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Archive for September, 2008

Dell Vostro 1000 complete disassembly to fix overheating

Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in english | 18 Comments »

I own a Dell Vostro with an AMD Turion64 X2 TL60, 2GB DDR2, WD Scorpio etc...and after 5 months I got the impression that the fan spins up far too often so I checked the temperature of both the cpu ...

new project called “gsmtp” released

Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

Mornin', today I accidentally deleted a mailscript I wrote back in times that could send mails out via smtp and I used it for reporting and stuff like that but now that I have deleted it, I needed a replacement so ...

urlom.at, bookmarks.as.tl, Extjs and JSON

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

Howdy, today I migrated my old bookmarking script at urlom.at to bookmarks.as.tl so I can drop the name "urlom.at" because it's mainly me using this project/script and I'm not going to pay for names I don't really need. It's the same ...

Pound is a real reverse proxy and loadbalancer

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

Some time ago I wrote about setting up lighttpd as a reverse proxy and came up with several problems like its mod_proxy module that caches every request in ram and thus screws up the servers' ram whenever a big file ...

DVD-Ram with Ubuntu Hardy is easy to handle

Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

Hi, some days ago I decided to do another big backup of my project files so I thought about a good solution that's not that expensive and I ended up with dvd-ram type4 (cartridge but removable). I bought 5 double sided ...

The engine of my car blew up

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in english | No Comments »

Hi, too bad but today the distribution belt slipped when I started the engine so I probably need a new one. When I started the engine I noticed a strange metallic sound and I rapidly stopped the engine. I checked the oil ...