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Airwalk vic

People that grew up in the 80s/90s like me, still remember the vic-shoe (another view and view from the the back) from AirWalk. It was the skateboard shoe back then. For a long time this shoe was not available anymore in germany. I had a pair of these when I was young, and I loved them. Admitetly, I have not skateboarded in a long time, however for the last few years I really wanted to have a pair of these shoes again. Titus, a skateboard shop in Bremen, had a remake of the shoe, which looked very similar, but was nearly as comfortable as the original. Yesterday I went to MTS, a skateboard shop in Oldenburg, looking for a new pair of sneakers and there they were. Looking at me form a shelve. And too my very big surprise, they even had it in my size. :)

Tags: life by fkr
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Confidence 2007

I’ve been invited to speak at the third Edition of the Conference Confidence 2007 which happens on May 12th and 13th 2007 in Krakow, Poland. Am not yet sure, what topic I will cover, but as the deadline
for the papers approaches, I’ll get going on that soon.

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wmii or my quest for the holy grail of windowmanagers

For the last few months I’ve been on the search for the windowmanager that suits me best. As some of you might know, I used Mac OS X for a few years. So obviously parts of me do like some eye-candy. All other parts adore simplicity and hate to move the mouse. While working on OpenDarwin I used Windowmaker a lot. In my times before OpenDarwin/OS X I’ve been using icewm for many years. When I ditched my OS X laptop and went back to working with windowmaker.
When I went to OpenBSD’s c2k6 I was introduced to ion3. It is very nice and can be controlled extremly well. For the ones who don’t know, ion3’s reasoning is, that it takes care of the positioning of the windows for you. The visible screen space is used in an optimal way. Some applications are not made for this: xmms, gaim, xpdf. just to name a few. However, because I could’nt get ion3 to handle floating applications the way I wanted (and also have no clue at all about lua, the language ion3 is based on), I started to actually test out a lot of window managers. So on one weekend I went through enlightenment, blackbox, gnome, KDE, sawfish, fluxbox, XFCE4, and probably some more. When I went to the 18th Session, someone recommended wmii to me.
First I had some trouble with it, but after about a month of using wmii now (and going from wmii-3.1 to wmii-current) I’m now assured that wmii is the holy grail of my search for the windowmanager that suits me perfectly.

Tags: OpenBSD, nerd et al. by fkr
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