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Published on Tue 13 of Jul, 2010
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I came back from WikiMania 2010 in Gdansk just yesterday and have to say that it was a much tougher weekend than I expected.


Butterflying was not so easy this time as in Porto. Most of the time I felt too heavy to really fly, but I had an awesome time. Met many old friends again and made some new, so actually the butterflying worked out rather well... ;)

Though it's kinda weird to go to Gdansk to meet DokuWiki and WikiPedia people from Berlin who are eager to come to TikiFestBerlin2010 to make it a real WikiFest. But well, that's how it works - the WikiWay! :)

Parties always had a very good mood to them, were not always too well organized it seems, consisted mostly of techno music and sometimes we just found them in touristy bars. Common problem everywhere was that it was just tooooo hot.

The only thing you can really do in such temperatures was then provided by my newly found local guide on monday: going to the beach with the longest wooden pier in europe and have a siesta. A very relaxed final day with some more not so touristy sightseeing and nice help along my way home.

Published on Tue 06 of Jul, 2010
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I tried, I really tried to use Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Just after the first exitement I had to come back to the conclusion that it just sucks!


I'm running Gentoo now again and my laptop is faster, more usable, better tuned, easier to maintain and just much more sympathic. Ubuntu stood more in my way than it did anything else. I can't take an operating system seriously that is constantly thrashing on the harddisk like that's its major purpose in life. I do have a rather powerful machine and on Gentoo it's perfectly ok to not own a SSD.

There are just not thousands of applications installed that I rarely or never use - but which eat resources all the time. Now I'm lacking nothing, but my laptop uses about 6 Watts less power - that's more than a third! If Ubuntu wouldn't have messed with my laptop battery, I'd now have the promised five hours of battery runtime for my machine. Well, it's still four now.. ;)

Also I now decided to "do it right"TM and build a totally streamlined, lean and mean working machine. No Gnome dependencies, no sucking KDE4, just XFCE and Compiz. And I don't even run ACPId or anything - everything is done via UDev/HAL and I'm looking forward to next UDev versions that will make HAL deprecated. Then there are running only a handful of system services.

A good and stressfree life. :)

Published on Fri 28 of May, 2010

Today Withoutfield of Blogrebellen fame asked for our most favorite track ever. Really tough one, but made me seriously think. After quickly dropping considering "Killing in the Name of..." (which is a big favorite of mine), I thought of DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing...." album, which really influenced me. Now finding a track that I enjoyed in almost any situation... voilà:

Felt like a good reason to blog again, as I'm still not completely sure about who I am - but at least I found my #Lieblingslied! ;)

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Born, went to school, started hacking on free software, did some major high availability sysadmin work in between, now back to my original passion: managing knowledge. :) -- Long CV

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