Walking in Light With Christ - hip0's personal blog on System Administration, Free Software, Computer Security and Religion

One more day passed. I have pains and I scream to God for guidance and help. I'm not sure where am going to as usual. Today we had to have German. I went to the college only to find out that the German lesson is removed from the schedule. A friend of mine who is in germany Shaltev has sent me a Video of his band. The band is called viamala, here is there website http://viamala.org. I really liked there music btw. Tomorrow I have Dutch. The day was a sort of quite for me thanks and Praise be to the Lord creator. By the way my health is not well. I have pains in different organs sometimes. You know life is hard. I'm loving more and more the FreeBSD :). I watched Ice Age and currently I'm watching Ice Age 2. Great anime (I'm having fun with it. I often think of becoming a monk. Life is such a vanity.

In Saturday we had a Training day at Design.BG. It wasn't too interesting the Boss spoke a lot about a new hierarchy being implanting into the corporation. Big mouths were said "how we should not anymore say that we make sites in the office or out if it. He said: "We doesn't make sites! We make projects and solutions for the client" :). Mitko has come back in Dobrich in Saturday (For the weekend) and Sunday and we went out twice. I haven't touched computers much this weekend :). In the morning in Sunday I went to Liturgy and after that we had a small walk with Stoyan. After that I watched the 3 series of "From Dusk till Dawn" nice vampire story btw And yes I like the style of Tarantino. At some time I feeled very alone like nobody cares about me. I called Lily and we spend some good time together :).

If you experience problem with the Xorg resulutions maximum Hzs, for example mine has supported max 1024x768@75Hz then you need to generate Modelines and put them in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, use the gtf to do that. gtf - calculate VESA GTF mode lines. It worked for hope this would work for you too.

A friend of Mine Marto a.k.a. (Amridikon) has regged a domain for pc-freak. So pc-freak.net is now up check his Development Studio dhstudio http://dhstudio.eu Pc-Freak's site can be accessed from http://pc-freak.net/crew/

Yesterday I had exam in Dutch. I have written a lot of things by intuition. Also I had to make a dialog in Dutch. The dialog was ready few minutes before I sit on the examers bir�au. Luckily thanks God I was able to talk something in Holland (Most of the time reading ofcourse). Day after day I live being not sure where do I go and what the future will bring me. I have to sit and study some German because we're studying more and more complicated things and I don't understand it more and more. Almost the all of the weekend I spend on my pc doing things. I've started using learning portmanager (it's a really neat tool). Also I have compiled openoffice-devel from source (7GB needed to compile). It compiled for a little more than day, luckily the build doesn't failed. And in the morning I had it compiled. Yesterday's night was like a nightmare. I wasn't able to sleep much. Servers run well (Thanks God). Tomorrow I have test in English (I have completely no idea) what I'm going to do hope I'll do it well.

I've upgraded to the FreeBSD BETA2 and also upgraded my gnome from marcuscom.com packages. After the gnome upgrade I experienced problems with nautilus and some other programs not working correctly so I'm fixing them manually. Thanks God in the end I was able to compile the nautilus and install it from the x11-fm/nautilus port. The problems were caused because of my gail packages wasn't up2date. The package management in FreeBSD 7.0 looks like improved a little but still it's slow when you have to manage packages over 1000+ like mine I had 1127 and the package magement is slow as hell. Looks like FreeBSD beta runs fine and no issues still, I upgraded 4 days ago and until now it's rock solid. The upgrade of 6.2 -> 7.0BETA2 was a pain in the ass. Because After I've recompiled and installed the new kernel the system didn't boot. A guy in irc.freenode.net's ##freebsd suggested me to try compiling the kernel again with GENERIC kernel, and hooray it worked the GENERIC kernel worked fine I suspect the name change of the GENERIC file name was the problem. To make the 6.x compiled apps to work I had to install a port called compat6x. Recently I spend Most of my time on irc.freenode.net usually in ##freebsd cool place!. I don't pray a lot lately I felt like nobody hears my prayers so I stopped. Sometimes I say in my mind and heart "Lord Jesus Christ Son of the Blessed God, Have mercy over me the sinner". Also I have to Say Glory be to God for still giving me of his Divine Grace even though I'm a sinner. On Wednesday I have an exam in Dutch. So I have to find some time to start reading / learning the Dutch lessons. Today I was in the collage we had German. I can say I'm poor at German most of the ppl in the class are much good at it. I have to sit and study it someday for real. Unfortunately the laziness always is a strong factor :). I have to add also that the work week was a sort of pieceful I haven't had a lot of pressure. I had to create few email addresses change few DNS records routine checks on servers On monday I have setup and tested the subversion to work over http:// proto using WebDav. The last two days I had to add mssql support to the phplib. I've red online and figured out that usually freetds is needed and a rebuild of the php lib. I have stucked on a howto on howto make it without recompiling php with installing php4-sybase and freetds-dev then adding some stuff into the freetds.conf and making other few freetds config files to make freetds work with odbc. Unfortunately that method was unsuccesful (maybe because the remote MS SQL server was upgraded to 2005. And googling around I've found freetds version of at least 0.64 is required for tds protocol ver.8. The freetds which came with debian is version 0.63 :|. In the end I installed freetds from source on one of the Fedora servers and recompiled php with --with-mssql. And everything worked fine! Btw I haven't smoked yesterday and today I'm thinking of quitting smoking again but only time will show will !

I don't want to live even a day more in this hell, but I have to ...

I hate this terrible reality I wish everything was perfect and I and the others was a complete beings, not just a shadows like we all are. I wonder when the Light of God would santify everything. Life is starting to be impossible. So many problems so much noice so much ideas so much theories. Hyper information society, so many lies hate needy and poor people. I can't understad why all is like this. Why everything could be good and perfect like in the beginning of time. :|

As usual, I went to Varna to take my Sallary and do some backups and stuff in the Office. before I had taken a taxi (on the price of the bus ticket), I went to the Orthodox Church St. Georgi. There was a Liturgy. The Priest has annointed me with oil the Lords "For Health and Happiness and Salvation of Home and Children" :). I stayed for 5 minutes there then I took a taxi to Varna. On my way to work in Varna I bought a banica. On work I tried running a subversion server. It seems If a man intends to run subversion on a host it's possible to run it in a 3 different manner. 1. running the svnserver svnserver -d -r /repository 2. Using an Apache mod_dav communicating with the svn through http:// or https:// 3. Committing changes executing svn after login through ssh. I was really scared in the beginning. I have to find time to read the SVN book to understand the svn concepts better. The first the idea was to migrate most of the data we currently use and change through a samba server with a single svn repository. Later we decided only new projects shall go into subversion, each project has to have a different repository (probably). The day seemed to be quiet until sometime. When Vladi (One of the programmers and Petar) have started acting like a guys who have spend years in a Hospital for Mental Disorders. I'm starting not to like Metal as much as before. Lately I listen to a lot of Pro-Xex's great music stuff. Later I have understand today is being celebrated the Angel Michael's day (That was the Liturgy for). For all those who doesn't know St. Michael is an Archaengel who Leads the Holy Angels of the Lord in Battle. It happened that Milen and the boss Plamen had a name celebration day. So I and the collegues gathered together in the conference room. I went Dobrich and I had to help do few things for my father's cousing Zlatina. Zlatina is a really nice lady with a really nice family They called me because they had problems running Route 66 ( She said it takes to run 2 hours with WINE!). With the Lord's help I was able to figure out it's a sort of wine bug, which is easily solved with deleting the ~/.wine/windows/temp/*'s directory so I changed the Launcher icon to execute a script which first clears the temp directory and then starts the app, hooray works like a charm :). Also I had to install a Bulgarian German dictionary. I have left the day before to download one called Duden who has been reported from a guy in #linuxhelp that works fine under wine. Unfortunately the downloaded .rar archive was protected with password. I wasn't able to guess it nor to crack it using an app. I installed two Rar cracking utilities one of the two worked with wine but there was a lack of dictionaries for brute force attack so I gave it up. The solution was to tell them to reinstall the working Bulgarian German dictionary with wine called "BigDic" (A 15 days trial). I cretead a little script in the BigDic's install directory which removes the ~/.wine directory before reinstall of the Dictionary, cause the Dictionary seems to keep record of when it's installed somewhere in the registry, so deleting ~/.wine clears the registry. The day wasn't too bad except I was very tired in some point of the day. With God's help another day passed. Blessed be the Lord creator of Heaven and Earth! Right now I'm rebuilding a world on my FBSD desktop machine ( Jericho ).

I've tried running a Holux GPS Slim 256 on a Linux box through bluetooth. And tried to make it work with "Route 66" Navigation system running with wine. A total mess is the best description for this. One time I managed to make it connect but I was not really aware how that this happened actually the connection is being made with the little proggie rfcomm. rfcomm connect 0 "MAC_OF_THE_DEVICE"'. Ubuntu even have a gnome applet. Unfortunately All my attempts to make it work failed. Today is a day of the days in which man wants not to be alive. I have to fill some questionaries (pretending a different persons), they're needed for the Marketing Research Project. Day after day I'm thinking about the monk's life as a good exit of this terrible reality. Thanks God at least the survers run well.

I was surprised when a friend of mine has mentioned a nice things concerning me in IRC, his alias is Order you can read what he has written about me in Bulgarian here: http://will.sleep.at/home/index.php?/archives/2-Blagodarstveno.html . Everything good mentioned about me in the post how I have contributed to him how thankful he is to me and stuff is the same with me towards him. So Order Old buddy It's a real blessing to know you. And I'm dumb too, you know "PROSTE SME!!" :)) Big thanks to the man Order (Ivo) vizantiec for being with me in a hard times and helping me go on ( he knows what I'm talking about ). Ivo I owe you a lot. This post meaned a lot to me. BTW Nice picture on the Blog! Emblematic as usual. Also don't forget to check Ivo's blog located at http://will.sleep.at ;] Die by the fork :]

Today I tried Holux Slim 236 GPS receiver device working over bluetooth. I was able to connect it to Ubuntu 7.10 using a gentoo howto. Launching xgps showed a sort of radar circle with satellites. I tried to use gpsdrive to test it, but unfortunately I figured out gpsdrive has only maps for 3 countries Germany US and something. I searched also for some other solutions but haven't found anything which can be used as a Linux native, luckily Route 66 ran fine with WINE. Tomorrow We'll go to the Vali's computer shop to test if the device is running smoothly. I should also mention The Lord's grace which keeps me going on! Blessed, Blessed, Blessed is our Lord! Yesterday we went to TechnoPolice and bought a USB Bluetooth dongle. Luckily the divice works fine. Tomorrow will see if the Route 66 program and Linux would work together. It's a cool time because I learn a lot of new things. BTW the Toshiba Laptop a model L40 G14 has been at home on Saturday morning. I really enjoyed playing with it. It would be great if someday I can afford one :). Servers keep runnig well thanks to God. I started searching a Bulgarian German Dictionary for Linux but I haven't found any looks that there isn't still available. This is a big Hole in Bulgarian FreeSoftware env somebody has to fill it creating a German Dictionary. In the meantime I tried a bunch of Windows Bulgarian/German Dictionaries from download.bg. Gaberoff Koral FreeGerman dictionary has a problem with the Bulgarian words encodings. After that I tried BigDic which seems to work pretty well with wine (keep in mind that wine has to be ran like xport LANG=bg_BG.CP1251; wine proggie.exe ) or you'll see a lot of monkeys instead of Bulgarian symbols. BigDic supports also Bulgarian -> French. and English -> Bulgarian. All this makes it a pretty neat app. unfortunately BigDic is a 15 Trial. I thinked a bit about creating an German -> Bulgarian dictionary for Linux. Everything I need for this is a database with words in German plaintext, and a database in Bulgarian ( probably some of the Freeware dictionaries have). I have to dig on the topic more if I have more time. Did I mentioned I started learning Dutch? It sounds very "Hrr". :). Btw today I had to open 2 cd iso files For Route 66, but I was lazy and googled for a "gui program iso linux". What I found is AcetoneISO, the program seems to do a good job, the only downfall is it's a kde app! Also there is a gtk unofficial port dedicated to users. The home site of the app is http://www.acetoneteam.org/acetoneiso-gnome.html . The project Manager Nikolina called today and said she has a problem with her mail client ( Mozilla Thunderbird ). I hate to hear about mail server / client problems. I asked her did they tried to reinstall the program. She said "Well No, but we have tried adding more Memory, Bobb thought it's a lack of memory that causes the problem. After we have put more RAM still the problem remains. :)" Later after Thunderbird reinstall the problem was solved. Blessings in the Name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit!

Here the story a cousin of my father has called me to help them to buy a laptop. We have checked different types of laptops in TechnoMarket and TechnoPolis, Vali and Bergon. In vali we asked about GPS devices (a device only connecting with a Satellite, which needs software to be used). I asked the seller in Vali is there a chance if the Holux GPS to work with Linux. He said he have no idea I'm citing his words "Only a few people use Linux today" :). Also the Computer sellers in TechnoMarket weren't much of a competent, I myself also didn't have enough experience with Laptops. Before everything began I asked God to guide me in the choice. We choose to take a Toshiba Sattelite L40 12G or something like this. The machine is a pretty neat one (2G of ram, Intel video, 120 SATA Disk). I gave the suggestion to install Linux on the laptop and spend money of the Operating System (because they would need the laptop when they travel out of the country, buying furniture to resell and they don't want to have illegal software. There was an international warranty issue. The sellers in Technomarket didn't have data is the laptop with International warranty later we understood that there is international warranty of 1 year. We bought the laptop I successfully installed Ubuntu and a ton of useful software. Today I have installed qemu qemu-launcher and qemulator. Ubuntu seems to work pretty flawlessly. The idea in the beginning was to buy a flash memory and install a windows on it because they needed also to have Windows to install a TBI Credit (SmartInfo) program. I tried Windows XP/2000/XP Small but all them required a minimum of 2G of hard disk space to install (!) pretty annoying and this wasn't possible because the flash memory we had was only a 1G one. In the end I ended installing the Windows on the HDD. Thanks to God everything seems to go on in a good way. Thanks Lord! The only thing that's left to do is install the Wireless card properly under Linux and Windows. Glory be to God The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit! Now and Forever and Ever. Amen!