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After encouraging hints by eisber, i started to tune my WRT54G. I flashed it with the Sveasoft Firmware.
I like the speed booster, I will have to experiment if this obsoletes my old 802.11b Accesspoint. SSH access is nice too, especially when the routing is down.
There are many other new configuration possibilities to toy around.

On Saturday I went to Mariahilferstrasse to buy CDs. The weather was nice and i got my first sunburn. I watched the Green Parties “street party” and wondered how many votes Monika Vana will cost the Greens in the next Viennese elections and I ran away when Hubsi Kramar interviewed a bad Jörg Haider imitator.
My visit to Saturn was successfull, thanks to the Last.fm Recommendation list and barcode-CD Players (the first time I saw a working unit, before they were always out of order when i entered a shop) I was able to select 11 CDs for buying. Unfortunately you have to have sharp eyes for UnCDs even when browsing the special offers. I nearly bought a Mousse T. Un-CD for 7 Euros.
I spent today feeding my new CDs into my Minimac:

• The Dresden Dolls – “The Dresden Dolls”: Nice Cover, and the Sound of the CD is better than the MP3s on the Net.
• Evanescence – “Fallen”: Teenager Rock for Teenagers like myself.
• MIA. – “Hieb & Stichfest”: Currently some people on audioscrobbler tried to vote MIA. to M.I.A., ignorants 🙂
• Vanessa-Mae – “Subject to change”: This one actually should be sold under the Label “Youth”, as it mostly contains nice synthesizer music by youth.
• Leftfield – “Rhythm and Stealth”: I am loving the fat Bass (although this one is not as good as “Leftism”)
• Markscheider Kunst – “Na Svyazi”: Russian Ska. Kvaza Kvaza is a very catchy tune.
• Franz Ferdinand – “Franz Ferdiand”: last.fm keeps recomending them, and i can’t say anything againt them. “Take me out” is my favourite.
• The Glimmers – DJ Kicks: If i had not loved K7 before, they are printing big “No copy Protection” on their CDs. A strong reason to buy K7 CDs.
• Erlend Øye – “DJ Kicks”: Strange Norwegian DJ, that tries to sing 80s-tunes to Dancefloor music.
• Russendisko Volume 2: As usual Volume 1 was better, but i will probably find some gems on this cd after i have listened to it more often. Unfortunatly no female voices this time.

On February 22 i ordererd Stevens – “Unix Network Programming Vol. 1” at amazon. Today amazon wrote me an email, that they are sorry, they are not able to process my order, because it is out of stock.
If you click on the link above, you can see that the book is still in their catalogue and they claim to deliver within 6 days.

Last.fm updated their website to a new version. Of course they introduced a lot of bugs, e.g. the player does nolonger refresh the Song Data.
But i really like the “Similiar Artists Radio”, if i had not already donated this would be a reason.

Yesterday FM4 finally broadcasted the Dresden Dolls concert, recorded at Flex in February. Two weeks ago an old man in Rome died and FM4 unfortunately decided to delay the broadcast.
I really missed something, the music is great, many songs as good or even better than their radio hit “Coin operated boy”.
I was quite impressed that Amanda Palmer told the audience in German (she studied a year in Regensburg) that she visited “Friedhof der Namenlosen”, I never visited it, although I am living here and it is not far away from my work.
P.S.: I just noticed that dresdensdolls.com is running on FreeBSD 🙂

Today I fixed to two bugs in my rssfetch script and uploaded a new version. Because I wanted to evaluate if it is worth writing a blog entry about it, i grepped my Webservers log. I was surprised that several people query google with “use XML::RAI“. Obviously they are looking for examples how to use this CPAN module. There was only one hit, that used “import feedparser” as a query, although py-feedparser is _the_ reference parser for RSS. Now i wonder, is perl really more than 10 times more popular than python? Or are python hackers just smarter and don’t need example code?

Today my collegues asked me, if i will ever finish a new version of the Kernzeitapplet, as they made several suggestions and bug reports. Obviously the source is not enough to get them into fixing it themselves.
I have been away from #kde-freebsd for several months and have unsubscribed the kde-devel Mailinglist.
Now it is quite difficult to catch up with everything i have forgotten. The webcvs mirror is down. The KDE Subversion Howto does not check out anything on my machine and the other Howtos and Tutorials are still outdated and incomplete like one year ago and the KDE wiki is a joke 🙁
I need to figure out how to sync the autotools Framework, as there have been several important fixes, e.g. for correctly detecting FreeBSD threading libraries.
I even tried to start all over again, but i couldn’t get kapptemplate to work.
Maybe I am just too tired…

Today I travelled on the subway line U2 for the first time since January. At Schottentor, I visited the Kangal, one of the best pizza takeaways in Vienna. Unfortunately they have increased the price for quarter pizza to 2,40 Euro. Last year it was 2,30. Two years ago it was 2,20. I can’t remember the Schilling price.
Life is getting expensive

I get most of my food from the “Merkur” supermarket at Parhamer Platz, which is around 400m up the road from my home.

I finally updated my Desktop to KDE 3.4.0. After an update I always try to reproduce the bugs, I reported. Please vote for my bugs, so that they get fixed soon :-).
I like the integration of akregator, until now it looks like Kmail catched up with Evolution and Konqueror is finally able to display http://www.derstandard.at/ like Firefox