What a nice long german word. Today I got three letters from the tax office titled “Einkommensteuerbescheid 2000”, “Einkommensteuerbescheid 2001/2002” and “Einkommensteuerbescheid 2003”, the result of my income tax assessment. I am not sure why they were not able to send one single letter, although they were able to summarize the results into one “Buchungsmitteilung”.
I am glad, i am not working as a tax collector since i didn’t understand much from reading the 15 pages and i am not sure what happens now. In the best case the finance office transfers me 1599.06 EUR or 1442,38 EUR (if they keep the interest). In the worst case nothing happens or i have to pay 35,44 EUR (the result of 2003).
Starting with 2003 it is possible to do the income tax assessment online via Finanz-online, but it doesn’t look like it would simplify the process. Someone needs to tell them that an email address containing a “+” is valid and that it is bad practice to display passwords in clear text on the screen.
Found a Wireless LAN
Finally one of my neighbors got Wireless LAN. Of course my gf was the first to discover it. The SSID is “SpeedTouch687D93”, which looks like default (The last part is the MAC Address). Unfortunately he or she uses WEP, and i haven’t found anything about default keys for the SpeedTouch Accesspoints. According to the manuals i found on the net they have WEP disabled by default.
Additional i learned, that dwepdump from bsd-airtools does not work with my Orinoco card neither under FreeBSD 4.x nor FreeBSD 5.x. Looks like i need to download a Knoppix and get airsnort running.
Stealing images.
A lot of people don’t copy images they write about to their own blogs. adamw got in trouble with his hoster, because one image consumed a lot of bandwith.
Read on, what happened to the bandwith thieves.
BTW the most popular image from my blog is this one: 
It’s on the first page if you google for “last” at google images. Luckily my ADSL line is able to cope with the traffic.
Conferences
I registered for EuroBSDcon yesterday, after Patrick sent a reminder to the de.comp.os.unix.bsd Newsgroup. He fears that if too few people register the conference has to be canceled, so please register if you are planning to go there. I have not yet planned where to sleep. The conference hotel’s website is not browseable, neither with Konqueror nor with Firefox. Other alternatives are the Youth Hostel (cheap & uncomfortable) or a cheaper hotel.
A bit more than two weeks until aKademy, and I am still unsure if i should go there. Last Year in Nove Hrady was a very nice event, but Ludwigsburg is far away and compared to last year I am less involved into KDE.
Something completely different:
If weather on Saturday is nice, i will probably visit the Freerepublicparade.
New Hair cut.
Finally i got my summer hair cut. 5-10cm shorter. It feels strange to feel every breeze on my scalp. <insert complaint about hairloss here>
Building a Spamtrap with Spamassasin
I am currently trying to build a spamtrap with Spamassasin. The idea: I add
another emailaddress to my website. Every email to that address is piped to “sa-learn –spam”. My problem, sa-learn needs to save the gathered information somewhere, and i am not sure where. It looks like spamc stores the information from autolearning on the spamd-server, but sa-learn stores the information local. I don’t want to run a mailserver on the spamd-machine just for this task. Any ideas?
Xinerama
Today I finally set up Xinerama for the first time. I am now running with XFree86 with 2560×1024 taking advantage of my Matrox G550 Dual Head. I am still looking for double-sized Wallpapers especially one with a daemon. I am still experimenting with the position of the KDE kicker. At the moment it is in the middle covering both monitors. But it is not possible to configure absolute positions for the kicker applets, so i have to adjust the positions depending on the number of open windows.
Here is my XF86Config:
Why am I always doing something at the last minute?
I might as well copy&paste the entry from April.
Today, in fact yesterday or half an hour ago, was the deadline to submit a document for the “Folgenabsch�tzung von IT” course. I had the whole month time to work on this document, but i started yesterday at around 14.00.
Of course my document is very short, in German and of poor quality. But finally, now the real holidays start (including upgrading my CURRENT boxes to gcc 3.4 and start ports fixing)
BTW. This is the first time i have used Quanta to write an HTML document. It crashed once (I can’t remember my gvim crashing), but luckily it recovered most of the unsaved document. The UI is cluttered with a lot of non-intuitive useless controls, but the tag autocompletion is something you can get used to.
New Toy
Today I discovered JuK‘s trm support and the backend Musicbrainz.
It is really funny to submit a number of my mp3’s and compare the results.
Often they really match or at least guess the artist right, but sometimes they are just totally wrong, like when they confuse Patent Ochsner (a suisse german Band) with Rick Astley or Subway to Sally with The Beatles or even Aphrodite with Louis Armstrong
Ugly FreeBSD
Yar sent a pointer to Hendrik Scholz’ FreeBSD source keyword statistics on the developers Mailinglist. The most interesting graph shows that the occurances of ugly enormously increased around 1999 and is now the most used swear word in FreeBSD.