R.I.P. Thunderbird 1.2GHz

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Steltek.
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Got up, ate breakfast, read my e-mail, drove to work and realized that my server, ‘SHODAN’, from which I had gotten my e-mail only minutes ago was not responding any more. So I try hunting for it in the usual subnet, thinking that it may just have switched IPs on me and forgotten to update DNS, but it doesn’t turn up. This is of course not good if the damn thing is sitting at home in Luxembourg and I’m several thousands of kilometers away in the US, so I IMed my friend Landaro and had him go have a look at the box.

Sure enough, a short while later he calls me and gives me the shocking news: The server is powered down and won’t come on. (more…)

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Extreme drive-by ATMing

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Steltek.
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Far Out! The hottest trends in town! Today: ‘Extreme drive-by ATMing’! OK, so that show was discontinued long time ago but I still need a catchy title for my blog entries, don’t I?

So what’s this about? Well, the title is actually a little off, it should probably read drive-through ATMing. Yes, I’m not kidding. Here in the US you don’t have to park your car, get out, walk up to or into a building, find the ATM, coerce it into giving you some money and then walk back to get driving again. In the US you just drive up right next to the ATM, roll down your window and get busy on the money dispenser, which is just what I did this morning before I took my car to the dealership to get an oil change. It’s pretty cool, I hope our banks will copy it some day in the future.

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