Yesterday the Eurovision Songcontest Semifinals were broadcasted.
I was quite surprised that the ORF commentator when introducing the Croatian entry said something like “Dragonfly is not only an OperatingSystem but also the name of the band representing Croatia”. I think this was the first time DragonFlyBSD was mentioned on Austrian Television.
Author: arved
Still alive…
One month without an entry, but i am still alive.
Busy at work and enjoying the presummer.
shimmy, shimmy, şey
Ok, i tried the shimming, and it seems to work in principle.
So i am not spending 700 EUR on a new logic board and i will have a few months to think about a new Laptop.
without a Laptop
My G4 iBook is currently broken. On poweron the fan is running at full speed, and not even the openfirmware sound can be heard.
It looks like a wellknown bug of the logic board, because sometimes i can get it to boot, if i put pressure on the parts left of the touchpad.
Corey Arnold has a detailed description how to “fix” it, but it looks like i have to look at a new model soon :-(.
MT StyleCatcher broken with Konqueror
It has been a while (several version updates) since i have been tinkering with the MT templates, my current stylesheet for this blog still fits well enough.
Today i created a new blog for testing, and noticed that the default stylesheet does not work with Konqueror anymore (It works okay in Safari).
Anyone got an idea why? I currently don’t have the time for stylesheet debugging, so for now i will stick with bloaty Firefox on FreeBSD. Hopefully KDE4 will fix this…
0,00 EUR
I received a letter from my Ex-ISP and wondered what they want from me. It contained an invoice over three nearly empty pages and the total amount of 0,00 EUR.
In the last years i received invoices with a few Eurocents a few times from various Telcos, but this is the alltime lowest. I wonder if they will send me a similar letter every month and i really wonder what will happen on “21. Mrz 2007” (sic!) as the invoice threatens me that they will debit this amount from my bank account.
Citybike distances
Spring has arrived in Vienna and i already used the citybikes several time.
According to the Citybike Website i currently need 14 minutes to get from Alser Strasse to Spittelau (subway U6 needs 6 minutes) and 14.5 minutes to get from Alser Strasse to Museumsplatz (Tram 43 + U2 is not faster than 14 minutes).
Now lets see if i can improve my time in the next weeks.
The real Wow effect
Today i thought it would be cool to stream the TV signal from the Minimac to the Laptop, when i want to watch TV in bed (yes i am currently a bit ill), instead of switching the USB stick and readjusting the antenna etc.
So googling for a streamsolution, downloading CyTV and thanks to Bonjour it just works, Wow! I was laughing a lot, because the first thing i received was a Microsoft Vista advertisment.
Now i really doubt it will be that easy with Microsoft products.
New MT version
3.34 will be committed soon, if this entry appears as it should.
New firewall.
Today i shut down the last computer in my old flat. I have been using 213.225.30.218 for approximately 6 years and now i have to get used to new IP Addresses :(.
With all my computers in the new flat, it is time for a firewall. Since i now have more than one official IP address i decided to try a combination of if_bridge(4) and PF.
The bridge seems to work fine, but PF sometimes drops TCP packets, it should not drop. Yes even if pf.conf did contain only pass rules. Now i am updating to latest stable hoping for a fix.
Another problem i am struggling, nat from the third interface to bridge0 did not work out ot the box.