Monthly Archives: November 2021

Changing local Git clone from master to main

Posted on 2021-11-30 by Oliver

I never understood why Git chose master as the default branch name, MAIN in CVS seemed more sensible, but perhaps Torvald’s animosity towards CVS and SVN plays a role. Presumably trunk in SVN is a reference to the tree-like structure, … Continue reading →

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Transition

Posted on 2021-11-23 by Oliver

After more than 17 years — it all started in April 2004 — I am no longer hosting the UltraVNC forum. To the users the only very visible recent change may have been that forum.ultravnc.net now forwards to forum.uvnc.com. The … Continue reading →

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Gefälligkeitssatire

Posted on 2021-11-06 by Oliver

… anders kann man diverse sogenannte “Satire”-Formate im deutschen Fernsehen mittlerweile nicht mehr nennen. Dazu gehören ganz offenbar extra3 und die heute-show. Zwar gibt es auch hier hin und wieder satirische Elemente, aber zu häufig wird in einer Form zugespitzt, … Continue reading →

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