I am addicted to liquorice. Unfortunately it is not easy to get Liquorice in Austria. Some SPAR supermarkets have "Haribo Color-Rado" but that's not really special liquorice. The alternative is "Lakrits Båtar" from the IKEA food departement, which tastes very sweet, and I prefer it salty.
So in case you live in a country where you can get good liquorice, I am always grateful for donations. One of my favorites is "Spunk" from Denmark.
Today I surfed on katjes.de and discovered an interesting flavor, i have not tasted yet: Liquorice with Green Tea. Since I like both, liquorice and green tea, i guess I will like that.
Something I have not seen here at all is liquorice liqueur (tongue twister :-). My Favorites were Dirty Harry and "Hot n�Sweet Vodka Shot" (no Website found, but you can get it at World of Sweets)
In case I am getting tired of computers, I will probably start an Liquorice Import company
March 2004 Archives
I have been annoyed for a long time, that I had to adjust my From: address manually. Today I took the time to google, and found the command I needed to add to my .muttrc, set reverse_name. This automatically sets my From: address if i reply to someone. I had to replace my_hdr From: with set hostname to make this work. So far it seems to work.
Now if i could tell mutt to display a slrn-like folder overview window, mutt would be my only MUA.
Another note: Don't put auto_view text/plain into your .muttrc or you will not be able to read normal emails because mutt will tell you that "text/plain is not supported".
Installed another MT-plugin today, that displays the top comment posters.
At the moment the numbers aren't impressing, but perhaps the stats encourage people to write more comments.
While I am already writing a blog entry, I would like to point to grog's ebay auction, where he is selling his beard. A bargain for all wannabe BSD hackers.
Mar 28 04:55:59 via kernel: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo Mar 28 04:56:00 via kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1rtAccording to the arp(4) this happens when the routing table is misconfigured, so hopefully this was a transient failure.
The topic of #freebsd-gnome on Freenode pointed to this rant about button order. Did you ever reason about the button order on your screen?
I am using KDE on my Desktop, and MacOS X on my iBook. I also mix KDE and GNOME Applications, but i never noticed the different button order. BTW Movable Type uses a Macstyle button order.
There are good arguments for both, but does it really matter?
It has been raining the whole day. I don't want to go outside. It is cold. Nothing interesting happened -- I should add a "weather" category to my blog.
After the recent OpenSSL Advisory, I upgraded Riccardo, Sauna and Via this weekend. McHammer also got a new world, because Peter fixed several problems with the AMD64 RTLD, which made it necessary to recompile all shared libaries.
I also tried to upgrade Olga, my NetBSD box, that I have not used for half a year, but it is still compiling, poor P200.
For this weeks exercises I needed to compute a lot of binomial coefficients. The "extended" Calculator for Mac OS X has a lot of prestorred Formulas nobody needs, but no key for this terms most needed formula. So I evaluated several Freeware Calculators. I really wonder, why Calculator programmers try to imitate ordinary calculators whith their multiple assignments. The desktop is large enough, why do they add "Shift", "Inverse" and "Option" Keys to their Calculator programs, when it costs nothing to add another button? If I install a scientific Calculator, I am not afraid of many buttons.
As predicted on March 13, the spring has started. 16�C and sunshine. I spent an hour sitting in the sun, using Internet from an open WLAN on Mozartplatz. The iBook display is quite readable in the sun.
For quite some time, I considered replacing huckfinn, my Gateway/Firewall/Router with something more silent. This old K6-200 system is now running nearly continously for seven years and has survived five relocations including the one from Germany to Austria in 2000. The fans are rattling and although it is currently located in my hall, I can hear it when I am lying in my bed trying to fall asleep.
One option would be an old Laptop, but there are not many laptops that I can plug three NICs into. Recently I have seen the VIA Epia Systems in action, and was quite impressed. Today I decided to order one. Nothing fancy, I don't need a Hi-fi-look-alike for my living room. Just something small, that hopefully fits onto the window-sill (to improve WLAN performance in the garden).
This is also an excellent opportunity to upgrade my No.1 production system to FreeBSD-5.x.
Of course, instead of planning mprovments my Computer network i should think about the limits of n-dimensional functions, but that isn't fun, and I have nearly three days to solve my assignments.
Since this week most of the snow melted, and the spring starts next week, here are four pictures from last weekends excursion to Salzburg.
Today is the first cominatorics course. I am already having a headache from solving my exercises. One is still missing, hopefully I can solve it until 13.00.
Yesterday I committed a port of JACK, the Jack audio connection kit. It is a low-latency audio server, used by several Linux Audio applications. Unfortunately it is based on ALSA so it was not available on FreeBSD for a long time. But now it has an output driver for portaudio, which is available on FreeBSD. After some bug fixinig i think it should work now. Unfortunatly I was not able to test much, because of university. There is still a lot to do:
* The port does not install its documentation
* It probably does not work on FreeBSD alpha 4.x
* The Jack-OSS driver does not work yet
* Other ports that support jack need a dependency on jack
A BSD conference in Vienna, and I am not even involved. Although pkgsrcCon is NetBSD-focused I will try to attend.
I think the FreeBSD-ports are worth a conference too, but no one has tried yet to transfer a significant number of ports committers to one place.
My girlfriend used to wake up with the "ö3 Wecker" and Harry Reithofer. Everytime I hear him, I immediately feel the need to scream. I usually prefer FM4, because it plays better music, but in the morning they have a "Shower contest", where people have to phone in and sing popsongs with shower background. *AAAAAAAAh*, if i want to listen to people unable to sing, I can switch to ö3 or "Radio Wien" instead. So why are they doing this? It is _not_ funny. Do I now have to get up before 6 o'clock, so that I can avoid all those morning shows on the radio?
For the first time the socialdemocrats got the majority. The "Red Gabi" wil now become the first "Landeshauptfrau". I have been visiting Salzburg today, and I did not expect his result.
If you are living near Vienna, and unlike me have a lot of time during the week, visit the Porgy & Bess tomorrow evening. There is the Uchiage Festival, Japanese Improvisation Music. Among others one of my favorites: Otomo Yoshihide.
I have a Kensington Combination Lock for my Laptop. I have not used it for two months, and when I wanted to use it yesterday, i couldn't remember the combination. While I was travelling on the Subway or listening to boring courses on university I tried a Brute Force Attack, since the lock was too expensive to throw it away. At around 7:55am this morning i found the right combination after having tried more than 900 of the 1000 possible combinations.
Brute Force Attacks are boring but effective :).
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