Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

Intel PRO/1000 PT

Posted on 8 December, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

After experiencing a lot of trouble with the onboard Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet interface of my new server I decided to get a network card that would be suitable to replace it. As Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI cards worked very … Continue reading →

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Goodbye i386 … Hello amd64!

Posted on 30 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Last Sunday I retired my NetBSD/i386 server installation after over 12 years of service. Back in 1996 I installed NetBSD 1.1 on a PC with a Cyrix 66MHz 486 CPU, 16MB main memory, a 1GB IDE hard disk and a … Continue reading →

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Thank you DHL

Posted on 27 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

In the past I was quite pleased with the delivery services offered by DHL. Packages usually arrived quickly and if I wasn’t home when DHL attempted to deliver a package I could use e-mail to arrange for a delivery to … Continue reading →

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