Category Archives: Computing

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Gigabit Ethernet at last

Posted on 3 February, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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 … Continue reading →

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An unintended Lecture

Posted on 13 January, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Never volunteer on a mailing list to give somebody a quick introduction into OpenLDAP! You could end up with twenty people listening to a presentation about LDAP in general which you have to come up with off the top of … Continue reading →

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Long live the Printer!

Posted on 2 January, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A few weeks ago I bought some spare parts for my old HP Laserjet 4 because it couldn’t print a single page without a paper jam anymore. But neither my fabulous hardware department nor I had the heart to attempt … Continue reading →

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