Author: micha

chili plants

try to grow chili this year; 10 plants each:

rocoto peru puno marki / c.pubescens

numex twilight / c.annuum

habanero hot lemon / c.chinense

masquerade / c.annuum

for breeding phase i use normal “anzuchterde” from obi, think about bringing the plants to my office because of the low temperature in my flat.

the plants from marcel; he startet also today, also 10 of each breed – the chilli battle has begun !

bih jolokia / c.chinense (bhut jolokia)

red savina / c.chinense

arlecchino / c.annuum

5 color / c.annuum

chupetinho / c.chinense

cird-charapita yellow / c.chinense

ruby on rails

playing with ruby on rails (ror) – web application development framework; all the structure behind it, looks very nice (mvc). it`s possible to build really fast and easy something like “website with database backend and some functions” what “traditional” is made by php,css,html,*sql and/or….  maybe ror is a topic for our next summer training in bodman – OH ! we got to plan this …

learn:

http://tryruby.org/

http://railsforzombies.org/

http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3

http://rubyonrails.org/

funny merchandise statement (ror – website):

“Ruby on Rails is astounding. Using it is like watching a kung-fu movie, where a dozen bad-ass frameworks prepare to beat up the little newcomer only to be handed their asses in a variety of imaginative ways.”
-Nathan Torkington, O’Reilly Program Chair for OSCON

jailbreak for IOS 4.2.1 available

gp_mac_rc5_b4 untethered jb released on 03/02/2011  @ http://greenpois0n.com/

as usual i waited a few days before upgrading …

first i did the normal upgrade to 4.2.1 with itunes. after booting 4.2.1 the cydia stuff was gone, but the installed apps from installous were still there (the apps did not start). now the greenpois0n jb – needed a lot of tries; it works after starting the tool via console *confused. after reboot i could install cydia and the rest of needed software, the apps from installous are working now, itune sync works, openvpn works – all good ! thx to the jb guys

screenOS or junOS ?

thinking about the differences between ssg and srx juniper firewall devices. my main focus is on stability and usual features like VPN stuff. srx devices might deliver some more and better features (on the other hand i.e. lack of ipv6 support (but announced)); for me it seems like the ssg devices are more stable and i know that they can do what i need to do.  ssg5 i.e. has been started last year, the end of life of ssg series is far away (hope so). the administration stuff (console, web) has changed completely in junOS – another reason to stay on ssg devices.  anyway: i`m pretty sure in a few years junOS will be the choice …

right now i`m using a SSG550M / planning to replace several linux VPN gateways with SSG5 boxes