Archive for March, 2005

Holidays and passive FTP

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Back home at Saaremaa since yesterday. Nice roadtrip, later sauna at Joku’s place, slept in Brait’s bed :P
Went swimming together with Brait and Kivi in the morning, later fixed keyboard of the Bret’s laptop.
I finally fixed the passive support for Store20.com - it was broken because of the firewall settings. So if you can connect to a ftp session, but it fails when doing the LIST, then it’s an ftp-data issue and it can be fixed by adding following iptables rules:

iptables -I INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

XMLRPC interface testing…

Friday, March 25th, 2005

As Wordpress has XML-RPC support, I decided to try it out with Gnome Blog.

1 2 3 4 5 - Working? :P

Trout for dinner.

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

I had invited some friends to my place so I cooked a trout for 4 yesterday. The trout turned out quite well (like always :P) and they liked it. Afterwards we drank some wine (I mixed it with the water because I had donated 450 ml of blood in the morning) and had a nice sleepy evening :P

Thanks for showing up, Maris, Kurg and Inga :D

To cook a trout, first you need a pot to boil some broccoli. I had ~450 grams of it. And don’t forget to add some kind of seasoning stuff (like salt) which I forgot :P

When the broccoli has been boiled, put it inside the baking pan which you already had lined with tinfoil. Then cover broccoli with cottage cheese which you need ~400 grams, (and now I had to sort through the garbage in order to find out what’s this called in English :P).
Then bring out the trout (I actually used the smoked canadian salmon instead of trout, because it was cheaper but this tasted good too) and cover the cottage cheese with it. You need about 100-150 grams of trout fillet. After covering the cottage cheese with trout, take one (or more) lemon, cut it into a small pieces (you can squish the juice out of it before) and add it on top of the trout.
You may also want to add some more seasoning stuff if you have fresh trout, but as I had already smoked and flavoured fish I didn’t feel like adding anything else. So now to the final part - cover all this with mayonnaise (~300 grams). And you are finished.
Bake this in the oven at 250 degrees of Celcius for 20-25 minutes and then be ready for something good :D

Shopping list:

  • Broccoli - 450g
  • Cottage cheese - 400g
  • Trout or salmon fillet - 150g
  • Lemon - 1pc.
  • Mayonnaise - 300g

Time to cook: ~60 minutes (15 minutes to boil the broccoli + 20 minutes to put stuff on the baking pan + 25 minutes to cook)

Kanjipad porting…

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

From fishsoup.net:

KanjiPad is a simple (but snazzy) program which does Japanese handwriting recognition. It is uses the GTK toolkit for a GUI and Todd David Rudicks’s algorithms from JavaDict for recognition.

Anyway, I was a bit bored tonight so I hacked this small nice application a bit and now it even compiles with GTK+ 2.6 :D

Isn’t Open Source amazing? :P

I also found a website dedicated to the Speed demo collections.

Parabolic antennas…

Friday, March 18th, 2005

In the future I should probably build myself a Deep Dish Cylindrical Parabolic Template.

And I guess I’ll arrive to Tallinn sometime midnight…