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Yesterday arthur downloaded the Zeta live CD, as it was advertised on the german Teleshopping channels.
I tried BeOS previously, and Zeta isn’t very different. There is still not enough Software and there are still some stability issues. And there are still some drivers missing (especially Graphic cards), but we were suprised that the Intel Centrino chipset is supported out of the box.
Oh, and shipping an OS without a C-Compiler is just lame. So I am not sure why anybody should pay $$$ for this OS.
Today i downloaded FreesBIE and it was quite a nice expierience as it feels quite different than my normal FreeBSD/KDE desktop. My hardware was detected and the XFCE Deskop has some nice applets. The only thing confusing me a bit was that i had to select my keyboard layout two times, I guess first for the console and second for X.
And I wonder why they installed putty and didn’t install any games.

Today my “e-card”, the new austrian health insurance smartcard, finally arrived. Since beginning of this month it replaces the old health insurance certificates.
Wiener GKK, my health insurance managed to send the card to an old address, where i have been living 6 years ago. I have switched my employer two times since then, so they should have an uptodate address.

*grr* When i tried to go to work this morning, ÖBB decided to cancel the 9.25 S7 from Wien-Mitte because of construction works somewhere else (Florisdorf?).
But why can’t they just tell the potential passengers. There was zero announcement neither via the display nor via the speakers.
Especially the tourists that wanted to leave via the Airport were very confused and had to switch to the expensive CAT train or take a taxi.
I decided not to wait 30 minutes for the next S7 to arrive at 9:55 and went to university instead.

* Because the postmen refuse to carry parcels (nothing heavy or voluminous just books or cds from amazon) to the customers. Instead, if they have a package to deliver, they just write a note to the addresse, that they were unable to deliver it, and that the addressee should fetch it from the next post office. They don’t even try to put the parcel into the post box, or ring at my door to test if i’m at home.
* Sometimes they don’t even write a note and send the parcel back to the sender.
* At my next post office there is only one employee that receives and passes out parcels for half of the district, so i have to wait at least 10minutes for my parcel.

Just noticed that i have been using Last.fm for one year now. I played ca. 6800 tracks, around 18 tracks a day.
I am still waiting for an Audioscrobblerplugin for my HiFi-CD Player and there is still not enough of my favorite music on Last.fm, so the local mp3 collection is still not obsolete.

..in Vienna and i am too ill to go out of my flat. *grr* Headache, Running Nose.
Hopefully I am better tomorrow, cause their is lots of University stuff to do.

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.