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0800: 2 slices of white bread with fried eggs.
1145: 1 pizza sandwich.
1400: 1 quarter pounder menu at McDonalds.
1700: 1 bowl of spaghetti with ketchup.
2200: 1 slice of bread with cheese and turkey slice.

This has been a bad day, but I have compensated with a lot of exercise. I haven’t been to the gym, but I rode my bike to the train station and back. That is about 9 kilometers each way. In addition I have started the inline skating season and got that lovely warm feeling only the skates can give me with a 45 minute run. I had forgotten how much I love inline skating.

Dette har vært en dårlig dag kostholdsmessig, men jeg har kompensert med mye trening. Jeg har ikke vært på treningssenteret, men syklet tur/retur togstasjonen. Det er 9 km hver vei. I tillegg startet jeg rulleskøyte-sesongen i dag og fikk en deilig 45 minutters tur som ga meg den deilige varme følelse bare rulleskøytene klarer å gi meg. Jeg hadde glemt hvor mye jeg elsker å gå på rulleskøyter.

The company hiring didn’t have time to interview me today, so I only got the interview with the hiring consultant, which actually was very interesting. He was nice to talk to and I really got the feeling that he wants to help me get a job. If I don’t get this job I hope he will help me get other job or jobs. It would be exciting to work as a consultant for a while, that is hired out for shorter periods of time (this agency hires out consultants for “long” periods, usually 3 months or more at a time).

But the problem I realized would be a problem is that I have little formal competence in linux. I have used, set up and managed linux systems since the birth of linux, but I haven’t done this in a big production environment. I’ve done it mostly by on small, dedicated machines and as a hobby at home. Well, I guess time will show.

Firmaet som trengte linux-mann hadde ikke tid til Ã¥ intervjue meg i dag, sÃ¥ jeg fikk bare intervjuet med rekrutterings-konsulenten, som faktisk var et veldig interessant møte. Han var hyggelig Ã¥ prate med og jeg fikk virkelig følelsen av at han virkelig ønsket Ã¥ hjelpe meg Ã¥ fÃ¥ jobb. Hvis jeg ikke fÃ¥r denne jobben hÃ¥per jeg han vil hjelpe meg med en eller flere andre jobber. Det ville vært spennende Ã¥ jobbe som konsulent for en stund. En sÃ¥nn som blir leid ut for kortere perioder av gangen (dette byrÃ¥et leier ut konsulenter for “lange” perioder, vanligvis 3 mÃ¥neder eller mer av gangen).

Men problemet jeg vel har innsett lenge er at jeg har lite formell kompetanse innen linux. Jeg bar brukt, installert og driftet linux systemer siden fødselen av linux, men ikke i et stort produksjons-miljø. Jeg har hovedsaklig jobbet med linux på små, dedikerte machier og som en hobby hjemme. Tiden vil vise om jeg får en linux-jobb.

Sitting in the hiring agencys witing room now. My stomach is a bit nervous, but I feel I am in control of the situation, my head and my tongue.

It was easy finding the way here. I have worked in the neighbourhood for five years before, so the map I printed from the yellow pages was redundant. But it’s better to be safe than sorry, I think.
It feels good to be on a job hunt again. It’s like starting with a clean sheet. My last job I chose from geography and I ended up in a boring job doing tasks that wasn’t fun or interesting at all. I hav learned now. It is better to have a long way to an interesting job and feel happy than a short way to a crappy job and be miserable and burned out. There are few exciting jobs at home, so I have to seek work in Oslo which is only about 90 minutes travel from home. I have commuted before and the time on the train is actually a welcome opportunity to rest, read, nap and now also surf the web.

Well. Got to go. 3 minutes until my appointment.

Den norske oversettelsen ble litt forsinket, men her er den altså. Jeg kommer til å få senebetennelse i begge tomlene hvis jeg skriver masse på pda-en min.

Men nå må jeg gå. Det er 3 minutter til avtalen min.

Posting this via gprs. Forgot to post before I left home. Weighed in at 148.5 kilos this morning. Very satisfied.

Now I am on my way to a job interview and I am really excited about it. This is an interview for my dream job so please cross your fingers for me.

Atter en forsinket oversettelse:

Poster dette via pda-en og mobiltelefonen. Glemte å skrive før jeg dro hjemmefra. Veide 148,5 kilo i dag tidlig. Veldig fornøyd med det.
Nå er jeg på vei til et jobb-intervju og jeg gleder meg virkelig til det. Dette er et intervju til drømmejobben min så jeg setter pris på noen kryssede fingre.

1000: 3 roffe specials.
1500: 2 slices of kneip bread with cheese.
1900: 4 pancakes with sugar.

Awful day. But we are totally broke and has to live what’s in the house. Will unfortunately be like this until friday so next week will be frustrating diet wise. I need to get a job now. Cant wait until the leave is over.

Forferdelig dag. Vi er helt blakke og må leve på hva vi har i huset. Det vil dessverre være sånn helt til fredag, så neste uke kommer til å bli frustrerende i matveien. Jeg må få meg en jobb nå. Kan ikke vente til fødselspermisjonen er over.

Dette vil jeg ikke skrive på norsk. Ta kontakt hvis en oversettelse ønskes.

I think the concept of open source is so exciting that I am in a constant search of nice pieces of software to try out. Linux/Unix has had a kind of terminalserver functionality “forever” (since 1984 i think) in X-windows with the XDMCP protocol. This works good over a Local Network, but is very slow and not usable at all over slow wans, dsl-connections and modems.

My laptop computer is VERY big and VERY heavy and VERY un-practical to bring while on the road. But it has a very good specification and runs linux very well. I also have an old and slow computer that is very small and very light and extremely practical to put in my backpack. I wanted a way to connect to my home network from this light computer and get the performance I am used to from home.

After asking in a chatroom I hang out in for ways to compress an XDMCP-connection so that it runs comfortably over slow connections I got the answer NX. The solution is NX. I googled my way to the NX site and read on. NoMachine NX costs money, but they have released their source code, minus the proprietary part, under GPL and the search for how to get this into my Debian system started. I found out on Freshmeat that the solution was FreeNX. But the link to the homepage for the FreeNX project was just to a mailing-list page and the download link was to a domain that doesn’t resolve at all.

No need to say I got a bit frustrated, but after some minutes of heavy googling I found a debian repository in ubuntu forums that had packages for Debian sid. I am a bit sceptic to using unstable software, but I figured I would give it a try and just remove the software if it didn’t work or did something to my system.

Now it was just to add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://kanotix.com/files/debian/ ./

run

# apt-get update
# apt-get install freenx

For linux clients you add the same repository, but do “apt-get install nxclient” instead. Unless you want the server on your client too, that is. For windows clients you just download the free client software from Nomachines homepage.

Now it is just to start following the documentation on NoMachines homepages. Everything worked just great.

I have tried remote logins from a gprs connection on my cell phone, an 704/128 dsl-connection, on my 802.11b-WLAN and on my LAN and it works good on all those line speeds. Quite sweet. I haven’t tried to do multimedia on the clients yet, but the docs says it should work. Maybe not on the slowest connections, but….

One annoying thing is that remote logins do not work with the Gnome desktop, so I had to “apt-get install kubuntu-desktop” to be able to log in to my server. Otherwise I just got a black screen. I googled a bit and found that a lot of people had the same problem but did not find any cause or solution of why it doesn’t work with the Gnome Desktop. I will continue to search for a solution to this.

And the best of all this? I have a similar or even better performing terminal server solution than both windows and citrix at absolutely no cost. And still people choose to pay for badly working software they cannot even fix themselves. Go figure.

Its workout day today. The weather is excellent and there is almost no wind. I will try out my bike on a longer ride today and ride to the gym. Will probably not be in shape to actually work out at the gym, but at least I will have worked out going to an from the gym.

Will report my condition later today.
Report:

This was great. Very great. The hills wasn’t as tough as they seemed when seen from a bus-/car-window. In addition my “new” bike is very comfortable and easy to ride. It is probably the best purchase I have mad in years. Now it remains to see how long it will last. I got a full workout before I rode my bike home again. Quite nice.

I dag er det treningsdag. Været er fantastisk og det er nesten ingen vind. Jeg vil teste ut sykkelen på en lenger tur i dag og sykle til treninga. Vil sannsynligvis ikke være i stand til å faktisk trene når jeg kommer dit, men jeg vil i hvertfall få litt trim på vei til og fra.

Dette var herlig. Veldig herlig. Bakkene var ikke så tøffe som de virket fra bil og buss-vinduene. I tillegg så er den nye sykkelen min veldig behagelig. Det er sannsynligvis det beste kjøpet jeg har gjort på årevis. Nå gjenstår det bare å se hvor lenge den har lyst til å tjene meg. Jeg fikk forresten en full økt på treningssenteret før jeg syklet hjem igjen. Ganske fabelaktig, egentlig.

This is a wonderful day, but I am not very happy with the diet so far:

0930: 3 waffles with “i cant believe its not butter”-butter. 1 carrot.
1210: 1 banana.
1530: 4 turkey hot dogs with mustard and ketchup. 1 apple and 1 banana.

Charlotte slept all night and so did I. Wifey got one for free there, since it was her turn to stay awake if necessary. I bet she slipped Charlotte some sleeping pills or something last night. But anyways, we got to bed at about 2100 last night and I got up at 0700. I was awake at 0530, but fell quickly asleep again after a visit to the bathroom. Charlotte is still sleeping while I type this, so I guess she has been in dire need of sleep to, the poor, little sweety pie. But it isn’t easy to sleep when the body hurts after the needle the silly nurse stuck into her.

Today we are going to visit my mother. Should have been there yesterday, but had to cancel after the weeks events. I was just too exhausted. But today it is better and we are going to Selbak again. I think Charlotte is starting to recognize voices. At least she smiled when my mother talked to her on the phone yesterday.
Charlotte sov hele natten og det gjorde jeg også. Kona fikk en gratis en der, siden det var hennes tur å ta nattevåken hvis det ble nødvendig. Jeg tør vedde på at hun ga Charlotte sovemedisin i går kveld ;). Men uansett så la vi oss ca. kl. 21 i går kveld og jeg stod opp kl. 0700, kun avbrutt av et lite toalettbesøk i halv seks-tiden. Charlotte sover fremdeles i det jeg skriver dette så hun har nok også hatt et stort behov for å sove, stakkars lille nurket mitt. Men det er ikke lett å sove når man har vondt i kroppen etter at den dumme helsesøstra herjet med nåla.

I dag skal vi besøke mamma. Skulle ha vært der i går, men måtte droppe det etter ukas søvnmangel. Men i natt har vi sovet godt alle sammen, så da blir det tur til Selbak. Jeg tror forresten hun har begynt å kjenne igjen stemmer. Jeg holdt røret til øret hennes i går og hun gliste når hun hørte stemmen til farmor.

Today I have eaten:

0700: 2 slices of ingers rye bread with lettuce and unsalted scrambled eggs.
1000: 1 red apple and 1 carrot.
1215: 3 wieners (no buns), 1/4 tube of pringles and 1 carrot.
1600: 3 dinner sausages with potatoes, onions and tomatoes.
2030: 3 slices of pizza and *beeeeep*, *beeeeeep* and an apple.

This week has been totally crazy so far. I have slept a total of 5 or 6 hours since sunday. Charlotte has been sick because of a vaccine and has kept me up in the nights. I am totally exhausted and my mental energy is way below zero. Wifey has promised to take Charlotte tonight if she has another bad night. I hope I will be able to sleep. I really need it now.

Denne uka har vært totalt sinnsyk så langt. Jeg har sovet totalt 5-6 timer siden natt til mandag. Charlotte har vært syk på grunn av vaksine og har holdt meg våken på nettene. Jeg er totalt utslitt og min mentale energi er langt under nullnivå. Kona har lovet å ta Charlotte i natt hvis hun har en dårlig natt til. Jeg håper jeg vil få sove i natt. Jeg trenger det virkelig.

This is what I ate today:
0845: 2 roffe specials.
1600: 3 roffe specials.
1930: 1 bowl of mexikan casserole and 1/2 whole grain baguett.

Has also eaten 2 or 3 carrots today.