Category: Computers & Networks

If anyone is interested, i need to get rid of several old computers:
System 1 Miditower with (excerpts from dmesg):
total memory = 127 MB
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class), 199.92 MHz, id 0x52c
cpu0: features 1bf
ex0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: 3Com 3c905-TX 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x0)
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0:
wd0: 14664 MB, 29795 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 30033360 sectors
System 2:
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = “AuthenticAMD” Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12
Features=0x8021bf
AMD Features=0x80000800
real memory = 134201344 (127 MB)
rl0: port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xd9800000-0xd98000ff ir
q 12 at device 13.0 on pci0
ad0: 8063MB [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33

I finally updated my IMAP server to the dovecot version in ports. Last time i tried to upgrade to a 1.0.alpha release, due to an mbox parsing bug, i had to downgrade to 0.99.
Now the releases are called 1.0-beta and it seems to work fine except some initial log messages “mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox”.

After two years my iBooks Harddisk is currently in the process of dying. Lots of Disk I/O errors.
I am trying to make a backup (which takes ages because of the disk errors), then I will try a reinstall and then i will see how difficult it is to replace the disk.
I am feeling naked without a Laptop….

Recently Google started to mix results of images.google.com under the regular google results.
Hey, if i want to look for images, i can type ggi: instead of gg: But now i need to scroll down the page first, to find what i am looking for. Time to use ya: (for Yahoo!) more often.

Today i reorganized my server room, and decided to move the printer to the kitchen. Unfortunately my local hardware dealer did not have a WLAN-printerserver in stock, so the printer is still in the server room.
But i discovered something else. An AVM FritzFon, a cheap telephone system with VoIP support. I could not resist. Now i have a “hardphone” for my at43 account.
Getting it to work was a bit tricky, but thanks to my SIP god Hendrik it works now.

..about Debian:

dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb

Bug 350298 for details.

After a thread on freebsd-security@ PGP seems to be en vogue again. (Hm, there hasn’t been an official key signing at EuroBSDCon this year..*sigh* But i had forgotten my keyprintouts anyway).
I noticed that my that my key is slightly out of date, so i removed my ex-jobs non-working emailaddress and added my new one. I noticed that this year i only gained one signature (which was actually a leftover from 2004), so i have fallen down to over 600+ in the keyanalyzereports.
So if anybody visiting Vienna this year (or Bad Segeberg over X-Mas) is interested, please speak up 🙂

While migrating my mailserver i consilidated my .procmailrc, but unfortunately it is still too large:

knut% grep List-Id .procmailrc | wc -l
58

Since I am setting up my new Mailserver next, i am evaluating webmail applications. My requirements:
Communication between Webfrontend and Mailserver via IMAPS, no extra database server required.
IMP/Horde looks like overkill, i am looking for something more simple.

Today i tried to put another soundcard into my Desktop machine, because i wanted to test Arif Abdullah’s sound patches.
The Mainboard an “Asus K8V-Deluxe EAY” has a VIA AC97 Soundcodec and i added a Creative CT4810. After booting only the Creative card was detected.
Removing the Creative Card, the VIA card is detected again.
It looks like Asus automatically disables the onboardsound in case there is another soundcard plugged in.