http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog bytemine - behind the scenes Sat, 17 May 2008 10:06:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As announced in the previous article, we now have a company blog. Best thing for you to do is to monitor blog.bytemine.net as well as my private website. :) I will keep this blog alive for a month, so that people have a chance of adjusting their feedreader. Afterwards it will just redirect ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/40 well, it was just a matter of time. Just like every-other cool-hyped .COM company we just had to launch our own blog. You should point your feedreader over to http://blog.bytemine.net/, unless you can live without the technical ramblings from us ;) No, seriously. We will be publishing various technical things related ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/38 While updating machines at our colocation in Frankfurt last friday, Bernd and I hit a pretty harsh bug. Because of changes in the disklabel code, the disklabel of our main customer mailserver got updated by the OpenBSD kernel upon booting with the new OpenBSD kernel. After updating all packages and ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/37 The german Newspaper Sueddeutsche has an interesting story (it's from last year, still most certainly of interest) about xerox machines with internal harddisks. Once you've read the article, it's quite obvious that xerox machines that only scan a document once but copy it many times, must have some internal memory. ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/36 I've had my ThinkPad x60s for a few months now, but since the built-in 3G broadband device from Sierra Wireless was acting up a bit, I just got around now to actually set it up properly with OpenBSD. The device is a PCI MiniCard (in Germany the card is sim-locked ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/34 so, the only thing that is missing from the new soekris stuff we expected to be available in April are the SATA kits. Since today,we can actually ship the net5501-60 as well as the kerberos.si 19" cases. For the dual cases, you can actually load them up with two 5501 ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/33 Following (only on german available) story from the german online magazine Telepolis was sent to a mailinglist I read. Paranoia als erste Bürgerpflicht. Reading highly recommended. I will post a summary here in a bit. http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/32 The openbsd atheros (ath(4)) driver made it into the linux kernel. This is good news as apparently the linux people finally see again, that its good to have free drivers around. However, as undeadly reports, they also "changed" the license to GPLv2, while they were at it. (commit message). ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/31 Finally we started to ship the new Soekris modell, net5501-70, with the small configuration modell, net5501-60 being on the horizon (not yet available). The new modell is quite a change from the 4801 line, more ram, four ethernet ports (yet still missing gigabit ethernet), way bigger cpu and crypto ... http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/30 Tyrel from SitesCollide did an Interview with me during Confidence 2007. Here is a direct link to the mp3. http://hazardous.org/~fkr/blog/archives/29