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Tuesday·23·May·2006

Ausländerausweis, Halbtax, Parkplakette und Internet //at 01:30 //by abe

Aus der Vier-auf-einen-Streich Abteilung

Heute hat sich einiges bewegt hier: Morgens habe ich meinen Ausländerausweis abgeholt, danach den RailCheck der ETH Zürich am Bahnhof Wipkingen zu einem zweijährigem Halbtaxabo der SBB (für Deutsche: vergleichbar mit einer zwei Jahre gültigen BahnCard 50) eingelöst, dann es entgegen der Aussagen auf der Webseite der Stadt Zürich, dennoch geschafft, für den Subaru meiner Eltern (warum ich den gerade fahre, schreibe ich ein andermal en detail) eine Parkplakette für die Blaue Zone zu bekommen, auch wenn diese nur 45 Tage ab Anmeldung, d.h. nur noch bis 11. Juni gilt.

Und schlußendlich kam heute nachmittag noch das Kabelmodem der Cablecom, das ich dann heute abend auch gleich angeschlossen und ausprobiert habe. Und entgegen papos Erfahrungen und Befürchtungen, habe ich auch nix retournieren müssen und es hat auch alles recht gut geklappt (Mittwochnachmittag über die ETH bestellt, Montagnachmittag Internet) — immerhin schreibe ich diese Zeilen über meinen frischen Internetanschluß. Nur manchmal hat es etwas nervendes Lag. Aber naja, mir war ja bewußt, daß die Cablecom nicht das Gelbe vom Ei ist. Nur schienen mir bei ADSL vor allem in der Infrastruktur noch viel schlimmere Zustände zu herrschen…

Komischerweise hatte ich den einzigen Huddel bei der Cablecom-Bestellung mit dem Webformular und dem zuständigen Sachbearbeiter der ETH. Nachdem ich keine E-Mail-Adresse der Sorte user+firma@meinedomain.tld angeben durfte (sei angeblich ungültig), habe ich als E-Mail-Adresse halt nur firma@meinedomain.tld angegeben. Der naseweise Herr von der ETH meinte daraufhin, diese “Jux-Adresse” durch meine Firmen-E-Mail-Adresse ersetzen und mir dies natürlich erst nach der Weiterleitung an die Cablecom mitteilen zu müssen. *grumpf* Ergo war das erste, was ich machen durfte, meine E-Mail-Adresse bei der Cablecom ändern. Hoffen wir mal, daß sie da keine History führen.

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Friday·07·April·2006

Last day at work //at 19:00 //by abe

from the It's-hard-to-say-goodbye dept.

As some of my friends already know, I’ve quit my current job and will start working at the Department of Physics of the ETH Zurich in May.

Today is my last day at work here and I feel a little bit sentimental. Most co-workers became friends during the last four and a half years and I’ll move away from a bunch of friends at Darmstadt and from some friends in Mainz and Frankfurt/M. And I’ll leave the Rhine-Main area just shortly before LinuxTag moves in. Fsck.

But it had to be. Although I like creating dynamic web pages with Embperl and Apache, I became sick of working with SuSE Linux, sick of developing with OpenLDAP, sick of developing web applications which must (also) run with Apache under Windows or with MS Access. Since I understand that for the success of my current employer the use of these products can’t be changed that easily, the only solution for me was to quit the job.

My new job at the ETH Zurich will be administrating mostly Unix systems at the Department of Physics as well as some Unix user training. I won’t get rid of Windows and OpenLDAP there though, but I won’t have to develop software with them. What I’ll get rid of is SuSE: I will have my beloved Debian around me (which I can use here only for building Debian packages for customers) and some FreeBSD (no change here ;-), too. So I really look forward to my new job.

Therefore I’ll move to Zurich soon. And since I have down there a lot of friends, too — not only through Symlink and the Linux User Group Switzerland but also people from the 2CV scene — it’s not so hard to the leave the current environment and jump into a new one. Another advantage of moving more southwards is that I’ll be closer again to the rest of the Beckert family, at least the part I’m related to. (The biggest number of Beckerts seem to live near Chemnitz according to Geogen, so perhaps I should pay attention to this when visiting the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage the next time.)

But I’ll come back and visit the Rhine-Main area probably quite often, not only for LinuxTag.

P.S.: It maybe that further blog postings about my move to Zurich only appear in the German written part of my blog and therefore not on Planet Debian (but Planet Symlink).

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This is the blog or weblog of Axel Stefan Beckert (aka abe or XTaran) who thought, he would never start blogging... (He also once thought, that there is no reason to switch to this new ugly Netscape thing because Mosaïc works fine. That was about 1996.) Well, times change...

He was born 1975 at Villingen-Schwenningen, made his Abitur at Schwäbisch Hall, studied Computer Science with minor Biology at University of Saarland at Saarbrücken (Germany) and now lives in Zürich (Switzerland), working at the IT Support Group (ISG) of the Departement of Physics at ETH Zurich.

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