Monday, October 31, 2011
Canonical, Dell bring Ubuntu laptops to 220 Chinese retail stores - The H Open Source: News and Features
Canonical, Dell bring Ubuntu laptops to 220 Chinese retail stores - The H Open Source: News and Features: Canonical and Dell have announced the launch of a new retail programme to bring computers with Ubuntu pre-loaded on them to more than 200 retail locations in China
JRuby update improves Ruby 1.9 support - The H Open Source: News and Features
JRuby update improves Ruby 1.9 support - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 1.6.5 of JRuby continues to improve compatibility with the 1.9.x branch of Ruby and brings a number of other changes
Apple open sources its ALAC lossless audio codec - The H Open Source: News and Features
Apple open sources its ALAC lossless audio codec - The H Open Source: News and Features: Apple has released its ALAC lossless audio codec, which compresses digital audio files without losing any of the original information, as open source under the Apache Licence
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Oracle-Google trial postponed until 2012 - The H Open Source: News and Features
Oracle-Google trial postponed until 2012 - The H Open Source: News and Features: The responsible federal judge has divided the proposed trial into three phases: to deal first with the copyright claims, then with the patent claims and finally with all remaining aspects such as damages and wilfulness
Further evidence of Certificate Authority break-ins - The H Security: News and Features
Further evidence of Certificate Authority break-ins - The H Security: News and Features: In the past four months, at least five different CAs have revoked around 200 certificates because their issuers had been compromised
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ruby 2.0 for 2013 - The H Open Source: News and Features
Ruby 2.0 for 2013 - The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 2.0 of the Ruby language is scheduled to arrive on 24 February 2013, on the 20th anniversary of the creation of Ruby
being online with 2 Skype accounts in parallel?
Using the same Skype account for work and for personal life is really, really bad.
I would love to have the work account open only for work hours.
Well, the good thing about the new ownership at Skype is, that I expect Microsoft to merge Skype and MSN Messenger sooner or later.
It was always bad, that you have to run the Skype application, even if you run Adium or pidgin or whatever to integrate all your IM, and the implication of that being, that you cannot "work" through 2 accounts at the same time. XMPP / Jabber can do it, and any IM can do it, just Skype can't. But the state owned trojans undermine the security of it anyway. That's so ridiculous.
I would love to have the work account open only for work hours.
Well, the good thing about the new ownership at Skype is, that I expect Microsoft to merge Skype and MSN Messenger sooner or later.
It was always bad, that you have to run the Skype application, even if you run Adium or pidgin or whatever to integrate all your IM, and the implication of that being, that you cannot "work" through 2 accounts at the same time. XMPP / Jabber can do it, and any IM can do it, just Skype can't. But the state owned trojans undermine the security of it anyway. That's so ridiculous.
seeing a kid kneeing in a window on the 3rd floor looking down to the backyard
Not really a nightmare, not even a night-nightmare at all, but sometimes this view flashes through my memory at daytime. I hope nothing like that will ever really happen caused by my carelessness. I also hope, this flash-back will stop haunting me one day.
just saw an "rm *" in my bash history
That one was perfectly right, but once in a while I remember having deleted the kernel boot image of a Unix machine like 17 years ago. It didn't really cause a lot of trouble, and the case got solved w/o too much pain, but …
OWS – it's not the financial system, it's the greedy customers, that expect their margins
The protesters, that lost money during the crisis, they seem to be unable to admit, that is was them, that went for the high risk. They are not honest, if they deny, they did not know anything about that high risk. Putting the blame on the system ist utmost dishonest.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Android address book vs. Xing address book
Well, unlike the Facebook and the Linkedin address books the Xing address book only mixes into the Android address book after installing and launching the Xing application. Maybe that's because the makers of Android have nice deals with Facebook and Linkedin and not with Xing, but it just works a lot different. You can join your various "standard" entries within your Android address book, and the Xing address book entries are not reachable and joinable like that. Instead the Xing app adds a reference from a matching Android address book entry to a Xing address book entry.
Skype was the default dialer on my Android phone, and I wanted to change that
That really gave me a hard time.
I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don't remember, that I made one of them the default dialers, but at one stage, I apparently did. I wanted to roll that back, but I had no idea why. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea, that I should be able to undo that choice exactly where I apparently selected it in the first place. But it doesn't work like that. Searched the web for it and found the right approach.
I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don't remember, that I made one of them the default dialers, but at one stage, I apparently did. I wanted to roll that back, but I had no idea why. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea, that I should be able to undo that choice exactly where I apparently selected it in the first place. But it doesn't work like that. Searched the web for it and found the right approach.
- what's the current dialer?
- find it within "Manage applications"!
- find its "Launch by default" section!
- "Clear defaults" if applicable!
- now that's no longer your default dialer
It was that easy in my case.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Steve Yegge giving "Paganini Caprice 1", picked acoustic guitar
This is Steve Yegge playing, an admired nerd.
WOW!
I guess I just wasted at least the last 30 years of my life doing foolish things.
Steve Yegge - Google+ - Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about…
Steve Yegge - Google+ - Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about…:
"That’s where the “Dread Pirate Bezos” line came from. I worked hard and had fun, but every day I honestly worried they might fire me in the morning. Sure, it was a kind of paranoia. But it was sort of healthy in a way.
I kept my resume up to date, and I kept my skills up to date, and I never worried about saying something stupid and ruining my career.
Because hey, they were most likely going to fire me in the morning."
'via Blog this'
"That’s where the “Dread Pirate Bezos” line came from. I worked hard and had fun, but every day I honestly worried they might fire me in the morning. Sure, it was a kind of paranoia. But it was sort of healthy in a way.
I kept my resume up to date, and I kept my skills up to date, and I never worried about saying something stupid and ruining my career.
Because hey, they were most likely going to fire me in the morning."
'via Blog this'
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