Solaris 11.4 support available until at least 2037

There is an important note in footnote 7 on page 40 of the “Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems - Oracle Lifetime Support Policy”: “As a result, Support...

Motivation

It’s well before 06:00 AM. I’m sitting on my indoor bike. Somewhat motivated by the last visit to my scale a day before. Thinking that a longer distance ride may...

Beware of assumed simplicity

I’m currently sitting at my desk looking to an heap of cables. Display cables. You don’t think too much about display cables. At least i did not think too much...

Probably just an overengineered small keyboard

(This is a test blog entry (based on a text I started a while ago) for the new Jekyll workflow) Sometimes you see a device which results in a “Must-have”...

2023

Peter Gabriel hat dieses Jahr wieder ein Album herausgebracht. Ich hatte eigentlich schon die Hoffnung verloren, das “I/O” je herauskommen würde. Denn Herr Gabriel verriet schon kurz nach dem letzten...

A few days ago ... 50001 km

A few days ago. This is the number of kilometers i ran or cycled since 2019. I tried to exactly hit 50000 … didn’t work. Hope that i will reach...

From cycling to computer systems performance – Part 1

This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling, however...

Problems of a vegan

I’m vegan for a while. I’m not a health vegan, because it’s perfectly possible to eat totally unhealthy as a vegan. I’m the living proof. I’m not really doing it...

Thoughts about PoE security cameras (and outdoor ethernet cables in general)

I’m currently trying to buy a security camera, because i have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are a...

Koblenz ... again ???

I’m back from Koblenz. My brother asked me to help to fetch something from this town and as was on a weekend and i’m on vacation the obvious answer was...

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. Out of whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WIFI signals significantly from one floor to the other,...

Cable management

Today i was quite occupied by a search mission: As absence of a proof is not the proof of absence, I was searching for things and I had no proof...

Feuer&Flamme

I’m currently working on a longer blog entry about measuring systems performance, but this will take some additional days. Meanwhile i would like to point you to a really great...

Strangest things

I have seen and experienced a lot of things when driving on the Autobahn through Germany. I have seen quite a few crashes, smaller and larger ones. To this day...

Suspiciously new

I wrote this morning that my house has currently no VDSL internet, just cable internet. I’m just back from the street in front of my home. Roughly 50m away there...

Redundant

The street in front of my house gets a new cycleway on the inbound side of the street. While this is a really great idea because the old one was...

Docking

I wanted to get rid of a significant set of cables when I set up my new desk, there were a gazillion of cables flying around on my desk and...

Nothing changed …

As if the the last few years didn’t happen? Was at the supermarket this morning. People sneezing, people coughing, nobody wears a mask, even those people who are obviously not...

Keeping my stuff together

In case you wonder about my recent uptake in blog entries and in entries about recent purchases, this is at foremost currently getting back into the writing habit, testing the...

Age

You get vastly more aware of your own aging when you listen to live music on youtube from musicians roughly your own age and look at them changing over time....