Some news…

It’s end of February and I didn’t blogged since two months. ๐Ÿ™ Butย  the last months I had lot’s of work and prepared very important changes. I quit my current job and on 1. April 2012 I will start working in a new company. I will blog about my new employer soon. It’s an amazing […]

Merry Xmas 2011

I wish all my readers and followers on Twitter a Merry Xmas! Thank you for reading and commenting all my blogs and tweets. ๐Ÿ™‚ Now it’s time to shutdown my home lab and spent attention to my family. ๐Ÿ™‚ My daughter Lina is one year old and 30 mins ago I give her a very […]

HP ProCurve Switch Mesh – My new lab network

I decided to try the HP ProCurve Switch Mesh technology in conjunction with my HP BladeSystems and HP Virtual Connect. After a week of planing, searching the Internet and reading several documents, I started to rebuild the network in my home lab. The results are amazing. Everything in my lab runs very fast and with […]

Follow me on Facebook

Parallel to my blog, I decided to create a Facebook page. I want to use Facebook to post current actitivties similar to Twitter, but without limitation. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Link to Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tschokko.de

[Offtopic] My new car: Audi S4

8 years ago I drove a very powerful car. It was an Opel Calibra 4×4 Turbo with a modified engine and I think about 260 horse power. This car was exciting and fun! But I have to give it away, because my budget at this time was too less to maintenance this car. But I […]

IBM BladeCenter E

Yesterday I received a new toy for my home lab: An IBM BladeCenter E Two weeks ago I auctioned two IBM JS21 power blades for very little money, because a rack based IBM Power4 oder Power5 server is incredible expensive. Even an outdatet pSeries 615/630 with slow 1 GHz Power4 processor is not affordable. I […]

Sun Fire V490

Time for my first blog in 2011 ! And it’s about Sun… hoouuw hooouw… ๐Ÿ˜€ Last year a good friend gave me a Sun Fire V490. The system was new and never used but had no system board. After several months searching for an affordable system board with no success I forgot the system and […]

Installing the HPVM-Guest Bundle

Again a reminder for me. Copy from HP-UX VM Host following file to the guest machine and install the HPVM-Guest bundle. vmhost# scp /opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv3/hpvm_guest_depot.11iv3.sd root@vmguest:/tmp vmguest# swinstall -s /tmp/hpvm_guest_depot.11iv3.sd Mark HPVM-Guest Go to Actions -> Install… Reboot !

Cyberwar

Do you know all that science fiction movies about cyber war and control over people with computer systems and networks. What about the movie โ€œEnemy of the Stateโ€ with Will Smith, a complete life was killed by one mouse click. Or the movie โ€œThe Netโ€ with Sandra Bullock, a similar situation. It’s scary how real […]

I’m a Daddy – Welcome Lina ! :)

On Monday 29.11.2010 at 8:30 o’clock in the morning my sweet little daughter was born. ๐Ÿ™‚ I saw her and felt in love immediately. ๐Ÿ™‚ She’s sooo nice and so sweet, my little Lina. ๐Ÿ™‚ She weights 3kg and is 50cm large… It’s unbelievable, I’m a very proud daddy. ๐Ÿ™‚