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23C3 - The Arrival

23C3 Berlin Central Station

Ich bin gerade mit dem Zug in Berlin angekommen um - wie jedes Jahr ;-) - am Kongress des CCC teilzunehmen. Ein ganz besonderer Gruß geht an dieser Stelle an meine Freundin Kerstin, die leider aus beruflichen Gründen nicht mit nach Berlin kommen konnte.

Hier schon mal mein "Vortrags-Stack" für den ersten Tag:

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3. Pforzheimer Linux Infotag

Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2006, findet der 3. Pforzheimer Linux Infotag an der Fachhochschule Pforzheim statt. Die Veranstalter erwarten ca. 1000 Besucher und haben ein sehr interessantes Vortragsprogramm zusammengestellt.

Ich bin auf dieser Veranstaltung mit einem eigenen Stand vertreten und werde unter anderem ein Demo-Systeme für:

  • Oracle 10g Express Edition
  • VMware Server
  • Shared Storage Cluster mit iSCSI und GFS

ausstellen. Außerdem halte ich im Rahmen des Vortragsprogramms meinen Vortrag "iSCSI unter Linux".

Sie haben Zeit für einen Besuch auf dem Linux Infotag? Ich freue mich schon heute auf die interessanten Gespräche und Kontakte an meinem Stand.

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I hate doing Webdesign

Web design is an subject of its own. Some designers do really cool things. Others always struggle to make an layout look the same in all kinds of web-browsers.

My problem with web design is most of the time - keeping the web browser from crashing :-D. I don`t know why and I don`t pretend to be an webdesigner... but especially CSS is my favorite... an "vertical-align: top;" at the wrong position and buff... you have a lot of fun with IE.

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Freshmeat for the Weekend 22/06

VMware Server RC 1 (Build 24927) got released! It is free, so grab a copy and give it an test drive. I just want to outline two advanced topics:

  • Linked Clones is an concept to use one basedisk for several VMs. Changes made by the VMs are written to snapshot images. That helps you to safe diskspace when using a lot of VMs. You can read more on how to do linked clones with VMware Server in the following thread on VMTN.
  • Use arbitrary block devices as Physical Disks in VMs. VMware normally allows you to use /dev/sd* and /dev/hd* devices. So you may run in to problems if you wanted to use LVM, soft-RAID (md) or things like AoE (ATA over Ethernet). vmware-bdwrapper solves such problems. Read how to get vmware-bdwrapper working with VMware Server in that thread.

But VMware Server RC1 was not the only release you should check out, get the following things as well if you are interested:

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22C3 is coming up

Wow, the end of 2005 is coming, so - same procedure as every year :-D
In my case that will be the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress. Just finished booking the train ticket and hotel.

22C3 Logo

The line-up of interesting talks is quite overwhelming this year. There are a lot of talks about buffer overflows and related topics - I am very curious about new approaches and developments concerning that craftwork...

The degree of collateral damage for this years congress will also be very amusing :-D. Last year we got a mass defacement for over 18.000 websites. Well nothing spectacular, but it hit the news and makes up the reputation...

If you are interested in digital life and/or computer security you may want to check out the 22C3 webblog or the schedule.

You also attend the 22C3? If you like get in touch with me... I am always happy to meet new and interesting people.