Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Just submitted my Second TMA to the OU. That one was a lot harder to write then the first one but I think that I did ok. Some of the parts are better and others worse. But that is just how it is The first one got me 77 of 100 points, which seems to be very good, as you are really only going over 85% very rarely. 100 is not achievable as they would ask something like “ok, this guy has been perfect right? Nothing that could be improved? No better wording or other idea that could be introduced somewhere?”.

Otherwise, I have not posted a lot in the last few days. Well I have been very busy. Seems like our server from Dell should be done soon and I also have the tax stuff settled. Seems like you can import servers in the US without a problem and only need to pay a 0.21% handling fee, which is ok really. The server will be send to brussels and I will pick it up there and bring it here. Might be an idea to set it up in our place I figure rather than over in the US. We will see.

The other thing is that I have installed FreeBSD on my desktop and I must say that I really like it. KDE2 is looking rather nice. But then I tried using drag and drop to play an MP3 file with x11amp. Boy does BeOS get you spoiled
I had the idea that a ports section like in FreeBSD would be a great thing for BeOS. That would really rock. Just get apache installed and php4 and mysql, have a few depends there and you are ready to rock. Just update that with the help of BeBits each day and people can update that section also. Then they can just automatically be queried for action if some software is updated. Would be really cool. I think we need BONE so we can run httpd and php4 and mysql or something as this would really rock. I just like having that on my box. Hmmm…

Well I need to get ready for a birthday party today, so see you all soon and have a great day everyone, life rocks.

“If the average internet user gets a subpoena… he’s not going to the big law firm around the corner and say “defend me.” He’s going to stop talking, they’ve won. - Lauren Gelman, Director of public policy, EFF”

Good party

Here a quote from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran about Children:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves the bow that is stable.

Server move is starting.

We need to move all e-mail and www to another server. Ship the mail and web server to a new location and then sell the other two servers and move all of their stuff to the new server. Wonderful. The party is starting.

Sendmail sucks (dmail rules! :)) and I need to set up sendmail to take over mail for a few days from the mail server. Grrr…. this will be fun. Somebody remind me why I am doing an MBA?!?!?
Party time.

A lot of things happened in the last few days and most of them were really fun
First of all I started doing Tae-Bo, full body workout (as they put it) through a mix of kickboxing and fitness moves, via their instruction DVD. I really suggest everyone looking into this. It is a really fun way to get a bit more fit. I mean you really have fun doing it and I went a lot further in terms of effort with this than with other methods. I mean you have to do some work obviously to get an effect but I really see this working. The main problem at the start is that you have a hard time keeping up with some things, but if you do it with some friends together then you will have a great laugh. I mean you are doing some punch, punch, punch, kick series in slow motion and then the instructor says to speed it up and at first you are totally lost. I still have no idea how they do it in the fast version. I cannot even move my limbs that fast But I see myself getting there. Enough talking. Try it out or just ask something. It is hard to explain it really.

Of course other things happened too. I am really starting to dig php and scripting. It is getting more fun each day. I have now edited my homepage to be total php and I really dig creating only one main file and including some others depending on variables. I might totally remove that though once it looses it’s coolness factor. I am not yet sure if it is better to create one file and include others or create the content files and include the formating files. Hmmm… live is hard once you get to use its potential
We also moved our counter site lists to php now, which you can see at Counted!. It really rocks. And to add on that my brother just moved Counted! to the new statistics system and now we have a lot more added features in there. You have a total multi page statistics, a really advanced referrer system (which tells you if the people that come are new or old visitors from every url) and a lot more nice things. I still need to write the news items for the counters to tell people about it.

Grrr… we still need a mailing system to mail all webmasters though. Damn. You always need things don’t you?

Next to that we are close to getting our new server. We are moving hosting to Like Whoa (cool name eh? :)) who are great and are buying a new server for that. We actually decided on a Dell server now. IBM is just too damn slow. Actually we are not even dealing with IBM anymore who said that they are not selling servers (yeah right, that’s why it took them 3 days to say that) and referred us to econocom. Those are nice people but also rather slow. Especially compared to Dell. So Dell got the cut.

Just one problem with all of them is that we need to buy the server in Belgium, get it delivered in Belgium and then we need to ship it to the New York. So much for global corporations.

Oh. I am currently at Deutsche Bank 24, and my brokerage account is Brokerage 24. Good. Now they changed everything, actually for the 1st of next month. To MaxBlue. Woohooo. And I will have no fees for my brokerage account. Well not exactly. If I buy something then I will have fees and those have just risen 33%. Aha! Well it is flat fee. Which is good if you buy stocks in 10000 EUR chunks but that is not really what I am doing (yet ;)) so it is rather bad for me. I think I need to talk to them.

Another tip. Always talk to companies before you cancel an account. Mobile phone providers will give you kick ass deals if you do that
Back to doing stuff. So many company ideas in my head it is sickening. I would like to form 3 other companies from the top of my head. Grrr… Oh did I tell you I need beaming?