Currently I’m writing a couple of munin plugins at work and for certain components I need to parse log files to get out the numbers so munin can draw its graphs. My particular task is to parse a Pound log file and generate several custom graphs out of it and so the examples in this […]
DNS is one of the key ingredients of the internet and the world wide web. Without it you would have to type long numbers into the browsers address bar instead of convenient domain names like example.org. Humans seem to remember words better than numbers. In that sense, DNS is like the internets “phonebook”. To look […]
Recently I was talking about decentralized version control systems in a german podcast show. For preparing myself I read a lot of articles on that matter and I thought it would be useful for others to share the URLs I stumbled upon. Googles Analysis of Git and Mercurial (Summer 2008) Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax […]
Actually I didn’t want to write about the iPhone because I was sick of this whole hype. It was almost like in the movie »Being John Malcovich« when John Malcovich enters his portal and all he can say or hear is his name »Malcovich« »i’m sick of these iphone news – i want mac and […]
I’m a heavy macports user. I’ve installed tons of ports and for a while now, I was under the impression that macports matured enough to stop worrying about potential dependency nightmares. Basically macports already felt like the FreeBSD ports collection. Sure, there are b0rken portfiles now and then but thats ok. As I said – […]