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	Committed to wmark/anzu.
	Have updated the #gentoo #binhost s yesterday, new readme http://bit.ly/cQuef6 in #overlay mirror at #github with addresses.
	My #SheevaPlug crashed today, first time in six months. Full #backup is due anyway, so I have attached the HDD to my workstation for it.
	It didn’t crash, the power supply of my #SheevaPlug fried. They didn’t use solid capacitors.
	Now my #SheevaPlug has a internal lead-fleece battery as built-in #UPS, protecting it for about 40min. *yay* (Like Google’s deployment.)

Tags: anzu, SheevaPlug

The following blog post is about a German hosting provider, and written in German.

Netcup vermietet keine virtuellen Server, sondern “logische Serverpartitionen“. Eine an sich völlig stabile und eprobte Technik aus der Zeit der Mainframes, an der es bis auf Kleinigkeiten nichts auszusetzen gibt. Wenn man denn soetwas wollte.

Der Unterschied zeigt sich, Read more »

Recently I’ve rented a server partition from a German provider which turned out to be a linux-vserver partition. About five or six years ago I have experimented with linux-vserver myself, still have headaches when it comes to its security implications…

Unfortunately the provider has not offered any Gentoo images. Despite that and by the means of the rescue shell, I have installed Gentoo on it. Here is how: Read more »

Tags: Gentoo, know-how, linux-vserver