Musings

This server was down a bit during the day when I installed the new 3Ware RAID IDE Controller and moved a couple of directories to a mirrored disk. The process was more or less painless but I learnt a couple of interesting tid-bits. Computers don’t turn themselves on, when they don’t have power. That means - if nothing happens on pressing the BRS, check that the connector from the power supply is firmly seated in the motherboard. (Turns out that I partially unplugged mine when fumbling with additional IDE cables. ...

invisible is not only the name of this blog, but also the name of my company “invisible Jens Christian Fischer”. I do consulting, Lotus Notes / Domino mainly, intranets, web development and so on. (If you need a consultant in this area, send me an email) My wife’s company is called “visible”. Both are what is called “Einzelfirmen” - they are companies that belong to individuals and as such, the company is me, and I’m the company. ...

Oh - I learnt something today… **You are all pretentious twats ** Every last one of you. You’re all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we’re lucky. Espresso (double), Windows, city, primary, atheist… You decide on the rest ;-) read rant [ via hannes]

Ladies and gentlemen, please update your bookmarks: https://invisible.ch The old adress will work for some time, the /archives link will work indefinitely, but please go to the new adress in the future. I need this address for something else soon.

The server you are hitting is about to undergo some major surgery. First of all, it will get a 3Ware 2 Port RAID Adapter together with 2 Samsung SpinPoint 160 GB disks, serving in a RAID 1 configuration. Next, the aging Red-Hat 7.3 system will be updated to a Debian Woody Stable release. I have googled around, and there are a number of “How-To’s” - Emma’s one has links to installation notes, HOW-TO’s and the works. ...

We were at the handing out of prices for the best business idea at Venture 2004 this evening, held in the Auditorium Maximum of ETH Zurich. My new venture, ZAPPATA Networks had entered with their business idea in the beginning of January, and today the best 10 business ideas were awarded CHF 2'500.– Not surprisingly, we weren’t in the top 10. We weren’t even in the top 43 - but somewhere between place 238 and 44. Actually there was no “real” IT company in the top 10 and only 3 or 4 in the runners up. Could it be that the sponsoring companies were favoring their interests.? Novartis and Roche and 6 winning projects that are developing either drugs or their products are usable in the pharma / life-science industry? Or that 8 of the projects are coming from a university? But that would probably be pure conjecture on my part. ...