Part three of my little blog series “Cfengine 3 vs Puppet” shows several ways of how new packages can be installed with Puppet. Writing the Puppet manifest for installing new packages # There are multiple possibilities here, 3 of them are shown here # Possibility #1 # package { "slapd": ensure => "installed" } # [...]

At the end of October, I passed the RHCE exam here in Germany. It was a very pleasant experience and I used the book “RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide (Exams EX200 & EX300)” from Michael Jang for preparation. On 1072 pages, Jung covers all the objectives of both the RHCSA and RHCE exams. [...]

Am 2. November 2012 erscheint in Deutschland offiziell die aktuelle Ausgabe des Linux Magazins. Darin enthalten ist u.a. mein Artikel über Cfengine 3.4.0 und die Neuerungen in der Community Edition, der vor allem das neue Posix-ACL-Feature näher beleuchtet.   Ich bedanke mich herzlichst beim Linux Magazin für die erneute Gelegenheit, einen Artikel in dieser Zeitschrift [...]

Today I finally found the time to switch to a modern design and update the blog in general. The menu and some pages were restructured and some old stuff was thrown to /dev/null. I hope you like the new look!  

The WHOIS Policy Review Team crafted a draft of their final report and stated, that the common internet user is in most cases unaware of the existence of the WHOIS service (76 percent of asked participants). Furthermore, they describe what actions should be taken in order to improve the WHOIS service (and data accuracy). The WPRT even [...]

Due to some requests via e-mail, I am now opening the commenting function to everyone. Please feel free to add your comment to every blog post!

Running a forum for a large community can be exhausting, especially when you need to build everything from the scratch. But before you could start with setting up the sub forums or installing mods, you need to think of the hosting: Where am I going to host the forums? On a shared webhosting package? Or [...]

The ICANN has recently released a sheet of paper which calls for a discussion about the future of the WHOIS protocol. People being very active in this discussion claim that the WHOIS protocol is too old and does not meet modern requirements. Some examples are that in many cases the data provided in the WHOIS [...]

One of my associates at work recently posted something interesting on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnWGDlKqEqoE%26feature%3Drelated&h=b4292 What do you think about the tune? The singer is called Julian Williams, and as a matter of fact, somehow known by my associate. Check the video out and give him all your support on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Julian-Williams/173375682709299?sk=wall Thanks!

Puh, it has been very silent around here. During the last weeks I was enjoying the RIFT closed beta and continued to gain some knowledge about LDAP and clustering. Those are some very interesting topics and I am very fascinated by the various aspects they are providing interested people with. Unfortunately real life drains out [...]