Mixed Feelings

Sometimes, when I have solved an exercise or understood a proof, I think it would be fun to study Mathematics.
Sometimes I think Mathematics just sucks and that I am just too stupid to ever understand it.
At the moment the latter prevail. But maybe thats just because I am hungry, tired and another deadline is upcoming.

lunar eclipse

Okay added another feed. Godany has nice pictures of last night’s lunar eclipse. I discovered her blog through the Evil Horst’s blog and visited it from time to time last week. Second person in the feedlist that I haven’t talked to yet, neither in Real Life nor on IRC. She is living and working in Vienna.
BTW Now there 10 feeds.

Looking for a new bank in Germany

Since last week my former bank was “integrated” into the Dresdner Bank.
Look at the Website and you can already see why I am looking for a new bank.
This Website is just ugly, especially the Online Banking portal. The charges will be expensive. And the service is bad too :-(. The most hilarious, they are trying to force me to use their branch bank in Munich which is 400km from Vienna.
Since all banks suck, I am looking for the one that sucks less.
I will need a preferable cheap 🙂 giro and custody account with good Online-Banking Interface that works with Konqueror and Opera.

Goodbye Eastern Europe!

Just in case you have come to this site looking for a stocks advisory,
I’ll start selling my Eastern Europe funds tomorrow. The russian political situation does not look promising.

EUROphobie

RSS feeds are back again. le was guilty again. A not encoded Euro sign broke the XML-RSS perl module. Maybe I should switch the script to a less strict XML module, e.g. I found in my http log a python script that promises to manage every broken feed. While typing this topic I noticed that MT also has serious problems with encoding the Eurosign.
BTW the headline also fits to another news item from today. Jean Claude Trichet today replaced Wim Duisenberg as new governor of the European Central Bank.

New 802.11g IOS for Cisco AP1200 Accesspoints available?

On Thurday Release Notes for IOS 12.2(13)JA appeared on the Cisco Website. It looks like this release finally includes support for 802.11g.
Interesting information from the Release Notes:

  • Disable Radios to Prevent Unexpected Reboot When Upgrading System Software
  • Some non-Cisco Aironet 802.11g client devices require a firmware upgrade before they can associate to the 802.11g radio in the access point

Unfortunately it isn’t available from the Download Center yet. Additional AFAIK 802.11g needs new antennas which aren’t available in Austria yet. So it will take some time until the tuwien WLAN supports 802.11g.