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I’ve finally gotten around getting myself a tattoo, was this years x-mas gift to myself. It’s  a PI (3.1415…) in the back of my neck. Check it out:

Not all that much going on in the pekwm world these days, there’s been some cleaning and bug fixes but I have still not done any work on 0.2.0. :-/ Anyway, I stumbled across a nice blog post on living with pekwm, check it out!

After more than 4 years working for FreeCode I’ve decided to move on looking for new challenges.  I’m beginning at Bouvet where I’ll be focusing more on development and less system administration (if everything goes as planned).

While at it, I also have a great ambition of not working all that much giving myself time to do more development during my spare time, let us see how that goes. Right now phew-0.1.0 and ganeti-manager-0.1.0 is just around the corner so it’s not going all that bad. ;)

1 x Drop The Lime / Black Ham - Ruff 01 (12")
1 x Rotator - Curses on your Ghettoblasters (12")
1 x Venetian Snares - Salt (12")
1 x Shitmat / Ladyscraper - Grungecore Vol. 1 (12")
1 x Broken Note - Let 'Em Hang / Meltdown (12")
1 x Broken Note / Starkey - War In The Making / No Struggle (12")
1 x Broken Note - Crux / Zealot (12")

Was out on Saturday, Oslo Break Fest at The Villa, was awesome! I had to order some music afterwards:

1 x BROKEN NOTE: Dubversion (Ruff)
      12": (RUFF 006) - [4.34]
1 x ANTISERUM/RIPPLE: Dungeon Waltz (Mode Recordings)
      12": (MODE 006) - [4.24]
1 x ALIEN PIMP/ALCHEMYST/TAZ BUCKFASTER: Worldwide Babylon Vol 1 Sampler 2
(Dubkraft Romania)
      12": (DK 002WAX) - [5.21]
1 x TC: Where's My Money (Caspa remix) (D Style)
      12": (DSR 015) - [5.21]
1 x MUNGO'S HI FI: Babylon (Scrub A Dub)
      12": (SCRUB 001) - [5.21]
1 x ROOMMATE/ALIEN PIMP/ULTRABLACK: Strickly Reggae (Grinch)
      12": (GRINCH 002PWAX) - [5.21]
1 x AUDIO/FUTURE SIGNAL: Furyen (Subtitles Music)
      12": (SUBTITLES 072) - [4.78]
1 x BCEE/CINEMATIC: Glitter Balls (Future Retro)
      12": (RETRO 009) - [5.21]
1 x CABBIE/PAPA G/WARNING: Beer & Pussy (Function)
      12": (CHANEL 9630) - [5.21]
1 x CTRL Z/SCREWFACE present STEREO TYPE: Remix Sampler Part 2 Of 3 (Hardcore Beats)
      12": (HB 042) - [5.21]

Looking forward to have these in my mailbox!

Just ordered:

1 x ROTATOR: Choose Your Poison Mine Is Hardcore (Peace Off France)
      CD: (PEACEOFFCDMIX 03) - [5.21]
1 x SPOR: Supernova (Lifted)
      double 12": (LFTD 002) - [8.50]
1 x VON SCHIRACH, Otto: Oozing Bass Spasms (Cock Rock Disco US)
      CD: (CROCK 019) - [7.82]
1 x LIMEWAX: The Kristall Weizen EP (Technical Itch)
      double 12": (TI 052) - [8.27]
1 x BROKEN NOTE: Fueling The Fire EP (Damage Spain)
      12": (DAMAGE 12011) - [6.95]
1 x DJ PRODUCER, The/DEATHMACHINE: Failed Attempts At Bending Time & Space (Rebelscum)
      12": (SCUM 025) - [4.34]
1 x GRIDLOK: Los Angeles (Renegade Hardware)
      12": (HWARE 11) - [4.34]
1 x BRETZEL ZOO: Baywatch (EAT Concrete Holland)
      12": (EAT 012) - [6.95]
1 x McCOOK, Tommy & THE SUPERSONICS: Pleasure Dub (Pressure Sounds)
      CD: (PSCD 063) - [11.30]

Found a “fun” page on incise.org named “not so tiny window managers” the other day about window manager sizes and got the inspiration to do a incomplete follow up.

The following “measurements” have been done on NetBSD 5.0 AMD64 (GCC 4.1.3) and SLOC has been measured with SLOCCount version 2.26. Binary sizes are sizes after stripping with –strip-unneeded.

The number of lines of code and binary size does not represent how fast, how many features or how much memory the window manager uses at runtime.

Last Friday I noticed this wonderful invention while being in the park and I just had to get one myself. A portable LP player from Numark! Check it out:

Just ordered some music:

1 x CONTRAST, The aka HIGH CONTRAST: Days Go By (The Contrast)
	  12": (CONTRAST 00)
1 x KALILASKOV AS: Killas 2008 (Digital Drugs Germany)
	  CD: (DIGICD 006)
1 x DYNAMIC: The Remixes (Fineplay)
	  CD: (FIN1CD 007)
1 x TECH ITCH/KEMAL/COSMO/DIBS: The Calling (Big Riddims)
	  12": (BGRDM 001)
1 x WILDLIFE COLLECTIVE: Sugar Me (Jungle Cakes UK)
	  12": (JC 001)
1 x Merrow: Born Underwater (Suntrip)
	  CD: (SUNCD 12CD)

Will pick out the highlights when I’ve listened to it all.

I have been using my mac mini for quite some time now but I’ve been wanting to play with OpenSolaris and see what ZFS and Zones can do for me, don’t require much hardware to do the actual testing but my mini didn’t seem that willing to play and I couldn’t be bothered.

Have not had the time to play much but OpenSolaris comes with ZFS as the default filesystem, nothing special to do to get going there, have not been playing with the interesting stuff as snapshots, raid-z etc yet.

Zones, have just gotten started there getting some base zones up and running and I must say getting started was almost too easy. Will see if I get some time to do some actual tweaking here soon.

In general I am satisified with the machine but it could have been a bit less noisy, it is not noisy, just a tiny bit more than my mac mini but until machines are 100% silent I will continue complaining.