Category Archives: Computing

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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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The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Posted on 1 September, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

Over a year after the release cycle for NetBSD 4.0 was started the first release candidate is now under production. It took much longer than anticipated unfortunately. But thanks to the tireless efforts of the Release engineering group it has … Continue reading →

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Next Generation Spam

Posted on 27 July, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

Last Wednesday I received spam over IPv6 for the first time. Somebody (or something?) tried to post a spam comment to this Blog from a computer in Japan using an IPv6 network connection to my web server. One of the … Continue reading →

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