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Finally, the last peaces of my Christmas vacation fall into place: On December, the 26th Emi and I will take the night-train to Berlin in an attempt to visit the CCC. If we do not make it in, we will use the opportunity to explore the city a little bit.

Auf der offiziellen Seite heisst es: "Reservation is not needed for normal participants." und vor allem: "Unfortunately there will be no advance ticket sales.". Es wurde aber offenbar die Anzahl der "Dauertickets" begrenzt (ohne das ich irgendwo eine oeffentliche Information darueber finden koennte) und fast die Hälfte unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit an "family & friends" vorverkauft. Folgende Mail wurde mir gerade von intern@ccc.de weitergeleitet:

Hallo,

Wie Ihr wisst, war der letzte Congress doch eher voll. Daher begrenzen
wir die Anzahl verfügbarer Dauertickets dieses Jahr auf 3200. ...weiterlesen

Finally, the last blogs on the old domain blogs.fsinf.at where deleted. This means that blogs.fsinf.at is now officially defunct. I am so glad we finally got rid of this security riskblog software.

Everyone frequently hears the stories about how a women was beaten up in public and everyone looked away, where somebody had a heart-attack in the crowded underground and nobody called the police.

The Fachschaft Informatik has quite a few servers as well as a backup-server in another location that replicates the mysql-databases live. The hardest part to setup are the seperate MySQL-instances on the backup-server. So this post describes how to setup another MySQL-instance on the same host.

Gajim is a very good Jabber-client and uses a sqlite database for its history. Of course, sometimes people switch their Jabber-account or you use an ICQ-transport and you are able to convert them from a proprietary network to Jabber. In either case, you might want to get rid of the old jid and move the history of the old contact to the new one. Here's how...

This obituary is so far behind times, that I have to be a bit sketchy on the details.

This is the next post that covers a simple yet useful, small and nice python script hacked together in a few hours. Since finding good names™ for projects like these is hard, this project is called "jupwado" which sounds like a far-east fighting technique but really stands for "Jabber uptime watchdog".

Some of you may know Munin, a powerful monitoring tool that the fsinf uses to monitor its servers. And I hope all of you know Jabber, an instant messaging protocol much like ICQ, MSN and Skype, but where you don't have to sell your soul to the devil. Well it occurred to me that it would be kind of natural to let Munin notify me via Jabber if any of the monitored servers shows some unsual behaviour. So I wrote a script to do just that.

Today I bought the current edition of the Augustin (german Wikipedia article). For those of you who don't know, it is a newspaper, issued bi-weekly, that is mostly written by either homeless people or people that are on the very low end of the social stratum. Often NGOs, journalists and persons known to the general public write guest articles. I read it on my way home and it was a refreshing change from all the newspapers that have the court case against Josef F. on the front page. The Augustin has, in its first twenty pages, nothing but interesting articles: