Category Archives: Computing

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Traffic Jam in the Lounge

When I tried to read my e-mail from the lounge this morning it didn’t work because our MacBook Pro couldn’t connect to our wireless network. I went upstairs to check the access point which was working fine. After I reentered … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.0.11 vs. MySQL 5.0.51

Over the last few days the posts in this Blog were displayed in the wrong order. As a result an article from 2006 appeared on the front page. This was apparently caused by a incompatibility between version 2.0.11 of the … Continue reading

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The “ps” conspiracy

The first decent UNIX systems I worked with were the good old Sun 3 and Sun 4 systems of the computer science department of the University Paderborn. At that time all the machines were running SunOS 4.0 which was derived … Continue reading

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