I happened to come across and old friend last night on Yahoo Messenger resp. pidgin, who told me, that she was justing attempting to commit suicide.
What had happened? She had an abortion last week with twins in the 3rd month. No contraception? No, really not. But the Pill and antibiotics do not go together. She didn’t know that, and she got pregnant.
We chatted quite long last night. I think, she felt a little better, when we said our “Good Nights”.
My Mac Book’s current “hostname” looks really weird. I would rather like to change it.
Update 2013-06-15:
A: in Sharing you can change the computer name.
After I had bought my iPhone (on a German “prepaid” card, so: I did pay quite some money for it, and I don’t feel like I stole it, and I don’t have an expensive monthly tariff on a “postpaid” card), I got somebody to jailbreak it. He installed Cydia, Installous, and “all that”.
I the meantime I also installed a few apps from those repositories, but I wasn’t able to remove any of them.
Now I found a setting to get apps installed through Installous to appear under my iPhone’s Applications on iTunes on my PC. Looks like that is a way to also remove them.
Yes, I read there is an issue with that “AppSync”. So be sure, you know, what you do, before you also simply toggle that switch. Your “other apps” might get removed by iTunes next time you sync your iPhone.
I am now stuck in a huge sync, and I will interrupt it, as my SO keeps reminding me through the phone, that we have an appointment in the gym.
At least I do know now, how to get rid of that app, that I didn’t find useful. It drives me nuts, if I can’t find things like that out in a rather short time.
Oh, just a short extra note, before I leave for the gym: YES, that syncing DID remove a few apps, that I didn’t want to get removed. Those were those navigation apps, that the guy thought I should get installed by him for quite some bucks. Well, not to worry, I shall poke him for that soon. Offfffffff for the gym!
I find Mac OS X for Unix Geeks very, very helpful. I own the the Tiger paper version, and also the Leopard PDF.
(If you hold an O’Reilly account, and if you register your Leopard paper version of this book by simply entering the right ISBN und My Account, then this month the PDF upgrade costs you only $4.99. Pragmatic Progammers also ask you a question like “what’s the 1st word on page 203”, which you can obviously also answer correctly, if you sit in the coffee corner of your book store with your computer on your lap. But you are an honest book owner, aren’t you?)
Download fink from sourceforge! This opens a wide realm of extra UNIX utility to you. A very nice installer and repository!!
Tell fink to install emacs22-carbon for you! Yes, there is also a carbon native version of emacs. There is also an an emacs23-app (this is a carbon version!!) in the unstable area of the repository, but you don’t want to start your UNIX life on OS X with unstable utilities, as I do, do you?!?
MacPorts is another nice installer and repository, that you may want to get hold on.
Is there any such beast?
The emacs, that comes with Leopard’s X11 optional package, seems to be an alphanum only one.
To be continued …
I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person,
and “somebody” was creating the German word vingativ from the Portuguese word vingativo.
It actually took me a moment to find out, what it really means and where it derives from. Initially I had not clue at all, to be honest.
The English wiktionary entry on revanche did not help at all,
but the French one on vengeance
and the Portuguese on vingar did.
They both refer to the Latin vindicare (which is actually a pretty empty entry),
but that word in fact means going to justice
(maybe somebody wants to replace this English phrase).
So that word made quite a way from going to justice
to do-it-yourself justice
, didn’t it? What dou you think?
There has been some news today that NY’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will sue Tagged for doing bad things like identity theft.
I do care about my informational identy and privacy,
but I frankly want to tell everybody,
I have got not worries WRT this and Tagged.
both the english word hazard
and the portuguese word azar
sounded so similar to me, when I first heard that word used by my Love,
so that I considered them to mean the same.
that’s incorrect, as I had to find out very soon,
when we looked up the dictionaries on Sunday evening.
what a time for looking up dictionaries?
but what else would adults do beyond 23:00 on Sunday evenings?
but me being a little strongheaded I finally found out,
that both words go back to the same root,
which is the arab word “az-zahr” resp. “al-zahr” meaning “the dice”.
weird, isn’t it?!? same root, opposite meanings. wow.
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The customer’s project (the little lightweight green car) is a little delayed, and the boss wanted a few guys including me, to spend some time on Saturday on fixing a few problems and adding a few minimal features.
The customer’s site is 400km away from Berlin,
the family (version 2) is actually currently traveling in Brazil,
so I spend the weekend in that fabulous town in Western Germany,
facebooking, office working,
listening to Frank Sinatra’s music,
shopping, working out in the gym,
chatting with Rolf,
…
Actually, that music is copyright-cleared, I think,
so if anyone is interested in it,
I can put the MP3-s on a disk attached to my router,
and you can download it from there.
My friends know how to contact me,
and I am quite willing to give away the appropriate URL.
Can you imagine,
that Frank Sinatra’s music is quite in conflict with pidgin, the instant messenger?
Well, both of them use harp chords,
So I keep wondering, who is entering and/or leaving …