Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
It amazes me every time how little information one gets over the mainstream media about certain topics. For example, the conflict in Burma. Germany's most popular (trusted?) TV news source - the Tagesschau - draws a calm picture of the situation: A representative from the UNO visited the military junta ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Over the last few months I've worked on a new monotone interface for guitone from time to time. This new interface supersedes the old one in a couple of aspects; the most important one is that it runs the monotone processes in separate QThreads instead of the main GUI thread. ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
I've posted a summary of the happenings on the "Freiheit statt Angst"-Demo in Berlin, which I attended yesterday, here:
http://www.schäuble-muss-weg.de/wp/2007/09/23/einen-tag-nach-der-demonstration/
Its written in German, just because it was easier to articulate my seeings and feelings, I hope you can get the point even if you translate it via Altavista Babelfish.
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Gestern ging in Berlin die dritte Auflage der Demo "Freiheit statt Angst" in Berlin zu Ende - wieder initiiert vom Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Mit dabei waren Vertreter aus verschiedenen politischen Lagern, dem CCC, den Hedonisten, der Gewerkschaft ver.di, dem Datenschutzverein FoeBuD, Mitgliedern des AK Vorrat selbst und vielen anderen. Insgesamt rechnete ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Tomorrow I'll attend the biggest demo so far in my life - which is opposed against the so-called "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" (data retention). The demo itself starts at 2:30pm in front of the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin and stops at a couple of places before it ends again in front of the ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Im Zuge des Wunsches, bei "terroristischen Attacken" auch Passagiermaschinen von der Bundeswehr abschießen zu lassen, was im letzten Jahr durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht eindeutig als verfassungswidrig ("ein Leben kann nicht mit einem anderen Leben aufgewogen werden") eingestuft wurde, plant Wolfgang Schäuble und sein treuer Gefährte, Franz-Josef Jung, weitreichende Grundgesetzänderungen:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,506507,00.html
Herr Schäuble, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Microsofts XML-based Office format failed to receive the needed votes for a fast track standardization. However, the differences have been more than marginal: Microsoft received 74% of all qualified votes, whereas 75% would have been sufficient to get it through. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has put ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
My wife's new MacBook arrived a couple of weeks ago with the new iLife '08 suite and since iMovie has been said to receive the greatest overhaul I thought it was time for some serious video editing.
To get raw material in first instance we put our two laptops in two ...
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