July 2008

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• sites

  Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia

  07.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  While browsing Wikipedia I bumped into this interesting list, Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia (full list with descriptions can be found here). As a frequent user and sometimes contributer I found this quite interesting, especially number 6. We’re not for sale. Everyone can use our work with a few conditions. We speak [...]

• stuff

  Very true

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.” – Robert Bloch

• ict / computers, networking

  Using EtherChannel for high availability on Cisco switches

  07.21.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  When building high availability networks or systems the three golden rules are: No single points of failure All failovers are automatic and swift Use non-proprietary technologies where possible When coupling server to the network I myself quite like using EtherChannel. EtherChannel allows multiple physical Ethernet links to combine into one logical channel, which allows the [...]

• blog

  Small theme update

  07.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I did just a small visual update to my theme (which I still quite like) today, mainly introducing a background slightly darker at the top to more emphasise the start of the page, changing the logo at the top and changing the font for headings and the tabs to the left to Georgia, a nice serif [...]

• life

  The truth about religion

  07.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Marcus Brigstocke goes apeshit on religion (the three main ones, anyway). Very funny, extremely insightful and he’s right! (well, I think so, anyway). Bit taken from BBC Radio’s “The Now Show”. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

• ict / computers

  PowerDNS – I like it!

  07.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As a long, long, long time user of Bind (and quite frankly not being the only one by far) I’m afraid I’m losing faith. Yes, Bind still does what it does (which is: being a kickass name server or DNS) and does it well,but today a colleague introduced me to PowerDNS. Whoa! Why I like [...]

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