Reflections // Images And Words

Soo…I move this from a former page to a post. At some point last year, I needed a solution for a problem in LaTeX, where I wanted to continue an enumeration over several paragraphs. Read on and find out how I did it. Cheers!

Dear Readers, recently, I updated this blog to use a different structure for permanent links. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience! H.

Hi Folks, A while back, I upgraded my Mac OS X Leopard to Snow Leopard and encountered some strange behavior which did not allow me to authenticate anymore. This lead to very ugly situations where no software could be installed anymore (since the dialog didn’t fire up to enter the password) and some settings could [...]

This is a translation of the Hetzner Dokuwiki Article “Xen mit Routing-Setup und zusätzlicher (interner) Bridge” [1] which I mentioned in my last post about XEN Networking [2]. [1] http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Xen_mit_Routing_und_Bridge [2] http://www.henningweiler.de/?p=85

Hi there, in the ‘old days’ I’ve been using the Exim MTA and just found a few helpful commands, which I thought might help some people also. Here we go… Count frozen messages in mail queue: exim4 -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l Remove all frozen messages from the mail queue: mailq | awk [...]

Hi Everybody, in order to setup a new server, I had to deal with this more or less troublesome topic. I want to give everybody a hint who is facing trouble with this. The Setup: – Debian Lenny (Kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64) 64 Bit host and 64 Bit guests – xen-hypervisor 3.2-1 The Goal: I. have a [...]

Dear all, you’ve probably seen that thing floating around in my Skype Status message, but since I’m going to change that status, I want to post the link here. It is a video about the monitoring of every citizen in Germany through the government and the internet service providers. The video is in German, but [...]

Hello everybody, I recently discovered two videos which were sent to me and made my brain work quiet a lot. Check it out folks: Did you know? (YouTube) Epic 2015 in German (YouTube) Tell me what you think.

Today, I received an article about the nation-wide crash of the mobile communication provider ‘T-Mobile’ which lead about 39 million people to not have mobile communications and to the insight, that–most of them at least–are addicted to their constant availablility. Somewhere along this article, this statement showed up: Wir haben das Telefon erfunden, damit wir [...]

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) and multiple identical printers can be a pain in the butt. Especially, if the printer manufacturers are naughty and do not make the printers serial number public on usb connect. This shall be a little how-to for all those people who discover the same trouble!