Although university did it’s best to prevent me from doing FreeBSD stuff I managed to commit my 1000. commit to the FreeBSD ports tree. See Peter’s commit statistics. The 1000. commit was kpictorial, a nice KDE game, which was written by a TU Vienna student that is taking the “Digital Design” course this term like me.
Mastering fdisk
I just fixed my filesystem problems on polly. The partition table was corrupted,
ad0s1 was moved to ad0s4 and three zerosized partitions were created before.
I moved my partion back to the start and now everything is fine again.
Now I just have to fix my broken cups on sauna to print various university stuff
Lerchenfelder Strasse
Last week the Subway station “Lerchenfelder Strasse” was closed. This improves the speed of the U2 so I will have to recalculate which is the fastest way to university.
The station was closed because it was only a few 100 meters to the next station “Volkstheater” and the stations are currently expanded for larger subways.
Also the rotation dock (Not sure if this is the right english word for “Wendeanlage”) at the U2 subway station Karlsplatz is operational again. This should also improve the speed of the U2.
Last weeks Computer troubles.
My main Workstation sauna crashed several times. Sometimes It just reboots, sometimes it hangs. There are several suspects. The Harddrive, because sometimes before it freezes, there are some messages, that the Harddisk timed out. The RAM, because it was the last piece that changed and the electrolytic capacitors, since i read an article in this weeks c’t magazine and the symptoms look similar. I started debugging by removing 512MB of RAM.
After several commits from S�ren to the new ATA driver I rebuilt world on my CURRENT box polly. The Kernel now detected my Harddrives but paniced seconds later while loading the vlan-module. But during reboot there were again strange error messages from the ata subsystem and after the BIOS reinitialized, it didn’t found the bootloader *grrrrrrr*. Today I have to look for floppies to reinstall the bootloader.
Blog Summary
University started, and I haven’t added a single entry into my blog since last weekend. I will try to write several entries as a retrospect.
First a short summary what happened in my favorite blogs.
Rob asked, if blogs are just a annotated link list. Hm, My blog contains only a few links, which aren’t bookmarks for myself, but to illustrate my entries.
So perhaps I should change this, since I never managed to keep a bookmark list, because I use too many computers(Work, Home, Laptop) and too many browsers (Opera, Konqueror and Firebird) => 9 Bookmarklists.
lauri wrote several entries and started to use categories. I am not sure If I will ever follow that direction, since I have no idea how to categorize my entries. BTW jule has a nice category called “Word of the day”..
Weekend!
Spent this weekend upgrading all my machines to the latest patchlevels after
recent security problems:
sauna and annamirl are running 5.1-RELEASE-p10 now. huckfinn is running 4.9-RC. I tried updating polly last weekend, but because ATAng doesn’t run on her, her CURRENT is still a month old.
While compiling I read some university stuff and I started reading Karl May books again, after my sister told me that quite a lot of them are available from ebay.
Too many RSS feeds
I just added jule’s RSS feed. I noticed that the RSS column is a lot larger than the articles. (That’s why I am writing this entry :-). I reduces the displayed Headlines, but that didn’t change much. I need to think about something else.
Tomorrow starts my 7. term at university so I spent my day preparing my schedule, checking news on university homepages etc.
The other remarkable event today was, that I paniced a FreeBSD.org Project machine for the first time. While testing KDE on FreeBSD/ia64 pluto2.FreeBSD.org suddently didn’t answer. Luckily Marcel Moolenaar was already awake and rebooted it after only a short downtime.
Another Excursion to the South
Yesterday was the annual works outing. We have visited the Wiener Wasserleitungsmuseum Kaiserbrunn and the Lower Austrian Landesausstellung. The aqueduct museum is worth a visit, a lot of information about the vienese water supply, which was built in 1873.
Being a tourist guide in vienna
Last week i didn’t wrote any new entries, because I spent most of the time being a tourist guide for my sister and her boyfriend who are visiting Vienna at the Moment. At the moment they are visiting Schoenbrunn alone, so I have some time to update my diary, read emails etc.
Yesterday we ascended Kahlenberg, were you have a nice view over Vienna. Unfortunately the weather was a bit hazy. The evening we spent at a viennese “Heuriger”.
On Saturday we attended the “Lange Nacht der Museen” were you could visit as many Museums as you like until 1.00 am. The Highlight was the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts with an Exhibition of Helmuth Gsoellpointner (strange austrian name). Really impressive Styropor and steel objects.
geek conferences schedule 2004
Just a minute ago the CfP for Asiabsdcon arrived in my inbox. Looks interesting and not so expensive. Unfortunately its just after Summer term started at university :-(.
Other conferences I plan to attend 2004 are Linuxtag, EuroBSDcon and NordU, so my timetable is already quite filled.