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I was looking for an Internet PC for surfing and email writing which runs under Linux. "Normal" PCs are oversized for this. These demands matched against the MSI Wind PC. Here in Germany the PC is sold as MSI Wind PC 2723.

I am using VMware on two computers: On my CoreDuo workstation Debian Etch was running with a 2.6.23 Vanilla kernel and VMware Workstation 6.0. And on my Pentium-M Laptop Ubuntu Dapper Drake with VMware Workstation 5 is installed.

Hydroponics and Fishkeeping are easy to combine. A land plant feature is that they prefer nitrate as nitrogen source. On the other hand water plants prefer ammonium. And unfortunately nitrate is the last step in amino acid degradation and so accumulates in the water. Therefore land plants are good filters for nitrate (if they are big enough). Additionally they make a good fish tank background.

In May 2008 my old router decided to go to computer heaven. So i needed a new router which is located between DSL and LAN at my home.

I have a DSL connection with 2000 KBit downstream. Experience indicated that a VIA C3 CPU is more than enough for such a bandwidth. 

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In the year 2002 i started my personal website www.nico-manicone.de in German. One article was about the Hamburger Mattenfilter, a fishkeeping filter quite popular in Germany. The web server logs displayed that a lot of non German speakers accessed this article. Therefore i decided to create an English translation which you are reading now. ;-)

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Site History

• 7.2009 - new version based on Drupal (now in English and German)
• 1.2004 - first email from a web site visitor
• 3.2003 - first entry in a search engine (Fireball.de) :-)
• 3.2003 - the first link to my homepage   :-)
• 2.2003 - German site "www.nico-manicone.de" went  online (static pages with Apache/ PHP)