Meine dritte Fahrt mit dem ÖBB Railjet

Heute fahre ich bereits das 3. Mal mit dem ÖBB Railjet. Letzte Woche war es zwei mal der RJ 754, mit dem ich von Graz nach Bruck/Mur gefahren bin, heute fahre ich mit dem RJ 551 von Bruck/Mur nach Graz.


Mir gefällt der Zug auf jeden Fall sehr gut! Vor allem die Anzeige, wo man gerade ist, hat's mir angetan. Denn am Abend weiß man zwischen Frohnleiten und Bruck/Mur nicht, wo man ist, da man auf mehreren Kilometern nur Dunkelheit sieht.


Man sieht auch die kommenden Haltestellen mit voraussichtlicher Ankunft:


Mittlerweile sitze ich schon wieder im RJ 754, das ist somit meine vierte Fahrt. :-)

Etwas nervig finde ich, gleich wie beim Stadler GTW, den ich am 25.10.2011 getestet habe, lediglich das Gepiepse, wenn sich die Türen schließen.

Schade finde ich, dass es im gesamten Zug nur einen (!) Kinderwagenabstellplatz gibt (eventuell passen zwei kleine Buggies hin). Familien sind bei den ÖBB offensichtlich unerwünscht! Wenn dem so ist, brauche ich meine bald auslaufende "Vorteilscard Familie" auch nicht verlängern, dann werden in Zukunft eben wieder mehr Kilometer mit dem Auto heruntergespult. Schade!

Ansonsten ist der Railjet aber ein toller Zug!

Find the error on this wonder wheel entry card

Horrible support of Eee PC 1005 HA in Xubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

I just tested Xubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 and experienced a horrible support for my Eee PC 1005 HA. While it worked almost perfectly in Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix (NBR), I already learned to live with the fact, that Fn+F1 (go standby) doesn't work in Xubuntu 11.04 and Fn+F2 (WLAN on/off) behaves strangely. So far so bad - Xubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 is even worse! The only things that work is adjusting screen brightness with Fn+F5/F6 and volume with Fn+F10/F11/F12. All other combinations are dead. Also the special key for deactivating the touchpad, which is quite useful while typing longer texts, doesn't work. The touchpad is just a normal touchpad in Ubuntu, while it is multitouch capable in Windows XP. It is really sad that nobody could develop a driver for the Eee PC 1005 HA and compatible touchpads in all those years. It's clear, that Linux can't be a winner over Windows, if you have to cope with so many disadvantages and you're brought back 10 years by just using Linux.

Test pictures with my new camera

Quite interesting: There's is definitely no green light in the ground floor, but the sensors record such.

If you look in the windows of that train, you see yourself distorted. But for the camera the window is actually merely a mirror.

My new camera: Nikon Coolpix S3000

Because my old camera (Fujifilm Finepix, bought in January 2002) already had some technical problems, I wanted to buy a new camera. I planned this already for some months, because my cell phone's built-in cam isn't even good enough to take quick snap shots (pictures look ugly, even under camera-friendly circumstances). So, yesterday I went to a shop in Graz and asked for used cameras, because I wouldn't need a brand new one. The guy at the shop showed me some cameras, where two of them were more recent models. In the evening I searched the web for addtional information about these cameras and finally I decided to buy the Nikon Coolpix S3000, which I did today in the morning. Here it is:


Picture taken with my cell phone's cam - you see the worse quality.

Another advantage of an extra camera is, that nobody can call me there while taking photos. ;-)

Sugar vs. Salt

Sometimes I think reality fools me. The name of Facebook's boss is - as you may be know - Mark Zuckerberg. One of the competitors of Facebook is Diaspora and its boss's name is Maxwell Salzberg. The funny part is not just that their names both end in "...berg", but the meanings of their names: "Zucker" is a German word that means "sugar", "Salz" is also German and means "salt", "berg" (well, it's German too) means "mountain". So, their names mean "sugar mountain" and "salt mountain". Crazy!

Funny bug in Google Toolbar

On 19th of June 2010, a funny bug happend in the Google Toolbar translator:"Eierbecher" means "egg cup" in English. The random characters seen on the screen indeed don't means anything similar to "Eierbecher" - at least not in German. May be in Icelandic (watch at the word that I looked up in Wikipedia some time before I took the screenshot)?