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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

iPhone Safari and XmlHttpRequest Authorization-Headers

Lately I came across an odd phenomenon regarding the iPhone OS (3.1) Safari and web-sites that make use of JavaScript to set XmlHttpRequest-Headers, like for ETags or for authorization. I’ve analyzed the (mobile) Safari’s behavior, tried to find possible mistakes … Continue reading

Cloud Simplicity and Elasticity

Some days ago I finally managed it to register on Amazon’s Simple and Elastic Services named EC2 and S3. Since I’ve  implemented some stuff at work a few weeks ago, I got really interested into the services. Now I’ve setup … Continue reading

Fighting with Ubuntu Server and its plain-stupid Maintenance/Maintainers

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

Talking about Clouds

  The past few days I was thinking pretty much about the upcoming trend of “Clouds”. By that, I of course do not me the weather occurrence – I am talking about “Cloud”-Services.   So, what is a Cloud-Service in … Continue reading