Archive, Music

The Ultimate Mediacenter – PartII

Meanwhile I gave Fedora a chance to
proof that it’s worth to build a mediacenter in less time than on
gentoo.
After hours of downloading and burning the installation dvd (what
happened to the good old network-install)
I managed to setup a minimal Fedora Core 3 system (minimal means
700MB on Fedora, ughh, Gentoo does the same in 40MB).Due to the high demand of diskspace for a core installation I
needed to assign a unused logical volume of my gentoo
base system and relocate /usr to it. But anyway everything works
out of the box. Well done.

The Via Epia M10000 C3 Ezra mini-itx system needs special packages
for hardware-acceleration (direct rendering, mpeg2-decoding, motion
compensation).
Those are available for FC3 on:
http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC3
Simply installing xorg-x11 will select the epia-specific packages,
as long as the epia repository is set up correctly.

Currently there’s only a binary rpm for via-drm on the C3
nehemia(i686) version of the Epia M10000 board available.
So I had to rebuild a native C3 ezra-t(i586) version of the
package:

rpmbuild –rebuild –target i586
kernel-module-via-drm-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-2.6.7-1.ucr.src.rpm

For the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T card and a few others there,
just right in time, an backpatch-update for the cx88-driver on FC3
became available on
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable
cx88-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-0.0.4_20050708_202133-58.rhfc3.at.i586.rpm

So far done for the base.

I intendently left out more detailed setup of configfiles,
startup-entries and so on, which can be found everywhere on
google.
(xorg.conf for epia, minimal fc3 init.d, modules.conf, rc.local,
.xinitrc)

For a mediabox which should boot really fast, a big window desktop
is just overhead, so I’ll use the minimalistic twm as my
windowmanager, although there’re people who prefer a minimalistic
windowmaker instead. We’ll see later if that’s worth a
change.
After installing TWM, I do “switchdesktop twm”, for activation (twm
should be default anyway).

Now for the mediacenter software…

I decided to use mythtv, as it is best supported and has wide
plugin support for almost every feature someone could want.
Not sure yet if streaming internet tv will be supported through a
playlist-wrapper for mplayer. We’ll see later.

The Mythtv-suite as well as mplayer and friends are all available
here:
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable

Fedora will not be my favourite system, but at least it’s fast on
Epia and package support is ok for common use. Except for the
compile time gentoo’s package-management is lightyears faster than
on fedora.

Let’s see how this stuff works tomorrow.
Good night.

Archive

The Ultimate Mediacenter – Part II

Meanwhile I gave Fedora a chance to
proof that it’s worth to build a mediacenter in less time than on
gentoo.
After hours of downloading and burning the installation dvd (what
happened to the good old network-install)
I managed to setup a minimal Fedora Core 3 system (minimal means
700MB on Fedora, ughh, Gentoo does the same in 40MB).

Due to the high demand of diskspace for a core installation I
needed to assign a unused logical volume of my gentoo
base system and relocate /usr to it. But anyway everything works
out of the box. Well done.

The Via Epia M10000 C3 Ezra mini-itx system needs special packages
for hardware-acceleration (direct rendering, mpeg2-decoding, motion
compensation).
Those are available for FC3 on:
http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC3
Simply installing xorg-x11 will select the epia-specific packages,
as long as the epia repository is set up correctly.

Currently there’s only a binary rpm for via-drm on the C3
nehemia(i686) version of the Epia M10000 board available.
So I had to rebuild a native C3 ezra-t(i586) version of the
package:

rpmbuild –rebuild –target i586
kernel-module-via-drm-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-2.6.7-1.ucr.src.rpm

For the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T card and a few others there,
just right in time, an backpatch-update for the cx88-driver on FC3
became available on
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable
cx88-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-0.0.4_20050708_202133-58.rhfc3.at.i586.rpm

So far done for the base.

I intendently left out more detailed setup of configfiles,
startup-entries and so on, which can be found everywhere on
google.
(xorg.conf for epia, minimal fc3 init.d, modules.conf, rc.local,
.xinitrc)

For a mediabox which should boot really fast, a big window desktop
is just overhead, so I’ll use the minimalistic twm as my
windowmanager, although there’re people who prefer a minimalistic
windowmaker instead. We’ll see later if that’s worth a
change.
After installing TWM, I do “switchdesktop twm”, for activation (twm
should be default anyway).

Now for the mediacenter software…

I decided to use mythtv, as it is best supported and has wide
plugin support for almost every feature someone could want.
Not sure yet if streaming internet tv will be supported through a
playlist-wrapper for mplayer. We’ll see later.

The Mythtv-suite as well as mplayer and friends are all available
here:
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable

Fedora will not be my favourite system, but at least it’s fast on
Epia and package support is ok for common use. Except for the
compile time gentoo’s package-management is lightyears faster than
on fedora.

Let’s see how this stuff works tomorrow.
Good night.

Archive, Music, TV

The Ultimate Mediacenter – Part II

Meanwhile I gave Fedora a chance to
proof that it’s worth to build a mediacenter in less time than on
gentoo.
After hours of downloading and burning the installation dvd (what
happened to the good old network-install)
I managed to setup a minimal Fedora Core 3 system (minimal means
700MB on Fedora, ughh, Gentoo does the same in 40MB).Due to the high demand of diskspace for a core installation I
needed to assign a unused logical volume of my gentoo
base system and relocate /usr to it. But anyway everything works
out of the box. Well done.

The Via Epia M10000 C3 Ezra mini-itx system needs special packages
for hardware-acceleration (direct rendering, mpeg2-decoding, motion
compensation).
Those are available for FC3 on:
http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC3
Simply installing xorg-x11 will select the epia-specific packages,
as long as the epia repository is set up correctly.

Currently there’s only a binary rpm for via-drm on the C3
nehemia(i686) version of the Epia M10000 board available.
So I had to rebuild a native C3 ezra-t(i586) version of the
package:

rpmbuild –rebuild –target i586
kernel-module-via-drm-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-2.6.7-1.ucr.src.rpm

For the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T card and a few others there,
just right in time, an backpatch-update for the cx88-driver on FC3
became available on
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable
cx88-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1376_FC3-0.0.4_20050708_202133-58.rhfc3.at.i586.rpm

So far done for the base.

I intendently left out more detailed setup of configfiles,
startup-entries and so on, which can be found everywhere on
google.
(xorg.conf for epia, minimal fc3 init.d, modules.conf, rc.local,
.xinitrc)

For a mediabox which should boot really fast, a big window desktop
is just overhead, so I’ll use the minimalistic twm as my
windowmanager, although there’re people who prefer a minimalistic
windowmaker instead. We’ll see later if that’s worth a
change.
After installing TWM, I do “switchdesktop twm”, for activation (twm
should be default anyway).

Now for the mediacenter software…

I decided to use mythtv, as it is best supported and has wide
plugin support for almost every feature someone could want.
Not sure yet if streaming internet tv will be supported through a
playlist-wrapper for mplayer. We’ll see later.

The Mythtv-suite as well as mplayer and friends are all available
here:
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/3/en/i386/RPMS.at-stable

Fedora will not be my favourite system, but at least it’s fast on
Epia and package support is ok for common use. Except for the
compile time gentoo’s package-management is lightyears faster than
on fedora.

Let’s see how this stuff works tomorrow.
Good night.

Archive, Music

The Ultimate Mediacenter – PartI

I’m already looking a long time for
the ultimate media and entertainment center out of the box, but yet
nothin’ serious came up my horizon so far.Since living in a flat, I’m not allowed to use a satellite-dish
which terminates my dream of the wonderufl DVB-S. We got cable with
almost 40 channels, most of them home-shopping-crap… but at least
Munich is DVB-T broadcasting about 24 channels since May this year.
DVB-C brings only 8 free digital channels on cable, all the other
stuff is commercial and really expensive.

So the obvious way to go was, using DVB-T together with analogue
channels from the cable and mix all that well with the usual
mediacenter stuff (movie player,photos,music,dvd,text).

I studied all of the latest set-top boxes, and commercial
media-centers, but all of them lack one or more big features:
Internet-TV-channels and custom onscreen infos/ticker
Finally you would end up with more single media boxes than a
home-cinema-rack has AV-connectors.

Building my own PC media center seems the only way to achieve my
“everybody’s?” ultimate mediacenter goal.

The big problem now is, that it’s almost impossible to find a
software which can handle DVB-T and analogue channels within one
channellist. That means you always have to change the device/tuner
and then select the channel, instead of simply channeljump through
analogue and digital broadcasts. Further to pass analogue channels
the same way as a DVB receiver does to a mpeg2 decoder, analogue
channels will need to be encoded to mpeg2 first to feed a unique
output-decoder… grrrrrrrrr.
I think most people will not understand the above as long as they
haven’t tried by themselves.

OK, I skipped the analogue part for the moment, and start using
DVB-T.

Yesterday I bought the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T Card, which is
now officially supported in Kernel 2.6.13. (There’re also
mixed-mode cards available, but without mpeg2 encoder, which means
it’s just two cards in one, nothing more.)

Already a long time ago, I bought myself a Mini-ITX PC, to have a
compact, powersaving and silent computer for the living room.
Since I’m a gentoo linux enthusiast, I compiled everything from
scratch on that slow=powersaving machine.

Compiling the new kernel for an Epia M10000 Ezra board, was quite a
challenge, although I had absolutely no problems in the past, but I
found out “vesafb-tng” doesn’t work anymore in 2.6.13, “vesafb-old”
does only work if it’s not compiled as a module. And compiling
takes quite a time on this 900MHz hardware. For a first try I
skipped patching the sources with older 2.6.7 epia patches, which
I’ll need later to get hardware-mpeg-acceleration CLE266,
framebuffer and XVideo motion compensation XvMC running.

After compiling 2.6.13 for the third time, this time successful, I
gave up and did go to sleep.
Not sure if I’ll pick up there tomorrow, or simple use my already
prepared debian-dvd’s.

It’s hard to reduce power consumption, if you have to let the
computer running the whole night to get some stuff compiled.
Where’s the powersaving here ? A fast machine can at least save
power when it’s unused.

…to be continued…

Archive, Music, TV

The Ultimate Mediacenter – Part I

I’m already looking a long time for
the ultimate media and entertainment center out of the box, but yet
nothin’ serious came up my horizon so far.

Since living in a flat, I’m not allowed to use a satellite-dish
which terminates my dream of the wonderufl DVB-S. We got cable with
almost 40 channels, most of them home-shopping-crap… but at least
Munich is DVB-T broadcasting about 24 channels since May this year.
DVB-C brings only 8 free digital channels on cable, all the other
stuff is commercial and really expensive.

So the obvious way to go was, using DVB-T together with analogue
channels from the cable and mix all that well with the usual
mediacenter stuff (movie player,photos,music,dvd,text).

I studied all of the latest set-top boxes, and commercial
media-centers, but all of them lack one or more big features:
Internet-TV-channels and custom onscreen infos/ticker
Finally you would end up with more single media boxes than a
home-cinema-rack has AV-connectors.

Building my own PC media center seems the only way to achieve my
“everybody’s?” ultimate mediacenter goal.

The big problem now is, that it’s almost impossible to find a
software which can handle DVB-T and analogue channels within one
channellist. That means you always have to change the device/tuner
and then select the channel, instead of simply channeljump through
analogue and digital broadcasts. Further to pass analogue channels
the same way as a DVB receiver does to a mpeg2 decoder, analogue
channels will need to be encoded to mpeg2 first to feed a unique
output-decoder… grrrrrrrrr.
I think most people will not understand the above as long as they
haven’t tried by themselves.

OK, I skipped the analogue part for the moment, and start using
DVB-T.

Yesterday I bought the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T Card, which is
now officially supported in Kernel 2.6.13. (There’re also
mixed-mode cards available, but without mpeg2 encoder, which means
it’s just two cards in one, nothing more.)

Already a long time ago, I bought myself a Mini-ITX PC, to have a
compact, powersaving and silent computer for the living room.
Since I’m a gentoo linux enthusiast, I compiled everything from
scratch on that slow=powersaving machine.

Compiling the new kernel for an Epia M10000 Ezra board, was quite a
challenge, although I had absolutely no problems in the past, but I
found out “vesafb-tng” doesn’t work anymore in 2.6.13, “vesafb-old”
does only work if it’s not compiled as a module. And compiling
takes quite a time on this 900MHz hardware. For a first try I
skipped patching the sources with older 2.6.7 epia patches, which
I’ll need later to get hardware-mpeg-acceleration CLE266,
framebuffer and XVideo motion compensation XvMC running.

After compiling 2.6.13 for the third time, this time successful, I
gave up and did go to sleep.
Not sure if I’ll pick up there tomorrow, or simple use my already
prepared debian-dvd’s.

It’s hard to reduce power consumption, if you have to let the
computer running the whole night to get some stuff compiled.
Where’s the powersaving here ? A fast machine can at least save
power when it’s unused.

…to be continued…

Archive, Diary

Diary Import October 1999

26th october 1999

(The day is long Aya)

25th october 1999

Improved my SQL firewall pages.

Compiling 2.2.13 for zuse and maybe for stun.de too.

24th october 1999

Big cleaning up day again.

Some new cooking experiments. Happy) hmm.. delicious…

23rd october 1999

Big cleaning up day,
And another shelf free for Aya.

Aya’s leaving today, and going to Malaysia for shopping and
a last relaxing before language school. Enjoy !!!! Winking Kiss.

22nd october 1999

Did Sunscan 2.3B on all of my sparcy-firewalls. Passed !
Happy

Wrote an interface to search inside of the firewall logfiles
of course using PHP3 and all the logs written to the MySQL
database.
Just half an hour work…. Happy))) Cool.

21st october 1999

My parents left this morning for holiday in egypt.

Managing service contracts with SUN.

Finally I’m allowed to use PHP3 and MySQL at work…. Sad((((
GRRRRRRRRRRRR………. now !!!!! that I’m almost finished
with
all that script using flat files !!!!!!!!! Jesus !!!!!!!!!

20th october 1999

Wrote documentation for all my firewall-scripts.

Linux 2.2.13 is out…. hmmm… a little bit late to install on
stun.de.
What do you think Reyk and Gerd ?

Gone to dinner with my parents because they go on holiday
tomorrow,
I wonder which they forget something or not. As usual Happy

19th october 1999

A little (big) outage in one of our partners site Happy))
Hey Mr. Firewall… there’s something wrong no more packets
here….
And in fact… it wasn’t the firewal, it wasn’t the communication
line,
it wasn’t an power failure… just another cisco byte the dust
Happy))

Bought something nice for Aya. Happy For XMAS of course.

18th october 1999

Big Y2K Novell meeting at work…. this red-package stuff is
chasing me… Happy))

Wrote a script to analase the firewall rule usage to see or
manage performance optimization.

17th october 1999

Installed a new mixing tap in the bathroom and also a new
shower.
Wow 9 different ways of having a shower Happy a lot of massage functions
really interesting this shower-developement Happy

Replaced a few parts of my room-seperators, now it’s much more
smooth
to slide and installed distance plates for the two iron
ropes.

Watched so many japanese movies and documentations on
television…
…oh this will take a long time to fully understand the
japanese.

16th october 1999

Our family visit left this morning, and COLT Telecom is burrying
new fiber
cables in front of my house. Happy)) If they’ll tell me which one of these
thousands
of fibers is my gigabit internet connection Happy)))))))))))

15th october 1999

Set up the Cannaserver on Linux. Now my japanese dictionaries are
working,
german, english and japanese, with Kana and Kanji input Happy)))) Yippie !!!

14th october 1999

Installed 4.7 again, now with a little bit more priviledges.
Happy LC25

More updates for www.stun.de and some last configuration steps
before the
installation in Frankfurt.

13th october 1999

Installed netscape 4.7 at work, without being administrator…. big
mistake
now my NT is a little bit confused. Time to hack a little
bit.

Two new developement kernels released… we’re now up on
2.3.22.

Oh my head…. too much party yesterday.

12th october 1999

My trukish coworker gave a party because of quitting his old
company,
and after that it’s my moms 50th birthday. Big family
party…..

What a day.

11th october 1999

Solved the ssh problem on www.stun.de. Connections are no longer
refused, when we’re using
dynamic IP ranges. Net-fu is broken… hmmm… don’t know
why.

Kernel 2.4 will be already released in november 1999, hmmm… nice,
so I can introduce
Aya into newest technology from beginning.

10th october 1999

Today our scientific institutes are opened for the masses.
So I’ll go and see what our nuclear-fission reactor is doing.
(I just hope that they can finish in my lifetime….)

Discussed some of my visions of nuclear fusion, and again I feel
like they don’t
want to hear new theories. Maybe they’re all to horny doing
practical experiments,
than thinking about easier, not yet realizable theories.

2.3.20 released yesterday…. boys… you make me trouble…
doing Stun.de updates for the kernelgrapher.

9th october 1999

Bought a new pillow for Aya… sorry I couldn’t find a plastic one
as in Japan,
do you agree on feathers ?

Reyk called me on the phone and agreed to install the www.stun.de
server in
Frankfurt on 28th.

Gerd agreed to be available on 28th for testing with the server
from Munich.

Had big fun together with Gerd and Eva at Shananigans Irish
Pub,
where Mane Maniac played live guitar and harmonica blues.
And bought two CD’s Happy

8th october 1999

FTP-Problem solved, now it’s officially a software bug on the
clients FTP.
And thanks to standards, we’re not allowed to use a different
software,
because of some software contracts…. Happy))) Another point for commercial….
(negative, of course)

Tonight there’s an ANIME special on TV, most thing in original
japanese audio
with german subtitles. Cool for learning languages I think,
especially for
learning slang.

Managed my holiday so that I can pickup Aya in Frankfurt on
29th.

7th october 1999

Our big ftp transfer problem is escalating today, and we finally
found out why
it doesn’t work. It’s clear now that netmanage’s chameleon ftp
can’t handle
passive ftp transfer correctly. When we installed WS_FTP the
problem was gone.
Bullshit ! I can’t understand why all these people just want to use
commercial
products, because of support they all say…. yeah… fuck… Not
one word about
bugs, only fixes and new features published. Every single shareware
or freeware
is better documented and support than that fucking commercial
stuff.
And then the customers make me responsible if something doens’t
work….
Fuck ! I can’t do anything when those assheads don’t know how to
write correct code !
And you customers…. you wanted that shit from MS !
So don’t blame me !

6th october 1999

Forgot to mention that 2.3.19 is out, and on cutting edge you can
read the fascinating
release date(time) 4-Oct-99 24:44 Happy))))))) yeah 24:44
Oh my god…. others are figthing with Y2K problems and we didn’t
recognize that we
already have to work 25 per day now ! Happy)))))

At work there’s more and more shit stacking….
Anyway, I feel very good at the moment, I need this
stress…..

5th october 1999

Had an almost perfect day, I feel so much energy…
everything went fine. Solved a severe firewall problem with active
FTP connections
to well known services. Went to the companies doctor and he said
that I’m in good
condition and the sight of my eyes is almost as sharp as the sight
of an eagle.

Compiled Nedit for AIX today, and rm vi Laugh Not really….

More radioactive shit happened, this time in south korea.
And in London a train crash occured…

4th october 1999

What a week, so many ANIME in original japanese language on TV, I
have to record
all of them, for Aya and me. (Nice to learn languages by reading
subtitles in german)

Discovered a collection of precompiled CPAN modules, wow that fixes
my union semun
problems…. Happy Tricky !

There’s another date of www.stun.de installation in
Frankfurt.
If everything goes ok, I’ll install the server together with Reyk
on 27th october
this time, I’ll drive by myself and the day after in the very early
morning
I can pick up my lovely girl from airport. Kiss 😡 !!!!!!

Greenpeace says still four times higher radioacivity in Tokaimura
but all people
are already back in their usual life, becuase the government said
it’s already over.

3rd october 1999

Still birthdayparty-damaged…

Have to go to Oktoberfest today, with my coworkers…. oh how I
hate Oktoberfest,
and next year I have to show Aya. I wish I could get just one year
off.

Aya wrote me strange mails, I don’t know what she means, and I
don’t feel
good by reading them….
I guess my answer are not much better in meaning….
maybe it’s all because of culture difference.

Hey you people out there, how do you manage culture problems inside
your
relationship ? I can’t stand that japanese “saying nothing, block
everything”
behaviour any longer. Am I the only one, or is it my fault ?

2nd october 1999

Big birthday-party of one of my coworkers, I hope it’s not getting
too late
tonight. Everyone of us has prepared a little poem, song or
present.
Will be nice I guess.

Ohhhh… my head…. someone switch off that light, and kill that
noise in my head.

1st october 1999

Discovered lots of dictionaries on the net, but everything
precompiled,
but I need unencrypted versions for my CGI-Server.

Played around with XJdic.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import October 1999

26th october 1999

(The day is long Aya)

25th october 1999

Improved my SQL firewall pages.

Compiling 2.2.13 for zuse and maybe for stun.de too.

24th october 1999

Big cleaning up day again.

Some new cooking experiments. Happy) hmm.. delicious…

23rd october 1999

Big cleaning up day,
And another shelf free for Aya.

Aya’s leaving today, and going to Malaysia for shopping and
a last relaxing before language school. Enjoy !!!! Winking Kiss.

22nd october 1999

Did Sunscan 2.3B on all of my sparcy-firewalls. Passed !
Happy

Wrote an interface to search inside of the firewall logfiles
of course using PHP3 and all the logs written to the MySQL
database.
Just half an hour work…. Happy))) Cool.

21st october 1999

My parents left this morning for holiday in egypt.

Managing service contracts with SUN.

Finally I’m allowed to use PHP3 and MySQL at work…. Sad((((
GRRRRRRRRRRRR………. now !!!!! that I’m almost finished
with
all that script using flat files !!!!!!!!! Jesus !!!!!!!!!

20th october 1999

Wrote documentation for all my firewall-scripts.

Linux 2.2.13 is out…. hmmm… a little bit late to install on
stun.de.
What do you think Reyk and Gerd ?

Gone to dinner with my parents because they go on holiday
tomorrow,
I wonder which they forget something or not. As usual Happy

19th october 1999

A little (big) outage in one of our partners site Happy))
Hey Mr. Firewall… there’s something wrong no more packets
here….
And in fact… it wasn’t the firewal, it wasn’t the communication
line,
it wasn’t an power failure… just another cisco byte the dust
Happy))

Bought something nice for Aya. Happy For XMAS of course.

18th october 1999

Big Y2K Novell meeting at work…. this red-package stuff is
chasing me… Happy))

Wrote a script to analase the firewall rule usage to see or
manage performance optimization.

17th october 1999

Installed a new mixing tap in the bathroom and also a new
shower.
Wow 9 different ways of having a shower Happy a lot of massage functions
really interesting this shower-developement Happy

Replaced a few parts of my room-seperators, now it’s much more
smooth
to slide and installed distance plates for the two iron
ropes.

Watched so many japanese movies and documentations on
television…
…oh this will take a long time to fully understand the
japanese.

16th october 1999

Our family visit left this morning, and COLT Telecom is burrying
new fiber
cables in front of my house. Happy)) If they’ll tell me which one of these
thousands
of fibers is my gigabit internet connection Happy)))))))))))

15th october 1999

Set up the Cannaserver on Linux. Now my japanese dictionaries are
working,
german, english and japanese, with Kana and Kanji input Happy)))) Yippie !!!

14th october 1999

Installed 4.7 again, now with a little bit more priviledges.
Happy LC25

More updates for www.stun.de and some last configuration steps
before the
installation in Frankfurt.

13th october 1999

Installed netscape 4.7 at work, without being administrator…. big
mistake
now my NT is a little bit confused. Time to hack a little
bit.

Two new developement kernels released… we’re now up on
2.3.22.

Oh my head…. too much party yesterday.

12th october 1999

My trukish coworker gave a party because of quitting his old
company,
and after that it’s my moms 50th birthday. Big family
party…..

What a day.

11th october 1999

Solved the ssh problem on www.stun.de. Connections are no longer
refused, when we’re using
dynamic IP ranges. Net-fu is broken… hmmm… don’t know
why.

Kernel 2.4 will be already released in november 1999, hmmm… nice,
so I can introduce
Aya into newest technology from beginning.

10th october 1999

Today our scientific institutes are opened for the masses.
So I’ll go and see what our nuclear-fission reactor is doing.
(I just hope that they can finish in my lifetime….)

Discussed some of my visions of nuclear fusion, and again I feel
like they don’t
want to hear new theories. Maybe they’re all to horny doing
practical experiments,
than thinking about easier, not yet realizable theories.

2.3.20 released yesterday…. boys… you make me trouble…
doing Stun.de updates for the kernelgrapher.

9th october 1999

Bought a new pillow for Aya… sorry I couldn’t find a plastic one
as in Japan,
do you agree on feathers ?

Reyk called me on the phone and agreed to install the www.stun.de
server in
Frankfurt on 28th.

Gerd agreed to be available on 28th for testing with the server
from Munich.

Had big fun together with Gerd and Eva at Shananigans Irish
Pub,
where Mane Maniac played live guitar and harmonica blues.
And bought two CD’s Happy

8th october 1999

FTP-Problem solved, now it’s officially a software bug on the
clients FTP.
And thanks to standards, we’re not allowed to use a different
software,
because of some software contracts…. Happy))) Another point for commercial….
(negative, of course)

Tonight there’s an ANIME special on TV, most thing in original
japanese audio
with german subtitles. Cool for learning languages I think,
especially for
learning slang.

Managed my holiday so that I can pickup Aya in Frankfurt on
29th.

7th october 1999

Our big ftp transfer problem is escalating today, and we finally
found out why
it doesn’t work. It’s clear now that netmanage’s chameleon ftp
can’t handle
passive ftp transfer correctly. When we installed WS_FTP the
problem was gone.
Bullshit ! I can’t understand why all these people just want to use
commercial
products, because of support they all say…. yeah… fuck… Not
one word about
bugs, only fixes and new features published. Every single shareware
or freeware
is better documented and support than that fucking commercial
stuff.
And then the customers make me responsible if something doens’t
work….
Fuck ! I can’t do anything when those assheads don’t know how to
write correct code !
And you customers…. you wanted that shit from MS !
So don’t blame me !

6th october 1999

Forgot to mention that 2.3.19 is out, and on cutting edge you can
read the fascinating
release date(time) 4-Oct-99 24:44 Happy))))))) yeah 24:44
Oh my god…. others are figthing with Y2K problems and we didn’t
recognize that we
already have to work 25 per day now ! Happy)))))

At work there’s more and more shit stacking….
Anyway, I feel very good at the moment, I need this
stress…..

5th october 1999

Had an almost perfect day, I feel so much energy…
everything went fine. Solved a severe firewall problem with active
FTP connections
to well known services. Went to the companies doctor and he said
that I’m in good
condition and the sight of my eyes is almost as sharp as the sight
of an eagle.

Compiled Nedit for AIX today, and rm vi Laugh Not really….

More radioactive shit happened, this time in south korea.
And in London a train crash occured…

4th october 1999

What a week, so many ANIME in original japanese language on TV, I
have to record
all of them, for Aya and me. (Nice to learn languages by reading
subtitles in german)

Discovered a collection of precompiled CPAN modules, wow that fixes
my union semun
problems…. Happy Tricky !

There’s another date of www.stun.de installation in
Frankfurt.
If everything goes ok, I’ll install the server together with Reyk
on 27th october
this time, I’ll drive by myself and the day after in the very early
morning
I can pick up my lovely girl from airport. Kiss 😡 !!!!!!

Greenpeace says still four times higher radioacivity in Tokaimura
but all people
are already back in their usual life, becuase the government said
it’s already over.

3rd october 1999

Still birthdayparty-damaged…

Have to go to Oktoberfest today, with my coworkers…. oh how I
hate Oktoberfest,
and next year I have to show Aya. I wish I could get just one year
off.

Aya wrote me strange mails, I don’t know what she means, and I
don’t feel
good by reading them….
I guess my answer are not much better in meaning….
maybe it’s all because of culture difference.

Hey you people out there, how do you manage culture problems inside
your
relationship ? I can’t stand that japanese “saying nothing, block
everything”
behaviour any longer. Am I the only one, or is it my fault ?

2nd october 1999

Big birthday-party of one of my coworkers, I hope it’s not getting
too late
tonight. Everyone of us has prepared a little poem, song or
present.
Will be nice I guess.

Ohhhh… my head…. someone switch off that light, and kill that
noise in my head.

1st october 1999

Discovered lots of dictionaries on the net, but everything
precompiled,
but I need unencrypted versions for my CGI-Server.

Played around with XJdic.

Archive, Diary

Diary Import October 1999

26th october 1999

(The day is long Aya)

25th october 1999

Improved my SQL firewall pages.

Compiling 2.2.13 for zuse and maybe for stun.de too.

24th october 1999

Big cleaning up day again.

Some new cooking experiments. Happy) hmm.. delicious…

23rd october 1999

Big cleaning up day,
And another shelf free for Aya.

Aya’s leaving today, and going to Malaysia for shopping and
a last relaxing before language school. Enjoy !!!! Winking Kiss.

22nd october 1999

Did Sunscan 2.3B on all of my sparcy-firewalls. Passed !
Happy

Wrote an interface to search inside of the firewall logfiles
of course using PHP3 and all the logs written to the MySQL
database.
Just half an hour work…. Happy))) Cool.

21st october 1999

My parents left this morning for holiday in egypt.

Managing service contracts with SUN.

Finally I’m allowed to use PHP3 and MySQL at work…. Sad((((
GRRRRRRRRRRRR………. now !!!!! that I’m almost finished
with
all that script using flat files !!!!!!!!! Jesus !!!!!!!!!

20th october 1999

Wrote documentation for all my firewall-scripts.

Linux 2.2.13 is out…. hmmm… a little bit late to install on
stun.de.
What do you think Reyk and Gerd ?

Gone to dinner with my parents because they go on holiday
tomorrow,
I wonder which they forget something or not. As usual Happy

19th october 1999

A little (big) outage in one of our partners site Happy))
Hey Mr. Firewall… there’s something wrong no more packets
here….
And in fact… it wasn’t the firewal, it wasn’t the communication
line,
it wasn’t an power failure… just another cisco byte the dust
Happy))

Bought something nice for Aya. Happy For XMAS of course.

18th october 1999

Big Y2K Novell meeting at work…. this red-package stuff is
chasing me… Happy))

Wrote a script to analase the firewall rule usage to see or
manage performance optimization.

17th october 1999

Installed a new mixing tap in the bathroom and also a new
shower.
Wow 9 different ways of having a shower Happy a lot of massage functions
really interesting this shower-developement Happy

Replaced a few parts of my room-seperators, now it’s much more
smooth
to slide and installed distance plates for the two iron
ropes.

Watched so many japanese movies and documentations on
television…
…oh this will take a long time to fully understand the
japanese.

16th october 1999

Our family visit left this morning, and COLT Telecom is burrying
new fiber
cables in front of my house. Happy)) If they’ll tell me which one of these
thousands
of fibers is my gigabit internet connection Happy)))))))))))

15th october 1999

Set up the Cannaserver on Linux. Now my japanese dictionaries are
working,
german, english and japanese, with Kana and Kanji input Happy)))) Yippie !!!

14th october 1999

Installed 4.7 again, now with a little bit more priviledges.
Happy LC25

More updates for www.stun.de and some last configuration steps
before the
installation in Frankfurt.

13th october 1999

Installed netscape 4.7 at work, without being administrator…. big
mistake
now my NT is a little bit confused. Time to hack a little
bit.

Two new developement kernels released… we’re now up on
2.3.22.

Oh my head…. too much party yesterday.

12th october 1999

My trukish coworker gave a party because of quitting his old
company,
and after that it’s my moms 50th birthday. Big family
party…..

What a day.

11th october 1999

Solved the ssh problem on www.stun.de. Connections are no longer
refused, when we’re using
dynamic IP ranges. Net-fu is broken… hmmm… don’t know
why.

Kernel 2.4 will be already released in november 1999, hmmm… nice,
so I can introduce
Aya into newest technology from beginning.

10th october 1999

Today our scientific institutes are opened for the masses.
So I’ll go and see what our nuclear-fission reactor is doing.
(I just hope that they can finish in my lifetime….)

Discussed some of my visions of nuclear fusion, and again I feel
like they don’t
want to hear new theories. Maybe they’re all to horny doing
practical experiments,
than thinking about easier, not yet realizable theories.

2.3.20 released yesterday…. boys… you make me trouble…
doing Stun.de updates for the kernelgrapher.

9th october 1999

Bought a new pillow for Aya… sorry I couldn’t find a plastic one
as in Japan,
do you agree on feathers ?

Reyk called me on the phone and agreed to install the www.stun.de
server in
Frankfurt on 28th.

Gerd agreed to be available on 28th for testing with the server
from Munich.

Had big fun together with Gerd and Eva at Shananigans Irish
Pub,
where Mane Maniac played live guitar and harmonica blues.
And bought two CD’s Happy

8th october 1999

FTP-Problem solved, now it’s officially a software bug on the
clients FTP.
And thanks to standards, we’re not allowed to use a different
software,
because of some software contracts…. Happy))) Another point for commercial….
(negative, of course)

Tonight there’s an ANIME special on TV, most thing in original
japanese audio
with german subtitles. Cool for learning languages I think,
especially for
learning slang.

Managed my holiday so that I can pickup Aya in Frankfurt on
29th.

7th october 1999

Our big ftp transfer problem is escalating today, and we finally
found out why
it doesn’t work. It’s clear now that netmanage’s chameleon ftp
can’t handle
passive ftp transfer correctly. When we installed WS_FTP the
problem was gone.
Bullshit ! I can’t understand why all these people just want to use
commercial
products, because of support they all say…. yeah… fuck… Not
one word about
bugs, only fixes and new features published. Every single shareware
or freeware
is better documented and support than that fucking commercial
stuff.
And then the customers make me responsible if something doens’t
work….
Fuck ! I can’t do anything when those assheads don’t know how to
write correct code !
And you customers…. you wanted that shit from MS !
So don’t blame me !

6th october 1999

Forgot to mention that 2.3.19 is out, and on cutting edge you can
read the fascinating
release date(time) 4-Oct-99 24:44 Happy))))))) yeah 24:44
Oh my god…. others are figthing with Y2K problems and we didn’t
recognize that we
already have to work 25 per day now ! Happy)))))

At work there’s more and more shit stacking….
Anyway, I feel very good at the moment, I need this
stress…..

5th october 1999

Had an almost perfect day, I feel so much energy…
everything went fine. Solved a severe firewall problem with active
FTP connections
to well known services. Went to the companies doctor and he said
that I’m in good
condition and the sight of my eyes is almost as sharp as the sight
of an eagle.

Compiled Nedit for AIX today, and rm vi Laugh Not really….

More radioactive shit happened, this time in south korea.
And in London a train crash occured…

4th october 1999

What a week, so many ANIME in original japanese language on TV, I
have to record
all of them, for Aya and me. (Nice to learn languages by reading
subtitles in german)

Discovered a collection of precompiled CPAN modules, wow that fixes
my union semun
problems…. Happy Tricky !

There’s another date of www.stun.de installation in
Frankfurt.
If everything goes ok, I’ll install the server together with Reyk
on 27th october
this time, I’ll drive by myself and the day after in the very early
morning
I can pick up my lovely girl from airport. Kiss 😡 !!!!!!

Greenpeace says still four times higher radioacivity in Tokaimura
but all people
are already back in their usual life, becuase the government said
it’s already over.

3rd october 1999

Still birthdayparty-damaged…

Have to go to Oktoberfest today, with my coworkers…. oh how I
hate Oktoberfest,
and next year I have to show Aya. I wish I could get just one year
off.

Aya wrote me strange mails, I don’t know what she means, and I
don’t feel
good by reading them….
I guess my answer are not much better in meaning….
maybe it’s all because of culture difference.

Hey you people out there, how do you manage culture problems inside
your
relationship ? I can’t stand that japanese “saying nothing, block
everything”
behaviour any longer. Am I the only one, or is it my fault ?

2nd october 1999

Big birthday-party of one of my coworkers, I hope it’s not getting
too late
tonight. Everyone of us has prepared a little poem, song or
present.
Will be nice I guess.

Ohhhh… my head…. someone switch off that light, and kill that
noise in my head.

1st october 1999

Discovered lots of dictionaries on the net, but everything
precompiled,
but I need unencrypted versions for my CGI-Server.

Played around with XJdic.