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Joss Whedon's neueste Idee:

Dr. Horrible, eine Art Musical über einen Verrückten "bösen" Wissenschaftler der sich verliebt. Seine Geliebte verliebt sich jedoch in seinen Erzfeind Captain Hammer... Genial, aber ich weiß leider nicht wie lang das Ding nu wirklich online bleibt. Es hieß bis Mitternacht des 20. Juli, das ist aber bereits rum und man kann es immer noch Angucken. Also viel Spass

1. Animoto is cool: see it yourself at http://www.animoto.com
2. I wanted to buy an all access pass because I like the service so much and I wanted to use it to make longer Videos.
3. To get an all access pass or even buy a single video you must use Google checkout to buy the thing. That's a problem for me, because I don't want to give google credit card data, as it connects this data with your google account. And that's not favorable, as I don't know if this goes into my credit score somehow.
4. So I mailed animoto support and told them my problem. They responded in very short time and proposed billing via paypal which I thankfully accepted.
5. I use another eMail address for my paypal account than I use for animoto, so I thought to make things right I'll register the "animoto"-mail address with paypal, that they could bill me on the standard way.
6. Paypal accepted the invoice on the new eMail address but replied with the standard eMail address to animoto where the people were a bit confused about money they received with an eMail address attached they don't know.
7. The Animoto guys eMailed me on that "odd" address to ask what went wrong and I replied to the request stating the right eMail address.
8. 3 Minutes later I got an reply that the problem is solved and my account will be activated soon. (Wow, that's fast!)

Hab mich lieb:

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Again I got a little hardware problem :)
This time it's the new shiny firewire harddisk i bought recently to do backups.
If you connect your external firewire harddisk and get something like the following in your linux kernel message log then my patch could be something for you.

The problem with my disk (it's a Western Digital MyBook Studio Edition disk) is the spinup time. The disk needs some time to recover from suspend mode and the disk controller seems to block communication while this happens. The simple idea to get this sorted out is to increase the timeout the driver waits for the drive to answer. I increased the timeout from 2000ms to 5000ms and just get one error message at the beginning, but it works good after that first timeout.

The patch is against Linux 2.6.24 (yes this time I am pretty up to date :) ).
Download the Firewire timeout patch here. You need to rebuild your kernel though.

It looks like that then:

The message that the driver cannot log into fw1.1 seems logical, since I've only one device connected but the disk has 2 ports to allow extending the bus with other devices