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Here's a build of todays Adium from the SVN repository because Bonjour wasn't working properly in the 1.1 release and it does in this checkout (only negative thing I've noticed was a prompt to upgrade Growl, even though it was already at the most recent release, but there's an ignore button for that).

Also removed the PayPal donate link because PayPal sucks. Thanks for the two donations I've received by the way. The reason for removing it is that the PayPal system is not able to comprehend that people can move to other countries - so you can't change your country of residence, and neither can PayPal support. Instead they actually asked me to delete my account, which I promptly did. They also asked me to create a new one with the UK as residence, but I skipped that step. After all this was my second PayPal account, because on the first one my password randomly vanished from their records and they were unable to recover the account or the money. And no, I did not forget it (it was stored in Mac OS X' KeyChain) and neither was I careless with it or got phished or anything like that. I was told the money was still on the account and it would be transferred to my new account after a while, which of course never happened either.

For those that are actually reading this blog and don't know yet (I suspect there is approximately zero of both), I'm moving to London in May to work for Rivers Run Red.

On a sidenote, the sidebar on the left side (that'd be on the website, dear RSS readers) now features the starred items from my Google Reader feed, so you get to enjoy an inaccurate view of my interests (unless I'm too lazy to star posts, or fall asleep on the "s" key, or my interests just aren't reflected by my starring habits or choice of RSS feeds).

Also, the Frankenport Express finally died in February, after the sun shone through the window and heated up the room enough to make the crappily stabilized lab power supply (which I've built myself as part of my apprenticeship by the way) raise the voltage a bit more than it could handle. Both got thrown out shortly after and I'm without wireless internet for now (poor Wii - no updates for you).

A while ago my Apple Airport Express died, like so many others. At the time I just plugged a cable into my laptop and forgot about it for awhile, but now that I got my Wii I wanted wireless internet again. Checking out the infos on hardmac.com, I've found that it's most likely just a dead (internal) powersupply, so I bought a small hacksaw and sawed the Airport Express open (they could build tanks from that glued together plastic armor they used for it), then hooked it up to external 3.3V + 5V power sources. Here's the result:



And yes, it's working again. Typing in a WPA key with the Wii's virtual keyboard wasn't fun though :-P

UPDATE: Not only has it survived more than 24h like this, but the green LED which previously refused to light up (it simply turned off after the orange startup phase) started working again today.

Today the FreeBSD based open source firewall pfSense went 1.0. It's been quite stable and pleasant to use for quite a while already. Go get it!

Step 1:
curl http://secondlife.com/apps/mapapi/ | awk -F\" '/^reverse_location_hash\["([0-9]+)-[0-9]+"\] = "[^"]*";.?$/{split($2, loc, /-/);print loc[1] ",",loc[2] "\t\t" $4}'


UPDATE: The map API JavaScript apparently got changed a little, so the above did no longer work. Here's an updated version that does:

curl http://secondlife.com/apps/mapapi/ | awk 'BEGIN{RS=";";FS="\"";}/^rlh\["([0-9]+)-[0-9]+"\]="[^"]*"$/{split($2, loc, /-/);print loc[1] ",",loc[2] "\t\t" $4}'


Step 2: Enjoy the list:

...
918, 1023 sunset hills
918, 1030 south sunset
918, 1031 sunset beach
918, 1115 mayoi
919, 911 summit center
919, 919 terra
919, 969 metabirds
919, 1030 sunset city
919, 1124 hukilau
920, 930 paulsresolve
920, 998 reebok
920, 1001 jones beach
920, 1008 del luna
920, 1010 lion valley
920, 1050 cardonicus
920, 1080 tol eressea
920, 1090 dotnetnuke
...