Sebastian’s blog

I started my MovDB2 development.
Some infrastructure decisions have been done, detailed on Infrastructure.
I also created the project at Google Code.
Let’s see how it turns out. :]

Posted on June 29th, 2008 under Software. Comments: None

(Photo by Blacksmith Institute/Andreas Haberman)
And suddenly, I’m again happy to live in Germany.
None of the listed cities is around here.

Posted on June 26th, 2008 under Life. Comments: None

No, it’s not a Trojan, it’s not a hack of your ICQ (god, ICQ users are gullible… for every glitch in the system, a Trojan explanation comes up)… instead it’s some byproduct of the ICQ6 upgrade process.
The ICQ help pages offer an explanation:
As part of the process of upgrading ICQ users to our newest, most [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2008 under Internet. Comments: 3

When Ubuntu 8.04 hit the streets in April, I was really annoyed: They had a new sound server (pulseaudio) that was supposed to be the next big thing; Yet, my 5.1 setup stopped working. My workaround was to go back to a “stereo 4.0″ setup, using a hardware audio duplicator.
The last days, I regained confidence [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2008 under Linux. Comments: None

Is spam actually getting less and less?
I remember times when I got a couple of hundred spam mails per week. These days I get about 1 per hour, so it can’t be much more than 200 per week.
It’s still much, but I have the feeling it’s getting better. Did spamfilters win this war?
What’s your experience? [...]

Posted on June 17th, 2008 under Internet. Comments: 3

I’ve always used a self-written webapp for managing my private movie collection. The app - “MovDB” - has been written prior to 2003, and is not really maintainable anymore (though it works quite well). It’s in perl and there are some features that I don’t need, and some that I need that are not in [...]

Posted on June 15th, 2008 under Software. Comments: 4

I usually like to buy tea collections: A huge package of 30 different teas, 2 bags per flavor.
With the last pack, I already had one flavor that I absolutely disliked. This time, with the current pack, I’ll write it down:
I hate Caiapó tea.

Posted on June 11th, 2008 under Life. Comments: None

Just got a spam mail: “Sie sollen Vi nicht einnehmen, wenn Sie eine Frau sind.” (”You can’t take Vi if you’re a woman.”)
So… does this mean Emacs is now doing e-mail advertising?

Posted on June 5th, 2008 under Internet, Linux, Software. Comments: None

From the Gentoo Wiki.

Posted on June 5th, 2008 under Hardware, Linux. Comments: None