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Apparently, owning a /48 IPv6 subnet means that I own

1.208.925.82 0.000.000.000.000.000

addresses (2^80). I have to buy more computers…..

I must admit that I’m a little bit without a fixed target regarding my jobs to come. I’m certainly a developer, but I don’t want to stay this all my life, so there has to be some perspective to look forward to. This job Novell offers doesn’t sound that bad, maybe I’m missing some of the qualifications, but in 5 to 10 years… why not.

Well … as I said in my previous posting, OSCON::EU is in October, so why not try to hand in my FIFFS talk (which is German, but why not translate it). Maybe this works as well, so I just did exactly this.

Another thing is the schedule for Thursday, which happens to be my 23rd birthday tada. I actually got no time for my birthday :-). Lets start with Wednesday (which happens to be tomorrow, ow my gowd). My brother got me a ticket for Revenge of the Sith in the Cinelux in Siegburg, which starts around 8:15 pm. So I’ll spend the greater half of my birthdays-eve in a cinema. If you want to have a beer with me afterwards, I unfortunately have to tell you that I’m in Siegburg, but you can get away from there IIRC till close to 2 am. If you want to conact me, see my contact page for details. On Thursday I have to go to university becaue I need to do some paperwork and will be out for lunch with my dad (maybe for Sushi, don’t know yet) and my siblings. In the late afternoon, Wbx gives his “Sicheres Wireless LAN im Hochschulumfeld” (Secure Wireless LAN in a university environment) in auditorium 4 in our university which I’m not going to miss. In the evening there is a Luusa meeting, beginning around 7pm. There will be a talk, so if youre not interested in BOSS - BSI OSS Security Suite you have to arrive around 8:30pm in the Netzladen to have a beer with me. Unfortunately, there is really no time or place for a party this year, so you either come on thursday or you just ignore my birthday (as I would do, if people let me).

As my talk has been accepted, I’m going to go to the Austrian Perl Workshop 2005 in the beginning of June, exactly from Wednesday the 8th (arriving at 8:00pm) to Saturday the 10th (leaving around 4:20 pm). Fotunately, it seems as if Domm has a place for me to stay, so I can minimize my costs, because I’m quite out of money at the moment and the flight was f****n expensive.

The only sad thing about it is that this is the last Perl conference this year, because I’m going to miss YAPC::EU (just can’t make it) and YAPC::NA, though it is in one of my favourite cities… Toronto. The only other conference I still can imagine this year is OSCON Europe…. mmm… wait … I got this FIFFS talk….

I like my good connections to my ISP :-). Besides porting my Bachelor Thesis to OpenBSD on Sparc64 (hey, they wanted it to be portable) I continued playing with IPv6.

What I learned today:
Windows hosts need
netsh int ipv6 set privacy disabled in order to stop changing their IPs all the time. Windows XP seems to defaulty bind and open 135 on IPv6 addresses, they seem to be learning resistant. Anyway, that is the reason ip6tables exists. Furthermore I got now these cool ipv6.thiesen.org adresses which even do reverse lookup. I love owning my own IP addresses.

Well, I’m still some kind of ill, I started coughing today but I hope that I’ll be better tomorrow.

I spend most of the day resurrecting all the Sixxs stuff I started last year while watching the 21C3 videos from http://bittorrent.ccc.de:2342/.

I registered a couple of hostnames for my machines, my desktop is now reachable as hal2000.dns6.org and my notebook is reachable as mobilhal.dns6.org or mobilhalw.dns6.org depending on the connection type. The only thing that was a little bit tricky to set up was making proftpd listening to the ipv6 interface.

The only annoying thing about this is that I got all this new IPv6 connectivity and don’t know what it’s good for

So, now I got my new ASUS WL500G Deluxe running OpenWRT. I needed some time to get it working like I wanted it (around a day) but now it works perfectly and I love it for the exact reasons I bought it: flexibility and freedom. All services I need are running and the logging facilities are quite impressive. I really like it.
Unfortunately I got struck by a cold two day ago, which really annoys me because I can’t go swimming and I can’t think which is even worse, because there is so much real work to do. Anyway, maybe this is my body telling me to reduce load… I don’t know… I’m going back to bed… can’t think….

Well, as it looks like I’m going to find no suitable date for my birthday party this year there are some dates I really consider giving a party:

marcus@mobilHal:/var/media/music: date -d '19 may 1982 + 10000 days'
Sun Oct 4 00:00:00 CEST 2009
marcus@mobilHal:/var/media/music: date -d '19 may 1982 + 1000 months'
Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 CET 2038


Party on! (in 2038)

is under constant CCTV survailance.

We got this stupid habit of putting trees in front of the house of the girl we like. This is done traditionally in the night to the first of may. Sometimes people tend to steal trees in order to put them elsewhere or just because they don’t want this girl have a tree from this guy. This is the best way I’ve ever seen to prevent tree-napping. (Found on the way back from the swimming in Siegburg)

Sarge ist frozen as of today. This is about 2 years and 3 months late (at least in my point of view). Woody was released (Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:59:59 +0200), so half a year later would have been the perfect date for the next release (or even a year). So, the last Debian stable is more than 2 and a half years old, which is just plain unacceptable. Hope that Etch will be out there sooner.

The former Debian Project leader Martin Michlmayr had some interesting points about time based releases and I’d love to see Debian adapt a half year (or maybe a year, letting the half year stuff beeing done by Ubuntu) release cycle.

This is a typical Debian Situation:
A person writes something about his work and stuff he is proud of in his blog, people complain because they see it as advertising and the person gets removed from Planet Debian.
What is a little strange about is that this person was Ian Murdock himself, blogging about his work at Progeny. Come on… show a little respect and loyality.
Ian Murdoch wasn’t that upset about it, he just called it “So, I was unwittingly at the center of a little controversy at Planet Debian yesterday.”

Why can’t the Debian People be a little more tolerant? Why are Free Software people in general quite intolerant of other technologies, operating systems, software development and business models? Actually, don’t we try to just bring freedom to the people? This is a litte bit like the catholic church trying to bring the true faith to people in the middle ages. The Ubuntu approach, “humanity to others” is better than the general Debian approach. For the Debian People, they should maybe think of something that is really a “social contract” and not something just about “free software rights”.

A common misconception is that people think it rains more often in England than it does in Germany. This is simply not true. I lived in England for about 10 weeks and didn’t own an umbrella. If it rained, it rained at times when I didn’t have to leave my home/office and it usually just rained for a couple of minutes.
I am back now for about 6 weeks and I managed to get soaked wet on my way from/to university twice (a 8 minutes walk) and I had to use an umbrella twice (the other two times there was none around, a problem which usually occurs when you are the last person to leave the house in the morning an the number of umbrellas is smaller than the people living in the same house). If it rains in Germany, it usually rains for hours or whole days. So I believe in regards to rain, Sank Augustin is worse than London.

searching for the same information over and over again!!!

GCC Predefined Macros are something I always look for in Google, or just gcc defines or even gcc preprocessor defines and never found something. This be changed by now!