Felix Rabe (English)

Dell + Linux = Great News

2007-03-30T17:27:00.001+02:00

This is just awesome:

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/28/9655.aspx

Needing a break :o)

2007-03-05T20:41:00.000+01:00

Actually, not me (I had a big one during winter - other topic), but that guy :o)

I'm looking forward to the day when I'll get an OpenMoko / Neo1973 mobile phone. I hope that day will be soon, since it might be more urgent to replace my starting-to-fault laptop harddrive - or maybe the whole box if that would be too expensive.

Any other news? I moved on 1 March 2007. If you want the address, write me. (Watch out for the anonymous kitten killer if you send me spam - just don't, ok?)

Wiki Migration Issues

2006-08-31T00:28:00.000+02:00

Cool stuff!

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/08/29/python-for-blender-wiki-site-blenderpythonorg/

I'm just wondering... from time to time I find a website that is in the process of, or just finished moving their wiki. Since I'm mostly using the Internet to frequent programming-related information, I wonder: "Can't these people just somehow use software to translate one wiki database to another wiki format or database location?"

New PyGTK Shell release

2006-08-28T15:06:00.000+02:00

I made an intermediate release of my current software project available here:

http://felixrabe.textdriven.com/pygtk-shell/

Some links I stumbled upon

2006-08-03T20:48:00.000+02:00

... when reading LWN:

Myths, Lies, and Truths about the Linux kernel
http://www.bugmenot.com/ - forget about required registration for reading website

More music

2006-07-22T18:13:00.000+02:00

Have a look at this worship band and guess where they are from ;o)

Something for you to explore...

2006-07-14T22:30:00.000+02:00

I'm playing piano right now and, in the progress, discover that there are some interesting old songs of mine online:

My directory on ibiblio.org. Have a look at The Seed or ymiloN.

Enjoy!
- F

Do you have the courage?

2006-07-07T21:46:00.000+02:00

Do you have the guts to have a look?

Some disquiet from the somewhat different truth?

No, you don't know these people from publicity...

Shouldn't you already be looking away by now?

Stuff like that is X-rated for sure!

Pardon? You're looking at those pictures for the first time?

I'm not surprised, since their shocking effect is so obvious!

Or doesn't it just consternate you to see such good news?

Wouldn't it be way more interesting if someone on this picture had been raped?

RED Alert! Is it perhaps God who has a finger in the pie?

When was the last time you prayed for peace in Iraq?

Never? God doesn't exist?

Oh right, everyone gets tolerated nowadays ...

... instead of loved.

If you do have tears in your eyes now and want to ask God for forgiveness for prejudices of any kind, then there's already the two of us.

But God has an incredible lot more! He has even a life full of adventures in his hands - for you! Have you already taken the gift?

Same same ... not really!

2006-05-12T15:22:00.000+02:00

So many times in the last few weeks I thought that nothing in the last few years seems to have made even a tiny difference in my life. Just consider how many hours I've spent programming all this time after getting back from work - programming. And how late at night I sometimes stayed up to get that self-made bootsector running. Someone remembering me speaking of playing Freeciv all night? And look how I treat my father sometimes - shame on me. Or a funny one - I found a forgotten garbage pile in my relatively tidy room - a whole year old! There's the occasional Sunday where I sleep in instead of going to church. If you got an Email from me lately, that's probably because you sent me one many months ago and a random thought and a few minutes of spare (say, boring) time got the act together.

So, is it all same same? Heck NO! :o) I got back from work today riding on my bicycle. Just thinking about moving that distance a few years ago would have got me convinced that the Internet should be a human right. Nowadays I enjoy it if I can ride those 8 km (5 miles) four times a day. I don't even think (pun...) about it that much anymore, I take it for granted. (The truth is - bicycles should be a human right. Just kidding ;) ) And what part of the world (my world) is breaking apart when I take a week off the keyboard and do other stuff? There's tons of interesting stuff you can do without computers! (The only thing I would miss right now if my laptop was to break apart are the Email addresses that I haven't written down elsewhere.) Sitting in rooms is depressing - (you can also) get (depressed) outside. Church is where the holy ones gather and a solid enrichment for your life if you don't go there to be present asleep. (And like yesterday, it is also sometimes a lot of fun!) Where I just blindly hated my father in my past, my eyes are wide open now to understand that my behavior is most of the time not accurately reflecting God's blessing and loving heart.

Hey - "God"? That word made no sense to me just three years ago. I denied Him, hated Him, and censored everything a believer said about God. It all makes so much sense, because with that censorship activated, everything everybody says fits into the wonderfully logical big-bang-evolution-man-as-highest-lifeform worldview. And above all, the God of the Holy Bible is so intolerant! Sin? What s** c** b** x** y** are you talking about? Just follow your conscience, no need no God!

Well, God wanted me. Almost despairingly, if God could ever despair. But He didn't: He crashed me patiently and mathematically - for a period of 1.5 years, my grammar school semester marks went downwards in a steady progression, up to the point where I was feeling distressed. None of my attempts to be more motivated for school succeeded. This added to the background noise of parents arguing about the same stuff over and over and over, of being in love with a girl who didn't know how to handle my crazy letters, and (besides just that) of having no interest in having social interaction with anybody who didn't talk programming languages.

Oh no, I'm not at that point anymore! :o) After I redid last grade at grammar school, I too got my degree and now have the envelope ready with the application form to get signed up to theological studies (no, that's definately not even related computer science). I've overcome a year of psychiatric conversation therapy, which fixed me some, but in the course of which I fell in love with a genious beauty called Michèle, who fixed all the rest with her patience to tell me about her faith in Jesus and went way over the mile towards a real friendship. Really: If God didn't let her come my way, I would still have to look for somebody like her.

God, I thank you for getting and keeping me in the state of being amazed.

Dear Mr Snowman,

2006-04-05T19:58:00.000+02:00

We just received your shipment of the demanded amount of snow. Sadly we have to inform you that we already lost most of it due to warm underground. ...

...

Yours sincerely,
Felix Rabe

... now rambling in TWO languages!

2006-04-02T16:25:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody!

Since doing my DTS, I always thought: "I've found so many new English-speaking friends in DTS, how are they supposed to read my German blog?" Ehrm ... unless they know German, they can't (o;

So: have fun! I won't always post in both languages simultaneously, but it's a beginning.