A Jaunty Jackalope on my Laptop [Update]

Linux

I got a Jaunty Jackalope on my laptop since Thursday …
In case you woonder … what the hack? … click the link and get your own new Ubuntu/Kubuntu release ;) … I got myself the one with the extra K!
And by today I actually have almost everything running again … puha!
It’s not always straight forward to do one of these upgrades, but hey …
Jaunty comes with the new KDE4 desktop which seems nice but still freaks me out sometimes, due to the changes compared to KDE3.5.

[Update]
I had to remove the intgrated Network Management tool by wicd and disable the desktop effects, but otherwise I hope to have solved all issues by now …

In case you want some guidance for the setup, here’s a nice webpage with a lot of information about Jaunty …

“Fat Tax”

Travelling

There are things in this world you wouldn’t believe … Ryanair is having an election on what kind of “Fat Tax” they should introduce in their price scheme … be aware of the fact that the question of whether to have such a tax at all has already been answered by a previous election …
Feel free to read more and vote here.

First CERN Guide Tour

CERN

Just finished my first own CERN Guide tour … some people, mainly trainees, from the Swiss branch of a big pharma company somewhere in the ‘German’ speaking part of Switzerland had the “pleasure” (original quote :) ) to be touring the LHCb exhibition and the Delphi under ground area with me … was quite fun!
And there is more to come I guess/think/hope …

Saturday Picknick & Sunday BBQ

CERN, Geneva, Hiking

Since everybody seemed to be gone or busy I finally didn’t go skiing this weekend. Instead I spent some time working at CERN and had two nice chill-out meals.
Saturday we went up Saleve to have a picknick on one of the peaks with a nice view of the Rhone valley and the alps. Unfortunately someone (who’s name shall not be mentioned, not me) forgot the lighter so we couldn’t get the BBQ going …
To make up for this we met again today to have the BBQ in my garden (picture shows view from my window) … hmm!

IIHF World Championship ’09

Honour & Glory

The World Championships in hockey are about to begin … exactly seven days left!
This is the perfect time to take part in another one of my online betting games.
In the recently refurbished and renamed section “Honour & Glory” you can now try to gain both.
I added some new statistics and features to the system …