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 →

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 →

I know, that there are several documentations concerning Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing, though I’d like to describe some very first steps for using their infrastructure to build (Linux-) instances that fulfill your needs. Let’s not beat around the bush and … Continue reading →

After checking out bjango’s web-site again after a long time, to check out the status of the “remote vital statistics” project called “iStat for iPhone”, I was suprised to see an iStat Server for Linux (and Solaris, and FreeBSD, …). … Continue reading →

Last weekend, I’ve installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on my office-laptop and over the week I have been working with it and have to say, that it’s really a charm. Everything works pretty nice and smooth, today I even got the dual-head … Continue reading →