The webfrontend seems to look more clear, but it feels again very slow and bloaty.

Metro: Traveld Sofia-Istanbul, Sofia-Bursa, Edirne (Haskovo)-Sofia. Sales Office Experience: People at the Metro Counter in Sofia are very friendly and speak English. At the Metro Haskovo Counter they speak understandable Turkish and are also very friendly. At the Edirne Counter (Metro Volkan) personal was very stressed and unfriendly. Avoid travelling to or from Edirne with Metro anyway, the bus stops somewhere on the highway, if it stops (In my case it didn't which resulted in some adventourus hitchhiking to Haskovo).

Ulusoy: Traveled Bursa-Ankara. Sales Office Bursa was friendly, but the Conductor was not very friendly and threw his garbage out into the nature. Ulusoy uses its own otogar in Ankara, which is not really convenient.

Kamil Koc: Traveled Ankara-Canakkale. Not the fastes but the most luxurious bus with personal TV stations and a big plus for the head phones.

Canakkale Truva/Soma Seyahat: Traveled Canakkale-Edirne: Unprofessional counter personal. Suicidal driver. I am lucky i survived.

Possibilities i tried:

• By car with Mitfahrgelegenheit. On the Website select "Ausland" to get the international destinations.


• By Bus with Air Kona. The Bus goes daily from Vienna-VIB/Erdberg to Sofia "Trafik Market" (The old bus stations between the rail station and the new bus station). The tickets can be bought via Eurolines.at or at the Air Konu office at Trafik Market (Attention Eurolines.bg is a different company).
  A two-way ticket is 98EUR/190lv, a one-way ticket is 61EUR/120lv.
  


• If you for some reasons can't take the Air Konu bus, there is the Union Ivkoni Bus. It starts daily in the Netherlands and goes via various german cities to Vienna. It arrives in Vienna at around 4.00am at the touris bus stop "Belvedere" at Landstrasser Guertel on the opposite site of Suedbahnhof. One way ticket is 56EUR and in my case included a free lunch sandvich at a serbian restaurant (huge white bread with lots of hot, fat, spicy meat).


• If you book in advance the cheapest flight is with SkyEurope. The flight goes to the old airport (Terminal 1) in Sofia.


• A bit more expensive is Bulgaria Air. The flight goes to and from the new Airport in Sofia (Terminal 2). The included food is very basic, but you can get bulgarian wine if you like it. When i was there the bus stop at Terminal 2 was not where the signs say but in front of the entrance.
  

Possibilities i have not tried:

• Train. It is slower than the bus, 20hour versus approx 13hours.

It makes me want a FreeBSD laptop again....

Probably i will spend some minutes on trying to get the last.fm proxy working on my server.

But because most of the users with similar or interesting taste don't live in the three markets and the music catalogue will probably also focus on the three big markets. I guess last.fm will be boring in the future.

Looking for alternatives now...

But now i finally managed to complete the restore of the backup, and while doing it updating to FreeBSD 7.1, which has been released in the meantime.

So i think now everything should be working again. Now i just have to filter and read all the piled up email....

Arabic Standard Layout for Mac OS X.

I put the keylayout file into ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts.

Since 2005 i have been using sixxs.net and started using IPv6 on my LAN. If i can trust the gif-interface counters my sixxs.net tunnel currently transfers about 70MB/day, while the IPv4 interface claims to transfer about 300MB/day.

I recently converted not only this webserver but also the kde-freebsd Teams' development host to ipv6only. I did not expect this to be a big deal, as all people having accounts on it are unix geeks. I was quite surprised that more than half of the users did not have any ipv6 experience.

Another datapoint is freefall.freebsd.org, a system accessed by unix hackers only. According to netstat there are currently 43 tcp4 ssh sessions and only 10 tcp6 sessions,
Even worse, of these 10 sessions three are freebsd.org-LAN sessions and 2 are from my systems.

So if you have something interesting to offer on the internet, shut down your IPv4 interface.

Unfortunately it is quite easy to spot in the monthly archives, when i switched to my current job. It looks like it is absorbing all my creativity.