Moving to a new server
I’m currently moving my blog and everything on experimentalworks to a new server. The new server is running latest OpenSolaris with all the fancy stuff in it. Enjoy.
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Ask a Droid
I bought a G1 dev phone six month ago. Not because I seriously wanted to write applications for the android platform, but because it was the only way to get an Android based phone in Europe. Nevertheless, the complete Android platform is really appealing to me, mainly because it’s more open than an iPhone, …
Birthday
Ups, I nearly missed the third birthday of my blog. Happy birthday experimentalworks blog.
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Ich bin mir gar nicht mehr sicher, wann ich das Chaosradio entdeckt habe. Es wird so ca. vor zwei Jahren gewesen sein, als der Begriff Podcast geschaffen wurde und die ersten deutsprachigen Podcasts das Licht der Welt erblickt haben. Als technologieverliebter Nerd stößt man so unweigerlich früher oder später auf das Chaosradio. Während ich …
This is….
Sind mir €0.99 min. 2h gute Laune wert? Mir schon.
distcc with Ubuntu and Gentoo – Knowing your defaults
I didn’t use distcc for quite a while. Usually modern dual or quad CPUs are fast in enough to compile in a reasonable time, but after compiling PHP 100 times, I wanted to make things faster and use distcc with my server which otherwise just idles around. My laptop, where I usually compile PHP, …
Lighttpd and luasockets
A few days ago I got nice task. Jo discovered a nice bug while playing around with memcached, lighttpd and Lua.When lighttpd got a request it can call a Lua script before the fcgi take over the request. The lua script is able to modify the complete request handling. Jo tried to use this …
Schwarz
Weiß, schwarz und grün. Ist doch alles immer nur das Gleiche, nur in blau. Aber macht auch nichts, reicht ja um immer munter loszupinseln, und bitte nichts vermischen. Könnte ja hässliche Flecken bilden, oder Bilder, oder was auch immer. Ist ja alles das gleiche, sagte er, dachte ich, meinte Bernhard über die Verstümmelten. Man …
vcap porting
I used 24C3 to do some work on vcap. I started porting the source to BSD as I want to continue working on my FreeBSD machine. Thanks to the support of the BSD TCP stack in Linux I was able to port it very fast. Just some adjustments of the includes and settings …
Inofficial PHP GIT repositories – Importing large trees
A few month ago Johannes Schlüter and I started discussing about GIT and other decentralized version control systems. During our exploration of GIT we thought about importing the PHP CVS tree into git. A few weeks later and a lot of wasted cpu time, we finally managed to provide an inofficial GIT mirror of …