Auberginen, Radiccio, Weißwein sauce

Was:
2 kleine Auberginen
1 Kopf Radiccio
1 mittelgroße Zwiebel feingeschnitten
2-3 Knoblauchzehen
4 gehackte Tomaten
Ziegenweichkäse (Alter nach Vorliebe, frischkäse geht auch ist aber etwas fader)
ein wenig Brühe
\frac{1}{8}l Weißwein (nach Belieben, mir beliebt trocken)
Olivenöl
(roten) Pfeffer
1 Handvoll gehacktes (frisches) Basilikum
Thymian
Dazu: Pasta oder Gnocchi

Wie:
Auberginen halbieren und dann orthogonal dazu in relativ dünne (4mm) Scheiben schneiden. Mit Salz bestreuen und eine Weile weinen lassen (halbe Stunde wäre gut ich bin dafür meist zu ungeduldig. Auberginen mit Olivenöl grillen (oder braten) bis sie zart sind (2-4 min pro Seite je nach Hitze). Radiccio ebenfalls erhitzen bis er welk wird (1-2 min pro seite).
 Ein wenig Öl in einer ausreichend großen Pfanne erhitzen, Zwiebeln und Knoblauch zugeben zwei Minuten erhitzen, Thymian und Petersilie zugeben und rühren bis Zwiebel weich und glasig ist.
Nun Thomaten, Brühe, Weißwein, Pfeffer und Basilikum zugeben und ein paar Minuten simmern lassen.
Auberginen und Radiccio zugeben und abschmecken.
Pasta/Gnocchi in Teller füllen mit Sauce bedecken und zerkrümelten Ziegenkäse darüber streuen. Als Deko eignet sich das obligatorische Blättchen Basilikum.

Warum:
Lecker

Vegetarische Quiche

Ein simples Rezept, das ich sehr schätze:

Teig:
200g Mehl
100g Butter
1 Prise Salz
bis zu 50 ml Wasser
Butter kneten (Küchenmaschine empfiehlt sich), Mehl und Salz einbauen und kneten bis keine Klümpchen mehr existieren, Wasser dazu, kneten und kaltstellen.
In eine (gefettete) Backform packen, mit der Gabel ein Paar Mal einstechen und bei auf 170 Grad vorgeheiztem Backofen etwa 15 min vorbacken.

Füllung:
2 Spitzpaprika
1 Stange Lauch
1 Zwiebel
1 Zehe Knoblauch
 [Chili|Muskat|Paprika], Salz, Pfeffer je nach Vorlieben
Zwiebel und Knoblauch in Fett (Butter,öl) erhitzen, Lauch dazu. Wenns einigermaßen glasig aussieht Paprika dazu. Nach ein, zwei Minuten würzen, fertig! Wein würde sich sicher auch gut darin machen. 
Anschließen in die Form mit dem vorgebackenen Teig füllen.  

Überbackung:
150g Gry\'ere
1 Becher saure Sahne
Zusammen rühren über die Füllung verstreichen und alles in den Backofen bei 170Grad und backen bis es lecker aussieht (15 min?) 

MacOS and package management

This is priceless:

The following 240 additional packages will be installed: a52dec a52dec-dev a52dec-shlibs amrnb amrnb-dev amrnb-shlibs atk1 atk1-shlibs audiofile audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs autoconf autoconf2.6 automake1.11 automake1.9 avahi avahi-dev bison cairo cairo-shlibs cloog cloog-shlibs compress-raw-bzip2-pm5100 compress-raw-zlib-pm5100 crypt-ssleay-pm5100 daemonic db48-aes db48-aes-shlibs dbus dbus1.3-dev dbus1.3-shlibs docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd docbook-utils docbook-xsl doxygen elinks encode-pm5100 esound esound-bin esound-common esound-shlibs faac faac-dev faac-shlibs faad ffmpeg-dev fftw3 fftw3-shlibs fink-package-precedence fontconfig-config fontconfig2-dev fontconfig2-shlibs freeglut freeglut-shlibs freetype219 freetype219-shlibs gawk gcc45 gcc45-compiler gcc45-shlibs gd2 gd2-shlibs getoptbin gettext gettext-dev ghostscript-fonts ghostscript6 giflib giflib-bin giflib-shlibs glib glib-shlibs glib2-dev glib2-shlibs glitz glitz-shlibs gmp gmp-shlibs gnome-doc-utils gsm gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk+2 gtk+2-dev gtk+2-shlibs gtk-doc html-parser-pm5100 html-tagset-pm id3lib4-dev id3lib4-shlibs imlib2 imlib2-shlibs intltool40 io-compress-pm5100 jack-dev jack-shlibs jadetex lame lame-dev lame-shlibs libao2-shlibs libavahi-client3-shlibs libavahi-common3-shlibs libavahi-core6-shlibs libavahi-glib1-shlibs libavcodec-dev libavcodec51-shlibs libavformat-dev libavformat52-shlibs libavutil-dev libavutil49-shlibs libdaemon libdaemon-shlibs libdatrie1 libdatrie1-shlibs libfaad1-dev libfaad1-shlibs libfaad2-shlibs libflac8 libflac8-dev libgettext8-dev libgmpxx-shlibs libgnugetopt libgnugetopt-shlibs libid3tag libid3tag-shlibs libidn libidn-shlibs libjasper.1 libjasper.1-shlibs libjpeg8 libkpathsea4 libkpathsea4-shlibs liblzma5-shlibs libmad libmad-shlibs libmikmod3 libmikmod3-shlibs libmodplug libmodplug-shlibs libmpc2 libmpc2-shlibs libmpcdec3 libmpcdec3-shlibs libmpfr1 libmpfr1-shlibs libogg libogg-shlibs libpng14 libpng14-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs librarian.08-shlibs libsamplerate0-dev libsamplerate0-shlibs libshout4 libshout4-shlibs libsndfile1-dev libsndfile1-shlibs libthai libthai-dev libthai-shlibs libtheora0 libtheora0-shlibs libtheoradec1-shlibs libtheoraenc1-shlibs libtiff libtiff-bin libtiff-shlibs libtool14 libtool14-shlibs libtool2 libtool2-shlibs libvorbis0 libvorbis0-shlibs libwww libwww-bin libwww-pm5100 libwww-shlibs libx264-57-shlibs libx264-dev libxml libxml-shlibs libxml2 libxml2-bin libxml2-py26 libxml2-shlibs libxslt libxslt-bin libxslt-shlibs m4 make ocaml openjade openmotif3 openmotif3-shlibs opensp4 opensp4-dev opensp4-shlibs pango1-xft2-ft219 pango1-xft2-ft219-dev pango1-xft2-ft219-shlibs passwd pixman pixman-shlibs ppl ppl-shlibs python26 python26-shlibs rarian rarian-compat sdl sdl-shlibs sgml-entities-iso8879 sgmls-pm shared-mime-info t1lib5-nox t1lib5-nox-shlibs t1lib5-x11 t1lib5-x11-shlibs tetex-base tetex-texmf texi2html uri-pm5100 wavpack1-dev wavpack1-shlibs xdg-base xft2-dev xft2-shlibs xinitrc xmkmf xml-parser-pm5100 xmms xmms-bin xmms-shlibs xvidcore xvidcore-shlibs xz 

Guess what package I was installing. Unbelievably mpd! 

I have now tried macports, homebrew and fink and they all suck. It's unbelievable how bad of a copy of most linux package managers they all are.

First of all why do i have to compile every package on all three of these tools. I know it is a lot of work and fink are working on it but it's been a year since snow leopard is out. Being forced to compile is the thing that most people erroneously make fun of when talking about linux. It is ridiculous that this troll is actually true when considering mac, and no even though most packages are more for convenience I don't think an OS without wget is to be considered complete.

 Macports really duplicates a lot of stuff unneccessarily and some packages break for me, Homebrew also broke on two packages and plain didn't have formulas for a lot of other (although it hast the rather sane policy of not duplicating anything already in MacOS, which is a big plus) and fink just sucks for the reasons above.

I don't think gentoo prefix would make the situation any better. I guess i will try to live with homebrew and write patches for it. :( I had a thought the other how i hardly ever had the urge to write a program on linux since somebody almost surely has done it before. Maybe I am not compatible to Macs, but i have never programmed as much as on Mac and that out of pure need! 

IPv6, dyndns and all the rest

I have a dream! And that is listening to music from my server without 10 minutes of foo to get it started. I am still working on a solution that is plug'n'play. There are two major solutions that i considered: A network audio system and a filesystem share with a local player.. Since Pulseaudio (and basically every other network audio solution except esd) doesn't have MacOS support and because my admin wouldn't install nfs and sshfs under Mac is a joke I am going to rely on esd.

Now that server needs to push its sound to me somehow and i wanted this to be done without thinking about firewalls, natting and the like. That is why i wanted it to work over IPv6 since this is virtually unfiltered in the networks i live in at the moment. The only problem is that i need to push the data not pull, so the server needs to know my ip. I thought: That's easy, just use dyndns.
What i didn't know is how difficult it is to get a dynamical dns provider that actually supports ipv6. I had a long list of services grabbed from some update client.

• dyndns.* would have been my first choice, if it weren't for them only doing ipv6 in beta in their non-free custom dns scheme. 

• freedns.afraid.org was next and it has a ipv6 enabled dns server which you get for free but you can't update it via the client api! :(
• no-ip.com doesn't have v6 at all from what i could gather
• ... 

By this time i was annoyed and googled more thoroughly again and found: majimoto. Now that guy is awesome. Seems to be a german who does web hosting in his spare time and was annoyed by the same things as i am and just made a free, client updatable ipv6 enabled dynamic dns available to the general public. YEAH! This guy deserves some applause.
Now onto esd :)
Update:  Joshua from afraid.org answered me and yes it is supported just not officially:
"If you create a IPv4 A record, go to 'dynamic DNS' and get the update URL, you can then append &address=<ipv6 address> (without <>'s) and it will convert the record into a AAAA record "

MacOSX and IPv6

MacOSX supports IPv6 natively of course but what good is that if your ^.*$ network administrator won't allow that. Now my dorm is part of a larger network run by an organization which really goes out of its way to provide IPv6 and they offer static tunnels (unpractical in my case), Teredo (not stable/performant enough by their own judgement) and ISATAP.
Now Snow Leopards ISATAP support is virtually inexistent. In fact it was only offered by ancient miredo versions and support was dropped in version 1.1.6. I could have lived with an old version since i don't suscribe to the idea of software magically turning stale over time although this meant compiling by hand in this case. The only problem is miredo is just such a bitch to configure that i couldn't get it to work for the life of me.

Anyway I then used the linux instructions for doing it by hand and converted them to the mac equivalents:
#!/bin/sh 
ISATAP_RELAY="10.156.33.6" # isatap-relay.lrz-muenchen.de
IPV6_PREFIX="2001:4CA0:0:FE00::" # LRZ ISATAP-Prefix 
IPV4=$(ifconfig $(route get ${ISATAP_RELAY} | grep interface | sed -e 's/ interface: //') | egrep '\' | awk '{print $2;}')
ifconfig gif0 tunnel ${IPV4} ${ISATAP_RELAY} 
ifconfig gif0 inet6 ${IPV6_PREFIX}5EFE:${IPV4} prefixlen /128
route -n add -inet6 default ${IPV6_PREFIX}5EFE:${IPV4}

Test with: 
ping6 www.lrz.de 

Zuchini, Tomato, Spinach Risotto

Today I was inspired to make do with what i had (read I didn't go shopping, it was sunday and i was pretty much out of everything). I had Tomatoes (molding), Zuchini (overdue) and frozen, thawed, refrozen spinache, rice, noodles as well as half a grana padano. I was sick of pasta with sauce and thus sat there for a while, pondering and finally came up with a splendid idea: risotto

List of ingredients:

• A pound of rice
• 4 tomatoes (estimated from what was left after cutting out the mold)
• A third of a pack of frozen spinach
• A yellow zucchini
• 2 cloves of garlic
• A big white onion
• Butter
• Olive oil
• 150g grana padano
• A tiny rest of ginger that had to go
• 7 sun dried tomatoes rehydrated
• A tea spoon of rosemary
• A tea spoon of basil
• Broth (half a liter?)
• The last dregs of red wine
• The juice of one lime 
• A lily for decoration (I didn't have basil) 

The rest works as always, cut it all finely (or press the garlic if you are lazy), put onion, garlic, and ginger in a pot with a big stick of butter and let it fry in that for a while; add zucchini. Meanwhile put olive oil in a bigger pot and add the rice, heat and stir. Once you feel its good add red wine, (in my case it was gone shortly after so i didn't have to wait). Wait a bit until its not soggy anymore, add all the veggies and keep adding broth while stirring but only so much that it is barely covered, once you're out of liquid, add spices and grated cheese, fold it in and enjoy.

I have plenty of ideas on how to make it better (for a start take fresh veggies and herbs instead of old ones) but this was so tasty that I am still surprised. I haven't quite figured out what made it so yummy.

US Alt Gr Intl

I was annoyed by the weird keyboard layout on my mac (de) way back and so i learned about ukelele and hacked up my version of us alt gr intl. The problem is i can't find the full version anymore. I believe the woman i will always love took it with her on her external hdd when she dumped me. I only got the minimal version i use left, which is plain us + umlauts and ß.
If that is of any use to you get it here.