Author Archives: Oliver

“What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost”

Posted on 2012-03-07 by Oliver

Interesting read: “What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost“

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Aaaaargh

Posted on 2012-03-07 by Oliver

The Icelandic customs did it again. So I was expecting a parcel from the family. It was a little late already anyway. Guess what I got today? … a standard letter stating limits (10000 ISK == 60 EUR at current … Continue reading →

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Polittheater

Posted on 2012-03-06 by Oliver

Soll der Wulff sich doch seinen Zapfen streichen lassen. Ist mir doch egal.

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Classic

Posted on 2012-03-06 by Oliver

Pöpcørn 😆

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Censorship by mistake

Posted on 2012-03-05 by Oliver

Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident in Denmark.

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ISOStick

Posted on 2012-03-04 by Oliver

… looks interesting But I guess I’ll wait for prices to drop. It somewhat looks like ideas where in part coming from this project. Which is not to say that was the case, but it’s a possibility as the other … Continue reading →

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Niedlich …

Posted on 2012-02-29 by Oliver

… wie in der Sendung “Vorsicht Verschwörung!” von ZDFzeit die Verschwörungstheorien (VT) um den Tod von Prinzessin Diana, Mondlandung und 11. September 2001 (9/11) verglichen werden. Natürlich macht man sich über die Verschwörungstheoretiker gehörig lustig. “Experte” ist Stefan Aust … … Continue reading →

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Entzückend …

Posted on 2012-02-28 by Oliver

… wie das deutsche Staatsfernsehen über das russische Staatsfernsehen herzieht und die russische Regierung bezüglich deren Glaubwürdigkeit angreift 😆 Recht haben sie ja, aber in den deutschen Nachrichten interessieren mich persönlich deutsche Belange mehr. Und bspw. bei Ihrem Interview mit … Continue reading →

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Annoying

Posted on 2012-02-27 by Oliver

U3 technology has reached end of life. SanDisk began phasing out support for U3 Technology in late 2009. So where can I get U3-capable drives these days? // Oliver

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Наш дурдом (голосует за Путина)

Posted on 2012-02-23 by Oliver

Русский / Deutsch / English Die russische Rockgruppe Рабфак hat ein nettes Lied (Youtube oder hier oder hier) welches die aktuelle Stimmung vieler Russen so kurz vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Russland widerspiegelt. Hier also meine eigene (zugegebenermaßen etwas holprige) Übersetzung … Continue reading →

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Wech damit

Posted on 2012-02-23 by Oliver

So sieht auch dieser Verfassungsrechtler die Geschichte mit dem Bundesgrüßonkelamt.

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prune-kernels function …

Posted on 2012-02-22 by Oliver

If you are like me, you will have noticed on Ubuntu (and sometimes Debian) that stale old kernels remain on the disk even when they aren’t needed anymore. I wrote a little Bash function to get rid of those kernels. … Continue reading →

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Not used often enough in my opinion

Posted on 2012-02-20 by Oliver

Often people put on a condescending smirk when they hear that I still have to use CVS, let alone Subversion, in some projects. In numerous projects I have seen the performance of CVS and that of Subversion and it is … Continue reading →

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Þverholtsfoss

Posted on 2012-02-19 by Oliver

We have a new waterfall in Iceland. Best of all, it’s not far from downtown Reykjavík in Þverholt (a street), no 300m from the bus station Hlemmur. So it’s one of the cheapest sightseeing locations for tourists and strong competition … Continue reading →

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Die Würde des Amtes

Posted on 2012-02-19 by Oliver

Bundespräsident weg und schon geht die Schacherei los. War nicht wirklich anders zu erwarten. Aber statt sich über die beschädigte “Würde des Amtes” wegen des Gebarens von Wulff zu echauffieren und gleichzeitig in unwürdiger Weise – wohlgemerkt auf allen Seiten … Continue reading →

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Selecting the editor on Debian/Ubuntu non-interactively

Posted on 2012-02-17 by Oliver

Set the selected editor on Ubuntu/Debian for yourself and root in one line: echo ‘SELECTED_EDITOR=”/usr/bin/vim.nox”‘|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor or echo “SELECTED_EDITOR=\”$(which vim.nox)\””|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor // Oliver

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Copyleft vs. BSD …

Posted on 2012-02-16 by Oliver

An age-old fight, I know. Leaning more towards the BSD-side, I just came across the following sentence today on Wikipedia: In response, GPL supporters claim that the freedom of others to make non-free software from free software is an unjust … Continue reading →

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Abgabe auf Kinderlosigkeit? ….

Posted on 2012-02-15 by Oliver

War klar, daß dies aus der CDU kommen mußte 😆 Würde mich natürlich auch betreffen. Daß die Kanzlerin den Vorschlag nicht gut fand, war klar. Immerhin hat sie selbst bekanntlich keinen Nachwuchs. Ob das nun an Unfruchtbarkeit liegt ist mal … Continue reading →

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by the way …

Posted on 2012-02-14 by Oliver

Convenient little snippet to get my external IP: echo $(wget -q -O – ip.assarbad.net/text)

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Definitely friendlier

Posted on 2012-01-31 by Oliver

Tried to install Windows 8 in a VM (VMware Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780) and this happened after the first reboot 😉 Now trying to continue the installation … let’s see 🙂 Update: here we go … looks bleak. Gonna retry from … Continue reading →

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