RSS feeds are back again. le was guilty again. A not encoded Euro sign broke the XML-RSS perl module. Maybe I should switch the script to a less strict XML module, e.g. I found in my http log a python script that promises to manage every broken feed. While typing this topic I noticed that MT also has serious problems with encoding the Eurosign.
BTW the headline also fits to another news item from today. Jean Claude Trichet today replaced Wim Duisenberg as new governor of the European Central Bank.
How to enter Austria without visa
New 802.11g IOS for Cisco AP1200 Accesspoints available?
On Thurday Release Notes for IOS 12.2(13)JA appeared on the Cisco Website. It looks like this release finally includes support for 802.11g.
Interesting information from the Release Notes:
- Disable Radios to Prevent Unexpected Reboot When Upgrading System Software
- Some non-Cisco Aironet 802.11g client devices require a firmware upgrade before they can associate to the 802.11g radio in the access point
Unfortunately it isn’t available from the Download Center yet. Additional AFAIK 802.11g needs new antennas which aren’t available in Austria yet. So it will take some time until the tuwien WLAN supports 802.11g.
Knoppix is broken!
It is really b0rken 🙂
XFree86 & VIA KM 400 continued
Yesterday night I retried to get X running on the Acer Aspire 1350.
It looks like the via driver is still under heavy development. Several people have or had problems with it, including Matt Dillon, Alan Cox. Since last week the Unresolved drm Symbols problem has been fixed, but the Server still crashes.
Other XFree86 bugs are reated to the VIA driver:
I decided to wait until some of these issues are resolved and the submitted patches found their way into Xfree86 CVS, because with all the posted patches this is a patch merging hell.
In one of the bugs Egbert Eich pointed to a wiki article that explains how to debug the XServer. I will continue reading it when I will enter the next round fighting with the via driver
RSS currently broken
Just noticed that some change in the perl port broke the p5-XML-RSS module so
RSS Feeds are not updated. I removed them temporarily to stop getting failure email messages. Stay tuned…
Recovering Superblocks.
The weekend started with a catastrophe. After the last crash of my workstation
the disklabel was messed up and it didn’t wanted to boot.
I tried to reinstall FreeBSD on the / partition, but that did’t help anything, fsck(8) threw out thousands of error messages and didn’t reconstruct the disklabel.
Being clueless what to do, I first started with my other Computer maintenance.
I extended huckfinn’s too small /var partition from 20MB to 500MB.
I exchanged the SCSI Controller for my CD Burner from the Dawicontrol UW Controller with a broken BIOS to a used Adaptec Controller that was built into Olga. Suprisingly the CD Burner was detected and I didn’t had to deal with Jumpers, Termination and SCSI IDs.
Now I plugged the Dawicontrol Controller into the last-but-one PCI Slot of Sauna and connected it with a spare 6GB UW Seagate HD. Again i jumpered everything right and I installed FreeBSD over an old Windows partition that was on the drive. After reading the fsck_ffs(8) manpage I tried fsck with the -b 32 option and that went well. So only the primary superblock was damaged. Now I just had to find a way to recover the original one. That was difficult, since most postings on the FreeBSD mailinglist said that fsck will do that automagically. But my fsck didn’t!
Since it was already late at night and I went to bed. After sleeping long and an extensive breakfast I tried some different search queries on Google.
And finally I found this thread.
dd if=<disk> skip=32 of=<disk> seek=16 bs=512 count=16
saved my life, everything is mountable again and most data was recovered.
Since I now have two disks in my workstation, I am going to share the diskload between the two drives and perhaps I should think about a better backup solution 🙂
Winter!
Normally I don’t write about topics that are already mentioned in my favorite blogs, but today is an exception.
Yesterday evening when I went home I noticed that the rain feels quite snowy and today when I first looked out of the window everything is white and beautiful. Well at least when I look into the garden, the streets are brown and slushy.
I love the winter when i am wearing the appropriate clothing and the heating works.
New G4 iBooks
Apple announced new iBooks with a G4 Processor. Luckily I didn’t order a G3 iBook last week like i intended, since the new ones are in the same price category and hopefully faster. The new iBooks will be shipped with the new hyped Panther Mac OS X.
I also noticed that finally the ASUS AMD64 Mainboards are available in Vienna, so I could also buy a new Workstation. But actual I don’t have the time to setup 2 machines and to make the first steps with MacOS so i will have to wait some weeks….
Important Jubilee dates missed
I just noticed I missed two important dates:
Tuesday last week I completed my first year as a FreeBSD committer. It has been an impessing time. I spent a lot of time and learned a lot of stuff. Unfortunately at the moment I have to focus on university, so I doubt I can commit that much in the upcoming year…:-(
And yesterday I added my 40. blog entry. This is blog stuff is getting serious. I hope my english improves while writing the next 40 blog entries, so I don’t have to look up that many words on LEO.