For
the next 3 days Apache people from all over the world are meeting for the ApacheCon 2003 in Las
Vegas. Too bad I could not attend this time :-(
Ken has some photos online for the ones that had to stay at home.
While sitting in our local bar where <sing>everyone knows our name</sing> they were showing some
cartoons on a big screen. Coyote chasing Roadrunner (delicious, delicious) …and we started wondering why all and everything in cartoons is made by ACME! What is is this?
Glad I knew about Acronymfinder …it saved us from a sleepness night ;)
Tonight Dashboard
Confessional played in Hamburg. Was an awesome concert! …but you should know their lyrics – they exspect you to sing along
:) Kevin Devine was playing as opener
Every time I think my opinion on windows cannot be any lower I am proven wrong. That’s also a way to push the limit…
A friend of mine had two versions of windows on his machine. He ask me to get rid of one of them and leave the windows 2000 installation. No problem: I used one of those smart partitioning tools where you can move existing partitions. Since the boot loader was on the other windows installation I had to re-install the boot loader.
Reboot and you see you windows installation come up …until it needs it’s virtual memory – its swap space. But of course the drive letters have changed. So there is no “D:” anymore. No way a “pagefile.sys” can be found there. So windows complains that there is no virtual memory configured. Too bad 256 MB is too less memory to login and configure it.
Googling revealed you should try fix the registry setting for the virtual memory from a remote computer. Too bad – the computer got no network connection. So the last chance was the rescue console. Unfortunately there are no command line tools to edit registry entries.
Again Google is your friend and helped to find a command line tool that could have helped to fix this problem …until we had to realize that you cannot call any external executables from the console.
Since we already spent way to much time on this we just reinstalled the whole system …just because we could not login without swap space. *shakes his head in disbelief*
Today I installed my first MacOSX box. Unfortunately I have admit I was a little disappointed :-( I never really worked with MacOSX before but was always a silent admirer. I heard a lot of cool things about it. I thought having a FreeBSD kernel and a Mac GUI cannot be bad …but it wasn’t awesome either :-/
The installation went smooth and easy but submitting all the those personal registration data did not felt any better than it does on windows. Maybe I am not used to the Mac view of the world but e.g. the windows network / samba integration was much less than straight forward. The use of the full name and the account felt weird and inconsistent. And so on….
…maybe it takes time to get into it?
Update:
Actually it was my first installation – it wasn’t my box. Sorry, that was misleading. Be sure there would be an entry in my blog if I ordered a Mac :)