Recent blog entries for alpha

new office woes...

hmm - new company, new job, new boxes to play around with ;-)
while installing freebsd4.3rc on my desktop box i noticed the funny things, gcc optimizations can do to shared library code... try for yourself and make world with CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentiumpro -pipe

new projects: thinking about a network based serialization and transaction management implementation, some tacky eib embedded device ideas, development of a dns server staging backend for medium to large scale sites.

hm nice, so i finally got myself to create an account at advogato.org...

most of you do not know me, anyway - so let's start with webmonster's clean slate approach...

i worked for and built up nacamar data communications in the last years as a core team member, primary job: 101% techie.
when nacamar was bought out by world online which was a typical .com(pany)? which was bought out by tiscali (also a typical .com, see tiscali.net) i quit my job there - and now i am doing my own projects...

there are several nice ideas that i have, i discuss a lot about fundamental issues concerning freebsd, and i do not use capitalization in my msgs.

i run my own server, datasink.webmonster.de, just for fun - and i made the misdecision to upgrade the os to freebsd-4.3- beta some days ago. the box runs on apache with php and some zend extensions. the mail system is qmail with an up-to-date version of procmail for local maildir delivery. i support and use DJB's software, especially qmail and djbdns - i deployed several infrastructure projects on it.

in the past i did a lot of server stuff, the funnier projects are gm europe, shell 12move and big brother which are pretty high volume (eg. multi-TB/month+) sites. i also deployed a 500gb ftp server at filepile.nacamar.net which is dead now due to their lack of technical understanding...

more to follow soon,
/k