Now even more close

Now even more close

The last couple of days I managed to get ahead! finishing my thesis (or actually, refining it) (done)finish last course Service Level Management by writing a Service Level Agreement and answer some …

Research approved

Research approved

I just received word that my research phase for my thesis has been aproved, so that is very good! Now it is really time for refinement. Research model

Almost done

Almost done

After 5 years the end is really near. Don’t worry, nothing serious 😉 What was I doing? I tried to combine family life with small children, work and a part-time bachelor studies. So the last hurdles …

Supporting AD LDAP

Supporting AD LDAP

Almost forgot that I have made a contribution to the Question2Answer plugin for LDAP-authentication. I need it to connect to MS Active Directory through LDAP and it did not work out of the box for me. …

Create your own haystack

Create your own haystack

So I’d like to introduce Stackoverflow-like functionality to my company network. It can support us internally, because we run a front-and back office team. But we also talked about integrating …

The needle in the stack is quite big these days

The needle in the stack is quite big these days

A couple of years ago I was introduced to stackoverflow.com. That was quite an improvement over my frantic Google searches for IT related questions at the time. I did not like the experts-exchange …

studiodebian

studiodebian

My work laptop has been running Windows 7 for a year. The funny thing is I never really used the OS for work. My development environment resides in a Virtualbox vm. The harddisk is a Samsung PM800 ssd …

Monitoring multiple tcp-ports at once in Nagios

Monitoring multiple tcp-ports at once in Nagios

During the last two months I have been setting up Nagios as a side project. We have a lot of new customers coming in and we need to have a tight grip on our systems to satisfy service levels. So as I …

Hello world!

Hello world!

Welcome to my renewed site. I used to blog in the past as well, and I’d like to share some things again. This time, most of my ramblings will be work related. I hope I can help/inspire/amuse my …