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 time ago, I just published a short summary of how to set up a WebDAV over SSL using Apache2 with PAM authentication. Unfortunatelly, the solution had one ugly part: The user www-data must be added to the group shadow, … Continue reading →