Archive for September, 2007

Less Downtime And Problems

Sunday, 23rd of September 2007

A while ago I complained about problems with NIS under Mac OS X. The amount of comments I received on that posting suggests that a lot of people had similiar experiences. Encouraged by Iain Patterson’s excellent post about using LDAP under Mac OS X and with a bit of help from my fellow worker Robert [...]

Back to nature … at least for a while

Sunday, 23rd of September 2007

Yesterday Silke and I took advantage of the nice weather and went on a walk in the forest at Brandon Country Park. We initially planned to follow the medium length walk (3.5 miles or 5.6km). But after a few hundred meters in the cool fresh air in the wood we decided to take the long [...]

Traffic collapse in Cambridge

Tuesday, 18th of September 2007

A terrible accident on the M11 caused a traffic collapse in Cambridge today. Two of the major roads, the A14 and the M11, were closed for hours and people couldn’t get home from work. Because my wife took our car to get to work this morning she was stranded, too. We decided to meet in [...]