Feb 24

Saisoneröffnung!

So - heute das erste Mal (mit Frau) auf dem Rad unterwegs gewesen in 2008.

Die erste Tour führte uns von MA aus nach Speyer und zurück. Wir können die Tour nur empfehlen, sie ist mit dem Rennrad sehr gut zu fahren. Allerdings würden wir sie nicht unbedingt nochmal am ersten schönen Sonntag des Jahres fahren. War doch einiges los. ;)

Dec 10

Bunkerwald

Nachdem wir mal wieder einen Sonntag frei hatten wurde kurz entschlossen der Bunkerwald in der Nähe von Bad Rappenau als Ziel der heutigen Caching-Tour definiert. Luftlinie knappe 50km entfernt erwarteten uns dort 12 teilweise erhaltene Bunker aus dem 2.Weltkrieg.
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Wie sich vor Ort herausstellte sind die erhaltenen jedoch in der Regel ziemlich vermüllt. Jeder scheint dort seinen Restmüll ab zu laden. Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn, sehr schade. Dummerweise fingen wir erst nach Bunker #2 mit dem Fotografieren an, gerade Bunker #1 hat uns da fast schon wieder abgeschreckt. Allerdings lag der Cache außerhalb, wühlen war also nicht nötig. Im hinteren Teil ging der Gang jedoch noch ein gutes Stück weiter. Leider kaum begehbar, da der Boden kaum einen freien Platz aufweist.
Weiter ging es erstmal zu Fuß, war zwar alles matschig, aber wir hatten Glück mit dem Wetter und es regnet quasi nicht.Insgesamt sind die Bunker wirklich interessant, zwar kein Spielplatz für Kinder, aber wenn man auf den Kopf achtet auch nicht wirklich gefährlich. Auch wenn sie teilweise recht seltsam nach der Sprengung liegen blieben.
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Schön wars.

Oct 14

First night cache done …

So we met with jha, genera and Buddeldaddy at 8pm yesterday at the starting location of the Märchenteich Cache. We headed for the helper first, then came back to the parking place to search for stage 1, a blue reflector.
Buddeldaddy found it after ~15 minutes approximately 100m away from the start. It contained the location of stage 2, so we headed into the woods.
After a lot of fun and 2.5 hours later we found the final of that 5 stage night cache. The owner planned 3-4 hours, so we weren’t that bad. ;)
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Oct 9

openSUSE 10.3 - back on Linsux

After a few months spent with just running Windows my long awaited openSUSE 10.3 was released and I was happy to grab the GM-ISO-Image just before the release when the mirrors weren’t that loaded. A quick and painless installation on the laptop got me a smooth running desktop OS with everything you need.There is a nice howto for doing this which.Though I didn’t use it I can recommend it to nearly everyone without any experience on installing suse. Everyone else should have a look too. There is some good stuff for everyone …
openSUSE 10.3 - openbox 3.4 - Gnome
The wallpaper is from interfacelift.com.

Sep 25

Sale of the Century

Schnaeppsche

Sep 23

Caches++

Cache-Counter: 10
Another funny evening strolling through the city with the missus looking for geo-caches. We started at 9pm and got back home ~2 hours later - though we had to miss two caches cause of the darkness. We should really do that during daylight, would make things a bit easier. ;)
Find our track below on GoogleMaps.
Found Caches:

Note to self: Don’t turn of GPS, adds Start/End points to track.more notes: Simply attach the tracks together in MapSource :)


Sep 14

’nuff said

Sep 12

Geocaching fever …

Got another 5 caches last night. :)
Funny that my wife had a lot of fun doing that. Maybe/Hopefully we hunt a lot more in the next weeks. Pretty relaxing to stroll through the city looking for small boxes. Though I don’t want to know what other people think when you circle around a tree 3-4 times and look into every hole of it … ;)
List of caches:

Let hunt some more in Bensheim tonight.
More infos about geo-caching at geocaching.com.

Sep 10

Lets go geocaching …

As I bought a Garmin Vista HCx last week I was curious about that geocaching thingy I read about. So I quickly created an account, searched in Mannheim and made my first cache tonight, yap! :)
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Too bad I didn’t had a flashlight with me, couldn’t find the second cache in the dark. Hmpf.
Update: This image is updating when I log more caches …

Sep 5

Being really smart!

As I got myself a new (and better) VPS yesterday and I wanted to upgrade the preinstalled openSUSE 10.0 to something more current instead of starting with a nearly outdated system. So the journey began with a simple system update via YaST which ended … well … pretty quickly. And obviously without any success.

After that I decided to do the update with smart instead, so find my little howto below.

Upgrading your openSUSE 10.0 VPS from Hosteurope to 10.2:
  • install smart for 10.0 from here
  • add the needed channels/repositories to smart (OSS, non-OSS, updates, smart) for 10.2
  • update the packagelist smart update
  • upgrade the system smart upgrade
    • Above step fails with “error: filesystem-10.2-22 requires rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) <= 4.2.2-1
  • upgrade system in 2 steps:
    • smart upgrade rpm rpm-python pam pam-modules smart
    • smart upgrade
  • be on the safe side: SuSEconfig ; ldconfig
  • disable all console in /etc/inittab
  • the next step was a real PITA and took me a while to figure it out
    • the ssh-daemon needs /dev/random which isn’t create when booting
    • add to /etc/init.d/boot.local: mknod /dev/random c 1 8
  • make sure all needed services are enabled for runlevel 3: chkconfig -l | grep 3:
  • hold thumbs and reboot
That’s pretty much it. I just had one major problem with the missing /dev/random and the not starting sshd because of it. Needed to install the telnet-server to get access while the system was running so I could debug it. After I while I found that post that finally fixed it.

Have a nice day.