Monthly Archives: January 2013

Verdicts in the IceSave case available

Posted on 2013-01-28 by Oliver

PR – 02/13 – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”) plus actual judgment here (local copy here). PR – 01/13 – Pre-announcement – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”)

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EU-Bürger: Unbedingt unterschreiben!

Posted on 2013-01-23 by Oliver

Es geht darum die EU-Institutionen zu zwingen sich mit den Privatisierungsplänen in der Wasserversorgung noch einmal auseinanderzusetzen: right2water.eu

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Webdesigners who don’t want me to use there website

Posted on 2013-01-22 by Oliver

… are the ones to use some fancy JavaScript snippet to display a black box saying “You need Flash player to see this” or something similar instead of letting me activate Flash on demand. Opera has the setting as long … Continue reading →

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Tmux is great … (but how to build on Lucid Lynx?)

Posted on 2013-01-16 by Oliver

… only a few troubles to get it to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 😉 Basically you’ll want libevent2, which doesn’t come in the package repos, so fetch it from here. Then you obviously fetch the tmux source via tmux.sourceforge.net … Continue reading →

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The stubborn guy in me …

Posted on 2013-01-15 by Oliver

Several times now I have been invited to the US by couch surfers I hosted and even by other people. Most of them are stumped at first when I tell them that I’ll probably never take them up within my … Continue reading →

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Vimcasts.org …

Posted on 2013-01-14 by Oliver

Great website to learn about Vim. I can also warmly recommend the book Drew wrote: Practical Vim. If you have bought the hard copy via some other way than the website of the publisher, you still can get a nice … Continue reading →

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Russian whores want to chat with me? Really …?

Posted on 2013-01-14 by Oliver

Spam spam spam-a-dee-spam … Don’t get me wrong. In a sense I admire the women who decide freely to prostitute themselves. It certainly takes courage and guts. I only think that the majority of them don’t get to decide freely … Continue reading →

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Ein Schelm …

Posted on 2013-01-14 by Oliver

Das BSI warnt vor Java, BMF erzwingt Java. Daß der Minister im BMF vormals im BMI war und unter anderem den Bundestrojaner als Projekt hatte, sollte nicht weiter beunruhigen. Irgendwie muß das Ding doch auf die Millionen Rechner im Land … Continue reading →

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Wieder ein staatliches Softwareprojekt welches einfach Sche..eeen ist

Posted on 2013-01-10 by Oliver

ElsterOnline. Es ist schön zu sehen daß sich die Finanzbehörden darauf besonnen haben ihre Raubritterburgen ihre Institution auf elektronischem Wege zugänglich zu machen. Das könnte in der Tat Kosten sparen und diverse Dinge erleichtern. Aber es gibt einen klitzekleinen Kritikpunkt … Continue reading →

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