My little eeePC had been a good companion druing the last month, but I could’t stand XP anymore. I worte all posts of our trip to Norway on it and when I finally found a hotspot to c&p it to my blog, all was gone. It is a fact, that I hate windows and windows hates me. I grew up with my Amigas and compared to windows the structures on AmigaOS were far superior to windows. Amiga is long gone and I switched immediately  to Apple whereas the whole world got those Peecees and still rings me up in the middle of the night asking me stupid questions why their computer won’t do this nor that. My default answer should be: Get a mac! But I am too helpful too just say that.

I watched those attempts to get Leopard to run on standard PC hardware for some time and was really amazed when a good friend of mine showed me his hackintosh. There’s a way to run OS X on eee but the FSB is not recognized correctly and every second on the systemc clock is 2.5 seconds in reality… try to watch a movie with this!

So I sold my eee, with a strange feeling of losing a good friend in my stomach and switched to Acer. The all new One 150xl it is and guess what: Leopard runs like a charme. I had to replace the wificard though, as there are no drivers available. Still a few things are not working properly. The most anoying is sleepmode, but I hope that those guys at insanley mac will fix it anytime soon. Right now this is ok, but in general thers’s still nothing better to get than a mac, except you are looking for a computer to twiddle around, but than you can get a pece with xp, as well.

Here are some helpful links for every Aspire One user that is fed up with XP, like me:
good instructions: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1505
the forum of all hackintoshs: http://www.insanelymac.com/
os x on acer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3h_OI94l0

Next, I will have to get rid of that windows key! Stay tuned…

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August had been the most stressful month, this year. There had been two weddings of good friends of ours - one in Austria, the other in Switzerland. We went to both by car and now that I am writing these lines, I feel quite exhausted. Both weddings had been really great, despite being completely different. I will put some pictures on my photoblog soon.

Than there was the Budocan Sommerfest that ended with a bad hangover for everyone, I guess. So that’s basically what happened this month so far.

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We started out early in order to have a little souvenier shopping, before reaching our plane. On the way to the airport, we found vhal chocolate factory. Yummy… they had a little shop beside the production hall where you could buy choclate packed in 1kg packs. Guess who’s still smiling.

The filght was all right and the transit from Frankfurt Hahn took longer than expected, but therefore the bus stopped right at Offenbach - Home sweet home.

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From Risor, we needed to get a bit nearer to the airport of Trop, where we had to be on friday. We decided to try our luck at Larvin, right there, where our journey started 10 days before. We were lucky and managed to find the camping site, where we initially booked a cabin that we couldn’t take, due to the ferry being canceled. It turned out to be a huge camping site, the biggest so far.

Dropping off our luggage and driving back to Stavern, the nearby city. At first it seemed to be THE tourist town, but than we found the nearby fort and discovered a great swimming site, right beside it. Not having any trunks with us, we headed back to Solplassen Og Rakke Camping (at least I believe this was it) and took our chances there. Surpringsinly, the camping site is located at the same bay, as the fort and as we where enjoying the fresh water, a colorline ferry passed by to enter Larvik harbor. Another sign, that our holiday was almost over.

After dinner we went down to the water again and climbed along the shore. A gull was flying by, crying all the time above us. A few steps further, we found the reason: its offstping was sitting on a rock nearby.

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Further on the route along the south shore of Norway, we reached Risor, which is called the pearl of Norway. Nice little white town, with and ancient church, a harbor right in the city center where people drop by via boat, do their shopping and drive off again. The girls went shopping as well, where as Koeby and me took took our position at the harbor and tried to get some decent shots of gulls flying by - yeah right, I am obsessed with picturing sea gulls, got me.

At about 5pm we went back to camping and put on our bathing suits just to find out, that the water there was not the best. Anayway, it was quite refreshing. Noodles for dinner with a long round of cards was the end of the day.

Almost! Although the south of norway is still beyond the Arctic circle, the sun hardly sinks. At about midnight there is still a blue shine on the horizion. Off course I had to take pictures.

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