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The server is up again.
Yesterday it was down after we noticed that it has some problems.
First I thought it is a hardware issue but after Strato checked (its in a Strato rack) they told us that its not an hardware issue. It seems that the kernel randomly killed processes cause another process (think it was the database) used nearly all of the RAM and also swap space ;(

Talking about logs it looks like:

__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process apache2
VM: killing process snort
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process apache2
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process cron
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)

Sorry for german:

"Es wird eine dritte Staffel geben!

Wir bedanken uns herzlichst bei allen, die sich eingetragen haben und die Aktion unterstützt haben! Nur durch euch war es möglich, dass es eine dritte Staffel geben wird! Vielen, vielen Dank!!

gesamt haben sich bis heute 22452 Leute eingetragen! Einfach unglaubhaft! Vorallem in den ersten Tagen hätten wir nie mit so einem Ansturm gerechnet! So hatten sich bereits innerhalb 5 Tagen schon über 15000 Leute für eine dritte Staffel eingesetzt!"

Jaaaa danke!!1!1!1!!!!1111

[via http://welovestromberg.de/]

I got a really nice christmas present this year, a set to do Cup Stacking.



It is some kind of sport which is about to built pyramids of cups as fast as possible. Its very funny, see the world record video here:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/images/cupstacking.mpg.

I am not very fast but I will train and maybe I will do it in < 20 seconds in the future

this christmas stuff and I hate that I am ill because of this chilliness...
I hate it

As some might know I was in Munich yesterday.

This is a somehow very strange city with a very stale and conservative touch. Most of the houses seem to be very old. At the other side it is very modern compared to Berlin (you have nice LCD displays in the underground and stuff like this).
Likened to Berlin my imprission was that the life and the people in Munich are not as lissome and "cool" like the ones from Berlin.

I was also in the biggest cinema of Germany, the Mathäser and saw "Die Reise der Pinguine or lets say I tried cause I fell asleep after 30 minutes. So I don't know really if its good but nice nature impressions

After this was in the Lounge2 and mini-club from O2Germany which can be hired.
Now I know that the water bubbles from the mobile-advertising of O2 can look so perfect in real too cause the clubs wall was
made of glass with water inside and the whole time these bubbles came across these glass windows

Don't know if its old or not, but I like it, so if someone will give me a christmas present donate a
C-jump game

My current ISP is Alice. In the last days I had problems with my DSL connection which was broken various times during the day for a few seconds. That sucks for VoIP, gaming etc.

I called the alice technical support and they asked my if I use a router. I told them yes. The answer was that my router is the problem, I should remove it. I told them that I will not remove my Router just because of a problem which doesn't seem to be a problem of my hardware. Then they told me that they can not support the problem if I will not remove my router because a router is not needed cause the AGBs say that it is only allowed to use the dialup software one one PC.

Are they dumb? I don't use this software, my router is dialing up. But i clearly see on the Modem that there is a problem.
In other word I told the women on the telephon that she has no clue about what she is talking (ok a little bit friendlier) and she
gave me another telefon number which I should call. No problem so I called and a friendly voice told me that this service costs
5,99 € / minute. Are they stupid? The problem seems to be a well know problem if I have a look at:
http://www.hansenet-user-forum.de/viewforum.php?f=7 (the main company of alice is hansenet).

Anyone else using Alice and has an idea or do I have to phone them every day now saying that they are stupid to get my problem fixed?

UPDATE:
Ok i phoned alice another time today. This time it was a competent guy at the phone. He told me that the pilotage is calibrated for 8mbit but it does only support 6 in the area I live because the next distribution box is too far away. He recalibrated it for 6 and now it should work

UPDATE: I called them and told that I tested my net with a DSL modem of a friend and had no problem (because their fix hasnt fixed the problem), they send me a new one and everything is ok

First of all sorry for the long downtime with blogging, I am busy with university stuff at the moment but will blog on in the next days.

Actually it was not my intention to blog about this but now I have to do this.
There were some newbie courses for non-nerds at university, for those who never used a UNIX-like system. This was made by computer science students.

The guy talked alot of shell commands etc. and about chmod too. So he explained for what it is used and how it works. Also the meanings of the o,a,u and g operands were discussed.
So he explained that o is owner and u user. Some guy asked what's the difference and he had no clue.

So I thought ok guys, please change your file permissions to the so-called "owner"-permission

But the bad thing is that this student is my computer science 1 tutor. So I think it will be a funny time with him...

... That is the content of some weird article in the Zürcher Zeitung which a
professor at university showed today.

Here is a screenshot^Wpicture of the article (sorry in german):


It seems that Karl Notter is somehow brain damaged (arrest me for this if you want) and shame on the NZZ for publishing such shit!

UPDATE: some corrections in the comment section.

It seems that there is quite a big hype around tor the onion router project and the privoxy a web proxy.

So I installed it too I haven't tested more than http anonymizing but it seems that the performance sucks in a way.
Maybe my configuration. Is there a way to tune the performance of privoxy in combination with tor a little bit?