While studying for some upcoming re-examinations, I installed Kanotix' linux kernel 2.6.13 on my laptop, and removed Lilo in favour of Grub. The kernel was already running fine at my desktop, but laptops are, well, tricky. At first my Centrino based wifi card wouldn't work [ipw2200 chipset]. Turned …

No, not my own wise words, but I think they are worth reading. First, a piece about top posting [be it in e-mail, newsgroup postings or wherever]: A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A …

A small follow-up on my previous post about my mediacenter project to get an overview for myself and anybody interested. OK, so now I [almost] have a quiet Shuttle mediacenter with 3GHz Pentium4, 1GiB PC3200 DDR RAM memory, a Maxtor 250GiB harddisk drive with 16MiB cache, a NEC 3540A DVD …

...Debian! Still happy with you :)

... to quote Yoda. Anyways, last Saturday I've been buying pieces for the multimedia center aka webserver aka vcr aka mailserver aka streaming media toy aka whatever that I'm going to build. It's going to feature a Pentium 4 3GHz [was cheaper than a 2.8 and even 2.6GHz one …

I was getting bored getting a Red Alert every time somebody spoke my name at IRC [the sound is bundled with GAIM messenger], so I went looking for free sound effects. First, I came along this site with loads of various sounds, grouped by category and these misc sounds. Quite …

I've been programming at the overload feedreader [or should I say channel reader? Nah, feedreader sounds better...] the last few days. Mostly behind-the-screens work, but I've put in some small changes in the frontend for good measure too. Take a look at it: I hope you like it. This is …

OK, after being exposed to windows for four days at stretch last week at work, I came along a cool application to make working with only one desktop a bit worthwhile: Entbloess, Expose for windows. This will show smaller versions of your current open windows, so you can tab through …

I... Need... To... See... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! [I don't care if the second part isn't as great as it could have been]

A thing that has amused me since last week is this great animation and song [Flash alert, but worth the loading]. There's also a page with the Flash version and the songtext and one with two versions [original and radio edit] as Quicktime .mov. The radio edit is worth watching …

g1powermac++ == 19. Congrats dude :)

OK, so I fixed some cross-browser issues of overload feedreader, put a new version of it online and was wondering about naming of several things now. As it's a feedreader, it reads RSS, Atom feeds. Those are not only used for weblogs, so I skipped mentioning "Blogs" altogether, unlike several …

I forgot to mention I installed the nice graphical environment x.org on my desktop, as it enables me to have neat [mac OS-X-like] shadows and transparency. Too bad I had to use an old version of my window manager [old beta of xfwm4], because I couldn't get my recompiled …

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. Had to share that one :) [Found here]

Did I mention we went to War of the Worlds last Monday? I don't think it was exactly a "wow, cool!" experience, but the movie at least is quite intense and enjoyable. Too bad the very cool soundtrack of the play that was released on vinyl some decades ago wasn't …

Here it is, finally. I wanted to post it together with a shitload of nice pictures we took, but decided in the end to just post it :) It reminds me a bit of the 'A quite verbose story about a week offline' post of a year ago, and is mainly …

OK, so my server was down from about 11PM yesterday to 15PM today [GMT+1 and DST], which was caused by general hardware b0rkage. I don't know why, but the two newest drives in it go berserk now and then. Maybe a leftover from the broken motherboard that used to …

OK, so this is my so-called vacation. Lets see... Tomorrow I'll work, in the evening I'll [hopefully] enjoy The War of the Worlds, on Tuesday I'm getting my hair done [badly needed ;)], am I going to do some administrational stuff and then we're going to visit my GFs grandparents. Wednesday …

OK, hereby I declare the coming months my Time To Focus Time(tm). I need to get back to being efficient, cleaning up my todo list [growing bigger and bigger], and make myself useful/valuable again. I'm aware I still haven't posted my story of the last vacation, which is …

It was a short one, and generally a bit too wet one [way does it always rain on me?], but altogether quite relaxing. Catching up on me e-mail and newsfeeds now. Didn't have an internet connection somehow, so I plugged the ADSL modem right in my laptop and now it …