Random thoughts

– I want one of those new black/red billa.at shirts, the Billa clerks are wearing nowadays. They look like a political statement about our new government, black shirts with a small red stripe.
– I felt like a Starmaniac today, when i nearly ran into Arabella Kiesbauer, while she was talking to her mobile on Wiedener Hauptstrasse.
– It is kind of funny seeing everyone in .at freaking out because of a 100km/h wind.
– I moved the last stuff out of my old appartment. So this means we are approximately 50% done with moving. Now i am waiting for my new carpet so i can finalize my computerroom’s content.

Relocation (non-)progress

Unfortunately inode delayed the activation of my telephone number for a week without explanation, from their shop’s progress tracker it looks like they didn’t receive a report from the TA technician and/or forgot to send a notification to Etel.
So i had a couple of spare time today reserved for configuring the telephone system.
I spent the time moving my shell- and secondary DNS/Mailserver to the new flat, which is next to moving the firewall the most difficult part of the transition.

New ISP

Yesterday my ADSL modem was delivered, and it worked out of the box. Now i have to wait for the painters who decided to delay their work to Decemter 27 instead of tomorrow. Then i can finally start migrating my services to the new IP range.
Since yesterday it was announced that Telekom Austria is buying Etel it was a good idea to switch my ISP to inode.at. Unfortunately the new telefon line, which should start working on January 2 will be operated by Etel, so it looks like I will become a Telekom Austria customer for the first time in my life.

FM Radio in Vienna

While Googling for DVB-T (which recently started in Vienna) i found also this list of FM stations which broadcast around Vienna. Of course most are only available with special antennas.
When i was a teenager i sometimes liked to listen to obscure radio stations. My highlights at that time were “BFBS” (only on good weather conditions i could receive their Bremen FM signal) and Atlantic 252 a Music station on LW.
But when i moved to Austria there was FM4, so not much need for different stations. When Blumenau or Hermes are violating my ears i usually either switch to Orange 94.0 or NRJ.
Now i wonder what other stations are worth listening too. I know Fun Radio on 94.3 has sometimes good music (Yeah i should really learn a bit slovakian…) but i have no idea about the Czech or Hungarian stations that i should be able to receive without too much trouble. Any recommendations?

WLAN keys in the Apple keychain

Recently i had to change my WLAN key. Since then my Apple laptop refused to automatically joined the network, although the key was saved in the keychain.
Today i found the cause. If a network with the same SSID but a different key is already saved in the System keychain, Apple stores the key in the users keychain without prompting to replace the existing key in the system chain. And it looks like the system keychain has higher priority so it always tried to join with the old key. Argh.

Naming Konsole tabs

I would like to give my konsole tabs meaningful names like in screen, where you can display the name of the current command.
So far the best i came up with was something like this:

$ cat bin/sshk
#!/bin/sh
dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession $*
ssh $*

But there is probably a better solution somewhere out there.

Fighting irssi

uni-erlangen.de switched their ircserver and the new does not have an AAAA only hostname, so i had to fight with my irssi, to persuade it to use ipv6.
Unfortunately the config file syntax is mostly undocumented. I had to figure out how to add servers via the commandline to find out that the magic is 

family = "inet6"

Second it would be nice to have some kind of priority order, “First try the servers with autoconnect set, then the others” instead of the current topdown algorithm.

Fun with the Fritz!box

Today i got the new c’t which contained a short article about linux on the Fritzbox and a link to thiswiki.
First i updated the firmware, because the latest version supports acting as a Wireless Repeater, so i can finally receive VoIP Calls while the FritzBox is disconnected from the LAN (at night).
Later i had to play with the nice features “Bier holen” (dial #96*6*) and of course telnetd ( #96*7* to enable #96*8* to disable)

# uname -a
Linux (none) 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_fp_le #1027-1 Wed Jul 19 14:37:38 CEST 2006 mips unknown