Archive for May, 2007

Woerthersee 2007

Finally, the photos from Woerthersee 2007 are online. It took me quite a while to sort out the 1600 Photos but in the end I succeeded :) Now I am working on the move, I really really hope I will finish it today since I won’t have much time until holiday so this is kind of the last day I can do it before … ehmmm.. next month.
Thanks to the photographers that help me shoot the photos (in alphabetical order) Armando, Claudia, Razvan

Here are the Photos

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The Simpsons: Best Treehouse of horror ever!

Homer Simpson, the Ali G. style


[HowTo] Installing eAccelerator on Debian etch

This works for php4 and php5, apache1.3 and 2!

first get php5-dev (or php4-dev, depending on what you use)
apt-get install php5-dev

get eaccelerator from here and unpack it.
cd eaccelerator-0.9.5
phpize
./configure
make
make install

create the eaccelerator cache directories
mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator
chmod 0777 /tmp/eaccelerator

and add this to your php.ini (in my case: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini )

extension=eaccelerator.so
eaccelerator.shm_size=64
eaccelerator.cache_dir=/tmp/eaccelerator
eaccelerator.enable=1
eaccelerator.optimizer=1
eaccelerator.check_mtime=1
eaccelerator.debug=0
eaccelerator.filter=
eaccelerator.shm_max=0
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=0
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=0
eaccelerator.shm_only=0
eaccelerator.compress=1
eaccelerator.compress_level=9
eaccelerator.allowed_admin_path=/path/to/control.php

adjust the memory to whatever you like.
Copy the control.php to whatever path you like (must be some htdocs accessible path) and set the path in eaccelerator.allowed_admin_path= …
edit the file and user/password.
now restart apache and you are done! go to the link where control.php is and check if you can login and if it works.

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“Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn” by Dave Barry

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the
same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be
“meetings.”

3. There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want
you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason
why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that
you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at
that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a
big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender,
religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we
ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
(This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

What happened on the 20th May?

May 20, 1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

May 20, 1310 Shoes were made for both right and left feet

May 20, 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India 



1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.

May 20, 1799 Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy 



1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

May 20, 1892 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms 



1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.

May 20, 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain 



1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.



1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.



1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.



1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.



1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York’s Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.

May 20, 1985 U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti

May 20, 1989 China declares martial law in Beijing

1990 - The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

May 20, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph’s from space

May 20, 1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad 



1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of ”Cheers” on NBC.

1994 May 20, 1994 Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe 



1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination. The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals. 



2002 East Timor became an independent nation.



2003 The United States banned beef imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada’s cattle country.



1979: I was born :)

Life is not fair

Looking around I see a lot of friends getting married, children are on the way, everything looks fine. But there are a lot of people that don’t want kids. What could be the reason ?
There is this one thing, that when you have kids, some might think their life is over, no “freedom” anymore …
Then there are concerns about money, kids are expensive, well not the kids, but the products for kids. Clothes for kids are more expensive then for adults.
But there is one last thing that some of us might be afraid of. What if the are problems? What if the child will be handicapped? Will you think of abortion? I think by now, if anyone reads this, there will be a lot of people thinking, oh no, abortion is bad. I agree with you. But do you know what it means to have a disabled child? That will always depend on someone to help them, what will be when you are no longer there? Do you know what it means to go from one doctor to a other and nobody really can help? Do you know what it means to go with your child from one operation to the next one, from one treatment to the next one?
And what if you child one day says, “Next week I will have a operation and after this I will be able to walk like all other kids” can you look in their little eyes and tell them that this will never happen? Or look in their disappointed eyes after the operation when they will notice that nothing got better? Now, still anybody that thinks life is fair? What problems do we fight with? Oh, my iPod is to small, oh, my car is not shiny enough. All my cousin wanted was to walk … something that most of us don’t even appreciate.
I have been through this, I have seen how hard my aunt and uncle tried everything for my little cousin, how every stupid idiot came up with some miracle and pulled the money out of their wallet. I don’t think I managed to capture my feelings in this blog about this subject. It has passed a long time since my little cousin died, but I will never forget that one day she said those words “I will walk like every other kid” that is all she wanted.

Rest in peace.

long time, no blog

It’s has been quite a while since my last blog. I was quite busy since I came back from berlin. Had to finish a server, was sick, server made some problems, experimented with UCS and Scalix, started to hate stupid WindowsNT Policy files … and so on.
I initially wanted to document my work on the PDC I installed and the troubles I had but having a bad cold at the same time and a lot of stress I didn’t really get to it and now it wouldn’t be any help since I forgot the most of it. So, to not get bored and maintain the stress level, I started to set up a new XEN VPS on which I installed Debian Etch, here I will move my current lcx server. There are several things that piss me of at the moment in the actual installation and I though it would be a good time to do it now and also upgrade to Debian 4.0, Apache2, PHP5, MySql5 … Well I hope I will finish it today, or at least this weekend.