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AI

Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
Brazilian waxing for yaks
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT AI

Brazilian waxing for yaks

My insights to an attempt at vibe coding

IT 06 Mar 2026 14 min read
Deus ex prompt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Kultur AI Thoughts

Deus ex prompt

Gedanken zu AI

Personal 23 Mar 2025 31 Min. Lesezeit
74 Posts

Admin

Schwellenwertfeld
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Admin Monitoring

Schwellenwertfeld

Gedanken zum Monitoring der NormalitΓ€t

IT 20 Jul 2025 25 Min. Lesezeit
Only one time
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Only one time

Configuring one time passwords for SSH with Solaris 11.4

IT 08 Jun 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched

New PIDs for init and zsched in the NGZ

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information

Thank you! THANK YOU! Really thank you!

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
pstop and prun
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

pstop and prun

Stopping and starting a process or thread

IT 02 May 2025 2 min read
svccfg editprop
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished SMF Admin

svccfg editprop

Remembering svc properties β€” made easy

IT 02 May 2025 3 min read
Getting the command line and environment of running processes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin SMF

Getting the command line and environment of running processes

Rescuing the environment.

IT 28 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradd defaults
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradd defaults

Changing useradd defaults

IT 27 Apr 2025 1 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Time-based limits to SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Time-based limits to SSH

Lockout after midnight

IT 23 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset

Limit your appetite for destruction

IT 21 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention

Configuring file retention in ZFS

IT 20 Apr 2025 19 min read
File auditing
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

File auditing

Activate auditing for select files

IT 19 Apr 2025 2 min read
Hashed
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Hashed

Directly setting a hashed password

IT 18 Apr 2025
System Attributes in your filesystem
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

System Attributes in your filesystem

More fun with attributes

IT 16 Apr 2025 5 min read
Protecting files from accidental deletion
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Protecting files from accidental deletion

Additional protection against rm -rf *

IT 16 Apr 2025 2 min read
pfedit for sensitive files
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

pfedit for sensitive files

Keeping diffs out of the audit log

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Auditing pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Auditing pfedit

Recording the change

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Basics of pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Basics of pfedit

Delegate the edit

IT 13 Apr 2025 3 min read
Filesystem latencies
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Filesystem latencies

From the perspective of the filesystem

IT 12 Apr 2025 2 min read
ptime
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

ptime

What have you done β€” in the past?

IT 11 Apr 2025 2 min read
Session annotations
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Session annotations

Give me a reason

IT 10 Apr 2025 4 min read
Signed binaries
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Signed binaries

Sign the name across the binary β€”

IT 09 Apr 2025 1 min read
Disk latencies with iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Disk latencies with iostat

Look, no DTrace script β€”

IT 08 Apr 2025 2 min read
Scheduled scrubs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

Scheduled scrubs

Automatic scrubs in ZFS

IT 07 Apr 2025 2 min read
pam_fm_notify
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

pam_fm_notify

Notification about faults at login.

IT 06 Apr 2025 2 min read
Named routes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking

Named routes

Where the streets have no^H^Ha name.

IT 05 Apr 2025 1 min read
Post-mortem pfiles
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

Post-mortem pfiles

Finding open files in a core dump

IT 04 Apr 2025 1 min read
reflink
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

reflink

Faster copies through technology

IT 03 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradm
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradm

New tool to manage users in Solaris 11.4

IT 02 Apr 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check

Checking for changes of core OS users.

IT 01 Apr 2025 4 min read
ZFS read and write bandwidth limits
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

ZFS read and write bandwidth limits

Smothering noisy neighbours.

IT 31 Mar 2025 1 min read
fileops DTrace provider
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished DTrace Admin

fileops DTrace provider

DTracing file operations.

IT 30 Mar 2025 1 min read
Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4

More goals.

IT 29 Mar 2025 3 min read
Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4

Tell me about your goals.

IT 28 Mar 2025 3 min read
Sandbox without networking
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin republished

Sandbox without networking

Network is a privilege.

IT 27 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone

Send in the clones with mkdir

IT 26 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat

Filtering down the output of iostat

IT 19 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools

A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.

IT 16 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill

Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.

IT 15 Mar 2025 1 min read
Renewing certificates - a horrible hack
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Admin Security

Renewing certificates - a horrible hack

Automatic renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates without a public webserver

IT 16 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator

How to simulate bad network conditions β€” up to TCP/IP over avian carriers

IT 07 Feb 2025 5 min read
Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH

How to prevent locking for accounts used for passwordless authentication

IT 05 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat

As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...

IT 26 Jul 2024 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps

Another rather small change that was introduced to Solaris 11 in SRU 66. Up to SRU 65 the precision of the timestamps in the logfile was seconds. ``` Jul 5...

IT 25 Jul 2024 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?

Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...

IT 10 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records

Yet another small feature. I'm working on a blog entry about ZFS retention in the evenings, but it will take some time to complete it. So a blog entry about...

IT 09 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)

I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration

While the last blog entries were about cycling, I would like to start with Solaris-centric blog entries as well. My plan is to write without a planned schedule...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other people's passwords can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password...

IT 21 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

IT 16 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

IT 11 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Personal 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

IT 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category "Just because you can do it this way, you should not necessarily do it this way" albeit the biggest problem with using...

IT 09 Apr 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring

vmstat without history

Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...

IT 01 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

IT 31 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

IT 30 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

IT 27 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...

IT 26 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

IT 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

IT 24 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

IT 23 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

IT 22 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

IT 21 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Performance

Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...

IT 20 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

truss - just the interesting part ...

Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....

IT 19 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Servicename in ps

Yesterday I wrote in "prstat -x" about the addition of a feature to show the FMRI of the service which the process is part of. ps got a similar enhancement....

IT 18 Mar 2021 1 min read
1 Post

Administration

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Administration

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set

Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation

IT 11 Jan 2026 2 min read
18 Posts

Allgemein

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17

6 Monate spΓ€ter

Personal 29 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 16
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 16

Danke!

Personal 25 Dec 2025 8 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 15
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 15

Wie geht es Dir?

Personal 24 Dec 2025 17 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 14
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 14

Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung

Personal 23 Dec 2025 26 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 13
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 13

Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln

Personal 22 Dec 2025 15 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 12
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 12

Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus

Personal 21 Dec 2025 17 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 11
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 11

Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern

Personal 20 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 10
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 10

Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen

Personal 19 Dec 2025 24 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 9
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 9

Über eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis

Personal 18 Dec 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 8
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 8

Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken

Personal 17 Dec 2025 23 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 7
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 7

Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit

Personal 16 Dec 2025 23 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 6
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 6

Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege

Personal 15 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 5
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 5

Outta Koblenz

Personal 14 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 4
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 4

Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose

Personal 13 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 3
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 3

Über LÀrm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und über Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verÀndern

Personal 12 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2

Über einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstârte PlÀne

Personal 11 Dec 2025 21 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 1
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 1

Ein langes Vorwort

Personal 10 Dec 2025 24 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Allgemein TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand

KapitelΓΌbersicht

Personal 09 Dec 2025 2 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

Apache

30 years ... still learning
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Apache Jekyll SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning

Using RewriteCond with -f

IT 29 Mar 2026 4 min read
7 Posts

Apple

TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”

TouchID an mehreren Rechnern

IT 15 Jun 2025 4 Min. Lesezeit
Uuuuuuultrawide
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

Uuuuuuultrawide

Erste Erfahrungen mit 57 Zoll

IT 08 Jun 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Magie
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik personal Apple

Magie

Es war gestern endlich ein Tag, an dem der Finger nicht bei jeder ErschΓΌtterung schmerzte. Mag auch damit zusammenhΓ€ngen, dass ich diese blΓΆde Schiene durch...

Cycling 09 Jul 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned Gadgets Apple

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...

IT 13 Jan 2024 14 min read
2023
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Apple

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...

Personal 28 Dec 2023 19 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets Recommendation Apple

Docking

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

IT 22 Oct 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IT Apple

Keyboards

It's roughly 20 years ago that I switched to use notebooks for work. Before my time at Sun I was able to convince my manager that I really needed the Powerbook...

Personal 15 Oct 2023 5 min read
1 Post

Aviation

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

IT 24 Feb 2021 3 min read
1 Post

Backup

Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
11 Posts

Bahn

Thoughts: Remix
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Bahn

Thoughts: Remix

Die Tasse am Abgrund

Personal 05 Jan 2026 30 Min. Lesezeit
WΓΌrzburg
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Bahn personal

WΓΌrzburg

Als der Baum fiel - herbeigeschriebenes Pech.

Personal 19 Mar 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
Mein erstes Mal
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Politik Wahlen personal Bahn

Mein erstes Mal

Über Bleistifte, Wahlen und meinen Erfahrungen aus einem Tag Ehrenamt als Wahlhelfer.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 29 Min. Lesezeit
Frankfurt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Vortraege Bahn personal

Frankfurt

Als die Maske fiel - ein Reisebericht ΓΌber die Fahrt mit der Bahn nach Frankfurt fΓΌr einen Vortrag.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 11 Min. Lesezeit
2024
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Musik Bahn

2024

Über ein schwieriges Jahr 2024 und sich vor einem Rückblick drücken.

Personal 29 Dec 2024 38 Min. Lesezeit
Berlin
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Geschichte Bahn

Berlin

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit...

Cycling 01 Oct 2024 47 Min. Lesezeit
Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Bahn

Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag

Ich glaube, jeder Mensch hat einen oder mehrere Sehnsuchtsorte. Orte, an denen sie oder er gerne sein mag. Orte, zu denen man eine besondere Verbundenheit...

Cycling 15 Sep 2024 21 Min. Lesezeit
HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte Musik Bahn

HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig

Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...

Cycling 29 Jun 2024 17 Min. Lesezeit
Weit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik Bahn

Weit

Es war gestern einfach tolles Wetter zum Radfahren. Sonne, selbstredend Sonnenmilch, nachdem mich ein recht angenehmer Nachmittag am Hamburger Hafen leicht...

Cycling 24 Jun 2024 9 Min. Lesezeit
Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Bahn

Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen

Fenster auf, die Sonne scheint. Naja, ein kleines bisschen. Ich will raus. Liege ohnehin schon zu lange wach rum. # I can get no sleep. Wie seit vielen, vielen...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories Bahn

T minus 1 Tag - oder: Von NervositΓ€t und elektrischen Elefanten

Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...

Cycling 29 May 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

BinaryCompatibility

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
14 Posts

Blog

Thoughts: Zeitkapsel
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Blog

Thoughts: Zeitkapsel

Die eigene Stimme aus der Vergangenheit

Personal 02 Apr 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
30 years ... still learning
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Apache Jekyll SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning

Using RewriteCond with -f

IT 29 Mar 2026 4 min read
Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
Search
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Search

Fulltext search for the blog

IT 26 Mar 2026 2 min read
Archive
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Archive

Archive page added to the blog

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
New RSS feed templates
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog RSS Jekyll SpringCleaning

New RSS feed templates

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
The internet is made for p...bots
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Internet Statistics

The internet is made for p...bots

Eine Woche c0t0d0s0.org

IT 22 Mar 2026 5 Min. Lesezeit
Spring Cleaning 2026
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ SpringCleaning Blog Jekyll

Spring Cleaning 2026

Spring Cleaning

IT 14 Mar 2026 7 min read
Separate feeds with Jekyll
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Separate feeds with Jekyll

A simple way to create separate feeds in Jekyll

IT 22 Jan 2026 2 min read
Restructuring the blog
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog

Restructuring the blog

Splitting the feeds

IT 22 Jan 2026 2 min read
Spring cleaning 2025
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog SpringCleaning

Spring cleaning 2025

Spring is coming and my blog needed a cleanup

IT 15 Mar 2025 4 min read
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Cleanup

I'm just in the process of cleaning up the blog and updating some static pages. The cleanup was necessary to be able to run the scripts to publish new blog...

Personal 11 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog

A new foundation

I've decided to bring something back. 10 years ago I stopped blogging at a frequent schedule for various reasons. But still the content of that period is...

IT 14 Feb 2021 1 min read
1 Post

Buecher

Thoughts: Folie
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Buecher

Thoughts: Folie

BΓΌcher auspacken

Personal 17 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

CBE

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SRU90 CBE

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released

New Common Build Environment(CBE) based on SRU 90

IT 09 Mar 2026
40 Posts

Cycling

Berlin
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Geschichte Bahn

Berlin

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit...

Cycling 01 Oct 2024 47 Min. Lesezeit
Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Bahn

Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag

Ich glaube, jeder Mensch hat einen oder mehrere Sehnsuchtsorte. Orte, an denen sie oder er gerne sein mag. Orte, zu denen man eine besondere Verbundenheit...

Cycling 15 Sep 2024 21 Min. Lesezeit
Mehr - oder: 60000
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Smarthome

Mehr - oder: 60000

Dieser Text ist im Grundsatz schon etwas Γ€lter. Ich bin irgendwie nicht dazu gekommen, ihn ins Blog zu stellen. Er steht aber ein bisschen mit dem nΓ€chsten...

Cycling 09 Sep 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Magie
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik personal Apple

Magie

Es war gestern endlich ein Tag, an dem der Finger nicht bei jeder ErschΓΌtterung schmerzte. Mag auch damit zusammenhΓ€ngen, dass ich diese blΓΆde Schiene durch...

Cycling 09 Jul 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Nass
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Nass

Ich schrieb ja vor einigen Tagen, dass ich auf der langen Fahrt gestΓΌrzt bin. Ich war gestern Morgen noch mal beim Doc, nachdem der Finger keine Anstalten...

Cycling 04 Jul 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte Musik Bahn

HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig

Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...

Cycling 29 Jun 2024 17 Min. Lesezeit
Relikte
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte personal

Relikte

Bei mir hat sich fΓΌr Samstag eine Idee fΓΌr eine Strecke festgesetzt. Ich muss mal gucken, ob ich das wirklich machen werde. Sonntag kann (naja, ehrlicherweise...

Cycling 28 Jun 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
Nimmermehr
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Nimmermehr

Auch heute war wieder eine Überquerung der A7 der Punkt, an dem ich umgedreht bin. So irgendwie die Elbe âstlich von Lauenburg ein gefühltes Hindernis ist, so...

Cycling 27 Jun 2024 5 Min. Lesezeit
Unentdeckt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Musik

Unentdeckt

Ich beginne ja mittlerweile meine Texte gerne mit Musik, also Gedanken zu Musik. Dieser Text startet auch wieder mit einem Lied, das ich seit vielen Jahren...

Cycling 26 Jun 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
Weit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik Bahn

Weit

Es war gestern einfach tolles Wetter zum Radfahren. Sonne, selbstredend Sonnenmilch, nachdem mich ein recht angenehmer Nachmittag am Hamburger Hafen leicht...

Cycling 24 Jun 2024 9 Min. Lesezeit
Fern
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Hamburg Elbe

Fern

FΓ€hrt man auf der niedersΓ€chsischen Seite beispielsweise von Bleckede nach Hamburg-Harburg, bietet es sich an, an der Elbe langzufahren. Ich finde die Gegend...

Cycling 17 Jun 2024 3 Min. Lesezeit
Artemis
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Artemis

Seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit bin ich heute mal wieder mit dem Rad durch die LΓΌneburger Innenstadt gefahren. Sozusagen als Abschluss einer Tour, die mich an Lauenburg...

Cycling 16 Jun 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
Too much analysis alert
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Too much analysis alert

Wie groß ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen E-Bike-Fahren und Rennradfahren? Erstaunlich gering, wie ich finde. Ich habe mit deutlich mehr gerechnet. Ich...

Cycling 14 Jun 2024 5 Min. Lesezeit
Von Mohnblumen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte

Von Mohnblumen

Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten

Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Durch die GΓΆhrde
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Durch die GΓΆhrde

Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Gadgets

Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben

Mein GemΓΌt will momentan einfach raus. Das Wetter ist entgegen meiner Erwartung einfach viel zu gut, um indoor zu fahren. Auch wenn es wahrscheinlich nicht gut...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Bahn

Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen

Fenster auf, die Sonne scheint. Naja, ein kleines bisschen. Ich will raus. Liege ohnehin schon zu lange wach rum. # I can get no sleep. Wie seit vielen, vielen...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 83 Tage - oder: Neuer Termin steht

Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...

Cycling 04 Jun 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 86 Tage - oder: Verschoben

Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...

Cycling 01 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories IT

Wieder T minus 2 Tage - oder: Patchen

Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine große Dummheit begangen, von der ich...

Cycling 30 May 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories Bahn

T minus 1 Tag - oder: Von NervositΓ€t und elektrischen Elefanten

Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...

Cycling 29 May 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 2 Tage - oder: Vorbereitungen

Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...

Cycling 28 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 3 Tage - oder: Unterhosen auf der Waage

FahrrΓ€der β€” und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β€” haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heißt so viel wie: β€žDie Teile...

Cycling 27 May 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 4 Tage - oder: Schutzbleche

Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...

Cycling 26 May 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 5 Tage - oder: In ein paar Tagen ...

Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...

Cycling 25 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

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...

Cycling 20 Jan 2024 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

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](/assets/images/50000.png) I tried to exactly hit 50000 β€”...

Cycling 05 Nov 2023
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

500000

I wasn't able to exactly hit the number, but yay β€” half a million kilocalories. The screenshot shows calories, but the tool is making the same error like most...

Cycling 18 Oct 2023
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Smartbike

This summer wasn't that good in regard to cycling. It wasn't good at all. First half of the summer felt like a never-ending row of rainy days. Then a lot of...

Cycling 12 Oct 2023 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Potential energy - or how to maximize your XP points in Zwift

Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...

Cycling 30 Mar 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the saddle - Too much technology. But no cake

Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β€” just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...

Cycling 13 Mar 2022 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned

Tales from the saddle - Safer cycling with the 'idiots!'-assumption

*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...

Cycling 10 Mar 2022 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle: Relatively time efficient

I'm a much better cyclist than a runner. However I often thought that spending calories by running is much more efficient than cycling. Thus I did the math to...

Cycling 02 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the bike saddle: The distance between you and me

Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β€” I mean really...

Cycling 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle - Feeling/being superior to whom?

The film "Kingsmen" is totally over the top, somehow still fun and you learn from it. For example what the hell brogues are. That you should know how a bulldog...

Cycling 14 Mar 2021 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle - Step by step

When I worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO sent a number of people to a training called "Leading without hierarchical power" or as I called it...

Cycling 07 Mar 2021 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Free the spare pΓΆnΓΆkels of the world - now!

I'm getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evade...

Cycling 03 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Socially distanced voices of reason

Went through two milestones this weekend. Did my 4000th kilometre this year on my bike today. Was a week with three 100 km rides, this accelerated things a...

Cycling 28 Feb 2021 2 min read
2 Posts

DTrace

fileops DTrace provider
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished DTrace Admin

fileops DTrace provider

DTracing file operations.

IT 30 Mar 2025 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

IT 24 Mar 2021 2 min read
1 Post

Datenschutz

Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Datenschutz Politik

Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri

Einfach mal das Buch lesen. Oder den Film gucken.

Personal 23 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Docker

My content deployment process with Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

My content deployment process with Gitea

How I automated my multi-stage publication workflow with Gitea and Jekyll.

IT 21 Mar 2025 6 min read
Jekyll and Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

Jekyll and Gitea

How I automated the publication workflow of my Jekyll-based blog with Gitea.

IT 09 Mar 2025 11 min read
1 Post

Elbe

Fern
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Hamburg Elbe

Fern

FΓ€hrt man auf der niedersΓ€chsischen Seite beispielsweise von Bleckede nach Hamburg-Harburg, bietet es sich an, an der Elbe langzufahren. Ich finde die Gegend...

Cycling 17 Jun 2024 3 Min. Lesezeit
180 Posts

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ English

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
30 years ... still learning
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Apache Jekyll SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning

Using RewriteCond with -f

IT 29 Mar 2026 4 min read
Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh

Closer to GNU

IT 27 Mar 2026 3 min read
Search
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Search

Fulltext search for the blog

IT 26 Mar 2026 2 min read
Archive
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Archive

Archive page added to the blog

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
New RSS feed templates
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog RSS Jekyll SpringCleaning

New RSS feed templates

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free

Resilvering while freeing space

IT 17 Mar 2026 2 min read
Spring Cleaning 2026
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ SpringCleaning Blog Jekyll

Spring Cleaning 2026

Spring Cleaning

IT 14 Mar 2026 7 min read
New Solaris 11.4 CBE released
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SRU90 CBE

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released

New Common Build Environment(CBE) based on SRU 90

IT 09 Mar 2026
Brazilian waxing for yaks
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT AI

Brazilian waxing for yaks

My insights to an attempt at vibe coding

IT 06 Mar 2026 14 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all

Protecting you from sending signals to all processes

IT 26 Feb 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
fsstat -l
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

fsstat -l

Measuring filesystem latencies

IT 23 Feb 2026 1 min read
Reboots
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Reboots

Different kinds of reboots

IT 20 Feb 2026 1 min read
tar -x over nfs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

tar -x over nfs

tar -x pathology revisited

IT 01 Feb 2026 26 min read
Separate feeds with Jekyll
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Separate feeds with Jekyll

A simple way to create separate feeds in Jekyll

IT 22 Jan 2026 2 min read
Restructuring the blog
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog

Restructuring the blog

Splitting the feeds

IT 22 Jan 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Administration

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set

Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation

IT 11 Jan 2026 2 min read
Only one time
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Only one time

Configuring one time passwords for SSH with Solaris 11.4

IT 08 Jun 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched

New PIDs for init and zsched in the NGZ

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information

Thank you! THANK YOU! Really thank you!

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
pstop and prun
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

pstop and prun

Stopping and starting a process or thread

IT 02 May 2025 2 min read
svccfg editprop
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished SMF Admin

svccfg editprop

Remembering svc properties β€” made easy

IT 02 May 2025 3 min read
Getting the command line and environment of running processes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin SMF

Getting the command line and environment of running processes

Rescuing the environment.

IT 28 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradd defaults
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradd defaults

Changing useradd defaults

IT 27 Apr 2025 1 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Time-based limits to SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Time-based limits to SSH

Lockout after midnight

IT 23 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset

Limit your appetite for destruction

IT 21 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention

Configuring file retention in ZFS

IT 20 Apr 2025 19 min read
File auditing
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

File auditing

Activate auditing for select files

IT 19 Apr 2025 2 min read
Hashed
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Hashed

Directly setting a hashed password

IT 18 Apr 2025
System Attributes in your filesystem
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

System Attributes in your filesystem

More fun with attributes

IT 16 Apr 2025 5 min read
Protecting files from accidental deletion
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Protecting files from accidental deletion

Additional protection against rm -rf *

IT 16 Apr 2025 2 min read
pfedit for sensitive files
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

pfedit for sensitive files

Keeping diffs out of the audit log

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Auditing pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Auditing pfedit

Recording the change

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Basics of pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Basics of pfedit

Delegate the edit

IT 13 Apr 2025 3 min read
Filesystem latencies
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Filesystem latencies

From the perspective of the filesystem

IT 12 Apr 2025 2 min read
ptime
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

ptime

What have you done β€” in the past?

IT 11 Apr 2025 2 min read
Session annotations
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Session annotations

Give me a reason

IT 10 Apr 2025 4 min read
Signed binaries
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Signed binaries

Sign the name across the binary β€”

IT 09 Apr 2025 1 min read
Disk latencies with iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Disk latencies with iostat

Look, no DTrace script β€”

IT 08 Apr 2025 2 min read
Scheduled scrubs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

Scheduled scrubs

Automatic scrubs in ZFS

IT 07 Apr 2025 2 min read
pam_fm_notify
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

pam_fm_notify

Notification about faults at login.

IT 06 Apr 2025 2 min read
Named routes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking

Named routes

Where the streets have no^H^Ha name.

IT 05 Apr 2025 1 min read
Post-mortem pfiles
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

Post-mortem pfiles

Finding open files in a core dump

IT 04 Apr 2025 1 min read
reflink
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

reflink

Faster copies through technology

IT 03 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradm
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradm

New tool to manage users in Solaris 11.4

IT 02 Apr 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check

Checking for changes of core OS users.

IT 01 Apr 2025 4 min read
ZFS read and write bandwidth limits
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

ZFS read and write bandwidth limits

Smothering noisy neighbours.

IT 31 Mar 2025 1 min read
fileops DTrace provider
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished DTrace Admin

fileops DTrace provider

DTracing file operations.

IT 30 Mar 2025 1 min read
Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4

More goals.

IT 29 Mar 2025 3 min read
Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4

Tell me about your goals.

IT 28 Mar 2025 3 min read
Sandbox without networking
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin republished

Sandbox without networking

Network is a privilege.

IT 27 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone

Send in the clones with mkdir

IT 26 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
My content deployment process with Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

My content deployment process with Gitea

How I automated my multi-stage publication workflow with Gitea and Jekyll.

IT 21 Mar 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat

Filtering down the output of iostat

IT 19 Mar 2025 2 min read
Double negative
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

Double negative

Who keeps my disk up? Who? Who? Who?

IT 17 Mar 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools

A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.

IT 16 Mar 2025 2 min read
Spring cleaning 2025
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog SpringCleaning

Spring cleaning 2025

Spring is coming and my blog needed a cleanup

IT 15 Mar 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill

Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.

IT 15 Mar 2025 1 min read
Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Jekyll and Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

Jekyll and Gitea

How I automated the publication workflow of my Jekyll-based blog with Gitea.

IT 09 Mar 2025 11 min read
New fileserver
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

New fileserver

A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.

IT 06 Mar 2025 12 min read
Renewing certificates - a horrible hack
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Admin Security

Renewing certificates - a horrible hack

Automatic renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates without a public webserver

IT 16 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator

How to simulate bad network conditions β€” up to TCP/IP over avian carriers

IT 07 Feb 2025 5 min read
Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH

How to prevent locking for accounts used for passwordless authentication

IT 05 Feb 2025 4 min read
A WLAN tunnelled
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

A WLAN tunnelled

From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...

IT 04 Jan 2025 5 min read
Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG

I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...

IT 02 Jan 2025 5 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat

As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...

IT 26 Jul 2024 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps

Another rather small change that was introduced to Solaris 11 in SRU 66. Up to SRU 65 the precision of the timestamps in the logfile was seconds. ``` Jul 5...

IT 25 Jul 2024 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?

Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...

IT 10 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records

Yet another small feature. I'm working on a blog entry about ZFS retention in the evenings, but it will take some time to complete it. So a blog entry about...

IT 09 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)

I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration

While the last blog entries were about cycling, I would like to start with Solaris-centric blog entries as well. My plan is to write without a planned schedule...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

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...

IT 25 Jan 2024
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

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...

Cycling 20 Jan 2024 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned Gadgets Apple

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...

IT 13 Jan 2024 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

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"...

IT 31 Dec 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

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](/assets/images/50000.png) I tried to exactly hit 50000 β€”...

Cycling 05 Nov 2023
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

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...

Personal 02 Nov 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Travel

Koblenz β€” again???

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

Personal 30 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking Homelab IT

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...

IT 29 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

Cable management

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

IT 27 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Recommendation TV

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...

Personal 27 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Travel

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...

Personal 25 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 50 m away...

IT 23 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 in an abysmal...

IT 23 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets Recommendation Apple

Docking

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

IT 22 Oct 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

Nothing changed …

As if 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...

Personal 21 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Recommendation Gadgets

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...

Personal 20 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Musik personal

Age

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

Personal 19 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

IT 19 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

IT 19 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

500000

I wasn't able to exactly hit the number, but yay β€” half a million kilocalories. The screenshot shows calories, but the tool is making the same error like most...

Cycling 18 Oct 2023
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IT Apple

Keyboards

It's roughly 20 years ago that I switched to use notebooks for work. Before my time at Sun I was able to convince my manager that I really needed the Powerbook...

Personal 15 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IKEA Smarthome Zigbee

Γ…skvΓ€der

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp[^1] anyway and thus this looked like a good idea. At...

IT 13 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Smartbike

This summer wasn't that good in regard to cycling. It wasn't good at all. First half of the summer felt like a never-ending row of rainy days. Then a lot of...

Cycling 12 Oct 2023 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT

Xodus

A while ago I left X as a user (the website formerly known as Twitter). I assume out of the same set of reasons why most people I know left Twitter. I really...

IT 12 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Cleanup

I'm just in the process of cleaning up the blog and updating some static pages. The cleanup was necessary to be able to run the scripts to publish new blog...

Personal 11 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

IT 09 May 2022 9 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

IT 03 Apr 2022 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Potential energy - or how to maximize your XP points in Zwift

Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...

Cycling 30 Mar 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Networking LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...

IT 19 Mar 2022 20 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the saddle - Too much technology. But no cake

Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β€” just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...

Cycling 13 Mar 2022 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned

Tales from the saddle - Safer cycling with the 'idiots!'-assumption

*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...

Cycling 10 Mar 2022 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris personal

Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...

IT 11 Oct 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other people's passwords can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password...

IT 21 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

IT 16 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

IT 11 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Personal 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

IT 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category "Just because you can do it this way, you should not necessarily do it this way" albeit the biggest problem with using...

IT 09 Apr 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle: Relatively time efficient

I'm a much better cyclist than a runner. However I often thought that spending calories by running is much more efficient than cycling. Thus I did the math to...

Cycling 02 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Tiered storage with ZFS

This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...

IT 02 Apr 2021 12 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring

vmstat without history

Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...

IT 01 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

IT 31 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

IT 30 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

IT 28 Mar 2021 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

IT 27 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...

IT 26 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the bike saddle: The distance between you and me

Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β€” I mean really...

Cycling 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

IT 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

IT 24 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

IT 23 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

IT 22 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

IT 21 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Performance

Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...

IT 20 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

truss - just the interesting part ...

Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....

IT 19 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Servicename in ps

Yesterday I wrote in "prstat -x" about the addition of a feature to show the FMRI of the service which the process is part of. ps got a similar enhancement....

IT 18 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Monitoring

prstat -x

When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself "Who the heck started this process?" Often it's a process started by SMF as part of a...

IT 17 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 31

SRU 31 of Oracle Solaris 11.4 has been published today. You will find more information about the changes here .

IT 16 Mar 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

fsstat

The command fsstat (somehow a command relatively unknown when talking with customers) got a slight enhancement in a Solaris 11.4 SRU . Before this enhancement...

IT 16 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Clean up after yourself

This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...

IT 15 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle - Feeling/being superior to whom?

The film "Kingsmen" is totally over the top, somehow still fun and you learn from it. For example what the hell brogues are. That you should know how a bulldog...

Cycling 14 Mar 2021 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the ability to set * user * group * privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn't need manual editing to adhere...

IT 14 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...

IT 13 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...

IT 12 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

gcore with less impact

This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...

IT 11 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

ps

Today I won't write a blog entry explaining a feature. I would just like to guide your attention to an article at "Teaching an old ps command new tricks"...

IT 10 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Jitter and delay for svcbundle generated SMF manifests

Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...

IT 09 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

svcbundle extended

svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...

IT 08 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Tales from the bike saddle - Step by step

When I worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO sent a number of people to a training called "Leading without hierarchical power" or as I called it...

Cycling 07 Mar 2021 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Which SRU to get those new features?

Short answer: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features I'm writing about in the last few days didn't...

IT 07 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

New -s option for zpool status

With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...

IT 07 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

ZFS allocation units

This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...

IT 06 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

You have been warned: Upgrading rpool

In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...

IT 05 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Solaris scales

This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...

IT 04 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Free the spare pΓΆnΓΆkels of the world - now!

I'm getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evade...

Cycling 03 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

Limits revisited

There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...

IT 03 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Small changes: New open files default.

In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in its default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU ) the limit of open files for a user was 256. ```...

IT 02 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling

Socially distanced voices of reason

Went through two milestones this weekend. Did my 4000th kilometre this year on my bike today. Was a week with three 100 km rides, this accelerated things a...

Cycling 28 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...

IT 28 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation MQTT Tasmota

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...

IT 27 Feb 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDOMS Performance

vHBA and AIO

In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...

IT 26 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security

Piped sandboxes

I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...

IT 24 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

IT 24 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

IT 23 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

IT 22 Feb 2021 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems that the first n databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start database n+1...

IT 20 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Virtualbox via IPS .p5p

Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about a package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable....

IT 19 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation

Using the Technische Alternative CMI with Telegraf

My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...

IT 19 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

IPMP and additional IP addresses

Recently I had a customer with a problem: The customer configured an IPMP group with a number of additional IPs. They had a number of application servers...

IT 18 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Common Criteria certification for Oracle Solaris 11.4

Darren Moffat just wrote in the Solaris blog on blog.oracle.com about important news for Oracle Solaris 11.4: Solaris just got its Common Criteria...

IT 17 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring

Integrating Youless energy monitoring devices into Telegraf

I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...

IT 16 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog

A new foundation

I've decided to bring something back. 10 years ago I stopped blogging at a frequent schedule for various reasons. But still the content of that period is...

IT 14 Feb 2021 1 min read
1 Post

Film

Thoughts: Herr Norris
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Thoughts: Herr Norris

Vom vΓΆlligen Fehlen von Ironie

Personal 21 Mar 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

Fliegen

Thoughts: Fernweh
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Thoughts: Fernweh

Den Kondensstreifen nach

Personal 08 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
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GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh

Closer to GNU

IT 27 Mar 2026 3 min read
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Gadgets

TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”
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TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”

TouchID an mehreren Rechnern

IT 15 Jun 2025 4 Min. Lesezeit
Uuuuuuultrawide
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Uuuuuuultrawide

Erste Erfahrungen mit 57 Zoll

IT 08 Jun 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben
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Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben

Mein GemΓΌt will momentan einfach raus. Das Wetter ist entgegen meiner Erwartung einfach viel zu gut, um indoor zu fahren. Auch wenn es wahrscheinlich nicht gut...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

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...

Cycling 20 Jan 2024 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned Gadgets Apple

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...

IT 13 Jan 2024 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

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"...

IT 31 Dec 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

Cable management

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

IT 27 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets Recommendation Apple

Docking

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

IT 22 Oct 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Recommendation Gadgets

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...

Personal 20 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IT Apple

Keyboards

It's roughly 20 years ago that I switched to use notebooks for work. Before my time at Sun I was able to convince my manager that I really needed the Powerbook...

Personal 15 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IKEA Smarthome Zigbee

Γ…skvΓ€der

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp[^1] anyway and thus this looked like a good idea. At...

IT 13 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Smartbike

This summer wasn't that good in regard to cycling. It wasn't good at all. First half of the summer felt like a never-ending row of rainy days. Then a lot of...

Cycling 12 Oct 2023 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Potential energy - or how to maximize your XP points in Zwift

Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...

Cycling 30 Mar 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the saddle - Too much technology. But no cake

Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β€” just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...

Cycling 13 Mar 2022 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling Gadgets

Tales from the bike saddle: The distance between you and me

Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β€” I mean really...

Cycling 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
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General

General History

Ein erster Test

So ... das ist dann nun die erste Nachricht in meinem Weblog ... sollen die Dinge kommen, die da sollen ... ![2014](/images/2004.png)

IT 15 Jul 2004
91 Posts

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ German

Thoughts: Ostereinkauf
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts

Thoughts: Ostereinkauf

GrΓΌndonnerstagsfehler

Personal 02 Apr 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Zeitkapsel
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Thoughts: Zeitkapsel

Die eigene Stimme aus der Vergangenheit

Personal 02 Apr 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17

6 Monate spΓ€ter

Personal 29 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: GrΓΌn
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Thoughts: GrΓΌn

Kugelschreiber und Wasserflaschen

Personal 26 Mar 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri
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Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri

Einfach mal das Buch lesen. Oder den Film gucken.

Personal 23 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
The internet is made for p...bots
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The internet is made for p...bots

Eine Woche c0t0d0s0.org

IT 22 Mar 2026 5 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Herr Norris
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Thoughts: Herr Norris

Vom vΓΆlligen Fehlen von Ironie

Personal 21 Mar 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Fundsache
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Thoughts: Fundsache

Perlen neben der Dauerwerbesendung

Personal 20 Mar 2026
Thoughts: Mixtape
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Thoughts: Mixtape

Das Ungesagte auf 74 Minuten

Personal 19 Mar 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
BetΓΆrend
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BetΓΆrend

Ich muss mich zusammenreißen

Personal 18 Mar 2026
Thoughts: Folie
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Thoughts: Folie

BΓΌcher auspacken

Personal 17 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Sie haben Post. Von der Elphi.
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Thoughts: Sie haben Post. Von der Elphi.

Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus

Personal 16 Mar 2026
Neues aus dem KΓ€fig
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Neues aus dem KΓ€fig

Brennet heller!

Personal 15 Mar 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Wut, Zorn und Satzzeichen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Job

Thoughts: Wut, Zorn und Satzzeichen

Die Suche nach dem Fehler

Personal 14 Mar 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Fernweh
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Thoughts: Fernweh

Den Kondensstreifen nach

Personal 08 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Lorem 2 - The Revenge of the Dolor
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Lorem 2 - The Revenge of the Dolor

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Personal 04 Mar 2026
Thoughts: Mitte
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts

Thoughts: Mitte

Sie fehlt.

Personal 28 Feb 2026 5 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Cineastisches Tinder
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Thoughts: Cineastisches Tinder

Die Verkleinerung der (Film)welt

Personal 26 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Isses aber nicht
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Thoughts: Isses aber nicht

Einfach sein

Personal 25 Feb 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: ATD1997
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Thoughts: ATD1997

CONNECT

Personal 24 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Altersgrenzen
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Thoughts: Altersgrenzen

Es ist kein neues Problem

Personal 23 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Parkraumbewirtschaftung
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Thoughts: Parkraumbewirtschaftung

Wut auf 2,5 mal 5

Personal 21 Feb 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Parkplatz
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Thoughts: Parkplatz

Die Welt am Samstag Vormittag

Personal 20 Feb 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
ReingedrΓ€ngelt
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ReingedrΓ€ngelt

Warum ich nen Vogel hatte ... und jetzt vier

Personal 17 Feb 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Tina
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Thoughts: Tina

Gemessen mit zweierlei Maß

Personal 15 Feb 2026 9 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Montauk
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Thoughts: Montauk

Über Erinnerungen

Personal 12 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Bias
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Thoughts: Bias

Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.

Personal 03 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
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Thoughts: Mobile

Warten

Personal 22 Jan 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
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Thoughts: Gedruckt

Was verloren geht...

Personal 11 Jan 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
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Thoughts: Immersion

Vom Gestalten zum Beobachten

Personal 10 Jan 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Paradox
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Thoughts: Paradox

Das Pazifismusparadox und die diesem innewohnende Tragik

Personal 09 Jan 2026 11 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Remix
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Thoughts: Remix

Die Tasse am Abgrund

Personal 05 Jan 2026 30 Min. Lesezeit
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Thoughts: Nachrichtenflut

Überleben in der Nachrichtenflut

Personal 04 Jan 2026 13 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Musik
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Thoughts: Musik

Die EntkΓΆrperlichung der Musik

Personal 03 Jan 2026 8 Min. Lesezeit
2025
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2025

Upper Cut vom Universum

Personal 28 Dec 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 16

Danke!

Personal 25 Dec 2025 8 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 15
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 15

Wie geht es Dir?

Personal 24 Dec 2025 17 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 14
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 14

Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung

Personal 23 Dec 2025 26 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 13
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 13

Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln

Personal 22 Dec 2025 15 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 12
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 12

Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus

Personal 21 Dec 2025 17 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 11
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 11

Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern

Personal 20 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 10

Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen

Personal 19 Dec 2025 24 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 9

Über eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis

Personal 18 Dec 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 8
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 8

Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken

Personal 17 Dec 2025 23 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 7
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 7

Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit

Personal 16 Dec 2025 23 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 6
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 6

Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege

Personal 15 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 5
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 5

Outta Koblenz

Personal 14 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 4
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 4

Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose

Personal 13 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 3
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 3

Über LÀrm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und über Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verÀndern

Personal 12 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2

Über einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstârte PlÀne

Personal 11 Dec 2025 21 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 1
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 1

Ein langes Vorwort

Personal 10 Dec 2025 24 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand

KapitelΓΌbersicht

Personal 09 Dec 2025 2 Min. Lesezeit
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Schwellenwertfeld

Gedanken zum Monitoring der NormalitΓ€t

IT 20 Jul 2025 25 Min. Lesezeit
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TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”

TouchID an mehreren Rechnern

IT 15 Jun 2025 4 Min. Lesezeit
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Uuuuuuultrawide

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IT 08 Jun 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
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Optimierende Prokrastination

Prokrastination mal anders β€”

IT 25 Apr 2025 5 Min. Lesezeit
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Deus ex prompt

Gedanken zu AI

Personal 23 Mar 2025 31 Min. Lesezeit
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WΓΌrzburg

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Personal 19 Mar 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
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Mein erstes Mal

Über Bleistifte, Wahlen und meinen Erfahrungen aus einem Tag Ehrenamt als Wahlhelfer.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 29 Min. Lesezeit
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Frankfurt

Als die Maske fiel - ein Reisebericht ΓΌber die Fahrt mit der Bahn nach Frankfurt fΓΌr einen Vortrag.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 11 Min. Lesezeit
2024
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2024

Über ein schwieriges Jahr 2024 und sich vor einem Rückblick drücken.

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Berlin

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit...

Cycling 01 Oct 2024 47 Min. Lesezeit
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Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag

Ich glaube, jeder Mensch hat einen oder mehrere Sehnsuchtsorte. Orte, an denen sie oder er gerne sein mag. Orte, zu denen man eine besondere Verbundenheit...

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Mehr - oder: 60000

Dieser Text ist im Grundsatz schon etwas Γ€lter. Ich bin irgendwie nicht dazu gekommen, ihn ins Blog zu stellen. Er steht aber ein bisschen mit dem nΓ€chsten...

Cycling 09 Sep 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
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Es war gestern endlich ein Tag, an dem der Finger nicht bei jeder ErschΓΌtterung schmerzte. Mag auch damit zusammenhΓ€ngen, dass ich diese blΓΆde Schiene durch...

Cycling 09 Jul 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
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Nass

Ich schrieb ja vor einigen Tagen, dass ich auf der langen Fahrt gestΓΌrzt bin. Ich war gestern Morgen noch mal beim Doc, nachdem der Finger keine Anstalten...

Cycling 04 Jul 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
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HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig

Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...

Cycling 29 Jun 2024 17 Min. Lesezeit
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πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte personal

Relikte

Bei mir hat sich fΓΌr Samstag eine Idee fΓΌr eine Strecke festgesetzt. Ich muss mal gucken, ob ich das wirklich machen werde. Sonntag kann (naja, ehrlicherweise...

Cycling 28 Jun 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
Nimmermehr
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Nimmermehr

Auch heute war wieder eine Überquerung der A7 der Punkt, an dem ich umgedreht bin. So irgendwie die Elbe âstlich von Lauenburg ein gefühltes Hindernis ist, so...

Cycling 27 Jun 2024 5 Min. Lesezeit
Unentdeckt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Musik

Unentdeckt

Ich beginne ja mittlerweile meine Texte gerne mit Musik, also Gedanken zu Musik. Dieser Text startet auch wieder mit einem Lied, das ich seit vielen Jahren...

Cycling 26 Jun 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
Weit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik Bahn

Weit

Es war gestern einfach tolles Wetter zum Radfahren. Sonne, selbstredend Sonnenmilch, nachdem mich ein recht angenehmer Nachmittag am Hamburger Hafen leicht...

Cycling 24 Jun 2024 9 Min. Lesezeit
Fern
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Hamburg Elbe

Fern

FΓ€hrt man auf der niedersΓ€chsischen Seite beispielsweise von Bleckede nach Hamburg-Harburg, bietet es sich an, an der Elbe langzufahren. Ich finde die Gegend...

Cycling 17 Jun 2024 3 Min. Lesezeit
Artemis
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Artemis

Seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit bin ich heute mal wieder mit dem Rad durch die LΓΌneburger Innenstadt gefahren. Sozusagen als Abschluss einer Tour, die mich an Lauenburg...

Cycling 16 Jun 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
Too much analysis alert
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling

Too much analysis alert

Wie groß ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen E-Bike-Fahren und Rennradfahren? Erstaunlich gering, wie ich finde. Ich habe mit deutlich mehr gerechnet. Ich...

Cycling 14 Jun 2024 5 Min. Lesezeit
Von Mohnblumen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte

Von Mohnblumen

Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten

Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Durch die GΓΆhrde
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Durch die GΓΆhrde

Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Gadgets

Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben

Mein GemΓΌt will momentan einfach raus. Das Wetter ist entgegen meiner Erwartung einfach viel zu gut, um indoor zu fahren. Auch wenn es wahrscheinlich nicht gut...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Bahn

Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen

Fenster auf, die Sonne scheint. Naja, ein kleines bisschen. Ich will raus. Liege ohnehin schon zu lange wach rum. # I can get no sleep. Wie seit vielen, vielen...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 83 Tage - oder: Neuer Termin steht

Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...

Cycling 04 Jun 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 86 Tage - oder: Verschoben

Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...

Cycling 01 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories IT

Wieder T minus 2 Tage - oder: Patchen

Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine große Dummheit begangen, von der ich...

Cycling 30 May 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories Bahn

T minus 1 Tag - oder: Von NervositΓ€t und elektrischen Elefanten

Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...

Cycling 29 May 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 2 Tage - oder: Vorbereitungen

Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...

Cycling 28 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 3 Tage - oder: Unterhosen auf der Waage

FahrrΓ€der β€” und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β€” haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heißt so viel wie: β€žDie Teile...

Cycling 27 May 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 4 Tage - oder: Schutzbleche

Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...

Cycling 26 May 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 5 Tage - oder: In ein paar Tagen ...

Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...

Cycling 25 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
2023
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Apple

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...

Personal 28 Dec 2023 19 Min. Lesezeit
2022
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2022

Hier sitze ich wieder auf meinem Sofa und sinniere ΓΌber das letzte Jahr. Das Fernsehprogramm ist noch schlechter als sonst. Hinzu kommt, dass am heutigen Tag...

Personal 31 Dec 2022 9 Min. Lesezeit
2021
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2021

Ich sitze hier gerade an meinem Schreibtisch und wundere mich, dass selbst in einem Jahr, in dem es eigentlich empfohlen ist, zuhause zu bleiben, es lediglich...

Personal 31 Dec 2021 5 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Geschaeftsreise

WΓΌrzburg
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Bahn personal

WΓΌrzburg

Als der Baum fiel - herbeigeschriebenes Pech.

Personal 19 Mar 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
Frankfurt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Vortraege Bahn personal

Frankfurt

Als die Maske fiel - ein Reisebericht ΓΌber die Fahrt mit der Bahn nach Frankfurt fΓΌr einen Vortrag.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 11 Min. Lesezeit
4 Posts

Geschichte

Berlin
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Geschichte Bahn

Berlin

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit...

Cycling 01 Oct 2024 47 Min. Lesezeit
HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte Musik Bahn

HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig

Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...

Cycling 29 Jun 2024 17 Min. Lesezeit
Relikte
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte personal

Relikte

Bei mir hat sich fΓΌr Samstag eine Idee fΓΌr eine Strecke festgesetzt. Ich muss mal gucken, ob ich das wirklich machen werde. Sonntag kann (naja, ehrlicherweise...

Cycling 28 Jun 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
Von Mohnblumen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte

Von Mohnblumen

Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Hamburg

Thoughts: Sie haben Post. Von der Elphi.
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Hamburg

Thoughts: Sie haben Post. Von der Elphi.

Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus

Personal 16 Mar 2026
Fern
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Hamburg Elbe

Fern

FΓ€hrt man auf der niedersΓ€chsischen Seite beispielsweise von Bleckede nach Hamburg-Harburg, bietet es sich an, an der Elbe langzufahren. Ich finde die Gegend...

Cycling 17 Jun 2024 3 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Health

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

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...

Personal 02 Nov 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

Nothing changed …

As if 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...

Personal 21 Oct 2023 1 min read
1 Post

History

General History

Ein erster Test

So ... das ist dann nun die erste Nachricht in meinem Weblog ... sollen die Dinge kommen, die da sollen ... ![2014](/images/2004.png)

IT 15 Jul 2004
4 Posts

HomeAutomation

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation MQTT Tasmota

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...

IT 27 Feb 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation

Using the Technische Alternative CMI with Telegraf

My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...

IT 19 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring

Integrating Youless energy monitoring devices into Telegraf

I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...

IT 16 Feb 2021 2 min read
1 Post

Homeautomation

Wireless Zigbee Smarthome Homeautomation

Channel 26

The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...

IT 16 Feb 2021 3 min read
11 Posts

Homelab

My content deployment process with Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

My content deployment process with Gitea

How I automated my multi-stage publication workflow with Gitea and Jekyll.

IT 21 Mar 2025 6 min read
Double negative
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

Double negative

Who keeps my disk up? Who? Who? Who?

IT 17 Mar 2025 4 min read
Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Jekyll and Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

Jekyll and Gitea

How I automated the publication workflow of my Jekyll-based blog with Gitea.

IT 09 Mar 2025 11 min read
New fileserver
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

New fileserver

A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.

IT 06 Mar 2025 12 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking Homelab IT

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...

IT 29 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 50 m away...

IT 23 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 in an abysmal...

IT 23 Oct 2023 2 min read
1 Post

IKEA

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IKEA Smarthome Zigbee

Γ…skvΓ€der

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp[^1] anyway and thus this looked like a good idea. At...

IT 13 Oct 2023 3 min read
24 Posts

IT

Brazilian waxing for yaks
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT AI

Brazilian waxing for yaks

My insights to an attempt at vibe coding

IT 06 Mar 2026 14 min read
Schwellenwertfeld
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Admin Monitoring

Schwellenwertfeld

Gedanken zum Monitoring der NormalitΓ€t

IT 20 Jul 2025 25 Min. Lesezeit
TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”

TouchID an mehreren Rechnern

IT 15 Jun 2025 4 Min. Lesezeit
Uuuuuuultrawide
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

Uuuuuuultrawide

Erste Erfahrungen mit 57 Zoll

IT 08 Jun 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Optimierende Prokrastination
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal

Optimierende Prokrastination

Prokrastination mal anders β€”

IT 25 Apr 2025 5 Min. Lesezeit
Deus ex prompt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Kultur AI Thoughts

Deus ex prompt

Gedanken zu AI

Personal 23 Mar 2025 31 Min. Lesezeit
A WLAN tunnelled
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

A WLAN tunnelled

From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...

IT 04 Jan 2025 5 min read
Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG

I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...

IT 02 Jan 2025 5 min read
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories IT

Wieder T minus 2 Tage - oder: Patchen

Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine große Dummheit begangen, von der ich...

Cycling 30 May 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned Gadgets Apple

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...

IT 13 Jan 2024 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

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"...

IT 31 Dec 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking Homelab IT

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...

IT 29 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets

Cable management

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

IT 27 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 50 m away...

IT 23 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 in an abysmal...

IT 23 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets Recommendation Apple

Docking

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

IT 22 Oct 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

IT 19 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

IT 19 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IT Apple

Keyboards

It's roughly 20 years ago that I switched to use notebooks for work. Before my time at Sun I was able to convince my manager that I really needed the Powerbook...

Personal 15 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT

Xodus

A while ago I left X as a user (the website formerly known as Twitter). I assume out of the same set of reasons why most people I know left Twitter. I really...

IT 12 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

IT 09 May 2022 9 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
2 Posts

Internet

The internet is made for p...bots
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Internet Statistics

The internet is made for p...bots

Eine Woche c0t0d0s0.org

IT 22 Mar 2026 5 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Fundsache
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Musik Internet

Thoughts: Fundsache

Perlen neben der Dauerwerbesendung

Personal 20 Mar 2026
5 Posts

Jahresrueckblick

2025
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2025

Upper Cut vom Universum

Personal 28 Dec 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
2024
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Musik Bahn

2024

Über ein schwieriges Jahr 2024 und sich vor einem Rückblick drücken.

Personal 29 Dec 2024 38 Min. Lesezeit
2023
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Apple

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...

Personal 28 Dec 2023 19 Min. Lesezeit
2022
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2022

Hier sitze ich wieder auf meinem Sofa und sinniere ΓΌber das letzte Jahr. Das Fernsehprogramm ist noch schlechter als sonst. Hinzu kommt, dass am heutigen Tag...

Personal 31 Dec 2022 9 Min. Lesezeit
2021
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2021

Ich sitze hier gerade an meinem Schreibtisch und wundere mich, dass selbst in einem Jahr, in dem es eigentlich empfohlen ist, zuhause zu bleiben, es lediglich...

Personal 31 Dec 2021 5 Min. Lesezeit
11 Posts

Jekyll

30 years ... still learning
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Apache Jekyll SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning

Using RewriteCond with -f

IT 29 Mar 2026 4 min read
Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
Search
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Search

Fulltext search for the blog

IT 26 Mar 2026 2 min read
Archive
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll SpringCleaning

Archive

Archive page added to the blog

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
New RSS feed templates
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog RSS Jekyll SpringCleaning

New RSS feed templates

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
Spring Cleaning 2026
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ SpringCleaning Blog Jekyll

Spring Cleaning 2026

Spring Cleaning

IT 14 Mar 2026 7 min read
Separate feeds with Jekyll
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Separate feeds with Jekyll

A simple way to create separate feeds in Jekyll

IT 22 Jan 2026 2 min read
My content deployment process with Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

My content deployment process with Gitea

How I automated my multi-stage publication workflow with Gitea and Jekyll.

IT 21 Mar 2025 6 min read
Jekyll and Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

Jekyll and Gitea

How I automated the publication workflow of my Jekyll-based blog with Gitea.

IT 09 Mar 2025 11 min read
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Jekyll

Cleanup

I'm just in the process of cleaning up the blog and updating some static pages. The cleanup was necessary to be able to run the scripts to publish new blog...

Personal 11 Oct 2023 1 min read
1 Post

Job

Thoughts: Wut, Zorn und Satzzeichen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Job

Thoughts: Wut, Zorn und Satzzeichen

Die Suche nach dem Fehler

Personal 14 Mar 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Jugend

Thoughts: Mixtape
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Musik Jugend

Thoughts: Mixtape

Das Ungesagte auf 74 Minuten

Personal 19 Mar 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Fernweh
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Reisen Fliegen Jugend

Thoughts: Fernweh

Den Kondensstreifen nach

Personal 08 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

KI

Thoughts: Bias
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts KI

Thoughts: Bias

Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.

Personal 03 Feb 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
3 Posts

Kaefiggeschichten

BetΓΆrend
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Kaefiggeschichten

BetΓΆrend

Ich muss mich zusammenreißen

Personal 18 Mar 2026
Neues aus dem KΓ€fig
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Kaefiggeschichten

Neues aus dem KΓ€fig

Brennet heller!

Personal 15 Mar 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
ReingedrΓ€ngelt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Neues Kaefiggeschichten

ReingedrΓ€ngelt

Warum ich nen Vogel hatte ... und jetzt vier

Personal 17 Feb 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Kultur

Thoughts: Herr Norris
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Kultur USA Film

Thoughts: Herr Norris

Vom vΓΆlligen Fehlen von Ironie

Personal 21 Mar 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
Deus ex prompt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Kultur AI Thoughts

Deus ex prompt

Gedanken zu AI

Personal 23 Mar 2025 31 Min. Lesezeit
3 Posts

LDAP

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

IT 22 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

IT 23 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

IT 22 Feb 2021 8 min read
1 Post

LDOMS

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDOMS Performance

vHBA and AIO

In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...

IT 26 Feb 2021 2 min read
10 Posts

LessonsLearned

Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned Gadgets Apple

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...

IT 13 Jan 2024 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

IT 19 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

IT 19 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

IT 09 May 2022 9 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

IT 03 Apr 2022 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Networking LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...

IT 19 Mar 2022 20 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned

Tales from the saddle - Safer cycling with the 'idiots!'-assumption

*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...

Cycling 10 Mar 2022 5 min read
2 Posts

Life

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

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...

Personal 02 Nov 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Life Health

Nothing changed …

As if 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...

Personal 21 Oct 2023 1 min read
7 Posts

Linux

My content deployment process with Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

My content deployment process with Gitea

How I automated my multi-stage publication workflow with Gitea and Jekyll.

IT 21 Mar 2025 6 min read
Double negative
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

Double negative

Who keeps my disk up? Who? Who? Who?

IT 17 Mar 2025 4 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Jekyll and Gitea
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab Docker Jekyll

Jekyll and Gitea

How I automated the publication workflow of my Jekyll-based blog with Gitea.

IT 09 Mar 2025 11 min read
New fileserver
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

New fileserver

A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.

IT 06 Mar 2025 12 min read
Renewing certificates - a horrible hack
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Admin Security

Renewing certificates - a horrible hack

Automatic renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates without a public webserver

IT 16 Feb 2025 4 min read
1 Post

Lorem

Lorem 2 - The Revenge of the Dolor
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Lorem

Lorem 2 - The Revenge of the Dolor

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Personal 04 Mar 2026
2 Posts

MQTT

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation MQTT Tasmota

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...

IT 27 Feb 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
10 Posts

Monitoring

Schwellenwertfeld
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Admin Monitoring

Schwellenwertfeld

Gedanken zum Monitoring der NormalitΓ€t

IT 20 Jul 2025 25 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

IT 03 Apr 2022 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring

vmstat without history

Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...

IT 01 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

IT 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Monitoring

prstat -x

When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself "Who the heck started this process?" Often it's a process started by SMF as part of a...

IT 17 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

fsstat

The command fsstat (somehow a command relatively unknown when talking with customers) got a slight enhancement in a Solaris 11.4 SRU . Before this enhancement...

IT 16 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...

IT 12 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

IT 24 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring

Integrating Youless energy monitoring devices into Telegraf

I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...

IT 16 Feb 2021 2 min read
8 Posts

Musik

Thoughts: Fundsache
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Musik Internet

Thoughts: Fundsache

Perlen neben der Dauerwerbesendung

Personal 20 Mar 2026
Thoughts: Mixtape
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Musik Jugend

Thoughts: Mixtape

Das Ungesagte auf 74 Minuten

Personal 19 Mar 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
2024
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Musik Bahn

2024

Über ein schwieriges Jahr 2024 und sich vor einem Rückblick drücken.

Personal 29 Dec 2024 38 Min. Lesezeit
Magie
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik personal Apple

Magie

Es war gestern endlich ein Tag, an dem der Finger nicht bei jeder ErschΓΌtterung schmerzte. Mag auch damit zusammenhΓ€ngen, dass ich diese blΓΆde Schiene durch...

Cycling 09 Jul 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte Musik Bahn

HundertvierundfΓΌnfzig

Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...

Cycling 29 Jun 2024 17 Min. Lesezeit
Unentdeckt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Musik

Unentdeckt

Ich beginne ja mittlerweile meine Texte gerne mit Musik, also Gedanken zu Musik. Dieser Text startet auch wieder mit einem Lied, das ich seit vielen Jahren...

Cycling 26 Jun 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
Weit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik Bahn

Weit

Es war gestern einfach tolles Wetter zum Radfahren. Sonne, selbstredend Sonnenmilch, nachdem mich ein recht angenehmer Nachmittag am Hamburger Hafen leicht...

Cycling 24 Jun 2024 9 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Musik personal

Age

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

Personal 19 Oct 2023 1 min read
1 Post

NAS

Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
1 Post

NameServices

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
11 Posts

Networking

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information

Thank you! THANK YOU! Really thank you!

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Named routes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking

Named routes

Where the streets have no^H^Ha name.

IT 05 Apr 2025 1 min read
Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator

How to simulate bad network conditions β€” up to TCP/IP over avian carriers

IT 07 Feb 2025 5 min read
A WLAN tunnelled
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

A WLAN tunnelled

From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...

IT 04 Jan 2025 5 min read
Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG

I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...

IT 02 Jan 2025 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking Homelab IT

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...

IT 29 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 50 m away...

IT 23 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Networking Homelab

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 in an abysmal...

IT 23 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Networking LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...

IT 19 Mar 2022 20 min read
1 Post

Neues

ReingedrΓ€ngelt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Neues Kaefiggeschichten

ReingedrΓ€ngelt

Warum ich nen Vogel hatte ... und jetzt vier

Personal 17 Feb 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
7 Posts

OnceUponATimeAServer

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

IT 19 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

IT 19 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

IT 09 May 2022 9 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

IT 03 Apr 2022 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Networking LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...

IT 19 Mar 2022 20 min read
17 Posts

Performance

Filesystem latencies
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Filesystem latencies

From the perspective of the filesystem

IT 12 Apr 2025 2 min read
ptime
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

ptime

What have you done β€” in the past?

IT 11 Apr 2025 2 min read
Disk latencies with iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Disk latencies with iostat

Look, no DTrace script β€”

IT 08 Apr 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat

As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...

IT 26 Jul 2024 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cycling LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer IT Performance

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,...

IT 03 Nov 2023 19 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...

IT 09 May 2022 9 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

IT 03 Apr 2022 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Tiered storage with ZFS

This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...

IT 02 Apr 2021 12 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

IT 28 Mar 2021 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Performance

Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...

IT 20 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

fsstat

The command fsstat (somehow a command relatively unknown when talking with customers) got a slight enhancement in a Solaris 11.4 SRU . Before this enhancement...

IT 16 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...

IT 12 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

gcore with less impact

This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...

IT 11 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

Limits revisited

There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...

IT 03 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...

IT 28 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDOMS Performance

vHBA and AIO

In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...

IT 26 Feb 2021 2 min read
2 Posts

Politik

Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Datenschutz Politik

Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri

Einfach mal das Buch lesen. Oder den Film gucken.

Personal 23 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Mein erstes Mal
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Politik Wahlen personal Bahn

Mein erstes Mal

Über Bleistifte, Wahlen und meinen Erfahrungen aus einem Tag Ehrenamt als Wahlhelfer.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 29 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Proxmox

Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
1 Post

Python

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

IT 24 Feb 2021 3 min read
1 Post

RSS

New RSS feed templates
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog RSS Jekyll SpringCleaning

New RSS feed templates

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
3 Posts

Recommendation

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Recommendation TV

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...

Personal 27 Oct 2023 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT Gadgets Recommendation Apple

Docking

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

IT 22 Oct 2023 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Recommendation Gadgets

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...

Personal 20 Oct 2023 3 min read
1 Post

Reisen

Thoughts: Fernweh
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Reisen Fliegen Jugend

Thoughts: Fernweh

Den Kondensstreifen nach

Personal 08 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
18 Posts

SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
Reboots
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Reboots

Different kinds of reboots

IT 20 Feb 2026 1 min read
svccfg editprop
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished SMF Admin

svccfg editprop

Remembering svc properties β€” made easy

IT 02 May 2025 3 min read
Getting the command line and environment of running processes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin SMF

Getting the command line and environment of running processes

Rescuing the environment.

IT 28 Apr 2025 2 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check

Checking for changes of core OS users.

IT 01 Apr 2025 4 min read
Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4

More goals.

IT 29 Mar 2025 3 min read
Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4

Tell me about your goals.

IT 28 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps

Another rather small change that was introduced to Solaris 11 in SRU 66. Up to SRU 65 the precision of the timestamps in the logfile was seconds. ``` Jul 5...

IT 25 Jul 2024 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records

Yet another small feature. I'm working on a blog entry about ZFS retention in the evenings, but it will take some time to complete it. So a blog entry about...

IT 09 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

IT 27 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Servicename in ps

Yesterday I wrote in "prstat -x" about the addition of a feature to show the FMRI of the service which the process is part of. ps got a similar enhancement....

IT 18 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Monitoring

prstat -x

When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself "Who the heck started this process?" Often it's a process started by SMF as part of a...

IT 17 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Clean up after yourself

This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...

IT 15 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the ability to set * user * group * privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn't need manual editing to adhere...

IT 14 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Jitter and delay for svcbundle generated SMF manifests

Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...

IT 09 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

svcbundle extended

svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...

IT 08 Mar 2021 2 min read
8 Posts

SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh

Closer to GNU

IT 27 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free

Resilvering while freeing space

IT 17 Mar 2026 2 min read
New Solaris 11.4 CBE released
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SRU90 CBE

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released

New Common Build Environment(CBE) based on SRU 90

IT 09 Mar 2026
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all

Protecting you from sending signals to all processes

IT 26 Feb 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
37 Posts

Security

Only one time
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Only one time

Configuring one time passwords for SSH with Solaris 11.4

IT 08 Jun 2025 6 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
Time-based limits to SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Time-based limits to SSH

Lockout after midnight

IT 23 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset

Limit your appetite for destruction

IT 21 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention

Configuring file retention in ZFS

IT 20 Apr 2025 19 min read
File auditing
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

File auditing

Activate auditing for select files

IT 19 Apr 2025 2 min read
Hashed
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Hashed

Directly setting a hashed password

IT 18 Apr 2025
System Attributes in your filesystem
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

System Attributes in your filesystem

More fun with attributes

IT 16 Apr 2025 5 min read
Protecting files from accidental deletion
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Protecting files from accidental deletion

Additional protection against rm -rf *

IT 16 Apr 2025 2 min read
pfedit for sensitive files
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

pfedit for sensitive files

Keeping diffs out of the audit log

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Auditing pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Auditing pfedit

Recording the change

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Basics of pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Basics of pfedit

Delegate the edit

IT 13 Apr 2025 3 min read
Session annotations
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Session annotations

Give me a reason

IT 10 Apr 2025 4 min read
Signed binaries
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Signed binaries

Sign the name across the binary β€”

IT 09 Apr 2025 1 min read
pam_fm_notify
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

pam_fm_notify

Notification about faults at login.

IT 06 Apr 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check

Checking for changes of core OS users.

IT 01 Apr 2025 4 min read
Sandbox without networking
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin republished

Sandbox without networking

Network is a privilege.

IT 27 Mar 2025 2 min read
Renewing certificates - a horrible hack
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Admin Security

Renewing certificates - a horrible hack

Automatic renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates without a public webserver

IT 16 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH

How to prevent locking for accounts used for passwordless authentication

IT 05 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration

While the last blog entries were about cycling, I would like to start with Solaris-centric blog entries as well. My plan is to write without a planned schedule...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other people's passwords can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password...

IT 21 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

IT 11 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Personal 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

IT 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category "Just because you can do it this way, you should not necessarily do it this way" albeit the biggest problem with using...

IT 09 Apr 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

IT 31 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

IT 30 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

IT 23 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

IT 21 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the ability to set * user * group * privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn't need manual editing to adhere...

IT 14 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security

Piped sandboxes

I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...

IT 24 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

IT 23 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

IT 22 Feb 2021 8 min read
7 Posts

Smarthome

Mehr - oder: 60000
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Smarthome

Mehr - oder: 60000

Dieser Text ist im Grundsatz schon etwas Γ€lter. Ich bin irgendwie nicht dazu gekommen, ihn ins Blog zu stellen. Er steht aber ein bisschen mit dem nΓ€chsten...

Cycling 09 Sep 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IKEA Smarthome Zigbee

Γ…skvΓ€der

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp[^1] anyway and thus this looked like a good idea. At...

IT 13 Oct 2023 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation MQTT Tasmota

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...

IT 27 Feb 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation

Using the Technische Alternative CMI with Telegraf

My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...

IT 19 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring

Integrating Youless energy monitoring devices into Telegraf

I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...

IT 16 Feb 2021 2 min read
Wireless Zigbee Smarthome Homeautomation

Channel 26

The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...

IT 16 Feb 2021 3 min read
1 Post

SocialNetworks

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
118 Posts

Solaris

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh

Closer to GNU

IT 27 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free

Resilvering while freeing space

IT 17 Mar 2026 2 min read
New Solaris 11.4 CBE released
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SRU90 CBE

New Solaris 11.4 CBE released

New Common Build Environment(CBE) based on SRU 90

IT 09 Mar 2026
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all

Protecting you from sending signals to all processes

IT 26 Feb 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
fsstat -l
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

fsstat -l

Measuring filesystem latencies

IT 23 Feb 2026 1 min read
Reboots
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Reboots

Different kinds of reboots

IT 20 Feb 2026 1 min read
tar -x over nfs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

tar -x over nfs

tar -x pathology revisited

IT 01 Feb 2026 26 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Administration

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87: Directly creating users with NP set

Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation

IT 11 Jan 2026 2 min read
Only one time
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Only one time

Configuring one time passwords for SSH with Solaris 11.4

IT 08 Jun 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched

New PIDs for init and zsched in the NGZ

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Transceiver information

Thank you! THANK YOU! Really thank you!

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
pstop and prun
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

pstop and prun

Stopping and starting a process or thread

IT 02 May 2025 2 min read
svccfg editprop
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished SMF Admin

svccfg editprop

Remembering svc properties β€” made easy

IT 02 May 2025 3 min read
Getting the command line and environment of running processes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin SMF

Getting the command line and environment of running processes

Rescuing the environment.

IT 28 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradd defaults
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradd defaults

Changing useradd defaults

IT 27 Apr 2025 1 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Time-based limits to SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Time-based limits to SSH

Lockout after midnight

IT 23 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset

Limit your appetite for destruction

IT 21 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention

Configuring file retention in ZFS

IT 20 Apr 2025 19 min read
File auditing
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

File auditing

Activate auditing for select files

IT 19 Apr 2025 2 min read
Hashed
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Hashed

Directly setting a hashed password

IT 18 Apr 2025
System Attributes in your filesystem
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

System Attributes in your filesystem

More fun with attributes

IT 16 Apr 2025 5 min read
Protecting files from accidental deletion
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Protecting files from accidental deletion

Additional protection against rm -rf *

IT 16 Apr 2025 2 min read
pfedit for sensitive files
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

pfedit for sensitive files

Keeping diffs out of the audit log

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Auditing pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Auditing pfedit

Recording the change

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Basics of pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Basics of pfedit

Delegate the edit

IT 13 Apr 2025 3 min read
Filesystem latencies
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Filesystem latencies

From the perspective of the filesystem

IT 12 Apr 2025 2 min read
ptime
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

ptime

What have you done β€” in the past?

IT 11 Apr 2025 2 min read
Session annotations
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Session annotations

Give me a reason

IT 10 Apr 2025 4 min read
Signed binaries
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Signed binaries

Sign the name across the binary β€”

IT 09 Apr 2025 1 min read
Disk latencies with iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Disk latencies with iostat

Look, no DTrace script β€”

IT 08 Apr 2025 2 min read
Scheduled scrubs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

Scheduled scrubs

Automatic scrubs in ZFS

IT 07 Apr 2025 2 min read
pam_fm_notify
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

pam_fm_notify

Notification about faults at login.

IT 06 Apr 2025 2 min read
Named routes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking

Named routes

Where the streets have no^H^Ha name.

IT 05 Apr 2025 1 min read
Post-mortem pfiles
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

Post-mortem pfiles

Finding open files in a core dump

IT 04 Apr 2025 1 min read
reflink
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

reflink

Faster copies through technology

IT 03 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradm
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradm

New tool to manage users in Solaris 11.4

IT 02 Apr 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 72: Core OS user integrity check

Checking for changes of core OS users.

IT 01 Apr 2025 4 min read
ZFS read and write bandwidth limits
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

ZFS read and write bandwidth limits

Smothering noisy neighbours.

IT 31 Mar 2025 1 min read
fileops DTrace provider
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished DTrace Admin

fileops DTrace provider

DTracing file operations.

IT 30 Mar 2025 1 min read
Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4

More goals.

IT 29 Mar 2025 3 min read
Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4

Tell me about your goals.

IT 28 Mar 2025 3 min read
Sandbox without networking
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin republished

Sandbox without networking

Network is a privilege.

IT 27 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone

Send in the clones with mkdir

IT 26 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 78: Wildcards for iostat

Filtering down the output of iostat

IT 19 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: NFSv3 support in helper tools

A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.

IT 16 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11 SRU 75: New options for pgrep/pkill

Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.

IT 15 Mar 2025 1 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Networking Admin

Solaris 11: Network Condition Simulator

How to simulate bad network conditions β€” up to TCP/IP over avian carriers

IT 07 Feb 2025 5 min read
Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Solaris 10/11: Account locking and passwordless SSH

How to prevent locking for accounts used for passwordless authentication

IT 05 Feb 2025 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat

As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...

IT 26 Jul 2024 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 66: Precision of logfile timestamps

Another rather small change that was introduced to Solaris 11 in SRU 66. Up to SRU 65 the precision of the timestamps in the logfile was seconds. ``` Jul 5...

IT 25 Jul 2024 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 57: Why did you reboot the system?

Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...

IT 10 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records

Yet another small feature. I'm working on a blog entry about ZFS retention in the evenings, but it will take some time to complete it. So a blog entry about...

IT 09 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 63: Disabling reboots (temporarily)

I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Security

Solaris 11.4 SRU 69: Including file fragments in SSH configuration

While the last blog entries were about cycling, I would like to start with Solaris-centric blog entries as well. My plan is to write without a planned schedule...

IT 05 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

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...

IT 25 Jan 2024
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ IT LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer Performance Solaris

The joy of finding performance problems - A foreword

# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...

IT 18 Apr 2022 7 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris personal

Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...

IT 11 Oct 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other people's passwords can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password...

IT 21 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

IT 16 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

IT 11 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

Personal 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - revisited

You are a quite busy admin. The systems are well kept. Everything is working fine. However many people work on your system and inevitably some people forget...

IT 10 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords

This is a blog entry from the category "Just because you can do it this way, you should not necessarily do it this way" albeit the biggest problem with using...

IT 09 Apr 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Tiered storage with ZFS

This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...

IT 02 Apr 2021 12 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring

vmstat without history

Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...

IT 01 Apr 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

IT 31 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

IT 30 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

IT 28 Mar 2021 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

IT 27 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...

IT 26 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

IT 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

IT 24 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

IT 23 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

IT 22 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

IT 21 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Performance

Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...

IT 20 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin

truss - just the interesting part ...

Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....

IT 19 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin

Servicename in ps

Yesterday I wrote in "prstat -x" about the addition of a feature to show the FMRI of the service which the process is part of. ps got a similar enhancement....

IT 18 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Monitoring

prstat -x

When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself "Who the heck started this process?" Often it's a process started by SMF as part of a...

IT 17 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 31

SRU 31 of Oracle Solaris 11.4 has been published today. You will find more information about the changes here .

IT 16 Mar 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

fsstat

The command fsstat (somehow a command relatively unknown when talking with customers) got a slight enhancement in a Solaris 11.4 SRU . Before this enhancement...

IT 16 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Clean up after yourself

This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...

IT 15 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Security

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the ability to set * user * group * privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn't need manual editing to adhere...

IT 14 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...

IT 13 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Monitoring

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...

IT 12 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

gcore with less impact

This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...

IT 11 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

ps

Today I won't write a blog entry explaining a feature. I would just like to guide your attention to an article at "Teaching an old ps command new tricks"...

IT 10 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

Jitter and delay for svcbundle generated SMF manifests

Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...

IT 09 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF

svcbundle extended

svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...

IT 08 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Which SRU to get those new features?

Short answer: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features I'm writing about in the last few days didn't...

IT 07 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

New -s option for zpool status

With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...

IT 07 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

ZFS allocation units

This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...

IT 06 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

You have been warned: Upgrading rpool

In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...

IT 05 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Solaris scales

This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...

IT 04 Mar 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance

Limits revisited

There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...

IT 03 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Small changes: New open files default.

In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in its default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU ) the limit of open files for a user was 256. ```...

IT 02 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...

IT 28 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDOMS Performance

vHBA and AIO

In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...

IT 26 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security

Piped sandboxes

I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...

IT 24 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

IT 23 Feb 2021 4 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris LDAP Security

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

IT 22 Feb 2021 8 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems that the first n databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start database n+1...

IT 20 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Virtualbox via IPS .p5p

Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about a package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable....

IT 19 Feb 2021
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

IPMP and additional IP addresses

Recently I had a customer with a problem: The customer configured an IPMP group with a number of additional IPs. They had a number of application servers...

IT 18 Feb 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris

Common Criteria certification for Oracle Solaris 11.4

Darren Moffat just wrote in the Solaris blog on blog.oracle.com about important news for Oracle Solaris 11.4: Solaris just got its Common Criteria...

IT 17 Feb 2021
7 Posts

Solaris11.4

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 GNU

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: ls -sh

Closer to GNU

IT 27 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 NameServices SMF

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Checking your nameservice configuration

Helping you to find name service config errors quickly

IT 24 Mar 2026 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free

Resilvering while freeing space

IT 17 Mar 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Limiting signaling to all

Protecting you from sending signals to all processes

IT 26 Feb 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
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SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog Apache Jekyll SpringCleaning

30 years ... still learning

Using RewriteCond with -f

IT 29 Mar 2026 4 min read
Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
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Search

Fulltext search for the blog

IT 26 Mar 2026 2 min read
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Archive

Archive page added to the blog

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
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New RSS feed templates

Cleaning up the mess in the RSS feed templates

IT 25 Mar 2026 1 min read
Spring Cleaning 2026
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ SpringCleaning Blog Jekyll

Spring Cleaning 2026

Spring Cleaning

IT 14 Mar 2026 7 min read
Spring cleaning 2025
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog SpringCleaning

Spring cleaning 2025

Spring is coming and my blog needed a cleanup

IT 15 Mar 2025 4 min read
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The internet is made for p...bots

Eine Woche c0t0d0s0.org

IT 22 Mar 2026 5 Min. Lesezeit
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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...

Personal 27 Oct 2023 1 min read
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Tasmota

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation MQTT Tasmota

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...

IT 27 Feb 2021 1 min read
2 Posts

Telegraf

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Aviation Monitoring Telegraf Python

Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

IT 24 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Smarthome HomeAutomation Monitoring MQTT Telegraf

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

IT 21 Feb 2021 2 min read
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TheDayMyHeartStoodStill

Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 17

6 Monate spΓ€ter

Personal 29 Mar 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 16

Danke!

Personal 25 Dec 2025 8 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 15

Wie geht es Dir?

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 14

Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 13

Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 12

Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus

Personal 21 Dec 2025 17 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 11

Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 10

Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 9

Über eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 8

Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 7

Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit

Personal 16 Dec 2025 23 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 6

Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege

Personal 15 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 5

Outta Koblenz

Personal 14 Dec 2025 22 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 4

Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose

Personal 13 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 3

Über LÀrm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und über Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verÀndern

Personal 12 Dec 2025 20 Min. Lesezeit
Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2
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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz still stand - Teil 2

Über einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstârte PlÀne

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand - Teil 1

Ein langes Vorwort

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Der Tag, an dem mein Herz stillstand

KapitelΓΌbersicht

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Thoughts

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Thoughts: Ostereinkauf

GrΓΌndonnerstagsfehler

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Thoughts: Zeitkapsel

Die eigene Stimme aus der Vergangenheit

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Thoughts: GrΓΌn

Kugelschreiber und Wasserflaschen

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Thoughts: PalantΓ­ri

Einfach mal das Buch lesen. Oder den Film gucken.

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Thoughts: Herr Norris

Vom vΓΆlligen Fehlen von Ironie

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Thoughts: Fundsache

Perlen neben der Dauerwerbesendung

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Thoughts: Mixtape

Das Ungesagte auf 74 Minuten

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Thoughts: Folie

BΓΌcher auspacken

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Thoughts: Sie haben Post. Von der Elphi.

Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus

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Thoughts: Wut, Zorn und Satzzeichen

Die Suche nach dem Fehler

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Den Kondensstreifen nach

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Thoughts: Mitte

Sie fehlt.

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Thoughts: Cineastisches Tinder

Die Verkleinerung der (Film)welt

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Thoughts: Isses aber nicht

Einfach sein

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Thoughts: ATD1997

CONNECT

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Thoughts: Altersgrenzen

Es ist kein neues Problem

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Thoughts: Parkraumbewirtschaftung

Wut auf 2,5 mal 5

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Thoughts: Parkplatz

Die Welt am Samstag Vormittag

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Thoughts: Tina

Gemessen mit zweierlei Maß

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Thoughts: Montauk

Über Erinnerungen

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Thoughts: Bias

Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.

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Thoughts: Mobile

Warten

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Thoughts: Gedruckt

Was verloren geht...

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Thoughts: Immersion

Vom Gestalten zum Beobachten

Personal 10 Jan 2026 3 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Paradox
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts

Thoughts: Paradox

Das Pazifismusparadox und die diesem innewohnende Tragik

Personal 09 Jan 2026 11 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Remix
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Bahn

Thoughts: Remix

Die Tasse am Abgrund

Personal 05 Jan 2026 30 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Nachrichtenflut
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts

Thoughts: Nachrichtenflut

Überleben in der Nachrichtenflut

Personal 04 Jan 2026 13 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Musik
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts

Thoughts: Musik

Die EntkΓΆrperlichung der Musik

Personal 03 Jan 2026 8 Min. Lesezeit
Deus ex prompt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT Kultur AI Thoughts

Deus ex prompt

Gedanken zu AI

Personal 23 Mar 2025 31 Min. Lesezeit
4 Posts

Travel

Berlin
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Geschichte Bahn

Berlin

Ich frage mich bis heute an vielen Stellen, wie mein Gehirn verschaltet ist. Okay, fragen sich wahrscheinlich mehr Menschen, die mich kennen. Vermutlich mit...

Cycling 01 Oct 2024 47 Min. Lesezeit
Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Travel Bahn

Imperial Century - oder: Nach Fehmarn an einem Tag

Ich glaube, jeder Mensch hat einen oder mehrere Sehnsuchtsorte. Orte, an denen sie oder er gerne sein mag. Orte, zu denen man eine besondere Verbundenheit...

Cycling 15 Sep 2024 21 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Travel

Koblenz β€” again???

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

Personal 30 Oct 2023 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Travel

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...

Personal 25 Oct 2023 3 min read
5 Posts

TrueNASScale

Double negative
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

Double negative

Who keeps my disk up? Who? Who? Who?

IT 17 Mar 2025 4 min read
Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
New fileserver
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale

New fileserver

A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.

IT 06 Mar 2025 12 min read
1 Post

USA

Thoughts: Herr Norris
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Kultur USA Film

Thoughts: Herr Norris

Vom vΓΆlligen Fehlen von Ironie

Personal 21 Mar 2026 2 Min. Lesezeit
4 Posts

Unifi

A WLAN tunnelled
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

A WLAN tunnelled

From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...

IT 04 Jan 2025 5 min read
Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking IT

Migrating from Ubiquiti USG to UCG

I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...

IT 02 Jan 2025 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Security IT Networking Unifi Homelab

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...

IT 31 Oct 2023 5 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Unifi Networking Homelab IT

Changing Unifi inform URL via SSH

My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...

IT 29 Oct 2023 3 min read
1 Post

VibeCoding

Back Burner
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Blog AI VibeCoding Jekyll SpringCleaning

Back Burner

Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org

IT 28 Mar 2026 12 min read
1 Post

Vortraege

Frankfurt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Vortraege Bahn personal

Frankfurt

Als die Maske fiel - ein Reisebericht ΓΌber die Fahrt mit der Bahn nach Frankfurt fΓΌr einen Vortrag.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 11 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

Wahlen

Mein erstes Mal
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Politik Wahlen personal Bahn

Mein erstes Mal

Über Bleistifte, Wahlen und meinen Erfahrungen aus einem Tag Ehrenamt als Wahlhelfer.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 29 Min. Lesezeit
2 Posts

Wartezimmer

Thoughts: GrΓΌn
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Wartezimmer

Thoughts: GrΓΌn

Kugelschreiber und Wasserflaschen

Personal 26 Mar 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
Thoughts: Mobile
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Thoughts Wartezimmer

Thoughts: Mobile

Warten

Personal 22 Jan 2026 1 Min. Lesezeit
8 Posts

WestRideStories

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 83 Tage - oder: Neuer Termin steht

Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...

Cycling 04 Jun 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 86 Tage - oder: Verschoben

Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...

Cycling 01 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories IT

Wieder T minus 2 Tage - oder: Patchen

Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine große Dummheit begangen, von der ich...

Cycling 30 May 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories Bahn

T minus 1 Tag - oder: Von NervositΓ€t und elektrischen Elefanten

Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...

Cycling 29 May 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 2 Tage - oder: Vorbereitungen

Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...

Cycling 28 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 3 Tage - oder: Unterhosen auf der Waage

FahrrΓ€der β€” und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β€” haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heißt so viel wie: β€žDie Teile...

Cycling 27 May 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 4 Tage - oder: Schutzbleche

Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...

Cycling 26 May 2024 2 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling WestRideStories

T minus 5 Tage - oder: In ein paar Tagen ...

Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...

Cycling 25 May 2024 6 Min. Lesezeit
1 Post

Wireless

Wireless Zigbee Smarthome Homeautomation

Channel 26

The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...

IT 16 Feb 2021 3 min read
30 Posts

ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 BinaryCompatibility ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: devnm -s

Which disk do you live on?

IT 02 Apr 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Scan with pending free

Resilvering while freeing space

IT 17 Mar 2026 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Solaris11.4 SRU90 ZFS Retention

Solaris 11.4 SRU 90: Losing your retention

How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration

IT 01 Mar 2026 4 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
tar -x over nfs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

tar -x over nfs

tar -x pathology revisited

IT 01 Feb 2026 26 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention: No way back β€” and other topics

Things you should know about ZFS file retention

IT 22 Apr 2025 3 min read
Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

Prevent the destruction of a ZFS filesystem dataset

Limit your appetite for destruction

IT 21 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS file retention
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Security Admin

ZFS file retention

Configuring file retention in ZFS

IT 20 Apr 2025 19 min read
Scheduled scrubs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

Scheduled scrubs

Automatic scrubs in ZFS

IT 07 Apr 2025 2 min read
reflink
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

reflink

Faster copies through technology

IT 03 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS read and write bandwidth limits
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

ZFS read and write bandwidth limits

Smothering noisy neighbours.

IT 31 Mar 2025 1 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Creating a clone in .clone

Send in the clones with mkdir

IT 26 Mar 2025 2 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 75: Recursive mount/umount

(Un-)mounting (almost) everything - with a little bit more control

IT 23 Mar 2025 3 min read
Almost RAIDless
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ NAS Homelab Backup TrueNASScale LessonsLearned ZFS

Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

IT 14 Mar 2025 8 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox Solaris ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Backup
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Linux Homelab TrueNASScale Proxmox ZFS

Backup

About the first thoughts and first steps to back up my new fileserver.

IT 10 Mar 2025 6 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Performance Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: Sample separation in iostat

As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...

IT 26 Jul 2024 3 min read
Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin ZFS

Solaris 11.4 SRU 60: admhist shows SMF audit records

Yet another small feature. I'm working on a blog entry about ZFS retention in the evenings, but it will take some time to complete it. So a blog entry about...

IT 09 Jul 2024 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Tiered storage with ZFS

This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...

IT 02 Apr 2021 12 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

IT 28 Mar 2021 14 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

IT 25 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...

IT 13 Mar 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

New -s option for zpool status

With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...

IT 07 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

ZFS allocation units

This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...

IT 06 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

You have been warned: Upgrading rpool

In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...

IT 05 Mar 2021 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS Performance

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...

IT 28 Feb 2021 3 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems that the first n databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start database n+1...

IT 20 Feb 2021 2 min read
2 Posts

Zigbee

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Gadgets IKEA Smarthome Zigbee

Γ…skvΓ€der

A few days ago, I needed some distraction and thus I drove one of my sisters to IKEA. I needed a desk lamp[^1] anyway and thus this looked like a good idea. At...

IT 13 Oct 2023 3 min read
Wireless Zigbee Smarthome Homeautomation

Channel 26

The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...

IT 16 Feb 2021 3 min read
5 Posts

Zones

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Solaris 11.4 SRU 81: Virtual PID for init and zsched

New PIDs for init and zsched in the NGZ

IT 02 Jun 2025 2 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Admin

Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

IT 16 Apr 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 3

Okay, there is one remaining obvious question. What if you have an admin that is responsible for all the systems and you want to give her access to all the...

IT 31 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let's assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access the...

IT 30 Mar 2021 1 min read
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Zones Security Admin SMF

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...

IT 29 Mar 2021 4 min read
1 Post

beadm

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris ZFS beadm Solaris11.4 SRU90

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion

IT 25 Feb 2026 2 min read
22 Posts

personal

2025
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2025

Upper Cut vom Universum

Personal 28 Dec 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

TouchID teilen β€” so irgendwie β€”

TouchID an mehreren Rechnern

IT 15 Jun 2025 4 Min. Lesezeit
Uuuuuuultrawide
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal Gadgets Apple

Uuuuuuultrawide

Erste Erfahrungen mit 57 Zoll

IT 08 Jun 2025 18 Min. Lesezeit
Optimierende Prokrastination
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ IT personal

Optimierende Prokrastination

Prokrastination mal anders β€”

IT 25 Apr 2025 5 Min. Lesezeit
WΓΌrzburg
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Bahn personal

WΓΌrzburg

Als der Baum fiel - herbeigeschriebenes Pech.

Personal 19 Mar 2025 7 Min. Lesezeit
Mein erstes Mal
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Politik Wahlen personal Bahn

Mein erstes Mal

Über Bleistifte, Wahlen und meinen Erfahrungen aus einem Tag Ehrenamt als Wahlhelfer.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 29 Min. Lesezeit
Frankfurt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Geschaeftsreise Vortraege Bahn personal

Frankfurt

Als die Maske fiel - ein Reisebericht ΓΌber die Fahrt mit der Bahn nach Frankfurt fΓΌr einen Vortrag.

Personal 23 Feb 2025 11 Min. Lesezeit
2024
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Musik Bahn

2024

Über ein schwieriges Jahr 2024 und sich vor einem Rückblick drücken.

Personal 29 Dec 2024 38 Min. Lesezeit
Mehr - oder: 60000
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Smarthome

Mehr - oder: 60000

Dieser Text ist im Grundsatz schon etwas Γ€lter. Ich bin irgendwie nicht dazu gekommen, ihn ins Blog zu stellen. Er steht aber ein bisschen mit dem nΓ€chsten...

Cycling 09 Sep 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Magie
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Musik personal Apple

Magie

Es war gestern endlich ein Tag, an dem der Finger nicht bei jeder ErschΓΌtterung schmerzte. Mag auch damit zusammenhΓ€ngen, dass ich diese blΓΆde Schiene durch...

Cycling 09 Jul 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Relikte
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling Geschichte personal

Relikte

Bei mir hat sich fΓΌr Samstag eine Idee fΓΌr eine Strecke festgesetzt. Ich muss mal gucken, ob ich das wirklich machen werde. Sonntag kann (naja, ehrlicherweise...

Cycling 28 Jun 2024 7 Min. Lesezeit
Unentdeckt
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Musik

Unentdeckt

Ich beginne ja mittlerweile meine Texte gerne mit Musik, also Gedanken zu Musik. Dieser Text startet auch wieder mit einem Lied, das ich seit vielen Jahren...

Cycling 26 Jun 2024 8 Min. Lesezeit
Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Von Holzwegen und Schießscharten

Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Durch die GΓΆhrde
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal

Durch die GΓΆhrde

Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...

Cycling 09 Jun 2024 11 Min. Lesezeit
Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Gadgets

Von Beinahekatastrophen und der Freude, GlΓΌck gehabt zu haben

Mein GemΓΌt will momentan einfach raus. Das Wetter ist entgegen meiner Erwartung einfach viel zu gut, um indoor zu fahren. Auch wenn es wahrscheinlich nicht gut...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Cycling personal Bahn

Von Erinnerungsorten und Waldwegen

Fenster auf, die Sonne scheint. Naja, ein kleines bisschen. Ich will raus. Liege ohnehin schon zu lange wach rum. # I can get no sleep. Wie seit vielen, vielen...

Cycling 07 Jun 2024 10 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Blog Jekyll personal SocialNetworks Solaris

Umbau

At first a note to my readers in English language: In the future, only blog entries about Solaris and IT in general will be in English language. Everything...

IT 04 Jun 2024 4 Min. Lesezeit
2023
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal Apple

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...

Personal 28 Dec 2023 19 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Musik personal

Age

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

Personal 19 Oct 2023 1 min read
2022
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2022

Hier sitze ich wieder auf meinem Sofa und sinniere ΓΌber das letzte Jahr. Das Fernsehprogramm ist noch schlechter als sonst. Hinzu kommt, dass am heutigen Tag...

Personal 31 Dec 2022 9 Min. Lesezeit
2021
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Jahresrueckblick personal

2021

Ich sitze hier gerade an meinem Schreibtisch und wundere mich, dass selbst in einem Jahr, in dem es eigentlich empfohlen ist, zuhause zu bleiben, es lediglich...

Personal 31 Dec 2021 5 Min. Lesezeit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris personal

Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...

IT 11 Oct 2021
29 Posts

republished

Only one time
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Only one time

Configuring one time passwords for SSH with Solaris 11.4

IT 08 Jun 2025 6 min read
pstop and prun
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

pstop and prun

Stopping and starting a process or thread

IT 02 May 2025 2 min read
svccfg editprop
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished SMF Admin

svccfg editprop

Remembering svc properties β€” made easy

IT 02 May 2025 3 min read
Getting the command line and environment of running processes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin SMF

Getting the command line and environment of running processes

Rescuing the environment.

IT 28 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradd defaults
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradd defaults

Changing useradd defaults

IT 27 Apr 2025 1 min read
Using BART
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security ZFS

Using BART

Basic audit reporting tool

IT 26 Apr 2025 4 min read
Setting up NTP in Solaris 11
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking SMF

Setting up NTP in Solaris 11

A question of time

IT 25 Apr 2025 3 min read
Time-based limits to SSH
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Time-based limits to SSH

Lockout after midnight

IT 23 Apr 2025 2 min read
File auditing
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

File auditing

Activate auditing for select files

IT 19 Apr 2025 2 min read
Hashed
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Hashed

Directly setting a hashed password

IT 18 Apr 2025
Protecting files from accidental deletion
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Protecting files from accidental deletion

Additional protection against rm -rf *

IT 16 Apr 2025 2 min read
Auditing pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Auditing pfedit

Recording the change

IT 14 Apr 2025 3 min read
Basics of pfedit
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

Basics of pfedit

Delegate the edit

IT 13 Apr 2025 3 min read
Filesystem latencies
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Filesystem latencies

From the perspective of the filesystem

IT 12 Apr 2025 2 min read
ptime
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

ptime

What have you done β€” in the past?

IT 11 Apr 2025 2 min read
Session annotations
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Session annotations

Give me a reason

IT 10 Apr 2025 4 min read
Signed binaries
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Security Admin

Signed binaries

Sign the name across the binary β€”

IT 09 Apr 2025 1 min read
Disk latencies with iostat
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Performance

Disk latencies with iostat

Look, no DTrace script β€”

IT 08 Apr 2025 2 min read
Scheduled scrubs
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

Scheduled scrubs

Automatic scrubs in ZFS

IT 07 Apr 2025 2 min read
pam_fm_notify
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Security

pam_fm_notify

Notification about faults at login.

IT 06 Apr 2025 2 min read
Named routes
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin Networking

Named routes

Where the streets have no^H^Ha name.

IT 05 Apr 2025 1 min read
Post-mortem pfiles
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

Post-mortem pfiles

Finding open files in a core dump

IT 04 Apr 2025 1 min read
reflink
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

reflink

Faster copies through technology

IT 03 Apr 2025 2 min read
useradm
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished Admin

useradm

New tool to manage users in Solaris 11.4

IT 02 Apr 2025 2 min read
ZFS read and write bandwidth limits
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished ZFS Admin

ZFS read and write bandwidth limits

Smothering noisy neighbours.

IT 31 Mar 2025 1 min read
fileops DTrace provider
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris republished DTrace Admin

fileops DTrace provider

DTracing file operations.

IT 30 Mar 2025 1 min read
Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Creating your own goal service in Solaris 11.4

More goals.

IT 29 Mar 2025 3 min read
Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris SMF Admin republished

Using the goal service in Solaris 11.4

Tell me about your goals.

IT 28 Mar 2025 3 min read
Sandbox without networking
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Solaris Security Admin republished

Sandbox without networking

Network is a privilege.

IT 27 Mar 2025 2 min read

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