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2025 12

  1. Nico's Porsche Taycan Facelift Experience - First Impression
  2. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience
  3. nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-facelift-part-2-display-failure
  4. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience
  5. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Broken Onboard Charger
  6. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Broken Sport Sound
  7. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - The Suspension Failure
  8. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Power System Failure
  9. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Water In The Car
  10. The Porsche Taycan Disaster
  11. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Rattling and Squeaking
  12. news archive

2023 2

  1. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Ticktack Wheels
  2. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - The Handover

2013 1

  1. News 2013-01-22

Undated 257

  1. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - The loud fan
  2. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Driving
  3. Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - replacing the key battery
  4. How to enable encrypted swap in Alpine Linux
  5. www.nico.schottelius.org now hosted in kubernetes
  6. About init dependencies
  7. What went wrong, if accept(2) returns 0?
  8. Added fgallery to the list of static image gallery generators
  9. Adobe Source Code Pro font - Nice to read, but not on small sizes
  10. Alpine Linux on the HP X360 1040 G5
  11. Backup and Restore Android Devices without Google
  12. Announced first ETH sysadmin meeting
  13. Archlinux: One way to create one account for all systems
  14. Attitude of the FOSS community - a matter of perspective
  15. Automated Unix Installations
  16. I buy No Time To Explain, because I don't need to
  17. ccollect 0.8 includes many changes like quiet_if_down
  18. RPM for ccollect 0.8 available
  19. ccollect 0.8 will soon be released
  20. Subject: Cdist 2.0.1 released ...
  21. Cdist 2.0.10 released
  22. Cdist 2.0.11 released
  23. Cdist 2.0.12 released
  24. Cdist 2.0.13 released
  25. Cdist 2.0.14 released
  26. Cdist 2.0.5 released
  27. Cdist 2.0.6 released
  28. Cdist 2.0.7 released
  29. Cdist 2.0.8 released
  30. Cdist 2.0.9 released
  31. Cdist 2.1.0 released
  32. Cdist 2.1.0pre7 released
  33. Cdist 2.1.0pre8 released
  34. Cdist 2.1.1 released
  35. Cdist 2.1.2 released
  36. Cdist 2.2.0 released
  37. Cdist 2.3.0 released
  38. Cdist 2.3.1 released
  39. Cdist 2.3.2 released
  40. Cdist 2.3.3 released
  41. Cdist 2.3.4 released
  42. Cdist 2.3.5 released
  43. Cdist 2.3.6 released
  44. Cdist 2.3.7 released
  45. Cdist 3.0.0 released
  46. Cdist 3.0.1 released
  47. Cdist 3.0.2 released
  48. Cdist 3.0.3 released
  49. Cdist 3.0.4 released
  50. Cdist 3.0.5 released
  51. Cdist 3.0.6 released
  52. Cdist 3.0.7 released
  53. Cdist 3.0.8 released
  54. Cdist 3.0.9 released
  55. Cdist 3.1.0 released
  56. Cdist 3.1.1 released
  57. Cdist 3.1.10 released
  58. Cdist 3.1.11 released
  59. Cdist 3.1.12 released
  60. Cdist 3.1.13 released
  61. Cdist 3.1.2 released
  62. Cdist 3.1.3 released
  63. Cdist 3.1.4 released
  64. Cdist 3.1.5 released
  65. Cdist 3.1.6 released
  66. Cdist 3.1.7 released
  67. Cdist 3.1.8 released
  68. Cdist 3.1.9 released
  69. Cdist 4.0.0 released
  70. Cdist 4.0.0pre1 released
  71. Cdist 4.0.0pre2 released
  72. Cdist 4.0.0pre3 released
  73. Cdist 4.1.0 released
  74. Cdist 4.10.0 released
  75. Cdist 4.10.1 released
  76. Cdist 4.10.10 released
  77. Cdist 4.10.11 released
  78. Cdist 4.10.2 released
  79. Cdist 4.10.3 released
  80. Cdist 4.10.4 released
  81. Cdist 4.10.5 released
  82. Cdist 4.10.6 released
  83. Cdist 4.10.7 released
  84. Cdist 4.10.8 released
  85. Cdist 4.10.9 released
  86. Cdist 4.11.0 released
  87. Cdist 4.11.1 released
  88. Cdist 4.2.0 released
  89. Cdist 4.2.1 released
  90. Cdist 4.2.2 released
  91. Cdist 4.3.0 released
  92. Cdist 4.3.1 released
  93. Cdist 4.3.2 released
  94. Cdist 4.4.0 released
  95. Cdist 4.4.1 released
  96. Cdist 4.4.2 released
  97. Cdist 4.4.3 released
  98. Cdist 4.4.4 released
  99. Cdist 4.5.0 released
  100. Cdist 4.6.0 released
  101. Cdist 4.6.1 released
  102. Cdist 4.7.0 released
  103. Cdist 4.7.1 released
  104. Cdist 4.7.2 released
  105. Cdist 4.7.3 released
  106. Cdist 4.8.0 released
  107. Cdist 4.8.1 released
  108. Cdist 4.8.2 released
  109. Cdist 4.8.3 released
  110. Cdist 4.8.4 released
  111. Cdist 4.9.0 released
  112. Cdist 4.9.1 released
  113. Cdist: How to apply a single object
  114. Performance of cdist 2.0.0-rc4
  115. cdist: Why we require Python 3.2 on the source host
  116. Cdist: The scripts vs. functions and local variables problem
  117. Cdist: How to copy a folder recursively
  118. QT4 user interface prototype added to ceofhack
  119. Introducing first code for user interfaces in ceofhack
  120. How to change the colour of ls to work with bright terminal backgrounds
  121. Cinit 0.3pre15 released
  122. Cinit 0.3pre16 released
  123. Cinit 0.3pre17 released
  124. Cinit 0.3pre18 released
  125. Cinit 0.3pre19 released
  126. Cinit is alive - and being migrated
  127. Cinit migrated to www.nico.schottelius.org
  128. Moving on: Migrating from #cLinux to #cstar
  129. (Virtual) Network loop powered by Qemu, Bonding, Bridging and Arista
  130. Bootstrapping configuration and installation servers
  131. How to control (shutdown) Virtual machines from Qemu/KVM via commandline
  132. Created photo website: photo.nico.schottelius.org
  133. Ctt 0.4 released
  134. ctt 0.7 released: new format option
  135. ctt 0.8 released
  136. ctt 0.9 released
  137. ctt 1.1 released
  138. Ubuntu and Debian skip fsck on battery - a bug
  139. Debian with LDAP forgets about its users
  140. Linux on the Dell R815
  141. Do not make your software rely on systemd
  142. Added new short commands to .gitconfig (lo, lco, lpc, lpco, m, pl)
  143. Find e-mail adresses of people in git log output
  144. How to scroll and paste with the middle mouse button in Firefox
  145. First release of fui
  146. How to format and partition a SD-Card (USB-Stick) under Linux for the Canon CP800 printer
  147. Released fui-0.2
  148. Released fui-0.3
  149. Generic automatic installation for different Linux distributions
  150. Gluster FOSS development is awesome
  151. GPM 1.20.7 released
  152. Published gpm2
  153. Great Rails Hosting: A symlink for an app
  154. A guide for IT bosses
  155. Anacron and cronie: How cron.hourly, cron.daily and cron.weekly work
  156. How to access gluster from multiple networks
  157. How to add private information to a public puppet repository
  158. How to backup The Piratebay and its content
  159. How to extract your Amazon ebooks from the Android Kindle App
  160. How to find and execute stuff on all hosts?
  161. How to generate a /etc/shadow compatible md5 password
  162. How to inform people about better solutions?
  163. How to show the latest git tag
  164. I want a decentralised bugtracker
  165. Ikiwiki has been slow, but it is fast now!
  166. Ikiwiki is slow
  167. Introducing Simple Universal Time (SUT)
  168. Linux distribution independent iptables setup powered by cdist sponsored by panter
  169. Building an IPv6 only kubernetes cluster
  170. KVM Virtual Machines managed with cdist and sexy @ local.ch
  171. Linux on the Lenovo X201
  172. libpr0n: an image rendering library for Mozilla
  173. Mixing redirects and rewrites with lighttpd and Plone
  174. Linux cannot ping itself, but others can ping the box
  175. How to install Linux on a Macbook Pro 2016
  176. Linux, UNIX and FOSS users: there is light on the horizon
  177. Linux virtual machine software is a real pain
  178. LXC still insecure (since 2011)
  179. Installing Linux on a Macbook Air (4,2)
  180. Correcting the multimedia keys mapping on the MacBook Air 4,2
  181. Status of Linux on the MacBook Air 4,2
  182. MacBook Air 4,2: Xorg/Synaptics touchpad click and move fixed
  183. Getting the keyboard, touchpad and correct screen resolution working on the MacBook Air 4,2
  184. Managing custom software with environment modules in the Systems Group
  185. Maybe systemd is not the best idea
  186. Migrate Ubuntu to cinit
  187. Migrated nico.schotteli.us
  188. Migrated tech.schottelius.org
  189. Migrated unix.schottelius.org
  190. Migrating away from puppet to cdist
  191. Configuration files migrated and updated
  192. Migrated FreeBSD raid monitoring and FOSS article
  193. Migrated ccollect
  194. Migrated gpm
  195. Migrated small introduction to gpgme
  196. How to change the tempdir for Mozilla (general) and conkeror
  197. My Bash and Zsh prompt
  198. My notebook firewall for the 36c3
  199. My photo publishing approach
  200. New comments about ccollect published
  201. New Linux wireless gigabit Linux router for ungleich office
  202. Nginx: Use X-Accel with conflicting regular expressions
  203. The Nodejs in IPv6 only networks problem
  204. Known bugs of nscd with LDAP
  205. Searching for a maintainer for offlineimap and hpodder
  206. OpenSSH 6.2: Add callback functionality (using dynamic remote port forwarding)
  207. Published ceofhack
  208. Published creature
  209. Published puppet module for efsh
  210. Published puppet modules: Collectd, Java, Prayer and ns_webmail_proxy
  211. Published list of projects
  212. Published mbs: A machine booking system for the ETH Zurich
  213. Published puppet module for openntpd including ETHZ integration
  214. Published puppet module for postgresql
  215. Published smtp_logger
  216. Published Static image gallery generator comparison
  217. Published Xorg terminal emulator font list
  218. Puppet bugs that motivated me to migrate away from puppet and write cdist
  219. Puppet: Duplicate definition - on the same line!
  220. Puppet empties new and existing files
  221. In puppet, $name is not always what you expect
  222. Puppet: The quantum effect when loading classes
  223. Reboot Linux if task blocked for more than n seconds
  224. Released ccollect 0.8
  225. Released ceofhack 0.6
  226. Released efsh 0.2
  227. Names of remote management systems (rmm, drac, ilom, imm, ilo)
  228. Replaced old PGP key 9885188C with 31877DF0
  229. Started to write news again
  230. Take ruby, ncurses and ceofhack, get fui
  231. Ruby on Rails: Fix the hostname does not match the server certificate error
  232. Next /sans/ meeting with puppet as main topic
  233. Searching a notebook for a digital nomad
  234. Sexy and cdist @ local.ch
  235. Sexy example: Small backend change and you are managing DNS
  236. Sexy and cdist interaction: Sexy chooses hosts, cdist configures
  237. Sexy is being renamed to cinv
  238. Bootstrapping a network with sexy
  239. Solution proposal for the io select/poll problem
  240. Started Archive.Schottelius.Org
  241. Setting static nameserver and search path with dhcpcd
  242. How to use stdin and here documents for templating in cdist
  243. List of support fiascos
  244. Sysadmin bootstrap - the beginning
  245. Sysadmin bootstrap - seek for information
  246. The power of vim: mail editing
  247. Treat Virtual Machines like Hardware
  248. Tunneling the qemu or kvm vnc unix socket via ssh
  249. ungleich is blogging
  250. Puppet: Update the puppetmaster before the puppet clients
  251. How to change the font in urxvt (rxvt-unicode) dynamically
  252. Use smart passphrases - stop enforcing weak and complicated passwords
  253. How to use the volume keys on the Lenovo X200 and X201
  254. What is configuration management?
  255. Why CentOS does not stop your init script
  256. How to disable the touchpad in Xorg with xinput
  257. Solution for Postfix with Postgres: SASL error: authentication failed: authentication failure