Yesterday night we arrived at Vienna, back from exactly 5 years in Kaiserslautern. Today, on 1st July, the moving truck brought our stuff and the professionals carried it up to our new flat.

We went to Kaiserslautern on 3rd July 2004, here is the mo-blog post from back then (with pictures):
http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/256337/

No pictures so far, I just bought "one internet" at the supermarket (hsdpa prepaid modem + 2gb for 54€, from yesss.at ok). Will read my mail tomorrow. Too tired to do more today, see you.

For Ingrid and me, a new adventure: Vienna... (although we grew up here, its a new part of life...)

Thats it! We escape from Kaiserslautern. On Saturday, 20th June 2009 we celebrated our last night-out in Kaiserslautern. We leave for good, we leave for Vienna.

pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157620153553827/

Thanks to all the people who joined Ingrid and me at the party. Michael and Gunnar and Martin cooked an excellent mix of curries, pakoras, and other dishes. Henning and Maria brought icecream, Sebastian another dessert. Dominik and Nora brought salads, Jochen a nice tapas "rolled bacon with dates". And more. Everyone enjoyed eating the resulting menu.




I decorated and rearranged the flat a bit to accomodate more people and have a nice look.



As surprise cultural event, I decided to put up a street-bar. At 23:00 about half of the partygoers went down to the street and built a bar from 10 banana boxes (we have 70 of them around here for moving). On the bar we had chips, wine, and spirits.



It attracted the right people


That went really well, later on we put down the bar again and went to fruchthalle to watch some tango dancing and other things.



That got boring after a while and we got a tip from someone performing that the Urban Biwak should be nice, so we went on:


At this time, things get a bit blurry and not all stories must be told...


It all ended classically in Gusto, with a hard group of Gunnar, Max, Rinne, and me.


Thanks to everyone for making this the great escape, it couldn't have been better. I will miss you guys! See you in Vienna.

I bought a FALK navigation system, the M8 2nd edition. The thing as such is excellent! It is very easy to use, has a good navigation, fits nicely into the car, excellent hardware.

My problems started with the software. They suggest you to also buy a map update to get updated maps every few months.

Done that, downloaded the new maps. To get the maps from the PC to the Navigation System, you need to install their "Falk Navi-Manager". I wonder why, the bloody thing has a mini sd card reader and it could just read the maps from this. Anyway, installing the Navi-Manager includes installing the Microsoft ActiveSync client. Done that.

Now wanting to synchronize, on connecting, an ActiveSync problem pops up:
"cannot verify the version of activesync on your device. A program such as a firewall may be blocking a port ActiveSync uses to connect to the device, or you may need to upgrade to a more recent version of ActiveSync on the PC."

• search for falk online support
• They have an falk online forum for support, which is useless because it does not allow you to post questions. Why the FUCK do you make a forum when I can't post questions??? Better take the whole thing offline, if its just read-only thing labeled "forum". I mean, if customers want to ask questions in a private forum which is controlled by you, and they can't where will they ask questions? Right, on the web.
• I Called the hotline. The hotline is nice and professional and they walk you to the typical steps of "turn off firewall", "turn off virus scanner", try reinstalling X, ...
• Someone from customer service said "ok, that may be because ActiveSync needs some port that is blocked. I had the same problem with another customer today and that guy found out. I can't help you. Ask microsoft."
• Ok, then I ask for the microsoft support number. They say: go to the microsoft homepage. Did that and looked for the German Microsoft online help on ActiveSync, which is "not found", 404. ARGH. FUCKKKKK
• Ok, reinstalled ActiveSync to v4.5 (was there already). did not help
• Bugged the support hotline, begging for favors, they offered that I can send the thing in and they do the update. Thats cool.

Lesson learned: The telephone support was good and they offered to help me as far as they could ("ok, then send us the thing .... grml...")

But if you fucking want to sell navis, you better NOT the fuck use ActiveSync as your technical base but provide something that works out of the box on all machines. And on MacOs. And on Linux. Something like USB, something like my Digital Camera does: plain simple USB drives. And you better provide your customers a real online forum or they will need to find help on the web, publicly sharing their agony of having wasted a lot of money in a piece of hardware that is obsoleted in a year without updates which are blocked because of Microsoft ActiveSync being a mess with fucking "go to hell" error messages.

Next thing I will try: get a new computer and update the navi there, if that does not work - send the thing to falk.

Argh, I hate computers. Thats why I bought this hardware the first place...

Out of curiosity, Gunnar Grimnes compiled the size of the NEPOMUK codebase.

For the dfkinepomuk branch, where we mostly work on, the stats are:

• lines of code (loc): 539485 (including blank, comment, licenses)
• java files: 1725
• generated loc by rdfreactor: 202113
• largest file generated probably: 30k loc in one file

The current protests against the Iranian coup d'etat and election fraud are by people like us. Allededgly, the official results were 12% for Ahmadineschad and 62% were announced. Iran has more people under 30 than in our country, they read the web, they blog, they want to live their lives without gov threats.
I pray for them.

At the moment, the protests are peaceful and heart-touching things happen, such as these protesters protecting a captured policeman: