Author: arved

I can’t commit

All Computers that have one of my FreeBSD.org SSH Keys on their disk are shut down.
My fingers are itching, but I can’t work for FreeBSD on Christmas.

Bounce floods

While I wrote the last blog entry, I noticed that my blog wasn’t running smooth.
The load on huckfinn was up to 60!!! My Maillog scrolled too fast to read. I spent an hour on trying to blacklist the most busy hosts, but it didn’t reduce the load.
Now I have changed my Firewall rules for a whitelist system. So if you want to email me and you are not using univie/tuwien/FreeBSD MXes, don’t use the arved.de address. After Chrismas I have to fix this, by either switching to a different domain or further improvement of my firewall rules.
Spam and Viruses suck 🙁

Germany

Yesterday I travelled to Germany, to visit my family.
The ICE Vienna-Hamburg has new seats with more legroom. The TVs don’t show movies anymore, but only “Deutsche Bahn”-commercials and the power sockets don’t work. Additional the “Deutsche Bahn” has reduced the trainteams, so one german team drove us the whole way from Passau to Hamburg.
But well, I survived thanks to my iBook with its nearly 6 hours battery and an interesting Terry Pratchett book, “The Science of the Discworld”.
I just succeded getting a Netconnection with my iBook via the Windows98 box from my parents, which involved fighting with ZoneAlarm and Sysgate.
I already miss my ADSL line at home, ISDN is just too slow.

New machine on arved.de network

I forgot to publish the news, that since saturday there is a new machine on my network. My first AMD64, see dmesg for details. It is also the first machine with a Gigabit NIC.
Installing FreeBSD-amd64 did work without major problems, after I figured out, that I need to force the NIC to use 100Mbit, because Autonegotion with my El-cheapo 100Mbit Switch did not work. Also the ATAPI CDROM is not recognized after the boot although I booted from it during Installation.
Ports mostly work, next weekend I will probably have installed everything to make it my workstation. Only Problems so far: No Java, because the linux JDK is i386 only and no video, since mplayer configure check failed and xine failed because of the usual PIC problems in djbfft, which should be fixable.