Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
darkness
... but because of the clouds, it doesn't really get dark during the night either. There is always a red hue to the clouds...
Sunday, October 28, 2007
grau
Der Herbst ist da, und nächste Woche beginnt November, der dunkelste Monat in Finnland. Die Farben aus den Bäumen verschwinden und der Himmel ist meistens nur noch grau - wirklich hell kommt es von draussen nicht mehr herein. Die fallenden Blätter wirken, als würde es draussen schneien wenn man aus dem Fenster schaut.
Auch die Nächte sind oft nicht klar, sondern leicht diesig und nebelig, sodass um die Laternen ein ganz eigenes Licht geben. Und am Meer ist teilweise untertags der Rand noch zugefroren und voller Raureif.
Selbst die Vögel sind nicht ganz glücklich mit dem Wetter - Blaumeisen wollen andauernd in mein Zimmer fliegen und die Schreie der Wildgänse (?) sind plötzlich ganz laut.
Aber wenn Mitte nächster Woche die Prüfungswoche endet, sind wenigstens wieder mehr Leute unterwegs. :)
Auch die Nächte sind oft nicht klar, sondern leicht diesig und nebelig, sodass um die Laternen ein ganz eigenes Licht geben. Und am Meer ist teilweise untertags der Rand noch zugefroren und voller Raureif.
Selbst die Vögel sind nicht ganz glücklich mit dem Wetter - Blaumeisen wollen andauernd in mein Zimmer fliegen und die Schreie der Wildgänse (?) sind plötzlich ganz laut.
Aber wenn Mitte nächster Woche die Prüfungswoche endet, sind wenigstens wieder mehr Leute unterwegs. :)
Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
suspend working (noch)
Created a new script /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-reinit-i8042.sh
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Force re-init of the i8042 PS/2 keyboard/mouse controller
echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind
echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind
Power tweaks
lesswatts.org
3. stop cdrom polling
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
1. disable bluetooth
hciconfig hci0 down
rmmod hci_usb
2. change scaling mode
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
3. stop cdrom polling
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
Monday, October 22, 2007
Turku
Last saurday, I went to Turku with Kerstin. We left late in the morning from Helsinki station on a beautiful autumn day. Finnish trains are a very nice thing - if you manage to buy your ticket at a machine not able to speak English to you and you need a Visa Electron or something similar. In Helsinki we just asked a random bystander for help, in Turku I managed myself.
Turku really is a very nice city. It is the oldest town in Finland, dating back to the 13th century. We visited the historical museum, the tourist info; went on a nice long walk to the fortress/castle where we went through the exhibition and also saw some 'real' knights running around. The castle in itself is quite nice, and it seems to have been on the brink of falling down, but was saved and renovated (very creatively). The ceilings for example, you can sometimes see, that there was a curved ceiling before and now they put one out of concrete there. When you are used to the Austrian Denkmalschutz, thats quite an experience. But on the other hand, there are some things that become possible through that, for example adapting the castle to modern purposes and in that way giving it some new live as it doesn't look so lifeless. And some ideas are really cool, like using all the small niches in the walls as book shelfs and making the window niches cozy with boards to sit on.
The next thing we did was walk back to the center and then got some food which we had outside at the promenade at the river. It was very nice, as the sun just started setting, the only problem being the low temperatures.
After having some beer in an old toilet house and getting warm again, we went to the railway station to get the next best train to Helsinki back after persuading the machine to give us two student tickets.
Turku really is a very nice city. It is the oldest town in Finland, dating back to the 13th century. We visited the historical museum, the tourist info; went on a nice long walk to the fortress/castle where we went through the exhibition and also saw some 'real' knights running around. The castle in itself is quite nice, and it seems to have been on the brink of falling down, but was saved and renovated (very creatively). The ceilings for example, you can sometimes see, that there was a curved ceiling before and now they put one out of concrete there. When you are used to the Austrian Denkmalschutz, thats quite an experience. But on the other hand, there are some things that become possible through that, for example adapting the castle to modern purposes and in that way giving it some new live as it doesn't look so lifeless. And some ideas are really cool, like using all the small niches in the walls as book shelfs and making the window niches cozy with boards to sit on.
The next thing we did was walk back to the center and then got some food which we had outside at the promenade at the river. It was very nice, as the sun just started setting, the only problem being the low temperatures.
After having some beer in an old toilet house and getting warm again, we went to the railway station to get the next best train to Helsinki back after persuading the machine to give us two student tickets.
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