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This site sped up

Regular visitors know about my problems with the speed of this site. There always was a delay of several seconds for every request made to the webserver (apache). Thinking out loud with my colleague and friend Matthias led me to play with the configuration of my named deamon. Lo and behold - there was an entry for an unknown DNS server in resolve.conf. Replacing that with 127.0.0.1 for my caching named made all the difference. ...

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Flight Risk

Is it for real? Is it a fantasy? I don’t care - this has to be one of the most grabbing blogs I’ve ever read: "… she’s a flight risk" Copied from the comments below - with links intact Wired News does a good job of recapping the events so far, and the author of the blog “Isabella” stopped by Collective Detective’s discussion (free reg. req’d) and candidly answered many skeptics questions. The blog of a drunken animated puzzle piece has even begun spoofing it, a true sign of meme status. ...

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Not dead yet - and talking

Oh my - work is backing up again, and the precious easter holidays were nice but too short (and I spent one day doing my accounts instead of spending it with the family). Also - there always seems to be something happening: if the work situation is good, then problems on the private front creep up. Spent the easter weekend having long and good talks with my wife. Something that I have learnt during my life (and old relationships gone bad) is that you need to talk about your feelings, about your concerns. Earlier I always was afraid of saying what my thoughts, wishes, desires were. Fear of “not being loved” anymore, fear of hurting the other. That this not talking led to much more pain in the long run… well it took a while to learn that. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer