Chrisus zlog

- still 242 days left until new years day of the jewisch year 5771
- 23 days since the new years day of the islamic year 1431
- still 248 days left until the new years day of the byzantinic year 7519
- tomorrow begins the japanese year 2670
- in 244 days is the new years day of the Diocletian era year 1727
- in 248 days is the new years day of the Seleucidian year 2322
- still 14 days until new years day of the Julian calendar

btw.: In the Julian periode the year 2010 equals the year 6723.

So this will be a year with a lot of new years parties!

Happy new year!

Was at the cinema watching Avatar in 3d. Great graphic, great 3d effects. And even a cool film. But it was obvious that it should be a sign. A sign against the politics with the american natives, the Indians. Maybe Korea and Vietnam too. But all in all a cool film.

Today, short after testing the memory, grub said:
"the symbol 'grub_printf_' not found"
"rescue mode"
"grub rescue>"
and bender stopped to boot.

My first thought was: "What did bender drink yesterday?" but after a short goo(r)geling I took all my courage and tried by myself what I found:
I rebooted with knoppix inserted and had a look at the kernelversion I use in /boot/grub/grub.conf --> 2.6.26-2-686. This old one because of the nvidia module.

Then a reboot into the grub rescue>.

Loading nessesary modules:
 insmod help
 insmod ext2
 insmod linux16
Tell grub where to find the image:
 set root=(hd0,1)
 linux16 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
Now do it!
 boot

And guess what: bender startet!

Thanks to Gregoa that he was not at home, so I had to search and do it by myself. I learned a lot about the boot mechanism.

My cat got a name: Eos. Because of the red signs in her tigered pelt. Today we had the third date at the doctor for de-worming and a final inoculation.

Since 11 days I have a little kitten as new inhabitant. Although I left a letter at the local store, nobody was missing the kitten. So I think now she is mine. Or I am her's. Today we were inoculating and deworming. The rest of the time we play "catch each other" or "bite me" or "who gets the mouse" or "this is my keyboard" or "do what _I_ want" or "eat my hairball" or "kiss me cat" or "food is what _I_ eat" or ... So we have great fun and a lot of cuts. At least me.