Category Archives: Computing

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Redundant Array of Independent Door-stoppers

Posted on 15 July, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

My home server is using RAID 1 to keep all the files stored on it safe. The idea is that if one of the hard disks fails I can just replace it without losing any data. Well, that is the … Continue reading →

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Major updates in pkgsrc-2010Q1

Posted on 19 April, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

During the previous week the new stable package source branch pkgsrc-2010Q1 was created. Among the many new packages my favourites are clearly these three: Samba 3.3.12 NetBSD’s Samba package (version 3.0.37) is outdated and no longer supported by the Samba … Continue reading →

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YouTube via IPv6

Posted on 3 February, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

Google recently enabled IPv6 support for their popular video portal YouTube. This resulted in a significant increase of IPv6 traffic on the Internet. The amount of IPv6 traffic running through the DE-CIX e.g. grew roughly by a factor of four. … Continue reading →

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