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My new hosting provide Strato offers DynDNS. I was searching for a DynDNS client for my OpenSolaris Home Server, but a small bash script does the job as good as any other client.

VirtualBox works good when you use the same VMs all the time. It organizes the disk images in one directory and the configuration files in another. It kees a record of all known disk images and virtual machines.

If you try to carry a VM around with you on an USB stick or want to put it on an encrypted image, then you will get trouble.

A small snippet from one of my scripts which tests whether your Mac is in the given (home) WLAN.

If your PHP scripts run longer than the maximum execution time set by your webhoster, then you will see a message like this:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ...

To override the default for your webspace, you can use the php_value directive in a .htaccess file.

Last week one of my servers ran out of RAM and Swap. Shame on me for not monitoring that, but it's now.

As the server is running several zones, my first question was: Which zone is eating up my RAM? So, here are the commands I used.

skybow wrote the very helpful article "Drupal via HTTPS/SSL Proxy Server (shared certificates)".
While following his advice, I found some improvements.

As Constantin suggested, here is a list of services, which my home server should provide:

Some time ago, I decided to migrate my blog from DokuWiki to Drupal. Blogging with DokuWiki was OK using the plugins from the DokuWiki Blogsuite BundleHub, but Drupal has some advantages.

Thanks to Wolfgang Stief and Constantin Gonzalez, I got hold on one of the proceedings of the Linux Kongress and OpenSolaris Developer Conference.
In this book, I found amoung other, also very interesting, articles one about LAX by Thomas Groß.

LAX has some very interesiting concepts, but, unfortunately, it doesn't fit my needs.

Yesterday, I visited my first geocache.
For those interested, here is evidence: