Life

O boy, have I had a wonderful evening. I was watching We were heroes (after the eponymous book " We were heroes … and young"), while I took a peak at #gentoo-dev and look what I found: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 (19:24) will be masked, resistance is futile (19:24) hehe (19:24) lol (19:24) Flameeyes: you're definitely watching waaay to much star trek (including Borg involvement :P) (19:24) *plop* (19:25) phreak``, watching voyager right now :P ... (19:25) phreak``, how do you know that Diego is not a borg? (19:25) bonsaikitten, I'd like to be one (19:25) who has met him? who has seen him sleep, eat or do anything else besides commiting stuff? (19:26) bonsaikitten: a human couldn't take all that crap happening to him ;) (19:26) * phreak`` runs ... (19:26) Flameeyes, let me guess, suppress emotions, optimize language, work work work? (19:26) what? Flameeyes is human? I thought he was one of vapiers scripts...

As you may now (or not), I haven’t been pretty active in the last couple of days (OK, I admit it has been the last two weeks). Work is currently being a bitch (I have a 6,36 h day normally, but lately that evolved into a 8+ h day which I’m not even payed for), personal life is also a bit frustrating (yeah you know those people-people relations called friendship and stuff). ...

Okay, I admit I might be a bit stupid. After my previous rant about gcc-config and eselect-compiler, it turns out that my CHOST was somehow b0rked. Just removing the -pc from CHOST=“i686-pc-linux-gnu” fixed the issues.

We just received the long awaited shipment of sixteen 300GB FC-HDD’s (2Gbps with 10000rpm) for our SAN (a pretty old DS4500/FaStT 900). But there’s still the software option missing we ordered within the same breath. So I called our trustworthy IBM distributor (hah!) and asked the guy responsible for sales, what the ETA on this software option is (if someone is interested its VolumeCopy/FlashCopy). He told me, that we’ll receive a letter with the license key about 4 weeks after commission !!!!!! ...

Heh, while driving to work I had an idea … That would make a niiiiice vacation photo 😛 (well not so nice if you get the bill …)

OK, so after yesterdays battle with SLES and rpm, I decided to simply upgrade rpm (again rpmbuild -bb rpm.spec as in from source). I had to tune (hah, remove stuff that isn’t working on this ancient gcc-3.3.3 ie. -fstack-protector) a bit to get it working, wasted 20 minutes worth of CPU time and ~30 of my time. I finally gave up. I couldn’t persuade neither rpm, nor git to compile on the damn SLES/Dell. ...

So Joshua asked my why the heck I was doing that puzzle (OK, I said it actually is a puzzle) and here’s now the story for that .. As you see on the image above, the plaster is completely bursted. The dome also started to get some crannies, so my parents decided to cover the whole plaster with pebbles. Only catchy thing about that is: you need to glue every single pebble (diameter ~1cm) by hand onto the cement. And that pretty much sucks. ...

Ok, today I received another WRT54GL (yah, too much money 😛 ) and updated it to dd-wrt v23-SP1 instantly and is now (once again) powering my wireless network. Yay! and thanks to Cisco/Linksys for that fine piece of hardware and to NewMedia-NET GmbH for providing such a great image for this hardware 😄 Ah, nearly forgot that: remember, never put the same IP twice in the static DHCP lease table, or dnsmasq is refusing to start (thus no DHCP/DNS)!

christel, you remember the mood-swings we were talking about ? I think I’m undergoing just another 😞 I’m currently pretty much pissed. Basically everything is pestering me currently (except #gentoo-dev and Gentoo work). Work just ripped another piece of me (hah, thanks VMware & BigBlue). I started the day with a ice cold shower (if I’m talking about ice cold it was ice cold), they’re currently replacing our old gas heating and unfortunately that means no warm water at all! arg

Ok, I know I’ve been absent the last 2 or 3 days (but only in the evening). I know Seemant 😛 and I’m pretty sorry for that. As some of you may know, I recently aquired a Linksys WRT54GL to replace my stupid, crappy Netgear WG602 (which, sorry for the words, is completly junk right now). I managed to flash an dd-wrt image to it, right the first day I got it. But a recent update made it broke and now I’m completly unable to reflash the device (as in bricked). ...