Archive for August, 2006

Stupid questions

I love this message from the Hitachi RMA, hmm… what should I press?  I agree or I don't agree?
The best thing was, they REALY asked me this also on the phone !

In order to create a RMA, please read and respond to the following:

Export Compliance Certification

By clicking the "I agree" button, I agree that Hitachi GST products will not be used for the design, development, manufacturing, testing, stockpiling, or use of biological, nuclear, missile or chemical weapons.
 

All computers are off :)

For the frst time since 7 Year I have turned off ALL computers at home. The oldest one, the Firewall, a P1 166MHz is runing without being turned off since about 5 years! Time flies by real fast isn't it? I'm interested to see the next electricity bill :D

Mysql gone crazy

Good that I always switch of my mobile when I go to sleep. Why? Imagine waking up, switching your mobile on and then the ringing begins, you get one sms after the other … a total of 45 messages. Oh no … not what you might think, it was nagios that was telling me that something is wrong with the server. For some reason (couldn’t find out why) mysql had a cpu usage of 88-99% and my server had a load average of 11 !
There was no way mysql wanted to shut down so the only solution kill -9. Everything is running again but I hate it when something happens and I don’t know why. Now I can just hope it won’t happen again.

NeoOffice 2.0 Beta is available for free

NeoOffice Home Aqua is here!

Finaly! I have waited so long for the intel compiled version of neooffice.

digg - Three New ‘Get A Mac’ Ads

digg - Three New 'Get A Mac' Ads Apple has added three new TV ads to their 'Get A Mac' ads: 'Accident', 'Angle/Devil', and 'Trust Mac'

25 - 27. Aug, Romania

Bine ati venit in Timisoara25 - 27. Aug, Romania
Am revenit, si pozele sunt pe net, mai multe scriu dupa ce am dormit ceva.

We won’t live for ever

We all know that, but I think nobody ever thinks about what will be when the end comes.
The end of a life somebody close to you, or even your own life.
I have been trough this more times then I wished (not that I wished to make any of these experiences ever).
But then this things make you think … how fast time has passed, how suddenly bad things can happen. Yesterday you talked with a person and the next day it’s a matter of life and death and all you can do is just sit around and wait, not knowing what you will hear when the pone rings or the doctor comes to you.
Some say “Time heal all wounds” but as someone who has made this experience I can say this is not true. You will never forget! There will always be some photos, some words, some memories that will remind you and will remind you of the pain.
Especially if it’s someone young, very young. I mean, I can say hey, my grandfather was 85! He has had bad times in life and good times in life, but he has lived his life.
But what can I say about my little cousin that was 9? … the list can be continued, but I won’t.
Before I get any stupid questions, no noting happened in my family, but in the family of someone close to me. I won’t go in to further details. This just brought up some of my personal memories, some of my wounds that haven’t been healed by time, even after almost 20 years.
And no I do not want to talk about it, so no questions please.

Thanks google!

I just looked at my webalizer stats and noticed, that someone got on my page due to the search term “iban t-com berlin”. So I looked up on google, and guess what, my blog is the first thing displayed when someone searches for the t-com iban in berlin. Great! now everybody can read how stupid t-com is :)

Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed

Oh I love this one. Just received this from Moga, an article on TheRegister. I think my colleagues know just too good how it feels to come back from a meeting and find a rebooted PC and all you work is gone. I must say I was lucky until now since I was always in front of the pc as windows wanted to reboot and game me some time to hit a cancel button. This reminds me of a other story. Imagine writing a 300 Pages doc. With the "oh so powerful and much better then OpenOffice" Winword. You save the document and the next day you want to open it and print it, but no no … Winword has other plans, it simply crashes. This happened to my colleague. Thank good I had an older version of OpenOffice installed, I opened the "corrupt" winword .doc file without a problem, saved it again as .doc file for winword (which then had only 1MB instead of 3) and the file could be opened again in winword, without any problem and nothing was missing. Just some tables looked strange, but that was fixed much faster then writing 300 pages from 0.

Lame server errors in BIND.

Lame server errors in BIND. rackAID

This problem was bothering me since quite a while but now my logs get flooded with lame server messages, so here you can find a simple way to get rid of them and also to hide your bind version :)

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