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Comment on backups, again. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » encrypting partitions with luks.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » encrypting partitions with luks. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:06:03 +0000

[...] (which might go offline once), i decided to sum everything up in a post. parts can already be found here in this blog. note that the disk device name can differ from computer to computer, so i used [...]

Comment on me and my new toy. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » swallow the sun, insomnium and omnium gatherum in leipzig.

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:08:26 +0000

[...] the easiest to find. but eventually, we found it. fortunately, nobody complained that i took my favourite toy with me; so this time, i managed to make some good photos. i think that this concert was the best [...]

Comment on a western canadian vacation: calgary’s nose hill park. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » nose hill park, covered in snow.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » nose hill park, covered in snow. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:21:38 +0000

[...] weekend, it was rather cold outside, and pretty white. i did a walk to the nose hill park, enjoying the beautiful snowscape as well as the icy wind. here are some [...]

Comment on creative cooking: zucchini-mozzarella pancakes. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » spinach pancakes.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » spinach pancakes. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:32:23 +0000

[...] « creative cooking: zucchini-mozzarella pancakes. [...]

Comment on worst article on operating systems ever (read by me). by Kornel

Kornel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:55:37 +0000

Krass, krass, krass. Soviel Unwissen habe ich ja schon lange nicht mehr in einem Artikel gesehen. Jetzt weiß ich wenigstens, dass ich die Zeitschrift nicht in die Hand nehmen brauche, wenn ich sie mal beim Zahnarzt oder so finde…

Übel finde ich noch, dass als Spezialgebiete des Autoren “Betriebssysteme, Netzwerke, Handys, Sicherheit” angeben werden im Impressum. Wenn er sonst für was-weiß-ich zuständig ist und nur hier mal gepatzt hat, okay… aber so? Naja, vielleicht hat er ja wenigstens noch Ahnung von Mobiltelefonen…

Immerhin hat sie die niedrigste Bewertung im eigenen Bewertungssystem der Seite. ;-)

Comment on do it yourself. by felix

felix — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:32:28 +0000

in case anyone cares, i removed phpopentracker a long time ago…

Comment on forgotton trips: nose hill park. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » a western canadian vacation: calgary’s nose hill park.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:10:31 +0000

[...] one of the last days, we did a small trip to calgary’s nose hill park, where i have been before as well. here are a few [...]

Comment on mar de grises. by Hoshi

Hoshi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:27:30 +0000

Both Ahab albums are great, so I am sure you will like them. I’ve checked out the latest Mar de Grises album and I am blown away. Intense stuff. Thanks for you recommendations.

Comment on visiting calgary, part two: the zoo. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » a western canadian vacation: calgary’s zoo.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:13:12 +0000

[...] next, we did a trip to calgary’s zoo. [...]

Comment on backups, again. by felix

felix — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:27:44 +0000

note to myself: this document is also very useful, especially if it comes to the task to check the filesystem on the disk. for that, i connect the drive, do not mount it (or unmount it after mounting), and do something like sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 backup followed by sudo fsck -v -C -n /dev/mapper/backup and sudo cryptsetup luksClose backup note that the fsck will not* correct any errors, but report them instead. *depends on the filesystem; according to my fsck manpages, reiserfs will correct errors nonetheless, and other filesystems might not work. so, check it yourself before doing something.

Comment on eating vegetarian in calgary. by felix

felix — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:44:48 +0000

when we were in vancouver, we visited a vegan raw food place called gorilla food. it was really interesting to see what you can do without even cooking stuff. if we would have stayed longer in vancouver, we would probably have went there a second time...

Comment on mar de grises. by felix

felix — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:56:06 +0000

you also recommended ahab to me, whom i listened to a few times lately. i just ordered their albums, i think they're definitively worth it :)

Comment on mar de grises. by Hoshi

Hoshi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:38:19 +0000

I really like this band on the first listen. Will put them on my long shopping list. I recommend Griftegard to you who are another great doom band (slightly heavier though).

Comment on wikipedia – pro and contra. and some related ranting. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » mar de grises.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » mar de grises. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:58:42 +0000

[...] my post on wikipedia, i was complaining that the article about the chilenian doom metal band mar de grises has been [...]

Comment on backups, again. by felix

felix — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:35:55 +0000

i don’t like the idea of using a web-based service. what i would use is a webspace which only i can access. unfortunately, my server’s webspace is too small to store all photos (well, currently it has enough space, but not for too long anymore).

Comment on learning programming. by rebhuhn

rebhuhn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:52:36 +0000

i’m enlightened by your praise of dibo – because i felt exactly the same about his programming lectures.. :) greetings from the woods!

Comment on backups, again. by Kornel

Kornel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:07:27 +0000

I think for a while now about using a web service like picasa or flickr for at least non-private photo backups (with the positive side effect that other people can find and use them under some CC license). But I never decided about which service to use (images saved in full not recompressed resolution, management, reliability, …).

Comment on backups, again. by felix

felix — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:04:41 +0000

I had several crashes during my life, though for most I had backups or could somehow else rescue most of the things. In 2006, my hard disk died and I lost a lot of data: lots of photos, essentially all my mails (I was using POP3 back then), and a lot more. Since then, I’m trying to make backups more or less regularly (more less than more ;) )
And you should make a backup of the photos, loosing them is really annoying, believe me! :)

Comment on backups, again. by Kornel

Kornel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:43:46 +0000

The last backup stored outside our apartment is 6 years old… unencrypted.

But actually most interesting stuff is now also on my web pages, in some SVN Repositories or on some server. The only thing lost would be private photos – bad enough, but I am too lazy. :-)

How many total loss of data did you had in your life?

Comment on backups. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » backups, again.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » backups, again. — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:34:59 +0000

[...] got another external hard drive today. the main reason is that i want to encrypt my (current) backup harddisk, which requires reformatting the disk. but if i do so, i’m left with nothing but the [...]

Comment on eating vegetarian in calgary. by felix

felix — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:22:34 +0000

yes, it was indeed! :)

Comment on with shakespeare in the park. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » prince’s island park, and bow river.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:32:19 +0000

[...] « with shakespeare in the park. [...]

Comment on visiting calgary, part one: parks. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » with shakespeare in the park.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » with shakespeare in the park. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:11:39 +0000

[...] dream. the performances took place in prince’s island park, which i already displayed twice in this blog. both plays were near to the original text, but in a modernized setting. i enjoyed [...]

Comment on first impressions of calgary. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » shakespeare in the park.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » shakespeare in the park. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:09:59 +0000

[...] night’s dream. the performances took place in prince’s island park, which i already displayed twice in this blog. both plays were near to the original text, but in a modernized setting. i [...]

Comment on eating vegetarian in calgary. by Kornel

Kornel — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:45:05 +0000

Sounds delicious!

And I agree that vietnamese restaurants are very good place to go for a vegetarian.

Comment on opeth. three. dream theater. and one more. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » dream theater, zappa plays zappa, and more.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:26:19 +0000

[...] some [insert your favourite curse word here] potheads started smoking weed. it was not as bad as last year, but still very annoying. why can’t these idiots smoke somewhere where they don’t annoy [...]

Comment on dublin. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » conferences and summer school.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » conferences and summer school. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:02:39 +0000

[...] was the sixth ecc workshop i attended, beginning with the one 2004 in bochum. and the second ecc mentioned in this blog; apparently i was too busy to write something about the 12th one held in utrecht last [...]

Comment on quark with strawberries. by felix

felix — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:21:17 +0000

nein, quark gibt’s hier nicht. den gibt’s halt hauptsächlich in europa, vielleicht noch in russland oder der ecke, aber sonst eigentlich nirgendwo. ausser in spezialgeschäften.

Comment on quark with strawberries. by ladyarctica

ladyarctica — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:08:28 +0000

Wie, da gibts keinen Quark? Oo Also net, dass ich den jetz lebenswichtig fänd, aber dachte das is so was ganz gewöhnliches das es überall gibt…

Comment on hot chocolate. by spielwiese. » Blog Archive » best hot chocolate ever.

spielwiese. » Blog Archive » best hot chocolate ever. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:00:22 +0000

[...] the best hot chocolate i ever had. i guess it was made in a similar manner to the one i once produced myself. if i ever come back to toronto, i have to get back to this place [...]