2005-08-28 20:42:00
Sacrilege!
In order to play two of my favourite windows-only games from Yester-year, I've decided to run Windows on my beautiful, unsullied Powermac. Thankfully, I'm keeping the infection contained to a secluded space on my hard drive, thanks to the wonders of disk images and emulation software.
Earlier today I tried my hand at Bochs which was like the typical open source software: pretty good, but needlessly complicated in its setup. After fighting with that for a few hours I decided to give Qemu a try. I was pleasantly surprised! Not only is it very much faster than Bochs, but it was quite easy to get things up and running using the QemuX graphical interface. Within an hour and a half I was happily, yet slowly, running Windows 98.
The downside for me right now is that any CD-ROMs I wish to install need to be imaged to my hard drive and then loaded through Qemu. But it's workable and I will only use it to play "Settlers of Catan" and "Magic: the Gathering" anywho.
kilala.nl tags: windows, powermac, apple,
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2005-08-24 12:16:00
In her last Podcast Mur Lafferty mentioned that, while she's 32, she still feels like a teenager and that, despite that fact, she could simply not relate to modern day teenagers. She tells of the moments where she'd gone "Why, back in my day!" and that that kinda scares her :3 So I guess I have more reason to be affraid, since I'm seven years ahead of her!
I have experienced _many_ "back in my day" moments and I'm only 26. And, like her and many other twenty- and thirty-somethings, I also feel detached from these days' kids. But unlike her, I think I know what's going on ^_^ You see, we might all still feel the same way like when we were teenagers, but therein also lies the "problem". We feel like teenagers from back _when_ we were teenagers! So while times are changing we haven't changed with them :) And thus today's teenagers are completely alien to us.
All in all I really don't see a problem with this, since this is the way it's been for centuries I guess. Hmm... Now taht I think of it, I may have also found an explanation for the dreaded mid-life crisis :) I guess you could perceive that as an old-timer teenager trying to catch up with modern day teens because they feel some need to do so.
Completely unrelated to that, I really love Mur's latest intro on her Podcast: Mur! The official beverage of the American Dyslexic Pirates Association!.. Simply wonderful! I love word play :3
kilala.nl tags: life,
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2005-08-18 07:47:00
A peculiar thing happened on my way to the office this morning. First off I'd have to admit that switching to the VW Golf has changed my driving style somewhat. These days it's become easier to cross the speed limit and just comfortably cruise down the high way. So this morning I was beaming down the highway and I decided to cut through some B-roads which also lead to the office. So five minutes onto the B-road (yes, I was driving too fast yet again) I grind to a halt, perplexed by the fact that the road has been closed off for maintenance.
So I turn backup around and just as I'm about to hightail it out there "Say anything" by X Japan starts on my iPod and this wonderful sun rise comes across the horizon. "Say anything" is a bit of a melancholical song which went very nicely with the surrounding scenery. I took it as life's way of telling me to cool it a little :) So instead I chugged back to the highway at a leasurely 60kmph and took my time. Life can be good :3
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2005-08-11 03:43:00
Well, aren't I the dumb ass? I just remembered that I'd been tinkering with my website recently and that I switched around the frame-menu.html file in the root of my website. I also remembered that the copy of said file on my Mac does not contain the required Nedstat code, since I didn't want to generate false visits. Doh! A quick copy-past-ftp fixed things :)
kilala.nl tags: website, snafu,
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2005-08-11 03:43:00
Woke up about fifteen minutes ago and I really couldn't get back to sleep anymore. Some stupid mosquito's chasing us around the bed room :( So I decided to surf the web a little bit and I discovered something creepy. Weird really! I use Nedstat Basic to keep track of visits to my website and all of a sudden, come the second of August, visits completely drop off to zero! Where my site was pulling maybe an average of three to four visitors a day (which is good in my books!) all of a sudden there's been absolutely _no_ visits whatsoever for a ten day stretch. Weird!
Now I know what queen Mab was feeling like in that mini series "Merlin".
kilala.nl tags: website,
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2005-08-05 13:27:00
Meh... For some stupid reason I lose all my wifi signal when I move outside the apartment, onto the balcony. Today's weather is seriously wonderful and I'd like nothing more than to sit on my balcony (in the shade) and to code away at my website. The odd thing is that in the kitchen I still have about 70% reception, but when I move three meters further and out the door the whole signal drops. There are no metal constructions in the way, except for a piece of safety glass at leg height, but that's it.
I hate it :(
Now there's two possibilities:
1. Move the wifi AP closer to the kitchen, which would mean rolling out a long network cable.
2. Sit in front of the apartment building, in the sun.
I think I'll go for number 1.
kilala.nl tags: apple, other tech, annoying,
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2005-08-02 21:11:00
I made some minor changes in and around my website. You'll probably not notice the tweaks :)
Changes which _are_ a bit more important than that are the following:
* The comics section contains a new "chapter" so to speak, with cartoons based on my view of sysadmin life.
* The sysadmin section contains a new "chapter" on the sysadmin toolkit, a chest filled with goodies which make my life a lot easier! Read through it and you'll see why I always carry a rubber chicken with me...
kilala.nl tags: website,
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2005-08-02 15:34:00
It's been long in coming, but after years I got 'round to putting together my Sysadmin's Toolkit. Check it out on the left, for an introduction and some photographs.
kilala.nl tags: work, geeky, fun, sysadmin,
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