Bert blogt

the title of a song by Something Corporate (#)…

yes, it’s my birthday today, and guess what, I turned 21 today!

I expected it to be totally different, turning 21, I thought I would have a girlfriend, my first diploma, my own apartment / studio, …, … from this moment,
but I have… well, none of these things

It seems that I fuck everything up that I try, from lack of courage, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I can’t set my mind for a long time to something, like yeah, I love coding.. but after an hour, I have to do something else, or when studying, I would rather look out the window for an hour.. why? I don’t know, it just doesn’t work for me

if someone can help me, please comment to this post
otherwise, I’ll quote a part of this song that is probably very true for me:

We’re 21 and invincible
Can’t wait to screw this up
We’re 21 and invincible
I’m in power for the hour
I guess today’s gonna blow us away

yes, this is how I feel now

anyway: happy Birthday to myself!

Yesterday I had a discussion with a good friend (Julie) about other cultures and other religions in Europa, what’s good about it, what’s not so good about it, …

As one can Imagine, we weren’t talking about Jews, but about the Islam. My political view is central-right, and hers is left, so that means that we have a different view on such things, and I thought we had an interesting conversation about it.

So first I want to show you a nice presentation about the history and spreading from the Religions trough the years.

now that we know that, we can go further. In the next clip I’ll show you what is happening now, but be aware, I am quite sure that the clip is made by a right movement, so don’t believe EVERYTHING in it, but I think the essence is true.

So my fear is that when Europe would become a Muslim state, a lot of our knowledge would go lost, because “it isn’t true what we discover according to the Koran”. right… This thought is based on a fragment I saw from ‘weg naar mekka’, a Canvas program (#) (Dutch)

I would be pleased if you shared your thoughts about this subject too

today, I decided it was time to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 PR. So I opened my console and typed in the following commands:

$ su -
* pw: *****
$ yum update
$ preupgrade

The last command opened a new window, where I could select the release that I wanted to install on my laptop.  Make sure you enable ‘Display unstable test releases above’, and select Rawhide.

Now you just wait, and wait, and did I already mention wait? The software automaticly downloads the necessary packages and such.

after I went through the (very easy) installation process, it took ages to boot fedora 11 (where it is furious fast on my desktop), and I only got a black screen, with a console mouse..

While I was wondering about what was wrong, I remembered that the nvidia drivers are proprietary.. that means that you can’t find them in the normal fedora repos. and FC10 packages don’t run on FC11

how to fix it:
open a console window
$ su -
* pw: *****
$ rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
$ yum update
$ reboot

and you should be able to enjoy your computer again with Fedora 11 RC running!

don’t forget to post bugs (#)!