About text mode installers

By zobel on August 17, 2009 5:07 PM | 6 Comments | No TrackBacks
Taken from the CentOS Install Guide:

While text mode installations are not explicitly documented, those using the text mode installation program can easily follow the GUI installation instructions. One thing to note is that manipulation of LVM (Logical Volume Management) disk volumes is only possible in graphical mode. In text mode it is only possible to view and accept the default LVM setup.

Dear CentOS, please learn that doing LVM setup is even possible with the Debian text mode installer. It can't be that hard.

[UPDATE]: I need to admit, it's not CentOS to blame to, but RedHat, as CentOS is a clone of RHEL.

Where is all my spam gone?

By zobel on August 16, 2009 2:38 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
It's quite silent in my INBOX when master is down.

GeoDNS statistics

By zobel on July 5, 2009 9:59 AM | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks
DSA recently switched www.debian.org to GeoDNS. Now, 72 hours later, it seems we didn't broke the website too hard with it. While reviewing the query logs for abnormalities i started to do some statistics, which i thought might be worth publishing.

  • In total we had about 1.44 million DNS queries within 72 hours.
  • There were about 12550 queries where the source IP wasn't in the GeoIP database, so we had to deliver the default zone. Most of those had been IPv6 addresses.
  • Europe does ~50% of all the DNS queries

Debian GeoDNS queries to www.debian.orgUpdate
Upon demand, here are the exact numbers:

ContinentQueries
Europe730278
Northern America308404
Asia177777
Southern America176518
Oceania24941
Africa11697
undefinded12550


Switched to Movable Type

By zobel on July 1, 2009 12:38 AM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
After a long period of not-blogging, i decided to relaunch my blog using MovableType. Yes, i know ikiwiki does exist... ;-)

What they didn't announce...

By zobel on March 15, 2008 1:42 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
What they didn't announce... (To be fair: It is not theirs, Tolimar will be the godfather. But they do it with a perfection.)

Assimilated

By zobel on February 25, 2008 7:01 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
Pia im Debian Strampler Thanks to the colleagues at credativ for this nice romper suit.

How to release properly...

By zobel on February 19, 2008 3:23 PM | 16 Comments | 1 TrackBack
Pia Hi, i am Pia Zobel and I watched the sun rising today for the first time. I was born 8:29 CET, 51cm in size and 3050g in weight. Mum is well, though it was a C-section.

[volatile] SA 3.2.3 available for testing

By zobel on November 5, 2007 11:15 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Thanks to the outstanding work of Stephen Gran SpamAssassin 3.2.3-0.volatile1 is now available in etch-proposed/volatile. Before we accept it to etch/volatile i would like to ask some experienced SysAdmins to do some (more extended testing as we did) of the package and report back any problems you find to debian-volatile@lists.debian.org. As soon as we are convinced that SA 3.2.3 works as expected, I will move the package to etch/volatile and send an official announcement. Please consider that this upgrade might break your system, so you upgrade at your own risk. Thanks in advance for all the feedback you will send us.

Removing spam from Debian's mailinglist archive

By zobel on November 3, 2007 2:48 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Listmaster Thomas Viehmann wrote (IMHO) a very good summary for a policy on how to proceed with spam in the public archives of the Debian mailing lists. Some of them might need further discussions. Please help the listmasters and write your own ideas and opinions about his proposal. Also many thanks to Frans Pop, who first drafted some of them listmaster-internally quite a while ago.

It feels so good to know...

By zobel on October 29, 2007 11:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
...that good friends of mine, who are a couple for several years, are now engaged.
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