Monday, February 6, 2012

Winter in Hamburg!

After having problems with my laptop and being a constant target for viruses, trojans and - pardon my language - sh*t like that, due to the fact that I was using a Windows system, I decided to change over to Ubuntu, the OS of Linux. Especially the fact that my system recently was infected with the so called BKA-Trojan got me to the decision.

The problem with this trojan is, that it comes even from normal websites. When my system was infected I was reading the news; I wasn't even on potentially harmful websites (if you dont believe me, ask A., she was sitting next to me when it happened). This was a sign and so I now changed to Ubuntu, which is very easy to use and with which I am already quite happy!

Anyways, since not all my programs are running with this OS I occasionally have to go back to Windows. Photoshop for example; the version I have is a Windows version and since the picture programs of Ubuntu are not so good with my RAW-files, I have to work on them under Windows.

Since A. and I were doing some things during the weekend and I wanted to show you the pictures I sadly had to do that for a couple of minutes. Nevermind! The weekend was nice. It was cold, but sunny. It had been snowing a little here in Hamburg and so we went outside.


We walked to the Alster, which is already covered with ice; however the ice is way to thin to walk on it yet and the police is checking that nobody does it. We continued our round and walked the whole way around the Außen- and the Binnenalster. In the sun, when the wind stopped, it actually got quite warm, which was nice.


Later that day we went over to Eppendorf to S's place to play poker. Also R. came and she had brought mustaches; so we all put hats on and were playing poker in our roles.
Picture from here.
We ended up like another evening before in the corner pub playing Mensch ärgere Dich nicht. It was a good evening and a very cold way home. 

Picture from here.

Now the new week started and I changed my system to Ubuntu. Tomorrow I will have to write applications again to finally find a job. I had already three interviews, but did not hear anything from the companies yet. I hope I will get positive answers!

~M~