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OTRS LDAP Authentication for Agents and Customers

Probably many of you have or still are actively using the open-source, ITIL compliant trouble ticket system named OTRS. And probably some of you also might have experienced the pleasure of setting up the software once – and know the … Continue reading

Clean Re-Installation of MacPorts under Snow Leopard

Since I’ve upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, I had trouble using MacPorts until I cleaned it all up and did a fresh re-install – which really helped. Here’s the way to go: First of all, re-install the MacPorts.dmg. After … Continue reading

A brief summary of setting up a CentOS 5.4 DRBD Cluster in Primary/Primary

Clustering is cool and fun when it’s working, but for getting to such status it mostly takes like a dozen hours, coffee and many nerves. To simplify it a bit, I’d like to share some information on that topic, especially … Continue reading

MediaWiki and Lucene

Lately, I had to enhance a MediaWiki-installation for the search to find some special parameters within a code block. It’s generally known that MediaWiki’s built-in searcher is really just an example of how searching could work, but nothing you’d really … Continue reading

Neil, this Tricky Little B…oy!

For some time now I was searching for documentation on the internet about how to open my LaCie “Neil Poulton Design” hard drive, but I could not find anything. As it seems, this drive will be bought only by Apple … Continue reading