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New camera :-)

My new camera - a Canon EOS 30D digital SLR camera and a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM zoom lens - arrived this morning. I'm very happy that it arrived in time for my snowboarding vacation (which starts on Saturday) as I did not order it before last Friday. Today, I bought two 2GB CF cards for it so I should be equipped pretty well for the time being :-)

thursday, december 28, 2006 | path: /photo | permanent link

Yesterday I found and removed a bug in the computer lab at university ;-)

tuesday, december 05, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Second set of pictures uploaded

The second set of pictures of my Norway trip - taken with my Canon EOS Rebel G camera - have been uploaded to my gallery.

tuesday, october 10, 2006 | path: /travel | permanent link

Harddisk failure

Today, for the second time in just a few weeks, one of my harddisks on alba failed. Both of them were less then a year old...

Anyway, I just took the chance to upgrade to a 2.6.17.13 kernel with the latest stable Linux-VServer patch applied.

friday, october 06, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Hardangerfjord and Hardanger Vidda panorama

This 360 degree panorama picture, showing part of the Hardangerfjord and Hardanger Vidda, was assembled from seven single pictures using hugin and enblend.

The pictures where taken on top of a mountain close to the city of Lofthus

monday, october 02, 2006 | path: /travel | permanent link

Norway pictures uploaded...

...

I just uploaded the first set of pictures of the Norway trip.

friday, september 15, 2006 | path: /travel | permanent link

Norge: Fossen Fjorden og Fjell

From august 27 to september 10 I have been on a camping trip to the land of the waterfalls, fjords and mountains - Norway. It is definitly one of the most beautiful countries I've seen so far. All the people we have met were really friendly. In general, Norway is a great country for hiking, water sports and the like. There are hardly any highways (and if there are, the speed is restricted to 90 km/h [about 56 mph] and speeding is controlled everywhere and anytime) but most roads are about one and a half lanes wide, which is particularly interesting if a big truck was approaching you from the front ;-) In my opinion, another great advantage of any Scandinavian country is the everyman's right, permiting you, amongst others, to camp pretty much anywhere you want.

The most mentionable points of our trip where as follows:

Starvanger: Rain. ... seriously, there's not a lot more to say about it. We came there twice and it was raining all the time.

Hardanger Vidda: The national park spanning the Hardanger Vidda plateau is a great place to go hiking. We did a two day hiking tour (actually we planned to do a three day tour but one of us got sick) which was really nice. If you want to do long hiking tours in Norway I definitly suggest to go there. You can either chose to take a tent with you (as we did) or just stay the night in any of the numerous huts (which might be pretty expensive though).

Folgefonna: This is the third largest glacier in mainland Norway just in the west of the Hardanger Vidda national park near the town of Odda. The trail we chose was quite interesting. It is a really small path simply marked with some signs on rocks or trees. We had to pass small wooden bridges and climb up large rocks with the help of ropes that were tied to trees. I really liked that hike.

Lærdalstunnelen: The world's longest road tunnel with a length of 24.5 km (15.2 miles).

Munkatreppene: From 0 (well something below 100) to 1000 in 2 hours. Near the town of Lofthus, there is another nice entry point to Hardanger Vidda. During the Middle Ages monks built a stairway to a viewpoint at about 1000 meters above sea level. We hiked up there and had a really nice view of the Hardangerfjord and the Hardanger Vidda plateau.

Preikestolen: A massive cliff 604 meters straight above Lysefjorden. We decided to get up at 3.30 a.m. to hike to the top and watch the sunrise. It was really worth it. You get a fantastic view of Lysefjorden and the surounding mountains.

Pictures will be uploaded some time during the next days.

Takk! I'll definitly come back.

wednesday, september 13, 2006 | path: /travel | permanent link

The most expensive minute in my life

Yesterday morning I was taking the bus to go to work. I currently have a ticket that cannot be used before 9.00 a.m.. Well, I entered the bus at 8.59 and had to pay 1.40 euros because of that very minute - needless to say that I was really pissed off. Ridiculous bunch that calls itself a large business...

wednesday, august 23, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Proof-of-concept repiping support

The freakshell now supports a very basic proof-of-concept repipe command. See the following sample output:
frsh> cat foo
#!/bin/bash
sleep 30
echo "foo"
sleep 30
echo "bar"

frsh> ./foo | ls
[ls output]
frsh> jobs
./foo (pid = 19343)
frsh> repipe 19343 wc -l
2

sunday, april 02, 2006 | path: /projects/freakshell | permanent link

F***ing script kiddies...

This somewhat heavy load came from just one script kiddie trying to log in by SSH - I hate those fuckers...

monday, march 13, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Mailinglist and SVN repository

If you want to watch us fooling around, you may subscribe to our mailing lists or get the most up to date version of the source code from our subversion repository. Don't expect too much though... we're still in planning stage ;-)

wednesday, march 08, 2006 | path: /projects/freakshell | permanent link

freakshell "revival"

The freakshell is a very freaky shell... It is so tremendously freaky that it's in planning stage for almost three years by now. Today, I registered freakshell.org, so, now we at least have a nice domain and a lot of webspace - the web site is in planning stage, however... Enjoy ;-)

monday, march 06, 2006 | path: /projects/freakshell | permanent link

Kernel upgrade

After almost 245 days uptime, I had to reboot this computer to install a new kernel. I upgraded from Linux 2.6.11.9 to 2.6.14.3 including the VServer patch. Strangely, the reboot took about 15 minutes - I have absolute no clue, why...

wednesday, march 01, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

jabber.tokkee.org

I had a jabber account on jabber.org so far. However, the server was not very reliable for the last couple of weeks/months. So I decided to setup my own jabber server. Now, jabberd2 is running on jabber.tokkee.org including an OpenLDAP backend for authentication. With the help of the official howto, the setup was fairly easy. My new JID is tokkee [at] jabber [dot] tokkee [dot] org.

friday, february 24, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Geek Test

I just found a link to that test on nobse's homepage. Of course I had to take it ;-) Here's the result:

Geek Light
You scored 27% geek!

Tastes great, less filling. You're the kind of geek that can pass under the radar of polite society. You probably like your computer, and can't go without checking your email. You live alone, or with roommates, and you have one or two hobbies that are considered "geeky".

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 32% on geekiness

Link: The What's your Geek Level? Test written by dingus93 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

thursday, february 23, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Routing problems...

For a couple of weeks, our local ISP that is responsible for the internet connection at work (where, amongst others, this server is located) did have some problems that supposedly were caused by routing problems. Today, we were extremly affected by those problems and there was hardly any connectivity at all this afternoon/night:

I can hardly believe that any average sized ISP is unable to solve that kind of problems in such an amount of time. Usually those guys are doing a pretty good job (that's why I won't mention who they are)...

monday, february 20, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Back to the future...

My centericq ICQ client just reported the following information for one of my contacts: "Online -9 seconds"... Kinda strange in my humble opinion...

saturday, february 18, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

(Open)WRT

I bought a Linksys WRT54GS a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, it's already one of the new series (v4) which only has 4MB Flash and 16MB RAM. However, it is still able to run OpenWRT which I just installed a couple of minutes ago and which runs just great. Installation was as easy as browsing to the Linksys web administration tool and doing a firmware upgrade.

To this day I had my notebook directly connected to my DSL modem, which is definitely okay for a network consisting of only one computer, but I didn't like it. And I can use WLAN now, which is a huge benefit for my 25 square meters appartment ;-)

Having a fully functional GNU/Linux distribution on my router is just great. Well, lots of people I know are already using OpenWRT for a long time and this is nothing special any more, but I like doing all the configuration on the command line.

saturday, february 18, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

ATI suxx...

Well, this is a known fact... However, I just did feel the need to mention it again. There are still no binary drivers for X.org 6.9 available. Also I noticed that loading support.ati.com takes a lot longer than accessing any other ati.com site... Strange, isn't it...

saturday, february 11, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Low level Bavarian FU20 championships

I just came home from the Bavarian FU20 (female, ages 17 thru 19) judo championships that I attended as a referee. Unfortunatelly, the level was very low - there were just a couple of nice matches...

saturday, february 11, 2006 | path: /judo | permanent link

I'm Apple DOS 3.1

friday, february 10, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Running slapd as non-root user under Debian

The README.Debian file that ships with slapd nicely explains how to run slapd under a different uid/gid. However, one might just read over the following paragraph (at least I did so in the beginning ;-):
Once you have done so, if you are using a bdb o hdb backend,
always remember to execute the chown after running utilities
such as db4.x_recover or db4.x_checkpoint.
This paragraph basically states (amongst others) that you should add a line like "chown -R ldap.ldap /var/lib/ldap" at the end of the try_fix_db() function in /etc/init.d/slapd...

friday, february 10, 2006 | path: /doc | permanent link

Drupal and MySQL

drupal simply rocks! Unfortunately, the PostgreSQL support is somewhat rudimentary. Most contributed modules only support MySQL. It probably wouldn't be a big deal to use 'em with PostgreSQL but you will save yourself a lot of trouble if you just stick to MySQL...

wednesday, february 08, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Drupal and PostgreSQL

It might just be my own stupidity but (the Debian package of) drupal in combination with a PostgreSQL database backend seems to be completely broken. I just tried to setup a combination thereof and I kept running into new database-problems. As I'm not yet very experienced with PostgreSQL I will try to exactly track down the problem before writing any bug reports. For now, I just fell back to MySQL...

tuesday, february 07, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

Blog.Worm

monday, january 30, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

rrdtool backport available from backports.org

My rrdtool 1.2, fontforge and ttf-dejavu backports are now officially available from backports.org. Please follow the instructions on http://backports.org/instructions.html to use these packages.

thursday, january 26, 2006 | path: /debian | permanent link

Created mailing list for sims

I just set up a mailing list for sims. It is intented for general users discussion, developer talks and announcements. Will probably be very low traffic ;-)

thursday, january 19, 2006 | path: /projects/sims | permanent link

I did some compiling today...

I think I do need a CPU upgrade ;-)

tuesday, january 17, 2006 | path: /tech | permanent link

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