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It’s open!

My new site has opened its doors and it looks little bit different to the old one! I mean – to be honest – it’s not finished yet but thats how the web works, it never gets finished. Most important is that I didn’t delete the old posts but I refocused which content should be favourized.

Based on the fact how life changes I also realized that this homepage is my private work – not my business work. Therefore I am going focuse more and more on photography and my hobbies I really like – based on photos
But still, I will create some technical posts but at the moment I do enough technical stuff in my business time as Cisco/Ironport Instructor and internal IT staff in my company.

I hope the new site gets at least as good as the last one!

Cheers Herbert

After weeks and months of silence I am back to say goodbye – this blog will close forever.
I am not happy any more with my online presence and what it looks like. Actually, I do not know how my online presence have to look like to be happy but things have to change.

For this reason, in a few days all the sites hosted on gotchi.at are going to get closed and discontinued. Whats coming up in the future is still written there.

So thanks everybody for supporting me that long.

Good bye!

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Once again – my job allowed me to explore Helsinki for a few days. Actually it was a horrible trip to get there. I got ill before the flight and that made my time in the plane kinda a nightmare.

Nevertheless I found some free time to get around and take some pictures.

The whole set can be found on Flickr

St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) is a cemetery in the Landstraße district of Vienna, used from 1784 until 1874. It was named after a nearby almshouse. The cemetery was opened in response to a decree by Emperor Joseph II that forbade further burials in cemeteries within the outer walls of the city of Vienna. He also ordered that bodies should be buried unembalmed and without coffins in mass graves. Thus the common assumption that Mozart’s grave (see below) was unmarked because he was too poor is false. His burial in 1791 after a funeral in the Stephansdom simply followed the regulations of the day.

All pictures can be found on my Flickr Photoset and more information is located at Wikipedia (German Version / English Version)

It’s kind of weird to see a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder with an L sign on the highway in the morning.

Based on the fact, that Ubuntu 9.04 was announced today, it is a good idea to explain how to upgrade every Ubuntu Version using the command line.

1. sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2. verify /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
   to use LTS or Normal based on your preferences
3. sudo do-release-upgrade

After that, follow the messages on the screen to upgrade your system to the newest Ubuntu Version.

With the message “Error: Passwords do not match, please retype.” Cacti tried to make my life horrible today, but not with me.

If you are running Cacti 0.8.7b (which is the standard version located in the Ubuntu repositories) you will be prompted with this error after editing a host using Firefox 3. The error is based on an auto complete bug within the form. There are two solutions to avoid the problem (which worked for me):

1. Before saving all the settings you have to delete (if not in use) the value in the password field of the SNMPv3 settings and than switch back to your preferred method of fetching information.
2. Apply the patch which was provided by RichardBronosky in the Cacti Forum solving the problem.

The easiest way to apply this patch is to cd to your cacti directory and:
1. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Verify the validity of the URI like this:

Code:
curl -L http://forums.cacti.net/download.php?id=14681

2. If it looks like a safe patch, then apply it directly from that URI via curl:

Code:
curl -L http://forums.cacti.net/download.php?id=14681|patch -p1 -N