Tag Archives: internet generation

Dringend benötigte Management-Seminare

Posted on 2010-07-23 by Stefan Rubner

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

Posted on 2010-07-17 by Stefan Rubner
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As If You Were In China

Posted on 2010-07-10 by Stefan Rubner

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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Workaround

Posted on 2010-07-07 by Stefan Rubner
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So You Need A Typeface?

Posted on 2010-04-21 by Stefan Rubner

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ZFS on the Mac: The power to forge

Posted on 2009-10-25 by Stefan Rubner

Dustin Sallings writes: Then today, I read this: The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. That made me very sad, so I decided to do something about it. And so he … Continue reading →

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Nice Try

Posted on 2009-10-14 by Stefan Rubner

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

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I feel heavily tempted

Posted on 2009-10-13 by Stefan Rubner

What a coincidence. The day after my ZP100 died completely (guess I’ve been too happy there) Sonos announces the S5. Looks like a very good replacement for my ZP100 and as Volker put it: I guess I don’t want just … Continue reading →

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Sonos System Revived

Posted on 2009-10-11 by Stefan Rubner

Since I had some spare time today, I decided to try Volker’s tips to revive my halfways broken Sonos setup. My problem was that one player wouldn’t show up at all while a second one would drop from the network … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2009-10-06 by Stefan Rubner

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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Remove outdated languages from Ubuntu’s Firefox

Posted on 2009-09-16 by Stefan Rubner

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

Posted on 2009-09-01 by Stefan Rubner
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Real Internet Gaming

Posted on 2009-09-01 by Stefan Rubner

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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H1N1 FluTracker

Posted on 2009-07-21 by Stefan Rubner

If you’re interested in the progress of the H1N1 swine flu, you might want to check out the Rhizalabs site. They even offer some code to integrate the tracker into other sites. However, said code is utterly broken for they … Continue reading →

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Open Source inspires Open Music

Posted on 2009-06-27 by Stefan Rubner

When O Teatro Magico sell CDs at their shows, they remind buyers “you can download the music for free on the internet, you know” yet people buy their disks by the 100s of 1000s. In fact, they are one of … Continue reading →

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Don’t be stupid

Posted on 2009-06-26 by Stefan Rubner
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Shakes & Fidget – The Game

Posted on 2009-06-26 by Stefan Rubner
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Safari 4 Privacy Issues

Posted on 2009-05-26 by Stefan Rubner

As C. Harwick found out, Safari 4 leaves a messy trail of what it did. Or, to be more precise, of what you did while using Safari 4. Those of you who’ve been trying out the new Safari 4 beta … Continue reading →

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Yes, that’s why we use SVN

Posted on 2009-05-25 by Stefan Rubner

Why bother with descriptions? You can always go back some arbitrary number of versions.

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Towel Day!

Posted on 2009-05-25 by Stefan Rubner

Yep , today is Towel Day. So don’t forget to wear one. And thanks for all the fish!

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