Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Never volunteer on a mailing list to give somebody a quick introduction into OpenLDAP! You could end up with twenty people listening to a presentation about LDAP in general which you have to come up with off the top of your head. It happened to me yesterday and fortunately went quite well. I had a [...]
For the last twelve days we had visitors from Germany: two good friends from University and their lovely daughters. They left very early this morning to catch their ferry home in Harwich. Now that they are gone the house feels very empty. And the sound of the boiler starting up is the only thing which [...]
A few weeks ago I bought some spare parts for my old HP Laserjet 4 because it couldn’t print a single page without a paper jam anymore. But neither my fabulous hardware department nor I had the heart to attempt a repair so far because we didn’t have instructions how to install the spare parts. [...]