white beer in a glass for latte macchiato sure looks stylish..
it’s very refreshing in this heat :)
Monthly Archives: July 2006
to mac or not to mac
Well, there I finally got a new laptop on friday, a shiny sexy white MacBook (yay!) and what happens? Anna goes on a business-trip on monday and her employer fails to provide her with a laptop. So I give it to her.. no big deal. (At least, that’s what I thought.)
It’s been 9 a.m. when she left for the airport and now it’s 1 p.m. and I am starting to get nervous.. maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all :P
Anyway, I cought a flu (no kidding!) and cannot do anything anyway because I am in a state between headache, confusion and coughing. Unpleasant.
It’s 35 degree out there and I am having a cold.. how sick is that!?!?!?
building a “killstick”
bootable USBdrive + DBAN + loadlin/GRUB = a killstick ;)
http://dban.sourceforge.net/faq/
just boot with the parameter “autonuke” :D
Ubuntu and suspend2
I am using Ubuntu “Dapper Drake” for a while now and I am truly impressed how far the Linux community has pushed this. It’s nearly perfect.
Of course, some work is needed and one will actually have to read at least one website to get mp3 working (did I mention that patents and copyrights suck badly?)
But everything is usually resolved quickly after looking into the forums once.
What Ubuntu lacks at the moment is good hibernation support.
Software Suspend 2 is a project that gives Linux the ability to hibernate the PC just like in Windows XP. Problem is, you have to patch the kernel for it to work with Ubuntu. Beginners don’t like that. :P
Here’s a nice person that has written a nice howto and has provided custom (experimental) kernels to use with software suspend 2:
http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/dapper-kernels/
Thank you very much!!!
P.S.: And to speed up the whole thing there is a neat script: faster-dapper
motivation
people like catzee can motivate me in a few minutes.. for hours.
why can’t I motivate myself like this?
why do I always need people to pull me into things.. like going to study?
Finally I find some motivation to stay in Aachen but I am needed in Amsterdam now. Or very soon.. and I cannot leave here without this ยง”$%* bachelors degree.
Fuck myself for being such a indecisive and lazy person.. lazy? maybe just unmotivated.
It’s such a beautiful time at the moment, summer at its finest and everything looks good I am just fucking with myself. :(
life sucks big deal at the moment..
laptop sleeve…
I am so tempted.. but somehow I don’t dare to use such a thing for my laptop..
on the other hand…. it runs MacOS X – Tiger ;)
good vibrations
apart from the fact that I have lost almost any motivation for my studies (which is bad…) life is incredibly good at the moment.
Anna was over this weekend (and will come back again next weekend) and we felt like on vacation. I registered for the sauna in my dorm and the only thing that was missing was the massage.. but we were too lazy :P
The Weather-god also plays nice with Aachen at the moment.
Life is GOOOOOOOOD :)
Later today I will have to find myself someone where I can wash my pants and t-shirts.. I just couldn’t let Anna go back to Amsterdam with a backpack full of laundry :P
And I will have to find a way to myself back on track with my studies.. no idea how but I can’t study all my life.. unfortunately.
freelancer!
I have been somehwat unhappy with the job at the helpdesk of lately. Not because it’s a bad job, on the contrary, it’s the best job I ever had. :)
Helping people and getting money for it, a dream!
But:
First of all, the opening hours are typical business-hours.. the ones where I am most creative. And I think I should use these for more “useful” things like studying..
On the other hand, it’s a little unsatisfying.
I just want.. more. More freedom, more flexibility, more energy (and more money) ;)
It’s been a dream of mine to become a freelancer for a long time. (actually since I had my first job as an employee)
Well, Since this week I am ;)
A good friend finally encouraged me to get myself a business registration and become a freelancer. Apart from the amount of tax work that I have to do now and the fact that I start from zero I finally can work whenever, whereever and whatever I want.
And he gives me lots of projects to prove myself. :)
Thanks for your support and thanks for the trust you have in me..
I will send you a nice bill now every month ;)