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I bought some inline skates (brand: K2) yesterday and skated about 15 km. I never thought it was so cool. For the next few weeks I need more practise...

Nothing more happened so far...

gman: Sorry, what?

Fixed my

framebuffer stuff today. Linux boots now at 1024x768x16 which is really nice. Next step will be to start X using the framebuffer device.

postfix. It somehow didn't work; *sigh* if debian unstable was a bit more stable (at least the postfix packages!)

Last night was really nice. I just went to Munich and catched up with someone from my university. First I didn't know where to go to (to be honest, I never know. /me is chaos himself ;)). We finally went to a cafe and had a beer. I couldn't catch the last train for home so I had to stay in Munich till 5 am.

University is hard...I better stop here!

I'll be at LinuxTag next month. It'll be fun for sure. gman told me that he'll be there, too.

Bought a 256 MB RAM module today. It was quite cheap, just DEM 188 (less than $100). My machine is now "fat" enough to run several big apps at a time. JBuilder 4 loads in about half the time like with 128 MB before. Netscape/Mozilla starts faster etc. I like that ;-)

I installed Windows XP yesterday. It is quite stable for a beta2 release but it has one big issue: it eats up 1.3 GB (maybe more) of my harddrive. This sux, because I wanted to install Visual Studio 7 beta 1 to play with C# today and I noticed that i don't have enough diskspace left :( Maybe Micro$oft thinks everybody plans 10 GB for Windows and Co. And I just thought linux was bloat. ;-)

David Chappell held a talk about Micro$oft's .NET/C# at our university today. It was really very nice! Normally he gives talks for several thousand people, but today we were about 20 students. First he explained .NET's components, then he switched to Hailstorm (UGH!!). Finally he explained the differences between JAVA and C# (to be honest, there are none!!). Just to mention: He isn't a M$ dude, he just writes books for M$ Products. David really loves Linux (it is installed on his laptop!). He said sometimes his fingers really need vi(m). A really cool guy. I very much enjoyed his talk which took 3 hours; it's never been boring...

Will go to a company tomorrow which offers seminars. If they take me, I'm going to hold some linux seminars in August. This would be my first time for me! The "job" is very well paid and I really need that money to afford the damn cool Apple Powerbook G4 Laptop called Itanium.

Eazel is now officially dead *sneef*. Development for Nautilus will certainly slow down now but somehow life life goes on...
I fixed the aptivate homepage. The main content and the sidebar don't overlap each other anymore now. Just have to create a version for netscape, coz the browser ignores many css tags. The lynx version should be ok.
Nothing more to say for today...maybe later?!

No entry for one week. I should get rid of that bad habit ;-)

I haven't done much the last few days. Beside university there doesn't happen much at the moment *sigh*. Nautilus 1.0.3 has been released and I'm finally quite happy with it. Nautilus is much more usable and stable now IMHO! It's faster, has many new features like the nice news bar. I have to admit that it still lacks many things like right clicking in the embedded gecko engine, file operations, more viewers, console plugin, ... But I'm quite sure Eazel will face those issues in the future. There can't be done everything at once; people should get used to that fact!

So far...so good. I really haven't expected that. I was successful in my computer science test. Bad mark, but it is done; no need to worry about it anymore. University rules again (sort of). On friday in two weeks I've to pass another hard test: assembler crap, mircoprogramming stuff, gates, VHDL...*sigh*. I really don't want to think about it right now, the day was too cool. Somehow my last test really gives me more motivation for the one still to come!

Nice sunny day again. We just enjoyed the nice weather by having some beer and good food. It's really like in summer (oops, I've already mentionned that several times now; sorry for that ;)). Tomorrow, university again...

What a nice weather outside. It was really warm today, almost like in summer. A few days ago i felt like in winter.
I've started to learn stuff for my next test which will be in 3 weeks. I'm not very excited about that, if I just could skip it. ;)
Yesterday, I was at a friend's. It was nice coz we had some mexican beer and a good bottle of white wine. I came home at 01:30 am and worked on some translations until 4 am.

GNOME on Solaris: Got it finally compiled....parts of it. There will be still needed lots of fixes for GNOME on Solaris. Meybe it depends on the compiler. But better don't ask me. I crashed a SUN Ray starting gnome-terminal. Other programs like gnomecc, gnome-about, xchat are working very well! I hope somebody will build some Solaris packages for GNOME soon.

This day really sucked...except a new version of the bb demo came out. Drunk now...bed!