Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

Movie of the Week: Star Trek

The last two Star Trek movies were quite disappointing. When I heard that the newest movie would be about the young crew of the original Enterprise I thought it would be even worse. But a very favourable review by Spiegel … Continue reading

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Is there such a thing as too much disk space?

As a geek I firmly believe that there is no such thing as too much CPU power, main memory, disk space or network bandwidth. Recently however my beliefs were put to a test. It started with a new 4GB CompactFlash … Continue reading

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Phasing out Sendmail

Three weeks ago I finally managed to finish one of my longest lasting IT projects at home: replacing the Sendmail MTA on all my NetBSD systems with Postfix. There were plenty of reasons for this migration: Sendmail’s configuration files are … Continue reading

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