After two years my iBooks Harddisk is currently in the process of dying. Lots of Disk I/O errors.
I am trying to make a backup (which takes ages because of the disk errors), then I will try a reinstall and then i will see how difficult it is to replace the disk.
I am feeling naked without a Laptop….
I want the old Google back
Recently Google started to mix results of images.google.com under the regular google results.
Hey, if i want to look for images, i can type ggi: instead of gg: But now i need to scroll down the page first, to find what i am looking for. Time to use ya: (for Yahoo!) more often.
Something’s wrong
..when you are playing Nirvana CDs at high volume again.
New Gadget
Today i reorganized my server room, and decided to move the printer to the kitchen. Unfortunately my local hardware dealer did not have a WLAN-printerserver in stock, so the printer is still in the server room.
But i discovered something else. An AVM FritzFon, a cheap telephone system with VoIP support. I could not resist. Now i have a “hardphone” for my at43 account.
Getting it to work was a bit tricky, but thanks to my SIP god Hendrik it works now.
Things i never wanted to learn…
..about Debian:
dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
Bug 350298 for details.
Waterbed
Haven’t blogged for some time. University holidays started, so i am now busy at work. I think most of my exams went ok.
Last weekend we went shopping. As usual i bought some CDs. Not as usual we went to Leiner were i discovered the waterbeds departement.
Wow! Once in my life i need to buy one of these (although not one of those at Leiner, because they looked ugly).
The Inner European
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Online Banking
I have a bank account in Austria at BAWAG.
When i logged into the Online Banking today, i was confronted with the following message:
INFORMATION FÜR IHRE SICHERHEIT:
Wir empfehlen Ihnen die TANs (Transaktionsnummer) fortlaufend und aufsteigend zu verwenden. Die ersten 2 Stellen der 7-stelligen TAN stellen die fortlaufende Nummer dar.
Now i wonder, why it is necessary for my security to use my transaction numbers in a row.
Can anybody explain?
KDE 3.5
KDE 3.5 is in ports and i have updated my Desktop last week. After a few days i must say i am a bit disappointed. I still have not discovered a really cool feature, and there have been several regressions:
* Kopete: If i launch kopete it popups up a dialog which tells me that my local contact list is not in-sync with the severs list. It presents me a list of ICQ UINs. The only way to find out who these mysterious UINs are is to use the search interface of another ICQ Client.
* Kopete: If i try to remove a contact from the list, it crashes, see Bug 120160
* Kopete: Going Online now requires to hangle through three menus instead of two. Why isn’t there a simple “Connect..” Button like in all other ICQ clients
* Panel: The new Mouseover animations are pretty useless
* Konsole: As usual every KDE update messes around with the fonts. Unfortunately the Settings->Font dialog has been modified, so it is not possible to select the default font.
* Kweatherapplet: The font is now too large, the ° sign is hidden under the image
* Kmail: Check what the server supports dialog is still broken (Bug Bug 102875 )
* Kate: The Kate Terminal does not use the Konsole default.
* ktts: Does this actually work? The GUI is unusable.
* to be continued….
I want spring to arrive now!
According to ORF it’s -4.5°C *grr*. I am really in need for a spring with everything green instead of grey and with mild 15°C etc.
I want to sleep 20 hours a day to wait for it. But unfortunately i have to go through another three weeks of courses and exams until my next holidays start.