This 3 chapter story starts with the defeat of Voldemort. But instead of a clean end, both opponents end up as six year old. Neville and Hermione adopt both kinds an provide a much healthier environment to mature to the end that they do not become what they had to become previously.
The story is online at ficwad or as PDF.
Yet another Try to get Java running
Since the original aim was to have a Java runtime on my NAS I tried this description and failed. Based on the error message I recieved when calling java -version, I figure that the binaries are not compatible. Therefore I am back to either cross compile or compile a native toolchain to compile on the NAS.
Segmentation Fault in NAS DS 509+
On my way to compile a compiler I must have messed my NAS up. The ipkg install command aborted with ipkg_download: error: command failed with return value 139: 'wget --passive-ftp - q - P ...'. therefore my first step was to reinstall the bootstrap. Since this needs rebooting after deleting the @optware directory, I detected that port 5000 was not reachable. I first figured it to be some issue with port forwarding of the router. Then I checked the running processes on my NAS. Right you are no httpd process was running that would back the web UI. Therefore the port 5000 and 5001 were not open. Trying to restart with /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S97apache-sys.sh start issued also a Segmentation fault. Therefore it suggests itself that some way along my trails some piece of binary code was introduced that resulted in this.
The resolution was that I reset the station, installed the firmware, the bootstrap and subversion again.
Harry Potter and Merlin’s Reaper by Clell65619
Voldemort kills everyone at Bills wedding which frees Harrys power to kill and soak up his opponents magic. He then is transferred into another dimension where he died as infant and Voldemort rules. All characters there (Susan, Hermione, Fleur, Ron, Bill, Twins, …) have a different life story. The population is dramatically reduced. Harry and His Majesty’s Army join together to extinguish magic.
The story can be read online or as PDF.
Network with Linux not working
Half a year ago I bought a Notebook (Lenovo 3000 N500). It came with Windows Vista pre-installed. With Windows everything seemed to work. I could hook the notebook to the network and thereby access the internet. Since Windows is just not ‚it‘ I installed Ubuntu. There only the wireless networking worked. Serious web research did not offer any solutions. Therefore I describe it here:
If you issue the ifconfig command you will only get the lo loopback interface and if enabled the wlan0 interface. The device eth0 is available under /dev. If you issue ifconfig eth0 the interface information is displayed, though no IP is assigned. If you try to bring it up through ifconfig up eth0 you will receive the error No such device even though we verified the existence of the device.
It seems to me like a hardware problem which windows is better suited to handle. I get the impression that Windows™ is expected to handle faulty harware or hardware configuration.
The solution to hook the notebook up with the network with Linux was to buy an external USB adapter for the network. I choose the D-Link DUB-E100 since it is verified to work with Linux (Kernel version 2.4.22).