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Livin' in a bad block...

If you ever need to copy a directory structure which contains files which sit on bad blocks on Windows, try XCOPY /C.

I added a little /E /Y and off it went.

Speedport and back again

I wrecked my trusty Asus WL-500GP while experimenting with different WLAN
hardware and so it was time for a new router.

Lucky me, I got my hands on a Telekom Speedport W701v, which has (apart from
USB and draft-N) all features I could wish for in a router. WLAN, SIP telephony
and … well that’s it actually, but it’s [...]

I am Bender, please insert Clipboard.

Last on for today, I promise.

I have moved beyond the mouse!
- I use awesome the tiling window manager with the fitting but hard-to-google name.
- I use vimperator (as of today with 90% less LAAAAAG) the vim of the browsers (uzbl is not quite there)

One last thing that has led my hand to the touchpad was [...]

TAG, you're it!

Today the shops were open for business despite it being a Sunday and I grasped
the opportunity to buy a mp3-cassette adapter so I won’t have to endure
ad-infested radio on my morning-commute.

That event led me to an issue I’ve been putting off for some time now.
I own a Sandisk Sansa MP3 player and all in all [...]

District 9

Yesterday I went to the cinema.

Actually we went to the Frankfurt Book Fair and walked around there for a
couple of hours but it was so crowded that I couldn’t really enjoy the
experience.

Books just don’t work like that, I didn’t even go to look at the shiny new
ebook readers.

Never mind that now, we had found a [...]

Hello, how is the fsync today?

So I run a bleeding edge operating system on my one and only home computer.

It’s an Eeepc 901 with a teeeeny SSD on which lives a Debian GNU/Linux with an
unstable/experimental flavor to it.

I also like to surf the web. I do it all the time when I’m sitting in front of
my machine.

Every now and then [...]

Kabeldeutschland DNS hijacking

Today I made a typo.

The fact in itself is unimpressive but lo and behold there was a web page there at slashd9t.org, who would have thought a crafty spammer had gone through all that trouble to… WAIT A MINUTE.

Big and proud they caught my eye the crest and name of my very own internet provider. [...]

urxvt and back again

Hello world,

there once was a time, when I was using rxvt to do my daily terminal work, which is more or less all my work. As I tend to have quite a couple of terminals open at any one time and am quick to spawn new ones on a whim to do some temporary work, [...]

New wordpress

Due to paranoia I’m now running the latest and greatest wordpress version. Rejoice.

one thing lead to another…

While doing some work at work I walked into a trap.

Let me start from the beginning:

It was a beautiful day, I had just fixed all my troubles with OpenVPN and heartbeat and all that was left was a little scripting, so I whipped out vim and started to python my way through things when I [...]

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