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</embed>Bugatti Veyron at top speedby Flabber Working for motor magazines must be one of those dream jobs … and driving a Bugatti Veyron at Top Speed looks like good compensation...
Vorratsdatenspeicherung auch illegal?
Die Leitsätze des Urteils, das die Kennzeichenscannerei für verfassungwidrig erklaert hat, sind wirklich interessant. Geht man hilfsweise davon aus, das IP-Addressen zusammen mit den Verbindungsdaten die gleiche Funktion wie ein...
Kennzeichenscanning verfassungswidrig
Und wieder musste das Verfassunggericht den Polikern die Grenzen setzen: Karlsruhe kippt Kennzeichenerfassung. Ich frage mich uebrigens immer noch, warum es keinen Aufschrei gab, als der hessische Innenminister von einem...
Alternate universes
Paul Murphy wrote an interesting article in regard of the differences between Windows and Unix admins: So, bottom line, does all this mean truthseeker’s “alternate universes” comment is right? I...
Crossbow has gone beta
The Crossbow Network Virtualization and Resource Control has come out of pre-beta yesterday. You will find the beta version at opensolaris.org besides a list of changes in comparision to the...
Last.fm neighbours
Hmm, should i worry about my music taste due to the fact, that my top5 last.fm neighbours are women? And it doesn´t look much different in the top 50 …...
The MacBook Air and the TSA
Yet another reason, i´m glad that i didn´t purchased a Macbook Air yet. Now it´s up to others to explain the TSA that the MacBook Air isn´t a stylish bomb...
Hoerempfehlung: Massive Attack - Live with me
Eine Hörempfehlung für einzelnes Lied diesmal: Live with me im Stripped Remix. Herzzerreissend. Unheimlich schön, unheimlich traurig … einfach gut. Der Gastsänger ist hier Terry Callier. Der Herr hat uebrigens...
links for 2008-03-10
SmartSleep Interesting tool to control the sleep mode of recent Apple notebooks (tags: Apple MacBook mobile osx) Dropping 22TB of patches on 6,500 PCs in 4 hours: BitTorrent Interesting method...
10 Gigabit Ethernet vs. Infiniband
Interesting editorial at HPCwire about the competition between Infiniband and 10 GbE. I´m not sure about the final results of this compeition. 10 GBe will win the WAN and Campus...
Tuning for mysql on Solaris
Kishore Singh Thakur published with “MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS” an excellent article about tuning mysql and Solaris. A must-read.
A thought about mainframes
While sitting at breakfast with friends, i found the whole business case of modern mainframes: As long the costs for mainframes are lower than the real costs and the assumed...
Unlocking Windows Screensaver via Firewire
Your colleague is at lunch, he or she didn´t loged out, and the screen is locked? And you need the workstation right now? No problem! Adam Boileau has a neat...
iTunes
A few seconds ago, i found the iTunes function to lookup all your purchases. Eeeeek …. don´t look at this page … you will be shocked about the amount of...
xeyes revisted
Do you remember the xeyes application? These eyes on the border of your screen following the mouse pointer? This must be the 2008 variant of this gimmick ;)
Speechless
There is a common denominator in the civilized world: Torturing is a barbaric thing of the the past. This denominator seperates us from dictatorship and tyranny. It´s one of the...
Hoerempfehlung: Styrofoam - A thousand words
Es gibt ein ein Lied, das sehr weit oben in meiner ewigen Liste meiner Lieblingslieder steht. Leider ist es auch ein Lied das kaum jemand kennt: Make it mine von...
links for 2008-03-08
btrace: BTrace dynamic bytecode tracing for Java (tags: java tools) Bar Code Art by Scott Blake Art with ... eehm ... barcodes (tags: art clock barcode culture design digital fun...
Fun with destructive dtrace - today: Version spoofing
Katsumi Inoue published a nice trick for DTrace. Sometimes, all between you and a running old programm is the version check. But even here DTrace can help you: How to...
Joseph Weizenbaum
One of biggest luminaries of the computing science and a vocal critic of modern culture died the fifth of March at the age of 88 resulting from a stroke. He...