Finaly ! I have waited soo long for this one

I’m happy to write this because video has been the number one thing requested in Skype for Mac since… well, pretty much ever since we released Skype a few years ago.

this is by far the best Joke I have read this morning ! Come on Microsoft, you can only be kidding ! Oh, will the so called “Zune” player have a nice blue screen when it crashes? 

Music has a special power, at least for me it has. There are some songs, that put you in a state of meditation, where you start thinking of all kind of things. There is also this special power of older songs, songs you have associated with some period of time, not necessary that the song was actually from that period but somehow it brings up memories from that period of time. No mater how stupid the song is, you will like it if it reminds you of something. Let’s take for instance Culture Beat, now these are songs that are kind of stupid, but hey, it reminds me of when I was a kid, school time, vacations in Romania at the country … and things like that. Times where things seemed to be better, I don’t really think that things where better but not necessarily worse, but one always kind of remembers the good things. But there still is a kind of feeling “if I could turn back time” not necessarily changing something, just to live a moment, you have in memory, once again. Things change as time passes and so do people, but music stays the same and so do the memories you have and music is that little thing that manages to bring that up again. Music can change so much, just imagine how a horror movie would be without the right music? Imagine some children song to a horror scene … would you be afraid ? But put some frightening music to a trick film, what would you feel then? ok enough about this, iTunes just switched the music to drum ’n bass and this isn’t necessarily the right music for memories, although I must say that there is some part of my life associated with dnb, hardcore, gaba, electro and some other varieties of techno.

It’s way to hot! Quite a long time ago since we had such a hot summer, I think the last one was in 2003! Anyway … what can you do on such a hot day … go for a swim and lay in the sun. I’m not really a fan of laying in the sun but if there is a pool, than it’s ok for me. My sister had the idea to go to the new “Badeschiff” (Bath ship or something like this). It’s a ship on the danube which has been transformed to a pool and there is also a second part where you can lay in the sun and also have a bar. Well all this sounds to good to be true for Vienna and I must admit I would not go a second time. The pool is ok, but everything else is so packed full, you feel like anchovies in the can, that’s not mine, but one could also sit at the bar, there at least you have shadow and don’t get a mad headache like I did. Well it’s worth visiting

If there will be no blog this evening with some new photos, than this means I fell of my bike! God, I haven’t used my bike since .. ehmm… 5 years I think!

Yes, I survived my short bicycle trip. Only made a few photos, I was to exhausted to make more photos. It took a while to get my bike out since it was covered with car tires, boxes and all sort of other junk. After I pushed the bike to the gas station to fill it with air, my adventure could begin …. god .. that was a strange feeling to ride a bike again. and a bad feeling in the muscles … this sure will hurt tomorrow.

I should think twice before doing stuff with lvm on a raid ! I am setting up a new server, rebooted it with a rescue system so I could create the raid 1, this was quite simple mdadm –create …. and raid was finished, then the lvm over it, pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate and ready to go … but alas I had to reboot the rescue system ( shit happens ) after the reboot ( since it was a rescue system which is read only ) the raid didn’t start, but I could start lvm which of-course complained that things are double ( on sda and sdb, because of the raid) I actually ignored that and started installing xen, after a short time I noticed what big shit I did. so … I stoped lvm again, starte raid ( mdadm –assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 ) and the raid is reconstructing. I have NO clue what it will look like after it’s finished, no idea where the lvm acutaly write to ( sda or sdb? ) and if after the rebuild of the raid the data will still be there … maybee I should just start from scratch.

This was once again one of these days … it starts as a “oh, today I have nothing to do and a lot of free time” day end ends up as a day full of stress. It started with some kind of brunch at my parents, but with so much food that it was rather some kind of mix up between breakfast, lunch and supper … it then transforms to a usual chat session with my parents which can last some time. In the meanwhile my cousin from Paris calls, he is on his way to us so, new plan for the evening, not that I had any plan for the whole day except lunch a hang lazy around at home, but it looked like I could forget the lazy part. So, me with no plan for the day, my sister with the same plan, why not go in the city for an ice cream? Good idea, but as I asked for the bill, stupid me noticed that I forgot my wallet … thanks god only in the car and not home. so, back to the car to get the wallet and I must say, the car wasn’t that close … for someone that loves sport like I do Ok then the day continued with a photo edit session of Papulos his wedding photos ( which can be found here) in the meanwhile I kind of had to explain my cousin how to get here, his GPS didn’t have the details of vienna, so I had to do my best to tell him the way trough vienna. as if this wasn’t enough of things that are not working (including my memory) I got an message that new user registration doesn’t work on vwclub.ro, a quick check showed that there realy is a problem, but I have no time to fix it because in the meanwhile 3 hours have passed working on those bloody photos, ok so I hit the upload button, took my sister and of we went back to my parents. Meanwhile cousin was almost in vienna (130 km to go) so there wasn’t much time, and because I was afraid they will get lost, I told them how to get to a point that they can’t miss, the Mc Donald’s from Favoriten, the only bad thing about this is that it’s almost 20km from my parents. So one at my parents I managed to write a short note on VWclub about the problem and got a call that they only have 25km to go to Favoriten, so once again I jump in the car, and of I go to Favoriten. Don’t know if I was so fast there or they had more then 20km since I had to wait quite a while, not that I was in a hurry, I could just hang around being lazy in the car. Once arrived, back again to my parrents, more food, more chat, a beer etc. And guess what? I noticed that this time I left my wallet at home after working on Papulos his wedding photos, so I had no money and not a single document with me, good that I didn’t get in any police control. Well after a extended chat session between relatives and photo showing I managed to get back home and … not that I wouldn’t be tired, nooo not me … what do I do instead of sleeping, writing a blog. Well in short, I have done over 200km today and spent over 3 hours in the car ( according to the board computer ) excluding the time I waited for my cousin at Mc Donald’s. And the worst thing is, I can’t even sleep longer as usual because I have an appointment at work at 9 … so to get back to the title of this blog, got time? I am willing to buy a lot of it! so and now …. good night!

oh no, my internet is not working today, blizznet seems to have some DNS problems, almos al .at domains are being resolved, and .. heise.de …. strange. anyway, this gives me some time to relax and forget about computers, go smoke a cigar, drink some cuban rum and write a blog. write a blog? without a internet connection? well thanks to my neighbor which hasn’t set up his wireless router correct I do have internet but I won’t abuse it, I will only use it to read my mails and write this blog, I promise