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Month: May 2009

  • Google Streetview

    A Google Streetview car just drove past me while I was waiting at the train station in Brügge/Westf. Unfortunately I didn’t react quickly enough so I couldn’t take a photo.

  • Captain Obvious is obvious

    […]In Dänemark und Norwegen wird die Einschätzung des Bundeskriminalamtes geteilt, dass das World Wide Web den Einstieg für die Nutzung des Internet darstellt.[…]— Stellungnahme des Bundeskriminalamtes Wiesbaden zum Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Bekämpfung der Kinderpornographie in Kommunikationsnetzen – BT-Drs. 16/12850 Captain Obvious hat man wieder Überstunden geschoben. Das böse Internet ist also eine Einstiegsdroge. Erst…

  • DBox2 again

    It seems there is an alternative to Neutrino on the DBox2 called Enigma. I’ve been somewhat aware of this but I never really considered it.it turns out that Enigma is a nice system that looks more polished than Neutrino. I’ll try it out on my mom and see how she copes with it.

  • Linux on the DBox2 receiver

    I’ve been using Linux on my DBox2 receiver for years now. It worked fine until recently the card stopped working. At least I assume the card is at fault because I tried the same card on two different receivers. But to get any support from the pay tv company I needed to tell them what…

  • Screenshots, the next generation

    Ich habe sehr lange Zeit Snapz Pro X benutzt, um Screenshots auf dem Mac zu erstellen. Nun habe ich jedoch ein Programm entdeckt, was bei Screenshots einen Schritt weiter geht. Layers erstellt Screenshots als Photoshop-Datei mit Ebenen. Man kann also nachträglich (im Screenshot) noch verdeckte Fenster in den Vordergrund holen. Unliebsame Fenster ausblenden oder einfach…

  • Coffebreak Spanish

    I started listening to CoffebreakSpanish. Let’s see how far I get before I give up. I really wish I had more time to learn foreign languages.

  • Geeky fashion

    My T-shirts from 3dsupply have finally arrived. This summer I can be fashionable and geeky. I like their slogan too. “Products the world doesn’t need.”

  • Killing some time

    So I have to wait another hour for my mom to return from her vacations because the German trains are late as usual. She’ll have to catch the next train. In the mean time I’m enjoying another moccacino at the local coffee shop. So it’s not all bad after all.

  • Impending doom

    Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their impending doom and cleanly terminating specific programs. — reboot(8) man page on Mac OS X I expecially like the part about the impending doom.

  • Frakking Package Sizes

    So yesterday I went shopping and my eyes fell on a bag of hamburger buns. “Hmm, hamburgers” I thought. Put the buns in my shopping cart and went to find hamburger patties. Found them in the deep frozen aisle. The package contains 4 buns? WTF? Why can’t they sell matching package sizes? Do I have…