Me myself and I: May 2005 Archives

After geek-meetups I can add new items on my hardware wishlist.
This time i want an iSight Cam for my Laptop, so i can chat with iChat.
Another item i need after carrying my 17" Display trough Vienna is a smaller display. Unfortunately it appears to be difficult to get something smaller than 15".

Today I was looking for the manual of my 17" monitor because I wanted to know the sync ranges, but i could not find it, althouth i bought the monitor only 5 years ago.
But i stumbled over several pieces of obsolete Hardware, that was hidden in some corner. I am always having a hard time to throw away things, unless I am moving. When I am dying my flat will probably turned into a museum.
Today I finally decided to throw away a "Chello User Manual" from 2000.
I could not throw away two orginal Microsoft two button serial mice and I also kept the Parallel-Port Switch for four printers. I have also various ISDN Hardware which I will probably never use again, like an AVM A1 ISA ISDN Card, an ELSA USB ISDN Adapter and a Typhon PCMCIA ISDN Adapter and of course two Monitors (14" and 15").
Another item in my collection is a 250MB Streamer. And does anybody still need BNC Cables today? Does anybody remember the Iomega 100MB ZIP Drives?

I finished rearranging the furniture in my flat just in time for the Eurovision Songcontest finals...
Everybody switching on the TV now :-)

Cologne is one of the ugliest town in Germany. You have to drink large quantities of K�lsch to avoid getting depressive. I will upload some pictures later this week.
Today I am back, catching up emails and stuff (*). My parents are visiting me for a few days, and i have started to rearrange the furniture in my flat.

* When i have moved my computers out of the kitchen I will have to update the Minimac, because Peter Grehan fixed detection of the CD-ROM drive.
Other interesting email: kris' slides of his BSDCan talk about the FreeBSD package cluster.
Some patches to the FreeBSD sound system to improve telephone application like skype with onboard soundchips like the VIA 8233. Marius hacked Xorg to work on sparc64-systems with ATI cards.
And there is a nice Free vs. OpenBSD flameware happening on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD mailinglists.

Sometimes like today I wake up, and think that it is time to change something in my life. Unfortunately i don't know what: leave my girlfriend, quit my job(s), move out of my flat, sell my computers or something completely different.
Since I don't know where to start I usually just carry on.

My sister and her boyfried are visiting Vienna this weekend. On Friday we have visited the Mumok. I liked the exhibition of the "Costakis Collection", a greek diplomat who collected russian Avantgarde. I bought the exhibition catalogue, so that i can remember which stuff i will buy, if i have too much money :-). The other exhibition "John Baldessari - A differend kind of order" was ok too, but some installations were a bit strange (see "Teaching a plant the alphabet" at Horst's blog)
Yesterday we went to my favorite korean restaurant, were i have been eating a strange dish (I think it was called Zazam�n), that looked like earthworms in chocolate (according to the descripition in the menu, it was noodles with black beans).

Later we went to the WUK, where we watched "moment 05" an international Impro-theater competition.