I recently got a new Laptop and installed it with Gentoo 64 bit. Along the process I had a hard time getting Thunderbird, the enigmail plugin and gnupg to play together nicely.

I had everything set up correctly (or so I thought) and the proper keys in place. But kept …

To analyze data on a customer’s server, I often hack together small Groovy scripts. I type tiny scripts right in the editor on the remote side but sometimes it’s tedious to type over a slowish ssh connection.

sshfs seems to come in quite handy in this case. However …

My mom has a ThinkPad A31 that she uses to read eMails and surf the web. It was running the Windows XP install that the machine came with.

The end of Windows XP support appeared a few times in the daily print press here. This made my mom beware of …

I’ve been using a USB disk in an external case to make TimeMachine backups of my wife’s Macbook. This approach worked for quite some time but was quite fiddly: take the disk out of the closet, find a power plug for the external case, attach cables etc. My …

At work we deploy our software on machines that are located at customers sites. To access these machines we have created a VPN infrastructure that allows us to access the machines, deploy updates etc.

I use Shrewsoft’s VPN client to connect to the VPN infrastructure. This works so well …

I’ve been planning on playing around with Linux’ traffic shaping for quite some time now. My linux router machine is directly connected to the DSL modem - no consumer grade router box in the mix (and hence none of the vulnerabilities and security nightmares that have been discovered in those …

Mir ist schon seit längerem aufgefallen, daß die Umlaute meiner s9y Installation kaputt waren. In den Blog Einträgen kam das nie so raus, weil dies der erste Eintrag auf deutsch mit Umlauten ist :-)

Die Umlaute in den Monatsnamen waren allerdings kaputt. Ein Eintrag bei den Farmbloggern hat mich dann aber …