The Cyborgs - Electric Chair

The Cyborgs is a two man 'elektrock' boogie band.
Thank you Sat Rocks for showing me their music :-)

Today I did some cleanup of my legacy infrastructure. The repositories formerly located at cvs.x-way.org and svn.x-way.org have been converted to Git and are now available at git.x-way.org.

Also is git.x-way.org now no longer served by the old gitweb.cgi but by the fantastic GitBucket (a lightweight, self-contained GitHub clone written in Scala).

Since last week Netflix is also available in Switzerland. The future has arrived one could say.
Not only gives this easy access to TV shows and movies but also is this access provided via IPv6.

As you can see on the graph below, this brings IPv6 out of slumber and into primetime :-)
Swiss providers are probably seeing quite an increase in IPv6 traffic this month.

Octave Minds - Anthem

Octave Minds (via)

The about page now features some fancy blog statistics, check it out :-)

The statistics are created with the help of Cal-Heatmap which allows to easily create calendar heatmaps similar to the activity heatmap of GitHub.

Update: couldn't stop playing around and thus added another chart, this time with the help of C3.js (a D3.js based reusable chart library).

SPA901 and SPA3102 phones can be rebooted by calling the following URL (which triggers an automatic config resync after the reboot):

http://<PHONEIP>/admin/reboot

The current configuration of an SPA901 phone can be downloaded like this:

http://<PHONEIP>/admin/spacfg.xml

For SPA3102 devices the URL is different:

http://<PHONEIP>/admin/config.xml

Yesterday I switched our DSL Link to green.ch. Now we not only have a higher bandwidth (thanks to VDSL) but also native IPv6 connectivity!
Especially nice is that it all works out of the box. After plugging in the pre-configured FritzBox, it automatically gets an IPv6 prefix via Prefix Delegation and announces it to the clients in the LAN.

08:05 [ aj @ actuarius : ~ ] % mtr -rc5 www.open.ch
Start: Fri Jul 25 08:06:42 2014
HOST: actuarius.fritz.box         Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- fritz.box                  0.0%     5    0.8   0.8   0.7   0.8   0.0
  2.|-- 2a01:2a8::121              0.0%     5    8.6   8.7   8.5   9.2   0.0
  3.|-- 2a01:2a8:0:5a::1           0.0%     5    8.4   8.2   8.0   8.4   0.0
  4.|-- 2a01:2a8:1:7::4            0.0%     5    8.1   8.6   8.1   9.6   0.0
  5.|-- 2a00:db0:9:a06::5          0.0%     5    8.8   8.6   8.3   8.8   0.0
  6.|-- www.open.ch                0.0%     5    8.9   8.7   8.6   8.9   0.0

12 years ago I started this weblog with a link to www.2advanced.com.
It's now 555 posts later and I think what is most unexpected (besides that this weblog is still existing 12 years later), is that this first link from my first post is still valid (and still pointing to some Flash-only website...).

So far this weblog has survived 2 different domains, 3 different servers, multiple versions of a self-made blogging-engine, about 6 different layout designs, a database-crash, recovery via archive.org and a migration to Jekyll.

No guarantee that it will last another 12 years, but for the meantime: Cheers, and enjoy the ride!

Wandtelefon Modell 50 from January 1970 now talks SIP (and it only took two converters, a bit of cable-fiddling and some luck :-)