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<title type="html">Back in Action</title>
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Auweia, was fuer eine aufregende Zeit. Habe gar keine, das hier alles
festzuhalten, muss ich nachholen. Vor allem die Fotos vom
Karate-Lehrgang in Korsika. (Den eigentlich Knueller kennt Ihr ja
schon, wenn Ihr mich kennt). <br clear="all"><br>

Jetzt ist aber erstmal Fantasy Filmfest (diesmal ohne Links) und ich
plane, folgendes zu sehen:

<ul>
 <li>16.8. (KultBr) 21:45 The Banquet
 <li>17.8. (CineXX) 23:45 Shadowboxer
 <li>18.8. [Mutti besuchen]
 <li>19.8. (CineXX) 17:00 The Snake
 <li>20.8. (KultBr) 21:45 Get Shorty
 <li>21.8. (KultBr) 21:45 La Antena
 <li>22.8. (KultBr) 19:30 The Lookout ODER 21:45 I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK
</ul>

Stay tuned...]]>
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<title type="html">Gestern nacht in der ARD</title>
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/">Ganz grosses Kino</a>.]]>
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<title type="html">Frisbee</title>
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<a href="http://lkcc.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=pdt&id=frisbee_raimi_01"><img src="http://lkcc.org/albums/pdt/frisbee_raimi_01.sized.jpg"></a>
<br clear="all"><br>

Jumping and throwing a frisbee in the sand. Horribly energy
inefficient, but a lot of fun. Note to self: Consider playing <a
href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_frisbee">Ultimate</a> <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_frisbee">Frisbee</a>.<br clear="all"><br>

PS: Thanks to <a href="http://www.arrogant.de/">Timo</a> for this photo.]]>
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<title type="html">Wider die Globalisierung</title>
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Wie man effektiv Globalisierung verhindert. Ich bestelle eine kleine
Sammlung T-Shirts im Ausverkauf von <a
href="http://www.threadless.com/">Threadless</a>. Sehr schoener Laden,
hoffentlich clont den mal einer in Deutschland, moeglichst mit
aehnlich hochwertigen Motiven. <br clear="all"><br>

Weil das Paket komisch aussieht (12 Shirts in einen ca. A4-Umschlag
(vermutlich vakuum-)gestopft), klebt der Zoll in Frankfurt/Main das
gruene Ding "Selbstverzollung" drauf. Damit bin ich Schmuggler wohl
ertappt und muss zum "Zollamt Post", dessen Lage man von meinem Heim
aus nur als "am A... ndereren Ende der Stadt" bezeichnen kann. Der
Flyer sagt, ich soll eine deutsche Rechnung mitbringen, vermutlich
damit der Wert taxiert werden kann. Was er nicht sagt, ist, dass ich
auch Zeit mitbringen soll - zu den sehr amtsdeutschen
Oeffnungszeiten. <br clear="all"><br>

Also frueh hingurken (das Amt schliesst kurz nach der Mittagspause),
die richtige leere Stelle am ca. 15m langen Tisch finden ("Anmeldung")
und auf den einzigen Beamten warten, der sich ausgiebig mit dem Kunden
vor mir beschaeftigt. Zettel abgeben, Platz nehmen. Nach 5 Minuten
aufgerufen werden, Paket aufreissen, Inhalt erklaeren, englische
E-Mail vorzeigen. Der Beamte fuellt 15 (!)  Minuten lang angestrengt
ein Formular aus (ich darf nochmal Platz nehmen), bemueht sogar ein
Buch. Sein Rechner zeigt die ganze Zeit den Bildschirmschoner. <br clear="all"><br>

Mein Formular wird zur Kasse gegeben, ich warte tapfer 5 Minuten,
frage dann doch mal nach, ob ich nicht vergessen wurde... "Ich rufe
Sie auf, wenn ich was habe". Werde nach 2 Minuten aufgerufen und darf
in Bar bezahlen: 12% Zoll fuer Textilwaren, 19% Maerchensteuer. Das
ganze auf 152 Dollar Warenwert. Dass der Warenwert nur 120 Dollar und
der Rest Porto/Verpackung sind, scheint sowenig eine Rolle zu spielen,
wie dass der Kauf getaetigt wurde, als noch die Steuer von 16%
galt. Nach etwas mehr als 30 Minuten verlasse ich das Gebaeude,
sicher, dass ich nicht nochmal dahin will. Nicht daran denken, wie es
dort abgeht, wenn Publikumsverkehr herrschen wuerde. <br clear="all"><br>

Auffaellig ist, dass die Rentenkonvergenz aller ersichtlichen
Zollbeamten deutlich zu sehen war. Irgendwie hatte ich das Gefuehl,
dass das Amt geschlossen wird, sobald der/die/das letzte Beamte nicht
mehr im Staatsdienst ist. <br clear="all"><br>

Das laesst mich hoffen, denn vielleicht wuerde dann der im Bild
hervorgehobene Aufkleber seiner Bestimmung zugefuehrt werden. Ein
(halb)automatisches Zollsystem wuerde einen Barcode draufkleben, der
dafuer sorgt, dass der Postbote Zoll und Steuern einzieht. Das waere
toll, denn so koennte jedes Paket verzollt/besteuert werden und nicht
nur die, die bei einer Stichprobe auffallen. Die gestiegenen Einnahmen
wuerden dann den Dienst der Post finanzieren. (Waere die Post noch
staatlich, waere die letzte Ueberlegung nicht noetig.) <br clear="all"><br>

Bis dahin: Nur in kleinen Dosen im Ausland bestellen und nach
Moeglichkeit in unauffaelligen Paketen versenden lassen. Oder eben nur
noch in der EU bestellen, auch keine so schlechte Sache. Aber warum
macht hier keiner so schoene Shirts?!

<a href="http://lkcc.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=pdt&id=threadless"><img src="http://lkcc.org/albums/pdt/threadless.sized.jpg"></a>]]>
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<title type="html">Freiheit, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit nur optional bei uns?</title>
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<name>Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob</name>
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<a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/793/98695/">Unglaublich.</a>]]>
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<title type="html">AVR-235, Updated reference</title>
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<name>Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob</name>
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I have to update my reference. Video 1 is now connected to the old VCR
and Video 2 is the TV card (mostly because the buttons on the remote
are labeled accordingly). The self-learning/programmable remote
control of the AVR is great but lacks support for the old
VCR. Bummer. <br clear="all"><br>

Interestingly the composite connector of the AVR-235 doesnt work with
the signal from the VCR's SCART cable. With a simple converter-plug to
S-Video it works on the other hand. Strange. While the TV card is
connected with S-Video itself to the AVR I have to select "Composite1"
as the video source (or otherwise only black and white video is
shown). All this analog technique is very strange.<br clear="all"><br>

Anyway, why connect an old VCR? Someone gave me a VHS tape with Steven
Spielberg's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/">Duel</a> (1971). Definitly worth to
watch for various reasons. <br clear="all"><br>

Oh, I replaced the front sattelite speakers with my old Grundig HiFi
Box 5500 speakers. Their larger volume is better suited for music
playback. The HKTS speakers are not very well fit for that. Seems
audio people in the internet are right after all :) Perhaps I should
replace the other sattelites as well and only keep the HKTS'
impressive sub. <br clear="all"><br>

Boring, aint it...]]>
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<title type="html">New audio toy, finally</title>
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Finally, I've managed to make a dream come true for me. I invested
some money I saved in a <a href="http://lkcc.org/gallery/avr235">home
cinema system</a> by <b>Harman/Kardon</b>. It's based on the AVR-235
A/V-Receiver which puts noise with up to 50W to 7.1 speakers. I use
only 5 speakers and the giant subwoofer of the HKTS 7 set. Content is
delivered by a DVD-47 also by HK (which other company uses this
acronym? Dont even think about it). <br clear="all"><br>

Hooking up the AVR is pretty flexible so I need this spot as a
reference for my configuration: 

<ul>

 <li>The DVD player is connected with S-Video, Optical 2 and Coax 1. I
 use optical, usaully - just bough the coax cable accidentally.</li>

 <li>My SB Live is connected with analog 5.1 to the only analog input
 called 6/8 channel direct. This allows multichannel output from the
 computer but disables any DSP processing in the AVR.</li>

 <li>The on-board sound card is connected to Optical 1 but not
 configured and untested. Will be interesting.</li>

 <li>The TV card is both connected to line-in of the SB and to Video 1
 of the AVR. This allows for Dolby decoding of TV audio and provides
 emergency TV audio in "computer mode".</li>

 <li>The video output of the AVR is is connected via S-Video with the
 TV card. To watch a DVD the xawtv input source has to point there and
 the AVR has to be set to DVD. Note: Do not confuse with TV mode where
 the video signal is not passed through the AVR so the OSD doesnt work
 there.</li>

 <li>I should hook up the old VCR to Video 2 for the fun of it and
 perhaps some other audio-capable devices (Apple SE, Sun Sparc) to
 Video 3 and 4. Let's see...</li>
</ul>

The sound quality is great. My ears aren't used to anything but this
is the best audio equipment I ever had. And it looks cool, too. <br clear="all"><br>

A note to the music industry: Mark my words: I will _never_ buy a SACD
or DVD audio. This is really too bad, because I have all these great
audio devices that use lossless digital connections. But for some
reason the DVD player is only allowed to playback SACD/DVDA (which is
multi-channel capable) via a lossy analog cable. As far as I
understand it, this is a restriction specifically wished for my
"content providers" (or those who call themselves that). Now, this
wouldnt be more than an inconvenience with some proper cabling, but
there is only one 6/8 channel input - and I need that one for my
primary entertainment device (which accidentally is controlled by me).]]>
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<title type="html">Debian key A70DAF536070D3A1 (different this time)</title>
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Hm, seems as Debian Etch is converging towards being stable some key
magic is to be applied again. Symptom on apt-get update:

<pre>
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
A70DAF536070D3A1
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
</pre>

Now, as <a
href="http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/11#comment_3">this
message explains</a> a proper way of obtaining this key (which seems to
be the etch release key) is:

<pre>
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring/unstable
</pre>

or when you are using sid (or whysoever):

<pre>
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
</pre>

And that's it. Let's see if I remember that next year :)]]>
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<title type="html">Update: Low power/noise appliance</title>
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                                                <![CDATA[PS: I had to move the MySQL database(s) away from the hard disc,
too. Turns out that the InnoDB backend writes something every hour and
a half or something, even when the application is idle (some kind of
check- or savepoint, I guess). <br clear="all"><br>

There are still some unaccounted spin-ups that are hard to track
down. To get to the bottom of those one requires some tool that can
tell when the discs turned on. Together with the respective timestamps
a pattern should show. Does anyone have an idea? Perhaps there is a
SMART attribute indicating something related to motor movement (I know
there is a spin-up time that probably changes a little everytime the
disc turns on). <br clear="all"><br>

PPS: When I described the hardware of the machine, I forgot to mention
something rather annoying: It runs out of random bits. The symptom is
a blocking /dev/random device (which produces good random bits) which
in turn makes exim block for long amounts of time when delivering mail
with SMTP/TLS. Test your entropy:

<pre>
 cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
</pre>

It usually shows values between 3000 and 4000 but on blackbox it
frequently goes down to 0. The reason seems to be that the entropy is
largely derived from hardware interrupt timings but leaving out
sources that might be controlled from the outside (NICs, they
say). This excludes most of the IRQ sources on this host (the HDDs
are intentionally left idle most of the time). <br clear="all"><br>

The workaround is to make the applications use /dev/urandom (which
produces pseudo-randomnes). This is actually bad but the only usable
solution. I do the switch globally with a symlink which sometimes is
reset by a Debian update.]]>
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<title type="html">One of those Debian + Rest-of-the-world stories ...</title>
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                                                <![CDATA[Oh boy. This morning I was struck by <a
href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393123">this
bug</a> - an update of mozilla-thunderbird killed my mail
program. Turns out that the debian package thunderbird is no more,
it's called <b>icedove</b> now. Why, oh why? Apparently Debian is <a
href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622">not
allowed to use Mozilla trademarks</a> for their version of Seamonkey,
Firefox, Thunderbird (and whatnot).<br clear="all"><br>

While this is legally "understandable" it's bad to install different
packages now because of some dispute about a logo copyright. So just
as a reminder to myself: Thunderbird is icedove, Mozilla is <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">Gnuzilla</a> and Firefox
is IceWeasel. I hope those programs keep their files in my home
directory in the old locations. <br clear="all"><br>

/me shakes his head and goes back to work.]]>
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