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Today i decided, that i will most likely never use my old SCSI Scanner again, because my Desktop machines don’t have SCSI anymore, so i bought a USB Scanner.
If anybody out there can still use a Mustek 6000SP, write me an email.

Instead of committing some FreeBSD patches i spend the afternoon with a saw fighting against the Trees of heaven in our garden.

As i felt too tired for cycling or doing anything else,
i spent today with wading through the GNATS database. After the ports freeze there are a lot of low hanging fruits to increase my commit count.
BTW, this is the first picture from my mobilephonecam.

I have not yet tried FreeBSD bluetooth support, this image was synced to my Mac.
If i remember that i now always carry a cam with me when i see something interesting, there will be now more images on this blog.

I have been living happily without a mobile phone for around 4 years. Now my employer provided me with one and i no longer belong to the elitist minority, that can only be reached via IRC/ICQ/Email.
My new phone is a Motorola L6. It is my first bluetooth device, so now it is about time to buy a bluetooth dongle for one of my computers.

Nice weather (20°C and clouds), so i spent again 4 hours on my bike.
The tour today was: Home -> Handelskai -> Ölhafen Lobau -> Kraftwerk Freudenau -> Friedhof der Namenlosen -> Schwechat -> Donaukanal -> Home.

The Viennese people don’t understand the concept of bicycles. This starts with the city planners planning cycle tracks that suddendly end in the Nirvana and ends with the few people that actually use a bicycle but don’t understand that you have to switch on lights if you cycle at night.
Today i started my bicycle tour at 19:00 so after an hour it was dark while i was still cycling through the 21. district. On my way back home i counted the people with correct lights and those with no light at all.
And the ones without light were the majority. Luckily they saw me (because i had lights) otherwise i would have crashed into at least two of them.
After this expierience I will try to avoid cycling after sunset in the future.

Umlaut handling of HFS+ filenames is broken. I have several files on my UFS partition, that i can’t copy to my HFS+ because the filename contains Umlauts, cp bails out with “Invalid argument”.
What is even more surprising, Finder gives up on displaying these files too, one file is displayed with ?? and the others are invisible.

The news are full with information about the latest BAWAG affair. Yesterday evening i needed to pay a bill, but BAWAG Ebanking was down. Today 12 hours later it is working again, but very slow.ly
Looks like everybody is looking after the money on their bank accounts :-).

Finally.
The new Harddisk is more than twice as large and makes a bit more noise.
Friday till Sunday was spent with reinstalling and copying the backup data. I have learnt several things, e.g. the difference between Vim.app and gVim.app or how to disable the useless Spotlight feature (the root of all the sudden slowliness).
I have left 10G empty, if someone finally ports ADB-Keyboard support to FreeBSD, i am installing FreeBSD on the last partition.
Other news, last week university started, and i really missed my notebook, while trying to get used to my new timetable..

I have too many CDs. I am looking for a track i knew i have on CD. It is a remix of Carl Craigs Mind of a Machine where the remixer has a lot of fun with the pitch control, but i can’t remember by whom nor on which Compilation CD it should be.
Unfortunately most of my Compilations aren’t on my hard disk, because i never figured out how to use abcde with multi-artist CDs the right way (The output should be all tracks in one folder but tagged right). So locate(1) does not work either….