Archive for July, 2007

Next Generation Spam

Friday, 27th of July 2007

Last Wednesday I received spam over IPv6 for the first time. Somebody (or something?) tried to post a spam comment to this Blog from a computer in Japan using an IPv6 network connection to my web server. One of the things I really liked about IPv6 so far was the total absence of spam. But [...]

Movie of the Week: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sunday, 22nd of July 2007

It took a lot of magic to lift the curse of the bad sequel but the fifth Harry Potter movie managed to do it. Like the four previous movies it was well made. I even had the impression that less of the story got lost when the book had to be compressed to fit into [...]

First bit of trouble with NetBSD 4.0

Sunday, 22nd of July 2007

Ever since I updated my server to NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 it has been working without any problems … until last Friday. After 80 days uptime it crashed while I was logged in remotely during my lunch break. I was lucky and the machine came up without any manual intervention. This is one of the things I [...]