Author Archives: Oliver

Schünemann will Internetzugänge effektiv abschaffen

Posted on 2008-12-16 by Oliver

Wie Heise berichtet, will der niedersächsische Innenminister (natürlich CDU) im Kampf gegen Kinderpornographie im Internet die Kunden von Internetzugängen zwingen

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“Derrick” died on Saturday …

Posted on 2008-12-15 by Oliver

Horst Tappert, German actor best known for his role as inspector Derrick, died last Saturday. This surely must be terrible news for the Derrick-loving Icelanders – which, according to my experience includes everyone who was alive at the time it … Continue reading →

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Wow, GCC is pretty patronizing …

Posted on 2008-12-15 by Oliver

Trying to compile the following code in GCC yields an error: #define __dbgprintf /##/ The error reads error: pasting “/” and “/” does not give a valid preprocessing token. As far as C99 is concerned, this should be perfectly valid … Continue reading →

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Arrived

Posted on 2008-12-11 by Oliver

… is the name of a small Win32 command line tool I wrote. It executes a command whenever a volume (e.g. USB memory stick, portable hard drive) gets connected to or disconnected from the machine. The particular use-case for which … Continue reading →

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Silly little C++ wrapper class

Posted on 2008-12-10 by Oliver

Did you ever have the same problem: if you want to compiler a Win32 program with UNICODE/_UNICODE defined, for some reason the argv vector does not contain a single proper argument?! This happens in particular in DDK/WDK projects. I was … Continue reading →

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Taser: Ungefährliche Waffe?

Posted on 2008-12-09 by Oliver

Nach 5 Sekunden haben die beiden Herren in dem Video noch immer einen verhältnismäßig großen Mund. Wohlgemerkt, das ist nach nur fünf Sekunden in den Rücken. Hier (siehe damaliger TP-Artikel) gibt es die lange Variante bei der ein verwirrter – … Continue reading →

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Übercool!

Posted on 2008-11-26 by Oliver

Check this out: predef.sourceforge.net.

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“Define change!”

Posted on 2008-11-25 by Oliver

… that’s what people should have told Obama when he was preaching “change” to them. Now that names of his future staff transpire to the public, things do not look so revolutionary anymore. I’ll stay a skeptic for now. // … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2008-11-19 by Oliver

http://www.vimeo.com/2067274

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Hätte man doch

Posted on 2008-11-15 by Oliver

… tja, hätte man doch bspw. ein Lexikon oder die Wikipedia bemüht um mit einem Irrglauben aufzuräumen, dem man nun schon sehr lange aufsitzt. In meinem Fall betrifft dieser Irrglaube Kümmel und seinen quasi “Stiefbruder” den Kreuzkümmel. Jeder Mensch weiß, … Continue reading →

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Apology to the Icelandic people

Posted on 2008-11-15 by Oliver

Last week I felt happy to have found some Sauerkraut in an Icelandic shop – unwittingly I took two bags at once. I could not have possibly known that this would be the complete supply of Sauerkraut for Iceland for … Continue reading →

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Reminder to self

Posted on 2008-11-12 by Oliver

Howto: “Replacing the trunk of a Subversion repository with a feature branch” # From the working copy of my branch: $ svn del file:///repos/trunk -m “Temporarily deleted trunk.” $ svn mv file:///repos/branches/my_branch file:///repos/trunk \ -m “Moved /branches/my_branch to /trunk” $ … Continue reading →

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Why is it, everyone is interested in the US elections?

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Oliver

… I mean at the end of the day only US citizens will have had the chance to vote, right? Is it perhaps because the world has learnt the painful way how far an American President can go?! Let’s see … Continue reading →

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Eigentlich finde ich die Verhandlungen zu ACTA gut

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Oliver

Warum? Weil sie zeigen wie undemokratisch die sogenannten westlichen Demokratien geworden sind. Das Abkommen an dem gewerkelt wird, finde ich dementsprechend SCHEISSE! // Oliver

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Nee, oder?

Posted on 2008-11-03 by Oliver

Bei der Zeit kann man nachlesen woher die offenkundige Abneigung von Dagmar Metzger stammt: Die 49-Jährige Bankkauffrau und Wirtschaftsjuristin ist eine erfahrene Kommunalpolitikerin, in den Landtag ist sie im Januar zum ersten Mal gewählt worden. Ihre Abneigung gegen die Linke … Continue reading →

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Icelandic “terrorists” revisited …

Posted on 2008-11-03 by Oliver

Thorkell Thorkelsson, an Icelandic photographer, shows the faces of a few dozen Icelandic “terrorists” and their weapons in a gallery on his website. Go and have a look! 😉 // Oliver

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Markenfälschung

Posted on 2008-11-01 by Oliver

Da bringt ein Erzbischof, der zufällig den gleichen Namen wie ein großer Denker – was man bei Erzbischöfen bekanntermaßen nicht befürchten muß – trägt, ein Buch mit dem gleichen Namen heraus wie dieser große Vordenker: “Das Kapital”. Vielleicht hätte sich … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2008-10-30 by Oliver

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081027/us_nm/us_usa_shooting_boy_2

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“Yes we can” …

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Oliver

Can you? There is one candidate in the race for the next US presidency who advertises with the slogan: “Change” and “Yes we can” – Barack Obama. For me there is one reason why I think it might be interesting … Continue reading →

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Ich versteh es nicht …

Posted on 2008-10-29 by Oliver

Vor ein paar Wochen nur, überweist eine deutsche Bank Geld an eine ausländische Bank (Lehman Brothers), die gerade darin begriffen ist pleitezugehen und man erzählt uns, das Geld sei verloren. Komischerweise muß ich als Kunde sogar bei innerdeutschem Bankverkehr mehr … Continue reading →

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