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 it took some time to actually get the Furniture for our (my wife and mine) office, and since it came last week, I couldn't push back the fact that I needed to move the server from it's old (non design) Rack, to a new one I am partly responsible for.
For the sake of Administration, I did put in a KVM, and mounted a screen outside on the Rack, and even added a space for the keyboard, making it look pretty cool in the end. I just hope I won't get a temperature problem, as it's all in...  

 Seems the French Telecom and Free Telecom play the ping pong game. France Telecom says the physical line is Ok, and I tell Free Telecom the line is not OK and they see it too. According to this picture, the quiality is really really bad. If I have 15 minutes of connectivity without disconnects, I am lucky at the moment.
No chance in playing any online based game at all. Especially during this Week-End.

Issues have been fixed end of February - at last. Actually - whe...  

 a recent massive spam-attack on my mailserver has put the latter one into denial mode. This means, that internal mails where still processed, sending out mails too, but the mail-server has refused to accept any Internet-inbound mail.
After identifying the 6 IP-Addresses that where mail-flooding my mail-server, my ISP dropped routing from these IP's, and the mail-server could come back to normal operation. Note - the blue color is Rejected mails.

You can find the local...  

 Updated all data from the Linux Counter. You can see my linux-counter page here . Note that for some systems, the busybox binary won enable me to automatically update all data, however the manual entered data is accurate. 

 Upgraded the OS on Stargate from Ubuntu LTS 6.06.2 to 10.04 LTS (via 8.04.2). Some small quircks needed to get fix - but all in all it took barely 30 Minutes per OS Upgrade, and the fix at the end, a little bit of googling around, to identify that applications have changed API that needed to be adapted.

A real 2 hours for the upgrade processes, and another 2 Hours for the fixes. Try that with windows - as going from Windows 98 through to Windows Xp then to Windows 7 :) Good Luck ! 

 I finally figured out why my connection has some outages. There are 2 causes for this - and I'm afraid I can fix only one. The Modem I have sometimes gets a hickup - and stalls. This one needs a hard-reset. I'll probably hook up a timer onto it's power supply to get it fixed. The other issue is a software issue on the firewall/router. The built-in hardware watchdog will go into shutdown mode instead of reboot mode - forcing a normal shutdown. Only a regular power-cycle can fix that one. However ...  

 As usual - I can't stand things/hardware that does not work at 100%. Hence - I ordered a replacement board, and put it in place today. The new router board is the next generation, means that it has Gbit ethernet ports, and provides a USB Port as a Micro SD port that could be used. A test has shown 38MiBytes of FTP transfer speed - which is a good indication for GB Network.

It took me longer to actually get the new setup running - as the ethernet ports have been rotated somehow - making...  

 while being on travel for work, suddenly I was unable to reach my home-site anymore. When I came back, everything was still running, except the internet connectivity would not work, and the reason was unknown.
I first suspected an issue with my ISP, however testing it with them, it was not the ISP's fault, rather on my router. However - identifying the issue avered a pain, as it was not the a fatal problem, rather a non fatal.
For the router, the interface was there, and it tried conn...  

 a new law comes - and this one base on the FSK
From January 1st 2011, all sites providing uncontrolled access to data are required to tag the data entries with apropriate FSK values.
This is again - a stupid law - done by people having absolutely no idea on how the Internet works.
So we see once again - how good our governments are working. Especially - how much brain they put into their decisio...  

 It is quite amazing. You buy some new hardware, shiny new disk, CPU, memory, Case, DVD-Writer etc. all in, migrate the old system to that hardware, adapt all scripts for automation, monitoring, remote access and apply the newest patches etc.
You tell yourself, that for the next 5 years there won't be any more hardware related issues showing up. That box then runs for 2.5months, and suddenly you are bombarded with S.M.A.R.T. alerts sent to you, and the full-backup is unable to go through a...