gregoa's blog: entries from February 2006

2006-02-26 04:26:12 +0100

some days ago guinan seemed to have died. today I merged her data & parts of her hardware with david's playground machine and reanimated her hereby. in fact this is guinan's third host body but AFAICS she doesn't mind ;-)

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2006-02-26 03:40:21 +0100

lib*-perl

after becoming a member of the Debian Perl Group on thursday I uploaded five modules to the group's svn repository today.
eloy took them just a few hours later and uploaded them to the new queue. - thanks!

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2006-02-21 18:52:15 +0100

guinan dying (or dead?)

chronicles of the suffering of an old server:

came home from work.
started my workstation.
realized I had no connection to guinan (playground server & web/apt proxy & file server).
turned on the monitor: nothing.
did a hard reset.
guinan booted, everything seemed to work.
the syslog didn't show anything interesting.
some minutes later guinan froze again.
hard reset again, & I chose memtest86+ from grub.
during the 7^th test strange charcaters showed up in the time column. no reaction to key presses.
turned the power off. opened the chassis. took out the RAMs. broke the socket of the first RAM slot (only at the side).
turned the power on. much fan sound, no picture, no network.
changed the monitor. changed the graphics card. changed the PCI slot for the graphics card. nothing.
booting with or without RAM, with or without graphics card just produces fan noises, HD noises, nothing more. no beeps e.g.
closed the chassis, moved guinan back in position, turned her off.

hints welcome.

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2006-02-20 22:10:52 +0100

cheers!

listening to the Ö1 evening news can be funny:

milch- & milchprodukte sind nach (sic!) bier die größte umsatzgruppe im österreichischen lebensmittel(sic!)handel.

prost!

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2006-02-19 19:20:11 +0100

obex(ftp|tool)

today hendrik announced new versions of his *obex* packages on the debian-mentors list. I grabbed & installed them; & — hooray! the stuff works with my nokia communicator 9500. finally I'm able to up-/download files under debian (with obextool using obexftp via the usb connection). related non-news: (g|w)ammu still don't like the communicator (or the dku2 cable) - I can connect via the at19200 connection type but then I have no access to contacts/calendar/sms/... update 1: fixed an error (--get doing the same as --getdelete) in hendrik's version of obexftp & sent him a patch. updated packages are available from the Toastfreeware Debian Repository. — 2006-03-05 update 2: some 70 minutes later hendrik has applied a slightly modified version of the patch & has published new packages. thx! — 2006-03-05
packages removed from the Toastfreeware Debian Repository.

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2006-02-18 18:04:36 +0100

cleaning saturday

this afternoon I cleaned:

my CPU fan [0][1]
my (original IBM PS/2) keyboard
my gpg keyring
my host body

appropriate condition of outside world: rainy. [0] & I added the CPU temperature to my ion3 statusbar.
[1] after cleaning the temperature was some 20° lower than before ...

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2006-02-17 18:58:17 +0100

installing windows is ...

... boring
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... annoying because of the permanent reboots
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... bugging because some things work only on the 2^nd try
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at least knoppix & dd were helpful for cloning the installed disk.

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2006-02-16 22:34:01 +0100

first packages in debian archive

toastfreeware's first packages entered the debian archive this evening: fullquottel, mailtextbody (both written by us), & mimetic (a C++ library used & packaged by us). maxx (martin würtele) has uploaded the packages to the NEW queue about one & a half hours ago. - thanks! yes, this is exciting ;-)

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2006-02-16 21:50:13 +0100

archäologie feed

created an RSS 2.0 feed for my "archäologie des alltags" & linked it up to planet cUG. stay tuned for new entries ;-)

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