xkcd#1040 lakes and oceans

April 28, 2012

the schemaverse

hey folks, play battles and improve your dbadmin skills ;) here we are … https://schemaverse.com/ thanks markus for the hint!

April 26, 2012

Arthur Schopenhauer

Lesen heißt,mit einem fremden Kopf statt dem eigenen zu denken. Man gebrauche gewöhnliche Worte und sage ungewöhnliche Dinge. Nichts ist schwerer, als bedeutende Gedanken so auszudrücken, daß jeder sie verstehen muß. Zum Denken sind wenige Menschen geneigt, obwohl alle zum Rechthaben.

March 30, 2012

simple c++ client/server encryption corba example

hey folks, my students are running crazy they have to understand corba, based on this great example [1]. but they fail on using orbacus [2] and/or omniorb. so i have to help them. first of all i want to make one thing clear: i don’t want to implement this stuff on windows. two years ago i made it, and that should be enough. it is much easier to implement and make it work under linux than with windows!...

March 20, 2012

administer windows servers

hey folks, i know, something went terribly wrong, but at the moment i have to administer a couple of windows servers. first of all i needed access to the windows network over vpn and then use a rdp client software. vpn was quite easy to configure: pptp vpn addresses only with the proper dns and domain user name with DOMAIN\user advanced settings: “use point-to-point encryption” afterwards it was a little bit tricky to get a remotedesktop client which was able to connect to the servers without changing their security level....

March 12, 2012