Okay, All my three 5.x Machines are running 5.2-BETA now.
5.1 was released on June 9. It was a huge improvement over 5.0 which had several problems that bite me, like a broken xl(4) driver that made it unusable. 5.1 worked for half a year on my main Workstation and no major problems prevented me from being productive. Although le tried to use it on the univie newscore, and found several problems under heavy load.
Hopefully 5.2 will be as stable. Before Codefreeze CURRENT was quite unstable due to several last-minute commits. But after a week in Codefreeze it feels usable again.
November 2003 Archives
On a FreeBSD Mailinglist imp pointed to a recent addition to OpenBSD: Support for wi(4) based USB WLANS Adapters like my Netgear MA111. Next time i have some spare time I will look into porting this to FreeBSD. But probably someone else with more kernel Fu and more freetime will beat me.
While upgrading Polly and Sauna to FreeBSD 5.2-BETA, I started the countdown for the first exam this term. It will be on December 12 for the course "Introduction to Knowledgebased Systems"
A KBS consists of
- The User Interface
- The Inference component
- The Knowledgebase
- The Knowledge Acquisition component
- Explanation component
Just heard on FM4:
"Only wimps are buying Christmas presents before December 24, 12:00".
Happy First advent!
I spent this weekend getting darwinports to run. My greatest problem was, that I needed to install various Apple Developers packages like X11SDK. Now I am installing qt, gtk and all my favorite Apps.
There some nice things about dports i like already, e.g. automatic plist generation, or the simpified status file in the WRKDIR. But there are still a lot of things I need to get used to.
My new iBook has arrived, Expect pictures soon. Now I need a name for it. My first ideas: iViline, ira, ivy, inken, ivory. But nothing convinced me yet. Luckily the Airport card didn't arrive yet, so I have some time left until i need to add it to the DNS. Please send me your suggestions. Until the final decision it calls itself "arveds computer", which is a really silly name, since it is not a unique definition.
My first adventures with Mac OS X: I discovered that MacOS X is a h4X0r OS, it is the only Operating System I know, which has a portscanner installed in the default installation. It was easier to find, than the Terminal. The Filesystem Hierarchy looks really silly, why haven't they installed their proprietary non-standard stuff into specific prefix? Also I noticed that there is no driver for the Netgear MA111, so no WLAN without Airport.
What I still need to find out:
- How to deinstall software, who needs iChat?
- How to add and remove items from the taskbar
- How to disable the Startup sound
Found on heise:
The "Email this to a friend" functionality in the mt-send-entry.cgi script is vulnerable to being used by spammers to send spam messages.Unfortunately the movabletype.org didn't increase the version number, so there is no easy way to detect if your blog is safe. *argl*.
Today I installed and tested the latest simicq version on my work laptop. I chatted with Henne, who went to school with me. He is currently located in Buenos Aires, Argentina were he is writing software for a bank (According to Henne there are still some left in Argentina). Before he built streets and oil platforms for an oil company in Ecuador and helped deforesting the tropical rain forest. Visit his page for nice pictures of South America
Why are all Floppies I touch broken?
As always before a release KDE fails on some strange architectures, resulting in annoying mails from Kris on the KDE Mailinglist. This time aRts on AMD64 (somewhere in gsllib) and koffice on IA64 (The usual -fPIC issue). I am currently testing a sledgehammer fix for koffice on pluto2 and I hope Adriaan takes a look at aRts.
With two days delay, caused by problems with the bento-Ports Cluster, the Ports Freeze has finally started. Unfortunately the TODO list ist still quite long, so I don't know if we will manage to release before Chrismas.
I spent the weekend, updating the evil Acer Laptop to 5.2-BETA, which went surprisingly smooth and with help from Lukas I tried to explore the ACPI Configuration. Unfortunately "shutdown -p" still does not work, and resume is also broken.
Again mails from my Cron Daemon:
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/XML/RSS.pm line 1352.Looks like my script does not like the new FreeBSD committers :-(. The feed seems to be valid, as Mozilla does not complain.
Why are people allowed to complain about spam, that can't read Email headers :-(
Link
Yesterday was a celebration day for the FreeBSD ports people. For the first time since two years, there were more kern/ PRs than ports/ PRs.
Click on the image below to get more details from Brian S. Dean's PR stats
Ports Freeze for FreeBSD 5.2 is starting tomorrow. I am trying to close some PRs now.
Sometimes, when I have solved an exercise or understood a proof, I think it would be fun to study Mathematics.
Sometimes I think Mathematics just sucks and that I am just too stupid to ever understand it.
At the moment the latter prevail. But maybe thats just because I am hungry, tired and another deadline is upcoming.
I have added two events to .
I will visit 20C3 at least one day, while travelling back from Germany to Vienna.
In February I plan to visit FOSDEM, because I have never been in Brussel.
In January I already planned to visit NordU. They now have the program online. 2 Full days FreeBSD 5.x tutorial with Kirk McKusick sounds interesting. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about how to pay.
Okay added another feed. Godany has nice pictures of last night's lunar eclipse. I discovered her blog through the Evil Horst's blog and visited it from time to time last week. Second person in the feedlist that I haven't talked to yet, neither in Real Life nor on IRC. She is living and working in Vienna.
BTW Now there 10 feeds.
After talking about real money yesterday. This next entry will be about virtual blogshares. You probably noticed the new button on the lower left. I didn't really understand the concept, but obviously Rob is a professional blogshare player since he already bought shares from this blog.
Since last week my former bank was "integrated" into the Dresdner Bank.
Look at the Website and you can already see why I am looking for a new bank.
This Website is just ugly, especially the Online Banking portal. The charges will be expensive. And the service is bad too :-(. The most hilarious, they are trying to force me to use their branch bank in Munich which is 400km from Vienna.
Since all banks suck, I am looking for the one that sucks less.
I will need a preferable cheap :-) giro and custody account with good Online-Banking Interface that works with Konqueror and Opera.
Just in case you have come to this site looking for a stocks advisory,
I'll start selling my Eastern Europe funds tomorrow. The russian political situation does not look promising.
I should listen to FM4 on Saturday night regulary. Today they are broadcasting a concert of Dave Gahan, the voice from Depeche Mode.
He is singing tomorrow at the Gasometer in Vienna.
Today I cleaned my CD boxes. Now my garbage can contains two dozen CDs with various magazin CDs with Shareware Collections, Internet browsers and of course Linuxdistributions like DLD 6, Debian 2.2, Mandrake 8, RedHat 7.1, SuSE 7, NetBSD 1.5, a BeOS 4 demo and so on.
I kept the more interesting ones like a SCO Unixware demo, a BeOS 5, and a FreeBSD 3.1 from 1999 (which I probably never installed, since the first one I can remember was 4.0). I have also kept the payware CDs like my "NT Workstation 4.0".
Well I don't think anybody living in Austria will read my Weblog in this hour, but just in case. Otherwise you have to listen to this Ogg-stream. FM4 is broadcasting a dZihan & Kamien (no I haven't found their homepage yet) live concert. Great jazzy dancefloor music.
The last post for today to complete this Bloggingday points to a nice article Killing me Microsoftly with PowerPoint by Julia Keller. I have laughed a lot about the Robert Frost presentation.
I discovered it while reading about a university course about Weblogs and Powerpoint (Sorry page is in German).
RSS feeds are back again. le was guilty again. A not encoded Euro sign broke the XML-RSS perl module. Maybe I should switch the script to a less strict XML module, e.g. I found in my http log a python script that promises to manage every broken feed. While typing this topic I noticed that MT also has serious problems with encoding the Eurosign.
BTW the headline also fits to another news item from today. Jean Claude Trichet today replaced Wim Duisenberg as new governor of the European Central Bank.
On Thurday Release Notes for IOS 12.2(13)JA appeared on the Cisco Website. It looks like this release finally includes support for 802.11g.
Interesting information from the Release Notes:
- Disable Radios to Prevent Unexpected Reboot When Upgrading System Software
- Some non-Cisco Aironet 802.11g client devices require a firmware upgrade before they can associate to the 802.11g radio in the access point
It is really b0rken :-)
Yesterday night I retried to get X running on the Acer Aspire 1350.
It looks like the via driver is still under heavy development. Several people have or had problems with it, including Matt Dillon, Alan Cox. Since last week the Unresolved drm Symbols problem has been fixed, but the Server still crashes.
Other XFree86 bugs are reated to the VIA driver:
In one of the bugs Egbert Eich pointed to a wiki article that explains how to debug the XServer. I will continue reading it when I will enter the next round fighting with the via driver
Just noticed that some change in the perl port broke the p5-XML-RSS module so
RSS Feeds are not updated. I removed them temporarily to stop getting failure email messages. Stay tuned...
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