Author Archives: Matthias Scheler

Streamin’ Streamin’ Streamin’ – Though the tapes are screamin’

Posted on 12 October, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

After 6 years and one day of reliable services my Sony SDT-9000 DAT streamer broke down. It started acting up last Saturday and refused to recognize two of my tapes. I used two new tapes and managed to backup my … Continue reading →

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Less Downtime And Problems

Posted on 23 September, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

A while ago I complained about problems with NIS under Mac OS X. The amount of comments I received on that posting suggests that a lot of people had similiar experiences. Encouraged by Iain Patterson’s excellent post about using LDAP … Continue reading →

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Back to nature … at least for a while

Posted on 23 September, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

Yesterday Silke and I took advantage of the nice weather and went on a walk in the forest at Brandon Country Park. We initially planned to follow the medium length walk (3.5 miles or 5.6km). But after a few hundred … Continue reading →

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