see here: http://dltj.org/article/ssh-as-socks-proxy/

• price with extending my contract another year at swisscom shop: about chf 750.-
• price with extending my contract another 2 years at mobilezone: about chf 730.-
• price WITHOUT CONTRACT at digitec: chf 690.-

strange eh?

• i’m living near olten (egerkingen)
• normally i work in aarau, so i have a subscription for egerkingen – aarau
• sometimes i have to visit clients around zurich

now you think: “easy, you’ll just have to buy a ticket from aarau to zurich”… but that isnt the case:
if the train stops in aarau (and its enough if it just stops, no need to change the train or something), you may buy a ticket aarau – zurich and won’t have any problem. but if the train goes directly from olten to zurich, without stop in aarau, you have to buy a ticket olten – zurich, or you’ll have to pay a monetary fine (CHF 80.-)…as if you would not have any ticket at all!

but…. what is the difference for sbb?

1. to allow the update, steps as described on this howtogeek post are needed.
2. the upgrade must be run from your running windows 7 rc installation, not from the cd or usb-stick
3. it will take around 30 minutes to complete

there were only a few problems after the upgrade;

• nvidia driver was still working, but no games had antialiasing nor anisotropic filtering – after upgrading the driver, this works fine again
• according to the upgrade compatibility check hamachi would have to be reinstalled, i just removed it
• tricky: daemon tools (sptd) has problems after the upgrade, however, this can be fixed like described on this blog

usually, when xrandr outputs the following:

(don’t ask me where dvi-0 comes from…)
one would think a simple xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto would activate the second monitor. however, this doesn’t change anything. instead, i have to use the following:

xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --same-as LVDS
after closing the notebook lid, i get a picture on my monitor… but i may not turn off lvds or dvi-0, or the monitor (on vga) will turn off…

1. start the installer with a special option and killing all tries to compile the modules, as described in here: blog post by Sebastian Mogilowski
2. add the line export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force to the file /etc/vmware/bootstrap, as described in this vmware thread (go to page 3)

i think it’s really time to change to virtualbox which is completely open, has better integration and works more reliable…

i’m backing up my citrix xenserver vm’s using the command

i write the backup directly to a cifs-mounted share on the network. however, i need to compress those images, ideally before i send them over the network. the problem is that the template-export command doesn’t support writing to stdout, which would allow me to pipe it through gzip.

fortunately, there’s a way which allows me to pipe it through gzip nevertheless. i’m using a fifo;
1st step: create a fifo

2nd: start gzip and let it wait for data from the fifo and write to another file (in my case on the cifs-share)

3rd: write your backup to the fifo, instead of the mounted volume

NHAAAA, just noticed that the template-export command doesn’t want to write to files that already exist… but the above works for other things as well ]]> http://pascal-schwarz.ch/blog/index.php/2009/08/28/compression-using-fifos/feed/ 0 http://pascal-schwarz.ch/blog/index.php/2009/08/15/problems-with-enigmail-after-updatereinstallation-of-ubuntu/ http://pascal-schwarz.ch/blog/index.php/2009/08/15/problems-with-enigmail-after-updatereinstallation-of-ubuntu/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:11:21 +0000 iSO http://pascal-schwarz.ch/blog/?p=138 just had a little problem to fix;

when i opened an encrypted or signed message in thunderbird, the error “the enigmime service is not available” was shown. however, enigmail and thunderbird were installed and even setting the path to the gpg binary manually doesn’t fix the problem.

however, it’s not too difficult to fix;

this uninstalls enigmail, including global settings. it’s not enough however, you’ll have to open thunderbird and remove it using the extras – add-on’s dialogue. afterwards, you may reinstall enigmail and it works as always.

as I did this, and I want to help other admins, here is a link: Download HP Universal Print Driver 4.7.2 (PCL5, PCL6 and PS)

Note: I did not test the driver yet, but it was obtained from HP directly

Update: just changing the driver on the printserver did not help so far….

Update 2: seems like we could fix the problem by using the newly released specific driver for the hp color laserjet 5550 instead of the universal print driver

i’m still there, and of course, from time to time, i need a new pc =)

this time i replaced my core2duo e6600 (2.4ghz) on a msi p965 neo-f with 2gb memory on it with my new:

• core i7 920 (2.66ghz)
• gigabyte ga-ex58-ud5 (with heatpipes, onboard power button, debug leds and everything…)
• 3x 2gb kingston ddr3 hyper-x
• and a zalman cnps-9900 led cooler

the machine now runs nicely, however it didn’t want to boot with the memory i first borrowed from a collegue at work (which was OZC fatal1ty memory).

the core i7 is a really nice cpu, and it has a lot of overclocking potential! i didn’t want to get it to its absolute max, however i thought that around 3.4 to 3.6 ghz should be possible without raising any voltages too much. so i modified the baseclock (on older platforms you would change the fsb) to get around 3.2ghz (multiplier is 20, so i put the baseclock to 160, instead of 133) and reached 3.2ghz easily. however, when i tested the machine under load, the cpu reached 100° C!!

after some research, i tried setting the vcore manually instead of letting the “auto”-setting decide,  which was the key to success! it seems that the auto vcore setting sets the voltage way too high which leads to very high temperatures. the cpu now runs at 3.6ghz with a vcore setting lower than the standard (at least lower than the standard the bios mentions) and it reaches “only” 80° C when all 4 cores (8 virtual cores btw) are under full load.

just another word about the mainboard: i installed ubuntu 9.04 64bit and windows 7 rc1, also 64bit, and everything works flawlessly. nice

it would be too much to write about it, so i thought i’d just post my pictures, you can find them here: Pictures taken during my military service

i wasn’t writing for some time, this is because i’m doing military service. i’m placed in Bülach, my Unit is called the “Uem/FU RS 62-1 Kp.1 Zug 3″. before xmas, i finished the 8th week, so there are still 13 left….

would be interesting how the situation looks with various linux distributions which have a central update mechanism for software.

Read from remote host xxx: Connection reset by peer
Connection to xxx closed.

sadly i couldn’t find out what exactly made this behave like this (i believe it has to do with m0n0wall, but the connection timeout there is set to 3600 seconds, so i don’t know why it happens), as it was never a problem until then. but i found an easy workaround that keeps the connection alive:

put this line into you ~/.ssh/config

this sends some data through the ssh connection every 120 seconds and avoided the connection from being closed.