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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...

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...

Beware of assumed simplicity

I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a 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, dass "I/O" je herauskommen wΓΌrde. Denn Herr...

A few days ago β€” 50001 km

A few days ago. This is the number of kilometres I ran or cycled since 2019. ![Openstreetmap view](/images/assets/images/50000.png) I tried to exactly hit...

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,...