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(Meanwhile not that new and fresh anymore but for all those of you who do not yet know: all errors have been completely removed and replaced by new even more amazing ones ! Furthermore I make some updates from time to time to increase the boringfactor.)
Here you'll find:
The things I like:
- long chats with friends (preferably in real life!)
- good music
- science fiction
- chinese food
- batter products (leftover from my student time..)
- everything that's called high tech.
- psychology
- philosophy
- do things different than the rest (as long as I know what i'm doing).
- 68k assembler.. just for the sake of nostalgia
Things I don't like:
- beeing reduced to the computer freak only, but I guess most people tend to put other people in certain types of boxes...
(on the other hand it can be quite useful when you want to get rid of someone, I just bore him to death...)
- Monocultures
- Beer and boozing till the doctor comes
- Soap operas & afternoon talkshows
- inefficiency and the waste that's linked to it
Depending on my mood I'm listening to different music styles,
this ranges from Reggae, Dancehall, Smooth Jazz, Downtempo over Acid Jazz to classic House music, Acid,
2Step, Drum & Base, Hip Hop, Soul up to R&B and Pop.
Coinciding to this i'm listening to the music of many different artists.
Here is a little collection: Sizzla, Burning Spear, Anthony B, Lady Saw,
Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Gentleman, M People, Moby, Alex Reece,
Carl Cox, Snap, The Police / Sting, Bobo In White Wooden Houses,
Tracy Chapman,
Bahamadia,
Anita Baker, Cassandra Wilson, Masters At Work, LTJ Bukem,
Mary J. Blidge, Peter Gabriel,
Brand New Heavies and a lot more. When I'm
out I'm usually moving to dancehall, drum & bass or hiphop.
First of all: Amiga ain't dead, it just smells a bit strange.
I own an Amiga500 and an Amiga 4000. Due to the soldering work
of a friend, the Amiga 500 has a switch which changes my 512kb (fake-)FastRAM extension into a chipRAM
extension. Ofcourse I own the little goodies one need: an external diskdrive,
an Action Replay III, tv-tuner and a suiting monitor (C=1084) which I mostly use for
watching television.
Now, my A4000 resides in a towercase, but this seems to be already filled up
again. Within I have CyberstormPPC (mc68060@50MHz/ppc604@233MHz) with 96MB
RAM on it, plus 14MB on the motherboard, 4 harddisks providing about 7,8GB (2 are driven as raid0),
a Teac R55S 4/12x CD-Writer, a SyQuest 370S removeable drive with 255MB per disk,
two floppy drives and a CybervisionPPC with 8MB video memory.
My x86 hardware consists of a K7-500 sitting on a MSI 6167, ruling over 384MB RAM,
a Haupauge WinTV,
ISA AWE64 PnP,
Tekram DC390 SCSI, NICs:
PCI Lvl1 FNC-0107TX
and another noname RTL 8139 based one.
Harddisk: IBM-DJNA-371800-IDE 17206MB,
quick-change harddisk frame SCSI/IDE, CDR: Pioneer DR-U10x-SCSI. This box is mostly running
FreeBSD but it has
also Win2k, Linux and QNX installed.
From the old parts I collected (and a few new I bought) I've build up a computer for
my family and me as a weekend-jukebox. It is an AMD K6@240MHz with 256MB RAM
on a Tyan Trinity 100AT,
10GB IBM something IDE harddisk, 24x ATAPI CDROM by Teac,
Matrox Mystique220,
Cardex Dragon (Voodoo1),
ALS100+ 16bit soundcard and a NE2000 compatible
ISA NIC by compex.
As "surfstation", terminal and music player I use my Powerbook G3, run by a PPC750 at 500MHz
with 512MB RAM and a 20GB IBM-DJSA-220 harddisk running MacOS X.
I used to run Linux on it too, but now most command line tool are available for MacOS-X too and in addition
Mac-OS has grown quite a bit over the years so the 20GB are pretty much used up already. I still miss two things
though, Linux was able to use my PowerLED as Harddisk LED and had the snooze command which put the powerbook in suspend mode.
Lately I inherited an ancient HP9000 712/60. After poking around a bit
with NetBSD I decided to install Debian on it. A working LIF image can be found at ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-hppa/current/images/netboot/2.6/. The system is working fine except for the speed, but then again this machine is from '93.
Projects I did or at least took part in.. (a long time ago..when I had time..)
- mac2ven - look up the vendor to a MAC address
- bwm - a small bandwidth monitor for different Unixes
- swapmon - automatically increase or reduce swapspace under FreeBSD
- frox patches - my small collection of patches for frox
- checkports - check your FreeBSD ports for missing libraries.
- vx_sum.pl - for a quick overview on the usage on a VxVM.
- Db_proxy - share access to a database through a HTTP/HTTPS tunnel.
- irssi-data - ein Irssi script to lookup the airport to an airport code.
- nstx for FreeBSD - a FreeBSD port of the nstx DNS tunnel daemon server & client.
- An updated version of
Andre Oppermann's FreeBSD "Automatic TCP Send and Receive Socket Buffer Sizing" patch that applies cleanly to RELENG_6.
- silentium.sh - a small script for FreeBSD which throttles the cpu frequency depending on the temperature to avoid the fan to spin up.
- mysql2sqlite.pl - a small script for migrating MySQL databases to SQLite. I successfully migrated my Horde/Imp db to SQLite with it.
- dspam.toggle - a small Perl script for toggling the spam status of mails for dspam
or possibly other spamfilters. Useful for integration in Horde/IMP.
- db_backup.sh - a small bash/sh script for automated backups of MySQL databases.
Now available in version 1.2 with new features such as checking if there is enough space available, checking if the dump succeeded,..
- mtx-changer - a small bash/sh script to half-automate tape-changes for backups using Bacula.
- Setting up a FreeBSD gateway
- Unix hints - a tiny collection of one-liners which might be useful.
- NetBSD/Amiga hints - a few hints for installing NetBSD/Amiga.
- RIPS - sort of RAID5 for files.
And some older stuff (defunct/unmaintained)
- M People Fanpage
- computer science in economics
BinConv the ultimate binary to text converter !
- FasterDatatypes a simple way to speed up the executions of AddDatatypes (i've been told OS3.5 is not compatible with that !).
- bouncer mirror - a little, useful tool for building a tunnel through SSL-capable proxies.
The original author lost the sources due to a harddisk crash and the binaries are getting harder and harder to find.
I'm currently working as a sysadmin for Hewlett-Packard.
Due to the job I can merely do little more than the necessary
system maintenance and preserving what I think is worth preserving.
I use the machines what I think they where made for: communication, entertainment and education.
Your homepage is not listed here although it should be ? So I must have turned a blind eye on it when I was making this page,
but this page is not made of stone and your homepage is quickly added.
- W3 Search Engines contains more searchengines than you need and is quite fast.
- FTPSearch for those who found archie being too slow.
- MESA specialized in the search for e-mail addresses.
- Submit can also be used to announce your webpages.
Usally i'm not in public channels so it's more useful to try to send me an msg than trying to find me in a channel.
I go under the nick Nagilum.
- #AmigaGer is the name of the channel I join occasionally.
- #chillout the name of the channel I used to be very often in former times.
- www.irchelp.org contains all the information to get started and further with irc.
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