Five years ago. Pim Fortuyn was killed.
The world of politics has changed the past five years.
But five years ago, when Pim Fortuyn was killed,
democrazy died, freedom died.
Even if you won’t agree with someone’s view,
killing him is not the answer.
Politics changed. And now, five years later,
it seems his ideas were adapted by the other parties,
from left to right.
Pim, rest in peace.
My uncle got his Mercedes today.
He sold his old car to his daughter, because
her car was crashed in an accident two weeks ago.
They (nicole+daan) were damn lucky there was no
traffic on the other side of the road that moment.
They would have been dead if there was.
But lucky as you can be during an accident,
it was only a damaged car.
Well … this morning I went to church, because of a
funeral. The father of a friend i know since primary
school, died unexpected. Joep Houben. He’s dead.
Hard to beleive. He just used to sit in the living room,
in his easy chair, watching sports on his tv.
But he’s gone. Hard for Els (his wife) and Roy (his son).
After what’s happened the past year. The past year,
when Els got cancer, but well she’s threaded for that.
But now, Joep died.
He died on 28 April, but was burried 4 may. Later
then usual, but that was because of relatives from
the USA who were also coming to the funeral.
This may vacation is a linux-themed vacation
for me. After running linux on my laptop (flappie)
and desktop (sjink), I also installed linux on my
file storage machine (rammelbak).
Rammelbak is an AMD K6 at 300 Mhz. Some people would
say it’s a useless machine. Obsolete. But just to
store my music files, and have them accesable on my
network, it is fine. The machine has three hard disks,
a 6 GB hard disk to boor from, and two storage hard
disks, connected to a PCI-IDE controller, because of
the limitation of the BIOS, not supporting 48-BIT LBA.
I don’t want to risk data loss, so I use an extra
controller.
So, I replaced the hard disk with another 6 GB hard disk,
from another machine, not being used. So in case Linux
wouldn’t run nice on that machine, I could simply put
my Windows 2000 Hard disk back in there.
So, installing Linux on that machine. Mandriva 2007 Spring.
Same distro as is running on both other machines.
And it detects the ‘old’ hardware fine, pre-selecting icewm
as window manager, and installing a ‘legacy’ kernel in
stead of the default kernel my other machines are using.
So far so good. Installing took a while, but now it runs fine.
Samba works fine.
Then the other machine, unused machine, Cyrix 6x68MX-PR333.
Same motherboard as the ‘rammelbak’. That’s were I swapped the
hard disks with. I’m installing QNX 6.3 to it. Since 6.3 there is no
NC (No-Commercial) version anymore, but a 30-day version.
But after that period it will still work, just a few features will be
disabled, but as far as I know that’s only momentics
(QNX development kit for embedded systems) and not
neutrino (the operating system),
so that won’t effect my use for it anyways.
Also want to try the latest version of Syllable on it. I hope the keyboard
bug is fixed. It had some troubles on that machine. SiS chipset.
Does that say enough? Anyways, I had to unplug the keyboard and
plug it in again, after syllable booted, to get it working.
Annoying bug, but that was some versions ago, so I hope it’s fixed
in the current version.
The post I made earlier today.
After reboot it appeared there was even more
damage to the system, at first, the gnome login
was replaced by an ugly default login, not a problem
but after logging in the desktop didn’t work.
Tried to reinstall it, without success…
file /usr/lib/libslab.so.0.0.0 from install of libgnome-window-settings1-2.18.0-4mdv2007.1 conflicts with file from package libgnome-main-menu_0-0.6.3-1mdv2007.1
file /etc/gconf/schemas/control-center.schemas from install of gnome-control-center-2.18.0-4mdv2007.1 conflicts with file from package gnome-main-menu-0.6.3-1mdv2007.1
Another day wasted to linux, I will have to reïnstall it all.
So, my laptop is running Linux for a few days now.
Migrating to a new operating system brings some troubles,
since I am not that experienced using Linux, but also some
other weird problems. First some software that’s not available
in Mandriva’s RPM database. So, I started googleing for some
other sources, and tried to install giftui, downloaded from it’s
own site. Failed because of missing libaries. There libaries were
also not available in Mandriva’s RPM database. So, ask google
again, and I found an RPM for an older Mandriva release.
Installed it, prompting to install some other stuff because of
depensencies, and so on …. then the RPM installer crashed.
But then the trouble started, it seems, it removed half of my
installed software. OpenOffice, Firefox, NVU, GIMP,
and a lot of gnome parts, and other software suddenly
disappeared. Reinstalling 173 packets *sigh*
So, my migration to Linux. So I had this 100 GB 2.5″
hard disk in an external case, and 60 GB in my laptop.
Now I moved all the stuff on the 100 GB disk to
somewere on my desktop computers hard disk,
and swapped the disks. So I have now a 100 GB
hard disk in my laptop, and installed linux on it.
So, I have Mandriva Linux Spring 2007 Free
and Microsoft Windows XP Professional,
both a fresh installation, at my laptop now.
And a data partition. I put my firefox and
thunderbird data directories on the shared
partition, so now i share the same setting in both
windows and linux. All my emails and bookmarks
are the same, not depending on the OS I booted.
That’s nice.
Also, I’ve seen the car my uncle bought. He bought
a 3 year old Mercedes. Even though his Renault is
only 4 years old, There is an other reason for him
to buy that car. Nicole got an accident with her car
last sunday, the car is damaged beyond repair,
so Nicole and Daan will buy the Renault and my
uncle buys the Mercedes. A black one it is. Cools!
I get to drive in it ^^ The Mercedes!
Finally it’s may vacation. One free week.
And monday it’s queens day here in the Netherlands.
Also, at school we started the new project with
our teacher playing the swedish person. I suppose
I told this before but well.
I placed the disk from my usb ide case in my laptop
and installed linux on it. After installing linux
I tried to install windows xp on a 2nd parition,
but windows is compaining about the parition layout
not being windows compatible. Turned out that i
created an extended partition in stead of a primary.
I should have used the expert mode in DiskDrake to
select primary or extended while creating the partion.
Wednesday I will be going to the circus with Joyce
(and i hope Randy as well) and thursday or friday
Hans and I will be going to visit Chloé. We haven’t
seen her place yet, so we’re going to visit.
The Roboludens was helt in the same place as a
LAN party was going on. With our Roboludens-pass
we got free food and drinks at the LAN party.
We could acces the LAN party area and so we looked
around at the LAN party, at some good looking case
mods and lots of other stuff. Oh a big LAN party.
Too bad we could only watch it. Oh well.
This morning I went to Fam. Rödiger with my uncle,
to help him with stuff. As you maybe know my uncle
is electrician, and he had to work over there. He’s doing
so for the past months. But really, that place is HUGE.
A castle it is. A HUGE CASTLE. wow! They had some
big nice rooms were they lived, and even more rooms
currently being renovated.
Those people also have a lot of horses, maybe even
over one hunred horses they have.
So, that was this morning.
Also, today I installed Linux on one of my Computers.
I installed Mandriva Free 2007 Spring on Sjink.
Not all the packages I wanted were available on the DVD
but they were on Mandrivas FTP. Only the packet manager
didn’t know about them being on there, so I had to look and
download them myself. But after the afternoon installing,
downloading and more installing, I have a nice running
Linux system. Only one minor problem, when watching my
anime, to be specific, D. Gray-man. That specific anime
is encoded in a mp4 file. To be more specific, using the
H.264/AVC codec. A substandard of the MPEG4 standard.
When playing these files, I get some weird green artefacts
sometimes. I think this is weird because Linux uses the
ffmpeg libary to decode it. On windows, I use the ffdshow
codecs, wich are also based upon ffmpeg, but don’t suffer
from this problem.
