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Hilarious …
Kangaroos fighting back. You have to read this, if you’re a geek (or even just a software developer) 😉 // Oliver
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Encounter of the third kind
When I flew back to Iceland, there was a guy who literally had a red hat (or fedora) on. Initially I thought I should ask him whether he’s a user of Linux – guessing some “red hat” connection, but then … Continue reading
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Ein frohes neues Jahr!
С новым годом! Happy new year! З новим роком! Szczęśliwego nowego roku! Gott nytt år! Gleðilegt nýtt ár!
Posted in /dev/null, DE, EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland, RU
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A fun read
… over at the Reykjavík Grapevine. Undoubtedly everyone in the world wants to visit and immigrate to the US. Other countries are just not worth living in. Something along these lines must have been the rationale of the US border … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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“American lives”
For clarity, it’s about US-American lives – why consider that the Americas (as in plural) are a twin-continent and thus “Americans” are not just US-Americans. Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians they are all Americans. But let’s fall back to the rhetoric used … Continue reading
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Diplomacy
For cynical professionals, WikiLeaks showed business as usual. They reaffirm that great powers really want obedience, not international cooperation or improved relations. (source: here) Read the full article, it’s worth it. // Oliver
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Interesting development at Wikileaks
The official main website of Wikileaks showed 1621 documents some time last night, also offering the torrent for it. Mere hours later the number is down to 1618 and the torrent links have been removed from the website. // Oliver
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Thanks, Wikileaks!
I’ll leave the judgment whether Assange committed a crime under Swedish law to the Swedish judges. However, this ongoing leak has already created something like a small revolution. Of course a big one may just be around the corner, but … Continue reading
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DNAT for a Jabber/XMPP service
Problem: you have one external IP and want to run separate services on different hosts behind the router. Here’s a small script to DNAT the router to the host behind it. Netfilter will take care of the return traffic (so … Continue reading
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Byobu on Debian Lenny
Apparently it is possible to use Byobu even on Debian. It was to be expected, as it should be fairly distribution-independent. You need to install screen, python-newt and then you can run: sudo dpkg -i byobu_3.16-0ubuntu1_all.deb Of course the package … Continue reading
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So no Inline Assembler in 64bit Delphi? Get over it!
Honestly. I’m seeing people go on and on about that issue, while I can’t help noticing other much bigger issues with Delphi all the time. No PDB support strikes me as a pretty big issue for one, or getting a … Continue reading
Posted in Delphi, EN, Programming, Software
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Network interfaces on cloned (KVM) VMs
Yesterday I was cloning a few KVM VMs and to my disappointment the clones did not have an eth0 but rather got an eth1 and clones of clones would actually get eth2 and so forth. Because my /etc/network/interfaces referred to … Continue reading
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Haha, that was so predictable …
Embarcadero is continuing to dig its own grave! The way Embarcadero treats legit customers is akin to the way the movie and music industries treat their legit customers. The paying customer sees the FBI warning (and isn’t allowed to skip … Continue reading
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AAAAAAARGH
As some of my readers know, I had bought an IREX Technologies iLiad eReader appliance about two years ago. The company apparently filed bankruptcy, so I’m screwed. 😯 Great way of wasting money actually. The screen had developed one quirk … Continue reading
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Slightly confusing – but only very slightly
MSDN documentation which came with Visual Studio 2005 (installed locally) says: MSDN documentation for VS2005 online at the MSDN website says: MSDN documentation for VS2003 online at the MSDN website says: MSDN documentation for WinCE 5.0 online at the MSDN … Continue reading
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How did they know?
One of my colleagues pointed me to this clip on from MADtv on Youtube. It’s antedating the Tea Party movement in the US by several years and yet so straight to the point. How did they know? // Oliver (who … Continue reading
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“The system cannot execute the specified program.” #2
I did indeed solve the issue reported here. The problem must have been somewhere between my ears. Once you do it right, it works 😉 While sigcheck from Sysinternals is a very nice tool, it simply does not compare to … Continue reading
LG first impression
So my Mom bought herself a new cell phone. LG GS290. The phone is slick and all and pretty much offers a similar user experience as some smart phones, just without some of the bells and whistles. The phone comes … Continue reading
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Hah, there we go
Some of you may remember that in my first post concerning the Quick Launch in Windows 7, I was complaining about it disappearing. Well, that got seemingly fixed after I solved the issue with the Quick Launch sticking to the … Continue reading
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