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Today is Maria’s conception day, a half holiday in Austria. Half, because the shops are still open. Perhaps they should rename the day into “Billa’s Birthday”, because today you get a 10% discount at your local Billa Supermarket
[edited 2003-12-09]
Thanks to Horst for pointing out, that yesterday was not maria’s conception of jesus but the immaculate conception (3 Weeks pregnancy would be a bit short, even for a god). I must admit that my background is too protestant to understand this catholic “thing”. Read Wikipedia for a more detailed description

I took these pictures in the last October week as an replica to Rob’s Rotterdam by Fall, but I somehow missed to upload them. Now all those coloured leaves are already history.

Continue reading “Vienna autumn pictures”

As promised, I finally had the time to upload the first picture of my iBook. BTW I am still looking for a name.

Thanks to Safari I discovered a missing </ul> tag. Mozilla and Konqueror displayed everything right, but Safari messed the layout wrong. First I blamed the last Safari security update, but looking closely, I discovered my bad.

Francis Strand – How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons. Francis is an American living in Stockholm, Sweden. Nearly every Blogentry contains a new swedish word to learn.

In an interesting thread on kdedevelopers.org Aaron Seigo and Brad Hards are discussing strategies how to attract new developers to KDE. Thoughts:

• Taking companies developer programs as an example
• The KDE Extragear project
• The GNOME Love Mailinglist
• a mentor program
• ..and of course improving documentation

While upgrading Polly and Sauna to FreeBSD 5.2-BETA, I started the countdown for the first exam this term. It will be on December 12 for the course “Introduction to Knowledgebased Systems”
A KBS consists of

• The User Interface
• The Inference component
• The Knowledgebase
• The Knowledge Acquisition component
• Explanation component

I spent this weekend getting darwinports to run. My greatest problem was, that I needed to install various Apple Developers packages like X11SDK. Now I am installing qt, gtk and all my favorite Apps.
There some nice things about dports i like already, e.g. automatic plist generation, or the simpified status file in the WRKDIR. But there are still a lot of things I need to get used to.

My new iBook has arrived, Expect pictures soon. Now I need a name for it. My first ideas: iViline, ira, ivy, inken, ivory. But nothing convinced me yet. Luckily the Airport card didn’t arrive yet, so I have some time left until i need to add it to the DNS. Please send me your suggestions. Until the final decision it calls itself “arveds computer”, which is a really silly name, since it is not a unique definition.
My first adventures with Mac OS X: I discovered that MacOS X is a h4X0r OS, it is the only Operating System I know, which has a portscanner installed in the default installation. It was easier to find, than the Terminal. The Filesystem Hierarchy looks really silly, why haven’t they installed their proprietary non-standard stuff into specific prefix? Also I noticed that there is no driver for the Netgear MA111, so no WLAN without Airport.
What I still need to find out:

• How to deinstall software, who needs iChat?
• How to add and remove items from the taskbar
• How to disable the Startup sound

I think I will have to read some Mac-Newsgroups.

Today I installed and tested the latest simicq version on my work laptop. I chatted with Henne, who went to school with me. He is currently located in Buenos Aires, Argentina were he is writing software for a bank (According to Henne there are still some left in Argentina). Before he built streets and oil platforms for an oil company in Ecuador and helped deforesting the tropical rain forest. Visit his page for nice pictures of South America