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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I've added a captcha plugin to this site (reCaptcha) to fight the huge amount of random URL comment spam which is unfortunately not captured by my askismet installation - sorry for the inconvenience.
At least if you type in the captcha correctly your comment should be instantly visible by now.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
My boss Thomas came home from San Francisco today where he attended the annual WWDC, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, and he brought some interesting infos and stuff along (Snow Leopard Alpha install party, anyone?)
I haven't had the chance to have a longer chat with him yet, but one thing he ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Just found via heise: The Jura F90 Coffee machine's connectivity kit which "enables [the communication] with the Internet, via a PC [to] download parameters to configure [the] espresso machine to your own personal taste" seems to have some security problems:
The connectivity kit uses the connectivity of the PC it is ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I've been looking for a Mac OS X equivalent of KDE's kcharselect tonight and before I noticed that there is something similar already built in (the character map which is available from the internationalization menu), I stumbled upon UnicodeChecker:
And wow, this is a very fine application which goes even beyond ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
No comment:
http://developer.telekom.de/
Editor's note: This is an insider joke which you probably only get when you come from Germany. In short: The Deutsche Telekom is the former TelCo monopolist and still one of the major players on the market, and I'd probably have thought of Deutsche Telekom to be the very ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
People who regularily visit Digg.com probably already know it: Nine Inch Nails - one of my favourite bands - just released their new full-length album "Ghosts I-IV" with 36 tracks under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license! You can download the album from their official site in various ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Yesterday I got an email from a guy who was apparently "Interested in Purchasing Text Advertisement" on this blog. The English he used was a bit half-baked and the sender address originated from GMail, but since it didn't look as the usual spam I get almost daily, I decided to ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
See, this is what happens if you almost never get any encrypted emails - you almost forget about it. The public key which is available from here pointed until today to a key file for which I've lost the private part quite some time ago. Somebody tried to send me ...
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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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