a week , today, and everthing else

SICK! Yes last week wasa bad week for me. I fell ill last monday and styaed ill the whole week. It was cruel. Slept from monday to thoursday. I don't want to tell more about, it was so terrible.

Today I feel very well again. Work is fun and it is the last week before my x-mas holidays.

This is a picture taken by a webcam just a few minutes ago at the turracherhöhe, which is the place I will spent my holidays at.
I was there two weeks ago and I was shocked! NO SNOW! It was a lot to warm, but now it seems as snow is comming and maybe it will be enough to build a little snowbar for the new-years-party.

I am really looking forward for my holiday. My last one is so far in the past.

Catching light - Calling it reflection

My Picture archive is complete now. Works fine. I added a link in the link section in the sidebar - My Pictures. This link guides you to a subsection of my homepage. I try to keep it up to date and I'll try to add new pictures as fast as I can., so have a look every now end than.

The new forum system is still in development. Nothing to test so far, but I think it won't take me too long to finish it.


WHY SHOULD I SLEEP?

Life

Coding is fun. I spent the last two evenings with creating a little picture gallery. Will use it. The next thing will be a new forum. These two things were the only things that somebody used on my hp. so i think I will reduse my hp two these things. Two completly independent things. Easy to refactor.

I am bretty happy that this week work end on thursday, but who isn't happy about that? Today I am alone at work. A bit boring, but work lets time go by pretty fast.

Life isn't that bad.

mCORE phase1 - Complete

Found a funny IT-Hardware shop yesterday.
Wanted to buy a Case, but....







Bought a lot of things:

• D-Link PCI USB 2.0 Card
• Ultra-Silent Fan
• LG DVD-Drive
• Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

After putting it all together (a lot of work) I connected it to my TV. The Ubuntu LIVE-CD worked fine until the X-SERVER started up. Then the screen was black.
So I decided to use a simple Monitor to configure everything.





Ok it looks a bit wired. Today I try to get the TV connection working. I hope it is just a problem with the screen resolution.
Then I have to install all the multimedia packages such as mplayer, xmms and so on.
After this phase 1 is complete.
Phase 1 you ask? Yes phase 1. The next step - not sure when this will happen - is to add a TV-Card and build my own Harddrive Recorder to record TV. I Hope.

One additional thing to do is to mod the case. Fun work. Paint, lights, fans. Maybe next week.
So let's see what happens to this project. You can read about this here soon.

pile of broken glas

..that's how it feels.
Chaos is the beginning of everything - I hope!
Yesterday I managed to get a connection to my TV. After this I dismantled everything. Now I have a huge heap of micro-electronic.
My first idea was to build my own custom case. I came, I saw, I resigned. So I will buy a suiteable case today.
The next challenge is to get a operating system that fits my needs. Ubuntu? Of course, but Gnome is a little to heavy.
So I will install Fluxbox after configuration work is done.
What will happen then? I don't know. I will write about soon.

PS: Here are some more pics of my work at the moment!

M-CORE Project

I have a dream...
Some time ago I wanted to build a multi-media center for watching dvds, digital movies (avi, divx, mpeg, ...), playing mp3, cda, .... etc.
That doesn't seem to be a problem, that can't be hadled by my dvd player, but - and here comes the point - I want it to have a harddisk and a firefox for browsing the internet!
So I have to build a customized pc.
My first plan was to customize an old dell Desktop, but there was no AGP bus on the motherboard so I had no chance to connect a graphic card with S-VIDEO output.
Now my plan is to mod my sister's old pc. A lot of work, it seems.
I will write about my troubles and advantages soon.

I played on emergence day

Friday 17th of November 2006:
Putting the Game into my XBOX 360 - Watching a boring EPIC LOGO fly over the screen of the HD TV at home - Entering GEARS OF WAR main menu.
Me and my girlfriend began with the CO-OP campaign. The first pictures we saw weren't really impressive, but....

...just a few seconds later we were stunned by a graphical perfection we have never seen before and a really cool movement and camera system.

I won't tell you much about the story, but I can tell you that it is worth watching the cutscenes. (everything made with this great ingame graphic - Unreal3 Engine Rocks!!)

The gameplay is really really cool. Keeping your head down is the only way to survive. Hiding behind walls, cars, or anything else that's big enough and jumping from a safe place to the next. You can just fire some shots blind out onto the field or stand up for a second to get some precise shoots. I think my words can't explain how great this feels and looks. You have to do it on your own.
The Locust Horde - your enemies - aren't only ugly big and brutal they also act very tactical. You will never see one of them standing in the field just waiting for you to end its virtual existance. They are allways hidden behind something that's big enough and just lean out to do a few very pricise shots or to give one of the other enimies cover.
Sounds difficult? Sounds like a lot of fun!

Multiplayer:
JUST GREAT! Playing with some other guys a 4on4 deathmatch in a photorealistic enviroment with endless tactical possibilities is so much fun.
XBOX-Live really does a good job. Nearly no lags and very high framerate.

I played nearly all the time this weekend and I am really looking forward to play more multiplayer matches this week and finishing the Campaign in CO-OP next weekend.

EVERY WHO IS LOOKING FOR A REASON TO BUY A XBOX 360 - GEARS OF WAR! One of the best games ever.

I PLAYED ON EMERGENCE DAY

UNCUT FOR AUSTRIA

I hope this pic says more than a thousand words. Lucky day for austrian xbox 360 owners like me. GEARS OF WAR - UNCUT! I LOVE IT FOLKS!

release date

Today it is the 17th of November 2006. It is early in the morning and I am sitting at work. In a few hours I will run to my car and go to a games shop. I realy hope that the realse dates of the two games I was wating for so long is realy today.


That's one them. I have allready played the demo and I was extremly impressend. After Tony Hawks 2 the series got worst with every new version, but this demo makes me feel like this one could be the best I've ever played!

The other one is GOW. Gaming magazins are talking about it as the best game 2006. It won't come out in germany, because it is to brutal. I am a lucky austrian.

So lets hope I will find what I am looking for today.

I don't know what I am ought to say!

I've got an F and C and I've got a K too. The only thing that's missing is a....

Sorry, I can't get this song out of my head.


...like U.



I feel like my creativity has forsaken me. I don't know what to say, to do or anything else. Damn.

a overhasty speech

Dignified audience!
First I want to thank all you guys walking this path with me for two long years. It wasn't easy and it won't get better I think. We all through away our selfs and trusted the ones that guided us. Now we know better. Trust does no longer exist. Dependence is the only thing that keeps us following this path.
I learned a lot of things in the last two years. About trust, deception, friendship, worship, truth and that this world isn't like it seems (and that everybody knows this, but no one is man enough to say so).

I learned that a word doesn't mean anything. I learned that beeing your self and giving your best doesn't help you at all. I learned to cope with this.

SALENDRON

My TV hates me!

TV is getting worse every day - nothing new, but yesterday I really felt like TV hates me!!!

I was watching TV-Total and Stefan Raab's showband was playing a Metallica song while a german wannabe rockstar entered the studio.

I do not say that the band is bad, but for me hearing this band playing a Metallica song, is like hearing Tori Amos (and that's not bad enough) playing NIRVANA songs!

In fact she did play nirvana songs. Some years ago I found a 'Smells like teen spirit cover version' by Tori Amos. That was scary.


So after this shock of seeing a showband playing and destroying a song from metallica, TV gave me the next frustrating thing to look at.
Sky Du Mont with an Alien-Ware laptop playing the new Anno-Game. I don't know if Sky is interessted in computer games, but I AM! - Ok I don't care about Anno, but about the Alien Ware Laptop. For the first time in my live I envy Sky Du Mont!

TV hates me and TV likes to frustrate me. Just think of any washing powder commercial. They are uncreative, senseless, unrealistic and the actors are allways so bad! Or think about soaps or telenovelas or rington commercials! Look what they have done to my former best friend! My TV.

Hello, Mr White.

Close your eyes and see the sky is falling.

Ok, it's snowing, but it always feels funny when you wake up in the morning and the first snow covers everthing outside the window.

I like mornings like this, even if it means that traffic is pure chaos. When I was driving to work today I wasn't really pissed of by traffic chaos, because the snow made me feel like nothing could be so bad as to make me feel bad.

So, let it snow, let it snow, let snow!

a 'monday' like no other.

Sry, but I really like this pic. Itsn't it better than any boring progressbar?

So here comes what I really wanted to say. I am a bit confused. It is monday - ok in fact it is thursday, but it feels like monday. Isn't that funny?

Ok in fact it is kind of wired to have two days that feel like monday in one week. Who this could happen? Easy. Yesterday was a hollyday. I like hollydays at the middle of a week.

Usually these 'monday' don't feel so extremly like a real monday, but this one does. So let's hope that this friday tomorrow will feel like a nice short friday!


A few thoughts running through my mind:
If I go crazy, will you still call me superman? - thx to three doors down.

Halloween Horror Story - Chapter 2

Good evening children.

Halloween is just a night away so it's getting time for me to tell you another horror story for bringing you in the right mood.

This story is called

THE BANE OF "DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME"

It all began saturday evening. I went to town with some friends to have a drink or two. (ok, maybe I had more than just two drinks, but who cares)
I got home at 2AM unsuspecting that something strange will happen very soon. I was very tired so I felt asleep very soon.
As I opened my eyes at sunday morning my big analog clock on the wall in front of me told me that it was 11:00AM. I didn't really cared about it, but as I saw my cell-phone I was a bit confused. It told me that it was 10:00AM. A nother look at my analog clock on the wall approved my suspicion.

SOMETHING HAS MANIPULATED THE TIME-WARP-CONTINUUM!!!!!

Maybe I am trapped in a time-trap. Maybe I made a time travel during I was asleep!

WHAT HAPPANED TO ME!!!

I tried to find some more clocks to look what time they showed me. They all told me that it is an hour to early. I was nearly getting crazy.

So I asked my best friend - Google - for help.
What I found out was even more horrific. In 1907 someone called William Willett wrote an essay with the title "The Waste of Daylight". Because of this a lot of countries decided to create the so called "Daylight-saving-time". This means that time is different in summer than in winter. Two times a year (ones in spring and ones in fall) clocks are jumping an hour forward or backward.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THEY ARE STEALING TIME FROM ME IN SPRING!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THEY ARE GIVING IT BACK TO ME JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN!

WHY?
The official reason is that because of the summer-time you don't need so much electricity because sun shines longer in the evening.
Isn't that stupid? In fact a study shows that we need even more electricity, because of the summer-time, because the heating cost in the morning in the colder month are much higher.

So what is the real reason?
Think about that and happy halloween to all of you!

Halloween Horror Story - Chapter 1

Good evening children.
Halloween is just a few days away, so I think it's getting time to tell you some scary stories to bring you in the right mood for this mystic night.

My first story is about the most evil thing in our food.

GLUTEN

If you don't know what that is, ask wikipedia ( -> Gluten )

A lot of food has a little sentence at the end of the ingridients list.

DOES NOT CONTAIN GLUTEN

So that means gluten are evil.

I think I have to explain this.
If it is worth to tell us that something doesn't contain gluten, it means that it wouldn't be good, if there were some. According to that and because the opposite of good is evil, gluten are evil. I think. *gg*

Now let me tell you about the scary thing that happened to me.
My sister brougth me a chees-corn snack. I was very happy about this. I really like chees.

But suddenly I recognized how evil they are!!!
There was a little warning on the backside, ( A very little warning!!!! ) telling me that there are gluten in it!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Gluten!
THE EVIL GLUTEN ARE GOING TO.....to.... to.................welll...........
..........give me a second...........

What are they going to do? During informing myself about gluten, I found out that there are gluten in a lot of food and if I don't have a genetical failure, they won't do anything.
So................


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GENETICAL FAILURE!!!!

...oh... sry................... I just wanted to panic again.

So I got nearly killed by a heartattack, because of a little warning on the backside of a chees-corn snack. I think that's really scary. *gg*

Now I have to say good night children. I wish you nice dreams and beware of the gluten-warnings!

suddenly i understand

My girlfriend - also a apprentice of informatics - ones told she wants to get a gardener. Now I understand. during debugging through a VB6 project - the code is extremely confusing - I found a a variable which was probably the worst line of code I've seen.

intÜberIndex = 1

For those of you who aren'tr allready screaming : There is a Ü in this name. You can't use a letter like this in your code! That's not right! But the really shocking thing is, that this programm is in use and works - WITH THIS Ü IN IT!

It's so crazy. I am really upset now.

I want a pony, daddy! - YOU GET A MUSTANG

Thx Sun! Even if the name MUSTANG isn't correct anymore, it makes me very happy to hear that Sun brings out JAVA 6 in the first week of December this year! This is my xmas present from sun. I am really looking forward to it, because I heard so many rumors about it and how many cool features it should include.

According to Sun the release was planned for October, but there are some bugs that have to be fixed, Sun tells us.
I am not sad about the release-date beeing moved, because I prefer a stabel and well tested version.
So thank you Sun for making me such a great present for x-mas. I think I will like this toy!

excursive the second

You might should enlarge this image by clicking it! - Just for understanding.

Why english again? I think it's better this way.

So it is friday. I like it. My plans for the weekend? Having some beer with some friends, going out a bit, playing on xbox live and sleeping a lot. So nothing concret. That's the way I am, excursive.

Go-Live

Da sich meine Freizeitbeschäftugung mitlerweile abgesehen vom AJAX und Python rumprobieren fast auschließlich auf XBOX-Live zocken beschränkt finde ich ihr sollt auch daran teilhaben. Deshalb gibt es jetzt sowohl auf meiner HP als auch hieri m Blog meine Gamercard, mit der ihr meinen Vortschritt verfolgen könnt. Sollte noch jemand von euch PGR3, Marble Blast ultra oder auch Burnout Revenge Live zocken, könnt ihr mir ja einfach mal eine Nachricht an meinen Gamertag schicken und dann mal sehn ob wir zu einem Spielchen kommen.

hf gl Salendron