28th March 2004, 03:30 pm
Today is birthday of my littlebrother Kristoffer —
congratulations! He’s turning 17… only one year left until he can get a
drivers license and other fun things, and, if he’s unlucky, military
service.
And on a totally unrelated note: somebody stole an hour of my time today! I
woke up, and at some point during the day I noticed that my computer clock
was an hour ahead of my wrist-watch clock. “Strange” I thought… my
computer should be synchronized using NTP against some Danish
timeservers. So it should be accurate to within ±15 ms of UTC time.
(If your computer isn’t already doing so, then it ought to start using NTP
right away. Install a NTP client and make it synchronize against
pool.ntp.org. That DNS name will resolve into one of over a hundred
different public timeservers from all over the world, see
http://www.pool.ntp.org/.)
And indeed my compter was right: we’ve just switched to summertime in
Denmark (and probably the rest of the EU if I’m not mistaken) and
therefore we all have to live with a Sunday with only 23 hours.
15th March 2004, 12:26 pm
Sorry about the lack of news lately… I’ve had my mind on so many other
things. The most important thing in my life now is Stéphanie — my
girlfriend. We’ve just spend two wonderful days in Aalborg with my
mom and dad and in general we just try to spend as much time
together as possible!
I’m having holidays right now — no less than two weeks off! This is
because of the new quarter system they’ve made for the natural sciences
department where we’re going to have a break in the middle of the semester
for our quarter exams. But I’m still having the good old semester courses,
so I don’t have any exams now, and hence I have two weeks with nothing to
do except enjoying myself!
[
][Debian]
Right now I’m about to install [Debian][] on Stéphanies laptop — she’s
already using SuSE but, frankly, I cannot figure out how their
package system works… it looks very similar to the RPM-thing RedHat
uses, with the same dependency problems. That’s what I like most about
Debian: you don’t have to dig around on the web to find the right packages
to satisfy the dependencies, for all the packages that depend on each other
are usually right there next to each other on the same server and so APT
can figure it out automagically. I know that there’s similar things for
RPM packages, but I don’t want to use a lot of time to figure it out, I
want something I’m familiar with.
That’s it for now — see you all later!