Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds, that doesn’t solve...

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today i was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make products out...

500000

I wasn’t able to exactly hit the number, but yay …. half a million kilocalories. The screenshots shows calories, but the tool is doing the same error like most poeple,...

Keyboards

It’s roughly 20 years ago that I’ve switched to use notebooks for work. Before my time at Sun i was able to convince my manager that i really needed the...

Åskväder

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp1 anyway and thus this looked like a...

Smartbike

This summer wasn’t that good in regard of cycling. It wasn’t good at all. First half of the summer felt like a never-ending row of rainy days. Then a lot...

Xodus

A while ago i left X (the website formerly known as Twitter). I assume out of the same set of reason why most people i know left Twitter. I really...

Cleanup

I’m just in the process to clean up the blog and updating some static pages. The cleanup was nescessary to be able to run the scripts to publish new blog...

2022

Hier sitze ich wieder auf meinem Sofa und sinniere über das letzte Jahr. Das Fernsehprogramm ist noch schlechter als sonst. Hinzu kommt, dass am heutigen Tag ein ehemaliger CEO eines...

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings i didn’t wanted to spend the...

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

Visualize

„The Matrix“ ruined it a little but for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the lines...

Potential energy - or how to maximize your XP points in Zwift

Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it’s rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such situations I’m using...

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that’s the reason why I’m working on an article about patching and vaccination and the inherent similarities). Therefore...

Tales from the saddle - Too much technology.But no cake

Today i wanted to ride to my parents in Lüneburg, it’s not that far … just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However i had some...

Tales from the saddle - Safer cycling with the "idiots!"-assumption

(Yes, i’m starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at noon.)...

2021

Ich sitze hier gerade an meinem Schreibtisch und wundere mich, das selbst in einem Jahr, in dem es eigentlich empfohlen ist, zuhause zu bleiben, es lediglich das übliche Fernsehprogramm gibt,...

Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the well known persons...

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other peoples password can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password before you get such...

Additional information for your zone configuration.

Sometimes it’s useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is responsible for the zone....