gregoa's blog

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 ;-)

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!

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.

listening to the Ö1 evening news can be funny:

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

prost!

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.

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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• ... 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.

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 ;-)

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