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HP Photosmart 850 rating

Finally found the time and the energy to write a rating of my HP 850 digital camera to dpreview.com.

Fri 2003-02-28 11:22 in diary 2 comments #link

Hunger

I'm tired and hungry.

That's just because I've not eaten that much nor slept in 20 hours or so. While not IRCing, I've been coding a small Java servlet application, which uses PostgreSQL and sessions (cookies). Although half of the code was copypasted, I'm happy about having learned so much so easily. Now that sounds like a paradox, doesn't it?

I'm not writing this to whine, though.

I seem to be spending more and more time with this funky little soul, and still not getting anxious at all about it, but just peaceful and glad. I'm also being awfully lazy but I've granted myself that much.

Finally trying just a bit harder to ... talk more on my faculty IRC channel, #luuppi. It might be good to know at least one or two of them. =)

Lots of questions, speculations and plans in my mind.

Thank you my Lord.

Wed 2003-02-26 04:57 in diary No comments #link

NP: The Corrs - Secret

NP:
The Corrs - Secret Life
Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

There's just one more thing I need to add.
The Bible does have it all. To me the problem is finding the strength to further and further study that wisdom.

Sat 2003-02-22 11:07 in diary No comments #link

happy happy, with a scent of joy to go with it

I've been spending some time with an angel, but that's just about all I have to say about that.

All my words just seem ugly right now but I guess I'll (or, well, you'll) just have to be patient with that.

Trying to learn that I shouldn't just make myself do something because I think I have to do it - but instead, to ask myself whether I have the strength to do it. It seems, before, I haven't been able to tell that even chatting with people via the Internet is something that takes strength.

I've learned
more
about myself
within
the week that has passed
than
what seems to me like a very long time.

A "thank you" seems appropriate.
Ewgh.

I wouldn't be here without Jesus.

Fri 2003-02-21 15:57 in diary 2 comments #link

In and out of love

Life seems fast, and I'm surprised to have nothing too cynical to say about it. Trying to love everybody sucks me dry and fills me until momentarily I have difficulty finding myself.

Missing this someone drives me a bit crazy but I know I need not have any fear, my Father carries it for me. I was supposed to go to a demonstration for peace today but I overslept, sort of.

People are accusing me of being hard to understand, telling me they would need a dictionary to get me.

Going to hit Eepa's birthday soon enough, hopefully.

Sat 2003-02-15 15:13 in diary 4 comments #link

Reality spinning

Girls around me, and yet more boys. Not right now, though. The world seems pretty much finished to me. It's frightening, but new gates have opened. Now I would just need to analyze those possibilities, compare them and stick them in boxes narrow enough to stop them from breathing.

Perhaps not then, but what then? Find a middle ground. Ewh.

People torturing themselves and I feel like I'm getting killed in the process, too.

Took some photos again.

Tue 2003-02-11 21:34 in diary 3 comments #link

Trying to avoid avoiding

It seems pretty easy for me these days not to fill up this blog and there's a danger in that. Namely, I might forget to blog.

I wrote a piece of more or less philosophical text on the topic sometimes called life. I think it has some thoughts, which might be of some use to the rest of the world. I thought I would stick a stamp on it to restrict it to peepl of ages below n, where n is the age a human being usually stops developing his (or indeed, her) thinking.

Äwgh, I don't know.
But, to correct your potential fallacy: no, I haven't forgotten about the world just yet.

NP: Cranberries - Empty
NP: Bass 'n' Helen - Olethan

Sat 2003-02-08 13:29 in diary No comments #link

Red Hat installation diary

Got my Red Hat linux distro installed yesterday.

I created a net boot floppy and off we went. Everything seemed to go nicely during the installation process, although I was surprised to find out that the net install doesn't come with the graphical installation interface. So maybe I should have burnt the ISOs.

I selected the 'Server' preconfiguration and then added some packages I thought I might want to try out. The installation took almost three and a half hours, although I have a theoretical 10meg connection and the server I used was ftp.funet.fi. Perhaps the bottleneck was my AMD K6-233, then.

So, the installation finished and the machine booted. I realized the OS is using an US keymap, the mouse is configured in the wrong serial port and the windowing system seems _really_ strange (for example, I'm unable to move any windows around). Could it be that I selected too many window managers during the installation?

The system was indeed smart enough to fix the problem with the mouse during the next bootup, though. Also, hydron helped me to enable the fi-latin1 keymap.

To do:

• Set up a mail server to collect POP mail and to provide IMAP access
• Set up an HTTPS (web) interface for the mail server
• Check the functionality of the SSH server software
• IP Masquerading (etc.) to provide internet access to my other machine, as well
• Make the UI more bearable

I'm short of time, but it wouldn't be the first time God teaches me such matters.

Mon 2003-02-03 21:25 in diary No comments #link