just maybe I complain too much

and just need a way to deal with all this shite?

Hobbies & Guilt

I've been reading the old entries here. I haven't done much lately. Today I tidied up the room. That's it. I mean, seriously. I plugged the new antennas in and listened to 20 and 40m but didn't transmit again. Last entry in the logbook is now years old. I've become a real lurker SWL. Some kind gentleman from Ofcom extended my reciprocal licence until 2016 so I don't have to worry about it for an other couple of years.

I spent some cash on vertical antennas for 20 and 6 meters and got a short vertical for 80m to 70cm and guess what, the stupid wire antenna around the room beats the lot for reception. I was hoping for something a bit better than that.

I haven't been writing, composing nor playing anything lately. I haven't taken the scope out for a year nor I have used the small scope nor binos for a coupe of months now. I haven't touched the camera for weeks until today (shot a couple of sun+cloud pictures through a dirty window).

I haven't found a new band to listen for a while and last time I went to a concert was Hawkwind in Cambridge and that was some damn time ago.

I've been reading a bit, at least I can say I've done that.

Tomorrow, a new day, hopefully.

still not right

Disorder	Your Score
Major Depression:	Very High
Dysthymia:	High-Moderate
Bipolar Disorder:	Extremely High
Cyclothymia:	Very High
Seasonal Affective Disorder:	Extremely High
Postpartum Depression:	N/A
Take the Depression Test

Was like this in 2007. Still broken.

Ubuntu Keyserver not accessible

Don't you hate it when this happens?

root@hakan-pc:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 36E81C9267FD1383FCC4490983FBA1751378B444
gpg: requesting key 1378B444 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host

This usually happens because the keyserver port is blocked by a corporate firewall. You can use an other machine to fetch the keys and load them.

Sample here for the libreoffice ppa:

Grab the fingerprint from the ppa page, i.e., 36E81C9267FD1383FCC4490983FBA1751378B444

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 36E81C9267FD1383FCC4490983FBA1751378B444
gpg --export --armor 36E81C9267FD1383FCC4490983FBA1751378B444 > libreoffice_ppa.key
scp libreoffice_ppa.key targetserver:~/

on the target server,

cat libreoffice_ppa.key | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update

All done.