Category Archives: the ugly truth

Dringend benötigte Management-Seminare

Eine sicherlich unvollständige Liste der Seminare, die jeder “Manager” doch bitte danke einmal besucht haben sollte: Die Kunst, E-Mails bis zum Ende zu lesen E-Mails verstehen: Einfacher als man denkt! Umgekehrte Proportionalität: Textmenge und Qualität des Inhalts von E-Mails Richtig … Continue reading

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All You Need Is 4 Chords

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What I Really Hate About Windows

I don’t run Windows regularly. I use Mac OS X. I use Ubuntu. I use Solaris. But when I need to run Windows it will never, ever fail to remind me why I don’t run Windows. It’s as simple as … Continue reading

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As If You Were In China

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported … Continue reading

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Gerade eingetroffen

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In Heavy Demand Right Now

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Workaround

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Steuer-Mann

Quelle: BZ 28.6.2010

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Code of the day

#if __APPLE__ && __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5 int inxorcise(int nochdir __attribute__((unused)),               int noclose __attribute__((unused))) {     fprintf(stderr, "Apple does not want programs to use         daemon(3) and suggests using launchd(1).  We don’t … Continue reading

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Nice Try

Unfortunately for the sender, though, I happen to know the tech support guy of said domain in person.

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Move it, move it (a.k.a. “Screw it up the IBM way”)

I work with web sites for a living. I give them a place to live, I trash them when they’re no longer needed and I also move them. And believe me, moving a site is the trickiest of the jobs. … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day (German DB-Edition)

Im Osten kriegt die Bahn EU-Fördermittel zur Modernisierung im Rahmen des “Aufbau Ost”. Deswegen sind die da mit dem Stellenabbau schon weiter. Bahnmitarbeiter aus dem Osten auf die Frage, warum er und viele seiner Kollegen vermehrt in den Südwesten kommen.

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Interesting searches: readynas uninstall togglessh

For reasons unknown to me, I get a lot of hits from searches for “readynas uninstall togglessh”. Obviously a lot of people who tried the ToggleSSH addon for their ReadyNAS found that it didn’t suit their needs and now want … Continue reading

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Remove outdated languages from Ubuntu’s Firefox

Always on the bleeding edge I like to use beta versions of upcoming Ubuntu releases. This sometimes poses a little problem: More often than not, there come outdated language definitions with Firefox, causing some minor annoyances. The biggest annoyance of … Continue reading

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet

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Real Internet Gaming

An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May. [ More » ]

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Nistkasten Wolfgang S.

[ Thanks, jpmens ]

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VMware VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd undefined

Today I tried to install VMware Server 2.0.1 on my Ubuntu 9.04 (64bit) box. It some kind of worked but I was constantly presented with the following error when compiling the vsock kernel module: WARNING: “VMCIDatagram_CreateHnd” [/tmp/vmware-config11/vsock-only/vsock.ko] undefined! WARNING: “VMCIDatagram_DestroyHnd” … Continue reading

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Alda Tschau

Wenn man jung ist kann das Leben noch so einfach sein. Ich befürchte nur, so wird das nicht wirklich was mit der Kündigung ;)

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Microsoft, OOXML and the ISO

Microsoft plays to win. As a result, it seems to regard any legal means as justified, and sometimes even strays outside the law, as the US anti-trust case demonstrated. In the context of marketplace rough-and-tumble, such aggressiveness is perhaps acceptable, … Continue reading

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