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Solaris 11.4 support available until at least 2037

There is an important note in footnote 7 on page 40 of the “Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems - Oracle Lifetime Support Policy”: “As a res...

Motivation

It’s well before 06:00 AM. I’m sitting on my indoor bike. Somewhat motivated by the last visit to my scale a day before. Thinking that a longer distance ride...

Beware of assumed simplicity

I’m currently sitting at my desk looking to an heap of cables. Display cables. You don’t think too much about display cables. At least i did not think too mu...

Probably just an overengineered small keyboard

(This is a test blog entry (based on a text I started a while ago) for the new Jekyll workflow) Sometimes you see a device which results in a “Must-have” re...

2023

Peter Gabriel hat dieses Jahr wieder ein Album herausgebracht. Ich hatte eigentlich schon die Hoffnung verloren, das “I/O” je herauskommen würde. Denn Herr G...

A few days ago ... 50001 km

A few days ago. This is the number of kilometers i ran or cycled since 2019. I tried to exactly hit 50000 … didn’t work. Hope that i will reach 6000 km th...

From cycling to computer systems performance – Part 1

This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling, howe...