Tomcat with Gentoo

Well, running Tomcat with Gentoo is somewhat ugly. First of all, after installing Tomcat and running it, there was no page at all. So after making sure, that Tomcat is actually running, and that there isn’t any other application listening on that port (e.g. Apache2), I went to the web and found out that I’d need to have the “examples” Useflag. Tried that, no change. So I ran an “emerge –newuse”, but even after that, it didn’t work.

Addition to the Emilie Autumn Concert review

Most of the videos in YouTube of this event have a horrible quality. This one’s all right – but what really made me post this over here is:

Do it for me! Do it for YouTube!

So, here we go, it’s in YouTube now

Emilie Autumn Bundle and Concert in Hamburg

As already mentioned I figured out that Emilie Autumn is a really fine artist and funny person. So, after hearing her read from her book, which, though full of funny passages is still quite serious, I’ve decided that I need to have it. I just got a short glance at it at the reading (which annoyed me, especially as she had it with her at her „Meet and Greet“ session, to skim through it). And I also wanted to see her regular show. Now both things came true

ASP – Hast Du Mich Vermisst? (Der Schwarze Schmetterling I)

This entry will be my first on a collectable music item, and it’ll be on an Asp collectable.

Now, what would be more fitting then to write about the first ASP collectable there was? Yes I’m talking about the re-release of the first album “Hast Du Mich Vermisst?”, which is the first of a (in 2000 unknown) number of albums of a cycle, called “Der schwarze Schmetterling”. But why did ASP decide to do a re-release in 2004? What’s so special about the box? What’s the content and is it worth buying?

© by Monozelle

iPhone was yesterday: The xPhone’s coming

Matrix scene in Lego

Pretty cool stuff that my girlfriend just showed me:

According to an article in the TAZ (worth reading, btw.) the two headed Australian team worked more than a year and more than 440 hours to create this short stop motion video. They earn my respect for their stamina and patience – and in my eyes the result is not only worth seeing but also really cool, considering the high detail level that they adapted from the original. Their websites allows us to have a glance behind the scenes.

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Btw. it somehow reminds me of a classic:

You can experience the full version yourself – just do as shown in the video – open a terminal and type in:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Of course you’ll need a telnet client. Many distributions of Unix have one already (including Mac OS X), but current Windows versions don’t. But this is off topic already – you’ll figure how to get a telnet client yourselves – just ask your always helping, all knowing friend!

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…

… actually? No, I’m not! I’m enjoying a white christmas. Okey, all right, all right, it’s not christmas yet. But here, in Husum, it snows! I know that there’s nothing in Hamburg, and there’s nothing in Munich – but here in Husum it snows! Quite a bit – but just see for yourselves (some pictures we took yesterday of our neighborhood while walking to the bakery).

And because it snows, and because it is Christmas, I’ll just let it snow on my blog. Doesn’t it harmonize with that wonderful header graphic of mine?

Asp shopping list

While surfing around I just found the weblog welt:b:unter (a word game – Weltunter is a song by Asp, and bunter means more colorful) that hat a pretty extensive shopping list containing CDs (especially special editions) by Asp as well as other merchandise stuff.

Now this brought me to the idea of why not draw a line and list up, what of that list I possess . And I guess that I’ll maybe have some entries that will follow this one (inspired by welt:b:unter), which’ll contain some of the more interesting stuff by Asp, with pictures, and where and how I got them

Automating Mac OS X notebooks

I just found this pretty neat script for Mac OS X to auto-mount network filesystems, according to your IP. Nothing fancy, but as most of the Mac users are not familiar with scripting, it’s a nice thing to try out

The script checks wether you are in the right network by determining your IP (which therefore needs to be a fixed IP, provided by a DHCP server/router). You could of course also use wild cards, but I guess this is the better solution (ideal if it is something fancy, not that common, so no 192.168.0.x) – but you’ll figure something.

set myip to do shell script “ifconfig | grep ‘broadcast’ | awk ‘{print $6}’”
if myip = “10.168.1.255″ then
     mount volume “smb://workgroup;username:password@10.168.1.254/path/”
else
     display dialog “Not able to connect server” buttons {”ok”} default button “ok”
end if

The example uses 10.168.1.255 as client address in line 2, so this is what you’ll need to change. The other line that needs adjustment is line 3. You of course change “workgroup” with the name of your workgroup, “username” and “password” accordingly, and after the @ there’s the IP of your server, and the path to that share that you want to mount.

That’s all there is, no magic. If the connection for what so ever reason does not work, you’ll get a dialog window, saying “Not able to connect server” that you can click away with “ok”.

Word of the Day [German]

Mein Wort des Tages:

Rolli-Wolle
(Quelle: Buha Security)

Als Spitzname für Wolfgang Schäuble. Obwohl ich glücklich darüber bin, dass er nicht mehr Verteidigungsminister ist, so werd ich ihn auf diesen Posten wohl doch auch irgendwie vermissen, denke ich (Hassliebe?)

Anyhow, made my day