Finally a geek post again! So I’ve been using both operating systems on my EEE netbook for some time now. Window 7 starter came with the system, I did a dualboot installation of Ubuntu Netbook Remix next to it. The reason was that I liked to explore (finally) if I can make the step to using only opensource software. My needs are pretty basic; internet, wi-fi, image editing and uploading and maintaining my blog for a bit. Plus I like to listen to music. These are my findings to my specific needs ( and noobiness on both OS ). Along the road sometimes I need more performance ( video’s ) but also long battery times when doing simple stuff and not having a socket ready somewhere.

Recently some pictures of the building itself. This post is about what is still lying around there, collecting dust. From propaganda to administration to construction contracts and even old newspapers.

By popular hint I got into the Embassy of Iraq in East-Berlin, together with some couchsurfers. The building is deserted since 1991 and since nothing happened here. Formely it still belongs to Iraq, but as you can guess they kind of have other problems. What makes this building interesting over other deserted buildings that it looks like they had to abandon everything in the course of a few hours. Papers and old machinery still ly around. After twenty years of decay and a fire it’s completely run down, but still offers a view into history you normally see only behind the windows of a museum this days. This is the first post, interior and some exterior of the building. But first check the video after the break.

Een van de meest boeiende plaatsen die ik ben tegengekomen in Duitsland is Halle aan de rivier Saale. Alhoewel dat niet heel moeilijk is want sinds Osnabruck was het tevens de grootste plaats. En het is relatief dicht bij Leipzig.

Maar dat is niet het enige. De stad heeft een turbulente geschiedenis en pas sinds recente tijd bezig met op te krabbelen, zo lijkt het. Niet alleen is er een altstadt intact met dingen zoals het Handelhaus, ook heeft de stad de oorlog min of meer overleeft, de DDR-tijd en het faillisement van alles wat in Oost-Duitsland industrie was. En er is een grote universiteit.

Het moest er nog uit. Een mooi gebied in veel te weinig foto’s. Van Goslar tot aan Ballenstedt.