PC
i·mag·i·na·tion
|
Wednesday, February 7. 2007  Ever since I started writing articles about movies I've been uploading big versions of movie posters to my server. I really loved to click on them and check out all those little details, nevertheless I never thought that many of my readers actually made use of that. It rather were torrent-sites, myspace users or other people that were hotlinking the Posters directly from my server, causing traffic and embedding my posters on often legally questionable websites.Sunday, September 18. 2005  rev. 1.00 I've been running a 2.4 kernel image on my sweet Toshiba Portege from the first day I installed linux on it. The kernel 2.6 has been available forever already but I never thought about upgrading. My 2.4 was running smooth and flawless, it supported everthing just the way I wanted it to work and therefore I held tight to the saying 'Never touch a running System'. All I did were the occasional 2.4 upgrades.Wednesday, August 31. 2005 rev. 1.00  I've been using Opera forever already and I've bought it previously. Since my switch from Linux to FreeBSD I always ran the Linux binary of Opera since my registration was only valid for Linux. Today as Opera turns 10 years, they're giving out serial numbers for free. All Platforms and no restrictions - I can only advise you to go there now and get the registration number you've always wanted and waited for as long as it lasts.
Saturday, July 2. 2005 rev. 1.00  I followed Hendriks urge and ordered my Ticket for this years What the Hack! in the Netherlands. I haven't been to one of those 'gatherings' in quite a while and I am very, very excited to find out whether I'll enjoy it or not. WTH is taking place from 28 until 31 July and if everything works out Hendrik and me might even add 2 more days in front to take a look at Amsterdam. At the event I'll probably stuck with Hendrik getting to know some people since I expect to know about zero on my own. On the other hand there are a lot of interesting lectures with which I am definitely going to spent a lot of time with also. Wednesday, June 15. 2005 rev. 1.00  I know this package looks more than unsuspicious and innocent but let me tell you - it is everything but! The father of my gilrfriends had asked me for advice about him conquering the internet and after I had ordered a small Freenet-DSL line for him it was time for a new Computer. We talked quite a while and I told him that it would be quite nice for him to have a notebook with which he could sit on the balcony and chat, surf or do whatever he wanted to do. Agreed. Now the only thing left to decide was which one to get. I soon brought the topic to Apple and told him how I thought a OSX driven Notebook would be the best thing for him and after some comparing and the promise that his windows excel-sheets would work flawless on the MAC aswell he seemed to be up for it.Saturday, April 23. 2005 rev. 1.00  I guess you could be wondering what I was up to in the last 3-4 days. Well, let me tell you. Hendrik had told me about this fabulous piece of software called ScummVM already months ago, but I never really understood the potential it had. Now that I finally installed it it completely cought me. ScummVM is a 'virtual machine' for several classic graphical point-and-click adventure games which lets e.g. play The Secret of Monkey Island on your 'highend' pc using nearly every OS. So I spend some time diggin' out this old games and gave it try - it's unbelivable - just like in the old days! It works completely flawless with all the games using the Scumm engine. I feel like taking hollidays for the next 2 weeks just to go through all the old games again. Right now I am playing SOMI as you can see in the screenshot, afterwards I'll go for the second part of it and then I think I'll do 'Sam 'n' Max' and probably 'Day of the Tentacle'.Now if you grew up with these beauties aswell, I'd strongly recommend you to check this out - to all the others I want to say that this is a perfect opportunity to see what REAL gaming is like! Friday, February 4. 2005 rev. 1.00  I denoted in my retrospect of 2004 already that 2005 is supposed to be my year in the name or perl and therefore the year I finally learn to program - at least a little bit. With Hendrik as support in my team and with him the second programming expert the requisites are as good as it gets. So far 2005 has been treating me noble and I have made more progress than in all of 2004 - that is at least in my point of view. Of course I still suck but now and then I am understanding stuff and maybe even manage memorizing it, on the other hand I sometimes stuble across things like this in man pages:[quote]This means that $foo and @foo are two different variables. It also means that $foo[1] is a part of @foo, not a part of $foo. This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is weird. (from perldoc perldata)[/quote] Most of the things I learn lately actually feel a little weird in the beginning but luckily they mostly turn out to be pretty useful and obvious in the end. I hope that all the other stuff I just don't manage to understand will be getting to me in a couple of months if I am able to keep up learning and programming. So wish me luck with it, I'll keep you updated. Friday, December 17. 2004 rev. 1.01  When I came back from Hamburg yesterday, still sitting on the couch with my friends I had to find out that my webserver was gone for good. I was pingable but but not reachable through ssh. Luckily I had the console connected to one of our terminalservers, which once I had found the correct port it was connected to, gave me access to the box. The uptime was 4 hours and it wasn't able to remount the raid because a missing fsck option. Why it did reboot we could not determine but we made sure if it happens again the fsck will work and the box will find its way back up without further actions needed. I hope that this won't happen again, still I will be monitoring the uptime of my server a little bit closer through the coming weeks.
Monday, November 22. 2004 rev. 1.00  After installing 2 FreeBSD Servers through the last 6 weeks I decided last week that it was time to go workstation. As Hendrik had already predicted it, I installed FreeBSD on my work laptop last Friday. The installation went pretty well and I used all of my free time on the weekend to configure, compile and install. I learned a lot and did may things I had never done before but still I am not completely finished. There are still small things that are missing or open for improvements but all in all everything went good and lots of thigs actually were quite easy. I am looking forward to connect my IPod through firewire and connect to my fist Wlan through the embedded Atheros card. Second of which actually gave me headaches running Debian and installed seamless under FreeBSD.[0.00] lewe@clementine:~ > uname -a FreeBSD clementine 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #2: Fri Nov 19 20:34:27 CET 2004 My to-do or to-learn list still contains about 10 points but I am very sure that all of the stuff will work out well once I find the time to figure them out. This installation is not ment to be a sign of my departure from planet Debian, it's more of a try - to learn about BSD itself and to see if it really works out as good as Hendrik likes to attest between all the freezes of his workstation. ;o) I'll keep you updated about my walk through the BSD-Land as I will now have daily contact with it. Stay tuned for further news and updates. Tuesday, November 2. 2004 rev. 1.00  FreeBSD sera.naomiwatts.info 5.3-STABLE sparc64Today I moved my blog together with the whole domain naomiwatts.info to an all new server. The hardware is a Sun Netra T1 with 2x18gb harddrives and 1gb of ram. As you can see it's running FreeBSD and it took me quite a while to set it up properly. I had done something similar together with Hendrik a couple of weeks ago, but this installation I did mostly by myself which made me start over about 5 times. Well, in the end it worked out pretty good and I am excited to see how things will work from now on. The name I chose on dependence of Leaving Las Vegas to be precise the role of Elisabeth Shue. If you encounter any problems surfing my weblog don't hesitate to contact me as I am still not 100% sure if I got everything straight, the stats should work already and will be updated every night. I will also setup a couple of rrd statistics as soon as I find some time for it. So, wish me all the best with this new server and let's hope it will be as solid as the Debian desktop pc has been before. Tuesday, November 2. 2004 rev. 1.01 Yesterday has been one of those good evenings, somehow I manage it do leave work early enough to pay a visit to the city and get some shopping done, back home I eat supper and a quick glance at the clock tells me I still have time for watching a movie and writing an article about it. So I choose the movie, watch it and still having the movie in mind start writing about it. It gets later, later, later, 3 hours it takes me to get this article finished - I start looking at the watch repeatedly as it slowly moves towards 1am but than I am done. I click the preview button, read through the whole article and feel a little proud. It really looks good. I try to correct all typos and syntax errors, sit back and just pause for a moment. Than I see that there is room for an additional picture, I open a few tabs in my browser and start researching the web, and just when I found the picture, saved it to my harddrive and start closing those tabs again my browser dies...Wednesday, October 6. 2004 rev. 1.00 There have been a lot of changes in my pc architecture lately, with the move into the new appartment came the Fritz Box which took away a lot of jobs my pc at home was used to serve for 24/7 before. It bothered me that all was left for my pc was mainly mail and therefor it was just to expensive, power wise. Along came Mr. Scholz with his newly aquired server offering me a shell and a mail account, I took the chance and moved all my stuff to the FreeBSD box and since than my server at home has never been turned on again. I was curious to see what it would be like on a BSD-Shell but to be honest there is barely something that changed because the tools I use (centericq, screen, mutt, irssi) are exactly the same.I've always been happy with my Debian and I still am, I don't think there is any linux-distribution that can keep up with it. I love things thin and easy, I love having just the stuff I want and need around and nothing more. Debian makes this possible together and with its perfect packet-management its unrivaled in the linux world for me. When Hendrik took up his work last Friday I watched him installing his FreeBSD workstation and it was quite interesting to see (some of) the differences between a linux and a bsd. Still I thought all in all it isn't that different. It must have been serendipity that on Monday one of our servers decided to nearly step out of business due a damaged harddrive. I had been looking for a new job for this Sun Netra T1 laying on my desk for quite a while and now that Hendrik was there our reaction was, of course let's install FreeBSD on it and give it a new purpose to live. |
Calendar
Quicksearch Categories Read those Blogs! |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sun, 12.04.2009 09:47
the car looks sweet
Sat, 14.03.2009 03:13
Hi, Is your car to sell ? best regards, Max
Wed, 18.02.2009 00:05
hello :) How much did u buy this one ? thx :D