shakespeare again

2005-05-30 04:10

today it was cinema again coz we had free tickets and obviously we use them :) we choosed to watch the merchant of venice. as soon as it comes to “classics” the theaterhall was almost empty… dunno why :)

all the actors did a great job. i was a bit surprised and disappointed by the plot (i have to admit i didnt know anything about the story except that it plays in venice and that there is a jew called shylock) coz it was .. well .. a typical shakespeare again, hehe. maybe i have to read the book to come to a better conclusion about all the stuff.

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i am .. your father luke :)

2005-05-26 03:45

on tuesday anja and i went to cinema to watch the revenge of the sith. after all goerge did in the first two movies i was really surprised by how well he did for the last of the prequels. finally the dark side is really dark .. ok, the uberjedis are still a bit clumsy (“ha, i ll kill you .. as soon as i can find another lightsaber coz i lost my fresh and shiney new one again”) and the story is sometimes a bit childish, but ok, at least no stupid jar jar

after all finally a blockbuster which earns the term “blockbuster”.

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a new fluxbox release

2005-05-13 19:43

after several months off hacking and tuning and bughunting we finally did it: fluxbox-0.9.13 is there .. on friday the 13th :) naturally 2 files were missing in the first tarball, hehe, damn. and that after all the testcompiling i did on every damn machine i could get: pcs, alphas, suns .. running all versions of linux,*bsd,solaris and darwin with all combinations of compilers .. check out this.

anyway, thats the (imho) best release of fbox ever, the most speedy, slim and featureful at the same time :) hopefully the 0.9.14 doesnt take another 4 months to get out.

i updated all my patches and collected some patches from other people i met in irc to provide another gift on this day: ak-fluxbox-svn-0.9.13. you can find it here. it includes again the commandtoolpatch from me and the typeaheadpatch from Sin .. check it out, nice way of handling the menu.

cheers and happy fluxboxing.

update

first, we solved the problems with the official fluxbox-tarballes mentioned earlier. secondly a minor issue was solved in the typeaheadpatch from Sin, so i throw out a new release of ak-fluxbox-svn .. 0.9.13-r1.

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happy birthday to ...

2005-05-10 01:44

my mum. happy birthday :) there will be a big party at home on next sunday… my poor little belly. anja will make some of here famous pies .. yami.

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ak-fluxbox-svn-0.9.12-r2

2005-05-05 12:41

after the heavy changes in current repository of fluxbox some of the “old” patches needed a little cleaning:

so, all you little rizers should grab the new release of my ebuild from here to get a working ak-fluxbox-svn.

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biking a mountain

2005-05-04 00:00

on a party in last march a friend of mine (carlo) announced that he wants to bike alp’du hez in the summer. for those of you who are not aware of what that is: its a nice little rock somewhere in the alps, only 1700 meter above ground. so, carlo announced that he wants to bike that to win a bet he made with some old college guys. after some laughing i told him that i would join him on a ride onto a 1000er relativly nearby: the “brocken” (translated to “rock”). just to show im the crazyness of his idea and that none of us normal ones is prepared for such a trip without excellent training.

so, on 1st of may anja, norman, carlo and i headed to “brocken” with our bikes … by joining the train. we met quite a funny character in the train: freddy. freddy told us he flew in from canada to visit … whoever … and that he had been a soccer trainer … and right after or before that he opened up a beer at around 10 o’clock. funny guy. but we were a bit happy to change the train after some time.

when we arrived in “wernigerode”, the little town some kilometers away from the mountain, the sun was shining and we were pretty excited to see how things will work out. we biked towards the mountain and the gradient was only slightly remarkable.

then we left the town and that was the point when it started to become interesting. we drove on the road to “schiercke” and it started to become a bit more difficult: we slowed down. anja decided to not follow us at our speed but to continue at her own. we climbed up to “schiercke” as all the untrained do: pretty slow. we took some breaks and quite old guys passed us pretty fast :) training. its really astonishing to see guys who could be your father bike up a hill MUCH faster than you can do yourself.

we took a “final” break at the start to the way up to the “brocken” and then we started. anja was a bit behind us and took a sunbath in “schiercke” and waited for us on the way back. i started climbing up that mountain with around 12km/h. around 500 m later i looked back and find that two guys were missing :) so i took the next break. same procedure almost every 100 heightmeter :) and again: one old fellow with a yellow jersey passed us two times on the way up… unbelievable. we faced some, at least for us, pretty nice gradients with 10% .. i never used the smallest gear of my bike before that day and even then we had a pretty hard time :)

the last 100 heightmeters norman and i walked, only carlo was rave enough to use the bike. but after reaching the top he said that this whole bet idea is completly stupid and that he would cancel alp’duhez. we bought some drinks and a little bit to eat and started driving down.

wohoooo. speedy. thats all i can say about that. my bike has no suspension and my arms sent greetings to every little hole and every little buckle … hehe. and thank god to my brakes. really.

we met anja in schiercke and started heading back to the rainstation. its amazing to see how fast a bike can be if you just roll down a hill :) my speedometer displayed 60km/h on the normal street down, what a fun. one of my eyes almost hit a bumblebee but the rest of the ride was pure fun. we needed around 10 minutes downhill.

at the trainstation we waited around 30 minutes and used the time to refresh ourselves with ice and beer. i had to cool my sunburned shoulder a bit but after all it was a nice ride :)

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rnews-0.7 is out

2005-04-30 15:20

after a couple of internal changes i release rnews-0.7. you can find it on the projects site. rnews is much more flexible and consistent now :) try it out.

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going out of the room and ...

2005-04-28 21:46

locking the screen? sure. but how? hehe, a friend of mine showed me ‘xtrlock’, a really simple and small lockprogram for the x-session. it just didnt work with pam and it didnt compile .. so i had to modify it. a bit of modifying here, a bi of modifying there and … done: aklock

its the first release (0.1) but its quite usefull yet. some more cosmetic stuff will come but the main goal is still to keep it as small as possible.

try it out and report back if you like it or if you have suggestions.

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spring and the usual things ...

2005-04-23 22:16

in the last couple of days i was pretty busy with cleaning the bugdatabase of fluxbox. man, there were so many invalid, out-of-date, duplicated bugs in there .. i think i wiped out 50+ entries and only < 10 were actually real bugs (which i fixed).

fbot, our friendly, little helper for the #fluxbox-channel, moved to a new home: http://core.fluxbox.org/~fbot .. hey, thats a travel around the world .. from australia to poland.

ah, and, thanx to spring .. the sun is much too bright :)

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grml .. for console-lovers

2005-04-12 12:00

while surfing for mutt-ng i also stumbled over bark and on that site i also recognized a little but neitherless fancy link to: zshliebhaber which is (obviously) german and translates to zsh lovers. i was interested and followed the link, exchanged some nice mail with the folks there (more to be followed) and finally visited grml ... which is a reaaaaaly cute linux-live-cd with the zsh onboard and screen and (drums) fluxbox .. totally cute configured.

so, if you like the console or the zsh or fluxbox .. or all together, then try out http://grml.org

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