I have to resists… Arrr… It’s useless… I give in…
To round off this year’s sunflower photos.
Nach einigen Problemen hab ich jetzt mit ca. einem Monat Verspätung endlich ein neues Handy. Ich hab E-Mail mit der Nummer verschickt, wenn ich aber jemanden vergessen haben sollte: Auf dieser Seite die alte Nummer angeben, dann bekommst Du die neue: /contact.php.
I do not know why, but I like this one 
50mm @ f1.4
You’d think I have already learned my lessons. But no! Some time ago I switch from storing all contact information directly in the evolution adress book (which was periodically backed up to my server) to a storing it in an LDAP Server (OpenLdap) on said server so that I could use it from every computer and OS that has access to the internet. With a RAID mirror in palce, I thought that that backing up the LDAP store was not really necessary – if one of the disks failed I would still have the other one with my data on it.
Now some days ago a valve in the water heater in our house failed an produced a short circut. No big deal in the end – it was fixed the next day and everything is working fine again (except the heating, but currently I’d rather need air contitioning). Of course the fuse switch off power supply, so the server crashed. And today I wanted to write an email and found that only nine contacts were left in the database. The whole rest was gone! So much for using RAID. It wont protect you from software failures!
Luckily google rescued me. And it even worked after the LDAP server had already run for several days. Probably because I did not change any data.
Incidents like this, show how dependent I have become of computers. Some time ago I would have kept a hand-written note book with that information.
Standing in the midst of a field of sunflowers in full bloom in a very yellow expierience 
More sunflower photos (the first six are from last year)
… that I love raspberries?
Nothing really noteworthy to write about, but some days ago I finally got a decent headset (a Sennheiser PC 150) an got sound recording working in both Windows and Linux, which was harder than I thought it would be. Especially the Windows part, because I tried to install a wrong driver at first — in Linux both variants are the same kernel module so it took quite some time until I realized that I this driver will never work beacuse it is for the wrong hardware… So it is now possible to contact me via sip (sip:caramdir@ekiga.net) or Skype (caramdir). I do not have these programms running all the time, but e.g. for discussing math problems they are probably a lot cheaper than mobile phones. Btw, I should have a new phone now, if T-Mobile had not for no apparent reason decided to cancel my order without contacting me (they say, that they did contact me, but I never got the mail).
Das hier wird immer mehr zu einem Photoblog
