13 Sep 2000 jameson   » (Master)

Hmm, it's been a while... I wanted to update this thing more regularly. However, doing stuff regularly usually means that I have to force myself to do it three to four times until I'm used to it, so it'll probably be a while until that happens.

A lot of stuff happened. I'll leave the KDE/RMS stuff and Windows ME discussions (is it really worth discussing?) to people who have more time on their hands. (Actually, I wanted to give KDE a try now that it's free, but Qt 2.2.0 doesn't compile on the Alpha.)

Last wednesday, my ISP stopped allowing me to dial in. Strange, I thought, and wandered off to the office, where I learned from the Heise Newsticker(my primary source for news- yes, slashdot is only #2) they'd went bankrupt. When I went back home, I noticed I'd lost my cell phone somewhere along the way. Great. It took four days until I got a subscription to a different ISP (and exactly as long to get a new SIM card). Well, things are almost back to normal now, even though I'm still limited to ISDN. According to some rumors, DSL will be available in my area before the end of the year; ADSL only, though (128 kbps upstream / 768 kbps downstream).

Well, I don't really have time to do anything serious in the net or install interesting stuff on my web server ATM; two pre-diploma tests (the last 2 of 5) are approaching rapidly. And at least one of them is about stuff I don't have any clue about... In the few spare seconds that remain, the new FreeSCI graphics system is advancing- slowly (see the page pointed to by my previous diary entry- it's got a link to a new updated page near the end). Soon, it'll be time to write object-oriented code (widget management stuff) in plain C. This will be... fun. Well, at least I got confirmation from the two (current) main contributors to the project that they're still interested in it (and at least one of them has worked on it recently), so I'm happy to announce that FreeSCI is just in cryostasis, waiting to be woken up some time next month.

Speaking of cryostasis, the Futurama pilot was shown last week- or, at least, what was left of it after they'd localized it (or should that be "synchronized"? "mutilated" may be the most appropriate verb, though) into german. I'm seriously glad I saw it english first... For people who are interested in the quality of synchronized shows on Germany's TV broadcasting companies, there's a german article about the mis-translated Futurama episode at Telepolis (which is sort of a part of the Heise Newsticker).

When I'm talking about animated shows, I should mention that I finished Serial Experiments Lain recently (13 episodes, japanese with english subtitles). It's one of the best Anime shows I've seen so far (rating only the parts I understood), and I'd readily recommend it to anyone who's looking for a replacement drug for LSD.

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