Since a few months I had the very strange issue that the default samplerate is 48KHz which caused me to set it manualy each time I wanted to play “normal” encoded audio. When I upgraded to windows 7 the control panel stopped displaying. It launches correctly when windows starts but it won’t open the control panel when i click it – and it’s strangely enough to mention that the pane preview works fine. Since I am listnen to music primary via winamp, I could work around the samplerate issue via the out_aiso plugin, so that I can listnen to music again.

However, the disappearing of the control panel “on screen” can be eventually solved if you do the following very few steps:

• close the control panel
• open up rededit
• navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Creative Professional\E-MU USB Audio Control Panel
• delete the following entries: “WindowX”, “WindowY”
• launch the CP again and you will see it again

try to run a cleanup and remove all obstructed files from your local copy. Or better said: copy them to a save place! Now remove all .svn dirs from your copy and run an update on your local project and copy back the »obstructed« dirs/files. Hit refresh and commit it. That should fix the “obstructed” files.

The reason might be, you’ve copied from another repos some files – including – some .svn dirs.

if you install apache/php and get the following error:
Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Then consider to check the permissions.

What user/group has the apache?
ps -ef | grep apache

Who owns the files in your htdocs?

…

Because it is most likely that you need to chown your htdocs, and or add a user to the correct group.

At work we’ve ordered a new server and I’ve installed and configured apache, mysql, php5 and lighty + some tools, when spontaneously ‘less’ died and also ‘vim’ broke. Then mysql didn’t start, because ‘There’s not enough space in /var/lib/mysql/’ and the eth0 changes I made broke aswell. reinstalling mysql didn’t solve it – actually the installation broke. Dependencies errors and the same ol ‘not enough space’ stuff. ‘Dmesg’ is reporting ‘Invalid field in CDB’ a few times and that eth0: link is not ready…

This is a fresh server with 500gig and only 1% is in use – so there is space and I guess there is something else wrong. fsck ‘mention’ that the superblock is corrupted. Well ok – I know it is not so wise to run fsck on a running mashine – it would be more wise from lilo or a live cd – but it is a ‘managed OS’ so the hoster do not provide such thing. If the worse get worse, I can call them and let em reinstall everything but all my configurations would be lost – or at least I had to copy my configs to the new one.

Right now I am in fsck’s interactive mode and pushing the confirm button repeatedly and /lost+found is getting affiled.

And then some message:
/dev/sda1: 37458/30277632 Dateien (1.3% nicht zusammenhängend), 2216874/121093945 Blöcke
and the console stands still. no Ctrl+C, no ‘enter’, no nothing works…

*duck*

and then

[LOCAL] : SSH2Core version 4.3.0.371
[LOCAL] : Connecting to netfreaks.de:22 ...
[LOCAL] : Changing state from STATE_NOT_CONNECTED to STATE_EXPECT_KEX_INIT
[LOCAL] : RECV: TCP/IP close
[LOCAL] : Changing state from STATE_EXPECT_KEX_INIT to STATE_CLOSED
[LOCAL] : Connected for 0 seconds, 47 bytes sent, 0 bytes received


it wasn’t me!

bigger, better, faster. (AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core / 4 GB DDR2 / 2 x 400 GB SATA II / Debian)
Well ok – bigger, and better than the current one

I’ve installed today a new svn, trac and a websvn at work on a ubuntu machine with plesk on it. Actually it’s really easy but there seems to be no instant-setup guide, so I had to google quite extensive. Well I haven’t configuered it fully yet, but the svn seems to work fine, even though I’d like to make use of the pre-commit-hook (having the users commenting the commits, with at least 3 words); but that’s something I’ll change later. Currently we use mantis as bugtracker but I see some requirements for more. Trac seems to be a good alternative. Personally I’d like to use JIRA and Confluence – but I am to lazy to convince my boss to buy it and of course – 2400 Bucks *is* < insert the f-word here > money.

However – my work-life balance *seems* to be *unbalanced* and the affected personal relationships seems to truely suck atm; But therefor my boss said he’s satisfied with my work – and I have only 7 days left until the employment probation period is over and I am fully employed. – I guess that would be a classic scenario of a double-edged sword.

< insert your favourite f-word right here >

A few days ago I got a private message via meinvz.net and a girl, possibly with japanese ancestory asked me a few thing that only a very few people could possibly know about and if we could meet soon. That sounded strange and even herself pointed out, that it might sounds “strange”. A vague idea came up to my mind of what it might could be, but it made it less strange.

Flashback: In 2001 I met my real dad for the first and last time, by ambushing him in Poland, Brzeziny, without a warning. He was thunderstruck by seeing me but after an expensive redwine I brought along and a couple of beer he became talkactive and so we talked. One of my questions was, if I have some siblings but he negated it. I was not sure if he was talking the truth, but I was fine with that answer, whereas I wished he would have said the opposite. [...] after a couple of beer and a slight drunkenness we decided to stay over night and go to sleep. On the next mornign we got up early and decided to leave early aswell. He asked if we could stay a little longer, but we had rented a room in an international student hotel and had to leave.

Today I’ve met my youngest sister and her Mom! I do not only have one silbing, nope – two younger sisters. Okay – half-sisters but to me it means I have two sisters now and one brother. Yay and that’s so cool! The uberstrange thing about it is – they always lived here – where I live for about 7 years now. Just around the corner. The one lives just 300 m around the block and the other will move there too in a short time.

The tragic part about this story is, our chichi(jap. f. Dad) has no friggin kudos.

I needed a little backup devide and bought this one:

I’ve got the 32gig model for 60 Euro – which is quite ok. The speed is ok – not that super fast but storrage space is more important for me than speed (atm).

*update*

Some friggin idiot stole it. If I find out who you are – I’ll make it an unforgetable moment for you.

ok, i’ll give it a try!
http://twitter.com/biophonc

I got up to late today and my ticket list is ways to long plus I need to finish some work for a client. However – the weather is fine today and I don’t feel stressed or something like that. I bought the new Roots Manuva and really like it. I had a “club-mate” and a delicious Panini toast (yummy) and I am very looking forward to have an after work beer – in about 2 hours

At my work we usually do Java/JSP stuff but a few weeks I did a small PHP Job here and today I made the statistic in mysql. Actually nothing special but a welcome change if you imagine stupid JSP Struts tasks day in and day out and boring style-stasi requests from project managers and so on. But I am hip to the spirit and love computer work – or at least the creative-innovative part of it – the rest I try to reject and forget. Actually it is always the same – some project manager come up with a kick ass idea and then during the production it gets reduced to something really boring and forgettable unimportant whatsoever.

My coffee is empty [...] ^^