Just did some small/short stuff before taking a shower…

50 “grabs”
40 “pushes”
40 “wraps”

Don’t have me explain it…

I knew there was a reason I didn’t like em:
The Webshite :: Nickelback

Did a small ride with my roller blades … about 50 minutes…

This is really usefull.
I hope I can remember them all.

Common Errors in English

Had a game yesterday.

Did the warmup,
but didn’t want to play with the broken finger.

Maybe this doesn’t even count as workout…

Two laps.
Warmup.
Some short sprints.

Cut down practice, since we have a game on sunday…

Why do bloggers kill kittens ?

The usual.

Two rounds for warmup … stretching’n’stuff.

About 30 short sprints ~10 yards each.

Nothing spectacular …

Since I don’t have time to fixup the layout … again,
but the original WP .css looks … hmmm … not really great.

I just snatched one from here:
One Fine Jay » Prettier WP stylesheet

WordPress 1.2 has just been released.

I’ll try to upgrade soon…

Red Hat Certified Architect

Curriculum

I did my RHCE(ngineer) last year.
This looks like something to go for.

I really don’t use RedHat that much … well, not at all.
I’m using gentoo and debian,
but it’s always good to see what the others are up to.

And RHCE is on of the most wanted/best paid certifications by employers…

I wasn’t sure if this counts … but I’ll note it down anyway.

Had a nice walk through the park with kathrin.
About 6-8km.

Quite fast pace … some joggers had problems keeping up

Since I skipped my workout yesterday and won’t be able to exercise this evening,
I decided to do at least “something” this morning.

Ended up doing:
100 Jumping Jacks
40 Crunches
100 hmmm … whatdoyacallem … “grabs” … you know … arms streched out and grab.

It’s not a lot,
but I have to keep the flow
while I’m very short on time…

Apparently we had an earthquake (3.0) about 5 miles from my home last night (around 03:50).

I heard it on the radio, I was sleeping like a stone.

Only thing I noticed was that one of my photos fell of the fridge … but that might not be related.

Just let iCapture do a quick preview of my site in safari.

It looks almost perfect:

The navbox on the right is too big,
but that’s going to go away very soon anyway.

They crave for a backlink, so here it is:

OK,

it’s running.

Look:

I fiddled a lot, so I’m not entirely sure what did here, but there are folks verifying it right now.

1. emerge x11-base/xorg-x11
This will run smooth, but the Xserver won’t work.
(Problem: elfloader can’t handle ppc64 relocation)

2. Convert .a and .o under /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ to .so
ld –whole-archive -shared -o ${file%.o}.so $file
or
ld –whole-archive -shared -o ${file%.a}.so $file
Be sure to move the .o and .a away.

This will ensure dlopen is used instead of elfloader.

[snip]
#!/bin/sh

for file in *.o
do
ld –whole-archive -shared -o ${file%.o}.so $file
mv $file ${file}_BAK
done

for file in *.a
do
ld –whole-archive -shared -o ${file%.a}.so $file
mv $file ${file}_BAK
done

exit 0
[snip]

3. Link together the ATI driver with all prereqs.
We have shared objects, so there are some missing external references.
ld –whole-archive -shared -o ati_drv.so ati_drv.o radeon_drv.o atimisc_drv.o fbdev_drv.o r128_drv.o vga_drv.o ../libshadow.o ../libshadowfb.o
(Not so sure about this, since my bash-history got overwritten, keep adding until there are no unresolved externals.)

4. Grab an xorg.conf.
xorg.conf
5. Try the server.
X … still fails … trying to load vgahw_drv, which wasn’t build.

6. Tweak the ebuild:
/usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1.ebuild
Look for
echo “#define HaveLib64 NO” >> config/cf/host.def”
(The exact position doesn’t really matter that much…)
Add
echo “#define MakeDllModules YES” >> config/cf/host.def
echo “#define XF86VgaHw YES” >> config/cf/host.def
echo “#define XF86FBDevHw YES” >> config/cf/host.def

7. emerge x11-base/xorg-x11
This fails

8. Finish the Xserver build manually
cd /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1/work/xc/programs/Xserver/
make

9. Copy the vgahw driver
cp /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/vgahw/libvgahw.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/

10. run X

11. be happy

12. tell the right gentoo folks, who might be able to really fix the ebuild.

13. donate $5 to unicef stating that “gentoo-ppc64 really rocks”

OK,

since the store is now finally available in germany I started to give it a try.

First impressions.

The software only works on OSX and Windows.
But we have VMWare to help.

Downloaded and installed the german version of the jukebox.
Problem 1:
Where the hell do I enter the store ?
OK, located … maybe I’m just blind.

Problem 2:
Why can I only create an US account ?
OK, the “if you are outside the US click here”-button is simply to tiny.

Problem 3:
I’m used to filling out forms only using the keyboard. How do I focus the listboxes ?
Not at all ? OK, let’s click them

I have an account … let’s start browsing…

Got a G5 Mac a few hours ago.
Wiped out OSX and started to install Gentoo.

LiveCD
and
Stage2 tarball

Happily building glibc right now.

Remember use the openfirmware shell (ALT-APPLE-o-f) to boot from CD if you simply don’t manage to hit “c”-key at the right moment.
To open the CD-Drive use the “eject” button on the keyboard.

MACs are sooooo user friendly.
It’s all very intuitve … not.

Just checking how long it will take google to pick this up.

I guess I’ll be searching for spongo hymatosis a lot from now on.