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Sun Aug 22 13:34:19 2004 GMT: Lycos VDS Update
Sat Aug 21 16:04:42 2004 GMT: Swedish Lapland Pictures
Mon Aug 16 00:46:06 2004 GMT: Back in Salzburg
After two weeks in Swedish Lapland (with no Internet access, no newspapers and no TV news) I am finally back in Salzburg and have lots of catch-up work to do. Unfortunately, JabRSS didn't survive my vacation.
As promised, I have taken more than 400 pictures which I am going to add to my digital photo album during the next few days.
Sat Jul 31 16:20:52 2004 GMT: Vacation
I am currently packing my bags for a much needed 2-week vacation in the north of Sweden (somewhere around Klimpfjäll, Jokkmokk and Björkliden).
I don't think I will have any Net access there, but I will definitely try to take lots of pictures...
Sat Jul 31 10:04:05 2004 GMT: Lycos VDS Beta
Lycos is currently running a public beta test for Virtual Dedicated Servers. Luckily, I managed to get a free beta test account yesterday. The servers seem to be physically located in Stockholm and are running a developer version of Linux VServer on a patched 2.6.8 pre-release kernel. One limitation of Linux VServer, of course, is that you can't use iptables or a VPN package like OpenVPN, cipe or OpenSWAN.
If the contents of the proc filesystem can be trusted, they use dual Pentium III @ 1266 MHz with 4 GB of RAM. Yesterday, the system feeled to be a bit sluggish, according to vmstat the system had to cope with more than 3000 context switches per second which I guess might be the cause. I am currently unable to login, but according to the Lycos VDS Beta Forums this is a common problem.
I guess there is still some hard work to be done by the Lycos VDS team to get a stable product.
Thu Jul 29 20:11:34 2004 GMT: OpenVPN 2.0-beta8
OpenVPN 2.0 beta 8 has just been released which finally adds TCP support to the multi-client server mode (previously only UDP was supported in multi-client server mode). My Debian woody package is available here.
Wed Jul 28 21:24:55 2004 GMT: jabberd2 Stability Issues
Today the Jabber server (the session manager to be more precise) at sbs.co.at stopped working and started consuming 100 % CPU. Unfortunately, a simple restart of the server didn't work this time, so I had a look at the session manager database (which uses Berkeley DB 4.2) and found about 15000 duplicate entries in the roster-groups table. After cleaning up the duplicates the server seems to be working again...
BTW, the server-to-server communication component also crashed recently, but as it isn't compiled with debug infos I wasn't able to track it down.
Tue Jul 27 20:24:13 2004 GMT: New Linksys Firmware for WRT54G
Tue Jul 27 20:11:26 2004 GMT: uptimes and TCP Plugins for downtime
Sun Jul 25 08:24:14 2004 GMT: OpenVPN 2.0 beta7
Wed Jul 21 08:14:01 2004 GMT: GPL Issues Update
Tue Jul 20 18:53:31 2004 GMT: GPL Issues
