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 your head.

It happened to me yesterday and fortunately went quite well. I had a bit help from the audience and a lot of people realized soon that they already encountered LDAP as Active Directory.

Despite being somewhat unprepared I enjoyed giving that lecture. And I’m foolish enough to believe that the audience enjoyed it as well. 🙂

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The Sound Of Silence

Posted on 9 January, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

For the last twelve days we had visitors from Germany: two good friends from University and their lovely daughters. They left very early this morning to catch their ferry home in Harwich.

Now that they are gone the house feels very empty. And the sound of the boiler starting up is the only thing which interrupts the oppressive silence. 🙁

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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 a repair so far because we didn’t have instructions how to install the spare parts.

Luckily for us our good friend Achim is currently visiting us with his family. And because Achim isn’t afraid of anything and has healing hands when it comes to repairing computer hardware he retransformed our paper shredder into a printer today.

The only drawback is that I no longer have an excuse to buy a new colour laser printer. 🙂

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