Back from Sweden visit

Posted on October 30, 2011 by jonas

Tanya and I were in Sweden over the weekend to meet with Kapten, other friends, relatives, and parents. It was a great weekend and we had a packed schedule with good experiences. Among our memorable events this weekend we have after-work at Clarion Hotel, walk at Djurgården with Johannes, Ulrika, and Rasmus, AIK-Brynäs at Hovet, dinner at Clarion Hotel, lunch and relaxing with relatives and parents.

The web photo albums were updated recently and there is more to come.

Currently I am working on upgrading my old iPhone 3GS to the latest iOS.

More details might follow later.

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October update

Posted on October 8, 2011 by jonas

We are already deep into October and yesterday also the weather in Zurich realized that is is now truly autumn. September, and the first days in October, offered really pleasant weather; 20-25 degrees Celsius and mostly sunny. When going rollerblading last Sunday for example, one could easily believe it was July if one would only draw conclusions from inspecting the weather conditions. Yesterday and this weekend there will be a lot of rain but it does not matter too much, there are still many nice things to do.

This morning Tanya flew in from Moscow and I picked her up at the airport. Since she did not get too much sleep tonight and she is having a rest now while I am typing silently. It is probably wise for her to get some sleep since we are soon going to Nordiska’s kräftskiva (fermented herring party). I did attend last year but it will be Tanya’s and Sam’s premiere. I hope they will like the food as well as the company but I am not totally convinced yet regarding the first item. It is a 10 year anniversary so I am prepared for an excellent evening.

Last weekend, when visiting Mr Roubert and observing the latest copy of NZZ am Sonntag, I once again thought it would be a good idea to subscribe to Neue Zürcher Zeitung, at least NZZ am Sonntag, which is delivered weekly. Today I am a man of action and have signed a subscription request. This might also be a part of Tanya’s and mine aspirations in requisitioning proper knowledge in the local language (or at least high German).

Some people have been asking when Tanya is coming to Zurich on a more permanent basis without flying back and forth to Moscow too much like I used to do earlier. She will go back to Moscow twice in the next month but only quick visits (Thursday to Saturday) in order to fulfill some final assignments for the university. Apart from these trips to Moscow, of which I will only attend one of them, and a visit to Stockholm in the last weekend in October, we will be in Zurich in October and November.

Today I went out for some running in rain, or “jogging” if one should be more honest and precise, but it has not been enough of workout sessions lately. It is not too boring if one is enjoying a decent audio book meanwhile and now I am listening to Brobyggarna (English: The bridge constructors) by Jan Guillou. It is the first book in his series about the 20th century (Swedish: Det Stora Århundradet). For others who are considering reading this book, there is a review from Dagens Nyheter. Knowledge in Swedish or the usage of Google Translate or similar is useful.

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Slow Sunday jogging session

Posted on September 26, 2011 by jonas

I had to try if pyTrainer works in Ubuntu 11.10 and indeed it seems to work very well out-of-the-box. Maybe time to do some more exercise then…

Activity: Running Date: 2011-09-25
Distance (km): 4.59 Time (hh:mm:ss): 0:25:25
Max speed (km/h): 15.73 Avg speed (km/h): 10.83
Max pace (min/km): 3.48 Avg pace (min/km): 5.32
Max pulse: 161 Avg pulse: 135
Acc elevation (+m): 111.51 Acc elevation (-m): 108.15

Map:

Gpx-format Kml-format (GoogleEarth)

Powered by Pytrainer

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Weekend in Geneva

Posted on September 17, 2011 by jonas

On Friday evening Tanya took a flight to Geneva while Saab and I simultaneously drove from Zurich. After picking up Tanya at the airport we went to the city center and checked in at our hotel. Our old Saab has turned on a motor error indicator again but I hope it is one more of those harmless hoses and there is still no smoke from the engine…

It is Saturday morning and the weather forecast seems to hint about indoor activities. We have our umbrellas within reach and are soon ready to hit the streets. We have heard about chocolate and cheese production and today is also the final of La Batie – Festival de Geneve whatever that is so I hope we will have a great day here in Geneva.

The plan is to stay here until tomorrow morning and then go back to Zurich via Montreux.

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NFS in Debian Squeeze

Posted on September 11, 2011 by jonas

Early this morning I left Gothenburg and after a detour via Amsterdam I was back in Wollishofen around lunch time.

This weekend I have, among other things, upgraded one of the servers to Debian Squeeze (6.0). In the latest stable release the system defaults to NFS4 instead of NFS3. This had an impact on my setup where NFS and autofs are used to automatically mount the user directories from the file server running OpenSolaris (which speaks NFS in version 2, 3 and 4). The solution is said (in the Ubuntu NFS4 howto) to be to configure the same mapid domain on both machines but for me it appeared not to help.

The solution – stick to NFS3 🙂 If you are in the same situation you can achieve this my by adding the options “fstype=nfs,vers=3” to your autofs configuration. This is an example from my autofs configuration of the home directories:

* -fstype=nfs,vers=3,rw mrq:/export/home/&

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Visiting Gothenburg

Posted on September 9, 2011 by jonas

I arrived to Gothenburg yesterday and today in the evening I will visit Dan Söderström who has invited for dinner. Weather is great and it is nice to be back in Gothenburg.

Today at lunch time Julia and I had lunch/breakfast at Andrum.  Two days ago I had dinner at another vegetarian restaurant, Hiltl in Zurich, the only difference was that the price was three times higher in Zurich.

After arriving around midnigh Joel and I took care of one of servers which had experienced some stability problems  lately. It seems like it was an overheating issue due to three out of four fans being defect. We quickly replaced them and so far it seems to make a difference.

Tomorrow Dan Söderström and I will take care of some practical issues and watch some football. A work-out session at MAK is scheduled around lunch time. I have lost a lot of strength since we used to work-out together regularly but it will be interesting to see how much.

The plan is to bring the sewing machine back to Zurich on Sunday. It fits nicely in the luggage and with some clothes acting as cushioning I think it will work out well.

Next weekend there is a “IT 2001 reunion” in Linköping. It would be great to meet again but I am not sure yet if it fits my schedule.

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Wedding photos and movies available

Posted on September 4, 2011 by jonas

It is still work in progress, captions are missing etcetera, but now there are some photos in the online wedding photo gallery.

For those interested in movies, long and short versions are available in high quality (4 GB) and Flash for streaming in the movie section.

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Rant about tweaked form posting / Formulärpostande för händiga

Posted on August 23, 2011 by jonas

English:
Short summary in English since I happened to write it in Swedish initially.

When dealing with poorly coded web pages where you intend to submit form data, and javascript validation prevents you from doing so despite you knowing what you are doing, there is a generic piece of advice which might be handy to be aware of. In decent web browsers like Chrome and Opera (or via Firebug for Firefox or IE DevToolbar for IE) you have developer tools at your fingertips which gives you the possibility to manually set the properties for form elements before submitting. In my case, when trying to submit a complaint at lufthansa.com, there was a defect javascript that prevented me from using their over-engineered select-airport-feature. By manually setting the airport codes via Opera’s developer tools I could successfully submit my complaint.

Swedish:
Nån gång ibland råkar man ut för dåligt kodad formulärvalidering som gör det omöjligt att skicka formulärdatat trots att man har koll på vad som ska fyllas i.

Nyligen ville jag klaga på att Lufthansa misshandlat mitt bagage men Lufthansas webbknackare gjorde det inte lätt att komma med åsikter då de försökte ladda externa javascriptfiler som inte fanns vilket gjorde att knappar inte visades som de skulle.

Ett generellt tips i såna situationer är att ta hjälp av de utvecklarverktyg som följer med kompetenta webbläsare (läs: Chrome och Opera) och som annars finns som plugins (typ Firebug för Firefox och IE DevToolbar för IE). Med hjälp av dylika verktyg kan man ibland komma runt dylika elakheter genom att “manuellt” sätta de egenskaper som den defekta webbsidan tänkt sätta via diverse javascript. I mitt fall kunde jag manuellt sätta flygplatskoderna när Lufthansas välja-land-välja-flygplats-popup misslyckades totalt med det till synes enkla.

I det ovan nämnda exemplet var det ännu värre, deras filuppladdning fungerade inte i Opera (dock i Chrome) tack vare taskigt kodad Javascript. Inte helt överraskande är det samma företag som lyckades producera ett boardingpass med fel datum tidigare i våras…

Jag vill tro att Lufthansa är rätt skickliga på att skicka runt flygplan och passagerare men helt iland är de ännu inte med de datorsystem som de exponerar för sina kunder.

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Back in Zurich

Posted on August 22, 2011 by jonas

It feels a bit surrealistic that I left a somewhat chilly Siberia this morning and now in the evening am back in my apartment in Zurich. I travelled with my parents until Munich where we split up in northern and a southern directions.

After a wonderful week with two nice hiking trips in mountain areas etcetera etcetera I am now ready to get back to business. Time to hit bed early tonight since the 5 hour time difference is noticeable after a 3 hour night in Siberia.

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Hiking in Siberia

Posted on August 18, 2011 by jonas

I am currently at the dentist in Novokuznetsk in Siberia. Tanya gets her treatment while I am writing these lines.

Parents on both sides are at the dacha outside of Novokuznetsk while we are in the city today for some errands.

Yesterday we came back to Novokuznetsk after a three-day trip to the “tooth mountains”. The nature was very nice and not too different from north of Sweden. We went by car to Mezhdurechensk and from there it was a 2 hour long train-journey along river Tom. After a short boat to cross Tom and a one hour long jeep transport we walked 30 minutes to our camp. We stayed in a house with beds for 15 people. There was some basic equipment for cooking etcetera but one is of course encouraged to stay outside in such an area.

The next day we went hiking to a waterfall 2 hours from the camp. It was a nice path and we could go there all together. In the evening some of us went for another excursion and visited some trimolites, approx. 30 strange looking stones, 1-5 meters high stones “growing” in the forest. The third day we went back the same way.

Tomorrow we are going to another mountain area called Altay. this time we will go by car only. The plan is to rent a house for one night and make some short trips by foot from there. I have heard a lot about this area and look forward to it.

Tanya will go to Moscow in approx. 10 days and my parents and I will go back to Zurich and Västerås on Monday. Tanya will work at the university in Moscow for about two months and then join Jonas in Zurich. Most papers are in order, and others are in progress. Last week Tanya got her new national passport and the foreign passport will be switched in Switzerland later. The process of getting a residence permit for Tanya in Switzerland is also in process and it will hopefully be ready in a week or two.

On Monday Tanya turned 26 and we celebrated this honourable event accordingly. The fireworks had to wait until we were back from the mountains but were very impressive.

At the dacha there is a sauna which we have been using heavily. Also in the mountains we could enjoy sauna every evening.

Today, while we are visiting the city of Novokuznetsk, we have been visiting Tanya’s grandma Maria Kirilovna. She is 81 and lives in her own apartment. Her eyesight is not perfect but her mind is fresh and her hearing abilities are fine. We showed her the film from our wedding and she enjoyed watching it. It was good that Oxana were translating during the ceremony.

Now sleeping time.

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