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 →

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 →

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 →

Some days ago I showed up a specific scenario and described how a strongS/WAN configuration for this could look like. Now, I would like to add additional information on how the scenario can be tuned so that even “Roadwarriors” could … Continue reading →

Yay, it’s time for another HowTo boys and girls! Okay, let’s cut that crap. So, imagine the following scenario: We’re in a network (in my example 192.168.10.0/24) and there are two components we focus on: One client (a Linux laptop, … Continue reading →