How-To: Fix “The file server has closed down” issues in Mac OS and netatalk
Netatalk versions older than 2.1.3 had some issues with the TCP/IP Stack on Linux which resulted in errors like
Luckily they seem to have fixed this in 2.1.3 as the ChangeLog states: fix a serious error in networking IO code.
So the solution is as easy as upgrading. I am running Ubuntu, but two months after netatalk-2.1.3 has been released, they don’t even have it in unstable. Lucky Gentoo users you! I needed to fix this very quickly as it started to disrupt my workflow. Sadly I currently don’t have the time to dig into the packaging system of Debian or Ubuntu, so I looked up Debian’s configure options and just compiled from source:
cp -a /etc/netatalk/ ~ aptitude purge netatalk apt-get build-dep netatalk wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/files/netatalk/2.1.3/netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2/download tar xjvf netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2 cd netatalk-2.1.3 ./configure --with-shadow --enable-fhs --enable-tcp-wrappers --enable-timelord --enable-overwrite --with-pkgconfdir=/etc/netatalk --enable-krb4-uam --enable-krbV-uam --with-cnid-dbd-txn --with-libgcrypt-dir --with-cracklib=/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict --enable-debian --disable-srvloc --enable-zeroconf --with-ssl-dir --enable-pgp-uam --prefix=/usr/local/netatalk/ make sudo make install mv ~/netatalk /etc/ /etc/init.d/netatalk start
This saves a copy of your running netatalk configuration to your home directory, removes netatalk, downloads all necessary libraries to build netatalk, downloads netatalk from SourceForge, extracts it, configures it, builds it, installs it, restores the configuration and starts it as usual.
I am running netatalk 2.1.3 for a week now and the error seems to be gone 
If you know how to easily create a Debian package, feel free to post in the comments.
Czech Republic – Final conclusion
What has started as a 10 day road-trip from eastern Germany trough the Czech Republic, Austria and maybe Switzerland back to western Germany ended after just two days in Prague. On the first day we visited Karlovy Vary and drove to Prague on day two. But in Prague some ************* have smashed a windows and broke into our car and stole every single piece of clothing I own, my girlfriend’s laptop, my tripod, the car radio, ball pens, old shoes, some coverings, the drink holder…
We called the Czech police. They didn’t care, they didn’t come. They didn’t let us file a charge. 2500€ lost. No insurance will cover it. The car was that damaged, we had to abort the trip. Not that I wanted to continue, without any clothing.
I didn’t like the Czech people in the first place. They were rude, they all didn’t give a crap about anything. Several times my tripod has almost been knocked over. Every time we had a question the officials pretended they didn’t speak English or German or whatever.
I write this post just to put it all behind. Karlovy Vary and Prague are nice cities, I’ve been there the second time now (this time just to take photos), but they won’t see me again. Ever.
Fuck the Czech! – Road Trip is Over!
Sorry, but I have to be rude today. I just need to write it down.
Fuck you Prague, fuck you Czech! Fuck you all! I have never seen people being that unhelpful and disinterested.
My girlfriend and I went to Prague for a night and this morning we wanted to leave to Vienna, Austria. But no, we didn’t do that. The parking situation in Prague and the entire Czech Republic is horrible, so we parked in a side street a few hundred meters from our so called “Hotel” where we had to pay the parking meter every two hours. Not just that the Hotel (Old Time Hotel) was horrible (dirty, ants, …), between 01:00AM where we last checked our car and 09:00AM when we came back, one of the windows have been smashed and every single piece of clothing I own has been stolen. Everything. About 2000€ worth of clothing. Not to mention my girlfriends Laptop. And don’t tell me we should have taken it out! We put all visible things in the hotel and stored the rest in the trunk. You also wouldn’t have carried your stuff that far to the Hotel for just one night! I think they came for the radio – a cheapish built-in one that comes from the manufacturer. They have even taken the coverings in the car. WTF?! And the charging cable for the navigation system, that we had a hard time getting out of fucking Prague.
We must have been standing there for like 15minutes. I was yelling and smashing everything. There were several people around us, no one came. We called the police. And then we waited in the rain and waited and waited with all the stuff we had taken to the hotel room (4 additional bags!). No one came. No Police. No one came to help, no one cared. They all pretended they didn’t speak English or German.
Three hours later a policeman finally came, but pretended he doesn’t speak a fucking single word of English, or German, or even Polanski! In the end he sent us home, telling us we should file a charge at home. Great!
Back home I wanted to buy at least some underwear and clean shirts, when the car’s engine also broke. And it was raining cats & dogs…
Holiday canceled. Good night.
Summer Vacation 2010
It’s hot here in Germany. The sky is blue and the sun is shining… Actually the plan was to go on a road trip on the US Westcoast… California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona… u know. But due to time problems my girlfriend and I are making a road-trip trough Europe:
Starting in Saxony, heading east towards Kalovy Vary, then Prague, then southern to Vienna and finally trough the Alps as far as we get until I’ll be back in Frankfurt on August, 1.
That’s the plan at least Take care and enjoy the summer. I thin I’ll post from time to time.
Things went wrong in Hamburg
Last weekend my girlfriend and I spontaneously decided to visit Hamburg. We only did a quick research and then knew what we wanted to see: the Port of Hamburg, the old Elbe tunnel, the Warehouse District, the Fish auction hall, the old Town hall, the Jungfernstieg at the Binnenalster and the famous churches. Not to forget Reeperbahn! That’s the theorie…
I find cities look best when it’s lights are already turned on, so we wanted to see the most of the sights at night.
On the first evening we wanted to see the harbor. Our hotel was close to the Central Station so we decided to simply walk. Sadly Internet on my iPhone 3G was that slow in Hamburg, that I couldn’t see my map with the photo locations, so we had to walk on our own and find some sweet spots. At the beginning we walked totally wrong and ended up in the fruit district of the harbor. We then walked along the harbor trying to get to the right points. On our way we walked right in between HafenCity and Warehouse District so that we didn’t see both. We walked up to Landungsbrücken when it was already 12am, but I wanted to see at least the old Elbe Tunnel! So we walked trough and tried to find a nice spot at the other side of the harbor, but didn’t find anything. So we walked back, decided to take a drink and then took the train back to central station and our Hotel.
The next day our schedule was pretty tight, because we didn’t get the harbor shots… we started at 10am, went to central station to get a Hamburg CARD. With the Hamburg CARD you can use all public transportation (more on that later), and you get a discount on most tourism stuff.
Our first stop was the old Town Hall which is a nice walk along Hamburg’s shopping street. But I didn’t find the old Town Hall very special, at least not in bright daylight! We then headed over to the Binnenalster and Jungfernstieg, which also looked, well… let’s say nice during daytime.
The weekend was hot, very hot! After just 3 hours we already needed a break! So we wanted to take a train down to Landungsbrücken and make a harbor tour. But there were some heavy constructions going on, so we had to take several trains, which isn’t that easy if you don’t know the city… Finally at Landungsbrücken, we got a 2€ discount off thanks to our Hamburg CARD! Awesome…… The harbor tour was very nice and we got a good overview. But still not a single good shot!
And believe it or not due to the heat on the boat, the glue which sticks the rubber grip on my Nikon D90 melted!
Since we still had a lot of sights to see we hurried up a bit and walked to St. Michaelis church, spent a lot of time looking for a supermarket to buy some water, walked back trough Warehouse District (to really see it for the first time!) and then walked back to our Hotel to take a nap
We still wanted to see the harbor, the Warehouse District, the Fish auction hall and the Reeperbahn. We started again at 8pm to take some night shots. Mobile Internet still was horribly slow, so I still couldn’t load my map! We took the train to Landungsbrücken again, then walked up to the Fish auction hall, then headed further to Dockland. When we arrived at Dockland the light was just crappy so we waited some time and discovered one thing I find totally awesome about Hamburg: The Habor ferries! They have ferries all across the harbor, with stations that look exactly like Bus stops, just on the water. And it’s even included in the Hamburg CARD! We took one, drove to it’s last stop and then drove back. Totally awesome! Back at Dockland the light was better, although I now found it to be already too dark as the nice blue sky was almost gone. I took some shots until we wanted to go to Warehouse District. It was already 12pm and the Reeperbahn was much closer so we decided to visit that first. Which again wasn’t a very good idea. It was horribly crowded, but fun to watch. When we finally came to the Warehouse District the damn lights were already turned off and the entire scene just looked boring 
We walked back to our Hotel and fell to bed at 3am…
The next morning we didn’t want to walk trough Hamburg again, so we decided to drive back and visited some friend we met last year on our Trip to Egypt… By the way: we walked about 35km that weekend!
If we had a better plan, I think our Hamburg experience would have been awesome! But even with our crappy plan the trip was great.
iOS 4, my iPhone 3G and me
It’s been almost two weeks since I upgraded from 3.1.3 to 4.0 on my old iPhone 3G and I must say: it’s slow!
iOS 4 feels much slower on my old 3G than 3.1.3. Apple, do you want to force me to upgrade by that? It’s annoying! I am willing to upgrade, but T-Mobile doesn’t want me to! They lost my pre-order… damn you!
Color meets Black & White
I really love Black & White, so I try a Black & White version of most of my recent pictures.
In the last week I’ve been to Sanssoussi in Potsdam, Germany near Berlin and to the Saxon Switzerland near Dresden with my Girlfriend. The weather in Potsdam was great, but that attracted so many tourists, that it was almost impossible to get a good shot of the castle. In the Saxon Switzerland the weather was also great, but although we went there in the late afternoon the sky still was like f/64 whereas the canyon was like f/1.4.
Here are my favorite shots of this week, I couldn’t decided weather I like the color or the Black & White version.
What do you think?
Hello Post 100 :)
I can’t believe this already is the 100th post here. Also over the past 6 months visitors have doubled. Awesome!
Welcome new readers
I don’t have much to say today, just a quick preview of some upcoming topics I have in mind:
- Night Photography
- Long Exposures
- Filters (especially the ones you can’t reproduce in the digital darkroom)
- Digital Life
BlogTimes Photo Contest (my first one)
The German blog ‘BlogTimes‘ has recently started a photo contest for city and landscape photography. So far I have never participated in any photo contest, but this time I thought I’d do so with my favorite three pictures:
Wish me luck. The contest ends on August 15, 2010.
What a polarizing filter is for
I’m sitting here at a German train, digging trough my unread mails and found one stating that I misunderstood what a polarizing filter is for. Well, I don’t think so And instead of just telling him so, I thought I’d share it here.
I think he was referring to my post about too much polarization. In that post I said, that I always adjusted the angle of the polfilter to get the strongest effect in the skies. By saying that I of course didn’t mean that you can only use a polfilter to darken the sky in landscape shots. To understand what you can use a polarizing filter for, you need to know that all a polarizing filter does is cutting reflections. The earth’s atmosphere is full of small particles which do all reflect the light of the sun. By cutting these reflections the sky gets darker because there are less reflections which would make the sky look brighter… But I’m still stuck to that polfilter = nicer sky thing.
I for example often use a polfilter when shooting trough windows, because things do reflect in windows and by using the polfilter I can cut these reflections.
Another example is shooting water. If you shoot water without a polfilter chances are good that all you see is the sky or whatever is above that water. But with a polfilter set to the right angle, you might be able to see down to the ground. Depending on the depth of the water of course.
But the reason I usually just keep the polfilter on all the time when shooting landscapes (even if there is not a single piece of sky in the shot) is because IT DOES CUT REFLECTIONS! It cuts reflections from the grass, making it more vibrant. It cuts reflections from leaves, making them more vibrant…
Just two other things you should keep in mind: A polfilter sucks light! Your shutter speed will be about one to two stops slower. Make sure you can hand hold that speed! And the other thing is don’t overdo it or you might get an over-saturated candy look… or as in my case an almost dark sky.
P.S. sorry for the lack of example pictures, but as I said I’m on a train
Search this Site
Hi, my name is Chris. I am a wannabe photog, traveler & geek that is again a student and lives in Hesse, Germany. more about me...
follow me on TwitterMy flickr Fotos
Sponsoring
