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		<title>nss-pam-ldapd</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2010/01/23/nss-pam-ldapd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi folks,
I have a small LDAP setup running for centralized Linux authentication since years, using the NSS and PAM modules from PADL Software Pty Ltd.
A few weeks ago I found the nss-pam-ldapd from Arthur de Jong and found the architecture is promising and fixes some problems with the design of the PADL modules.
This project needs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi folks,</p>
<p>I have a small LDAP setup running for centralized Linux authentication since years, using the NSS and PAM modules from <a title="PADL Software Pty Ltd" href="http://www.padl.com/" target="_blank">PADL Software Pty Ltd</a>.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago I found the <a title="http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/" href="http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/" target="_blank">nss-pam-ldapd</a> from <a title="http://arthurdejong.org/" href="http://arthurdejong.org/" target="_blank">Arthur de Jong</a> and found the architecture is promising and fixes some problems with the design of the PADL modules.</p>
<p>This project needs contributors, so if you</p>
<ul>
<li>have time</li>
<li>know some C</li>
<li>like LDAP</li>
<li>have ideas</li>
<li>can test</li>
</ul>
<p>it would be nice to see you there.</p>
<p>I also contributed a line or two.</p>
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		<title>1&amp;1 Webspace Umbau?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/12/29/11-webspace-umbau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heute Nacht (ca. 2 Uhr) wollte ich nochmal die aktuellen Zugriffsdaten aus http://bash-hackers.org/wiki herausziehen. Das dafür angeferigte Skript (FTP) sagte nur knapp &#8220;Fehler bei der Begrüßung des Servers.&#8221;.
Manueller Logon enthüllte eine 500-Antwort, dass der FTP Server down sei wegen &#8220;server removal&#8221; (???). Ein Blick auf die zugehörige Website (das Wiki) ergab Fehlermeldungen, dass die Wiki [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heute Nacht (ca. 2 Uhr) wollte ich nochmal die aktuellen Zugriffsdaten aus <a title="http://bash-hackers.org/wiki" href="http://bash-hackers.org/wiki" target="_blank">http://bash-hackers.org/wiki</a> herausziehen. Das dafür angeferigte Skript (FTP) sagte nur knapp &#8220;Fehler bei der Begrüßung des Servers.&#8221;.</p>
<p>Manueller Logon enthüllte eine 500-Antwort, dass der FTP Server down sei wegen &#8220;server removal&#8221; (???). Ein Blick auf die zugehörige Website (das Wiki) ergab Fehlermeldungen, dass die Wiki Software keine Schreibberechtigungen hätte.</p>
<p>Test Logon mit sftp(1): Geht. Dateien alle da, Berechtigungen passen. Upload oder chmod oder Symlinking mittels sftp (kurz: Jegliche Schreiboperation): Ein lapidares &#8220;Failure&#8221;. Erstmal ein stundenaktuelles Backup runtergeladen. Vielleicht brennt ja die Hütte gerade <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Heute morgen ging alles zumindest ab 6 Uhr wieder (aus dem Änderungslog Wiki).</p>
<p>Das muffelt alles irgendwie nach Serverumzug oder einer ähnlichen tiefgreifenden Änderung am System oder an der Infrastruktur. Der nachts noch eröffnete Support Call war bis jetzt noch nicht beantwortet.</p>
<p>Ich habe jetzt nochmal meine E-Mails und meine 1&amp;1-Mitteilungen überprüft: Wenn wirklich etwas geplant am System verändert wurde, hat 1&amp;1 schlichtweg vergessen den/m Kunden bescheid zu geben. Wenn es eine ungeplante Aktion (z.B. durch Hardwareausfall) war hätte ich spätestens heute morgen eine E-Mail erwartet.</p>
<p>Dies sind nicht die ersten technischen Probleme mit 1&amp;1, die letzten paar Jahre kam es immer wieder vor dass kleinere Datenmengen (im Bereich von wenigen MB) nicht runter-/hochgeladen werden konnten. Dieser Zustand zog sich dann immer über mehrere Tage.</p>
<p>Da ich auch einen Rootserver (nicht 1&amp;1! Bisschen Werbung darf man machen: Bis jetzt gute Erfahrungen: <a title="http://www.hetzner.de/" href="http://www.hetzner.de/" target="_blank">Hetzner AG</a>) im Zugriff habe, werde ich mittelfristig alle Domains umziehen und den ganzen Kram selber machen &#8211; dann weiss ich wenigstens warum irgendwas nicht geht.</p>
<p>Meine Meinung über die letzten Jahre und 1&amp;1 im Privatkundenbereich: Bunte Bildchen und Knöpfchen haben sie genug auf den Support- und Konfigurationsseiten, soviel dass sich kein Mensch mehr auskennt. Ansonsten wirken sie nicht so gross wie sie eigentlich wirklich sind. Mir ist klar dass ich kein Geschäftskunde (und damit uninteressant) bin, aber diese unsaubere Art des Webhostings kann ich auch getrost selber bewerkstelligen.</p>
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		<title>Coding intuitive interfaces</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/12/09/coding-intuitive-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some discussion about interfaces I followed, somebody said the wise words:

The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple

I&#8217;ve never seen it that way&#8230;
UPDATE: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html does some research on it
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In some discussion about interfaces I followed, somebody said the wise words:</p>
<blockquote>
<h1>The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple</h1>
</blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve never seen it that way&#8230;</p>
<p>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html" target="_blank">http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html</a> does some research on it</p>
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		<title>First touches: Oracle 11g Release 2</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/10/22/first-touches-oracle-11g-release-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the week we lost a 10gR2 test server (some mass data application &#8211; sizes similar to warehousing) due to the complete loss of a RAID6 (don&#8217;t ask!).
Well, test server is test server: We (me as DBA, and a collegue as the responsible application developer) finally decided to step into the Oracle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the beginning of the week we lost a 10gR2 test server (some mass data application &#8211; sizes similar to warehousing) due to the complete loss of a RAID6 (don&#8217;t ask!).</p>
<p>Well, test server is test server: We (me as DBA, and a collegue as the responsible application developer) finally decided to step into the Oracle 11 world: The new system will be 11gR2</p>
<p>After some reading in I had no problems to understand the new separated architecture with its HA daemon (keyword: Grid Infrastructure) and install the whole software and create a database. And, very important, there was no, not one damn small, problem when importing 10gR2 datapump files (from the productive system). I heard some weird stories before, and I was a bit afraid about that. But nothing, all data was pumped in like a charm.</p>
<p>The first thing I changed, for me as DBA one of the most interesting features on those large databases, I really parallelized RMAN for backup. I hope I can reduce the backup time to a useful amount with that. This was one of the biggest discrepance in 10g: You can create very large datafiles, but you can&#8217;t backup them in a true parallel manner. I&#8217;ll check my logfiles today and hope&#8230;</p>
<p>Well, so far so good, I will see what 11g (especially R2 here) brings to me and, more important, the applications. It will take some time to really explore the pros.</p>
<p>For all of you still at 10g and loose a test system by accident (and have a developer that really wants it&#8230;): Try it <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>New Home Server</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/09/14/new-home-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since a week or so I replaced my old &#8220;home server&#8221; with some new hardware. Phenom II Quadcore with 8GB RAM and a Debian Lenny, fun!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since a week or so I replaced my old &#8220;home server&#8221; with some new hardware. Phenom II Quadcore with 8GB RAM and a Debian Lenny, fun!</p>
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		<title>LUG Treff: Einführung &#8220;X Window System&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/08/19/lug-treff-einfuhrung-x-window-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hallole,
am Augusttreffen der Linux User Group Mitterteich habe ich einen kleinen Vortrag über das Konzept von X und X Nutzung gehalten.
Ich glaube dass zumindest einige Aspekte des Vortrags auf gutes Interesse gestossen sind, Klagen habe ich zumindest keine gehört. Da ich dazu tendiere lange und umfangreich zu reden&#8230;  
Das Handout gibt es hier (PDF, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hallole,</p>
<p>am Augusttreffen der <a title="Linux User Group Mitterteich" href="http://www.linux-mitterteich.de" target="_blank">Linux User Group Mitterteich</a> habe ich einen kleinen Vortrag über das Konzept von X und X Nutzung gehalten.</p>
<p>Ich glaube dass zumindest einige Aspekte des Vortrags auf gutes Interesse gestossen sind, Klagen habe ich zumindest keine gehört. Da ich dazu tendiere lange und umfangreich zu reden&#8230; <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Das Handout gibt es <a title="LUGM Vorttrag X11 Begleitschrift" href="http://www.thebonsai.net/pub/LUGM_20090819/LUGM_X11.pdf" target="_blank">hier (PDF, ca. 3MB)</a></p>
<p>In diesem Sinne: Noch einen schönen Abend</p>
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		<title>Why end-users shouldn&#8217;t critizise on a technical level</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/08/16/why-end-users-shouldnt-critizise-on-a-technical-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rant! A rant!
Today, somebody (thanks exaltis on Freenode) provided me a link to an OSNews article during a discussion about X. He told me it&#8217;s fun to read &#8211; I clicked.
In this article (also read the comments), Thom Holwerda talks about why the X Window System is bad and Linux needs a different graphics [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A rant! A rant!</p>
<p>Today, somebody (thanks <em>exaltis</em> on Freenode) provided me a link to an <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/21999/Editorial_X_Could_Learn_a_Lot_from_Vista_Windows_7">OSNews article</a> during a discussion about X. He told me it&#8217;s fun to read &#8211; I clicked.</p>
<p>In this article (also read the comments), Thom Holwerda talks about why the X Window System is bad and Linux needs a different graphics architecture. This article is nice to read and discusses existing problems in some applications and X server software.</p>
<p>All problems he talks about are real, yes. I can understand that he&#8217;s pissed off. And he, as end-user, wants a solution and a stable system.</p>
<p>But his conclusions that these problems come from the design of the X Window System itself are just wrong and show that he doesn&#8217;t know what the design of X is. X has enough problems in its design, but none of them are related to the problems in his article. He talks about bad design, but he actually means bad implementation. Even his example with driver crashes or driver updates are completely irrelevant for the X design, the X Window architecture allows ways to implement this. That nobody does this doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a design problem.</p>
<p>From what I can see in the text he just would say to me that he&#8217;s a user and not a tech and he doesn&#8217;t care and he just wants a working system.</p>
<p><strong>Yes, right, he&#8217;s a user. That&#8217;s why he shouldn&#8217;t conclude it&#8217;s a design problem, he should just talk about what he knows and not about what he thinks he knows.</strong></p>
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		<title>Star Trek lives on: FedXVIIICon</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/05/08/star-trek-lives-on-fedxviiicon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheBonsai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lieber zu spät als nie: Mein persönlicher Eindruck von der FedXVIIICon
Da ich das erste mal auf der FedCon war, lohnt sich definitiv ein kleiner Blogeintrag drüber.
Für alle die es nicht wissen, FedCon ist eine Star Trek Convention die jährlich üblicherweise in Bonn stattfindet. Neben Star Trek sind auch aktuelle Serien (z.B. &#8220;Battlestar Galactica&#8221;) und natürlich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Lieber zu spät als nie: Mein persönlicher Eindruck von der FedXVIIICon</h1>
<p>Da ich das erste mal auf der <a title="FedCon Homepage" href="http://fedcon.de/" target="_blank">FedCon</a> war, lohnt sich definitiv ein kleiner Blogeintrag drüber.</p>
<p>Für alle die es nicht wissen, FedCon ist eine Star Trek Convention die jährlich üblicherweise in Bonn stattfindet. Neben Star Trek sind auch aktuelle Serien (z.B. &#8220;Battlestar Galactica&#8221;) und natürlich Star Wars vertreten. Die FedCon ist mit das größte Science Fiction Fan Event in Europa.</p>
<p>Für alle die nicht wissen was Star Trek ist: Ihr habt den falschen Beitrag angeklickt!</p>
<p>Die FedXVIIICon ging vom 1. bis 3. Mai, das waren knapp 3 Tage Spass, Staunen, Zuhören und Romulanisches Ale&#8230;!<br />
<span id="more-132"></span></p>
<p>Meine persönlichen Highlights, ohne Wertung:</p>
<ul>
<li>Opening Ceremony</li>
<li>fast 30 Minuten Ausschnitte aus Star Trek XI (auf der Opening)</li>
<li>die Klingonenbar &#8220;Zum Tanzenden Gagh&#8221;</li>
<li>Romulanisches Ale (nein, ich hab&#8217;s nicht übertrieben, ausserdem ist RA ja illegal, oder?)</li>
<li>Nichelle Nichols (&#8220;Uhura&#8221;, TOS)</li>
<li>Robert Picardo (&#8220;Der Doktor&#8221;, VOY)</li>
<li>eine sexy bauchtanzende Orion-Frau beim Kostümwettbewerb <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>jemand in einer &#8220;Jack Sparow&#8221; Verkleidung, mit der genialen Idee sich ein &#8220;U.S.S. Black Pearl&#8221; umzuhängen</li>
<li>Closing Ceremony</li>
</ul>
<p>Die Opening und die Closing Ceremony war jeweils recht pompös gestaltet, neben der Anwesenheit aller Stargäste war dort meiner Meinung nach die beeindruckende Lasershow definitiv das Highlight.</p>
<p>Das allgemeine Umfeld war genial. Ob ihr&#8217;s glaubt oder nicht: <strong>Star Trek lebt nach über 40 Jahren immer noch!</strong></p>
<p>Das Beste an der ganzen Sache war ja: Die ganze Idee stammt von meiner lieben Freundin! Ja genau, die, die vor einiger Zeit noch gesagt hat</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Was kuckst Du da eigentlich dauernd für einen Blödsinn an???&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Danke und einen lieben Kuss an dieser Stelle!</p>
<p>Zusammenfassend kann ich jedem der noch nicht auf einer FedCon war nur empfehlen, nächstes Jahr einfach mal vorbeizuschauen. Ich werde höchstwahrscheinlich wieder fahren.</p>
<p>In diesem Sinne,</p>
<h2>Live long(er) and prosper!</h2>
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		<title>A UNIX pathname is a UNIX pathname&#8230;or not? ORACLE fooled me again!</title>
		<link>http://www.thebonsai.net/2009/05/05/a-unix-pathname-is-a-unix-pathnameor-not-oracle-fooled-me-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a new system on SLES10SP2 I wanted to operate 3 separate instances (ASM, 2 databases) from 3 separate ORACLE_HOMEs. The theory isn&#8217;t that complex, so I simply installed and patched up the 3 different ORACLE_HOMEs.
After configuring the ASM instance with the creation assistant and enabling the instance in /etc/oratab, I did a reboot. Finally [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a new system on SLES10SP2 I wanted to operate 3 separate instances (ASM, 2 databases) from 3 separate ORACLE_HOMEs. The theory isn&#8217;t that complex, so I simply installed and patched up the 3 different ORACLE_HOMEs.</p>
<p>After configuring the ASM instance with the creation assistant and enabling the instance in /etc/oratab, I did a reboot. Finally I wrote a small shell function db_change() to change ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and PATH on the fly to operate on the different instances.</p>
<p>Nothing. I wasn&#8217;t able to connect with sqlplus.<span id="more-130"></span> I verified the instance &#8220;+ASM&#8221; still was running, but I couldn&#8217;t connect. I checked my ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME, but I couldn&#8217;t connect. I even called a friend of mine (thanks Martin!) to make sure I have no conceptual mistake. Nothing. Sqlplus always said &#8220;connected to an idle instance&#8221; &#8211; as if no ASM instance was running at all (or as if I had a typo in the SID).</p>
<p>Since the +ASM instance started fine during system startup, and started fine using the orarun-initscript from SuSE, something had to smell in my setup. After 30 minutes of checking all corners, I decided to compare my current process environment to the process environment of the started ASM PMON (thanks to Linux&#8217; /proc/ filesystem and some shell vodoo, it&#8217;s not a big deal to get a good diff).</p>
<p>After eliminating all the unimportant differences, one was left:</p>
<pre>ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2/asm_1</pre>
<pre>ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2/asm_1<span style="color: #ff0000;">/
</span></pre>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">See it? Believe it or not, that was it! My shell function set an ORACLE_HOME with a trailing slash, and that drove sqlplus crazy! This may be documented somewhere, I didn&#8217;t look, but it&#8217;s definitely not something intuitive. Finally, that automatically means that things may fail if you put pathes with trailing slash in your /etc/oratab, too.<br />
</span></p>
<h2><span style="color: #333333;">O.R.A.C.L.E!!!<br />
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<p><span style="color: #333333;">Applies to the setup:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333;">SLES10SP2</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333;">Oracle 10.2.0.4 w/ recommendec patchset 4<br />
</span></li>
</ul>
<p>Have a nice day, and better don&#8217;t trust your common sense! Comments welcome, &#8217;cause I&#8217;m sure this is a well known behaviour and I&#8217;m just too stupid <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>(and yes, I&#8217;ll rewrite my small shell function to actually parse /etc/oratab!)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had a really good start. Get the first cup of coffee, activate the NX session, open the IRC client, go to Freenode&#8217;s #oracle channel, and saw a question:
super noob question , how do i query my oracle database online, do i need to setup bind9 and allow incoming connections so it can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I had a really good start. Get the first cup of coffee, activate the NX session, open the IRC client, go to Freenode&#8217;s #oracle channel, and saw a question:</p>
<blockquote><p>super noob question , how do i query my oracle database online, do i need to setup bind9 and allow incoming connections so it can be accessed</p></blockquote>
<p>I just wanted to share that <img src='http://www.thebonsai.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Have a good day!</p>
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