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Bayreuth Festival - Online streaming of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”

Actual I’m involved into a project which maybe of interest for you if you like opera particular when you are a Richard Wagner enthusiast.
Since long time, the waiting period for obtaining tickets increases a lot. At the moment I think you have to wait around 8 years, which is a worse.
Time changes also at Bayreuth Festival, they seems to refocus their audience. Looks like the aspects of huge waiting list and new medias influenced that process.

This year the opera “Die Meistersinger” is broadcasted online under the slogan “live dabei” (live there) via the great thing called “Internet” and to a public viewing area in Bayreuth, which is a premiere in both cases. So if you don’t have a ticket for the Festspielhaus and not in a position to make use of the public viewing but interested to have a look at the opera, you may want to check if your system matches the technical requirements and give it a try.

Routing Suite in an ISP environment?

Searching for an alternative for our old Cisco Border Router we are evaluating some software routing suites on “normal” server hardware.
First we tried Vyatta, but the routing software frequently crashed completly. Maybe this is fixed with VC4 Alpha 1, but we didn’t test that.
Next try was the development version (0.99.9) of quagga from Debian testing, but it looks like a peering with one of our cisco router fails after the hold timer expires. Continue reading ‘Routing Suite in an ISP environment?’

Too much coffee …

… it’s a old, but matchs the actual complex of some discussions in the country where I actualy live.
Terrorism

Ignoring security (usability)

Since some time, Deutsche Bahn rolled public wireless lan called “WLAN am Bahnhof” out at 25 railroad stations, you can choose between 4 providers. Sounds really nice, but beside the economical conditions, there is also at least one security issue.
Connecting to the network and opening your favorite browser redirects you to a encrypted portal. So far, so good … the really bad news is, that the certificate expired over 6 years ago.
Broken certificate
This seems to be a normal behavior, since it happens often, that invalid certificates are used. This leeds to blunted users, which aren’t verifying such certificates anymore, even when it’s important.
Does anybody know a reasonable way to notify anybody who can solve the problem there beside the normal contact forms?




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