As I woke up this morning I found that the temperature outside showed a fitting 12C already at 0730. Not bad for a Monday morning. The weekend were spent with friends and family, having a lot of good food, going to parties and relaxing at home. I even got to watch Star Wars Episode II with Jorunn. To get that one out of the question was a big relief. I have been holding up hard against spoilers for Epiosde III since I wanted to watch it with Jorunn. Haven’t been spoiled yet, let’s hope I can make it until tonight when we’re going to the cinema to finally view the piece.
On the bikeriding front it’s been a quiet week for the biketeam. Not much have been done in the field, but I have gotten my ass off the mark and bought SPD-pedals and a pair of Shimano-shoes to go with that. Also I got a new front light and a back light to mount on the bike, as they are both mandatory these days. To finish up I need to get that overall everyone else has with pockets on the back. I’m thinking about a green one, or maybe a red one.
After work today I’ll do some bikeriding, then go to the cinemas. If you have spare time I suggest you spend it outside even if it rains. It’s lovely out there right now.
If you think about it; 100 years may be a very short time. It’s like tossing a small stone in the ocean. Today a great number of people all over Norway helped mark the anniversary for the norwegian departure from the swedish-norwegian union. I myself did not help out. I find today a bit overrated. Maybe we should have just stuck with the swedes? I mean, it’s not like they have a shortage of fibreoptics, a working economy and some rather good plans for transportation of people, freight etc. These are things Norway lack, and will lack for quite some time if the elections later this year go as they seem to be doing as of now.
The real problem with Norway / Sweden is that we’re all too like, and all too different. We norwegians tend to look at our own belly and wonder what to do to please ourself today. So does the swedes too. I think a more united, border-free Scandinavia is the way to go. The only thing that lay as a bit of a burden on that idea is the lack of norwegian membership in the European Union. Denmark, Sweden and Finland all are part of it, and with Norway stuck on the outside, things will never normalize. The prices on food, services and other over-taxed norwegian government-supported monopolies will help boost, rather than halt, the differences between us and our neighboring countries. We may be able to stick with our precious EFTA-regulations for a while, but the day when the EU and our friends say ‘No way, Norway’ are soon coming.
Maybe we should have just stuck with Sweden. But wait, then we’d have missed out on all the fun with the royal family and their struggle with the media. Let’s not be all too aggressive here, but without our independence from Sweden we’d never seen Mette-Marit become crown princess. And without that, we’d never get to see and hear about her dad go nuts with some pole-dancer. Not to forget mr. Ari Behn and his famous books. No. Thankfully we became independent from Sweden in 1905. Let’s say our hurrahs for that and wave our banner high while we can.
Maybe we should have just stuck with the swedes?
I bet there will be a bunch of entries like this one all over the world, so here is my shot at it:
Today, the 6th of June 2005 the Debian Project released the long awaited Debian Sarge to the world. My congratulations go out to the many developers who have spent so many days, weeks, months, someone years to get this release out the door. Well done. The Debian Project have put up a news-item regarding the release.
Go have a beer!
After a few really boring months of only having IPv4 on my LAN it now may be a new period of joy and fun. Today I got my IPv6 subnet enabled from SixXS. The tunnel have been up for about two weeks and I have been playing with it now and then to make sure it works. I have even set up some ssh-sessions that run such programs like ‘who’ and ‘finger’ in a screen for the purpose of reading stability and so on. The setup seem to work nicely. Thus I present the following, a IPv6 traceroute, with working reverse and forwards. (The DNS may not be updated around the world yet.)
traceroute to 2001:16d8:26:: (2001:16d8:26::) from 2001:16d8:ff34:0:208:2ff:fe8f:ba57, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets 1 sixxs-gw.ov44a.nerdehaven.no (2001:16d8:ff34::) 0.648 ms 0.536 ms 0.366 ms 2 gw-95.sto-01.se.sixxs.net (2001:16d8:ff00:5e::1) 36.976 ms 41.673 ms 39.571 ms 3 2001:16d8:2::81 (2001:16d8:2::81) 37.27 ms 38.321 ms 37.253 ms 4 2001:16d8:26:: (2001:16d8:26::) 39.484 ms 38.078 ms 37.332 ms
There are some latency in the tunnel. Most of it comes from the fact that NextGenTel, my ISP, have never been able to provide a more robust physical connection after the former neighbors upstairs installed an ISDN-phone two years ago. They claim there is static interference on the network after their node, and that it may originate from within the house itself. I hardly doubt it. It’s probably just another ploy from those stupid people upstairs. "YAY, let’s install an ISDN-phone we don’t use, just to cause annoyance for the geek downstairs". Anyway, let’s not go down that road today. IPv6 is working and I can’t wait to get back home from work to do some real testing on it with a browser and all!
Sometimes you can’t hold it for one more day. Yesterday was such a day. I’ve been walking around with this little secret of my own and Jorunn’s for some time now. We’re moving in together in August. When the house at Solsiden is done we both grab our stuff and move it there. Yay! Er, I mean, there’s so much that should be done before the 23rd of August. We have to plan how things are going to look, pick furniture, a scheme of the network should look, etc, etc. The network will probably be a JV as Jorunn claim superior skills with the RJ45-patch-tools. Furniture will be bought from such places like IKEA, Bohus and Bolia.com.
During the dinner at my dad’s yesterday we told him and my stepmom. They took it with calm, expecting may be the word. After a little droddle about this and that they told that they had seen it coming for a while. Has anyone else seen this? I thought we had kept all hatches shut, but it may now occur to me that people see things I don’t realize are in plain sight. Oh well.. 🙂
We also found time to go down to Solsiden and sneak in and do some measurements yesterday. The closets had been put in order, and the dishwasher had been installed along with the refrigerator and the oven. A dubble RJ45 wallmounted network outlet were present, along with TV and radio outlets. For sure, the whole thing started to look rather ready for moving in!
It may be time for a little launch of a moving-in-website soon I guess.
The weekend is over. On friday we got invited to a little barbeque with some friends. Jorunn tried her best to keep up with the geek-talk about bikeriding, and I feel confident that she’ll make a good bikerider-"widow" when me and the rest of On.Wheelz.Biz head out on Styrkeprøven on the 24th of June.
Saturday we had a little bikeride, a mere 170 KM. Yeah, to Berkåk and back home. That’s about 1/3 of the distance of Styrkeprøven. The idea was to test our skills and ability to bikeride such distances. We can’t say we were displeased with returning after 6 hours and 50 minutes of bikeride + some 20 minutes breaks. Two hours ahead of schedule is something to get a little smile on your face about just three weeks before the big ride. Granted, we had some good winds on our way TO Berkåk, but we for sure had them in our face all the way back home. Anyhow, check out the graph for a little review of the track we did.
It seem that one thing we once thought about years ago have come to be reality — While trying to figure out a power outage in Trondheim I did a traceroute from my home ADSL provided by NextGenTel to NTNU. Amazingly enough it only took a mere five hops to reach the webpages of NTNU. Suddenly I realized that TIX, or TRDIX as it has been named we’re in business!
The following are the technical data about the peeringpoint found in RIPE:inetnum: 193.156.93.0 – 193.156.93.255netname: TRDIXdescr: Trondheim Internet eXchange
All fine and dandy there. Currently I have emailed the admin-c handle for the network, a not unknown ‘HE15’ to ask if it may be possible to get some info about how the IX is ran. I am waiting to hear from him 🙂
Just feel like putting in a little note that not every morning is a bussy thing. Today I feel slow. Like someone dragged me across the room, jumped on me, dragged me back and put me back in bed during the night. I wonder if I’ll ever know about that. Right. Sitting here at work now, trying to reach the usual contacts, getting things done. It ain’t good to feel sleepy, yet productive. Maybe a good email-session will help.
(Voice: that dark voice on all movie trailers from Buena Vista) This summer – A new party, will come. This time, there are computers, but now — there is a different show: Xplore gives you: Xplore with NoLimit!
From crap to serious. At the end of June (28th of June until 3rd of July) I’ll be at Verdal, NT to have fun at a computerparty again. Time off from work have been scheduled, and I intend to make sure I have a good time and enjoy whatever weather the summer will bring. Care to join us? Check out the webpages at www.xplore.nu.
Last night I was suppose to go to bed after having bikerided 50 km with On.Wheelz, but instead I decided it was time to implement backup at work. That is — my other job as an unix/linux sysadmin. A new custom-tailored backupsystem have been set in production and soon (after 2 hours of tailing of logs and watching iptraf) I had a system that worked. The system utilize some backup scripts put in crontab along with preexec commands for each machine and such. After thinking about it for a week it feels good that things now work like a breeze. A big thanks to myself for getting this one out the door. Now I only have one big project left in may: "out of office"-replies in Horde. I don’t like them, but the customers want them so let’s give it a go.
