Archive for September, 2005

New experiences

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Hello again.

Since I told you, that Linux extremely sucks if you have support all the people, that start right in the middle, because they are too lazy to lern the basics, I today, nearly accidently, started beginning with FreeBSD. I really like it until now. Its all just a cd; make; make install; away from using. I hope that the machine has finished the basic stuff, before I have to go to work tomorrow.

Eimann is here, and, as over the time nearly usual, stays here over night, because we both “dis-orginated”, how he would get home. Yes, thats nerdish carefreeness ;) .

We (Michael, Eimann and I) were kiting, taking photos and so on. I had a lot of fun and was nearly flying away with that kite ;) .

If we are able to come through the night, we’ll be alive tomorrow. I have some doubts in that, because we are both so damned hungry and there is no food left in this house and no reasonable food store open near my place.

I am currently looking for a new city bike with all the nice features one wants to have to go from a to b by bike… if there are any recommendations from your side, let me know…

So… I hope you wish us the best ;)
Your starseeker

One, Two… On Air!

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Hello there…
Since I said, you should keep your ears on the screen (;)) some while ago, I’m now prodly presenting my first (and second) podcasting session on the net. Visit me and MaBU here and listen (if you can speak german, you might understand something…)

I hope you have a nice sleep… good night!
The Starseeker

The penguins curse…

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Well, hi there. Its been a while, since I came across a linux user in this town, that I didn’t know, but yesterday, during a short visit in the shop, my coworker was like “Whoo… thank god you’re here, I was looking for you for hours!” and I already suspected, that he had a “special job” for me. He’s currently installing DSL for a very complicated customer in a very easy environment. This customer owns a SuSE Linux 9.3 box, wants to do PPPoE with his Fritz BOX Fon and use it as a gateway for the Linux Box. The Fritz Box does DHCP and the PPPoE Line is up… what did my coworker do? He tried to establish a PPPoE connection via Kinternet… *sigh* and was like “Whaa!! Linux is soo complicated!” (No guy, you are). His words in original (translated): “I assinged a static IP to the box, but it didn’t use DHCP! The PPPoE Gateway didn’t respond…”.. and I already knew, that all was totally messed up. Today, i’m going to visit that customer and enable DHCP on his ethernet interface… that should be enough.

If you use Linux for a while and are, now, an experienced user, take this advice: NEVER… NEVER tell anyone, that you know something about Linux, until its a person you would hug delightfuly at once (which should be enough to reduce the circle of persons matching these criteria to a few). It will get you into a lot of trouble. Linux is for people, who are able to analyze and solve THOSE easy “problems” like using a gateway to connect to the internet by themselves. Its NOT for the common customer… and.. if you don’t want to waste the larger ammount of your lifetime in solving other peoples dumb problems, just give up on being the “Linux Missionaire”…

The Starseeker