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Category Archives: EN
Polar bears in danger
Today two more polar bears were sighted in the North of Iceland. Let’s hope this time there is a veterinarian with tranquilizers, not like last time. My father told me even the German yellow press reported about the polar bear … Continue reading
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Searching electronic devices at the border
Following a court ruling, the EFF and several news sources world-wide have reported about the practice to search through the data on electronic devices at the US border. Bruce Schneier has picked up the topic in his latest cryptogram (a … Continue reading
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British humo(u)r at its best :)
A very nice prank call. Graham Norton talks to Greta with Grosse Titten via an interpreter …
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The laughable “democracy” of the European Union
Now that the Irish have rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a plebiscite, European politicians suggest to leave the Irish behind and ratify the treaty regardless with only the consenting member states. This is a notable development because it shows … Continue reading
Powerful reinforcements for the Icelandic church
The Icelandic church received support from a … forceful ally but wasn’t all too interested And in Icelandic. Some pictures from the photo-shooting on Flickr (also as a slide show) 😉 // Oliver
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Chernobyl the second in Slovenia?
The European Commission issued an EU-wide radiation alert late on Wednesday after Slovenia began shutting down a nuclear power plant following a problem with the cooling system. (Source: interactive investor, deutsche Leser gehen hierher) Don’t panic just yet. The amount … Continue reading
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Argh …
The patches pertaining to the Debian key rollover are only available in the security repository. I just found out the hard way, that one of my machines denied access to another one, although I had “freshly generated” private keys. Ooops … Continue reading
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Version-controlled edit via Bash script (Debian)
As I am currently setting up a new server, I thought it would be a good idea to keep most of the configuration files (e.g. /etc) under version control. RCS comes in handy to achieve just that, but laziness requires … Continue reading
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Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept. Reports
Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept. Reports
My first earthquake (update)
Today I experienced the first earthquake I can remember (15:46 local time). It was of strength 6.1 to 6.7 according to first estimates. We should shortly see some entry on the website of Veðurstofa, the meteorology institute of Iceland which … Continue reading
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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade … aber dalli
Wie schon vor einigen Tagen gemeldet, gibt es bei Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix und eben allen Debian-basierten Distros einen Fehler in der OpenSSL-Bibliothek, die das Erraten von Schlüsseln erleichtern soll. Aus diesem Grund sollte man mindestens ein apt-get update && apt-get … Continue reading
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Die (ehemals) Net(te) Community
Peter Herzog, Betreiber von Spotlight.de, hat heute bekanntgegeben, daß er Spotlight als Projekt einstellt. Worte des Bedauerns, aber kein Wort darüber was mit den Benutzerdaten passieren soll. Aber was soll es denn auch – spätestens seit er als Forenbetreiber beschloß, … Continue reading
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Borland sells CodeGear
Today the news of the purchase of CodeGear by Embarcadero Technologies transpired. I am wondering what this brings us (the developers), given the interesting past of Borland. First it was “Borland” with products like “Borland Pascal” (and “Turbo Pascal”) and … Continue reading
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Animation: It’s 3 a.m.
A hilarious spoof of the “Children” spot from the Hillary Clinton campaign. It answers the question that wasn’t explicitly answered in the original spot 😉 // Oliver
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Lovely official video contribution …
… for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 from “Euroband”. This is, as far as I was told, really the official video that was sent in for Iceland. It’s really hilarious in my opinion, although for example my boss wasn’t as … Continue reading
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An ethereal song …
Joel Goldsmith has written a song that was performed by Rachel Lutrell, alias Teyla Emmagan (i.e. the name of the character), in the episode “Critical Mass”, that I really liked the first time I heard it. I was lucky enough … Continue reading
F-PROT Antivirus for Windows 6.0.9.0 released
Just wanted the readers of my blog to know, that we released version 6.0.9.0 of F-PROT Antivirus for Windows. This will be a staged release, as we currently have only released the English and Icelandic 32bit versions of the “Internet … Continue reading
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Little adventure with SourceForge’s CVS
In the scope of WinDirStat I had to take the little hurdle of branching in the past. Now, supposedly I could have simply opened a support request to the staff, but then I thought of it again, since I had … Continue reading
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