Never give up, never surrender!
I finally found a nice web design template that was free for use and have started my personal webpage. This will be a nice opportunity to fiddle with Typo3 while providing people with everything they never wanted to know about me.
In other news, I’ve started playing around with my Asterisk pbx a little, but I still fail to make my Grandstream HT-488 adapter work as direct dial-out device. (If anybody knows how that could be done, please hit me up.)
I got the brilliant idea to upgrade my router software today. I was running a custom firmware on my WRT54G but for some reason I thought it’d be good to upgrade to the latest official release. The router didn’t agree with me. Continue reading “Linksys WRT54G flashing for uber-morons like me”
Went to Hagen and helped at a ‘small’ LAN party. Was fun.
Spent a hard weekend at the WorldCyberGames 2005 National Finals for Germany in the Tropical Islands Resort: Working on sand at 30 degrees celsius with about 40-60% of air humidity is quite exhausting. Fortunately, we managed to pull it off anyway and so I’m back after 9 hours of driving with loads of new memories and anecdotes, which you can feel free to ask me about on IM or via e-mail if you’re really interested in them, and these links to give you an impression of what it’s been like:
gamer-FM: Final news, Coverage, Thursday and Friday pics, Saturday pics, more Saturday pics, Sunday pics
others:
– WorldCyberGames Germany website
– Official WCG photo gallery
– Payne’s photo gallery
– Bifi’s photo gallery
With my digicam repaired, I took the opportunity to photograph the rest of my furniture for my ‘new home’ album. You can see the new pictures on this and the following pages.
And thanks to my grat repair success on my cam, I took on some other stuff that needed mending: the reading lights on my bed, that were mounted too low by the people who delivered my furniture, and the non-working front left tweeter in my car.
The reading lights proved to be a little tricky as I cannot move my bed due to its weight and only had about 10 centimeters to manoever the screwdriver. I eventually managed to drive the screws back into the wood at the height that I wanted the lights to be.
The speaker in my car was bound to be trouble as I didn’t really know where the problem was (could be anywhere from a defective tweeter, the cabling or a defective audio filter sitting under the glove compartment). Fortunately my worst fear, a defective cable somewhere behing the dashboard, proved to be untrue. It would have been an absolute nightmare to dismantle the whole dashboard. The audio filters seemed to be working fine and I eventually traced the cause of the issue to a connector on the tweeter. 20 seconds to fix that and a whole long time to get everything back in place (the amount of time required to get the filters back into their hiding place under the glove compartment and the cover screwed back on makes up for 50% of my repair time) and I was set.
Whew, another few jobs well done. At least I didn’t pull a Tim Taylor on anything. ;)