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I stumbled upon a real weird problem. Apparently the terminal server licenses called " per Device" ain’t a real per device. From reading on it Microsoft states it like this: Device-based versus User-based Terminal Server CALs Two types of Terminal Server Client Access Licenses are available: TS Device CAL or TS User CAL. A TS Device CAL permits one device (used by any user) to conduct Windows Sessions on any of your servers. A TS User CAL permits one user (using any device) to conduct Windows Sessions on any of your servers. You may choose to use a combination of TS Device CALs and TS User CALs simultaneously with the server software. ...

Well, it’s been a full month since I last wrote something. Back then I had some problems with 2X, Windows Terminal Server and printing (I still have problems, but not those anymore - I resolved them). Work has been unusual frantic the last month, as well as I don’t pay much interest to all the things in Gentoo anymore (that was an advice from my shrink), as it just keeps putting on my anger/urge to do something nobody wants me to do even more. So I invested my time into doing other things (like baking or reading one of the many books that I buyed of Amazon and didn’t ever get a chance to read) I enjoy more. ...

Yes, yes. I do list a lot of crappy products (go on, laugh; I don’t really care). Yesterday I had quite a struggle with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Terminal services (or more precisely with their way on how to deal with network printers). As most of you know, there a two (possibly three) different ways on how to do network printers. would be, to simply share a local connected printer by simply creating a share for the printer buy a smart printer with integrated print server a combination of 1. and 2. We luckily enough do have printers with integrated print servers, so that wouldn’t be a problem. But you get a problem if you’re trying to monitor the printer queue if you simply create a new TCP/IP connection from another target. You simply can’t tell who’s printing what. ...

OK, since I last posted about my problems with screen and irssi being unable to handle unicode chars, I got a lot of feedback (here or on IRC), and actually it was Alexander who pointed me into the right direction. LANG=C doesn’t seem to support UTF-8 characters. So after adding 1 2 export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8" export LANG="en_US.UTF8" to my environment everything is just fine … 😳

As some of you know, the company I’m currently working for, recently acquired some thin clients to replace our old computers for the students to work on. Those PC’s are like P3 800 MHz with 512MB RAM and sadly don’t run Office 2007 anymore, so we replaced them with thin clients and are streaming those applications from a Windows Terminal Server cluster (created by and with 2X Application LoadBalancer). So far so good, getting them to display the applications ain’t hard, the real hard part starts when you want additional things from this Windows XPe (Embedded), like lets say getting them to display a German language. ...

Since we started utilizing Nagios’s power two months ago, I finally came up with a C-based ram-plugin for nagios. The biggest problem I had with the python and perl based plugins, that some distributions (yes, SLES and Debian) don’t install either Python or Perl. Since I wanted a manageable setup (as in unified code base across all distributions), I wanted it to work without installing too much. So I took the swap plugin and basically removed what wasn’t necessary and voila! ...

As some of you people know, we (as in the University) recently purchased some Thin Clients in order to replace some oldish’ computers and solve the software management at the same time. The Thin Clients ain’t bad, they are Wyse V90L’s and they (as in Wyse) use their own management software to manage and deploy those thin clients and software. The bad thing about that, is it’s using it’s own “Scripting Language” (if you can call it that way - it’s more pseudo scripting since you can’t do much with it besides some basic actions). ...

Somehow, there still seem to exist honest people on this world … I just found my drivers license in the mail, somehow the office responsible for the district I lost it in (it seems I lost it somewhere in Greifswald, since I got mail from the office in Landhagen) found it in their postbox and immediately mailed it to my address. YAY!

Apparently the TYPO3 version we are using, doesn’t play too nice with the MySQL MasterMaster replication. Sometimes, something like this is going to happen: 1 2 070826 0:44:32 [ERROR] Slave: Error 'Duplicate entry '75-222419149' for key 1' on query. Default database: 't3nb'. Query: 'INSERT INTO cache_pagesection 070826 0:44:32 [ERROR] Error running query, slave SQL thread aborted. Fix the problem, and restart the slave SQL thread with "SLAVE START". We stopped at log 'dbc-mysql1.000192' position 611861372 Well, as you can see from the last line in the log, the Slave-SQL thread found a duplicate entry and thought it is smart to just turn off the thread instead of disregarding the just made entry. So from now on, both databases drift since there ain’t no replication anymore until someone kick starts the replication again (someone being me). ...

Well, the title nearly says everything .. I managed to loose my second pair of car keys, today I somehow found out that I was driving without a drivers license, so I have to go to the registration office and apply for a new one, hopefully should be done in about 4-6 weeks. Oh hell, and I have to spend about 40 € on it .. Well, live kinda sucks if you’re oblivious. Anyway, work is giving me a ass-load of fun right now, so I’m kinda happy, though it’s Saturday evening, I’m sitting back home, just lost all my custom build Debian packages (yes, I happen to use that at work, right after SLES) and listening to Hed PE.