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After a few weeks of trouble shooting various problems all issues are now resolved! I also got a good explanation from Telia and a nice compensation. So, no more hard feelings from my side towards Telia Sonera.

A few weeks ago i got Telia Fiberlan which is a fiber service containing Telephony, TV and Internet via fiber. TV and Internet work OK but …..

For several weeks i have been trying to move my home phone number from Bredbandsbolaget to Telia. Telia has had all sorts of strange explanations about what was wrong and blamed the problems on me and Bredbandsbolaget surprise surprise.

When I first was in contact with Telia about my home phone subscription with them I gave them a written authorization to terminate my contract with Bredbandsbolaget. I did that on Telias request. Telia told me that i would be able to use my home phone within 5 work days, so far so good (I thought). Read more…

Global warming does not make sense to me at the moment.

Lots of snow and between -5 to -28 Celsius for the past weeks.

I wish you all a happy and healthy new year 2010.
Love and care for all people and you will have a good 2010.
/thorsten

A while ago Isabella, Kristin and I went on a trip to Tropicarium in Kolmården, Sweden. Tropicarium is one of the biggest Vivariums of Sweden.

I hope that you enjoy the pictures, lighting conditions ware quite difficult.

Recently i made “the switch”! Not in the way you might imagine though. Ever since 2003 i have been a passionate mac user. I still use macs at home and work and am still passionate about them.

Before 2003 i was playing a lot of games. Linux was and is something that i have been working/playing around with since 1996. To make a long story short: I wanted to use Linux and also play games (read dual boot linux/windows). The price tags on new macs ware also something that got me thinking about building a new shiny i7 based PC.

I am now back on a PC with Ubuntu Linux 9.04 and Windows 7. So far so god. One thing that i enjoy with Linux is that i am able to customize it to my needs. With Linux now being my primary OS (by choice) i had to fix some kind of backup for photos and all that other stuff on my PC that i would not like to loose in case of an accident. The first thing that came to my mind was rsync.

I used rsync to mirror my files on to an usb-disk. But after a few days i started to miss Time Machine which i was using when i had a Mac as my primary computer at home. Just mirroring files was not enough to give me that warm and cozy feeling. I needed to go back in time! Read more…

It has been a while since my last post because I am on vacation and the weather has been really nice, until now that is It has been raining for a couple of days now so I am on front of my new computer …..

A few weeks ago we had our annual Turkey BBQ. The Turkey we prepared this year weight in at 8 Kilogram which is about 17 pounds. We used the same stuffing-recipe as last year: White bread, Sellery, Mushrooms , Onions and some other stuff i can not remember right now . Read more…

Finlay! It’s summer in Sweden. Read more…

If you, like so many other people these days, switch to Linux you will come in contact with something called unux scripts, shell scripts or bash scripts. These scripts are text-files that execute commands just like bat-files in Windows. I prefer shell-scripts because i think they are more powerful then bat-files but that is just my opinion.

Some things you should know:
#!/bin/bash usually is the first line in a bash script. It is called shebang (also called a hashbang, hashpling, or pound bang) and specifies in which shell to execute the code that follows below.

Everything after a # is a comment and does not get executed.

Below you will find examples of a few things that you can do with shell scripts on Linux and other Unixes. If you have questions: have a look at the man page of the command or post a comment and I will try to explain. Read more…

My daughter Isabella the pride and joy of my life is getting bigger and more adventurous with each day. Here are some new assorted pictures of her sorting diapers, playing around in her parents bed and eating candy. She likes candy, can you tell? Read more…

Easter has come and gone. It was a beautiful weekend here in Sweden, about 17 Celsius in the shade and very sunny. What better to do then to start the charcoal grilling season? Since my friends regard me as a bit of a geek (which I am) I had to purchase some new equipment for the season. Read more…