Author Archives: Oliver

Re: Oh the pain

Posted on 2013-02-05 by Oliver

Referring to this earlier post. In November a person from their complaint department ((as I understand a different company)) contacted me and told me I would get

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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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Steinbrück ist das trojanische Pferd, die SPD ist Troja, die CDU die Griechen …

Posted on 2012-12-31 by Oliver

… so sieht das für mich derzeit aus. Es gibt kaum bessere Gründe nicht die SPD zu wählen als das Gebaren und die Äußerungen ihres Kanzlerkandidaten. Aber es soll ja noch Leute geben welche meinen die SPD wäre irgendwie links. … Continue reading →

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The outrage in India …

Posted on 2012-12-31 by Oliver

… is understandable. More than that. One cannot possibly imagine the torture this woman went through – or, for that matter, all the other women going through similar torture at the hand of rapists every single day as the cold … Continue reading →

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Recommendation against Paragon backup products (when used together with TrueCrypt)

Posted on 2012-12-31 by Oliver

Being a longtime user of Paragon software, it’s kind of hard to do this, but anyone who thinks about getting a Paragon backup product should think twice. And here’s why. There are two main facets to data security: keeping the … Continue reading →

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New rule …

Posted on 2012-12-30 by Oliver

… the Pope shouldn’t be allowed to use a bulletproof vehicle made of bulletproof glass. A technology that requires hard science instead of blind faith. I suggest he resort to more fitting bulletproof technologies available in medieval times, such as … Continue reading →

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“Experten”

Posted on 2012-12-30 by Oliver

In meiner Funktion als “Jan” treffe ich immer wieder auf Rechner die etwas mehr Liebe von ihren Besitzern und den Möchtegern-Experten, die sie betreuen, vertragen könnte. “Experte” scheint ohnehin ein überbewerteter Begriff zu sein. Besonders hier in meiner Heimatstadt, Forst. … Continue reading →

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Die “neue” Religiosität

Posted on 2012-12-28 by Oliver

Was derzeit fehlt, ist ein Plädoyer für den Zweifler und den Suchenden. Denn er ist der sympathischste, ehrlichste und am wenigsten anmaßende Menschentypus. Nur wer meint, im Dienste des Absoluten zu stehen, ist intolerant und gefährlich. So liest man in … Continue reading →

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Hehe … hurry down one’s chimney tonight

Posted on 2012-12-27 by Oliver

The Queens Christmas Message 2012

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GETTING RID OF CAPS LOCK

Posted on 2012-12-25 by Oliver

Through reading the great tmux book from pragprog.com I got the idea to repurpose the caps lock key as left control key. The idea seems brilliant, given how little used caps lock is. I don’t know for everyone, but most … Continue reading →

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Heimsenda-Pizza for the doomsday :)

Posted on 2012-12-20 by Oliver

Very cool Icelandic pun from my boss (Friðrik), who suggested that pizza services around Iceland advertise pizzas under that name tomorrow. I mean you do know the world is going to end tomorrow, right? 21st of December 2012 … Maya … Continue reading →

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A shout to VMware …

Posted on 2012-12-19 by Oliver

Since I don’t have a support contract, perhaps you would be so kind to tell your setup authoring folks to not remove the last resort for anyone who tries to install the vSphere client 5.0? Thank you in advance, very … Continue reading →

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