[OT] Letter to Santa

[Warichet]

Dear Santa,

I'm a poor lonesome boy. I'm writing from far away, so far away I'm not sure this letter will ever reach you.

I've been brave all year long, I wash my hands before every meal and read the forum everyday.

I wish you could make my HomeServer to be programmed like any other computer on planet earth (and kick the crummy Python out).

I wish you could make my HomeServer act as true KNX router (instead of this crummy implementation).

I wish you could make the HomeServer much cheaper, so friends and relatives can buy one too.

I wish you could provide me with decent Web statistiques, so I can check who visited my Visu, for howlong etc, just like any other Web server on planet earth.

Thank you Santa

PS: If ever you pass along in Midi-Pyrénées, please drop me another HomeServer so I can experiment a bit, instead of breaking each time my production system.
Not sure you can find my village, as it is right in the middle of nowhere, but GoogleMap can help you.

[Michel]

*really not bad*!

[Santa Claus]

I'm a poor lonesome boy. I'm writing from far away, so far away I'm not sure this letter will ever reach you.

Off course my poor boy, what you think? Santa is also arrived in 2009 and has an VDSL account... and the KNK Forum is my home...

I've been brave all year long, I wash my hands before every meal and read the forum everyday.

It's looks that you are a really good boy!!!

I wish you could make my HomeServer to be programmed like any other computer on planet earth (and kick the crummy Python out).

I wish you could make my HomeServer act as true KNX router (instead of this crummy implementation).

I wish you could make the HomeServer much cheaper, so friends and relatives can buy one too.

I wish you could provide me with decent Web statistiques, so I can check who visited my Visu, for howlong etc, just like any other Web server on planet earth.

Listen poor boy, this already exits, the name of this gift is EisBär!

But, to tell you also the bad news, the manual is in german and there is no statistics - but i can send your ideas to the development guys ;-)

Thank you Santa

PS: If ever you pass along in Midi-Pyrénées, please drop me another HomeServer so I can experiment a bit, instead of breaking each time my production system.
Not sure you can find my village, as it is right in the middle of nowhere, but GoogleMap can help you.

You are welcome, poor boy! You can easily download EisBär and install on how many pc's for testing purpose how much you want - ant it's for free!

And the best news - my lonesome poor boy - what I can tell you, is, that you are not lonesome! Bevause, if you are really every day in this forum, you have friends and you are not allone!

Sincerley, your
Santa from Haven

PS: And when your Win XP based Visu has once per year a "bluescreen" don't be angry. This is not because the programmers don't understund her work, this is a "hello from haven" ;-)

[Bodo]

...this is a "hello from haven" ;-)

HA HA HA hihihi "Hafen" ich lach mich schlapp.
Santa must be german because he mix up haven and heaven.

[Santa Claus]

Santa must be german because he mix up haven and heaven.

Santa was drinking a bottle of Médoc (a red french wine) to feel familiar with the poor boy from France - and after he mixt his fingers ... ;-)

A la votre santé!
Santa

[concept]

HA HA HA hihihi "Hafen" ich lach mich schlapp.
Santa must be german because he mix up haven and heaven.

Hafen, haven, heaven...? Was ist der Unterschied, falls Santa ein Segler ist (wie Makki). Für einen Segler ist Hafen = Heaven ;-)

[Bodo]

[Warichet]

Dear Santa,

Thank you for taking the time & trouble to answer a poor boy's letter. You must have a heck of a job answering all poor boys's letter (there are so many by now).

Santa is also arrived in 2009 and has an VDSL account... and the KNK Forum is my home...

Great !
The fact is that your account is from yesterday. Dear Santa, where have you been before ? at the X10 forum ?

this already exits, the name of this gift is EisBär!

It looks like the crisis reached the North Pole as well. All you can offer is an EisBär! but they are free at the North Pole
I hope nobody is reading my mail, you could get in trouble with WWF, Greenpeace and other ecologist for illegaly exporting EisBärs.
I really thank you for your kind offer, but, listen, it's not really a good idea to have an EisBär! in Midi-Pyrénées, right now we have still 18°, I mean +18° hé Santa! An in the summer the temp climbes up to 45° (Celsius hé). Sorry, but no EisBär! can survive such hostile environment. My HomeServer has no problem, still running like a chief after 3 years.

the manual is in german and there is no statistics

That's no problem dear Santa. I'm not learning domotics, I'm learning german. Also, I'm kind of hard-die massochist, I'm living in France ... in the middle of nowhere ... coming from a highly civilized country ...

but i can send your ideas to the development guys ;-)

No thanks dear Santa. If they are coming from the North Pole as well, I don't expect much from them.

that you are not lonesome! Because, if you are really every day in this forum, you have friends and you are not allone!

Thank you dear Santa, for this refreshing perspective, but beeing a poor boy among a crowd of poor boys, doesn't make me any richer.

I understand you can't help me much this year. No problem ...
But at least, you could send your "Peter" (zwarte Piet) to the Roten Stein, there are some people sleeping on their laurels there

[TRex]

without taking care of grammitcal or orthographical mistakes, it's one of the most famous threads i've seen in the last years.

Raymond, i love your sense of humor, santa, i hope you can let come wishes true!

[Santa Claus]

EisBär environment and more...

Thank you for taking the time & trouble to answer a poor boy's letter. You must have a heck of a job answering all poor boys's letter (there are so many by now).

You are welcome! And today - you know - this is my birthday (Saint Nicholas Day) and I'm really a little bit busy now...

Great ! The fact is that your account is from yesterday. Dear Santa, where have you been before ? at the X10 forum?

without taking care of grammitcal or orthographical mistakes, it's one of the most famous threads i've seen in the last years.

Now, gentlemen... it's not so easy to tell you the true... and I also feel shame... but, okay: I was straying a little bit around in the professional's forum and there I lost my grammatical (@TRex "grammitcal": you was also there?? ) or orthographical understanding...

It looks like the crisis reached the North Pole as well. All you can offer is an EisBär! but they are free at the North Pole.

I hope nobody is reading my mail, you could get in trouble with WWF, Greenpeace and other ecologist for illegaly exporting EisBärs.
I really thank you for your kind offer, but, listen, it's not really a good idea to have an EisBär! in Midi-Pyrénées, right now we have still 18°, I mean +18° hé Santa! An in the summer the temp climbes up to 45° (Celsius hé). Sorry, but no EisBär! can survive such hostile environment. My HomeServer has no problem, still running like a chief after 3 years.

I'm sorry my poor boy! The EisBär is the best what I can offer you! We also have seals and fishes, but they don't smell nice after 3 weeks @ 45 degrees in france...

But in one point you are right! I checked the EisBär-Website and I saw, that they really don't specify the environment temperatures for the EisBär servers!

About WWF and Greenpeace don't worry: If you love your EisBär, if you are nice with him and hold him in a nice air-conditioned server room, nobody makes you troubles. And when we all pay our EisBär licences and donate some money for WWF and Greenpeace, evereybody get happy...

I'm learning german. Also, I'm kind of hard-die massochist, I'm living in France ... in the middle of nowhere ... coming from a highly civilized country ...

Okay, that are good news! And from tomorrow on we communicate in german! But in one thing I don’t understand what you like to tell me: what you mean with: “I'm living in France “ and then “coming from a highly civilized country”??

Thank you dear Santa, for this refreshing perspective, but beeing a poor boy among a crowd of poor boys, doesn't make me any richer.

I understand you can't help me much this year. No problem …

Hey poor boy from france, this is a misunderstanding. We was speaking about lonesome or have friends, not about money. When you find out, that you have friends, then you will also find out that you are not poor anymore. And in this case – perhaps – my words are helping you…

But at least, you could send your "Peter" (zwarte Piet) to the Roten Stein, there are some people sleeping on their laurels there

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I don’t understand what you mean with “Roten Stein”, but they are some other guys at Konnex in Belgium and they are sleeping very deep, perhaps I try to wake them up…?

Best wishes to Saint Nicholas Day, your
Santa

[makki]

Still ROTFL, that said:
Dear Santa, please honour Raymonds wishlist!

Addition to the wishlist, dear Santa, please don't bring us a result, where one has to spend more time on understanding the licensing model based on obscure page-based schemas. The far to excessive effort to create the visu itself is really enough burden, there's no need to add useless licensing complexity.

Thanks Santa

Makki

[Santa Claus]

Still ROTFL, that said:
Dear Santa, please honour Raymonds wishlist!

Dear Makki: Raymonds wishlist? ROTFLBTC!!

Even Santa Claus cannot make that a horse-drawn carriage has the performance of a jet plane, there are physical fundemantals ;-)

Addition to the wishlist, dear Santa, please don't bring us a result, where one has to spend more time on understanding the licensing model based on obscure page-based schemas. The far to excessive effort to create the visu itself is really enough burden, there's no need to add useless licensing complexity.

Makki, what's so complicate? Nothing is obscure:

EisBär Starter (10 pages) for "Mädchenvisu"
EisBär Professional (30 pages) for "Visu für Männer"
Eisbär Architekt (unlimitet) for hardcore Visu
upgrades are easy possible

I think i'ts a gift for people with a small project, that they sell the "Starter" pack for small money... (like an christmas gift)

Love and peace, your
Santa

[TRex]

santa, happy birthday...

[Warichet]

Happy Birthday Santa

I hope you're still fit and well, and for many more years to come.
Afterall, you're several hundred years old.
(I know the feeling, I looked at the EisBär doc )

I was straying a little bit around in the professional's forum

ûûh
I see on you picture that your bag is already half empty ! Does it mean that ..... snif ... snif ... oh no ? did you bring my HS to the wrong forum ?

The EisBär is the best what I can offer you!

Mmmh, what's the point of making a wish list ?
Last time I asked for a Nitendo and you brought me a bag of candy and a second hand Dinky Toy

And from tomorrow on we communicate in german!

OK Santa, you will suffer.
Suffer to see such a beautifull language massacred by a dummy.
But OK, as a foreign host, I cannot decline the offer. Anyway, english is just a german dialect

what you mean with: “I'm living in France “ and then “coming from a highly civilized country”??

I mean that I moved, Santa.
It's a rather easy concept you know, people do it all the time, usually from North to South. But heck, you're happy in your coldness
I sold my house, put all furniture in a horse-drawn carriage and moved to France. Oh well, I could have moved to Germany, but people are by far too serious, they do nothing else than working (not the case here ) no Médoc and it rains all the time. No thanks.

I don’t understand what you mean with “Roten Stein”

It's in Germany
A small place between Kassel and Siegen, very safe place, no EisBär around
Especially don't pass along, they don't deserve any .
I think their PLZ is 35216, it's not very far from the North Pole, maybe you can send your "Peter" during the lunch pause,.... with a wip.
I guess they are hibernating after having comitted the infamous QC.
Oh Santa, this lost opportunity is a sad story. The infamous QC could have been a master piece of code, the icons are really outstanding (hope they don't loose the source code this time). If they only had given us an option at installation time, like:
green = safe, no danger, power off, everything OK (for the normal human beeing, brave saouls like Matthias and me)
green = danger, watch out, hot, power on, system is running (for the crummies, aliens and other university profs (btw, this one also deserves to make a close encouter of the worst type with the wip of your "Peter" )).
About installation options, they should have looked at Microsoft, it's a market leader in the software industry. All their products offer installation time options, i.e.
"standard" means it crashes once a week
"custom" means it crashes every day
Neat and simple

but they are some other guys at Konnex in Belgium and they are sleeping very deep, perhaps I try to wake them up…?

Oh nooo, they are in a "highly civilized country”.
Especially don't wake them up. They break more then they fix It's a lost cause

Thank you Santa.

PS: you are a bit like the french government, you promise a lot, people expect a lot and at the end... there is just nothing.
A bit frustrating.
I hope you can do better next year, if the crisis is over.
PS: Dear Santa, I hope your mail is secure and that no one can read it, not even your horse. My unconventional opinions could bring me to court.

[MatthiasS]

green = safe, no danger, power off, everything OK (for the normal human beeing, brave saouls like Matthias and me)
green = danger, watch out, hot, power on, system is running (for the crummies, aliens and other university profs (btw, this one also deserves to make a close encouter of the worst type with the wip of your "Peter" ))..

Hi Raymond, your red green and your green green made my day!

Greetings from a brother in mind ;-)

@Santa
Unfortunately I do not believe in ANY Santa anymore. I am really tired of all these 100% promises that will come true as 80% solutions.