Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
The city is full of riddles and conundrum, which are there for helping you on your way to enlightenment. Today I want to share one of those moments with you.
For our english speaking friends: The note says “REpENT!”
Also my computer is very helpful and understanding on my quest to greater wisdom. Today he offered me a Zen riddle which surely will absorb me for the next years.
Again a translation is in order: Error - No Error
I can see the light! - Jeck
Today I got a shiny double-G5-2-GHz-Mac at hopefully soon to be my workplace. Then I tried to install OSX.
And it crashed. So I installed again.
And it crashed. So I installed again.
And it worked. Then I did the automated software update thing.
And it crashed.
Well, so far nothing to surprising. But what really pissed me off was when Lej started to install doing exactly the same things I did and made it somehow working flawlessly.
I was often the one who came to a troubled person which had some computer related problem and was often able to fix it. Afterwards the person would try to explain, that they couldn’t see what s/he was doing wrong. I often - mind you, not always - thought that somehow they did something wrong.
But to be on the other side of a problem teached me once and for all that computers are not deterministic machines.
Edited on Jan 10th 2005, 21:32 by jeck
Eigentlich wollte ich als Nächste wieder ein schönes photo aus der Mensa posten, aber es ist etwas Wichtigeres dazwischen gekommen:
Ich hab in letzter Zeit angefangen meine Mails zu signieren und zu verschlüsseln. Wie sich herausgestellt hat, gerade rechtzeitig. Was ich bis jetzt noch nicht richtig realisiert hatte, ist, dass alle deutschen provider ab Anfang nächsten Jahres verpflichtet sind, den E-Mailverkehr komplett zu überwachen.
Bevor mich also jemand, dem ich schon versucht habe zu erklären worum es geht, fragt, warum man denn jetzt eigentlich E-Mails verschlüsseln soll, möge er/sie bitte diesen Text auf heise-online lesen:
Verpflichtung zur E-Mail-Überwachung trifft die providerbranche hart
Für ungeduldige das wichtigste Im Überblick:
[Quote] Für viele Internetanbieter gibt es derzeit nur ein Thema: Sie stöhnen über den bedrohlich näher rückenden Starttermin für die Überwachung des E-Mail-Verkehrs. Die von der Bundesregierung gesetzte Frist für den Lauschangriff auf die elektronische post am 1. Januar 2005 “drückt sehr”, weiß Michael Rotert, präsident der europäischen providervereinigung EuroISpA. [...] Die entsprechenden Regelungen in der mehrfach novellierten Telekommunikations-Überwachungsverordnung (TKÜV) sind zwar bereits seit Mai 2003 in ihrer jetzigen Form in Kraft. Doch für Mailserver gilt eine Übergangsregelung, die zum Jahresende ausläuft. [Quote]
Der Artikel ist zwar schon vom 5. November 04, aber ich habe ihn eben erst auf bitfever entdeckt. . Verschlüsselung gibt es hier. Wer gar nicht klar kommt, soll jemand um Hilfe bitten, der es weiss.
What can I say. Ubuntu still works. What a good feeling…
I finally began to write. After weeks of reading and surrogate activity I started to really work on my diploma thesis. Of course I had to do so: I tricked myself into it when I promised my tutor that I would send him something to read by the end of the week. That would be tomorrow and I already have three pages. It may not sound much, but for me it’s a good sign because on of the most difficult steps is behind me: The Beginning.
Because of that I’m in a really good mood, which helped to survive the day at the central dictatory radio where we had the bi-weekly planning meeting for some hours. After that I met Lili who read my stuff and gave me some usefuls hints. On the way home I found a quote which really describes what I experience when reading some of the books about media theory (Horkheimer and Adorno come to my mind:
“Was sollte das?” fragte ich, während ich mich ächzend erhob. “Ich bin dabei fast verrückt geworden, ich habe nichts von alledem verstanden und schon jetzt so gut wie alles wieder vergessen.”
“So ist das doch immer mit anspruchsvollen Büchern”, sagte Homunkoloss, während er mir auf die Füße half. - from Walter Moers’ “Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher”
Which is a really cool book. props to Outsider who recommended it to me. All of you who can read and understand German: Go get that book. Everyone else: pity yourself and pray for a translation. Or start learning the language that brought you such wonderful words like kindergarten, angst and blitzkrieg…
Ich bin weg,
Jeck
pS: Random link: some neat rendered wallpapers
ppS: Not so random link via Gossip: Hack your way out of writer’s block
Edit: Who messed up the link, damnit?
Edited on Nov 19th 2004, 11:03 by jeck
The odyssey seems to come to an end: This is me, having WLAN access, a working firefox, open office and thunderbird with enigmail.
On Linux.
The distribution that managed to convince me is named ubuntu and runs smoothly so far. It is debian-based and comes with gnome, but allows [via apt-get] to install all the software that is available for debian.
Sound and IrDA are not working continuously and the modem is not tested yet, but this is nothing compared to the troubles I had with earlier attempts to run linux on my laptop.
Yehaa!
If you have Xp running, but want to use iphoto there’s a solution: picasa.
But what if you want a Delicious Library?
If anyone knows something like this for Linux or winXp: Gimme a message!
Edited on Nov 20th 2004, 07:30 by jeck
Just read “phishing for dummies” at The Register:
[Quote] Secunia issued a security report detailing how most major web browsers with the tabbed browsing feature were vulnerable to two different vulnerabilities.
First, the browsers. Recognize any you use?
Mozilla 1.7.3 Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 Camino 0.8 Opera 7.54 Konqueror 3.2.2-6 Netscape 7.2 Avant Browser 9.02 build 101 and 10.0 build 029 Maxthon (MyIE2) 1.1.039 A cross-section of browser rendering engines - Gecko, KHTML, Trident, presto, and more - is represented. The major operating systems, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, are represented as well. [Quote]
mp3DirectCut “is a small tool for editing mpeg audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to new files. All without the need to decompress your mp3 into pcm/wav. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions.”
Somebody was looking for a tool like this. If only I could remember who it was…
[via spiegel.de]
ciphire - still closed beta, but it’ll be a groovy and easy way to encrypt/sign mails.
Seems to be a nice tool: nLite - Windows Installation Customizer -
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