Tag Archives: Tech Stuff

BIND misery

| Wednesday, 27 July, 2005

I somehow must have managed to change something in my named.conf some (long?) time ago, without properly restarting my Bind name server. Fact is, since yesterday, after a reboot, some queries were ok, some were not.

MSAccess to MySQL migration

| Thursday, 21 July, 2005

As I switched to OpenOffice for my main Home almost a year ago, I didn’t have any means to access my old MS Access databases anymore. I’ve been looking some time on how to migrate the data over to MySQL, but only now I found out about a nice, stable and free tool to work that out easily.

Stateless Linux

| Friday, 3 June, 2005

The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state. For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. To give an idea of the low temperature factor of this project, one can say this is, amongst others, about the ability to throw a computer out the window and then be able to recreate its software, configuration, and user data bit-for-bit identically on a new piece of hardware.