Deviantart Profile
I posted some of my "featured" photographies on my new deviant art profile, enjoy 
http://neovatar.deviantart.com/
http://neovatar.deviantart.com/
Aliens mind dominate heise.de web design
The big german newsticker heise.de has been captured by aliens! They brain washed the web team to implement a new web design of PURE EVIL.
Get your tin foil hats here:
Get your tin foil hats here:
"HDR" experiment...
Today I was playing around with my new Canon 450D DSLR and did a "HDR" experiment.
The original picture, a view into my garden photographed out of my window. As you can see, its a bit overexposed:

And a processed HDR made out of three pictures done in bracketing mode:

Compare the two images with a mouseover effect (needs javascript).
The original picture, a view into my garden photographed out of my window. As you can see, its a bit overexposed:

And a processed HDR made out of three pictures done in bracketing mode:

Compare the two images with a mouseover effect (needs javascript).
Failover firewalls with OpenBSD + VMware Server, part I: The network scenario
My idea was to build/simulate a typical firewall setup with a redundant firewall, where the secondary box takes over if the primary fails. After considering a Linux based solution, I decided to try a BSD based approach, since this OS family seemed very suitable for this kind of setup.
After playing around a bit with some open source based firewall appliances like m0n0wall and pfsense, I did what real men do - and settled for OpenBSD
Continue reading "Failover firewalls with OpenBSD + VMware Server, part I: The network scenario"
After playing around a bit with some open source based firewall appliances like m0n0wall and pfsense, I did what real men do - and settled for OpenBSD
Fix for s9y 1.3.1 entry's links plugin + postgreSQL 8.1
The s9y team did some work on the code, unfortunately some changes break the "entry's links" plugin, if you are still using postgreSQL 8.1. I patched the serendipity_plugin_entrylinks.php file.
Download my little patch entrylinks patch.
Download my little patch entrylinks patch.