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ISP Kartcompetitie 2008

wnagele — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:24:41 +0000

For those wondering what i’m doing in my spare time, well – last weekend there was a nice carting event in Huizen (near Amsterdam). This annual event is named ISP Kartcompetitie and everybody working in the ISP world is invited to join.

It was very well organized and a lot of entertainment – beneath the 30 euro flat booze – was offered.

The RIPE NCC surely had to join this event and we went there with a team of about 10 people. Though our performance decreased heavily during the day, it was a whole lot of fun and i can recommend this event to everybody.

There are also some photos from Robert and me.

I'm baaack …

wnagele — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:52:45 +0000

Well, at least people here at the NCC think it’s funny. They remember me about every second day that i have an accent like Arnie does. Hmm – dunno. But anyway – they’re not a bad bunch here. As i promised to some people (about a month ago ) that i would be blogging soon again – here i am.

The thing is, i don’t really have a lot to tell for now. I was quite busy with settling down here and getting all the bureaucratic stuff done. People in Austria will probably not believe me, when i tell them that Dutch are even worse on that part. Amsterdam itself turns out to be nice and i really love my flat here. Only thing that really turns me down all the time is the fu***** weather. Hey, it’s easter and people tell me that it’s very rarely snowing in Amsterdam. Well, it snowed pretty much all easter! And if it’s not snowing – never mind, when you go out in the morning and have the sun shining that does not mean it will stay like that on your 15 minute bike ride to the job. And yes, you read right – i have a bike. I really enjoy the difference to Vienna, whereas i don’t have to be afraid to be killed by some nasty tram driver. It’s more likely that you will hit some stoned german tourist (at least on the weekends).

So long, for now. I won’t promise, but i’ll really try to blog more often in the future again.

Moving on …

wnagele — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:35:05 +0000

Some of you probably already know i’ve received a bargain from the RIPE NCC to join their DNS operations team. I used the holidays to reflect all of this and finally decided to take this opportunity. The work will be focused around the operations of the K root DNS server which is a great personal challenge for me. I also would like to take this as a starting point to bring more attention to alternative DNS root server networks like ORSN, although i’ll have to leave my active work due to a possible conflict of interests behind.

This means, i’ll move to Amsterdam by the beginning of February 2008. Which in turn means, i’ll have lower chances to work for FunkFeuer and the other projects i’m involved with. I’ll however try to keep as much work ongoing as possible. Also i’ll be in Vienna from time to time. Depending on how things work out … (Maybe i hate Amsterdam ).

Odyssey of a shipment

wnagele — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:14:07 +0000

How hard can it be to send a contract from Amsterdam to Vienna? Well, as it points out – very. But lets get this in turn.

FunkFeuer registered for a LIR membership with the RIPE NCC some days ago. To finish this process the paper contract had to be signed and therefor was sent to the association “office”. As there are no office times and only sporadic meetings DHL couldn’t deliver it there. Okay, no problem so far – gave them the address of my office to drop the shipment there. Next day the deliverer phoned me that he is at the office and asked where to drop the shipment – as i wasn’t there i told him to hand it over to my colleague. When i came to the office some hours later no shipment there, asking my colleague he never heard of anything. Good. Phoning DHL they tell me that the shipment was delivered to the original office location to a woman i’ve never heard of before. Okay, so i went there and had a look – no person in the whole building by that name. Take a deep breath. Phoning DHL again they can’t tell me any more, but will try to reach the deliverer to find out more – in 2 hours or so. Great i don’t want to wait here and twiddle my thumbs. So i phoned my colleague if he could have a look if the named person was somewhere at the UniCredit staff. And, bingo – indeed there was a person by that name in the post department. Phoning him he told me – yes he has the shipment, but it’s in a office on the other end of Vienna. GREAT! So, travelling there took me another 40 minutes – but in the end, i had the shipment in my hands – for real!

But, to take up the cudgels for so i’ve got to tell that the reply shipment was delivered over night from Vienna to Amsterdam. At least according to the online tracking which also said that my shipment was delivered hours before i found it.