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Although I don’t really like Milka choclate, i like this poster.

What i noticed about advertisements in Austria is that a lot of spots try to tell the people how specially austrian the advertised product is, e.g. Kraft Food is an international food company, but they don’t protect all mountain pastures (I admit i looked up this word on dict.leo.org), they especially protect the _austrian_ mountain pastures.

I just noticed i haven’t written about this. I am going to quit my job at TU Vienna end of next month.
So we are currently looking for my successor. In case you want a boring bureaucratical 20h/week job, send me your application 🙂
You should have basic english knowledge, good TCP/IP, Ethernet and WLAN knowledge and you should not be afraid of Ciscos :-). It helps if you are familiar with common Operating Systems (like Linux, Solaris, Windows or Mac OS X) and if you are able to do some script language programming like Perl, Python or something else.
An air-conditioned office at TU Vienna, at Karlsplatz right in the center of Vienna is awaiting you. Your Desktop has Dualscreen and excellent Internet connection (100Mbps). You can install any OS you like on it, as long as it has Ethernet/TCP/IP support and a Serial Port.
(Wow, this sounds so attractive I am tempted to apply myself 🙂

I bought “IPv6 Network Administration” by dwmalone and Niall Richard Murphy. I have read the first 50 pages and so far the money was well spent. I am impressed, it doesn’t consist of overlong boring protocol descriptions and RFC printouts and is not yet outdated.

Today I googled for my address and found the homepages of my neighbors.
On the first floor in our house lives a group of art and design students.
Check out the work of Mladen, Christo and Blagovesta.

In the last days everyone has posted a Google Map to his blog.
Mine is not very original, my workplace.
The advantage of having an office near the airport, the Google Map is available in the best resolution.
I hope I don’t break an NDA, when i disclose that i am working the building that looks like a drunk H.

..of advertising.
Cisco announced the “Cisco Expo Austria”.
Customers are invited to pay 450 EUR (excl. taxes) to listen to Cisco Marketing talks.
After I didn’t register immediately upon receiving the invitation via Email and didn’t register after receiving a second invitation via Snailmail, last week someone from Cisco Austria phoned me and asked me if i wanted to register. I told him that i am not really interested in this kind of events.
Today I got another email from our key account Manager, offering an Education discount. Now i have the chance to listen to Cisco Marketing talks for only 150 EUR (excl. taxes) if i manage to persuade nine university members to join me.
Looks like they have a problem persuading enough victims.

Hm, the second penguin article this week, maybe i need a penguin category.
Today i touched a Fedora system for the first time. I installed a Linksys WLAN card via ndiswrapper, which was straight forwad and to my surprise seems to work, without recompiling a vanilla Linux kernel and stuff.
But then i tried to configure WEP: iwconfig crashed and on the second try the whole system got sluggish and failed to shutdown.
What really scared me was the graphical startup, which disallowed terminating hanging daemons by CTRL+C. Is there no other way to boot in case of DNS failure, but to run the interactive startup mode? (and Fedora starts a lot of strange daemons..)
And why don’t the startup scripts print out what they are going to launch, _before_ trying to start the hanging service? And why isn’t the hostname from /etc/sysconfig/network added to /etc/hosts?
I am now a much happier BSD user than before i touched the penguin.

Finally i managed to get Kismac working in with my MA111, thanks to this page. The USB WLAN works in passive mode which should work a lot better than the active mode of the Airport extreme.

The Zentralfriedhof is Vienna’s largest Cemetery. Cars are allowed to drive inside and Dr. Richard is maintaining an own bus line on the Cemetery.
There are a lot of nice gothic places, and i especially like the old Jewish part of the cemetery.

Near the Karl Lueger Church are the graves of austrian politicians and other famous Austrians (like Falco).
This grave belongs more into the weird category. Not on the picture, this gravestone has an own roof with an eaves gutter.

I have setup IPv6 tunnels before, but this time I would like to setup a router using rtadvd and connect all my computers. Unfortunately i have not found a nice Howto yet, but i still have a few hours this weekend to figure it out on my own.

It is always fun to see the dancing kame turtle.
Btw. Lukas, please fix www2.at.freebsd.org. If you are requesting the webpage via ipv6 you get the ZID homepage.