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Teh webtubes are here

Finally, after waiting for several weeks, the internets have finally reached the new house I live in. Of course there was an additional 3 day delay due to installation into the wrong telephone socket, to one that actually doesn’t exist — the wire ends somewhere inside the wall. Well, now everything is working!

Testing wp timed publish…

Lorem ipsum… or something. =)

Got a laptop

Since my laptop decided to break down, I’ve had no good use for lectures at school. This has meant very-little-to-none time for my maemo-hackers.org projects. However, now I got a laptop (which is also neater than my old one) and will hopefully be able to dedicate some time to get some things done that are long overdue. Hopefully this is also good news for my blog. =)

The new laptop makes me love GNU/Linux even more, I just plugged the old HDD in and changed the display driver and everything is going smoothly. No other driver installs, reboots or anything nasty. Since I’m using the same Wi-Fi adapter, I didn’t even have to reconfigure my DHCP server.

Finnish hi-tech

There’s new finnish technology that allows to make bike gears out of snow. Don’t believe? — See for yourself:

Blimey, being ill is not fun

I’ve caught a flu. The kind of flu, that drains out your power and makes you feel no-so-good and all. But still the kind that does not stop you from going to work, no fever etc. The worst kind of flu. Well, maybe not the worst, but at least one of the most annoying kinds.

More minor annoyances, seems that MySQL has changed their PASSWORD-function. Got a websites login system disabled for a while due to that. Well, I guess it’s “more secure” to do the hashing in php and just use the hash in the query.

My laptop died

After serving me for about 1.5 years, my laptop decided to stop working. First is crashed a couple of times, and then it died dramatically, showing nice colour effects and a fade to white on the display. The effects were indeed nice, but the end result is not; I no longer have laptop. Well, granted, it still has some warranty left, so I’ll try to get it fixed, but for the time of being, it is gone.

This happened to be my only computer with scratchbox and working maemo development environment; now I’ll need to get my workstation into usable state. I’m concidering of re-installing it with ubuntu, that would make things easier, but I’ve kind of grown attached to the OS install on it (see my previous post on the subject). Probably I should just back up everything on the new fileserver’s 800G RAID and get rid of the buggy Fedora installation.

Vacation is over

First work day after a months vacation. Oh how the time flies, when you’ve nothing to do. =)

The transition was smooth, the last week of vacation I attended university after a longish break. Now my days are about 12 hours long… And I should find some time for OSS projects too.

Summer holiday

Two weeks into my summer holiday (my first ever full summer holiday), and everythings going nice. I’ve been doing mostly nothing, which was pretty much my plan. For the first week, the weather was very nice, but then my father’s vacation started too, and, of cource, it started to rain.

I’ve tried to get my bicycle into better shape, and have spent quite a few euros on new parts and tools for fixing it, props to biltema for cheap (not always so good though) tools and parts.

I’ve also taken up some asthanga and hatha yoga from a DVD, and it is nice, makes you feel relaxed and revitalized. And it even makes you sweat, you feel like you’ve done something. I hope that it can eventually make me more flexible — no results seen yet thought — as I’m about as flexible as a steel girder.

I’ve also read — well not quite finished yet — the “Men are from mars — women from venus” by John Gray, and can really recommend the book. Even if your relationship doesn’t need it, it is a great book for learning stuff about yourself; stuff you didn’t even know you were missing. =)

Anyway, wandering back to the blissful joy of doing nothing. Cheers.