PREFACE
The recent weeks have been dominated by the Corona-Crisis all over Europe. As Switzerland lies in the middle of the Continent it hasn't been a question of «if» we are going to be shut down. The question clearly was: when.
This page is to keep you informed on current topics (we will update this page as time permits).
Sunday, April 26th, 2207LT
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Meltdown & Spectre – STATUS
As most of you may be aware, Intel (and AMD) do have some nasty bugs design flaws inside their CPUs....
This Page tries to keep you updated on the current status.
Please bear with us if we're a bit late sometimes, but our first and utmost Priority currently is to keep our customers safe.
There is an Update-Section at the end of the page that will be kept up2date as tim...
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Proxmox VE V9.0 released
Proxmox has released a new major version for it's virtualization Platform: V9.0.
The release Notes can be found here, the new features include:
Based on Debian 13 "Trixie" but uses Linux kernel 6.14.8-2 as new stable default
VM snapshots on thick-provisioned LVM storages
HA rules for node and resource affinity
Fabrics for the Software-Defined Networking stack
Modern...
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IT Security in the light of the current political situation – a short overview
The last few weeks have been sort of an eye-opener for many. With the current government in the USA tearing down everything and all that used to be considered granted in the past... let me put it like this:
The world order we have known is no more. It's gone. Whether it is a good or a bad thing in general is to be considered by future generations. Fact is: It's done, it's gone...
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Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 released!
Proxmox has released Version 3.4 of it's Backup Server Solution:
Some of the highlights
Optimized performance for Garbage Collection
Granular backup snapshot selection for sync jobs
Easier backups of arbitrary Linux hosts with new static build of CLI client
Increased throughput for tape backup
Based on Debian 12.10 ("Bookworm") but using Linux kernel 6.8.12-9 ...
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Proxmox VE V8.4 released
Proxmox has released Version 8.4 of it's virtualization solution.
Highlights:
Live migration with mediated devices such as NVIDIA vGPU
API for third party backup solutions
Virtiofs directory passthrough
Ceph Squid 19.2.1 as stable option
Based on Debian 12.10 "Bookworm" but uses Linux kernel 6.8.12 as default and kernel 6.14 as opt-in
QEMU 9.2.0, LXC 6.0....
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Proxmox Virtual Environment V7.3 released
Proxmox did just release V7.3 of their Proxmox Virtual Environment.
Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.3 comes with initial support for Cluster Resource Scheduling, enables updates for air-gapped systems with the new Proxmox Offline Mirror tool, and has improved UX for various management tasks, as well as interesting storage technologies like ZFS dRAID and countless enhancements an...
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Why (government) surveillance is a bad thing
Imagine what could happen, if:
Master-Keys
Access to Databases
Tools for wiretapping technically everyone
Tools for locating targeted people
Private Data
... etc....
would be in the hands of an enemy force? Well... read the news, it actually happened:
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-taliban-military-biometrics/
As of recent, the americans (and w...
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Wo gehobelt wird…
Compination ist seit 2005 für Schreiner48 AG tätig. Lesen Sie hier weiter…
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Datacenter in the Cloud can be a good thing, but….
... a cloud in a Datacenter most likely is going to ruin your day (especially if it's a smoke-cloud).
On March 10th, at about 00:47h local time some of our servers did stop responding.
One of our Providers, OVH, has faced the worst of all nightmares last night: One of their Datacenters in Strasbourg (FR) did burn to crisp.
There are four Datacenters at the Strasbourg facility,...
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Der Unterschied zwischen Österreich und der EU?
Wie im letzten Artikel bereits beschrieben versuchen diverse Geheimdienste innerhalb der EU starke Verschlüsselung auszuhebeln, indem ein Backdoor eingebaut werden soll.
Kasachstan versucht das ebenfalls - allerdings mit einem (technisch) sehr viel weniger perfiden Verfahren:
Kasachstan versucht erneut, sichere Verbindungen zu torpedieren
Der Aufschrei innerhalb der EU ist g...
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Gebratene Tauben für die Geheimdienste dieser Welt
Es ist mal wieder soweit: Im Windschatten der Terror-Anschläge von Wien im November diesen Jahres liessen die Geheimdienste in Europa keine Zeit verstreichen um mal wieder die Debatte um Verschlüsselung, respektive die Umgehung derselben für staatliche Dienste, neu anzuschieben.
Wie Heise unter https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/EU-Regierungen-planen-Verbot-sicherer-Verschluesse...
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