Author: arved

One of the reasons my personal calendar is still on dead wood is, that if it was electronic, I need to access it from several machines, my Desktop@home, my Desktop@work, my Laptop.
Since my Laptop is a Mac and one of my Desktops too, i tried to use ical. Setting up WebDAV was not as complicated as i imagined, and configuring ical to publish a calendar was easy too.
Editing with Mozilla Sunbird and Korganizer worked without a problem.
But i was not able to tell ical that the subscribed calendar is editable. *grr*

Today i wanted to upload some more pictures to thegallery, but gallery-remote failed with a mysterious error. Updating to gallery2 was not an option, as it requires MySQL.
So i continued my crusade against ugly php apps and switched to swiggle.
I have made a small modification to swiggle, the description can now be displayed on the index page. Grab the patch from here.

I am finally back in Vienna after struggling with Deutsche Bahn. The only way to get back to Vienna was by paying extra for travelling in a stone old “Schlafwagen”, all other seats were already booked out.
In Vienna i had to turn on the heating because it is so cold….
I am now catching up with Email, uploading pictures etc.

I uploaded a few pictures to the just installed Gallery.
I will upload a few more pictures next week.

Unfortunately there is no Internet access at our holidayhouse like advertised. Only on weekends a friendly neighbor plugs in his open WLAN Accesspoint.
A few days ago a technician put this socket into the wall, but i have no idea how to use this for internet access.

Chris guessed that it is a danish telephone socket, so a DSL Modem is still missing.

I have been working there for more than four years, nearly half of my working life.
Now I just passed the keys to my office to my successor, Christoph Schwarz. He is also a FreeBSD user, so my workstation tl.kom.tuwien.ac.at (my first FreeBSD Desktop computer) will hopefully continue running FreeBSD :-).
Since I now have 20 hours/week more free time i will hopefully speed up studying at university and i will probably increase my FreeBSD commit rate (For the first time since 2 years i dropped out of the Top 20 most active ports commiters per anno).

Yesterday was Guertelnightwalk time. In the previous years I was never able to get anywhere near the rhiz-Stage because it was too crowded. So this year i was at the rhiz from the beginning (20.00).
The first band was dotmatrix, four geeks making music with their Nintendo Gameboys.
Some of the tunes were quite good, but it is not really music for an OpenAir concert, more for getting drunk in a bar. The guys on stage were only staring at the displays of their instruments ignoring the audience completely. At most they were nodding with their heads to the beat.
The Headliner of the evening, I-Wolf started at 21.00. At that time it was already nearly impossible to leave, because it was so crowded. But luckily there was no need to, as the concert was quite good. His band consisted of a DJ, a drummer, a bass player and a vocalist. And unlike his predecessors he was able to control his electronic equipment and control the audience and his co-musicians.

Next week I will be on holidays for two weeks. My girlfriend and I will travel to Denmark (this house in Marielyst, Falster to be exact). This will be the first time since nearly 10 years that I will spend my holidays with my family.
I don’t expect to have Internet Connection over there, so not many blog entries in the first two weeks of September.
I hope the weather will be nice and the temperature in the Baltic sea is not too cold.