Quite a few col­leagues and friends were inter­ested in the LaTeX tem­plate I used for my theses. As it clearly evolved dur­ing the last years, my dip­loma looks quite dif­fer­ent, though :)

For those who are inter­ested: I just cre­ated a new webpage where you can down­load the archive. It con­tains both the LaTeX sources and LyX files. Feel free to use or modify them. I’d also be very happy to also receive com­ments or modifications!

Have fun :)

That per­fectly describes … life.

I should really stick to res­ol­u­tions I made: do not (in any case) read busi­ness mails on the week­end or in the free time!

I finally decided to move my gal­lery to a (more spe­cial­ised) ser­vice pro­vider. Maybe you already noticed the new nam­ing scheme. Even though Men­alto Gal­lery is a great piece of soft­ware, I wanted to have an easy-to-use, safe solu­tion that does not require manual soft­ware updates or upgrades to be installed. I’m get­ting lazy, I know :)

So, the new gal­lery is still reach­able via http://phbaer.net/gallery/ but it will be redir­ec­ted to http://photos.phbaer.net/. Unfor­tu­nately, Smug­Mug offers no secured con­nec­tions to the user gal­ler­ies. You will fur­ther need to enable JavaS­cript, just in case you deac­tiv­ated it.

Please do not be alarmed by the new domain name of miss­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies of the new ser­vice. I hope you still enjoy brows­ing through my col­lec­tion and do not hes­it­ate to com­ment or rate the pictures! :)

Yes­ter­day, I unin­ten­tion­ally deleted the (mas­ter) ext4 super­b­lock of one of my (vir­tual) server’s par­ti­tions by acci­dent­ally executing

pvcreate <device>

Only some seconds later, I real­ised that I defin­it­ively chose the wrong lvm volume. Some more minutes later, I found out that this can be (partly) rever­ted by let­ting e2fsck recre­ate the mas­ter super­b­lock by first going through the inform­a­tion stored in one of the backup super­b­locks. Their loc­a­tions can be cal­cu­lated by mke2fs, given the para­met­risa­tion is still known. Given, as in most cases no cus­tom val­ues were used, the list of backup super­b­locks is revealed by running

mke2fs -n <device>

The -n argu­ment makes e2fsck carry out a dry run only. Finally, the mas­ter super­b­lock is restored by issuing

e2fsck -p <backup superblock offset> <device>

Some error mes­sages will be dis­played and some cor­rec­tions will be car­ried out. In the end, how­ever, I got back a fully func­tional filesys­tem with all the data … at least it seems so :)