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Today was the final of the concerto competition of the Academy of Performing Arts. I thought, a bit of culture would be nice once in a while. 😉 Even though I knew to expect a high quality of the presentations,…
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 on my Vostro, two things rather annoyed me: Palm synchronization broken the visor module exits out with an obscure -5 error. I filed a bug-report but didn’t get any feedback. Possibly fixed in the near…
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Yay, finally! After prodding my line-manager for getting a new desk for ages – a colleague of mine referred to the old one as a teenage girl desk – I finally ordered a new one. A nice corner one, with…
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Oh man… This is starting to get really embarrassing for the university: the whole university network is inaccessible again. The second time within 2 days!! Looks like the DNS server died: nslookup www.waikato.ac.nz ;; connection timed out; no servers could…
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Phew… A few stressful weeks have finally passed and I’ve got time to post again. What happened? We had 4 fire-alarms in the last two weeks up at uni and only one of them was an actual drill… Our computer…
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Oh, and another thing… Went to the (for students free) concert up at uni on Friday night. They even had an R18 (I always forget that the kids here start studying with 17!) section where you could get alcohol. The…
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Ah, yes… The joys of o-week… The week normal staff don’t want to go over campus because there’s just way too many students around, blocking everything. Not to mention the noisy atmosphere at the banks, with several booths trying to…
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Oh bugger… Hab gerade eine Rundmail erhalten, dass Sir Edmund Hillary heute morgen verstorben ist. Unsere Fahne weht fuer diese neuseelaendische Ikone nun auch auf Halbmast. Hier ist sogar ein Stipendium nach ihm benannt. Ich hoffe ja schwer, dass dies…
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Sobald man in das Gebiet von GC/MS (das ist eine Kombination von GC und MS, mitunter kann das auch GC-TOF-MS sein) vordringt, dann hageln auf einmal Akronyme auf einen ein, dass alles zu spaet ist. Da muss man doch zuerst…
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Vor ein paar Wochen hat’s mir gereicht mit der schlechten Hygiene unter den maennlichen Besuchern der Toilette, hier an der Uni. Nicht nur, dass einige nicht duschen nach dem Sport (und dann dementsprechend miefend den ganzen Tag rumlaufen!) oder Mundgeruch…
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