The new noisemagic cpu cooler arrived today. It is worth the 55 euros - I had to double check that the fan is really running since the fan hardly makes a noise. The downside is that the mainboard gets really hot. According to BIOS somewhere around 45 degrees.
Should have bought it a lot earlier. I’ve also ordered a noisevibe harddisk mounting frame with a cooler to reduce the temperature of the server’s harddrives.
My new TFT arrived. The overall picture quality and sharpness is really amazing. What is even better is that I have regained lots of space on my computer desk. Unfortunately the TFT has a couple of subpixel errors, they are only visible on a black background, though. What is more disturbing is that the brightness is not regular. Maybe I’ll return it and get an Eizo L768.
Had chinese food for the first time since ages.
Thanks to everyone who remembered my birthday.
So, turned 26 and celebrated at the BillaBonn. Fun. Lots of beer. More fun.
Unlike the years before, we’ve managed to locate our christmas stuff on our attic weeks before December 24th. So, I had the fun part to figure out a smart alignment of our various christmas lights. We have also bought new lights which were stuck into the flower boxes on our balcony.
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa-la-la-la-la
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The third whine night. Alright, but the one we did during the summer was the best so far. Sitting outside just rocks.
I’ve decided that it was time to replace the nipple - or in ibm product part terms speaking: the TrackPoint pointing stick. So, here we go with a new clean and rock-hard nipple.
I’ve been pondering about buying a new flatscreen for a while now. My old LG Flatron 795 has worked quite reliable for the last years but it has the major disadvantage that it takes up a lot of space on my desk. After hours of googling, review reading and price comparison I decided to get a Iiyama E481S. It always scores around good to average in reviews and I found a dealer with a really good offer, so I could not resist. And if it is crap, I can send it back anyhow. The Samsung 213T also looks quite sexy, if I had the money, I’d probably get this one.
I’ve also decided that it is time to replace the loud p4 cpu cooler with a less noisier one.
So, now I am broke. 
This might sound like a strange question, anyhow, Spiegel Online was running a story on if we are all living in a large computer simulation, comparable to a world that has been portrayed in the matrix. This website contains some papers regarding the simulation argument.
Strange coincidence, the postman delivered my Matrix Revolutions DVD just today. I resisted the urge to order the dvd when it came out and decided to wait till the price dropped.
Interesting side fact: I finally found out, that parts of the last scene of matrix revolution were really shot in the botanic gardens area of Sydney. I somehow suspected it, when I watched this movie almost a year ago.
We’ve been working till 11pm on the uni wireless lan project again. When we got out of uni, it was snowing. It was still too warm so the snow did not really last long but by the time I got off the train and cycled home (note to myself: need to find gloves), the lawn in front of our house was nicely covered in white. I guess, that there is going to be a traffic chaos tomorrow morning because most people are not prepared for snow. But hey, what do I care - I don’t have to go anywhere tomorrow.
Since I got tired with the way of creating our aurisp invoices, I’ve been hacking on a new system for the whole week. It’s not complete and rather hackish at the moment but it limits the necessary steps for creating the invoices to a tolerable amount.
The free pdf class from http://fpdf.org is really great and the site provides some valuable extra information.
Kerry has just conceded. So it is really over. Let’s just all hope, that Bush stops messing up more things and somehow gets some sense.
I am taking a bold prediction nevertheless today, I’ll predict that the next president will be a democrat again, and her name will be Mrs. Clinton.
Most networks are projecting Florida in the Bush column. So, all hopes rest on Ohio now. However, predictions see Kerry behind in Ohio and most of the remaining states at the moment. Nothing is lost yet but it looks a lot worse now. I really don’t understand how someone that has cheated and lied to the public gets such a high affirmation.
I am sitting here with a big bowl of double chocolate chip icecream, flipping through the channels and browsing different news sites to get the latest us election updates. Right now, Bush is ahead and he has won some swing states already. Everything is still open, though and I still hope for the best.