Its Thursday. I overslept today. Came to work at about 10:30. A little too late. I don’t know why I came late really. My alarm went off as it should at 7, and I got up and everything, but for some reason I went back to bed, and fell asleep not waking up again until about 09:50.

Since It’s soon weekend, and I know a lot of you technology hungry geeks out there just looooove the idea behind RSS-feeds; So. I am somewhat proud to present the “nh:rss-feed” to you. (The code should validate as valid RSS 2.0.) You’ll see the link just above the top of the weblogs. And for the weekend-part, I’ll be having fun. I love it. In fact, I’m still very much in love. Live life to the max. Power to the people.

Midweek. That means that it’s now been 3 weeks of joy. I don’t think I’ll have to explain more about that. In other news the clock is ticking quickly as we’re moving towards a new weekend. This weekend I have a lot of things in stock. Friday opens with a birthdayparty. Saturday I have agreed to be a voluntary guard/tech-person at the yearly First Lego League (FLL). My tasks will be to guard an elevator and a doorway to the technical presentation room from 1100 until 1430 and that means that I’ll have to get up a tad early. Not as early as last year tho (!) when I got up at 0630 to help rig the hall and didn’t go home until midnight. After the job as a guard I hope to have some time to take a little walk, or atleast eat dinner before going to Samfundet to be a wardrobe-guard (or whatever you want to call it) from 1800 until 0330. Sleep anyone?

Sunday will probably be quite relaxing when you look at the bussy schedule for the other two days. Maybe a movie, a good dinner or a little walk if it’s suitable. Let’s not plan too much ahead shall we? It’s Sunday. Sleep until noon may be an option.

Yesterday I helped Ivar (smygarn) with his workstation. It now runs SUSE Professional 9.1 Linux with all the whistles and blows you’d expect from that. Fully installed and updated the beast consumed more then 4 GB of harddiskspace. After installing Ivar looked very happy to find that he only needed to plug an Ixus 4 camera in and launch Digicam from the menu to view thumbnails of the images from the camera, downloading, etc. The now Novell-branded Red-Carpet tool also seemed to fit in his dream of a perfect Linux desktop. I bet he’s still doing mod’s on the desktop, since KDE and Gnome both look ugly by default.

Tonight it’s time to go to Samfundet again. I’ll be there at about 1730ish to do some work before the indoor hockey championship we’re having at 1900 – Not looking forward to being beaten to pulp by some 1.90m. tall dude from LØK or KLST. Atleast I’ve got my backpack with a clean t-shirt and some comfy shoes to play in.

Still very in love. *:)

What’s really silence? It’s not to be found anywere I work or live I am sure. On a normal day I don’t think there’s ever totally quiet around me on weekdays. Maybe a stroll in the park or up a mountain hill will give me silence, but I doubt there’s silence there either. So what’s this urge for silence? Well. It’s too much noise in the world. The search for perfect silence is on. I don’t think I’ll ever find true silence, because that would mean sucking out the very air I breath, but something close to a ‘quiet place’ where there’s no car’s, no airplanes above or the sounds of computers humming, that’ll find. Someday. For now I’ll have to stick with something a little closer. A walk in the park, or around town.

Here at work it’s been hell. I’ve been serving customers alone all day, since none of the bosses fancy picking up the phone it just keeps ringing when it rings, and the other two drones are both gone for techie-classes, so I’m stuck here, solving stupid customer problems. Let’s just say that salespeople should never be leat near installing computer programs, atleast not when they’re not your salespeople and the customer are your customer. That’s a disaster waiting to happen. This one happened tho (Yes Jorunn, that slang is allowed!). I’ve been doing reinstalls of SuperOffice all day to clean up after this picky salesperson who think’s he’s an computer software expert who messed up both a server install and five client installs yesterday. Way to go. The good thing is that we’ll probably send the bill to him.

Right now I’ll be going over to Ivar (smygarn) and try once and for all to convince him that Windows sucks. He believes that just because he has this friend who codes stuff in .Net he has to follow suit if he want to use the things his friend code. I tell him other. Equipped with the Novell SuSE 9 Pro DVD’s and a chunk of time this little tale will get a Linux ending.

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It’s monday. Monday morning. In my part of the world it’s not raining right now. It may rain other places. This morning I had a hard time getting up. After falling asleep on the couch last night while watching the ‘Making of’ DVD about Forrest Gump, I got in bed at about 0130 and woke at 0834, a little too late in my book, but I made it to work at 0900 anyways. Right now I’m looking at todays tasks, and feel a bit disapointed. It’s just routine. I want something to learn from, move on. I would like a project, something to learn from and enjoy while I do. I hope I’ll get one of those soon.

According to my webserver logfiles Andreas (falxx) may have finally moved his ass from Berg to Bloksberg with Heidi. I think that’ll be good 🙂 Congratulations to you both. Also in my webserver logfiles I have discovered a negative trend. There are way too many hits towards two of my images from ‘weird’ sites in the .us. The hits show up as single GET’s for the imagefiles crystal_rose in it’s yellow and red editions. Hence, I investigated and foud a few sites using my pictures as background images without having made a local copy. This annoyed me quite a bit. To fix this I found mod_access_referer, an Apache-module that allows me to limit access to certain parts of a website to allowed referers, and even block specific referers. I decided to block the referers rather than to block any access from other places than my own page. After all, I do have an open mind about the web and want people to look at things from what ever site they want, but I do not want to stretch my usage of the network-card more than I have to.

Saturday I got to Samfundet at about 22, and had some beer, with Stein Magnus (jodal), Vidar (canidae), Magnus (donkey), Silje and Mads (Madsy). ‘Some beer’. Got home about 0430. Don’t remember much from after 0230. Just fine.

Sunday were good. Jorunn joined me for visiting my dad and stephmom for his 48th birthday, and we had dinner with them, my brother and one of my stephmoms auntkids. My uncle and aunt showed up for some coffee and cake. After the cake me and Jorunn decided to go to the cinema and watch a movie. Shrek 2 aint such a bad movie. The plot are quite straightforward. You know what you’re gonna get, but the animations are nice and I enjoyed the artwork. Relaxing.

Now, it’s soon lunchtime. That means I get to go shopping! (lunch) and eat two slices of bread with some topping. I think I’ll grant myself a glass of milk too. Love is all around.. Feel it 🙂

The plan afaik:Friday: Eat dinner CC-drone at Samfundet from 2030 until 0330 Saturday morning. SleepSaturday: Food Walk some Buy a birthday gift for my dad Movies (there’s a national cinematic day on Saturday!) Dinner Out? SleepSunday: Food Walk some? Birthdayparty with the family + dinner Sleep?What’s your weekend plans?I guess I’m going to be bussy all weekend then. Whatever! Love you *:)

So far, today have been a mess. At first when I got to work everything seemed nice and dandy, but then it came to my attention that one of our SMTP gateways had crashed, and I rushed into the case to solve it. After a little reboot it became apparent that the server lacked a little memory to do it’s job and I quickly found 512 MB og registered SDRAM for it. Also when I wanted to see if the thing could boot, it greeted me with a “LI”-prompt, not a “LILO %version”. This usually means there’s something wrong with the config, or that LILO can’t figure out what device to boot from. So, armed with the beefed up memory and a debian-installer CD I rebooted the machine again and did the needed trix to get LILO to boot.

The trick is quite simple; boot with an 2.6-kernel preferably in expert-mode (expert26) along with a nice little parameter: “ramdisk_size=128000”. This will give you a nice ramdisk space of about 122 MB RAM. After going through the initial steps of selecting keyboard and checking for hardware you simply swith to tty2, with Alt+F2. Here you now may set up the ramdisk as a new partition, and so I did with the command “mkdir /tmp2;mkfs /dev/ram1; mount /dev/ram1 /tmp2”. This create the dir /tmp2 and mounts the ramdisk there after creating a filesystem (ext3 by default) on it. Now it’s time to mount the real disk, which may be found in /dev/devices/host%/.. and so on. I mounted the / root-device as /tmp2, and mounted the orginal /tmp and /var underneath this mount. After doing this the whole thing boiled down to a simple “chroot /tmp2” followed by a “vim /etc/lilo.conf”, only to discover that the config had one char too much in it. I changed “boot=/dev/sda3” to “boot=/dev/sda”, wrote the config, ran lilo, rebooted, and everything went back to normal. That is, now with half a gig of memory to push email. That’s something atleast.

Don’t you think it stops here. No, to add up on my little server-fun the phones haven’t been quiet today. There have been customers calling non-stop since 0800, and both me, who came in at 0900, and the fellow coworkers in the noc are quite tired right now. I still got three hours left at work, not to mention that there’s a Samfundet-meeting today about school politics that I’d really like to attend at 1900. Oh well, another call incoming.

Last night were worknight at Samfundet again, and I also got to follow Jorunn quite a bit down the road to a bus-stop. Talked abit about everything and nothing, and I really like her more each minute. It’s been two weeks and I’m not coming down from the skies yet. Love you *:)

So it seem that John Kerry may or may not become the next to walk up to the White little House in that fancy garden in Washington D.C. George W. Bush may have had a little help from his brother again, but hey, that’s just how things are over there, acording to what I’ve read and heard the past 24 hours.

Totally unrelated, ofcourse, I’ve had a little election by myself today. Workout or sleeping late. Workout won. At 0715 I came to 3T and did 1,5 hours of workout. Bikeride, jogging and situps today. I wonder what’ll be next in line. Maybe lifting some weight.

Early this morning Henrik (vlad) also left for Fredrikstad. He’s been here for 3 days and it’s been fun and all, but now I have to call it quits for a while. The visits from friends have to take a pause while I regroup, clean my home and do the work I am suppose to do there (moving a new closet for clothes into one of the rooms and fixing up the computer-room). When work ends today, I’ll go home and do some dishes, then I’ll go for ITK and the daily dose of “work” at Samfundet. I type work with exclamation marks due to the fact that I really love the things we do at Samfundet. It’s plain fun!.

This little tune came floating to my ears from Sylver, a soft vocaltrance artist from Belgium that have from time to time done a few nice covers.

There’s a new star in my sky.I’ve only known you for a while.But my heart seem to surrender to your loveI’m a victim of your smile.
Forever in love – You and I,Forever in love – We both know whyAs the days go by there’s only one thing I knowwe have to give it a try.Forever in love you and I,As the days go by there’s only one thing I knowwe have to give it a tr-y.

I think that sums it up quite nicely *:)

I’ve given a lot of time recently to thinking about what to do to move on with my technical education. I’ve decided that to get along the path I want to I have to do some math. This means going all the way back to 1 MA at Highschool. After that I’ll have to look at 1 MX and 2 MX. This means a lot of reading and math for me, but I have to try.

At work there may be an opening in the sky. If I get the 1 Ghz machine laying by my side at the moment to work in Debian and use VMWare I may be able to still run Linux after all. Maybe. I have to see how my bosses react to my little project first, so I have to do it during the weekend or maybe quiet hours from 16 to 1700 when it’s just me and the computers here. Today I’ve atleast gotten email back to working when I figured that Thunderbird did not enjoy the Enigmail plugin from MozDev. Thus I went with Mozilla and installed the Mozilla suite. Together with GnuPG for Windows I am now able to send and recive encrypted opensource email. On Windows. This means that I can go back to doing the registry-work and send/recive emails with NORID’s automagical processes.

Last night, it being Monday and all I worked at Samfundet. Tried to help out where I could. Did some cable-patching and hung up some cables on one of the walls in the Bodega. Also, Jorunn told me that she had misplaced or lost her Visa-card during the weekend. We went to the Shell Gas-station near by to check if it were there, and to our joy they had it behind the counter. I think it might have been the fact that the Gas-station only had small change to give us back when we wanted to get some hard cash on Saturday that made us forget it, as we had to stuff our pockets full of 20-kroner coins and so.

Yet, its soon midweek again. Still very much in love. I feel more and more connected and enjoy every single second of life as much as I can. Since I know you’re reading this Jorunn; I love you. <3 See you soon! *:)

Early rise, early shine, or something like that. Got up at 0807 this morning. Got to work at 0854, six minutes early. Gee. Last night Henrik (vlad) came by. He’s stoping for a few days before he goes back to London and such. I guess he’ll call me when he wakes up. The weekend have been good. Went to the ITK anniversary and had a very good dinner. Then we went to Samfundet, and partied for some hours before going home. Sunday was slow. Not because it had to be, it just were slow.

After I came to work I’ve been thinking a lot about if or if not to start looking for new jobs. And, I’ve decided to start looking. It can’t hurt too much can it? So, I need to make a list of things I may want to do. Let’s see; IT – working with computers, preferably Linux and networking of any size. Hostmaster-roles are good too, to maintain domains etc. (NetCore may become a registrar in a while so maybe I don’t need that at work.) Sales. I can do sales. Mostly computerbased or phonebased, but yes, I can do sales. I think that’s it for now. Maybe there’ll be more things to add later. Updating my CV will probably take until newyears.

By the way; I’m in love, very much so. <3.