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ah, a long day is over again. Time passes by quickly which is good for some parts, for others it isn't. I really would like to enjoy the good weather but it seems that life doesn't want me to do that since quite some years now :)

Had a good day yesterday with the KDE 3 announcement at www.pro-linux.de. Lots of people mailed they want to help on KDE programming and quality enhancement. Good result for one day of head-hunting.

Now, I actually thought about reading something about cgi-scripts and do my diary on my own webserver now :) That'd be fun. There's so many things that you can do with a server, it's amazing. Unfortunately you're never interested until it affects you and you have the possibility to do it right away in your own room, on your machine! /me is amazed :)

Well, day is over and I *need* to go to bed *now* :) Last night I stayed up way too long to answer that spanish mail from someone from columbia. I did it in spanish to see if I can manage to dig out some of the stuff I learned two years back by self-educating me, and I liked that a lot. If I would only remember as much about my exams when I have to write them, I'm saved :))

Done with re-reading the book for the exams, from tomorrow on only calculating...it is so damn boring this stuff...

Got my 4.3 BSD ISO burnt on CD. Started the installation, everything worked - except installing XFree 4.0.3 right away from the CD because it expects me to OK a security info on vt2 which can't be answered with any key ont he keyboard...I'll give it another try tomorrow or the other days this week, I'm really interested to get this thing up with a firewall, routing and stuff like the book that I keep since my FreeBSD 2.2.5 days and never made much use of since I only had a slow modem. Now is the time to faciliate the ports collection and the packages :))

Hmm...I should really buy a hub now with all these machines and only one monitor, crawling under the desk with my patch cable going from one machine to the other isn't that much fun about networking that it could be...

Hmm..I think I've found the error ! I just changed rcpppoed restart to rcpppoed start and it *should* work. We'll see how things are going after the next disconnect from the telecom. Learning has been well today, just the lunch was a bit heavy so I got *very* tired this afternoon over that stupid book. I hope I'll finish that tomorrow with the Kalman filter stuff and then calculate old exams.

My brother had a car accident. That's what happens to 18-year old's who try to get their cars to the limit you say. Well, everyone has to learn his lesson...glad nothing is hurt except damage on the car.

Moin !

Pretty exhausted after setting up my machine correctly with firewall, bind and apache. Though apache was the easiest to set up with SuSE :) DSL is really great stuff, though I encountered some weird machine hangs yesterday. And the reconnect script that stulle gave me doesn't seem to work - the ipchains module apparently still gets loaded though my firewall uses iptables and that is conflicting. The /var/log/warn log said something from /etc/ppp/ip-down so I edited that and removed all refereces to the suse personal-firewall starting. I'll reboot the machine before I now leave for my colleagues learning for my exam and see if I got disconnected tonight when I'm back.

Another idea that I thought would be useful is doing my mails over my machine alone and moving all my mailfolders there instead of keeping everything on the laptop. That requires a proper re-connect after t-online cuts the connection though....

Ah, and thanks to those that certified me as master :) That's a nice act so to speak, I appreciate you're all worshipping my feet :) Uhm...I should go and certify the others as well then...but I'll do that tonight, time to get ready now and leave.

Sigh. I join the crowd who spreads their sorrow on a little, lonesome diary on the net as well... :)

Now, after I got DSL yesterday and set up my main machine as a firewall and router, I'm actually a bit proud I got it managed - not that I didn't thought I was able to do it, but yet - I did it and success is always good for your self-esteem :)

One thing that bugs me though is that I can't close port 6000 for X on the main machine to the outside world but preserve it for my inner net. I *need* to have xdm show up from my laptop on the firewall machine where the monitor is...

Anyway, engough for today. Not much news anyway except those usual large commits on a sunday...we'll wait and see if those KHTML bugs go away soon :) At least, the webforms work again so I can post my diary entries :)