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work the 4th day at the new company Mediaways… all in all it is the same as my previous employer ABACOM, the main difference by now is that it had 20 times more employees and a better internet connection ;-)

ok… i tried to write before, but my Netscape shit itself and i don’t wanted to start over again… ok, now i try lynx and here we go: home i’m happy that i found a new home yesterday. Now the stress starts… moving… buying furniture, install infrastructure … Debian after a long time thinking about it, i’ve now applied to become a Debian Maintainer… stay tuned.

hmmm… long time not here. ok. what’s on: Calamaris Calamaris is now stable on V2.40. I’ve asked on the announcement-Mailinglist if i should move development to Sourceforge, but no response :-/ Sun-Monitor The Master of Monitors found a bug, fixed it and it worked… for a few hours… then something else broke… not heared about it… going to bug him next week again. work still trying to find a new domicile, but it’s not easy to find something that’s big enough for my girl-friend and me. (she’s piano teacher). still trying.

Calamaris so i decided to call the last beta-version ‘stable’, and promptly someone finds a bug… ok, easy to fix… and yet another release… i think (again) that the next step for Calamaris is adding graphics… CoCaLoRes after releasing a first beta a few weeks ago, i now decided to announce it at Freshmeat. Now let’s see how big the ‘Freshmeat-Effect’ is… Those Sourceforge tools are nice. Sparc-Monitor Now a had to bring a Sparc-computer to the repair-shop, to check if the replacement tube out of an IBM-Monitor (it’s all Sony) is working… it does… for 2 minutes, then it went dark… hope that they find the bug and they are able to fix it.

Calamaris It looks like the current beta-Version is stable, so i’m going to promote it in the next days. Cocalores I’ve started a new project over at Sourceforge: Cocalores is the Configurable caching logfile resolver, a small tool which runs fine for me, and should parse every kind of logfile with fixed fields as in Common Log oder Squid Native Log. Without arguments it should work like Apaches logresolve, with arguments you can specify which field in the log should be lookuped, where it should cache and how long it should cache once lookuped data. ...

Calamaris Build another beta of Calamaris and fixed parsing of Extended LogFileFormat for use with the Novell Internet Caching Service and its relatives. SPARCstation 5 So, that Solaris could hold its position for ca. 2 more hours and than i installed Debian GNU/Linux. While transporting that monster to my car the monitor fell off my waggon… now it’s broken :-( Pissed for that weekend. Now it’s getting slowly better… sigh

Telco I can’t believe it… they fixed it within 26 hours. As far as i can see, the cable was broken somewhere where they build a cycleway or something… SPARCstation 5 I got it… i’m going to call it kurn as my other computers are named worf, alexander, mogh and jadzia… it has 64MB RAM and a 1Gig harddisk and now there is Solaris 2.7 on it… let’s see how long it takes that i wipe that out ;-) ...

Telco Fsck! they did it again… they cut off the whole village i live in from telephone service… (Last time is 9 months ago… it took 4 days before they started to work on the problem.) No Internet@$HOME since sunday afternoon… calling the service-hotline with the cell phone… after 30 minutes hanging on the phone listing an annoying melody and random disconnects i get an automatic ‘sorry: this number cannot reached from your phone’ WHAT? why could i call that number in the 30 minutes before without that message? Fsck. Switching over to the business hotline… after another 15 minutes hanging on the phone listening that annoying melody and random disconnects i finally reach someone and earn an ‘i assign a technican for tuesday afternoon or so’. hrmpf this sucks. (note to self: sell the stocks of Deutsche Telekom ASAP) ...

Calamaris finally: another beta-release of Calamaris. changes: bug fix on logfile-guessing. rudimentary support for Netscape Extended-Logfiles. I only had 7 lines of Logfile of that, so if someone have such a beast somewhere, it would be nice if he can provide me with a few hundred lines, so i can check and improve… Advogato.org How can i read older entries like in http://advogato.org/recentlog.html ? Maybe a function like in Freshmeats reset function?

Calamaris Found the time to look over the sources and found that in the current unstable is a bug… and that in the next unstable this bug is fixed and introduced another… no fun… hope i can fix this this weekend and release another unstable… Those people i asked for support, after they reported me a bug or something, don’t move… still no Netscape Proxy Extended-2 Logfile-snippet there. The hacker who added graphics seemed to be not ready in beautifying the code… it’s a long way to V3… sigh ...