Mornin everybody,
take a seat, right over there. The steve has something to tell
so yesterday, my roommate and I were going out to get something to out. We went to a place called the kuckuck's nest. they have some great turkisch meals. and they have baklava. Did I mention I love baklava ? Anyway so we sit there, on our second beer. and this guy walks up and asks if he can come sit with us. he was a doctor and wanted to talk and get to know people. we talked about a lot of things. Like that he doesn't drink alcohol and that his only drugs are woman. now this guy was imho retarded. spoke very broken german, with a lot of pauses and he was one ugly motherfucker.
after 5 min he orders us all a gin & tonic. great beverage , loved the taste. So he ordered us a gin & tonic. " I don't drink alcohol, it's bad" but the guy does order a gin & tonic. oh the irony.
oh while we're at it, I had a affelstrüdel aswell. normaly it's pie. but here it was appeljuice with vodka and cinnamon. great drink. try it sometime.
on with the story, the guy was freaking us out so we left pretty quickly. while we were on our way home , my roommate saw a friend of his and she said there was a party going on at the wihast. wihast is one of the student homes here FYI. so we get there, have a drink make some small talk. One of the girls was drunk to booth. there was more alcohol in her then a russian on happy hour. she started talking to me , asking who I was etc etc... and suddenly she starts telling me how her father used to rape her and she went into very specific details on how those nights went on. ... I was SHOCKED!
Really, some things are better not said and THAT was one of them. Now i'm not known for my subtle ways but I am smarter then that.
so the party was good. We left at half past 12 and we wanted to get one more beer before hitting the sack so we went into town.
After some good and thorough looking we found a place called "In Vino" it obviously had a lot of wine. I went in there and mangled their sophisticated ways by ordering a beer.
"Steve Bielen, Culture barbarian. performing every other tuesday"
It was a nice place had a few laughs , talked with the bar owner. It was good. now my roommate wanted to try some wine so we got another round. After this some guy enters the bar, he's drunk and depressed. you can see that. suddenly he buys us a round of shots. don't know what the drink was but it was good.
so we toast in his health, and he buys us another round. I need to do that more often.
he went on some rant about how he lost his house in albania and how his wife left him blabla. well good thing I don't understand drunken german that well. Just keep the woman pleased and you don't have a problem. Dave chapelle has a good vision on men and chivalry btw. look him up on youtube if you have time.
At this point it was 01:45. the bartender decides to give us another round on the house, So I got another beer and christophe another wine. Right all finished then the guy buys us another round of the shots.
at this point I was drunk. so we kind off crawled home. hitting many fences and falling onto the floor. The good part about this is that I DID NOT BREAK ANYTHING! that's a first eh :-D
I still remember yesterday very well so Michiel don't try to blame me for any assasinations or destructions you did. You framed me once, not again.
The morning-after was not so good. I wake up, want to take a shower and my roommate threw up in the hallway. It wasn't pretty. the stuff is on the walls, a trail to his bed. his face was hanging with it ... I laughed. He can clean it up :D
That was about the most exciting part of last week. on sunday it was a beautiful day. so I went to the lake to meet up with bella and her boyfriend and some other guy. Forgot his name already. Sorry!
It was nice. just sitting around doing nothing while enjoying the sun. lovely
Work is also going great. Currently have the problem that I'm unable to set up a testing environment. The squid is running but I can't get it to behave transparent. I think my iptables are to blame here. but I'm on it. I'll keep you guys updated on the problem. Speaking of problems, Rainer was able to fix my script for the DHCP relay agent. so that makes it finished. great!
I'm going to leave at that for now. Some friends of mine are coming over tomorrow so I will be off for a while.
Tsjuus!
***Update I did the searching for you, Here is dave chapelle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRflz-93JA
GOTCHA BITCH!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Long time no see
no news for some time, sorry folks!
so about my week, Well I mostly worked.
getting fed up with it. all the googling. trying out new configurations. it gets dull after a while.
but that's why we have parties to make it better! yesterday there was a wannebe party here in the bubble bar. wasn't that bad. Music was good from time to time.
every DJ kan impress me with a track from the daft punk alive album...
but at around 2 "o clock I just had to leave. My shoulder was killing me.
it was up to the point that I couldn't feel my arm anymore. That was a bit of a mood killer for me.
but I got a good night sleep. that counts for something. This weekend is pretty normal.
I think on saterday i'm going to do some exploring in the city , perhaps get a drink with some people in the evening and sunday will probably my warhammer40k day. I have some XV88's to finish! my babies!
Also i'm looking forward to my friends who are coming to visit next week. that is going to be awesome.
well that's it for now.
Tsjuuuus!
so about my week, Well I mostly worked.
getting fed up with it. all the googling. trying out new configurations. it gets dull after a while.
but that's why we have parties to make it better! yesterday there was a wannebe party here in the bubble bar. wasn't that bad. Music was good from time to time.
every DJ kan impress me with a track from the daft punk alive album...
but at around 2 "o clock I just had to leave. My shoulder was killing me.
it was up to the point that I couldn't feel my arm anymore. That was a bit of a mood killer for me.
but I got a good night sleep. that counts for something. This weekend is pretty normal.
I think on saterday i'm going to do some exploring in the city , perhaps get a drink with some people in the evening and sunday will probably my warhammer40k day. I have some XV88's to finish! my babies!
Also i'm looking forward to my friends who are coming to visit next week. that is going to be awesome.
well that's it for now.
Tsjuuuus!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sum gud eatin!
Oh man, that was one good meal. and as some others also have done i'm going to put the recipe and a short HowTo: on my blog for this awesome dish.
first off, preheat the oven to an 200 degrees and then we work on our vegetables.
cut an onion and some mushrooms. fresh ones are preferred.
then start by baking some minced meat together with the mushrooms and onions,
you can also add some sliced paprika.
spice it up with salt, pepper and some paprika herbs.
let this cook for a while then turn it off.
next step is to hollow out a paprika, aint that hard. I can do it without cutting myself and that's saying something.
when that is done fill the paprika halfway with the minced meat and then put some sliced cheese on it. the spaghetti kind of cheese will do. Then fill the rest of the paprika and seal with cheese.
also spray some paprika on the cheese.
and then put this in our oven until the cheese is nicely grilled.
in the meanwhile you can prepare some other vegetables, I used some cucumber , peas and carrots but anything goes.
when the paprika is done, serve it with the vegetables and top it off with some cocktail sauce.
you can also choose to have some rice with it or toast.
I used toast but that's more because I forgot to make the rice : - /
anyway that was my contribution for the evening!
enjoy the dinner
first off, preheat the oven to an 200 degrees and then we work on our vegetables.
cut an onion and some mushrooms. fresh ones are preferred.
then start by baking some minced meat together with the mushrooms and onions,
you can also add some sliced paprika.
spice it up with salt, pepper and some paprika herbs.
let this cook for a while then turn it off.
next step is to hollow out a paprika, aint that hard. I can do it without cutting myself and that's saying something.
when that is done fill the paprika halfway with the minced meat and then put some sliced cheese on it. the spaghetti kind of cheese will do. Then fill the rest of the paprika and seal with cheese.
also spray some paprika on the cheese.
and then put this in our oven until the cheese is nicely grilled.
in the meanwhile you can prepare some other vegetables, I used some cucumber , peas and carrots but anything goes.
when the paprika is done, serve it with the vegetables and top it off with some cocktail sauce.
you can also choose to have some rice with it or toast.
I used toast but that's more because I forgot to make the rice : - /
anyway that was my contribution for the evening!
enjoy the dinner
I hate mondays
the weekend is over, not much happend though.
Saturday was easy going, made pancakes with sirup and a lovely chocolate sauce*drool*
then we cleaned the appartment. Considering the fact that there are 2 guys living together, we manage it very well.
and the rest of day was filled with videogames...
the germans don't drive themselves back eh. Also watched some movies.
Horton hears a who for example. great movie, I can recommend that one. laughed alot with it.
Also watched a show from dateline NBC, to catch a predator. You may have saw it or the southpark parody in the petite tourette's episode but It was intriguing to watch.
the setup is as following: the show goes on the internet posing as little girls/boys and then invites men who talk in a sexual way with them.
You wouldn't believe the kinds of people that show up. Homeland security officers, teachers and offcourse already convicted child molesters and rapists!
But it was a good watch.
I went to a "rommelmarkt" here in St.Pölten on sunday. They had lots of cool stuff.
Old Nintendo's , Super Nintendo games. I felt like a little kid again. It had a very retro feel to it.
I enjoyed it and it was a good walk. I was out for 2 and a half hours so that counts for something.
so my goal for the day is to have a test script running for my squid. Trying some stuff out on the VM but it needs time to reboot so I'm currently technicaly unemployed
Off to work now!
Currently listening to: Justice - Phantom Pt II ( Boys Noize Remix )
Saturday was easy going, made pancakes with sirup and a lovely chocolate sauce*drool*
then we cleaned the appartment. Considering the fact that there are 2 guys living together, we manage it very well.
and the rest of day was filled with videogames...
the germans don't drive themselves back eh. Also watched some movies.
Horton hears a who for example. great movie, I can recommend that one. laughed alot with it.
Also watched a show from dateline NBC, to catch a predator. You may have saw it or the southpark parody in the petite tourette's episode but It was intriguing to watch.
the setup is as following: the show goes on the internet posing as little girls/boys and then invites men who talk in a sexual way with them.
You wouldn't believe the kinds of people that show up. Homeland security officers, teachers and offcourse already convicted child molesters and rapists!
But it was a good watch.
I went to a "rommelmarkt" here in St.Pölten on sunday. They had lots of cool stuff.
Old Nintendo's , Super Nintendo games. I felt like a little kid again. It had a very retro feel to it.
I enjoyed it and it was a good walk. I was out for 2 and a half hours so that counts for something.
so my goal for the day is to have a test script running for my squid. Trying some stuff out on the VM but it needs time to reboot so I'm currently technicaly unemployed
Off to work now!
Currently listening to: Justice - Phantom Pt II ( Boys Noize Remix )
Friday, April 18, 2008
The groove is strong in this one
Hadihow folks!
So yesterday was a pretty eventfull evening. during my work hours I recieved an e mail that there was going to be an electro night in the bubbles bar. And since recently i've been getting into electro so I was interested.
In the evening I contacted kris, he is also from xios belgium but he does an internship in social work here. Never met the guy so that was going to be interested. he turned out very okay.
I can definatly see myself hanging out with this guy.
Also met some of the other foreign studens here. they were mostly from france though.
and god knows how much I hate the french. damned frenchies. they have a horrible accent when they talk. but I can live with it, for now... till I have something sharp ... soon ...
anyway it was a nice party, the music sucked donkey balls but the company was good. lots of interesting people to meet and talk too.
I left the party at around 03:40 I think and then made my way for my sweet warm bed.
today was nothing special. my stomach was upset so I wasn't able to make it to the fh but I got some progress working at home.
now i'm off to finish some work on my thesis.
and I offcourse do this to the awesome tunes of Daft Punk - alive 2007
they have some sick mixes on it.
Currently listening : Daft Punk - Da Funk / daftendirekt
So yesterday was a pretty eventfull evening. during my work hours I recieved an e mail that there was going to be an electro night in the bubbles bar. And since recently i've been getting into electro so I was interested.
In the evening I contacted kris, he is also from xios belgium but he does an internship in social work here. Never met the guy so that was going to be interested. he turned out very okay.
I can definatly see myself hanging out with this guy.
Also met some of the other foreign studens here. they were mostly from france though.
and god knows how much I hate the french. damned frenchies. they have a horrible accent when they talk. but I can live with it, for now... till I have something sharp ... soon ...
anyway it was a nice party, the music sucked donkey balls but the company was good. lots of interesting people to meet and talk too.
I left the party at around 03:40 I think and then made my way for my sweet warm bed.
today was nothing special. my stomach was upset so I wasn't able to make it to the fh but I got some progress working at home.
now i'm off to finish some work on my thesis.
and I offcourse do this to the awesome tunes of Daft Punk - alive 2007
they have some sick mixes on it.
Currently listening : Daft Punk - Da Funk / daftendirekt
Thursday, April 17, 2008
My new best friend, Eric.
Guuuuuuudmeurning!
so eummhh.. . wel this is an ackward morning.
yesterday, while playing some Team Fortress 2 ( It's coward killing time ... ) I thought hey let's make a cocktail. I have more booze then food in the house so why not.
I remember making 2 of em, some fruit on the side couple of ice cubes ... the works.
now the problem is, the next thing I know is that I wake up in my bed.
I get up walk to the living room. the laptop is playing a movie an next to the laptop is my bottle of vodka. my roommate gave this as a present when I arrived. it's a 2l Eristoff red vodka bottle.
the bottle was nearly empty. still some on the bottom.
so apparently I drank a bit more then I remember. But that's not all, the bottle has a face drawn on it with a text balloon: "I'm Eric, Drink me!"
... yeah big WTF moment. but you know how could you deny that request.
and I think this might make for a good relationship, Eric seems like a decent man. a man who can get the truth out of you and make you do things you would never do.
He gets the best out of any man. So I think I made a pretty good friend last night.
judging by davy's comment in my previous post, I talked to some people aswell...
3 words people: I know nothing! I'm not a crook ^^
oh well so much for my pointless rant.
Work related everything is fine. I'm learning a lot on Linux handling and scripting in Linux.
I always knew that Linux was a mighty tool but now I worship it.
Currently listening to: Nightwish - Cadence of her last breath.
so eummhh.. . wel this is an ackward morning.
yesterday, while playing some Team Fortress 2 ( It's coward killing time ... ) I thought hey let's make a cocktail. I have more booze then food in the house so why not.
I remember making 2 of em, some fruit on the side couple of ice cubes ... the works.
now the problem is, the next thing I know is that I wake up in my bed.
I get up walk to the living room. the laptop is playing a movie an next to the laptop is my bottle of vodka. my roommate gave this as a present when I arrived. it's a 2l Eristoff red vodka bottle.
the bottle was nearly empty. still some on the bottom.
so apparently I drank a bit more then I remember. But that's not all, the bottle has a face drawn on it with a text balloon: "I'm Eric, Drink me!"
... yeah big WTF moment. but you know how could you deny that request.
and I think this might make for a good relationship, Eric seems like a decent man. a man who can get the truth out of you and make you do things you would never do.
He gets the best out of any man. So I think I made a pretty good friend last night.
judging by davy's comment in my previous post, I talked to some people aswell...
3 words people: I know nothing! I'm not a crook ^^
oh well so much for my pointless rant.
Work related everything is fine. I'm learning a lot on Linux handling and scripting in Linux.
I always knew that Linux was a mighty tool but now I worship it.
Currently listening to: Nightwish - Cadence of her last breath.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Woman, I make em cry
so this was a lovely morning.
I have some extra hours on work so I thought I'd sleep in today and make me a good breakfast.
and so I did, bacon, onions, mushrooms and 3 eggs.
all of this in a pan, add pepper and salt and a touch of paprika.
makes for a great omelet.
now during this holy ceremony of feeding the steve I was interrupted.
some people at my door. jehova's witness it seemed, and they came to witness me.
now for those who don't know, I don't believe. most of the things they claim to be miracles are to me ordinary scientific events.
and so they tried to convert me. I tried to be nice, I stated that I do not have an interest for it and they will not convince me otherwise.
now this woman had this motherly feeling I believe and she stated but god did this, and what do you do if something goes wrong.
my reaction:
if something goes wrong then I goddamned fix it. I'm man enough to admit my own mistakes, fix my mistakes and I know damn well that I don't have to blaim some higher power because my kid is retarded.
at this point the woman started to have red eyes. I think I hit a soft spot somewhere along the line.
then she started stating things like the creation of human beings, and how god takes care of us all. and off course I broke those ideas with the necessary scientific proof.
I was very close to run to my computer and print a copy of the flying spaghetti monster bible, hell even the lolcat bible would do at this point.
but they finally got the message and buggered off. I heard the lady cry as she walked down the stairs. Victory has a theme song now...
I also have some bad news. the touchpad on my laptop appears to be malfunctioning. likely my guarantee runs untill november this year so I can send it for repairs when I get back home.
the internship then, everything is going fine. i'm on my own now for 2 weeks, my project leader if off to the IP in poland but i'm doing allright. messing around with a squid proxy server atm and it's an interesting piece of software. many many possibilities.
and so that special agent 1182 is no longer worried, I have recieved supplies.
back to the bunker!
currently listening to: the sound of his ego celebrating victory over the followers of god.
I have some extra hours on work so I thought I'd sleep in today and make me a good breakfast.
and so I did, bacon, onions, mushrooms and 3 eggs.
all of this in a pan, add pepper and salt and a touch of paprika.
makes for a great omelet.
now during this holy ceremony of feeding the steve I was interrupted.
some people at my door. jehova's witness it seemed, and they came to witness me.
now for those who don't know, I don't believe. most of the things they claim to be miracles are to me ordinary scientific events.
and so they tried to convert me. I tried to be nice, I stated that I do not have an interest for it and they will not convince me otherwise.
now this woman had this motherly feeling I believe and she stated but god did this, and what do you do if something goes wrong.
my reaction:
if something goes wrong then I goddamned fix it. I'm man enough to admit my own mistakes, fix my mistakes and I know damn well that I don't have to blaim some higher power because my kid is retarded.
at this point the woman started to have red eyes. I think I hit a soft spot somewhere along the line.
then she started stating things like the creation of human beings, and how god takes care of us all. and off course I broke those ideas with the necessary scientific proof.
I was very close to run to my computer and print a copy of the flying spaghetti monster bible, hell even the lolcat bible would do at this point.
but they finally got the message and buggered off. I heard the lady cry as she walked down the stairs. Victory has a theme song now...
I also have some bad news. the touchpad on my laptop appears to be malfunctioning. likely my guarantee runs untill november this year so I can send it for repairs when I get back home.
the internship then, everything is going fine. i'm on my own now for 2 weeks, my project leader if off to the IP in poland but i'm doing allright. messing around with a squid proxy server atm and it's an interesting piece of software. many many possibilities.
and so that special agent 1182 is no longer worried, I have recieved supplies.
back to the bunker!
currently listening to: the sound of his ego celebrating victory over the followers of god.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Entertain me!
So I finished part 1 of the project
sort off...
I wasn't able to program the Cisco router but I do have the commands to enable a dhcp relay but it needs more then that and that's a bit much for me to study in a week.
so on to the next part.
According to artikel 2006/24/EU every public hotspot needs to log traffic and usernames etc.
and this is exactly what I will be doing.
I have a good idea on how to do this.
the server runs a postgre database, it's a new database which I haven't worked with before but that won't be a problem.
also non work related. this town is boring!
My roommate and I took a little walking trip last night and while it's a very beautiful city there isn't much going on.
We walked past Campus Domus and good god. it's like the roman decadence era all over again.
from every window you hear girls screaming, singin and overall being drunk.
you see guys going from one room to the next falling into some other girls arms.
Am I glad i'm not there. I would be the grumpy old guy screaming that he needs his sleep.
speaking of old, I'm NOT! so far everyone I have met here is at least 2 years older then me.
also I went to an archery range last wednesday. It was awesome. going to do that again.
oh well back to work.
Currently listening: The poison - prodigy
sort off...
I wasn't able to program the Cisco router but I do have the commands to enable a dhcp relay but it needs more then that and that's a bit much for me to study in a week.
so on to the next part.
According to artikel 2006/24/EU every public hotspot needs to log traffic and usernames etc.
and this is exactly what I will be doing.
I have a good idea on how to do this.
the server runs a postgre database, it's a new database which I haven't worked with before but that won't be a problem.
also non work related. this town is boring!
My roommate and I took a little walking trip last night and while it's a very beautiful city there isn't much going on.
We walked past Campus Domus and good god. it's like the roman decadence era all over again.
from every window you hear girls screaming, singin and overall being drunk.
you see guys going from one room to the next falling into some other girls arms.
Am I glad i'm not there. I would be the grumpy old guy screaming that he needs his sleep.
speaking of old, I'm NOT! so far everyone I have met here is at least 2 years older then me.
also I went to an archery range last wednesday. It was awesome. going to do that again.
oh well back to work.
Currently listening: The poison - prodigy
Monday, April 7, 2008
The project
Hello guys!
so i'm going to post a bit information on the project that i'll be working on
the university here wants to provide the city with wireless acces that you can use if you're a student, a customer with the ISP or if you buy an account :-)
there are already some hotspots in place but the project needs to be expanded further.
my task is to provide a generalised DHCP server that monitors all the traffic.
there are off course other stuff to be done but this is what i'm doing now :-)
newsflash, I am out of food. repeat, code 9 call the lemmens!
so i'm going to post a bit information on the project that i'll be working on
the university here wants to provide the city with wireless acces that you can use if you're a student, a customer with the ISP or if you buy an account :-)
there are already some hotspots in place but the project needs to be expanded further.
my task is to provide a generalised DHCP server that monitors all the traffic.
there are off course other stuff to be done but this is what i'm doing now :-)
newsflash, I am out of food. repeat, code 9 call the lemmens!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Sight seeing in St pölten
Sara and me went out in st pölten to do some sight seeing . my roommate informed me of a nice lake, about 20 mins from our place and it was beautiful!
we just sat on the grass, enjoying the sun, feeling a slight breeze. It was great.
less talky more watchy.
http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm4/AustrianSteve/Lake/
we just sat on the grass, enjoying the sun, feeling a slight breeze. It was great.
less talky more watchy.
http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm4/AustrianSteve/Lake/
My welcome party!
Woohoo! party!
my roommate organised a small welcome party for me so that I can feel right at home.
It was lots of fun. The language was a bit of a problem but it went allright.
We also did a beer contest. They did different kinds of beer in a plastic cup and the marked the cup with a letter. Then you had to drink from the cup and guess which beer it was, you also had to say if you liked it or not.
It was an educational experience, I did get one beer right. Heineken. but we have that in belgium also so... easy!
something else I noticed, the beers in austria are a bit bigger, 0,5cl compared to 0,25cl in belgium
but belgium does have an alcohol % of 7,8 or something compared to 4,6% in austria. Go belgium!
off course all the evidence is on camera and on my photobucket account.
http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm4/AustrianSteve/People/
Also note that my excellence has been captured in one image particulairy wel.
my roommate organised a small welcome party for me so that I can feel right at home.
It was lots of fun. The language was a bit of a problem but it went allright.
We also did a beer contest. They did different kinds of beer in a plastic cup and the marked the cup with a letter. Then you had to drink from the cup and guess which beer it was, you also had to say if you liked it or not.
It was an educational experience, I did get one beer right. Heineken. but we have that in belgium also so... easy!
something else I noticed, the beers in austria are a bit bigger, 0,5cl compared to 0,25cl in belgium
but belgium does have an alcohol % of 7,8 or something compared to 4,6% in austria. Go belgium!
off course all the evidence is on camera and on my photobucket account.
http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm4/AustrianSteve/People/
Also note that my excellence has been captured in one image particulairy wel.
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