Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

NIS under Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on 10 September, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

After my LDAP server stopped working I had to re-configure my Mac to use NIS which caused me a lot of problems under Mac OS X in the past. But it seems that Apple actually fixed NIS support in Mac … Continue reading →

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Imperial War Museum Duxford

Posted on 25 August, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Only three years after moving to Cambridge Silke and I finally managed to visit the nearby Imperial War Museum Duxford. It is Chris Cunningham’s fault that we finally made it. He visited Duxford two weeks ago and published a lot … Continue reading →

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WAPBL vs. Soft Dependences

Posted on 23 August, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used … Continue reading →

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