http://blog.gauner.org "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Sri Chinmoy Ghose Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:16:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VirtualBox's NAT code doesn't forward ICMP packets. Remember when you try to ping some destination from inside the virtual machine, this won't work. See here for more information in german. http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/13/virtualbox-filters-icmp-packets/ I've just seen the latest Bond 007 movie, and it was fun. Not as good as a I expect it to be and a bit short, but it was a worthy successor to the Bond series. Too sad, that there were no interesting technical gadgets like in the other Bond ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/09/quantom-of-solace/ AC/DC still rocks hard! Their latest album is running in an endless loop in my music player :) http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/06/black-ice/ [caption id="attachment_768" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Funny OSM Map (c) OpenStreetMaps"][/caption] Sometimes OpenStreetMaps can be quite funny. http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/05/osm-fun/ Slowly the packages of KDE 4.1.3 arrive in experimental. I'm always desperately waiting for the latest release, because KDE 4.1 still has several small issues and each maintenance release improves the situation a bit. I expect the release announcement in a few days. Update: There it is. The new release is ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/05/kde-413/ Recently I've got a Forerunner 305 from Garmin and, of course, I don't want to have to use windows in order to communicate with this device. Fortunately it has been for sale some time now and Garmin seems to document their USB protocol well, so there are several tools which ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/05/garmin-forerunner-on-linux/ I just found out that the InnoDB Tablespace won't shrink. I'm shocked! Seriously, that is annoying. http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/02/mysql-innodb-wont-shrink/ DCOP is the former desktop communication (IPC) protokol of KDE before version 4. Several legacy applications still use DCOP, e.g. Amarok. Sometime Amarok told me that the dcopserver was not available. I didn't care, but soon I found out that amarok kept spamming my .xsession-errors. This flodded my home partition ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/11/02/dcop-trouble/ Since I got a Fritz!Box as my Home-Router, the good old Linksys WRT54G just lay in the corner and settled dust. Is became aware of OpenWRT a long time ago, but I didn't take the time to try it out. One reason was that I didn't want to loose the ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/10/20/openwrt/ Recently I've got myself two new harddrives. I've always sticked to Western Digital in the past, but I didn't find a good offer this time. I've found the HD103UJ from Samsung but at first I hesitated because there were reports of high failure rates, obviously in one of the first ... http://blog.gauner.org/2008/10/19/new-harddrives/