Chum bring en hei

This summer is going to be special. We will support our team at the 2006 Worldcup to no matter what end. We will be joyful over the teams we defeat and we will pay respect to those teams who beat us in fair games. (Carlos Valderama, I’ll never forget you, you’re on my blacklist) We will remember those who shot goals for us and those who never did because they are party of the team too. We stand clad in white and red to see again legends like George Bregy and newcomers like Blerim Dzemaili. Our team will be a blend of cultures as much as the Worldcup is one.

I know this sounds pathetic and this is probably the worst blog entry I have ever written. I know soccer is a big money machine, sometimes corrupt, and an opportunity for vandalism to many, but hey, this is the Worldcup. I can hardly wait for it to start. Seriously.

Parcival’s Worldcup playlist:

Baschi - Bring en hei
Three Lions - Football’s coming home
U2 - Beautiful Day
DJ Igo - Freude herrscht
Die Doofen - Volltreffer
Ricky Martin - The cup of life
DJ Igo - Swiss National Anthem
Gimma - Hymna

Update:

Our team will be a blend of cultures as much as the Worldcup is one.

I didn’t see last night’s game against Italy, but according to the papers this newcomer played really well.

Is Sweden Switzerland’s archnemesis?

Somehow, with everything we the Swiss do, the Swedish manage to do it better. At the world championships in floorball, the Swiss got beaten by the Swedish. Earlier this year at the Olympic Games we got beaten in curling. Sweden somehow manages to balance its welfare with the nation’s economy and Swedish children perform better in PISA rankings. Last but not least, Sweden has Queen Silvia while we feature Micheline for representational purposes.

If today’s charts bore you…

…then you should have a look at what was rocking 1946. Ladies and gentlemen, Cab “Curtis” Calloway sings the Blues - with a huge smile on his face, that is.

KMail to Mail (OS X)

Since I am traveling a lot again, increasingly rely on webmail, and never got really happy with KMail, it’s time to switch. This means I am going to rely on webmail as my first priority and back up my mail on my Mac notebook.
Since I already tried to do the switch from Thunderbird to OS X Mail earlier and that didn’t work properly I was quite concerned about this step and googled quite a bit. However, from KMail in KDE 3.5.2 it is remarkably easy.

First, you start KMail and create a new folder for every folder you wish to export. Make sure in the dialog you select the new folder to be of the mbox format.

Once you have all your folders ready, copy your mails from the old folders into your brandnew mbox folders. After that you close KMail.

Now you browse to /your_homefolder/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail and copy any file that carries the name of your new mboxfolders into a folder on your Mac.

When you are done, you fire up Mail in Mac OS X and click on File/Import Mailboxes. Choose Other at the bottom, hit the arrow to advance a couple times, and finally pick the folder where you stored your mbox files. Once you have selected it, Mail starts to import your mail and you can comfortably arrange everything.

We create save software #2

Another episode of working with an XP Laptop:

My files for work had been temporarily saved in the Administrator’s profile. After I had created my user account I wanted to transfer those files to my user profile. This was a simple Ctrl+C Ctrl+V operation, but it left the user without any reading priviledges. Since I generally work with Unix flavors I sort of exspected that and wanted to check the permissions for this folder and its subfolders. The properties of the folder listed the information I needed and all was ready to be edited with a couple clicks of the mouse. However, nothing changed although I made sure to change permissions also for subfolders. For some reason I was able to change permissions to my user account for some folders but not for all.

Since this didn’t work as exspected I mounted my FAT memorystick and copied my files onto it (effectively stripping off all permissions from the files), logged out of the Administrator’s account, back into my user account, and copied everything back onto the harddisk. After this operation had succeeded I wondered if it would be possible to remove as an ordinary user a storage device that was previously mounted by an admin. You guessed correctly, it is possible.

So I am trying to work with a computer here that has cryptic ways of setting read/write priviledges forcing me to do a detour over my stick while it allows ordinary users to remove devices previously mounted by an admin. Where’s the logic behind all this?