Son Okt 28 23:23:30 CET 2007
Graz day 5
Woke up early, kids and breakfast.
Yesterday I decided to take the train at 10:35 and booked via
internet place and ticket. Lizzy brought me to the station, it
poured basins of water. The train was filled like a tin can of
sardines. Even my booked place was occupied (from a nice girl). 5
hours later a change to the regional train and then back home
again. Big welcome from my cat, about 30 minutes caressing then
feeding. Well, that was a too short trip to Graz, but very
fine.
Sun Oct 28 01:50:22 CEST 2007
Graz day 4
Early wake up today. Went shopping
with Lizzy and Martin. Fine dinner and then a repair job at my
grandmas bath. Done. Oliver took me up and we drove to Rabnitz.
Coffee and cake, children and playing, talking and then dowsing for
water in the childrens room. Talking about this and that. Back home
I played another "Settlers of Catan" game with Lizzy and today I
really didn't win. Unfortunately. Computing with Martin and burning
a DVD with pictures. Well, that have been my short hollidays at
Graz.
Sat Oct 27 11:51:43 CEST 2007
Graz day 3
Woke up, get out of bed, breakfast
and dinner: schnitzel and chips. As desert: 4 hours of sleeping. A
short trip to Helmut J. in the Wienerstraße, talking about news and
happy to meet again. Next term was "Abenteuer Menschheit", a game
from Klaus Teuber. Finished the evening watching "Was gibt es
neues". Great day.
Fri Oct 26 02:49:37 CEST 2007
Graz day 2
Woke up with 2 children in my arms.
They were not sleeping, they had 100% power. So I stopped the
process of sleeping. Their grandma came and we had a fine dinner.
In the afternoon I did a walk through Conrad. Bought some interesting books.
Met my grandma and had a fine talk. In the evening I played
settlers of catan with Lizzy and had a fine evening. Now I am tired
enough for sleeping.
Thu Oct 25 03:06:38 CEST 2007
Graz day 1
Finished teaching at 12:30, back
home, eating, packing, to the train at 16:27 and the travell begun.
Overfilled train until Schwarzach/St. Veit, empty train until Graz.
Wet but not rainy, warmer than in Tirol. Talking about this and
that, school and router, boys and girls, strings and ... bicycles.
Fine to be here.
Mon Okt 22 23:44:15 CEST 2007
linksys one more time
One more time, but it will not be
finished at all. Today I attached him to marvin and to the
Internet. Guess what happened: It didn't work. After calling Albert
and Bernd I called my provider "Funk-Lan" and they wanted the
MAC-address of the router. After a reboot it worked and I had
access to the Internet. So I started WLAN. Connecting without
encryption works, but neither WEP nor WPA nor WPA2. Sometimes I
think I will reinstall my old netgear, because I don't know _why_
it doesn't work: connecting - please enter passphrase - connecting
- please enter passphrase - connecting - ... and so on
... writing this on marvin, caliban opened his kwalletmanager and guess what: connected via WPA (PSK). Let's see, what will be tomorrow.
... writing this on marvin, caliban opened his kwalletmanager and guess what: connected via WPA (PSK). Let's see, what will be tomorrow.
Sam Okt 20 01:22:42 CEST 2007
linksys again
Today I had another 2 hour
mobile-talk with Bernd because of my new open-wrt-linksys. After
the first change it didn't boot again and I had to flash it again.
Damn! There I waited too long with the power-plugin so it failed.
Another flash. Damndamn! Then it worked. We made several settings
so that I can exchange it at the weekend. What we didn't find was
the setting to copy the MACaddress. Only a commandline-tool. Let's
have a look. Thanks again to Bernd to bee so patient. :-)
Sam Okt 20 01:15:55 CEST 2007
new mobile
Since today I have my new mobile in
work: The Nokia N73. It
can work with word, excel and powerpoint files, with flash and pdf
files, has a real-player, it can edit movies, pictures and sound,
it has a 3,2 MPxel camera with good zeiss-lenses and a second
camera for video-call on the other side, usb connection, stereo
speakers, internet connectivity, mail, full organizer, you can
watch TV, it has bluetooth and infrared, and the best of all: It
even works as a mobile too! ;-)
Sam Okt 20 00:56:08 CEST 2007
snowy little scenery
The landscape is covered with snow,
hight 1 cm. Well, I have still summer-tires mounted...
Mit Okt 17 00:53:33 CEST 2007
An Odyssee
Today I recieved my linksys
wrt54gl-de. I managed all settings in the original firmware. Then I
installed Linux (openwrt). The effect was: no linksys at all in any
net. It was so called "bricked". I called Albert for almost an hour
and then Bernd for almost 3 hours. We managed it to get a telnet
connection and installed the openwrt while Odysseus booting. Sounds
easy, but it was very tricky. The next days I will play with my new
toy, hoping not have to do the procedure again. Thanks Albert and
thanks Bernd for spending their time for/with me.
Sam Okt 13 00:52:18 CEST 2007
caretaker in action
The caretaker is on the run again:
SH3 ordered the caretaker for solving the "running toilet", that is
exchanging the sealing. Also SH3 ordered the caretaker for hints
arranging Davids two new rooms. Let's see, how the caretaker will
manage these two new adventures!
Sam Okt 13 00:43:17 CEST 2007
cutting edge
I soldered a little electronic wiring
to connect a FONera via the serial interface to the pc. All it does
is balancing out the different voltage settings. After exchanging
Rx and Tx it worked on Gregors PC. I hope, he has fun with
it!
Mon Okt 8 23:22:06 CEST 2007
additional RAM
Some days ago I clicked on "buy now"
at ebay for "512 MB RAM for Lenovo R60 thinkpad" for 7,30 EUR plus
4 EUR shipping to Austria. Today I recieved the RAM, wondering if
it will be OK for this price. Managed the screwdriver and installed
the RAM to caliban. Restart and ... it worked! So I have now 1 GB
of RAM working inside caliban. And it feels like flushing soap.
Fine!