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2004/03/20

Schumacher is on pole yet-again ... well, that totally sucks.

// posted by Marco @ 10:35

2004/03/19

It's finally weekend :)
This weekend Formula One moves to Sepang in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tomorrow morning the first practise sessions will be broadcast.
Here's hoping McLaren and Kimi can do something about the dominance the Ferrari team displayed in the seasons' opener in Australia.

Here's hoping for a great F1 weekend and a McLaren victory :)

// posted by Marco @ 19:23

2004/03/18

I just got a call from a friend who used to work for my current employer.
He told me that for 2 days of the week he is doing a project for my employer so I'll be seeing him prolly this upcoming monday.

Cool :)

// posted by Marco @ 14:18


Today, I had to pay the dentist a visit.
Unfortunately, my appointment was @ 11:20 so that broke my working day wide open.
I arranged to work from home because of this.
I've been seeing the same dentist for as long as I can remember and luckily the guy is no butcher.
I hate those dentist visits, don't you?
The dentist place is about 30 kilometers from my house so the drive didn't take that long.
I had to wait 20 minutes before I was called in though so that really sucked.

All is well, no major dentalwork was necessary fortunately.

So 6 more months of freedom before I have to return for my next visit, woohoo :)

// posted by Marco @ 14:05

2004/03/17

I had to add a new directly-attached disk array to a filer today for a webhosting environment.
The current disk array is showing some severe issues.
We scheduled and announced a maintenance window to bring down all related services to add the array.
Me and a colleague got stuck in a reasonable traffic jam on-route to the DataCenter leaving us with little time to on-site prepare the new hardware we transported to the DataCenter.
After about an hour work we successfully completed the maintenance.

Now that the new array is in place we can announce some further downtime to backup and restore the content onto the new array.

// posted by Marco @ 21:32

2004/03/15

When returning some DVD's to the local videostore this evening, I noticed the store was selling Mountain Dew softdrink.
This softdrink is very popular in the states.
Last summer me and my wife were on our honeymoon in California and at lots of places you could buy Mountain Dew.
I like it, I find it to be very different compared to all the regular softdrinks out there.
This is the very first store in Holland where I found a softdrink that I got very hooked on when we were in the states.
It so happens that there appears to be an American Food Service factory located in a place called Maarssen, that's actually the same place where my employer is currently located.
What a small world we live in.

// posted by Marco @ 21:25

2004/03/14

Just installed Pure-FTPd .
Since its release zero ( 0 ) root exploits have been found.
Pure-FTPd has support for:
- virtual users (use a different password than your system account)
- PAM
- PostgreSQL/MySQL database support
- LDAP

It's very ease to install and also comes with an admin GUI.

// posted by Marco @ 00:00