I posted some of my "featured" photographies on my new deviant art profile, enjoy

http://neovatar.deviantart.com/

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:

• Firefox CSS replacment extension
• Heise '08 retro style

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).

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"

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.