This is how I felt before the weekend …

I was looking forward to seeing Nicole, yet, she managed to disappoint all my expectations and hopes by picking up some guy two feet away from me while we were on a single party. Yes, I know how stupid it was to go on a single party with her and her friends … I did not expect them to be on a manhunt, though …

Long story short: she knew my feelings and ignored them – completely! Not the kind of people I like to stick around with …

Listening to Music to distract myself I found these lyrics to be quite true and a nice summary of my feelings in the last weeks … „This is how I felt before the weekend …“ weiterlesen

Women vs. men …

I think I realised a fundamental difference between men and women today: men will only hear what they want to hear according to their top priorities. I do not want to discuss whether men are more focused than women or can only focus on one thing – what matters is that whatever they listen to, only the important things will be remembered. While that is totally natural for the human brain, it seems the half-life for less than „life-threatening“ memories is less than a week. In some cases close to immediately… „Women vs. men …“ weiterlesen

Shit happens … Life sucks …

So, what happened to me during the X-Mas vacation? I met a girl, fell in love and made my point … lucky me! New Year she met someone else and now has a crush on him … telling me her heart would brake if we could not be friends any longer … girls … grml …

She told me she would contact me … hope dies last, so I had an eye on my handy … I wonder if it is (bad) luck that it broke the next morning …

To get something done for a change I managed to stick together a nice Homepage for a World of Warcraft Guild: www.dunkleherzen.de. Lets see if I manage to get something done for my studies and work too … I need to think of something else.

If she made up that story of her having a crush on somebody else just to keep a distance … duh … what did I just say … hope dies last … where is that bottle of wine …

This weekend I badly bounced from Windows …

My father needed a hardware upgrade so we bought some neat stuff and I managed to get everything back up after installing the new hardware. I just got a few bruises when realizing that Windows (in this case 2000 Professional) does not fall back to a generic driver for the mainboard chipset, if the installed driver does not work. That was fixed hooking up the old hardware and removing the chipset driver … took about 15 min …

The rest of the day I tried to reinstall the AVM Fritz!PCI ISDN driver. It would not work … no matter what. And yes, I do know about the quirks of that card. It was not the first time I installed id. My father could live without internet for a week, so I intended to read up about it and fix it.

Over the week I burned every update and FAQ about the card to a CD, so I would not need an online connection.

Here comes the pain: after installing the Windows Servicepack 4 it would not let me install or change drivers … I was lacking the right to do that … wtf? I was logged in as Administrator! Uninstalling SP4 did not bring back that right … reading the logs I figured out that the security policies could not be loaded … great … I had no idea how to fix that … and no, the rescue CD did not help …

Ultimately, I decided to reinstall Win 2000, install the Servicepack and the drivers, in that Order. What can I say … it works … but I died some that day …

Wiki with flat file backend …

So I wanted to set up another wiki. My first idea was Mediawiki, as apparently everyone seems to use it. However, as I know I will move most services to a new server I did not want to have to go through the hassle of moving the data in a database. I remembered some of the early wiki engines used a flat file backend. Some of them are still alive today and I would like to point out pmwiki.org. Not only do they use a flat file backend and about 200 plugins, but they also want to be easyly updatable. Quite nice if you ask me. The default installation comes with rss support (although it lack a clickable link – adding a ‚&action=rss‘ to the url does the trick) and a clean theme.
Should you need to decide on a wiki take this evaluation into account …

Am I a kernel hacker or what?

From: 	akpm@osdl.org
To: 	j.dreyer@butonic.de, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 	+ nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option.patch added to -mm tree
Date: 	Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:39:07 -0800  (22:39 CET)

The patch titled
     nfsroot: do not silently stop parsing on an unknown option
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option.patch

From: "Jorn Dreyer"
It would be helpful if the kernel did not silently stop parsing
nfs options, but instead warned about any he does not recognize. The
attached patch adds one printk to do just that.

It took me a couple of hours to find my configuration mistake.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
---

 fs/nfs/nfsroot.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/nfs/nfsroot.c~nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
--- 25/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c~nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option       Tue Nov 29 13:37:35 2005
+++ 25-akpm/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c    Tue Nov 29 13:38:39 2005@@ -275,7 +275,9
@@ static int __init root_nfs_parse(char *n
                        case Opt_noacl:
                                nfs_data.flags |= NFS_MOUNT_NOACL;
                                break;
-                       default :
+                       default:
+                               printk(KERN_WARNING "Root-NFS: unknown "
+                                       "option: %25s\n", p);
                                return 0;
                }
        }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from j.dreyer@butonic.de are

nfsroot-do-not-silently-stop-parsing-on-an-unknown-option.patch

Linux drivers for Via Epia mainboards…

I was revamping my Epia ME6000 yesterday. Besides upgrading to the modular xorg server I learned that there is now a fork of the sourceforge Unichrome driver: openchrome. The sourceforge driver has been stripped of XvMC support (which is badly needed for ME6000 DVD playback).

What are they up to? Seens like they intend to develop a more bleeding edge version with more features … now I just have to find out how to use it with the modular X. Luckily, the two main commiters seem to be totte and ivor, which both have been quite active coding and posting in the forums in the past …