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12.09.2004 

Little homepage review after some time ;-)
Spent the whole day to get dspam work correctly with postgresql
Getting approx.100 spam mails a day is not fun, so you have to do something against it ;-)

01.06.2002 

Sun Workgroup and Enterprise certification.

27.10.2000 

Cisco CCIE certification #6362

11.08.2000

Moved 64Bit pages to http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html
Suits to the "apsfilter rocks" theme ;-)

01.08.2000

Apsfilter related things moved completely to http://www.apsfilter.org/

25.07.2000

Apsfilter got an apsfilter.org domain sponsored by DPN (VIA Networks).
The mailinglists are already accessable by the new name.
We are currently working on different things:

15.07.2000

New Apsfilter 5.4.2 Diffs.
New since Version 5.4.2 Release:

06.06.2000

New patch for apsfilter. As usual you should get the latest fix !!!

27.05.2000

New patch for apsfilter 5.4.2.
Bugfixes in SETUP and apsfilter. Better support for HP DeskJet 970C using the hpdj driver.

26.05.2000

New apsfilter developers:
Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> and Cesar Mendoza <mendoza@kitiara.org>
joined the apsfilter developement team.

25.05.2000

Patch for apsfilter 5.4.2 available

02.05.2000

Concerning Anonymous CVS: Apsfilter got 2 developement branches. One developement branch (the so called "HEAD" branch) and the -STABLE branch which has been called RELENG_5. I you want to checkout the latest stable apsfilter release please use RELENG_5 as release tag, i.e.: cvs checkout -r RELENG_5 apsfilter. Matej Vela will commit changes in the next time on the -current (developement / HEAD) branch, which have currently experimental character. Be warned.

30.04.2000

New Apsfilter mailinglist apsfilter-printing, covering Tips & Tricks, general discussion about printing in Unix Environment.

30.04.2000

New Apsfilter Release 5.4.2 (includes last security patch for 5.4.1)

28.04.2000

Get Security Patch for Apsfilter release 5.4.1, it's recommended for a multi-user system.

26.04.2000

New Apsfilter release 5.4.1

21.04.2000

Cosmo Project and DPN support apsfilter with an apsfilter developement platform
based on a DEC Alpha FreeBSD Server
Apsfilter Mailing Lists:
- apsfilter-announce@cosmo-project.de (open moderated list)
- apsfilter-cvs@cosmo-project.de (open list, cvs committ messages)
- apsfilter-devel@cosmo-project.de (closed list, apsfilter developer list)
- apsfilter-hackers@cosmo-project.de (open list, technical discussions, patch submissions)
- apsfilter-help@cosmo-project.de (open list, apsfilter user help channel)
To subscribe to a mailinglist simply write an e-mail to majordomo@cosmo-project.de
with the following line in the "body" of the Mail
subscribe apsfilter-help
CVS-Repository:
srv1.cosmo-project.de:/var/apscvs/APSCVS
Anonymous CVS server:
usage:
setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@srv1.cosmo-project.de:/var/apscvs/APSCVS
cvs login
cvs checkout -r RELEASE_TAG apsfilter
CVS Repository Browser (cvsweb):
http://www.cosmo-project.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi
Apsfilter Developer Accounts
you can become apsfilter developer, if you made some valuable apsfilter submissions on
the mailing list apsfilter-hackers (so that we know you), if you are used to work with
CVS and ssh and if you are able to work in a team ;-)

03.04.2000

Release apsfilter 5.3.1, mainly bugfix release
SETUP in apsfilter 5.3.0 entered a printer selection loop when selecting uniprint driver.

02.04.2000

New apsfilter 5.3.0 released with improved and more user friendly SETUP script concerning printer selection.
Is now aware of all gs 5.50 and 6.01 driver incl. contributed and 3rd party drivers.
FreeBSD users will have complete driver support, since the gs 6.01 port can be build and installed with all available drivers.
Other people will have to install the contributed uniprint driver profiles that come with the apsfilter port and
check the latest FreeBSD ghostscript port, from where to get additional 3rd party driver support.
You can use the following link to browse through the port:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports

21.03.2000

New apsfilter 5.2.0 patch released
New apsfilter URL http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andreas

18.03.2000

Released a Patch for apsfilter 5.2.0 to support an additional contributed uniprint profile.
Patched make-release, to create diffs for the last release.

11.03.2000

New apsfilter 5.2.0 version released with many new features and bugfixes.
Full Unix and Windows remote printer support.
More Security be reading config files with awk.
And more....

02.03.2000

New Apsfilter Version 5.1.5 released with bugfixes and new features.
See my apsfilter homepage and browse through the various info files on the apsfilter software center page.

13.02.2000

Update Security Links (Cisco and other)

07.02.2000

Updated Cisco Links

10.01.2000

German USENET article from de.comp.os.bsd, 16.12.1999
Martin Cracauer talks about the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
and talks about application problems with RedHat, that shows the strenghts of the "Cathedral" and the weaks of the "basaar" model.

02.01.2000

Released new apsfilter version 5.1.4

07.10.1999

Passed written Exam CCIE Routing & Switching, hurray !!!

19.09.1999

apsfilter pages: added tabular of supported filetypes and URLs to homepages or ftp sites of the filter programs

09.09.1999

Added hardware page, lists parts of my home equipement.

09.09.1999

The first two Postcards for apsfilter arrived from:
1. Carolyn Beckman <beckman@clone.concordia.ca> and
2. pahidi@pointest.com
Many thanks !!!
About 80 get-snailmail requests, compared to ~1100 downloads, looks like 5-10% ;-)

31.08.1999

Expect new songs from our band. Updated web page. Expect upload of new mpegs tomorrow...
Please have a look, which three new mpeg's are on it's way ...

29.08.1999

Introduced Apsfilter Software Center
SETI Institute, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Please visit the seti@home project
I joined the Team DPN today, here are my personal stats, and my wifes computer stats
(I think it will last some time, until you'll see something, since the computations are very CPU intensive ;-)
Operating Systems

28.08.1999

Released apsfilter 5.1.3
Please note, that COPYRIGHT changed a little bit.
GNU Public License as before, but I'd like to get a Postcard,
because I'm very instersted in knowing who is using apsfilter and where.
That's the only whish I have. Thanks !
Get my postal address by sending mail (empty mail preferred) to this account.

20.08.1999

Passed Cisco "CIT Exam" today.
So I became CCNP today !!! If you like to see my other certifications, then look here.
Had time to upload new page design...

12.08.1999

New Webpage Design. Not uploaded to freefall yet, due to some lack of time ;-)

21.07.1999

Passed Cisco "Routing & Switching Foundation Test" Exam today.

12.06.1999

Released my own errata list for Laura Chappels ICRC book. Still not approved by Laura or Cisco Press, download from here. You might also want to have a look at the correct AppleTalk OSI Layer model, which was completely wrong in the book: osi-appletalk.gif and osi-appletalk.fig. Otherwise it was a real nice book for CCNA preparation.

14.06.1999

Linuxberg gave apsfilter the best note in the discipline printing tools !!!

12.06.1999

Released new apsfilter 5.1.2

07.06.1999

Passed Cisco "CCNA Exam" today.
If you like to see my other certifications, then look here.

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