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Alexander Motin describes in this useful post how to save power on FreeBSD laptops.
It makes me want a FreeBSD laptop again….

Since i am not living in de/uk/US last.fm wants to force me to subscribe 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…

About a month ago my root Server died because of hardware faults. Unfortunately it took my hoster some time to fix it, so when the new server was ready, i was on holidays.
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….

Location: Burger King at Atatürk Airport Istanbul

Just got my first link to a tweet. So it looks like i am going to use this twitter thing more regulary. Unimportant stuff now goes to the twitter. My Twitterfeed

Today the UPC technicians setup my internet connection. It requires two technicians to plug in the modem and make a phonecall to the UPC HQ. I wonder why there is no selfinstall option. At least this time they did not want to touch one of my PCs.
Afterwards i resetup a the soekris firewall. It was a bit tricky, because there was a display problem on the serial console, so it was a partial blind flight. And i forgot a couple of things, so it took longer than expected.
Things not to forget next time:

• /boot/loader.conf: console=comconsole
• /etc/ttys: enable ttyd0
• /etc/rc.conf: Add network configuration for sis0 and enable ssh

Looks like i am not the only one confused.

Today i registered for YAPC Europe, which will start next week here in Vienna. My perl skillz are nearly not existing, I only use perl when nothing else is available and apart from my blogsoftware and spamassassin i don’t run any major perl software. But some talks sound interesting and i still have one week to refresh my perl knowledge…
The other event i am pondering to attend, on Sunday Sonic Youth will be playing a concert in Vienna. I was first exposed to Sonic Youth by my english teacher more than a decade ago and nowadays i own three CDs “Goo”, “Daydream nation” and “The Washing Machine”, but i have never listened to their newer albums. So i am not sure if i will like it, if it is worth 25EUR.