The Visited Countries map was the most popular article in this blog so far.
Now there are Maps on various blogs I read: lauri,Rob, AK and mihi
rssfetch 0.2.1
Today I worked on rssfetch, after I received my first bugreport by ak.
I made a lot of progress and I am very comfortable with the new version, since for the first time it parses all feeds from my blogroll. The only feed that needs a workaround was the FreeBSD.org feed, which is broken according to the W3C RDF validator.
WLAN woes
Yesterday I took my iBook to university for the first time to test the new 802.11g accesspoints and the WLAN stumblers for Mac OS X. The result was disappointing. I tried KisMAC, Macstumbler and iStubmler. None of them was able to discover the university’s WLAN, although I was connected to it. I guess this is because the Airport Extreme Card only works in passive mode, because it is a Broadcom chip. And Broadcom sucks regarding release of specs.
Another lack of MacOS X, I couldn’t find any information about Signal strengh and at what connection speed i am connected to the Accesspoint. On FreeBSD wicontrol(8) and ifconfig(8) give me all the information I need. But I have found no equivalent on MacOS X.
The ifconfig output looks really poor compared to FreeBSD’s:
# ifconfig en1 en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20a:95ff:fef7:1d4c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.1.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:0a:95:f7:1d:4c media: autoselect status: active supported media: autoselect
Are you a Wikipediholic?
The Wikipedia Database Server is down. Just as I wanted to submit an update on the DMCA entry. People on the IRC channel pointed me to this test. I got 46 points. What’s your score?
Visited countries
Found via Horst. Douwe Osinga has written a nice program, that draws a map of Visited Countries.
My map looks like this:
According to the page, I have vised 4% of worlds countries. And they are all in Middle Europe :-(.
Especially I need to visit more countries from Eastern Europe. Slovakia is next door, only 60km, but i haven’t been there yet.
Quote of the day
“I think that FreeBSD can best be visualized as a vast desert full of
committers who are totally lost.” Silby on the freebsd-cvs-src Mailinglist
Tired…
Okay, One week without an entry in my blog. This does not mean nothing has happend, just that I have been to busy with university. Now I am already awaiting the February-holidays.
I am also awaiting the spring. It started to snow again today and I have seen enough grey snow this year.
Ill
Okay, finally the winter got me. I am ill, the usual cold, sore throat, running nose etc.
Another fever infected me, I am becoming a Wikipedia addict.
arved.at
Three and half years after moving to Vienna I have finally decided to register arved.at. Now I just have to find a good drawing application for MacOS X to modify the logo. It has been on the page since ca. 4 years and was drawn with a Windows Shareware that I can’t find anywhere on the web (and I don’t have Windows anymore…).
arved.de will continue its life as a pointer to my webpage for a while, but the MX records will be removed soon, so update your addressbooks
New rssfetch script
Spent the day with rewriting the rssfetch script.
It now uses XML::RSS::Parser which should be a lot smaller and more liberal than XML::RSS. I also replaced LWP::Simple with LWP::UserAgent, so that I can overwrite the UserAgent string :-).
Additional I tried to reduce hardcoded information, so that I can put it on my homepage one day.
Of course the new version will have bugs, so be patient.