I reverted back to a “pure” Debian install yesterday as can be seen in my sources list. I reinstalled the X.org packages and the whole of KDE, mostly to get rid of an annoying kded problem on my notebook which still isn’t resolved and I’m running out of options. But I feel better beeing back …

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Unfortunately I forgot to bring my sunscreener to London and as a result I got myself a burned face because I spend 2 hours in Regent’s Park yesterday. Really funny… but the weather over here is quite nice.

Guess where I am . Still alive and having fun on my 3 day trip to London.

…was Hadrian the VI. He wasn’t one of the longest Popes in history…. which is a good tradition for German Popes to which Ratzinger should definitely stick.

Unfortunately, the catholic church today elected the one I wanted to be the last to become pope to be Benedikt XVI. What happened to the spirit which made a Polish Bishop Pope in the middle of the cold war? I’m really disapointed! Anyway, God knows, and Ratzinger is already 78. If this doesn’t work out, …

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Ok, there are three major projects I want to spend some money on in the next month, namely: New Router Everybody at our University is currently playing with OpenWRT, which is basically a Linux for some router models. Wbx is doing some work on it, so I will get the best support ever available. I’d …

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Here is a screenshot of support.microsoft.com. The globe in the lower left corner looks like a graphic I have seen before. The obvious question is: how do they know this graphic? Maybe from their fresh Kubuntu install

It’s not that I don’t care about my studies… but life is far more fun when you’re doing at least five things simultaneously. Therefore I answered the call for papers for the Austrian Perl Workshop 2005 with my FIFFS talk. If they take it and I can finance it I’m going to Vienna .

I actually hat developing something in replacement for something else and I really hate it when I replace something a friend of mine wrote, but a Python solution wasn’t something I could cope with, because I couldn’t extend and maintain it. Plus I had this amaroK remot control script which is now a mere plugin …

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On Thursday I gave my talk about FIFFS (BTW the slides are here). Leh was so kind to provide me with a remote control solution for my mobile, so this was the fist time I was able to walk around while talking. Quite funny. The problem about his solution is that it is written in …

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