I have decided to stay in Munich for at least another year. But for reasons other than displayed in this video.
It contains some nice touches like the “Hoff” poster on his bedroom door. I thought that Dutchmen were the ones digging the holes on the beaches? Roll on Oktoberfest.
I have decided to stay in Munich for at least another year. But for reasons other than displayed in this video.
It contains some nice touches like the “Hoff” poster on his bedroom door. I thought that Dutchmen were the ones digging the holes on the beaches? Roll on Oktoberfest.
I just cycled over to the Wiesn and it looks like the Oktoberfest tents (if you can call them that) are mostly built. The rollercoasters were only half done and looked like they were being assembled by a drunkard. I believe that many of the workers responsible for the Oktoberfest setup are paid partly in beer so this wouldn’t be surprising.
Looking forward to a couple of afternoons with a mass in hand “prost"ing away.
I just cycled over to the Wiesn and it looks like the Oktoberfest tents (if you can call them that) are mostly built. The rollercoasters were only half done and looked like they were being assembled by a drunkard. I believe that many of the workers responsible for the Oktoberfest setup are paid partly in beer so this wouldn’t be surprising.
Looking forward to a couple of afternoons with a mass in hand “prost"ing away.
Went on my first trip of the season with Martin today. Took the train to Tegernsee and then went up and down some steep hills. Expecting much muscle pain in a couple of days.
Went on my first trip of the season with Martin today. Took the train to Tegernsee and then went up and down some steep hills. Expecting much muscle pain in a couple of days.
I’m now at Munich Airport after having missed my flight this morning (by only 5 minutes but still missed). Disappointingly after searching around I was unable to find any open wireless access points. The portal based ones were uncrackable and Vodafone wanted €20 to access it for the day. Good thing that the Thunderbird email client has such good off-line capabilities and I have been able to queue up loads of email replies that will get sent out when I reconnect in England.
I have next to me my old Dual G4 Mac that has been freshly installed with Tiger for my mother. It should be more than enough computer for her needs for a couple of years yet. Her computing needs consist of email, listening to missed episodes of the Archers on Radio 4 and visiting Amazon and Ebay. Two beefy CUPs and 1.5GB RAM should cope just fine.
She’s getting this machine which, up until last week, was my workhorse PC. I recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro. After 10 years in IT I finally bought my first laptop having preferred the configurability and expandability of desktops. I’ve never really had the need to work on the road and when I have, have made do with a badly set-up and difficult to use work laptop. So far the MacBook is working out well. I have set-up OpenVPN on it which creates a tunnel back to the Imaginator network in Franzstr 5 and allows me to access iTunes and files securely. At the moment this is done via NFS but I made good progress on setting up Samba to authenticate via LDAP (I hang everything off the Imaginator LDAP tree) and plan on rolling that out tonight or tomorrow.
I have been impressed with OpenVPN but am having some trouble getting it to use the existing DHCP server to hand out addresses and options like name servers. My mother’s G4, my laptop, my neighbour’s laptop and the Slomkowski Compound network all now connect back to imaginator through it. And so the imaginator DarkNet expands…
I’m now at Munich Airport after having missed my flight this morning (by only 5 minutes but still missed). Disappointingly after searching around I was unable to find any open wireless access points. The portal based ones were uncrackable and Vodafone wanted €20 to access it for the day. Good thing that the Thunderbird email client has such good off-line capabilities and I have been able to queue up loads of email replies that will get sent out when I reconnect in England.
I have next to me my old Dual G4 Mac that has been freshly installed with Tiger for my mother. It should be more than enough computer for her needs for a couple of years yet. Her computing needs consist of email, listening to missed episodes of the Archers on Radio 4 and visiting Amazon and Ebay. Two beefy CUPs and 1.5GB RAM should cope just fine.
She’s getting this machine which, up until last week, was my workhorse PC. I recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro. After 10 years in IT I finally bought my first laptop having preferred the configurability and expandability of desktops. I’ve never really had the need to work on the road and when I have, have made do with a badly set-up and difficult to use work laptop. So far the MacBook is working out well. I have set-up OpenVPN on it which creates a tunnel back to the Imaginator network in Franzstr 5 and allows me to access iTunes and files securely. At the moment this is done via NFS but I made good progress on setting up Samba to authenticate via LDAP (I hang everything off the Imaginator LDAP tree) and plan on rolling that out tonight or tomorrow.
I have been impressed with OpenVPN but am having some trouble getting it to use the existing DHCP server to hand out addresses and options like name servers. My mother’s G4, my laptop, my neighbour’s laptop and the Slomkowski Compound network all now connect back to imaginator through it. And so the imaginator DarkNet expands…
I decided to take some time off from work to enjoy the summer this year. That and I need to move from Munich back to the UK, finish applying for business schools and haven’t taken much time off from working at the EPO for the last 2 years. I am loving it.
This is a really hot summer and I’ve been hanging out at the rivers and lakes that surround Munich. What a wonderful city that one has the possibility to swim in the river that runs through it. Most other places I know you would be lucky to come out without ome new heavy metals in the bloodstream.
One particular fun thing to do is go swimming in the Eisbach that runs through Munich’s main park. This river enters the Englisher Garten park on the southern end where surfers practise on the standing wave. It’s possible to dive in here and get pulled along through the garden (at quite some speed), sucked into some rapids and then relax on your back, finally exiting near the Chinesischer Turm beer garden. Convieniently there is a tram that takes you back to the start and you can endure the rapids all over again.
The lakes are also beautiful this time of year and I was swimming in the Starnbergersee this weekend. I met up with Ulrike and her sister and we upstream along the Isar. It was about a 3 hour ride on a very hot day. And now I am at the end of my first month off from work. Still have 2 more to go but alas the time is flying by and September is going to be punctuated by morning and sorting out all the administrative crap that goes with changing countries yet again.
My flight to the UK for the weekend is now boarding. But only for a weekend.
I decided to take some time off from work to enjoy the summer this year. That and I need to move from Munich back to the UK, finish applying for business schools and haven’t taken much time off from working at the EPO for the last 2 years. I am loving it.
This is a really hot summer and I’ve been hanging out at the rivers and lakes that surround Munich. What a wonderful city that one has the possibility to swim in the river that runs through it. Most other places I know you would be lucky to come out without ome new heavy metals in the bloodstream.
One particular fun thing to do is go swimming in the Eisbach that runs through Munich’s main park. This river enters the Englisher Garten park on the southern end where surfers practise on the standing wave. It’s possible to dive in here and get pulled along through the garden (at quite some speed), sucked into some rapids and then relax on your back, finally exiting near the Chinesischer Turm beer garden. Convieniently there is a tram that takes you back to the start and you can endure the rapids all over again.
The lakes are also beautiful this time of year and I was swimming in the Starnbergersee this weekend. I met up with Ulrike and her sister and we upstream along the Isar. It was about a 3 hour ride on a very hot day. And now I am at the end of my first month off from work. Still have 2 more to go but alas the time is flying by and September is going to be punctuated by morning and sorting out all the administrative crap that goes with changing countries yet again.
My flight to the UK for the weekend is now boarding. But only for a weekend.
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