Vienna has over a million inhabitants plus tourists. I guess, that i only know at max 0.2% of its population by name. When i moved here from a small town, where everyone knew everyone, i guessed, that it would be quite unlikely to meet someone i know accidently at a neutral place and that i could travel around in the city easy without being recognized.
But i regulary bump into someone on the subway, which is most of the time a pleasant surprise to me. Yesterday it was my former flatmate Raed, which i had lost contact several years ago.
So if you see me somewhere in the city nose-picking or doing other silly things, just say hello to surprise me :-).
Author: arved
Mac OS 10.4.10 and Macbook problems
Since i upgraded to 10.4.10, my MacBook has frequently problems with its net connectivity via WLAN. It looks like the atheros driver gets stuck. Sometimes it helps putting the macbok to sleep and reawake it, but at least two times, it refused to wake up and popped up a kernel crash dialog on reboot.
So stay away for a while if you have not upgraded yet…
today’s favorite login message
Jun 12 20:59:34 knut dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 150 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.
It happend on boot, most likely ntpdate was run a bit late…
Now of course it would have been more cooler if it just restarted itself….
Linuxwochen 07
I am just online via the Wireless Network at Linuxwochen Wien, the local Linux promotion event.
Unfortunately it looks like a lot less people are attending than the years before, maybe 50 are attending the talks.
I am attending the last two talks, the nagios one was very basic and short, and now a talk about linux embedded systems. The talk suffered from a crashing Mac OS X but the speaker managed to get it back working without stopping to talk.
MT phishing attempt
Today in my inbox, a new kind of phishing mail:
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And i thought everyone was using WordPress, s9y etc.
transparent proxy
Finally i setup a transparent proxy on my ADSL line.
It was really easy:
- installed the squid port with the WITH_SQUID_PF option
- Adapted the default configuration and added the firewall rules according to SquidFAQ
- ran squid -z and enable squid in rc.conf
- Reload pf and start squid
ESC time again..
Yesterday the Eurovision Songcontest Semifinals were broadcasted.
I was quite surprised that the ORF commentator when introducing the Croatian entry said something like “Dragonfly is not only an OperatingSystem but also the name of the band representing Croatia”. I think this was the first time DragonFlyBSD was mentioned on Austrian Television.
Still alive…
One month without an entry, but i am still alive.
Busy at work and enjoying the presummer.
shimmy, shimmy, şey
Ok, i tried the shimming, and it seems to work in principle.
So i am not spending 700 EUR on a new logic board and i will have a few months to think about a new Laptop.
without a Laptop
My G4 iBook is currently broken. On poweron the fan is running at full speed, and not even the openfirmware sound can be heard.
It looks like a wellknown bug of the logic board, because sometimes i can get it to boot, if i put pressure on the parts left of the touchpad.
Corey Arnold has a detailed description how to “fix” it, but it looks like i have to look at a new model soon :-(.