Christian’s blog

Ok, I know I’ve been absent the last 2 or 3 days (but only in the evening). I know Seemant and I’m pretty sorry for that.
As some of you may know, I recently aquired a Linksys WRT54GL to replace my stupid, crappy Netgear WG602 (which, sorry for the words, is completly junk right now).

I managed to flash an dd-wrt image to it, right the first day I got it. But a recent update made it broke and now I’m completly unable to reflash the device (as in bricked).

And I’m about as lazy on the evening as hardworking on the day. So I ordered another one just yesterday. It should arrive today (hopefully) so that I get the damned wireless back.

The other thing currently is, that work is getting pretty stressing. Everyone (of my co-workers, mostly the young ones) is pestering me with his/her problems (and my main problem being, that I can’t ignore that, because I care pretty much for most of them). Plus provisioning is on my tail because of some damned provisioning processes.

Gentoo-wise I’ve recently come to know some of the #gentoo-dev people (yeah, thats you Chris and Christel) along with kloeri, kingtaco (heya ), fox2mike and not to forget Joshua. I really think they are pretty amazing from a people POV

Another thing I wanted to say: thank you Diego for the work you did with kde-3.5.4 (especially the prerelease thing)
I’m looking forward to September, who knows maybe I’ll meet one of the two in Munich (along with some other people).

Ok, I’m now finished with my morning tea (some nice green mate tea) and will now start eating my pudding (white chocolate and normal chocolate with cream).

P.S.: christel, I really liked that poem, thanks a lot

P.P.S: Chris, lol nice visual-ascii-faces I’ve not yet had the time to take a look (as in hear) your “songs” ..

P.P.P.S: tsunam, I hope you excuse me for not blogging about my puzzle yet, I promise its the first thing I’ll do on the weekend

Life #gentoo-dev, WRT54GL

Hrm, I think I tortured christel a bit too much, earlier ..

Singing

(16:53) < @phreak ``> here we go :P http://blog.barfoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dscn0739.jpg
(16:57) < @christel> LOL
(16:58) < @christel> the first one made me laugh so much

Actually Chris, I think that was your and Diego’s comment(s) in combination with esammer (thanks for the decent laughing flash I had btw )

(22:33) < @phreak``> night everyone :P
(22:33) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: what's that?
(22:33) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: you thought you were going to get sleep?
(22:33) < @esammer> ChrisWhite: as well as well formed sentences and punctuation. well said.
(22:33) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: sorry pal, this is Gentoo, you're a developer
(22:33) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: we don't let you sleep
(22:33) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: you're over your sleep rations
(22:33) < @phreak``> ChrisWhite: yeah, again .. need to get up 2 hours before sunrise (thats in 5 hours to be exact)
(22:34) < @Flameeyes> phreak``, what happens to sunrise in 2 hours?
(22:34) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: what if it's cloudy?
(22:34) < @ChrisWhite> phreak``: or what if the sun dies out?

Gentoo, Life #gentoo-dev

Oh, yeah baby *g*. It’s finally hot f*cking summer and I *really* like it. We have now three weeks in a row sunny weather with no rain at all.

Everyone running around with less or nearly no clothes (heh, especially the girls) is also a nice present from above.

Personally I haven’t felt better the last two years. Maybe that’s depending on my previous depressions and the like (you know these thoughts .. ) but this summer is definitely going rock my life!

christel, babe I have to say you’re not alone with those mood swings. I have them also from time to time. Everyone (well my friends ) is bitching at me then like “C’mon, don’t be so negative about … blah” or “Why are you so angry at … blah ?”.

You’re also right, piling the anger up isn’t such a good thing (TM). Stress from work (or family ) is also doing its part.

Aaah, Joshua; I nearly forgot about you! Take of that hat! It makes you look like a clown, which you really are not And I’m gonna blog about my 15 billion pieces puzzle tomorrow (uploading ~180M of jpeg’s isn’t that fast with stupid 16k upstream).

Oh, by the way thanks Sven for the really great introduction of frilled! I really would like to see more of those (even if it will get pretty hard by the time )

But enough of the bitching, now some infos/updates on the Gentoo/FOSS-related things.

1. Herbert announced another release candidate for linux-vserver (surprise rc27), and I really hope we’ll see the final version within this (haha since this month ends tomorrow, nah the next month). I’ll prepare a patch-tarball and an ebuild later.
2. As I earlier mentioned, I took some of Henrik’s packages (while he was on his Hiatus). And now he announced his resignation!. *sigh*. Henrik, I really hate to see you go.
3. I also joined the kernel-monkey herd (thanks Henrik, Daniel and John for letting me), did my first release for genpatches (and messed it up, I *know*), became devoted to the mobile-herd (thanks Stefan for asking) and also poked around a bit with the hardened patchset for 2.6.17 (ah, thanks again John ).

Life Kernel, vServer