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Just got home from my last day at work. My parents are coming over tomorrow to help me pack up the last remaining things in my apartment. Then we'll drive to Lübeck, I'll "arrive" at my new place and get comfortable. In case I haven't quite mentioned it, I'm starting an apprenticeship as a "Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration" (pretty much SysAdmin) at soIT GmbH on Wednesday, Sept. 1st. I'm looking forward to that, I'm, confident I'll be successful in that (come to think of it, in the past 7 years I've become quite proficient at a job that I a. never properly learned, and b. that didn't at all fit my personality). Now I'm starting to work in a field that I've actually been interested in since childhood. Anyway, of course I'm also nervous. Change makes me nervous. I guess that's sort of normal. I hope the kids at school won't pick on me ... Tags: change, work
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Iron Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue (Live) | Powered by Last.fm
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Thought updating the driver might be a good idea. The manual that came with the network adapter explicitly stated not to install the default driver, but my Win7 does, without even asking first. The driver that came with the card is hopelessly outdated too, so much in fact that the website URL the config tool provides is wrong. That's the reason I've had trouble finding an updated driver at all. Anyway, in the end I did. Latest driver, updated config tool. No outages since then, but then I don't actually know what caused them in the first place, so I can't be certain. I guess I'll see in the next few days ... Bed now, work tomorrow. Tags: computers, internet
Current Location: Husum, Germany
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Instead of going for that real pricey D-Link setup, I instead bought a Digitus WLAN router and PCIe card today, for a mere ... 105€ I think. ... Anyway, setting up the router was quick and easy. Though for some strange reason, it worked fine after plugging in, but stopped working after configuring it. Nothing to worry though, resetted it, fixed the config, and it worked like a breeze. Setting up my phone to use the WLAN was about as easy as it gets too. Select WLAN, enter passphrase, done. The PCIe card was a bit more difficult though. I guess I could've gone with a USB dongle instead, but I only have two USB ports free, and those aren't on the back of the PC but on its side. And those two really are for quickly connecting / disconnecting stuff like phone, music player, camera, stick, etc. Nothing permanent should go there, just doesn't look good. Anyway, I've got two free slots in my PC that look PCIe'ish. The short one fits the network card quite nicely, but for some reason I couldn't get it to work in that. Got power, and its LEDs even showed an active link, but the comp didn't notice the card's presence at all. In the end I changed to the longer slot, which looks more like an extra graphics card should go there, and this one works. Windows found new hardware, drivers installed almost instantly, and no networks could be found. ... Fixed that by installing the drivers that came with the card instead of Windows' default ones. And now it works quite nicely. Satisfied with the results. Of course it'll be a few days before I actually really need the WLAN router ... Tags: computers, hardware, internet
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Iron Maiden - Satellite 15 ... The Final Frontier | Powered by Last.fm
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Froogle is a useful service and all ... as long as you're searching for the cheapest way to obtain one product. Doesn't help me much though. I've decided to buy: - D-Link DIR-655 WLAN router - D-Link DWA-556 PCIe adapter (because PCIe is the only free slot left in my PC) So, I can do a froogle search for the router to find the cheapest place to buy it, but the adapter might be more expensive, or unavailable, in that shop. So I'd have to froogle the adapter to find a shop selling that one cheap. Since I'd end up buying from two different shops I also pay twice for shipping. Worst case, I end up paying more than if I'd ordered from a shop that offers both, but at a higher price. So, why is it that froogle doesn't let me search for multiple products and displays shops that have all of them, combined? BTW, some shops offer those two D-Link products bundled, so I get sort of a proper result. But still, froogle should be able to do that IMO. Tags: computers, internet, money
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Iron Maiden - When the Wild Wind Blows | Powered by Last.fm
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So I read about the Mafia II demo being available. I liked the first one, and the second is one of the few games I'm currently looking forward to. But first, in order to even be able to download the demo, I had to install Steam. I've read a lot of good things about Steam, on /. among other places, in particular about the DRM being considered non-intrusive and therefore acceptable. Anyway, I'm tempted to just go right ahead and uninstall it again. What a piece of bloatware that is. First of all, after installation, the first thing I saw was an error message. Couldn't connect to server, couldn't update, aborting, etc. Not a good start. A few hours later it worked, and I set up an account. Subsequent attempts to launch it mostly resulted in it not logging me in. When I cancelled, and closed it, the task remained, seemingly zombified. Occasionally, it would pop up suddenly logged in a few minutes later (stealing focus an thus crashing Fallout 3 which I was playing at the time). When I then tried launching the demo it sat there "preparing to launch". Turns out it was downloading parts of the demo, and being very slow about it. Anyway, Steam will be kicked off the system as soon as Chrischi has seen the Mafia II demo. As for the demo itself ... How long did it take to play through it? 15 minutes? Not much of a demo IMO. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure yet whether this will be as much fun as the first one. There're certain things about the first one I disliked (some controls, sneaky missions, gameplay quirks etc). The second one seems to be "Mass Effect"'ified, same as many games lately. You have basically the same cover system which to me still feels unnatural. Maybe I've been playing games for too long, but when I want cover I run behind cover, I don't press a "use cover" button. Just as bad is being unable to leave cover by trying to walk from it - you have to press the "use cover" button again. And let's be honest here: The only real point to this is so that the developers can have cool looking, realistic, cinematic animations of the characters ducking into cover. If you didn't have to press a button for that they wouldn't know when to trigger the animations. Other than that? The game looks really really good. And feels very console'y, but I guess that was to be expected. Is StarCraft II being released for PS3 or XBox 360 anytime soon? Tags: games, internet
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Hourglass - Widowed | Powered by Last.fm
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Verbraucherministerium erhöht Druck bei Warteschleifen"Wenn ich zum Bäcker gehe, muss ich ja auch nicht dafür bezahlen, dass ich in einer Schlange stehe, sondern erst dann, wenn ich die Brötchen kriege", sagte der Chef des Bundesverbands der Verbraucherzentralen, Gerd Billen, der Nachrichtenagentur dpa. "Das Gleiche muss auch für Warteschleifen gelten." Tags: german, heise, internet
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Hourglass - The Hammer's Strike | Powered by Last.fm
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I just wandered through my apartment looking around for stuff that I've kept for real long. I noticed several plush toys. Two of them are plush seals. As a kid I really liked seals, I've had around 23 plush seals of various sizes. I still have two of those. More interesting though, is a weird plush worm thingy. It's got a wire inside so you can bend it any way you like and it stays like that. It was a present from my first girlfriend, which I guess means that I've had it for about 15 years. Oh wait, something else just came to mind: My ear rings. I'm so used to them that they didn't occur to me earlier. I never take them out (except for every few years to verify that they still do come out). I don't remember who I got them from, most likely from either my parents, my sister, or Alexandra. I don't recall exactly when I had my ear pierced, but since my parents' had to come along I assume it was when I was 14-15 years old. It was also around the time more than one hole through your ear was the "new" thing to do, but my parents didn't allow it. In the end I got one hole, but I've been wearing two rings through it since I saw someone doing the same thing at school. Tags: writer's block
Current Location: Husum, Germany
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Für meine Wohnung in Husum suche ich zum 01.09.2010 einen Nachmieter: 2 Zimmer, 3tes OG, ca. 54,89m², Flur, Vollbad, Küche, Schlafzimmer, Wohnzimmer, kleiner Abstellraum, PKW-Stellplatz. Miete 366€ + ca. 120€ Nebenkosten. Kaution 550€. Adresse: Adolf-Brütt-Str. 41
25813 Husum( Einige Bilder ... )Bei Interesse / für Besichtigungstermine schicken Sie mir bitte eine e-Mail oder rufen Sie mich unter der auf dem Aushang angegebenen Handynummer an. Tags: german, husum, wohnung
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: Lunatic Soul - The New Beginning | Powered by Last.fm
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According to my time sheet, I've had 26 consecutive work days. Those include Saturdays and Sundays, which I call "almost a day off" because they're only 4 and 2 hours, respectively. Anyway, since it's been a month since I took my wallet out of the vest I wear at work, I of course entirely forgot to take it with me for grocery shopping today. I only noticed when I tried to pay. Oops, I guess. Anyway, other than visiting the store twice today, I had breakfast, and then cleaned my place and washed some clothes. That's what I usually do on weekends. I'm mostly done now, so I guess the remainder of the day will be spent listening to music, watching some TV, and playing Fallout 3 which I re-installed a few days ago. I've started using twitter btw. Does that mean I'm twitting, or twittering, now? Anyway, I'm @ http://twitter.com/inanedirk so please make me feel important and add me d; Tags: internet, money, random, work
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: The Aurora Project - Within The Realms | Powered by Last.fm
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