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Swisscom was to organize a preshopping event, starting at midnight. People started queing already at 2pm and when I got there at 7.30 pm I was the 150th person in the queue.

Sadly the event was badly organized, except the snacks. Nobody took care of the queing. Yes, we are not in England, so people don’t know about queing.

The result was that people like me waited for 7 hours straight while other people just walked in and got one. They made me angry and at the same time they made me feel like a fool.

My last resort was the early-bird sale, starting at 6.30 am.

I got up at 5.50 and started the laundry machine. Yes, it was laundry day and I got just 3 hours of sleep, but laundry is important too.

I got on my bike and rode to the nearest Swisscom-Shop, about 300m and I was the 8th person in line. 5 minutes later there were already 20 wanna-be-customers like me in line. A quarter hour later the shop manager
announced that there were only 13 devices at this agency, so I finally was among the lucky ones!!

An hour later I was at home, waking the kids for the kindergarten and then, only then, I could initiate my brand new iPhone over iTunes, sponsored as a birthday present.

And my kids finally got a new puzzle box;)

I discovered http://www.se-radio.net. This site produces
podcasts for software engineers. I really enjoy the possibility to learn while traveling

Today, I started listening to the parts of concurrency. Did you know there is a bug classification called Heisenberg-Bugs? A Heisenberg-Bug is a Bug in a multithreading application which dissappears while debugging, because of the debugging, logging statements etc. you changed the speed and behaviour of the application. So you cannot reproduce the bug in the test-environment, but in the production environment the bug still exists! A real PITA, and with PITA I do not mean the bread

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So far it is very nice and intuitiv, you can even trigger builds by email, mobile etc! And just
yesterday it has groovy-console builtin for monitoring maven2-builds!

Isn’t it a good day when you recover that your new tools already know each other?

Although I have to admit that hudson lacks some features I would like to have such as
access-control per project. For now there is an access-control (LDAP, Matrix-like etc) for the whole build-server…

Last week I decided to install ubuntu and turn my macbook into a triple boot system. The reason was curiosity of how well this can be acomplished.

But it went bad, very bad….

Since I used already used BootCamp to install a Windows XP, I used the mac-home-brew program ‘disk utility’ to create a partition for ubuntu. The day before I made a backup of my system and cleaned my harddrive. I had 60GB free disk space!

With ‘disk utility’ I began to create a new partition, about 30GB. But unfortunately the partition program
crashed…

Actually the partition program didn’t crash, leopard crashed. One of those

system crashed, hold down the powerbutton ….

the blue-screen aquivalent of OSX. After restarting the system I discovered, that no partition was created, but instead of my 60GB free space on the hard-drive there were only 20GB available!

I ran the ‘disk utility’ programm again (yes, I had still hope), that time to check my disk. The ‘repair-mode’ was not enabled, I had to ‘verify’ my disk first, which is exactly what I did. It detected
some errors about indexing etc [no surprise there]. ‘Repair-Mode’ still not enabled I googled with the error messages and among the first results whas a apple.com support page.

Their Advice on their page was:

[...] You can ignore those error messages, the system will work just fine [...]

WTF? What advice is that? Working just fine? that bl… tool just ate 40GB of my harddisk! In the sense of ‘customer-feedback’ there was a poll just below that magnificient advice asking

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You can imagine where my frustration went.

With no other option left I restored the images disk from ‘time machine’ and got my drive back
the way it was. [windows XP still booting!]

I’m backing up regularly as you can imagine. After restoring my drive I made the updates I needed
and wanted to backup again. [just 2 be on the save side]. So I started the backup and went shopping.
After returning an hour later ‘time machine’ has backed up 10KB already….

Wait. …. 10KB?

You know, there are days you should have stayed in bed.

Open Source lives and dies, in my opinion, by the willingness of hackers to fix what annoys them.