Stuff I do, stuff I like
When do I have to bring out the trash? We here in the nice city of Bad Homburg have 4 different trash collections (not counting the “special” collections like garden waste etc.): So you see its complicated. And we have to bring the waste bin to the edge of the street for collection on the […]
Second posting in my “new home network” series. Before you plan what you going to build, always do an inventory what you have. On the left side of the picture above you see my current physical setup. A few things to point out: our house has a cellar, a ground floor (living room and kitchen), […]
I have a new spare time (yes, I do have some spare time now and then) project: Re-building my home network so it runs IPv6 only. Yes. No legacy IP. Devices only get an IPv6 address. If they want to communicate with a device on the internet which is IPv4 only, a technique called NAT64 […]
It was in March 2020 when Corona got serious and all employees where I work were ordered to work from home when ever possible. I was just coming back from a vacation (vacation, travelling, …, remember?) and had to adjust quickly to the new situation. Even when the situation was a bit better during the […]
The last week RIPE80 meeting happened. Online. It should have been in Berlin, with my company DE-CIX as the „local host“. Because of that, I was appointed to the program committee – as a local host representative. For my friends not familiar with what I do, how the Internet industry works or, what a RIPE […]
As a lot of people, I am currently working from home. That means: I start about one hour earlier in the morning I have a looong lunch break I finish at the same time as in office I do not have to commute – that saves me 90 minutes each day! So, time to spend […]
Ok, this is now the 3rd incarnation of my web server. The first one was “plain html” – just a bunch of files I edited with a text editor. The next one was based on a content management system. Since I do some photography, its primary purpose was to publish my photographs. So, after a […]
