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2007-10-18
Weeee, Boondocks is back in the net. For all of you, who aren't already waiting fidgety for the next episode or just know the comic strip, read here, what boondocks is all about:
Boondocks is the plotical-incorrect-antiracist-niggacool-martial-arts-smarty-pants series :) Just watch it, already!
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2007-10-15
Have been playing around with PHP and JavaScript again to mess up this website some more ;) There is now a "change layout"-link on the left above the navigation bar. When clicking it ... nothing happens, I know. Try hitting this link and pressing "refresh" in your browser to see the effect - I'm still trying to figure out, how to make the browser reload the page. It's either that, or there will be a workaround, like a phony and unnecessary "select yout layout"-page.
Actually, I created the new layout, because my Opera-browser (a nice piece of software, by the way) runs slooooo<insert x o's here>oow when displaying my page. Scrolling took ages. Hmpf. So, there I have it, a nearly image-free page that runs blazingly fast!
Oh, if it doesn't work at all with your browser, even after frantically hitting the "refresh"-button, try switching on cookies and JavaScript!
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2007-10-12
I just started filling the "studies"-page. It's awfully difficult to remember all these courses and order them correctly. Also, I wasn't aware of how many they are - and there are still lots missing!
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2007-10-11
The system is now up and running for two weeks and starts to be fun again. That's particularly thanks to the freshly bought additional Gig of RAM. Vista eats RAM. Most of the slow-downs I experienced earlier could be traced back to a lack of memory. And my Ubuntu, which gets currently booted about as often as Windows, doesn't mind the extra-RAM, either ;)
Do you feel like an update of my kitchen-misery? Here you go: Currently it develops pretty fine :) The table board is perfectly horizontal and the sink is already installed and working - though currently only with cold water, because the hot-water pipes are leaking >_< Next Tuesday, when the electrician and the plumber did their work, it's time to cook our very first meal on our very own stove!
... man, I became square!
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2007-09-26
Ok, the post below was perhaps a little early fired. Currently I'm installing all the stuff I need and suddenly the system feels like I lost two of the three Gigahertz :( Installing the first of two necessary ServicePacks for VisualStudio took more than an hour and it is not possible to run more than one install-process at once. If the system continues to snoooooze like that, Vista won't stay long on my harddisk!
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2007-09-26
Just killed my main system (*KoMain* ;) ) and revived it with Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux - and I like it. Windows Vista is a lot of nicer than the web-crowd made me believe before. Everything works nicely and faster than in my old XP (which, to its defence, was almost three years installed on the machine) and Aero looks really kewl. At least after some tweaking to get rid of all the "Klicki-bunti", of course.
And Ubuntu is till my favorite OS and would most likely be my only OS, if VisualStudio, C# and DirectX were available there. Leave me alone with Wine and XServer, I don't like Wine and XServer. And posix-layers are deseases not api's. Period. The big Kahuna has spoken.
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2007-09-22
Nothing really new ... Drilling holes in concrete walls is an asshole. Building a kitchen is an asshole - especially this one (*grrrrrr*). See on the right the result of few but astonishing frustrating hours.
I feel the urge to work on PoRoBa stronger than for a long time, but don't seem to find the time (damn kitchen!!). I even don't seem to find the time to work on my diploma thesis :/
Well, but all in all the flat is developing nicely, it already feels like a home. And I lost my well-established and long-time-tested wake-sleep-rhythm (the one, when you have to hurry to get in time to the grocery-store before it closes. At 8 pm.)! But not for long, I will fight to get it back ;)
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2007-09-10
It's really funny: I bought a HUGE desk for my new flat in order to be finally more productive and efficient. Well, currently I'm forced to work on a tiny table in the room that's supposed to contain one day our kitchen (see picture) - and it works great. I have all I need handy, I don't even miss my second (or third) monitor! Somehow, that's not even funny.
I admit, that's no good news today. But I had to upload a picture to brag about a new script, I just finished: the ImageHandler. So, I can now manage all my images via this interface and don't need FTP anymore, besides for more new functions, of course. Yeahyeah, I hear you "big deal". I'm proud anyway.
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2007-09-05
The link to this web-comic site, xkcd, is already in my links section, but I have to mention it again, cause this strip will crack you up. "I laughed so hard I peed a little" (for all you Scrubs-fanboys). Actually, I snorted when I started laughing ... on my keyboard. D'oh!