Now, after some practice, I think switching between A, D and G works quite ok, I’m progressing to the next chapter. This introduces E, which is not hard to hold, but gives me some headaches when switching quickly from D – I guess I need to practice this a bit more.
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Learning the basic chords: D, G & A
As every beginner, I have to learn the basics. So far, the book covers the chords D and A – both with three fingers down and a simple version of G where only the small finger presses the high e in the third section – I’ve already seen G is actually a bit more difficult, and at this point I’m glad about this simplification 
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The fingertips of my left hand now feels dazed all the day – but that will fade over the time. Next chord to learn is E; it’ll bring me new songs… Let’s go.
Starting all over
I’ve tried to learn playing guitar more than a year ago. I borrowed a classic guitar from my brother, who also started to play, but never really learned it. The guitar was not being used, so I could use it:)
My fate was the same. Continue reading
git under Windows Vista
There’s an update for the problem described here. As already suspected, Windows Vista applies some heuristics to mark files, so users need to elevate to administrator to be able to execute those programs.
However, the “heuristics” that are applied seem to be rather simple:
git w/ git-svn on Windows Vista
I currently try out git because of its ability to do full version control without access to the server (like when in traveller mode).
While on Gentoo Linux it’s quite easy to get it working, on my laptop’s Windows Vista installation with cygwin, I’ve encountered problems that could yet only be worked around in a bad manner.
This was not invented here
“Die Zeit, die PHP-Programmierer an Entwicklungszeit gegen
Save my ibook
I’ve installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It’s been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they’ve got.
So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work.
I waited several hours and tried to boot. Did not work, either. Ever since I’ve got that ibook, it has this one single defect: sometimes, maybe once every first or second month, the harddisk does not start up. I know that I should have reported this back to Apple right after I noticed it the first time, within the guaranty – but that’s long ago.
Jan told me, he’d have a spare laptop harddisk wondering whether it’d fit into a mac. I guessed that it did, so we decided to risk the operation (in the true sense of the word) and started googling around on how to replace a disk in an ibook.
Right the first result in google did match our needs – a recipe with explanation and pictures:) Opening an ibook basically means finding every screw and searching a suitable screwdriver for it. At the end of the opening progress, we’d have around twenty screws screwed out of the ibook – each of one group of at least four sizes and forms. Our reference website did mention this and proposed to draw pictures with where which screw came from – a hint, we deliberately had disregarded:)