Wordpress 1.5.1 is out! I already installed the new version on my german blog - the update went smooth (in fact, I only copied the new files over the old ones). Everything works as expected. A big “Thank You” to the developers and congratulations to this amazing piece of software!
Today, my 20 GB Seagate HD crashed. Since about two days, I had some annoying errors on my console:
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE
When starting up the system today, it told me that it recognized a disk with 136 MB space (!!) and then everything froze up. I disabled the disk in the BIOS, and now the system works again (the base install is on a SCSI disk).
The disk was about 3 and a half years old - not really a long lifetime. I can’t replace it, because the BIOS of this ancient (9 years, PPro with 200 MHz) PC wouldn’t recognize today’s disks with 80 GB minimum capacity. So I’ve really lost my spare disk - that’s bad. 
Today Drupal 4.6 was released. You can read it here and grab it on the same page.
Now it is official: the new Mac OS X 10.4 aka “Tiger” will be available by April, 29th! This is good news, even if it costs me 130 Euro. 
Sigma Chess has released version 6.1 of their chess software for Mac OS X. It is available in a lite version, which is free to download. I’ve tested it today on my Powerbook and it works perfectly well. For casual chess players, this program is more than enough.
Thanks for a great chess program for OS X!
The new Ubuntu Linux 5.04 is out! You can download it here. But beware, the link is currently slow - it seems that everybody tries to get it right now. 
Welcome everybody, this is my newly created blog on blogsome.com.
Here I will write about my technical experiments, mainly about my experiences with free Unices (*BSD and Linux), scripting languages and technology topics in general as I see fit.
Let’s see how this works out!
