Just a real quick post (rather than a real tutorial) about the code you need to add to your e.g. /etc/network.d/home file to be able to connect to a wireless network with wpa/wpa2 enryption and dhcp activated using netcfg:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY="wpa-configsection"
ESSID="wlan-name"
IP="dhcp"
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
USEWPA="yes"

CONFIGSECTION='
ssid="wlan-name"
psk="passphrase"'

If the router is set to a static IP, you need to change IP="dhcp" to IP="static" and add the following two lanes of code above your configsection part:
DNS1=192.168.1.1
IFOPTS="192.168.1.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
Edit the IP and the other stuff to your needs and everything should work out fine!

See the archlinux.org news entry for some more information!

Tags: configsection, encryption, linux, network, tutorial, wireless, wlan, wpa, wpa2

Dear blog, long time no see!
I’m sorry I neglected you for quite some time but it’s not up to you! It is me just not feeling it in the past weeks. I know we have to work this out somehow but I have to admit: I cheated on you.. yes, it’s true, I even cheated on you several times!
You don’t believe me, here goes a list:

- http://www.snowboard-review.com
World’s greatest snowboard review site on the web! The forums were quite busy these days and so it took me some time to attend to my duty as a moderator there.

- **censored**
Our student’s forum- file administrator and forum moderator appertain to my duties there.

- facebook
You know what it’s all about..

[...]

The list goes on and on but I think you got the point already. As soon as there is anything interesting worth posting coming up, be sure I will be back to you, blog. Until then, thanks for holding the line, I owe you one, big time!

Yesterday night, before going to bed, I figured out some interesting yet frightening thing; my time chart of the last 4 days..

Time spent at the library:
Wednesday: 11 h
Thursday: 11 h
Friday: 12 h
Saturday: 9,5 h
This makes a whole of 43,5 h at the library. Set against 4 days each 24 h (96 h total) the result which araises is that I spent 45,3% of the possible time to spend in four days at the library.
Calculating this up with the ~30h of sleep I had it comes out that I slept > 30% less than I studied..

Social life? Is for lazybones!

Tags: library, medicine, sleep, stats, time

Yesterday, being at a ‘hallowirthday’ party (both, halloween and birthday party), I learned about deezer.
Founded by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya, Deezer offers free online music streaming to it’s users.
Unfortunately, quite many contents on the website are only available in French. And as French and I are like fire and water, I am not able to quote or tell anything from their website besides the fact, I just laid down.

Listening to The Prodigy’s album Invaders must die right now.
No ads (at least not while using Firefux with AdBlock+), no fees and really good sound quality. They also offer an built-in equalizer to finetune the songs you are listening to.
As a nice gesture you do not even have to register to listen to the music. Playlists and other extras do require a registration, though.

All in all a great service, sure worth checking out!

Website: deezer

Tags: deezer, free, music, online, streaming

General Boot Buying Guide

First of all you should know that boots are probably the most important thing of your whole setup. Therefore this part of your equip should be the last thing to save money on.
For boots, it’s all about comfort and feel. Buying some, you have to wear them for a while, at least for around 20minutes (do not just slip in and buy if it fits) before taking them home!
Most shops nowadays also offer the possibility of taking the shoes home with you, wear it for some hours in your room and return it for full money-refund during the next 14 days if they are not fitting. If you get that offer- take it!

Boot brands, be it Nitro, Vans, K2, Salomon, Burton or any other, mostly have one ‘line’ of boots which means that it might happen that (almost) all models of one brand are totally failing on you, boots from some other brand fit like perfect. Reading this you should be already noticing that buying after brand and not after comfort can almost only be the wrong decision.
A wrong boot often results in major pain in your feet and legs and can ruin a whole otherwise great season.
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Tags: boot, comfort, guide, heel, lift, pain, snowboard

Sorry for the delay, but I really don’t have much time these days, doing anything beside my studies.
So just a quick update to show you guys my new snowboard including binding: Amplid Paradigma 159 + UNION Super Pro

Check THIS out: Click for the picture!

Looks incredibly dope if you ask me, probably couldn’t have come out with a better choice =)

Tags: amplid, paradigma, picture, pro, super, union

hey guys, some smaller update on the things going on right now:
As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I am now working at the snowboard-review.com forums. Trying to push the site and my experience level, I am currently working on a UNION Binding Company article about their Custom House models I’d like to publish at snowboard-review.com then. But well, first of all I need to get a reply to the mail I sent to UNION, next Rich (admin of snowboard-review.com) needs to check and approve the article. Then, there might be a chance it will be published on the site. I will keep you updated on the outcome of the efforts!

Other than that, the only thing I am doing right now is studying for my orals at university. This is pretty much everything I am doing every day..
Going to get back at this now!

Cheers

Tags: article, binding, snowboard-review.com, study, union, university

“Snowboardbindung “Superpro” Union
Farbe: weiß/lila
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Hier mal wieder ein ganz spezieller Leckerbissen für alle ParkandRide Kunden:
Die UNION Superpro.
Eine limitierte Sonderedition. Technisch eine Mischung aus der Force kombiniert, mit dem Highback der Force-SL.
Schönes Logobranding auf den Baseplatten und super Farbkombi.

Die M/L ist bereits verkauft* – better be quick.”

* translation: “The M/L size is already sold”

Guess who got it? :>
The SuperPro binding and the Paradigma deck are both ordered. Just need to wait for them to arrive! I will post pictures then, for sure~

Source: http://www.parkandride.eu

Tags: amplid, binding, M/L, paradigma, parkandride, shop, superpro, union

This week, I became an official member of the team of the world’s largest snowboard reviewing site snowboard-review.com!
My main department will be the forums there. I am really glad they asked me to join because the site is so useful with all it’s reviews and news and the team is super friendly and helpful! So I am really proud of being a part of snowboard-review.com.
Check out the site and the forums, for sure. Also don’t miss to follow our Twitter Account here: http://twitter.com/SB_Review to stay up to date all the time!

Tags: forums.website, member, review, snowboard, team, test, twitter

Looking for my this season’s (first completely own) snowboard equip recently, I started the shopping tour with buying a pair of Nitro’s Team TLS 2010 Transmission print boots! Wearing them, they feel no different than wearing some plushy slippers which is really outstanding for a snowboard boot. Also the Twin Lacing System (TLS) works great and is so easy to use once you understood which cords you got to pull first.
Overall: Neat Design, very comfortable – now I only got to test them at the hill – looking forward to that!
(read more for board and bindings)
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Tags: 2010, amplid, binding, blackhawk, board, boot, k2, nitro, paradigma, raiden, slayblade, snowboard, team, tls