OpenWRT WDS works like charm

A try with OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 8.09 in April to setup a WDS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System] with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation [http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-210001.2.2], failed [https://dev.openwrt.org/…

[selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems

For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image. At first you need to boot a live system to take an image: # mount /dev/…

nagios-plugins 1.4.13+git200906171200-1 uploaded

Today I uploaded a new nagios-plugins package to unstable. At first I thought I will wait for the next upstream release, but after the announcement to release soon, the months passed by. While we skipped the last stable release due the lenny freeze, there are a couple of bugs fixed…

New server hardware for svn.kvirc.de

Maybe some of you have noticed, svn.kvirc.de was running under heavy load recently while it was smashed by search engine crawlers. First we tried to tweak the trac installation, which caused the heavy load, when running the spiders trough. But it turned out, that this doesn't…

[vacation] 30/05/09 - 14/06/09 Manerba del Garda

I'm on vacation the 1rst two weeks of June in Manerba del Garda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manerba_del_Garda] at Lago di Garda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda]. If some dudes are around for beering / chatting / keysigning, feel free to contact me til Friday.…