heard some serious critics about RedHat 5.1, for those who
installed it from scratch, which changes my plans running
RH 5.1 on our FFM-box. Maybe we should first install 5.0
and after that upgrade to 5.1.

For myself, I’ll try Debian 2.0 the next days.

9th august 1998

Coverted another three CD’s into MP3 to get my Blues Brothers
Monster Album completed. (est. 3 hours of music on one CD)

Just wait for my Monster Boogie Woogie CD, 13 hours music
on one CD !

Discovered someone holding my PPP-dialup link up for 23 hours
!
Hey, I don’t want to see that bill. God bless you. 0:-]

8th august 1998

Made some important advances in playing boogie piano,
listening to Peter Heger’s CD “Na endlich !”.

Updated my newly designed personal homepage.
I’ll change the layout again, because it’s not really
my style in its curent form.

7th august 1998

Again, updated the boogie pages with Christian Bleiming’s
bio.
Called Henning Pertiet by phone, and in a few days will
receive
some bio too.

Converted CD’s from Alanis Morisette and Eros Ramazotti into
MP3 files.

6th august 1998

Moved to a new system in determining my lottery numbers for
cracking the 35 mio. DM Jackpot this saturday.

Printed out the Linux Gazette august issue.

5th august 1998

Registered our domain stun.de today.

Did a lot of updates to my RedHat system with all the
latest published RPM’s.

Played around with some of the new Gnome applications
and found the useful gicq, gpgp and xwhois.

Downloaded the 2.0.36pre2 patch and discovered 1 MB
new isdn diffs in it !
Maybe this one becomes essential in a few days.

4th august 1998

Install WWWThreads at work, and they were fascinated by it.
So we think about using it as a ToDo list or better as an
case management archive.

Investigated some free domains to register for FFM,
and found one, I’ll register it tomorrow.

Experimented with SAINT, the next generation of SATAN !

3rd august 1998

Installed UFP-Terminal from Ronald Bieber, to enhance my
Intranet
content, for my StarTrek fascinated mailbox-users.
This one is created from UFP-Info and is completely designed in
HTML.

Set up the phone line in Tom’s new appartment. Lot of work to do
Tom,
better start working today than tomorrow, lot of work !!!
Unbelievable lot of work.

2nd august 1998

Just enjoyed the day, lying lazy on my bed and watching TV.

1st august 1998

Bought the Pro-Pilot flightsimulator today and I’m totally
fascinated by its authentic behaviour. The bad thing is,
that this software needs Win 95, the good news: the simulator
itself is from Sierra not MS !
Maybe they’ll port it someday ???

Sabre for Linux is just too far away from Pro-Pilot, but who
knows, Sabre developement is still in progress…

Received Christian Bleiming’s boogie CD’s, many thanks !!!
Updated the boogie pages.

31st july 1998

Had a crashed netware server today with 1000 users. What a
day.
Mirroring of the 112 gigs is still running after 14 hours.

Prited out the USB specifications. So I’m sure that I’ll
play around with this hardware stuff soon, since Linux can
handle it better than Win98, according to Alan’s smoke party.

30th july 1998

Updateted the emergency documentation of our AIX machines.

Configured automatic indexing on my local search engine.

Started to write a script to collect the status of all my
HTML pages. Maybe this will gonna be something for the
masses,
when finished. If you already know such a tool, let me know.

The output will look like this:

Current project status in category: general
Location: Filename: Filedate: Filesize: Version:
/ index.html 07/10/98 6807 3.00.001
/diary diary.html 07/30/98 14079 unknown
Current project status in category: boogie
Location: Filename: Filedate: Filesize: Version:
/boogie bpage_1.html 07/29/98 3469 3.00.012

Organized a network administrator meeting at O’Reillys
Irish Pub, so that Tom, Reyk and myself could exchange
our experiences and pains in this business.
(You know the name O’Reilly, don’t you ?
Just the right name for a pub to attract Linux fanatics.)

You could say this evening was the foundation of the
“Bavarian Linux Administrators Group”.
Short: BLAG & PLAY !

29th july 1998

Gave my Pentium II some work to do: 750 MB wave files
converted to 67 MB mp3 files. Cool compression rate 11:1 !

Played again with my webcam. Take a look.
It’s bad in quality I know, but the cam was very cheap,
therefore, you can almost forget using it with artificial
light.

Got in touch with HP-UX 10.20, nice they also support volume
groups as in AIX. Anyone make me a gift ?!?

Did a lot of updates to the boogie pages.

28th july 1998

Collected all the debugging stuff for Alan.
I hope that I don’t steal his valueable time.

Had big problems with SNA on an AIX. And discovered four
hours later, that they had changed the hostname yesterday.
The documentation of the SNA application says: If you ever
change the hostname, you have to install the application
from scratch. Well done, guys !

Again tested my billard center. Closed again !
So I had some Guinness with Gerd at Shanannigans.

27th july 1998

Discovered a new problem in 2.0.35 memory management,
when loading previously brandnew compiled bttv modules
(0.5.6 and also 0.5.8), I could reproduce the GPF
problems I ran into yesterday. Not a process, but the
kernel himself seems to grab all available memory.
Unloading modules, doesn’t free up memory.

Wrote that immediately to Alan, before he releases 2.2 !

And another day rebooting my machine, to get the system
stable, and uptime counting starts from the beginning !

Learned that simply taring files doesn’t include
pointfiles. Ahhh that’s what find is good for.
Maybe my personal uptime is just to long, since I had
no weekend for a while.

26th july 1998

Set up live video on my webserver, now you can take
a look at me while working. It takes me a bit time to get
the BTTV capture and transformations working.
CGI scripting was easy instead.

(The above link is on an Intranet !
So if you want to take a look on me live, you first have to
identify my dynamic IP while I’m online, but you should have
a fair chance !!!)

Spent another day at work, since our monitoring alarmed me
that one of our primary backbones has some trouble.
It for sure was not a network failure. Our tftp-server SUN
was unhappy with its disappearing disk space on the root
partition.

Had a mysterious GPF problem (general protection fault) when
su-ing to other users. So I had some practice in debugging
the EIP symbols. Lynx was grabbing all available memory ! F**k
!
(As I said some days before, it’s hard to measure uptimes.)

Reviewed the 2.0.36pre1. Don’t know if I’ll compile another
kernel tonight. But the TLAN 1.0 update would concern me.

One of these neverending days….
Again been alarme by our monitoring, and again the same
management module in our primary backbone. So I decided
on the spot to swap the whole management board.
Lord, please let me sleep now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wont believe that, but in some countries the 26th of
july is a sunday. And believe it or not, some people don’t
work on sundays. Maybe I’ve chosen the wrong religion.
Which one says: “On the seventh day, you should rest !” ?

25th july 1998

Had to work today. They tried to update our hosts OS390,
but failed when trying to run IMS on 18 GB harddisks,
so the had to go back to the old release.
Rebooting the host makes much fun if you have 40 SNA
links to netware for SAA servers. Uhhh..my legs.

Printed out all of this year published Linux-Gazette
issues. Lots of stuff to read, but always helpful.

Discovered the www.freshmeat.net and immediately subscribed
to their mailing list. You wanna subscribe too ?

24th july 1998

Installed WWWthreads, a nice little blackboard system
completely designed in Perl for easy cgi installation
on webservers. Great ! ))))

Reorganized lots of logical volumes on an AIX, missed
to shutdown one database, so I had to repair DB2 too.

Downloaded Alan’s 2.0.36pre1, hope thats the last one
before 2.2. (It’s hard to measure and assess uptimes
when installing a new kernel every second day.)

23rd july 1998

Did a lot of documentation on an AIX for reorganizing
volume groups tomorrow afternoon.

Nobody at work believes me that multiple seperate duplexed
disks on a fileserver are much more efficiently on
performance
than one big single duplexed disk. I hate those pigheaded
guys.

Debugged XDM sessions on a Sparc 20, which had refused to
startup xclients from the initscripts.

Taught Markus a little bit C programming.
Maybe he’ll write a better database software someday ?

Received the advertisments for the Amacom Flipdisk, which
would be a very nice backup device on Linux.

Discoverd how to debug crashed kernels. Heya that makes fun !
Have to try debugging a running kernel, nice feature !

The day was long Willis !

22nd july 1998

Had to do escalation procedures to Novell and Computer 2000
because of our SNA problems.

Played around with AIX printing filters.
Why is noone using PostScript ?
It could be all so easy.

Had a BBQ chicken pizza at Munich’s Planet Hollywood,
not bad, but not the right place for me.

21st july 1998

My first day at work, after holiday.

Experimented with the LexLink Tools for AIX. IP is better !

Tried a little bit Netware programming, there are some
dirty tricks around.

20th july 1998

Changed the diary dates to full month names, and made them
Y2K-compliant.

Did another four pages of my new 28 big new homepages.

19th july 1998

Enjoyed the day, did some work on my new homepage.
If you want to take a first look: New Homepage
I’m not satisfied with the colours font size and background yet,
but
this should be minorities.

18th july 1998

Worked on my new personal homepage V3.xx, which will consist
of 28 very personally documents. Looks fine so far.

Created lots of fine web arts with Gimp.

17th july 1998

Enjoyed the day.

Enjoyed Armageddon and Mercury Puzzle with Reyk and Babsi
at the royal cinema. Great ciname, great movies.

Damn, they have cracked DES-II-2 in 56 hours, but not by
distributed.net members. They’ve built up a special crypto
processor just to crack DES !!!

Security live long and prosper, goodbye….

16th july 1998

Removed Squid from my configuration and installed
WWWOffle instead. And believe me, it’s much more
comfortable.

Installed my venetian blind on my big living room window,
so I guess it’ll be a cool day tomorrow ! 8-}

15th july 1998

My last week on holiday.

Tried to poll news from my fidolink, but it seems there are
many many bit failures during transfer. Have to check this
in more deep.

Did dozens of minor updates in the local configs.
Checked security for the whole filesystem.
Added banners for the dial-up services.

Answered a few questions on news://linux.redhat

Tried to write down my PPP device/interface problems.

14th july 1998

Compiled and installed the final 2.0.35 kernel.

Compiled the tricky CDDA2WAV, now it works.

13th july 1998

DES-II-2 has started, so all my machines are working on it.
Overall rate is about 8 Mkeys/second. I’ll know that exactly
in a few days. (Lot of work to update all the different
machines
on the different OS’s.)

Encoded the blues brothers 2000 soundtrack to MP3 for my
ultimate mp3-blues-cd.

Disconnected a lot of harddisk drives and fans from my pc’s
to make my sleep more softly.

12th july 1998

Did some updates on the boogie-woogie pages.

Had lots of fun at a friends birthday party.

11th july 1998

Played around with VIC, nice video conferencing tool for
linux.

Updated the boogie-woogie event calendar.

10th july 1998

Set up DNS for my internal fidonet. Found a solution for my
net-pf-4, net-pf-3 error messages. (RTFM may help sometime.)

Convinced Tom to join the DES-II-2 contest on monday.

Used the time to answer and update all the boogie news in
my inbox folder.

Will go to the little octoberfest tonight.

9th july 1998

Played around with LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control),
nice tool !

Found some more tools for my bttv-driver, but had no time
to test it so far.

Did a complete backup of my mailbox areas via ftp.
TCP/IP and FTP are such stupid protocols !
You need to acknowledge 300MB for 1GB to transfer. Great !
&-{

Got ifcico and ifmail working over VModem/Telnet, now I can
get all my fidomail via TCP/IP as a new virtual line !
Pretty cool !

Reyk had to fight with dummy devices on a sun, hope he got
it.

8th july 1998

Updated my PalmPilot’s OS to 2.05, works fine under linux.

Tested incoming and outgoing faximiles, had no problems,
many thanks to the c’t team !

Tried to compile some new gnome-pre-alpha software, but
without
success. What have they done with the C-compiler ??? Had no
chance to compile anything without parsing errors !

Had some crashs with gnome when video4linux runs for more
than
20 minutes. Just console blocking.

7th july 1998

Edited a few HTML pages for my new PPP-based mailbox-system.
Thought about transparent proxying for ftp, when allowing
users just to make connections to the dialin-server.

Played around with Kanji-term, and hunted for some japanese
language training programs on the linux-os.
(wnn, canna, skk, ng, mule) Pretty cool !

Set up hourly fortunes for every login session. )))

6th july 1998

Another big shopping day, finally I got a lamp for my
kitchen.

Now leeching the last few megabytes to complete my updated
RedHat 5.1 CD image.

Got Gnome running, as I like it ! Wow !
So all you outthere having problems with KDE change to Gnome.

5th july 1998

PalmPilot PPP now works fine, but without authentication.

Compiled 2.0.35pre5, which runs so far.

Tried to get KDE running, now with 200 MB of RAM, but after
five minutes swaps again to disk with crash. Great !

4th july 1998

New RC5 clients are now available, so I had to go through all
my
RC5 condemned machines. Join us on 13 july with DES-II-2 !

Got big brother running more or less. Nice tool.

The Germans lost against Croatia ! What a fool !

Experimented most of the day with PalmPilot’s direct PPP link
to my server, but without any success.
mgetty seems to loose connection after receiving the first
string.
Ignoring carrier detection don’t seem to work properly.

The normal modem line, now works without any failures.
(FAX, UUCP, FIDO, PPP and LOGIN) Great !
Time to get the Fido-mailer linux-based.

3rd july 1998

Ohhh, my head…. I guess the fourth Guinness was the bad
one…

Reyk seems to be in trouble, because one of his linux
machines
can’t mount it’s root partition anymore. Bad luck !

Tested the IPPP dialup with Chris, and obviously we have the
same problem with multiple interfaces and IPPP-daemons.
(Calls are accepted on ippp1 instead of ippp4, the daemon
started
for ippp2 answers on ippp4, the static IP from ippp1 becomes
overwritten with the dynamic IP of ippp4, GREAT f.ck !!! )

Maybe I should change to FreeBSD someday.

2nd july 1998

The firewall configuration is broken again… but finally INN
seems to work now. Just waiting for Chris’s feed.

Registered my linux machines at counter.li.org, this time
without form-failures from netscape.

Updated the system with the newest redhat updates.
Fighted around with the 2.0.35pre patches…

Installed the excite search engine for private webservers,
works
great, but was a little bit tricky since we don’t use the old
perl 5.001 anymore.

Will have some Guinness tonight with Reyk and Babsi at
O’Reillys.

1st july 1998

Bought an effect processor for my e-guitar, sounds great !

Tried again to get up INN running….. no chance….
But found two new patches, one for netscape’s form problem
and
the other for the INN path problem ! Ahh, amazing…

Phoned to Chris, but it seems it’ll take some more time until
he can feed me with news. Also dialup still isn’t working
yet.

Had to notice, that my preferred billard center started its
summer break today for the next 2 months, sorry Gerd.