Happy new year everybody! I hope each of you had a great weekend and a good start into 2011 so far. I have been quite busy those days… weeks… even months now already, therefor I haven’t had much time to … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →