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    <title>Blogging is futile   </title>
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    <dc:subject>Rants and brain dumps about Debian, the Web, old Hardware, old Citroëns and the daily life of an ETHZ system administrator</dc:subject>
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    <title>water-proof mice</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:18:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
When &lt;a
href=&quot;http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Bath%20Tub,%20Rubber%20Keyboard,%20Ratpoison%20and%20Opera.futile&quot;
&gt;I blogged about water-proof keyboards a few months ago&lt;/a&gt; I did not
really expect that there will be &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.emedia.de/@26E2VT3YoQfoU/bin/fun.pl?Aktion=T&amp;Art_Nr=77767&quot;
&gt;water-proof mice&lt;/a&gt; (no &lt;a class=&quot;wiki&quot;
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Protocol&quot;&gt;IP&lt;/acronym&gt; classification&lt;/a&gt;
though) so soon, too. (Found in an advertisment in the current issue
of the German &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/ct/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;c&amp;#8217;t&lt;/a&gt;
magazine.)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

But the idea of water-proof mice in general doesn&amp;#8217;t seem to be as new
as I initially expected, at least the web design of &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.waterproofmouse.co.uk/&quot;
&gt;http://www.waterproofmouse.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt; is very nineties. ;-)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ruggedtech.com/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;RuggedTech&lt;/a&gt; even
has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ruggedtech.com/unotron_mice.html&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;washable, wireless, IP66 (protected against powerful water jets) mice
with a scroll-wheel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.ruggedtech.com/mighty_mouse_5.html&quot; &gt;completely
silicone sealed IP68 mice&lt;/a&gt; (protected against immersion beyond 1m).</description>
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    <slash:department>*want*</slash:department>
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    <title>NSLU2 in a Tux Case</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:46:46 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
It started harmless when &lt;a href=&quot;http://thomas-deutsch.ch/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Thomas&lt;/a&gt; asked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lugs.ch/lugs/&quot;
class=&quot;uni&quot;&gt;Linux User Group Switzerland&lt;/a&gt; mailing list if someone
knows a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;tux&lt;/a&gt;-shaped alarm clock. But the topic of that thread quickly
moved to two other things in tux shape: the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.kysoh.com/&quot;&gt;Tux Droid&lt;/a&gt;, a device similar to the &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.nabaztag.com/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Nabaztag&lt;/a&gt;, but needs a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kernel.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; host with &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acmesystems.it/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;ACME Systems&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8217; &lt;a
href=&quot;http://foxlx.acmesystems.it/?id=1000&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;Tux-Server&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETRAX_CRIS&quot;
class=&quot;wiki&quot; &gt;ETRAX CRIS&lt;/a&gt; based Foxboard inside a tux-shaped case.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

We found out that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telion.ch/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;Telion&lt;/a&gt;, the Swiss importer for Foxboards, also imports ACME
Systems&amp;#8217; Tux Case &amp;mdash; although the Tux Case is not mentioned on
their website. Even better: They had a few old Tux Cases in stock
which don&amp;#8217;t fit anymore on current Foxboards since the position of the
power socket changed. (So only one hole in the case was missing.) And
they wanted to get rid of them quite fast: They offered us the Tux
Cases for 10 CHF (6&amp;euro;) each instead of 28 CHF each (17&amp;euro;) if
we buy all of them. Of course we couldn&amp;#8217;t reject this offer and bought
all five remaining cases.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Another part of the thread was about performance. Although ETRAX CRIS
is used by its inventor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.axis.com/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;AXIS&lt;/a&gt; in many of its products (they&amp;#8217;re famous for the Linux based
web-cams) many were not sure if the board&amp;#8217;s performance would be
sufficient for their ideas. Another disadvantage of the ETRAX CRIS
architecture is that no mainstream Linux distribution supports it.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Another point was the Foxboard&amp;#8217;s price (169&amp;euro;, ca. 268 CHF). &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.chabis.ch/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Bones&lt;/a&gt; just mentioned that
an &lt;a class=&quot;wiki&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2&quot;&gt;NSLU2&lt;/a&gt;
costs only about 100 CHF (60&amp;euro;).

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Probably on &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Relay Chat&quot;&gt;IRC&lt;/acronym&gt; someone (probably Bones, too) wondered if it&amp;#8217;s
possible to fit a NSLU2 into such a quite inexpensive Tux Case. We
took &lt;a class=&quot;wiki&quot;
href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NSLU2_board_front.jpg&quot;
&gt;Wikipedia&amp;#8217;s picture of the NSLU2 board&lt;/a&gt;, compared the size of the
&lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; ports on that picture, compared them with real-life &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; ports and
found out the size of the board that way. And when I got my Tux-Case I
noticed that the NSLU2 board really could fit into the Tux-Case.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Since &lt;a
href=&quot;http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Hardware/Mini-ITX%20based%20Home%20Server:%20Planning%20and%20Hardware.futile&quot;
&gt;I&amp;#8217;m already building a bigger NAS-like home server&lt;/a&gt;, I have no use
for another, much slower NAS. But since I more or less gave up the
also ARM-based Thecus N4100, another ARM-based machine in my hardware
collection wouldn&amp;#8217;t be bad.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

So it didn&amp;#8217;t took long and the idea was born to build the NSLU2 board
into a Tux-Case and let the website &lt;a href=&quot;http://tux.ethz.ch/&quot;
class=&quot;uni&quot;&gt;tux.ethz.ch&lt;/a&gt; run on it. (I inherited its administration
from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.0x1b.ch/~beat/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;Beat&lt;/a&gt; and
it&amp;#8217;s currently just a virtual host on one of our webservers.) Then it
would be a server named Tux, serving Tuxes, looking like a Tux and
running Tux&amp;#8217; operating system Linux. :-)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

I ordered an NSLU2 at Brack for 117.60 CHF (ca. 70&amp;euro;). Played
around with the original firmware for a moment, but it&amp;#8217;s horrible from
a security point of view: You can&amp;#8217;t even change the admin password
(default: &amp;#8220;admin&amp;#8221;) if no &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; harddisk is attached. And no, a &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; stick
doesn&amp;#8217;t suffice. So I didn&amp;#8217;t wait long and tried to install &lt;a
class=&quot;ext&quot; href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/&quot;&gt;Debian&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;armel&amp;#8221;
(ARM, Little Endian) port&lt;/a&gt; on it. But the NSLU2 refused the &amp;#8220;new
firmware&amp;#8221; with the error message &amp;#8220;Upgrade: no enough free space.&amp;#8221;.
While this is not in the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/FAQ&quot;&gt;Debian specific
NSLU2 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Frequently asked questions &amp;mdash; and often also the appropriate answers (German: Häufig gestellte Fragen &amp;mdash; und oft auch die Antworten dazu)&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it is &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/WebUpgradeErrors&quot; &gt;mentioned
in the general troubleshooting &lt;acronym title=&quot;Frequently asked questions &amp;mdash; and often also the appropriate answers (German: Häufig gestellte Fragen &amp;mdash; und oft auch die Antworten dazu)&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. As described in there, first
upgrading to the most recent firmware version and then uploading the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; installer worked fine.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

After I had successfully installed Debian Lenny on a &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?CATE1=163&amp;amp;PROID=286&quot;&gt;pqi
4 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigabyte; Great Britain; Großbritannien&quot;&gt;GB&lt;/acronym&gt; &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sticked into the NSLU2 and verified that everything is
working fine, I &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/OpenTheCase&quot; &gt;opened the
NSLU2 case&lt;/a&gt; and checked if it really would fit into a Tux Case.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

It does, but very, very close. You&amp;#8217;ll have to drill some holes and the
ethernet socket will stick out Tux&amp;#8217;s shoulder, but everything else
should fit perfectly after a few mounting parts inside the Tux Case
have been removed. As a proof of concept I laid the NSLU2 board on the
Tux Case&amp;#8217;s back:

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&lt;tr valign=&quot;center&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/index.epl?image=01102008.1024.jpg&quot;
	   &gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/01102008.thumb.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/index.epl?image=01102008_001.1024.jpg&quot;
	   &gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/01102008_001.thumb.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign=&quot;center&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/index.epl?image=01102008_002.1024.jpg&quot;
	   &gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/01102008_002.thumb.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/index.epl?image=01102008_004.1024.jpg&quot;
	   &gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.noone.org/Eigene%20Hardware/NSLU2-Tux/01102008_004.thumb.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;small style=&quot;font-size: 70%&quot;&gt;Pictures taken with my Nokia E51&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;

So later the LEDs will be in Tux&amp;#8217; one shoulder while the network
socket will be in his other shoulder. And the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; stick will be inside
his paunch via a &lt;acronym title=&quot;Universal Serial Bus; United States of Bush&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/acronym&gt; hub.</description>
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    <title>Mini-ITX based Home Server: Planning and Hardware</title>
    <link>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Hardware/Mini-ITX%20based%20Home%20Server:%20Planning%20and%20Hardware.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:39:04 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
Ever since my former desktop machine &lt;a
href=&quot;http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/w5/azka.html#gsa&quot; &gt;gsa&lt;/a&gt; died and
I started using only laptops at home, I noticed a need for a home
server for storing all my MP3s, holiday pictures, games, and backups
of my other machines. And I also want a filtering web proxy at home
again.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Current situation&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Currently my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Norhtec MicroClient Jr.&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8220;c2&amp;#8221; with it&amp;#8217;s 120 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigabyte; Great Britain; Großbritannien&quot;&gt;GB&lt;/acronym&gt; 2.5&amp;quot;
harddisk does some of these jobs (mostly storage and backup), but it
neither has the disk space nor the performance to do all the things I
want.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

For storage I once bought a &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=10&amp;amp;pid=46&quot;&gt;TheCus
N4100&lt;/a&gt;, the big brother of the popular and &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/&quot;&gt;officially Debian
supported&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=12&amp;amp;pid=1&quot;&gt;N2100&lt;/a&gt;.
Unfortunately &lt;a href=&quot;http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Thecus_n4100&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;there are a few things different than in the N2100 (NIC
without MAC) which makes it much more difficult to get Debian on
it&lt;/a&gt; and the original firmware doesn&amp;#8217;t support NFS at all. &lt;tt
class=&quot;emoticon&quot;&gt;*grmpf*&lt;/tt&gt; I had hints from others who managed to
get &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; on this NAS, but I didn&amp;#8217;t find the time and leisure to
really dig into cross-compiling kernels. (Although &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N4100_Module_List&quot;&gt;with the
new 1.3.06 firmware, so called modules became possible also for the
N4100&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://thecus.nas.free.fr/Ftp/N4100/Modules/N4100_SSH.htm&quot;&gt;a SSH
module has been posted&lt;/a&gt; with which a Debian chroot could be
installed and the required kernel build on the machine itself.)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

I though wasn&amp;#8217;t very angry when the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=10&amp;amp;pid=28&quot;
&gt;N4100+&lt;/a&gt; came out shortly after I bought the N4100, because the
N4100+ was no more an ARM based device but had a Celeron processor
inside instead. And a NAS which is built on average &lt;acronym title=&quot;Personal Computer&quot;&gt;PC&lt;/acronym&gt; hardware wasn&amp;#8217;t
as appealing as some device based on some more exotic architecture
mainly used in embedded devices. :-)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4&gt;The Mini-ITX Appeal&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;

This view changed rapidly, when &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vcfe.org/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;Raffzahn&lt;/a&gt; showed me a few Mini-ITX boards and cases. I
surfed around on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mini-itx.com/store/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;Mini-ITX.com store&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=42&quot;&gt;stumbled upon&lt;/a&gt; the
NAS-like &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=100&quot;
&gt;ES34069 case from Chenbro&lt;/a&gt; featuring four S-ATA hotswap 3.5&amp;quot;
slots, a slim-line &lt;acronym title=&quot;Compact-Disc&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Compact-Disc&quot;&gt;CD&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;-&lt;acronym title=&quot;Read Only Memory&quot;&gt;ROM&lt;/acronym&gt; drive slot, a &lt;acronym title=&quot;Secure Digital&quot;&gt;SD&lt;/acronym&gt; card reader, and enough
space for an additional 2.5&amp;quot; hard disk and a low profile Mini-ITX
board.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Additionally, the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=550&quot;
&gt;VIA EPIA SN series of Mini-ITX boards&lt;/a&gt; sports 4 S-ATA ports and
either a passively cooled 1 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigahertz&quot;&gt;GHz&lt;/acronym&gt; C7 processor or an actively cooled 1.8
&lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigahertz&quot;&gt;GHz&lt;/acronym&gt; C7 processor. That should be enough power for a small
multi-purpose home server while still keep the power consumption low.
And I&amp;#8217;m not the only one having this idea, &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=42&quot;&gt;Mini-ITX.com suggests this
combination&lt;/a&gt; and Chenbro officially supports the VIA EPIA SN
boards.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Additionally, Debian 5.0 Lenny &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2007/11/27/vias-new-advanced-epia-sn-series-mainboard/#comment-2999&quot;
&gt;seems to run fine on the SN series&lt;/a&gt;, only &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498652&quot;
&gt;lm-sensors seems to have problems&lt;/a&gt; with SN18000G and SN10000EG
(but not SN18000 and SN10000E).

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

So when the Chenbro ES34069 case showed up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitec.ch/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;digitec&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8217;s online shop, I
ordered one there and a VIA EPIA SN18000G board at Brack. I didn&amp;#8217;t
order any disks since for data storage I plan to use the four Samsung
400 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigabyte; Great Britain; Großbritannien&quot;&gt;GB&lt;/acronym&gt; 3.5&amp;quot; S-ATA disks I bought for the N4100, and for the
system I plant to use the 2.5&amp;quot; disk I initially bought for my
MicroClient JrSX &amp;#8220;c1&amp;#8221;, but then continued to use it only with the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Compact Flash&quot;&gt;CF&lt;/acronym&gt;
card. Not yet sure, if I&amp;#8217;ll also equip the slim-line optical drive
slot, too.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

The case took several weeks to deliver and the mainboard hasn&amp;#8217;t
arrived yet. Instead I got an e-mail from Brack that VIA products are
currently very difficult to get in Switzerland. Reason is said to be
that VIA tries to channel the distribution of their products to a
single distributor. (Sounds somehow similar to what Apple tried with
the iPhone and failed.)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Mini-ITX boards and power consumption&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;

So I now have a nice case without a board. There aren&amp;#8217;t that many
Mini-ITX boards out there sporting 4 S-ATA ports. One which &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.silentpcreview.com/article869-page1.html&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;cleary stood out&lt;/a&gt; was the new &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DG45FC/DG45FC-overview.htm&quot;
&gt;Intel DG45FC Mini-ITX board&lt;/a&gt; with LGA775 socket. (In Switzerland
neither available at Brack nor at digitec, but e.g. &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.pcp.ch/Intel-DG45FC-1a14019719.htm&quot;&gt;at PCP&lt;/a&gt;.) But
reading the specs of this board it was also clear that it wasn&amp;#8217;t
thought for NAS systems but high-performance HTPCs &amp;mdash; the focus
seems to be on multimedia performance which a NAS doesn&amp;#8217;t need.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Its newer sister, the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DQ45EK/DQ45EK-overview.htm&quot;
&gt;Intel DQ45EK Mini-ITX board&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.minitechnet.de/761.html?cHash=3d8316c78d&amp;amp;tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1&amp;amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4831&quot;
title=&quot;German written review&quot;&gt;focussed more on office and business PCs
than on multimedia&lt;/a&gt;. But Intels remote adminstration is not really
a plus for me (don&amp;#8217;t need it, I&amp;#8217;ve got SSH ;-) and it&amp;#8217; neither cheaper
than the DG45FC nor has it significantly lower power-consuption.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Despite the 120W power-supply there are people who already combined
the Chenbro ES34069 with the Intel DG45FC or DQ45EK board, e.g. &lt;a
href=&quot;http://forum.nas-portal.org/showthread.php?s=cd2814a0038565eb25010065e37872af&amp;amp;t=1924&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;one of the administrators of the German NAS-Portal forums
built such a machine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title=&quot;German written blog post&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.rwufka.de/2008/09/25/wunder-geschehen-intel-motherboard-dq45ek/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;this German guy who wants to build a Windows Home Server
based on such a combination&lt;/a&gt;. At least the NAS-Portal administrator
found out that the board consumes so much power that together with the
4 S-ATA disks the included 120W power supply doesn&amp;#8217;t suffice and the
system is not stable in this configuration. &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.trustedreviews.com/motherboards/review/2008/09/18/Intel-DG45FC/p1&quot;
&gt;Trusted Reviews review of the DG45FC&lt;/a&gt; explains why: It&amp;#8217;s one of
the first Mini-ITX board not following the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Mobile on Desktop&quot;&gt;MoDT&lt;/acronym&gt; idea, has a desktop
chipset instead a mobile chipset and therefore hasn&amp;#8217;t all of the
power-saving features of those mobile chipsets.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

But it&amp;#8217;s easy to see anyway: Most of the CPUs supported by the DG45FC
and DQ45EK boards have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power&quot; class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Thermal Design Power&quot;&gt;TDP&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of 65W. Offically the processor cooler
delivered with the case supports processors with up to 65W, but 65W is
already more than the half of what the power supply delivers and
according to the Trusted Reviews review, the board itself consumes
another 35W itself. So for the four 3.5&amp;quot; S-ATA disks &amp;mdash;
which are usually not as economical as notebook disks &amp;mdash; about
20W are left. This can&amp;#8217;t work! The guy from NAS-Portal.org plans to
solve the problem by using a universal 180W notebook power supply
instead of the original one.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

In comparison to the 100W of the both Intel boards, VIA&amp;#8217;s SN18000G
consumes only 26W (the fanless SN10000EG even only 22W) and that&amp;#8217;s
board and processor! That&amp;#8217;s about &amp;frac14; of what the Intel board
consumes. Imagine the difference between having a 100W light bulb
(suffices for a whole small room) shining 365 days a year compared to
a 25W light bulb (often used in bedside lamps) in a year.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Other Mini-ITX mainboards with 4x S-ATA include the following ones:

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.jetway.com.tw/jw/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=500&amp;amp;proname=NC62K&quot;
&gt;Jetway JNC62K&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=34#jnc62k&quot; &gt;According to
Mini-ITX.com it fits into the Chenbro ES34069 case, but requires at
least a 120W power supply&lt;/a&gt; which again questions its power
consumption and its usage together with four 3.5&amp;quot; harddisks,
although it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=42&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;recommended for the ES34069 by Mini-ITX.com&lt;/a&gt;. But I
haven&amp;#8217;t made that good experiences with NVidia chipsets yet, so this
board seems currently no option for me anyway. &lt;acronym title=&quot;on the one/other hand&quot;&gt;OTOH&lt;/acronym&gt; there&amp;#8217;s &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.rwufka.de/2008/09/21/windows-home-server-system-gehause-chenbro-es34069-ist-da/#comment-6&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;German speaking guy who build a ES34069 based server using
this board and only three SATA harddisks&lt;/a&gt; and runs the OpenSolaris
based and commercial &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nexenta.com/products&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;NexentaStor&lt;/a&gt; on it, so the hardware can&amp;#8217;t be too
exotic. (&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/05/20/jetway-jnc62k-geforce-8200-mini-itx/2&quot;
&gt;Review at Bit-Tech&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.miniitx.biz/mini-itx-motherboard/jetway-mini-itx-motherboard/jetway-jnc62k-mini-itx-motherboard-review/&quot;
&gt;Review at MiniITX.biz&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Added on 07-Oct-2008)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.jetway.com.tw/jw/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=515&amp;amp;proname=NC81-LF&quot;
&gt;Jetway NC81-LF&lt;/a&gt;: The non-Nvidia brother of the NC82K using the AMD
780G chipset. Supports CPUs from 35W to 65W &lt;acronym title=&quot;Thermal Design Power&quot;&gt;TDP&lt;/acronym&gt;. (&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.minitechnet.de/jetway_nc81_1.html&quot;&gt;Review at MiniTechNet&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/product/mb/pro_detail.asp?rlink=Specification&amp;amp;no=239&quot;
&gt;Albatron KI690-AM2&lt;/a&gt;: Already over one year old and &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.silentpcreview.com/article755-page1.html&quot;&gt;Silent &lt;acronym title=&quot;Personal Computer&quot;&gt;PC&lt;/acronym&gt;
Review says&lt;/a&gt; it has an &lt;q
cite=&quot;http://www.silentpcreview.com/article755-page6.html&quot;&gt;extremely
restrictive BIOS&lt;/q&gt; and &lt;q
cite=&quot;http://www.silentpcreview.com/article755-page6.html&quot;&gt;poor fan
control&lt;/q&gt;. (Another &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1132/albatron_mini_itx_ki690_am2_reviewed/&quot;
&gt;Review at TweakTown&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.iei.com.tw/en/product_IPC.asp?model=KINO-9454-R20&quot;
&gt;iEi KINO-9454-R20&lt;/a&gt;: Seems to support only Pentium 4 and Pentium
D.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Several Commell mainboards: &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-66A.HTM&quot;&gt;LV-66A&lt;/a&gt;
(VIA C7 1.5 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Gigahertz&quot;&gt;GHz&lt;/acronym&gt;), &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-672.HTM&quot; &gt;LV-672&lt;/a&gt;
(Pentium 4), &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-674.HTM&quot;&gt;LV-674&lt;/a&gt;
(Pentium D).&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.gigabyte.de/Products/Networking/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2841&quot;
&gt;Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH&lt;/a&gt; (not yet available)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://de.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded+motherboards/miniitx+motherboards/986lcdmmitx.html&quot;
&gt;Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX&lt;/a&gt;: Socket mPGA478 and mPGA479, supports Intel
Core 2 Duo Mobile beyond others; 3x GBit network interfaces, but also
quite multimedia focussed &amp;mdash; the &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.epiacenter.de/modules.php?name=Content&amp;amp;pa=showpage&amp;amp;pid=201&quot;&gt;review
at EPIACenter.de&lt;/a&gt; (German written) says using it for NAS or a
network-focussed machine is casting pearls before swine. &lt;tt
class=&quot;emoticon&quot;&gt;:-)&lt;/tt&gt; But the same counts for the DG45FC surely,
too. &lt;tt class=&quot;emoticon&quot;&gt;;-)&lt;/tt&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.fabrimex-systems.ch/Kontron.622.0.html&quot;&gt;Importer for
Switzerland seems to be fabrimexSystems&lt;/a&gt; and end customers can buy
it e.g. &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.ichbinleise.ch/product_info.php?products_id=2888&amp;amp;osCsid=bf06b0520e5c9b90cc753b7a0318ebdc&quot;
&gt;at ichbinleise.ch&lt;/a&gt; (which &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.ichbinleise.ch/index.php?cPath=238_239&quot;&gt;seem to sell
only Kontron mainboards&lt;/a&gt;), but it&amp;#8217;s way more expensive than the
Intel DG45FC and even more expensive than the VIA SN18000G.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jwele.com/motherboard_detail.php?419&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;J&amp;amp;W MINIX&amp;trade; 780G-SP128MB&lt;/a&gt; (identical to the &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.albatron.com.tw/English/product/mb/pro_detail.asp?rlink=Specification&amp;amp;no=263&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Albatron KI780G&lt;/a&gt; mainboard &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.minitechnet.de/761.html?&amp;amp;cHash=1&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4842&quot;
&gt;according to MiniTechNet&lt;/a&gt;): Another new multimedia focussed
mainboard, but unless ATI drivers are way less usable than the NVidia
drivers, I prefer not to use ATI graphics cards. (&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.miniitx.biz/mini-itx-motherboard/jw-mini-itx-motherboard/jw-minix-780g-sp128mb-is-available-in-hong-kong/&quot;
&gt;Review at MiniITX.biz&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.advantech.de/products/AMD-Turion-and-Sempron-Processor-based-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-with-6-COM-and-Dual-LAN/mod_1-2JKDYC.aspx&quot;
&gt;Advantech AIMB-221&lt;/a&gt;, AMD/ATI based and said to have a
power-consumption &lt;q
src=&quot;http://www.advantech.de/products/AMD-Turion-and-Sempron-Processor-based-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-with-6-COM-and-Dual-LAN/mod_1-2JKDYC.aspx&quot;
&gt;&lt;cite&gt;less than 100W&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/q&gt; and a low TCO. But 100W are still too
much for the 120W &lt;acronym title=&quot;Power Supply Unit&quot;&gt;PSU&lt;/acronym&gt;. (&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.minitechnet.de/761.html?cHash=1&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4822&quot;
&gt;German review at MiniTechNet&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;

For now, I decided to wait a little bit more for my VIA EPIA SN18000G
board which still seems to be the best board for the Chenbro ES34069
case although not really cheap. But if I once in a not that distant
future decide to have a desktop at home again, I&amp;#8217;m quite sure it&amp;#8217;ll
sport a cute Mini-ITX case (perhaps a nice &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.mcubed-store.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=52_54&amp;amp;products_id=209&quot;
&gt;black-orange HFX micro M1 case by mCubed&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; unfortunately
the M2 is no more available in a color combination including orange
;-) with an Intel DG45FC or Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX and a decent Core 2
Duo processor.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Software Plans&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Of course my home server will run Debian &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot; title=&quot;GNU&apos;s not Unix&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kernel.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; 5.0 Lenny on it,
with software &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_5#RAID_5&quot;
class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;RAID-5&lt;/a&gt; and LVM2 over the 1.6 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Terabyte&quot;&gt;TB&lt;/acronym&gt; of S-ATA disks
resulting in 1.2 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Terabyte&quot;&gt;TB&lt;/acronym&gt; available disk space which will be offered using
at least NFS, SMB and SSH (think &lt;a href=&quot;http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;sshfs&lt;/a&gt;). Planned software includes
&lt;a href=&quot;http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;BackupPC&lt;/a&gt; (a very fine pulling backup system for machines which are not
online 24/7) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.privoxy.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Privoxy&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#8217;ll perhaps also install &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; and a caching proxy like &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.squid-cache.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Squid&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;Polipo&lt;/a&gt;. Another idea is to run &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediatomb.cc/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Mediatomb&lt;/a&gt; on that machine. :-)</description>
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    <title>OMG, they killed del.icio.us! You bastards!</title>
    <link>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/OMG%2C%20they%20killed%20del.icio.us%21%20You%20bastards%21.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:45:49 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
&lt;small style=&quot;font-size: 75%;&quot;&gt;Yeah, it happened already a while ago,
but I still get angry about it, so I need to rant about it in my
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog&quot; class=&quot;wiki&quot; title=&quot;What is a blog/weblog?&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/small&gt;

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Yahoo!, the owner of &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;, recently &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/07/oh-happy-day.html&quot;
&gt;renamed the cool old del.icio.us to the &lt;em&gt;no more&lt;/em&gt; cool and two
bytes longer delicious.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;acronym title=&quot;what/who the fuck&quot;&gt;WTF&lt;/acronym&gt;? Part of del.icio.us&amp;#8217; popularity
was its cool host name, why drop that? And even if a few dumbasses
don&amp;#8217;t understand the wordplay on &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; perfect host name, they
could have offered delicious.com as a second domain name which works
in parallel.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

But no, they dropped the good old del.icio.us in a way so that all old
bookmarklets, bookmarks, plugins, etc. don&amp;#8217;t work right anymore and I
need to login each time I want to save a bookmark on all browsers
where I once was logged in on the old site even if I&amp;#8217;m already logged
in at the new site in the same browser session. delicious.com sucks.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

And no, I don&amp;#8217;t let count &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2008/09/i-want-your-com-for-new-startup.html&quot;
&gt;Gabor&amp;#8217;s argument that &lt;q
src=&quot;http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2008/09/i-want-your-com-for-new-startup.html&quot;
&gt;&lt;cite&gt;people have difficulties with domains like
del.icio.us&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/q&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, since many sites are well known or can be
easily remembered &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of their creative host or domain
name: &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
class=&quot;ext&quot; href=&quot;http://script.aculo.us/&quot; &gt;script.aculo.us&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
class=&quot;ext&quot; href=&quot;http://wua.la/&quot;&gt;wua.la&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
href=&quot;http://identi.ca/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;identi.ca&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://certifi.ca/&quot;&gt;certifi.ca&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://laconi.ca/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;laconi.ca&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cr.yp.to/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
&gt;cr.yp.to&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot; href=&quot;http://buenz.li/&quot;&gt;buenz.li&lt;/a&gt;
(Swiss German), &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot; href=&quot;http://go.to/&quot;&gt;go.to&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
href=&quot;http://bit.ly/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot; &gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://chickensh.it/&quot; &gt;chickensh.it&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://gibts.net/&quot; &gt;gibts.net&lt;/a&gt; (German), &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://doma.in/&quot;&gt;doma.in&lt;/a&gt;, etc.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

No wonder, &lt;a href=&quot;http://fuck.me/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Montenegro sells many
second level domains under their top level domain .me as &amp;#8220;premium
domains&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;.

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  <item>
    <title>Can&apos;t resist this meme</title>
    <link>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Hardware/Can%27t%20resist%20this%20meme.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Hardware/Can%27t%20resist%20this%20meme.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:38:23 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
Just stumbled over &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/09/#e2008-09-13T17_41_13.txt&quot;
&gt;this meme&lt;/a&gt; at Adrian (&lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://madduck.net/blog/2008.09.11:host-naming-theme/&quot; &gt;the meme
seems to be started by madduck involuntarily&lt;/a&gt;), and since &lt;a
href=&quot;http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/Bloedsinn/namen.html&quot;
title=&quot;historical web page written in German, sorry&quot;&gt;I&amp;#8217;m fascinated by
how people choose hostnames since my early years at university&lt;/a&gt;, I
can&amp;#8217;t resist to add my two cents to this meme.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

To be exact, I have two schemes, one for servers out there somewhere
(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hetzner.de/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Hetzner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xencon.net/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;xencon&lt;/a&gt;, etc.) and they&amp;#8217;re all wordplays on their domain name
noone.org, e.g. sym&lt;!-- --&gt;link.to.noone.org (short name &amp;#8220;sym&amp;#8221; :-),
gateway.to.noone.org (usually an alias for one of the machines below),
virtually.noone.org (always a virtual machine, initially &lt;acronym title=&quot;User Mode Linux, Unified Modeling Language&quot;&gt;UML&lt;/acronym&gt;, soon a
Xen DomU), etc. So nothing for a quiz here.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

My other scheme is for all my machines at home and my mobile machines.
I&amp;#8217;ll start this list with the not so obvious hostnames, so the earlier
you guess the scheme, the better you are (or the better you know me
;-). One more hint in advance: &amp;#8220;(*)&amp;#8221; means this attribute or fact made
me choose the name for the machine and therefore can be used as hint
for the scheme. :-)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;azam&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My first &lt;acronym title=&quot;Personal Computer&quot;&gt;PC&lt;/acronym&gt; at all, a 386 with 25 &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt; and MS-DOS. (Got named
    retroactively(*). Hadn&amp;#8217;t hostnames at that time.)&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;ak &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;Got it from my brother after he didn&amp;#8217;t need it anymore. It
    initially was identical to azam, but once was upgraded to a 486.
    Still have the 386 board, though.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;azka&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My first self-bought computer, a pure SCSI system with a AMD
    K5-PR133 and 32 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Megabyte&quot;&gt;MB&lt;/acronym&gt; &lt;acronym title=&quot;Random Access Memory&quot;&gt;RAM&lt;/acronym&gt;. Initially had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.suse.de/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;System- und Software-Entwicklung&quot;&gt;SuSE&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 4.4 and Windows 95 on.
    Still my last machine which had a Windows installed! :-)&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;m35&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;Same case and same speed as azka. Used it for experimenting(*)
    with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Sid&lt;/a&gt; years ago.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;azu&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;Initially also an AMD K5-PR133, later replaced by a Pentium 90
    and used as &lt;acronym title=&quot;Digital Subscriber Line&quot;&gt;DSL&lt;/acronym&gt; router.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;azl&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;An HP Vectra 386/25N book size mini desktop I saved from the
    scrapyard at Y_Plentyn before his (first) move to Munich. The
    cutest(*) 386 I ever saw.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;ayce&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A 386 with 387 co-processor(*) and solded 8 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Megabyte&quot;&gt;MB&lt;/acronym&gt; of &lt;acronym title=&quot;Random Access Memory&quot;&gt;RAM&lt;/acronym&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;ay&lt;!-- --&gt;ca&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A 1992 Toshiba T6400C 486 laptop bought at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vcfe.org/&quot; class=&quot;uni&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Vintage Computer Festival Europe&quot;&gt;VCFe&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 5.0.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;bi&lt;!-- --&gt;jou&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My 1996 ThinkPad 760ED, which is still working and running
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot; title=&quot;GNU&apos;s not Unix&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kernel.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; 5.0 Lenny (I started with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Debian 3.0 Woody&lt;/a&gt; on it
    and always dist-upgraded it! :-)&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;gsa &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My long-time desktop after azka. A Pentium II with 400 &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt; and
    578 &lt;acronym title=&quot;Megabyte&quot;&gt;MB&lt;/acronym&gt; of &lt;acronym title=&quot;Random Access Memory&quot;&gt;RAM&lt;/acronym&gt; at the end. Bought used at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxtag.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;LinuxTag&lt;/a&gt; 2003, it worked
    until end of last year when it started to suddenly switch off
    more and more often and now refuses to boot at all. Hasn&amp;#8217;t been
    replaced yet though. I mostly use my laptops at home since
    then.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;gsx &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;An AMD K6 with 500 &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt; I got from &lt;a href=&quot;http://maol.ch/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;maol&lt;/a&gt; and which was used as
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.symlink.ch/&quot; class=&quot;uni&quot;&gt;Symlink&lt;/a&gt; test server more than once. (It was the machine initially
    named symlink.to.noone.org because of that.)&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;hy&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My 32 bit Sparc, a Hamilton Hamstation.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;hz &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My 64 bit Sparc, an UltraSparc 5.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;tub&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;An HP Apollo 9000 Series 400, model 400t from 1990.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;tpv &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters, too ;-)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zaurus.de/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Zaurus&lt;/a&gt; SL-5500G.&lt;/dt&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;tryane&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A Unisys Acquanta CP mini desktop with a passively cooled(*) 200
    &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt; Pemtium &lt;acronym title=&quot;Multimedia Extension&quot;&gt;MMX&lt;/acronym&gt;. Used as &lt;acronym title=&quot;Digital Subscriber Line&quot;&gt;DSL&lt;/acronym&gt; router for while, but the power
    supply fan was too noisy.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;lna &lt;small&gt;(pronounced as letters)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A 233 &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt; Alpha&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;loadrunner&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;An IBM ThinkPad A31 running Sid. I use it as beside
    terminal.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;pony&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A Compaq LTE5100 laptop with a Pentium 90 running Sid.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;dagonet&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A Sony Vaio laptop which ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Debian GNU/kFreeBSD&lt;/a&gt; until it
    broke.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Those who know me quite good should already have guessed the scheme,
even if they can&amp;#8217;t assign all the names. For all others, here&amp;#8217;s one
name which doesn&amp;#8217;t exactly fit into the scheme, but still is related
in someway, but you need to knowledge of the theme&amp;#8217;s subject to know
the relation:

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;colani&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A big tower from the early 90s designed by Colani.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Ok, and now the more obvious hostnames:

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;rosalie&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;A very compact Toshiba T1000LE 8086 laptop running ELKS and
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedos.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;FreeDOS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;amisuper&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;Also an old Symlink test server from maol. He named it &amp;#8220;dual&amp;#8221;.
    2x(*) Pentium I with 166 &lt;abbr title=&quot;Megahertz&quot;&gt;MHz&lt;/abbr&gt;. Unfortunately doesn&amp;#8217;t boot
    anymore.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;visa&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;An IBM NetVista workstation running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. My
    current &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Relay Chat&quot;&gt;IRC&lt;/acronym&gt; host.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;nemo&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://eeepc.asus.com/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;ASUS EeePC&lt;/a&gt; running Debian 5.0 Lenny.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;pluriel&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My current WLAN router running &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freewrt.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;FreeWRT&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;c1&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My MicroClient JrSX, an embedded 486SX compatible machine with
    300 Mhz for VESA mountings.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;c2&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My MicroClient Jr, an embedded Pentium &lt;acronym title=&quot;Multimedia Extension&quot;&gt;MMX&lt;/acronym&gt; compatible machine
    with 200 Mhz for VESA mountings.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;c-crosser&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My Lenovo ThinkPad T61 running Debian 5.0 Lenny.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;c-cactus and c-metisse&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;The &lt;acronym title=&quot;Keyboard, Video and Mouse&quot;&gt;KVM&lt;/acronym&gt; based virtual(*) machines on c-crosser running Sid and
    Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.&lt;/dd&gt;

  &lt;dt&gt;jumper&lt;/dt&gt;
  &lt;dd&gt;My NAS(*) at home, currently a TheCus N4100. Soon to be replaced
    by some Mini-ITX box.&lt;/dd&gt;

&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Any one who hasn&amp;#8217;t guessed the scheme yet? For those understanding
German it&amp;#8217;s explained at the end of &lt;a
href=&quot;http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/w5/azka.html&quot;&gt;my old hardware
page&lt;/a&gt;. For all others I suggest either to look at the domain name
in my e-mail address (no, it&amp;#8217;s usually not noone.org).

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Still not clear? Well, feel free to ask me for all the gory details or
mark the following white box to see the scheme as well as the
explanations for nearly all hostnames hidden in there:

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #FFFFFF;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;

All the machines are named after Citro&amp;euml;ns. Old machines after old
Citro&amp;euml;ns, current hardware after current Citro&amp;euml;n models or
prototypes.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Those names starting with &amp;#8220;A&amp;#8221; are 2CV derivatives since the 2CV was
Citro&amp;euml;ns &amp;#8220;A&amp;#8221; model. &amp;#8220;AZ&amp;#8221; was the 2CV, AZU and AK were 2CV vans
and everything starting with AY (e.g. AYA, AYA2, AYB &amp;#8211; but those
don&amp;#8217;t sound that nice ;-) is Dyane based, but I currently only use
M&amp;eacute;hara names (AY&lt;!-- --&gt;CA is the normal M&amp;eacute;hari, AYCE the 4x4
version). Interestingly not everything starting with AYC is a
M&amp;eacute;hari: AYCD was the Acadiane, the Dyane van.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

HY and HZ are variants of Citro&amp;euml;ns &amp;#8220;H van&amp;#8221; (HX, HW and H1600 as
well, but they don&amp;#8217;t sound that nice), TUB was the pre-WWII &amp;#8220;H van&amp;#8221;
prototype and later the nickname of the &amp;#8220;H van&amp;#8221; in France.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

TPV was the name of the pre-WWII 2CV prototype and an abbreviation for
Toute Petite Voiture (French for &amp;#8220;Very Small Car&amp;#8221;), hence the Zaurus,
my smallest Linux box, got that name. Rosalie was the nickname of a
rear-wheel drive pre-WWII Citro&amp;euml;n.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

M35 was a Wankel engine prototype of the Ami 8 and the Ami Super was
the 4 cylinder version of the Ami 8. Bi&lt;!-- --&gt;jou was a 2CV based
coup&amp;eacute; build by Citro&amp;euml;n U&lt;!-- --&gt;K in the late 50s and
early 60s.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Visa and LNA were 2CV predecessors which were available with 2CV
engines, but were stopped before the 2CV. GSA and GSX are GS late
derivatives.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

C1, C2, (C3) Pluriel, C-Crosser, Jumper and Nemo are current
Citro&amp;euml;n models and C-Cactus and C-M&amp;eacute;tisse are recent
Citro&amp;euml;n prototypes and show cars.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

The 2CV Dagonet was an aerodynamically optimised 2CVs by Jean Dagonet
in the 50s. The Tryane is an aerodynamic and fuel efficient, three
wheeled car by Friend Wood based on the 2CV and with a body of wood.
And Colani once dressed a 2CV so that it broke several efficiency
world records.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

The Namco Pony was a 2CV based light utility truck (similar to the
M&amp;eacute;hari, but with steel body) built in Greece under license in
many variants.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

And Loadrunner is the name of some CX six-wheeler conversions.

&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Some links about the naming items:

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/tryaneii.html&quot;
  class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Tryane II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tadzio.com/citroen/sixwheeler.html&quot;
  class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;original Loadrunner&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
  href=&quot;http://www.thejoyofcx.co.uk/main.php&quot;&gt;just recently built
  Loadrunner&lt;/a&gt;. I even saw the base of exactly that one in RL
  shortly before it was converted into a Loadrunner.&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Colani&quot;
  class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;Luigi Colani&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://2cv-legende.com/2cv-dagonet.php&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;
  &gt;Dagonet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco_(automobiles)&quot;
  class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;Namco Pony&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroen&quot; class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;C1,
  C2, C-Crosser, C-Cactus, C-M&amp;eacute;tisse, Pluriel, Nemo, Visa, LNA, GSA,
  Ami Super, Rosalie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CV#Models&quot;
  class=&quot;wiki&quot;&gt;AZAM, AZL, AZKA, AZU, AK, AYCD, Bijou, TPV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;wiki&quot;
  href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Citroen_H_Van&quot;
  &gt;HY, HZ, TUB&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Hope you had fun. I had. ;-)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;np&quot;&gt;

Now playing: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;np&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.lyrix.at/de/text_show/dc3a867af68fa237ef2a1741512cf7bc-Willy_Astor_-_Gwand_Anham_Aera&quot;
&gt;Willi Astor &amp;mdash; Gwand Anham &amp;Auml;ra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
    <slash:section>English &amp;raquo; Computer &amp;raquo; Hardware</slash:section>
    <slash:department>easy-guess?</slash:department>
    <comments>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Hardware/Can%27t%20resist%20this%20meme.futile#comments</comments>
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  <item>
    <title>deuxchevaux.org is back</title>
    <link>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/deuxchevaux.org%20is%20back.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/deuxchevaux.org%20is%20back.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:11:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
My primary e-mail domain deuxchevaux.org was offline for one and a
half week due to my (former) domain provider Korypet went bankrupt and
probably hadn&amp;#8217;t paid the registrar&amp;#8217;s invoice for deuxchevaux.org
although I had paid Korypet&amp;#8217;s invoice. (The domain wasn&amp;#8217;t expired. Its
expiration date was somewhen in 2009.)

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Korypet itself just told its customers (and told it only on request)
that they a) will shut down their business because it doesn&amp;#8217;t pay off
and that b) their service won&amp;#8217;t be as good as usual since their head
is currently in hospital. I should have noticed that there is
something fishy and some details were missing at lastest when they
told customers (also only on request) that they have to shut down some
services earlier than announced because one of their providers has
terminated their agreement with Korypet at short notice. I also should
have expected that they couldn&amp;#8217;t keep their promise to continue
domains and &lt;acronym title=&quot;Domain Name Service&quot;&gt;DNS&lt;/acronym&gt; until May 2009 as they couldn&amp;#8217;t keep other promised
grace periods.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

I&amp;#8217;m quite sad about how Korypet went down and how bad blood they
caused &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lithe.de/node/28&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;not
only for me&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; since they offered not only good services for
money but also had really good (and personal) support. But I guess
that this quality at very low prices was also one of the reasons why
they couldn&amp;#8217;t keep up their business for longer.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

I had one of their &lt;acronym title=&quot;User Mode Linux, Unified Modeling Language&quot;&gt;UML&lt;/acronym&gt; based, low-end virtual &amp;#8220;VD&amp;#8221; servers for about
six years, and used it as secondary &lt;acronym title=&quot;Domain Name Service&quot;&gt;DNS&lt;/acronym&gt; server and &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Relay Chat&quot;&gt;IRC&lt;/acronym&gt; client host. I
also often thought about getting a second one at some other
geographical location (they offered virtual servers in three German
cities).

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

That was the reason why I started to move my domains to them a while
ago. &lt;a href=&quot;http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/dot-org registration rules arbitrariness.futile&quot;
&gt;They even could fully answer me domain registration questions for
which the eDNS and the Hetzner staff only had partial and therefore
confusing answers&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Since it was the easiest way, I tried to transfer the domains I had
registered with Korypet to the B2C division of their registrar Key
Systems, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.domaindiscount24.com/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;DomainDiscount24&lt;/a&gt;. The web interface isn&amp;#8217;t as bad as the
name &amp;#8220;DomainDiscount24&amp;#8221; suggests, but they seem to have communication
problems if &amp;#8211; as in this case &amp;#8211; more than one of their business
divisions are involved. It took at least two phone calls until they
did the all the necessary things to get the domains transferred from
Korypet&amp;#8217;s business customer account to my newly created end customer
account although they have a special form for former Korypet
customers.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Domains I registered after Korypet stopped accepting new domains
(well, they just didn&amp;#8217;t answer on my domain registration requests
anymore) I have registered via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edns.de/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;eDNS&lt;/a&gt; which was a recommendation form
someone on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dalug.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;Darmst&amp;auml;dter Linux User Group&quot;&gt;DaLUG&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mailing list.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

My conclusion after these hassles: No more domain registration
resellers, only directly interacting with registrars. Never register
all domains at the same company. Have more than two &lt;acronym title=&quot;Domain Name Service&quot;&gt;DNS&lt;/acronym&gt; servers at
different hosters. Don&amp;#8217;t have domain registrations and &lt;acronym title=&quot;Domain Name Service&quot;&gt;DNS&lt;/acronym&gt; servers at
the same company.

&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

So I now register my domains either at DomainDiscount24 or at eDNS.
And .ch domains of course directly at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.switch.ch/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;SWITCH&lt;/a&gt;. (If only all domain registrations would be so
simple and uncomplicated as with SWITCH!) And my &lt;acronym title=&quot;Domain Name Service&quot;&gt;DNS&lt;/acronym&gt; servers are
currently hosted at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xencon.net/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;x|encon&lt;/a&gt; in Hannover (Yes, it&amp;#8217;s a Xen DomU :-) and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hetzner.de/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Hetzner&lt;/a&gt; in Erlangen. And a third one in Switzerland is already
planned.</description>
    <slash:section>English &amp;raquo; Computer</slash:section>
    <slash:department>It's-always-good-to-have-DSL-in-the-holiday-cottage</slash:department>
    <comments>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/deuxchevaux.org%20is%20back.futile#comments</comments>
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<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/DNS">DNS</category>
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<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/DomainDiscount24">DomainDiscount24</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/DomU">DomU</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/eDNS">eDNS</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/Hetzner">Hetzner</category>
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<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/Korypet">Korypet</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/register">register</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/reseller">reseller</category>
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<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/xen">xen</category>
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  <item>
    <title>Dear Aunt Google,</title>
    <link>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Dear%20Aunt%20Google.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Dear%20Aunt%20Google.html</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:31:14 +0200</pubDate>
    <author>abe+blog@deuxchevaux.org (Axel Beckert)</author>
    <description>
&amp;#8230; &lt;a class=&quot;ext&quot;
href=&quot;http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is &amp;#8220;Do no
evil&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8212;urchin.js isn&amp;#8217;t.


&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;

For luck, urchin.js and friends can be easily blocked using e.g.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; plugins like &lt;a href=&quot;http://adblock.mozdev.org/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;AdBlocker&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://noscript.net/&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;NoScript&lt;/a&gt;, or with filtering proxies like &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.privoxy.org/&quot; class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;Privoxy&lt;/a&gt;. And a line
like

&lt;pre&gt;address=/google-analytics.com/0.0.0.0&lt;/pre&gt;

in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html&quot;
class=&quot;ext&quot;&gt;dnsmasq.conf&lt;/a&gt; of your home router works like a charm,
too.

&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;

&lt;acronym title=&quot;Sorry, could not resist&quot;&gt;SCNR&lt;/acronym&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.symlink.ch/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0818250&quot;
class=&quot;uni&quot;&gt;via Symlink&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <slash:section>English &amp;raquo; Computer &amp;raquo; Web</slash:section>
    <slash:department>light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel</slash:department>
    <comments>http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Dear%20Aunt%20Google.futile#comments</comments>
    <slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/Cuil">Cuil</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/data%20squid">data squid</category>
<category domain="http://noone.org/blog/tags/dnsmasq">dnsmasq</category>
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