Got up really early… had to be at school at 7.30 for infoco, which was moderately interesting.

Didn’t really do anything else except work on PowerBlog (the software running this website), watch Jay & Silent Bob strike back (which was not bad :)) and that’s about it 🙂

Found some interesting links:
[url=http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm]Smack the penguin[/url]
[url=http://yarr.org.uk]International talk like a pirate day[/url]
[url=http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/siezed.html]FBI visits internet user in research of half life 2 code leaks[/url]
[url=http://www.rent-a-negro.com/]Rent-a-negro[/url]

Enjoy!

My Belgian Eurosong Preselections Top 3:
– Xandee – One life
– Nicole & Hugo – Love is all around
– Storm – Jij (hoort bij mij)

Strange choices… Maybe, maybe not 😉

TV audience selected the following top 3:
– Xandee – One life
– Nicole & Hugo – Love is all around
– Chris D. Morton – Every dead soldier

Belgium to the top! 😉

Haven’t done much today either… Found the cause of the apache problem… didn’t find the cause of my computer crashing. Ran 2 passes of memtest, all fine. Boot windows, all fine. Yet it still crashes when I boot linux, but also sometimes when I press the reset button, it doesn’t come back :s I’m afraid something is really broken and I have no clue what.. this sucks.

Went to check out some colors of our future BMW.. even [b]studied[/b] a bit while in the car 😉

I’m leaving for Leuven soon … and gotta get up real early in the morning (7.30 @ school) to go to Infoco.. Colruyt’s computer department.

Got up at 11… noticed my computer keeps crashing. Cool deal. NOT. Tried to fiddle with BIOS settings. No go. More fiddling. Seems to be a little bit stable. I think. The thing ran for years with the previous ones though… I think the kingston RAM modules can’t keep up with 133MHz anymore :s (they’re PC100 but have been running at 133 just fine for a long time.. 149 ran stable as well while overclocking :)) I’ll do more testing tomorrow.

Replaced my Dart PC-TV-Live with a Hauppauge WinTV Go, to see if I could get TV under Linux with it… The PC-TV-Live was detected but shows no channels, and Hauppauge’s thingies [b]should[/b] be well-supported. But no. Hauppauge seems to have decided to ship new cards with a different chipset which is not supported under Linux (yet). Capturing works, but no VBI, which seems to mean xawtv won’t work :s Might fiddle with it more.. who knows.

After that, lunch, which comes always surprisingly short after waking up 🙂

Neighbours came over for their yearly a-little-after-newyear visit. Been there a while, then it was time to eat again…. After that I finally went to fix the printers that ALL decided to stop printing at the beginning of this week (they’re all HP, is this a scam?). I put one of them directly on the pc (there’s a jetdirect printserver in between), software diagnostics said B/W cartridge is at 0%… Oh, nice, but does that mean it won’t print anything? I’m not sure cause I don’t have a replacement at this moment. Also, why wasn’t the “(almost) empty” light blinking then? In the other I found after trying out things that replacing the color cartridge with another one seems to have fixed it. WTF? 😐

In the end, I haven’t done anything today yet (PC kept crashing which wasn’t very productive), and the day is just about over. How nice!

[b]Update 21:08[/b]: My screen session on tequila just crashed after several 100 days of uptime. Oh great.
[b]Update 00:31[/b]: Got back to my computer to find out half of my websites wasn’t working anymore. Somehow apache filled up /tmp and now refused to work. OH GREAT. 🙁

Last night we worked on our Java project until 5am… Today almost a whole day too.. But tadaa.. it’s just about finished now. 🙂 [b]Finally[/b] some rest :d and lots of sleep :z

I don’t want to use my brain anymore this week. Java wrecked it :z

Exam went fine.. Windows is one unpredictable **** 🙂

After that, started work on our Java and JSP projects… I was still at school at 20:30 ! 🙁 Very tiring day… gotta be off to bed.. still watching Event Horizon though.. spooky movie. :z

I fixed some thingies today.. Like fixing up Samba to be a PDC with my testbox. Nice. Installed gdm with a [url=http://www.sid3windr.be/files/gdm.png]nice theme (crystal)[/url] & cygwin for the Xserver so I can run X apps on my linuxbox right on my Windows 2000 workstation 🙂 Thanks to ZeveRoaRe and [url=http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto]this howto[/url] for hints :)) That also means I can finally run my beloved Evolution from Windows (or kinda). :d

I wanted to install Gnome on the box, but it didn’t feel like (that’s what you get for running Debian Unstable), after digging through some dependencies I found everything depending on libxslt1, while it was superseded by libxslt1.1 … So with my magic fingers I made a dummy libxslt1 package so it could install, and yes, it did! 🙂 Go me! :d ([url=http://www.sid3windr.be/files/libxslt1_1.1.2-1_all.deb].deb file here[/url])

In sadder news however.. Diana is leaving tomorrow :'( So we’re having a quiet cosy movie evening now, I’m writing this to you in the break 🙂 Back to a boring old life tomorrow… (which will greatly increase my online-ness again ;))

Diana left today :'( Immediately after putting her on the train, it left, and I realized it was the wrong one 😮 Oopsie. She missed her train to Switzerland, so I made a reservation with Virgin Express to fly her over to Switzerland.. All “fixed”, and she could stay a little longer :d

I must look old when unshaven.. Today was the first time I had to show my identity card to prove I was allowed to use my Go Pass. *sigh* 🙂

Oh well. Back to schooldays. Damn. Just realized I have a Networking exam tomorrow 😮

Got up really really early.. 6:45, to get to Luik (8 euro single trip 😐 but that was worth it ;)) to pick up Diana …
I’m so happy to see her again :d

Had to be at school at 12, we visited IBM’s datacenter in Nossegem.. The presentation was a bit boring, but the datacenter itself was nice… especially since i love all that rackmounted and networking stuff :d Their high-availability setup is pretty cool. 🙂

I got my christmas present from Diana too.. A data cable for my Nokia 3510i. After messing with my PC, IRQ’s, software, etc… it’s now working. Really nice, now i can finally manage the thing from my PC and upload java stuff to it. Who knows, maybe I’ll develop some software for it myself… 😉

The end of a successful day.. good night! :d

After I overslept, it turned out to be a pretty busy day (as every day this week)… Been working at school until 6.. constant Java programming.

Afterwards, I heard my girlfriend had a surprise for me.. She’s coming over! :d :d I have to get up early tomorrow, but in this special case I don’t care at all :d