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Monthly Archives April 2010

Solaris iconv terminaly broken

I have been bitten by the buggy iconv provided by Sun many times. A few years ago with Samba on Solaris 9, now again with FreeTDS on top of Solaris 10. It is amazing how bad Sun has been about providing software on top of Solaris. The OS itself might be cool, and ZFS is [...]

Posted 22 April 2010 § IT ‡ Comments (0) °

ADSL to VDSL migration

I was subscriber of Solnet ADSL since a few years. Solnet was a good ISP, but they didn’t offer interesting upgrades to high bandwidth DSL for my place. After studying the market a bit, I stumbled upon the VDSL offer of green.ch. I’m paying about the same price as before, but I have now 16’000/1’000 [...]

Posted 14 April 2010 § IT ‡ Comments (0) °