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I would like to give my konsole tabs meaningful names like in screen, where you can display the name of the current command.
So far the best i came up with was something like this:

$ cat bin/sshk
#!/bin/sh
dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession $*
ssh $*

But there is probably a better solution somewhere out there.

uni-erlangen.de switched their ircserver and the new does not have an AAAA only hostname, so i had to fight with my irssi, to persuade it to use ipv6.
Unfortunately the config file syntax is mostly undocumented. I had to figure out how to add servers via the commandline to find out that the magic is

family = "inet6"

Second it would be nice to have some kind of priority order, “First try the servers with autoconnect set, then the others” instead of the current topdown algorithm.

Today i got the new c’t which contained a short article about linux on the Fritzbox and a link to thiswiki.
First i updated the firmware, because the latest version supports acting as a Wireless Repeater, so i can finally receive VoIP Calls while the FritzBox is disconnected from the LAN (at night).
Later i had to play with the nice features “Bier holen” (dial #96*6*) and of course telnetd ( #96*7* to enable #96*8* to disable)

# uname -a
Linux (none) 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_fp_le #1027-1 Wed Jul 19 14:37:38 CEST 2006 mips unknown

Since the weather was nice when i left home for work today, i decided that instead of taking the U6, i would use a Citybike for the first time. They have been around for some time, but I was always too lazy or too much in a hurry to register.
I managed to persuade the Terminal at Alserstrasse, that i need a bike, the bike was usable, and I drove to Schottenring to enter U4. So if it does not rain, i should do this more often, because it does not cost extra time compared to the subway, which goes quite an indirection.
On the Website i can log in and check from where to where i drove in what time (15minutes today). Now it would be nice, if there would be a Terminal near “Wien Mitte”, where i could catch the S7. Until now my only choices are Stubentor (continue via U3 to Wien Mitte) or Schwedenplatz (continue via U4).
For my way back home a terminal near Handelskai would be nice, but I guess that won’t happen in the near future.

While reading this “Jugend braucht Bass” rant about kids listening to Music^WNoise via the hands-free speaking system of their mobile phones, i remembered the recent advertizing campaign for a Nokia(?) phone HiFi extension, where a conductor was conducting a mobile phone playing classical music on the crowded Mariahilfer Strasse.
Wrong target group! No one interested in HiFi will listen to music on his mobile phone, but i have a nightmare of teenage kids using a mobile subwoofer extension for their mobile phones.
Ideally the next generation Ghettoblaster is connected via WLAN or a next generation Bluetooth similar to Apple Airtunes.
…Now we just need a cool name, a wearable design and an irresponsible consumer electronics company (Hello Sony :-).

My neighbors are moving out of their flat, so there is now the opportunity for me to switch to a larger flat in November.
So there is a lot to do for me the next months.
* Cleanup and Paint the old flat
* paint and furnish the new flat
* Especially the move is a reason to switch to a cheaper/faster ISP. So the next steps are:
– Switch MX for arved.at which is currently handled only by my home server.
– Find a slave DNS Server for my domains, since the IP Address of my ADSL line will most likely change.
– Find a new Internet acess product that offers at least the same as my current ISP. (static IP Adress, at least 128kbps upstream, unlimited traffic, i18n(enbündelt) in the 17. district)
I will expect that i will have not much time for FreeBSD till end of the year, and i hope i can still finish this terms university courses as planned.
..and of course if anybody is interested to move into my old flat (~33m^2, ~330EUR/month) send me an email.

From Tuesday I will be away, without Netconnectivity etc. I hope the Internet will survive without me for two weeks. This year i will be travelling to Amrum. I hope the weather will not be too cold.
Of course just on my last days at home my hosting company claimed they could not find my last payment and threaten me to shutdown the server. Hopefully i can resolve this till Thursday. Another last minute problem, some unknown person (Maybe Apple, see last posting?) tried to send me two parcels with ups and of course i missed the delivery service.
There has been a MovableType update, which fixes several bugs, but since the last update did not behave well, i will wait with the update until i am back.

Great, Apple is promising to replace my Laptops Battery for free.
Hopefully there will be no accident in the next weeks until the replacement arrives.

…sucks. i currently have to implement a multicast router that also runs a multicast application. Unfortunatetly it has to run on Linux.
It appears as if Linux 2.6 despite running mrouted or pimd on the system routes its own multicast packets according to the normal kernel routing table to the default route.
So it looks like we have to find an application layer solution *argh*.

is very addicting.
Especially while learning for boring exams.
I wonder who translates the subtitles. Very funny haha.
“Drei minutes still. Counter over ancestor”
“Jetzt comes Trezeguet! Zidane must of the place, perhaps the all-last mark!”
“Die fear is located to the Frenchmen in the face written! still 2 minutes”
“Freistoss of sixteen-strain!!”
“Ahn shoots completly bad beside the housing”

telnet diego.ascii-wm.net 2006