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FOSDEM Photobomb
Feb 7th
Just noticed that one of my geeky people-discussing-important-stuff was photobombed by a guy on a coffee dispenser.
See for yourself:
FUDCon 2009 Photos
Dec 20th
I finally uploaded a selection of the photos I made at FUDCon to Flickr. The set is here.
NVIDIA and display cloning
Jul 7th
I always wondered why there is no easy way to clone my display to the VGA output of my ThinkPad T61p. I thought I found the solution in the fact that NVIDIA just sucks on Linux (well, they break my suspend/resume every other update). However a few weeks ago I found a script that simplifies the whole process. It is called Disper and can be downloaded here. In conjunction with the Thinkpad Screen script I can finally just Fn-F7 and use my Projector/DFP-Screen.
I also made a RPM of disper for the lazy:
Tethering in Fedora – Using your mobile phone with NetworkManager to surf the web
Jul 4th
Recently I tried to use my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone to access the web via it’s 3G modem that is available over Bluetooth. I wanted it to work together with NetworkManager nicely so that other programs (such as Pidgin) receive the online status and also to ease the connection/disconnection process. However NM and also gnome-bluetooth are not ready for the job yet (Blueman alledgedly is).
I found a blog entry by Harald Hoyer that offers a Python script to simplify the whole process of adding the phone as a modem. However that script isn’t up to date anymore. Unfortunately NM doesn’t trust HAL to determine the capabilities of the phone anymore (thus allowing this nice Python hack-script) but rather additionally asks udev for it’s opinion. This will result in the following error message in the debug log of NM:
NetworkManager: <info> (rfcomm0): found serial port (udev: hal:GSM)
NetworkManager: <info> (rfcomm0): ignoring due to lack of probed mobile broadband capabilties
I worked around this by setting all rfcomm* ports to be “probed” modems via an udev rule. I know that this probably is not the nicest way to do this but hey, it works. Furthermore I updated the script to the new Python 2.6 popen functions.
Here is what I came up with:
dialup-bluetooth.py
90-rfcomm-nm.rules
The udev rule belongs in /etc/udev/rules.d. The python script can be put anywhere you want but keep in mind that it must be run as root.
Have fun browsing the web on the go! 
Music that makes me happy
Feb 17th
Mr. Moix you totally made my day by pointing me to ELO – Mr. Blue Sky. That song is somewhat in the category “heard it in the radio, liked it, but never further investigated”
It’s been a pretty tough day today. First there was the preliminary “Abitur” (kinda like A-level) computer science exam at school today which was pretty exhausting since it took me the full 4,25 hours to complete. Second I had sports lessons after that Third I had a performance at music school today. We have a annual performance which this year happened to be today (right after both “Vorabitur” exams) and I failed performing the song “Fever” by Michael Bublé since I only had like 4 days to learn it by heart (well not really since I had to study for the exams). So THAT was actually not music that made me happy.
However hearing ELO before writing the exam made me happy and lifted my mood.
So to actually answer your question: Here is the music which makes me happy:
- Alphabeat – Fascination (for those who think that Katrina & Waves is a bit outdated)
- Marillion – Heart of Lothian: I. Wide Boy – II. Curtain Call
- Jason Mraz – Dreamlife of Rand McNally
- Mono & Nikitaman – Seid ihr bereit (I’ve seen them live and it was really good )
- Leftfield – Melt (while this isn’t really uplifting I like to relax to this one)
- Mike Oldfield – On Horseback (I find that to be very consoling)
This are just some I randomly came up with. There are probably so much more but I’m really interested in what Planet comes up with.
