Blog Title: about: things

did my dutch friends kicked out MySpace?

MySpace has decided to throw in the towel with regards to its expansion in The Netherlands.   read more.. had opened up an Amsterdam office merely 9 months ago but has now announced it will shut it down.http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/26/myspace-gives-up-on-the-netherlands/ And about the idea of moving the dutch operations over to the berlin office? What are they smoking in the read more..

schnauze voll

ich wollte das nur mal gesagt haben: mich kotzt dieser komplette web x.0 gehypte scheiss dermassen absolut an das ich einfuerallemal die schnauze voll habe mir das weiter anzusehen. das vieleicht beste der letzten woche war das die web2.0 berlin vollstaendig an mir vorbeigegangen ist. zufaelliger anlass fuer diesen meinen burst war diese beliebige sammlung read more..

reincarnation

not really a blog post but the very first entry after the total collapse of my work of rebuilding the antic collection of old stuff fundamentally drowned together with its broken mainboard. gone, this is now Linux uks 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 21 14:53:10 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz read more..

alter wein in neuen schläuchen

puh, das war nen hartes stück arbeit. meine alter linux hobel wird wohl dank meiner guten pflege bald mal seine 10 Jahresjubiläum feiern aber ansonsten fällt er so langsam deutlich ausseinander. Nachdem nun diese unfreiwillige Ansammlung antiker Software, frei von feature und security updates, mal wieder seinen geist aufgegeben hat und nicht mehr auf die read more..

“Der Computer wird zum Teil der Persönlichkeit.”, coole jungs

spiegel|online: “Vorbeugendes Schnüffeln ist tabu - es muss Gefahr für Leib und Leben bestehen, bevor der Staat Festplatten ausspähen darf….: Der Computer wird zum Teil der Persönlichkeit.” genau! coole jungs, so geht das. damit waere das dann mal geklaert. nur schade das schaeuble jetzt nicht mehre meine backups macht.Technorati Tags: security, terror, orwell

disable DIGEST-MP5 to xmpp4r connect with your openfire jabber server

in my typical love and hate relationship with opensource  (aka open sore) i stumbled over SASL induced configuration pains again today. To cut a long story short, just disable DIGEST-MD5 sasl out on the openfire jabber server and immediatly xmpp4r works like a charm for me. How to disable digest md5 on Openfire? Not so read more..

it’s about time for the closing tag

yep, found @ http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/01/geek_graffiti.htmlTechnorati Tags: politics, usa, geek, humor

Web-Scale Computing is changing the economics of doing business online.

the title was actually quoted from the the Amazon Web Services Blog. That post reports on a new option of running a version of the Wowza Flash Streaming Video server as a virtualized AMI instance  from insides the Amazon EC2 cloud. What this all means? You get a real cheap way to build you’re own read more..

googlecharts 1.0.0 gem (includes URI bugfix) released

Matt Aimonetti released a 1.0.0 version of his googlecharts gem which includes my URI bugfix i blogged about earlier. Me haven’t had so many opensource contributions yet, feels good though.Technorati Tags: googlecharts

second life gardner hype cycle curve: fixed

Stumbling again over the gardner group SL hype cycle today i couldn’t resist applying this little fix to it. Those which still care for SL will know what i mean. For the others, don’t bother, looks like you won’t need to watch out for Linden Labs Second Life. Will they ever come back? Virtual Worlds, read more..