Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

Free TV not free anymore?

RTL and MTV are planing to transmit encoded from 2007, actually they have already signed a contract with Astra. Pro7 and Sat1 are also planing to encode. This won’t affect only MTV and RTL, also everything that belongs to it, this would be: RTL, Vox, RTL II, Super RTL, n-tv, RTL Shop, Traumpartner TV, MTV, VIVA, NICK and Comedy Central! The monthly fee should not exceed 3,50 Euro and the receiver needed for decoding shouldn’t exceed 100 Euro, this is what the article says in “derStandard


Bush has left, finaly

hurray mister “I-am-as-stupid-as-amonkey-but-leader-of-the-us” has left Austria, but not without leting the people know and feel that mister “I-am…” you know the rest …, is on the way. The complete city was packed, the freeway A4 and S1 where full because mister monkeyface went to the airport. Oh here a short message, not that I think that anyone would ever read this, to mister monkeyface ( yes, Bush ! ) but since the english language doesn’t have the words I need to express my self … I will write my message in romanian.


The incredible stupidity of T-Com

Once again I had to talk on the phone with one of my favourite German company, the big, bad Magenta coloured T-Com. I had to pay a bill, but since I have a Austrian bank account I need IBAN and SWIFT/BIC for the transaction but they wrote only the IBAN on that bill, now this is the first real stupid thing! So what should I do … call T-Com, the ones responsible for bills, so I assumed they have at least a clue about banking.


RTFM! posibly before installing something

I should know it better, especially that this isn’t the first time it happens. I installed once again after a long time nagios on my server so I have something that keeps an eye on the server. Anyway … I installed nagios-mysql ( as I did the last time ) but it looks like the database has to be created before installing, or … who knows, I still didn’t RTFM. well the result was that the 5 min. nagios was running I dumped about 2 gigs of syslog messages that where saved in the syslog, message, users AND the nagios.log … I had over 8 Gigs of logs, good performance test for syslog-ng by the way. Anyway now I finally cleaned up everything, as .gz the file isn’t that big at all only 8.5 MB, OK now that logrotate is finished I should get back to my server.


Racism and apartheid

Once again on Phoenix ( German TV channel ) it’s time for history. “The past 100 Years”, I already seen this once and from the most things told there I have already heard. But there was one thing that shocked me, I was shocked last year as I saw this and I was still shocked as I saw this today. It’s about the apartheid in South Africa. I can’t imagine how stupid we humans are. Racism is and will always be the worst thing on this world. I always thought that something like this is against the law everywhere but that the apartheid was still present till 1993 sounds so unbelievable to me. 1993 can you imagine this? Can you image signs that show “For members of the white race group only” ? I would be ashamed to live in such a country where somebody hasn’t got the same rights that I do just because of religion or race … This blog could be continued to a very long roman I think, but for everyone that is interested in this subject I can only recommend the.


Stupid Microdrive

Great … after 6 months my great 4GB Hitachi Microdrive doesn’t work anymore! I put it in my card reader, got some pics from it, put it back in the camera and that was it … no reaction anymore. Just some very strange sound. No mater where I connect it, if it’s the camera or the card reader. Good that I had a 512MB CF with me, is enough for some weekend pics. But no way I will ever buy I Microdrive, I will try to see if hitachi wil change it, since I don’t have the original package anymore which Promarkt requests. Anyway, It’s broken and in waranty and someone will have to come up with a replacement! But I’m realy disapointed from the microdrive.


Christmas, the biggest punishment for every city

Oh how I love it every year … Trafic, a lot of people shopping like it would be their last day on earth, this can only mean christmas is coming … Continue reading “Christmas, the biggest punishment for every city”


Last Christmas, I gave ...

Oh no… another Christmas punishment, every fucking year this stupid morron from wham! gives his heart away and every year he want’s to give it to someone special.George Michel, didn’t you notice that we all hate you? Please stop giving your heart away, or at least don’t cry every fucking year about the fact that nobody likes you!


Great support from TomTom (I'm Ironic) [UPDATE]

So here I am with my new Palm T|X and now I want my TomTom navigation on the Palm so I install the Palm version (works incredible fast and reliable since the Palm Hotsync does the installation and copy of the maps ) anyway I installed TomTom5 conected it to the BlueTooth GPS and waited to get a GPS signal, but … what is this ? My Palm poers of … Continue reading “Great support from TomTom (I’m Ironic) [UPDATE]“


Server Hacked

Yesterday I received a mail from my mailer-daemon that a message could not be delivered nothing unusaual, but I noticed that the mail was sent from my server and it was a spam mail.Since the mail was send with the apache user I checked the access.log for strange things and what I found didn’t make me happy.Continue reading “Server Hacked”