Archive for February, 2008


The Hunt for a new Passport

Sunday, 10th of February 2008

My passport expires in a few week. And because I live in the UK I was concerned that it would be very difficult to get a new one. The German Embassy London provides the necessary information on their website. But that is unfortunately the only internet service they offer. I took me several days to [...]

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Gigabit Ethernet at last

Sunday, 3rd of February 2008

Ever since I got hold of my Ultra 60 workstation I have been trying to get a Gigabit Ethernet PCI card working in it under NetBSD. But neither a 3Com 3C996B-T nor an Intel PRO/1000 MT card worked in that machine because of problems with PCI interrupts.
But thanks to Julian Coleman and Rafal Boni [...]

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