Torsten Curdt’s weblog

Today I got my custom made ear monitors. Yay! They did a plastic and shipped it with the headphones to the lab. Took them 3 times to get it right for me. (Too late they realized that my ears move a lot when I move my jaw) So I was a long time without proper headphones. Whenever I have to go back to the standard Apple earplugs it feels like torture. But now… sweet! Not exactly cheap – but definitely worth it. As a nice side effect they are not just more comfortable but also don’t fall out that easily anymore.

End your backspace woes when using vim remotely with iTerm by adding one simple keyboard mapping. Go to iTerm preferences, Profiles, Keyboard, choose Profile=Global, add this mapping…

Key: delete
Action: send hex code
Hex code: 0x08

Tell your bookmarks to use the Global keyboard setting.

I am always baffled that after years and years we still have to deal with stuff like that.

How annoying is this: From Australia I brought back a quite nice router from Billion (VPN, VoIP support etc). Now I had to find out that the built in DSL modem does not work in Germany. Great! The router is suited for the “Annex A” standard. Turns out Germany is the only country (worldwide) using “Annex B” exclusively. Even other European countries (like Netherlands, Switzerland or Austria) are known to support both standards.

Anyone interested?

Update: I had a friend bring it with him back to Australia. It’s up on ebay now! sold.

That was a 9.5 out of 10. A fair mix of old and new songs. Despite what the crowd acknowledged “No One Knows” was not the best song this night at Columbia Halle. They opened with “Regular John” which was a good start. I also enjoyed “Go With The Flow” a lot. Some of the new songs turned out very well live, too. A good performance – but after all they could have played a little longer. I am not sure my ears would have like that, though. Sound was pretty good but also a little loud. (I still had club disease the next morning.) The crowd was more mixed and younger that I would have expected. But fair enough. I am still waiting to find the concert online somewhere. At least it was broadcasted live. Someone must have managed to save that steam!

Update: Here I found the set list. And some of the performances are available on youtube. Yay!

1. Regular John
2. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
3. If Only
4. 3’s And 7’s
5. Do It Again
6. Go With The Flow
7. Misfit Love
8. Into The Hollow
9. River In The Road
10. Little Sister
11. Battery Acid
12. Leg Of Lamb
13. Turnin’ On The Screw
14. Better Living Through Chemistry
15. A Song For The Deaf
16. Sick Sick Sick

Bonus:

17. Burn The Witch
18. A Song For The Dead
19. No One Knows

With the last meeting the board has agreed to establish the Apache Commons project – again. The previous Commons project was a cross community effort from 2002 that never really took of. At least in the java world many people already referred to “Jakarta Commons” just as “Commons”. But not the sloppy-talk was the reason for going TLP. Jakarta Commons has over the years grown it’s own community. In many ways it is different than the projects I have been involved in so far. Its position inside Jakarta has let to a lot of discussions. The quest of finding its own identity has now been attributed with this move. But the charter hasn’t really changed

…the Apache Commons Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of Java focused reusable libraries and components…

So once the infrastructure part has been been finished we are still the same guys doing the same software …just at a different URL.

Oh, yeah …and I got appointed to be PMC chair :)