Posted
on January 14, 2009, 18:28,
by dsp,
under
Open Source.
I don’t remember when I heard of IPv6 the first time. Back then I tried to learn it a little bit but it was quite hard to get a working solution. When Benoit told me about a french ISP that provides native IPv6 connectivity, recently, I got attracted again by the technology. This time I spend much more time in understanding how IPv6 works and must admit that I really love the way it works. In IPv6 every machine get an unique IP address, that can be (under some circumstances that I’ll explain later) reached from every point of the world. Therefore it solves my NAT issues, so that I can access every machine in my local network from a remote host (if I would let the remote host through my firewall). As IPv6 allows autoconf, I don’t even have to configure my machines in the network, I just need to route the prefix and and announce the prefix. And: IPv6 is pretty easy to get.
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I don't remember when I heard of IPv6 the first time. Back then I tried to learn it a little bit but it was quite hard to get a working solution. When Benoit told me about a french ISP that provides native IPv6 connectivity, recently, I got attracted again by the technology. This time ...
Posted
on January 7, 2009, 03:40,
by dsp,
under
Private.
When I started blogging, serendipity was my favorite blog system. It was faster and cleaner to me than WordPress. Also WordPress was known for being a insecure at that time.
Well now after 2 years of blogging I took another look at a WordPress and I must admit that I’m impressed by the clean admin interface and all the nice eye-candy. There are also tons of features that I like to use. So that’s why I decided to finally switch over to WordPress. I hope that my rss redirection will work for most of the people. For sure a lot of links on the web will just link into nowhere, but as I guess most of the links out there are not long-living, I frankly don’t care about that (But I care about the feeds, so give me feedback if you encounter problems).
The most notable change is the design. As I do not have the time to port my selfmade s9y design so far, I stick with a standard theme. Personally, I liked the old one more, but I was told by annoyed people, who had to scroll all the way down to the first article, that the big picture at the beginning wasn’t that good at all.
When I started blogging, serendipity was my favorite blog system. It was faster and cleaner to me than WordPress. Also WordPress was known for being a insecure at that time.
Well now after 2 years of blogging I took another look at a WordPress and I must admit that I'm impressed by the clean admin ...
Posted
on January 5, 2009, 16:43,
by dsp,
under
PHP,
Private.
As Johannes tagged me, here are my 7 things:
- I leared PHP because I wanted to write a form mailer for a website.
- When I was 13 years old, I spend a lot of time on a city network called RivalNet, causing a telephone bill of 600DM. There were no flatrates at that time.
- I studied analytical philosophy for 6 months.
- I make coffee the old-fashioned way by throwing hot-water through the coffee filter. My favorite sort is Jamaican Blue Mountain
- I fear of dogs, seriously.
- I started reading “Das Kapital” from Marx when I was 18, but still not finished it. Nevertheless, I still insist to call it a book that I’m currently reading.
- My last name is spanish but I don’t speak castilian.
And here are the rules I’m supposed to pass on to the following bloggers:
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
And as for chaining, in no particularly significant order:
As Johannes tagged me, here are my 7 things:
I leared PHP because I wanted to write a form mailer for a website.
When I was 13 years old, I spend a lot of time on a city network called RivalNet, causing a telephone bill of 600DM. There were no flatrates at that time.
...
Posted
on November 17, 2008, 23:14,
by dsp,
under
PHP.
Posted
on November 1, 2008, 04:54,
by dsp,
under
Private.
I really like to buy CDs. Actually if I hear a few good songs from an album, I usually buy it, but this time it get’s really hard. I want to buy “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies” from Wax Taylor. In fact, it is not available in germany. I mean: WTF. It is a damn good album. Amazon list it but doesn’t really sell it. I want to have this album, but no chance to get it. I want to buy it. Dear ******* music industry: how can I buy my beloved album? No chance? What should I do instead?
I really like to buy CDs. Actually if I hear a few good songs from an album, I usually buy it, but this time it get's really hard. I want to buy "Tales of the Forgotten Melodies" from Wax Taylor. In fact, it is not available in germany. I mean: WTF. It is a ...
Posted
on October 30, 2008, 13:41,
by dsp,
under
PHP.
I gave a talk about sharding at the International PHP Conference 2008. I started with a short introduction about the problem that sharding tries to solve. Most of the talk was about the actual implementation and problems that people might run into if they try to use sharding in their projects. Ulf already gave a about optimization possibilities using mysqlnd’s ability to do asynchronous queries. And last but not least, it was nice to have the ability to talk to Jan or other people, who gave me interesting new ideas on sharding. The slides of my talk can be found here. Feel free to comment.
I gave a talk about sharding at the International PHP Conference 2008. I started with a short introduction about the problem that sharding tries to solve. Most of the talk was about the actual implementation and problems that people might run into if they try to use sharding in their projects. Ulf already gave ...
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, is a 1.2Ghz dual core with 2gb ram running Ubuntu 8.10 beta. The server is an up-to-date Gentoo on a 2.7 Ghz dual core with 4GB ram. If you install distcc, which is pretty straight forward, and start compiling you might run into the following error:
/usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:98: undefined reference to `__builtin_va_arg_pack’
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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, ...