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Yesterday the Austrian Internet Exchange VIX had a problem. The Image below shows the traffic of the last 24 hours at the VIX switch.

Today is Maria’s conception day, a half holiday in Austria. Half, because the shops are still open. Perhaps they should rename the day into “Billa’s Birthday”, because today you get a 10% discount at your local Billa Supermarket
[edited 2003-12-09]
Thanks to Horst for pointing out, that yesterday was not maria’s conception of jesus but the immaculate conception (3 Weeks pregnancy would be a bit short, even for a god). I must admit that my background is too protestant to understand this catholic “thing”. Read Wikipedia for a more detailed description

I took these pictures in the last October week as an replica to Rob’s Rotterdam by Fall, but I somehow missed to upload them. Now all those coloured leaves are already history.

Continue reading “Vienna autumn pictures”

As promised, I finally had the time to upload the first picture of my iBook. BTW I am still looking for a name.

Thanks to Safari I discovered a missing </ul> tag. Mozilla and Konqueror displayed everything right, but Safari messed the layout wrong. First I blamed the last Safari security update, but looking closely, I discovered my bad.

Francis Strand – How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons. Francis is an American living in Stockholm, Sweden. Nearly every Blogentry contains a new swedish word to learn.

In an interesting thread on kdedevelopers.org Aaron Seigo and Brad Hards are discussing strategies how to attract new developers to KDE. Thoughts:

• Taking companies developer programs as an example
• The KDE Extragear project
• The GNOME Love Mailinglist
• a mentor program
• ..and of course improving documentation

While upgrading Polly and Sauna to FreeBSD 5.2-BETA, I started the countdown for the first exam this term. It will be on December 12 for the course “Introduction to Knowledgebased Systems”
A KBS consists of

• The User Interface
• The Inference component
• The Knowledgebase
• The Knowledge Acquisition component
• Explanation component

I spent this weekend getting darwinports to run. My greatest problem was, that I needed to install various Apple Developers packages like X11SDK. Now I am installing qt, gtk and all my favorite Apps.
There some nice things about dports i like already, e.g. automatic plist generation, or the simpified status file in the WRKDIR. But there are still a lot of things I need to get used to.

My new iBook has arrived, Expect pictures soon. Now I need a name for it. My first ideas: iViline, ira, ivy, inken, ivory. But nothing convinced me yet. Luckily the Airport card didn’t arrive yet, so I have some time left until i need to add it to the DNS. Please send me your suggestions. Until the final decision it calls itself “arveds computer”, which is a really silly name, since it is not a unique definition.
My first adventures with Mac OS X: I discovered that MacOS X is a h4X0r OS, it is the only Operating System I know, which has a portscanner installed in the default installation. It was easier to find, than the Terminal. The Filesystem Hierarchy looks really silly, why haven’t they installed their proprietary non-standard stuff into specific prefix? Also I noticed that there is no driver for the Netgear MA111, so no WLAN without Airport.
What I still need to find out:

• How to deinstall software, who needs iChat?
• How to add and remove items from the taskbar
• How to disable the Startup sound

I think I will have to read some Mac-Newsgroups.