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Sep 23
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 12
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:
Sep 10
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!
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
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and I wanted to upgrade the preinstalled openSUSE 10.0 to something more current instead of starting with a nearly outdated system.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 smartsmart 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.