Oook!

A BIOS Update is one of those things that can steal much of your time - even though it should be something really fast. I wanted to update the BIOS of my old laptop, a Toshiba Portege M100. Toshiba seemed to provide only a Windows Utility to do that job. Since there was no important data on my laptop, I quickly delted my Ubuntu installation and installed Windows7.

The update program complained some missing Toshiba tools which I could download and install after a while as well. But the I thought I coudl finally update the BIOS, I was greeted by:

"user is not authorized to update bios"

I tried this, I tried that, I googled and only found suggestions that did not for me and many others. Well, maybe Windows7 is too new. So I installed WinXP. Something I though I would never have to do again. After installing the different Toshiba tools here as well, I was still greeted by the same message. Narf.

After some more searching, I finally found an alternative page from Toshiba with a different version of the updating tool. It contained the means to create a bootable disc and CD:

Toshiba Portege M100 BIOS Update

Luckily I read the instructions to learn that I had to press 'C' to boot from the CD. The normal way to choose the medium in the initial start-up screen did not work.

...and I haven't even said something about Sunday. After all the rain, we were lucky with the weather - another nice trip.

... that it was a really sunny and joyful day here in Germany. I hope the rain will pass soon.

10 years ago this postcard was used to attract students in Western Germany to study in Dresden, Eastern Germany. It reads "Students! Get International Experience in Dresden." Not only refering to their international cooperations, but rather the fact that Eastern Germany was still a foreign country to many Western Germans.

Definitely worth repeating.

The information display inside the bis was suggesting a rather odd route for today...

This is way some people in Tübingen mark their "I was here". And least the first pair has been around for a very long time.

A blog has been hotlinking one of the pictures of my old blog. Hotlinking means that the picture was all the time on my server, not on theirs. Of course I was not asked before, no appropiate credit is given and I payed for the traffic on my domain.










I have contacted them to negotiate a retroactive aquisition of a license to use my picture. We shall see how that is going to work out. In meantime, since my old blog was deleted including that picture, I uploaded a new picture, so that the article is still complete.



I have been tempted to use something really more provoking.