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Category Archives: EN
I like Ricky Gervais …
… but the way you, Ricky, lash out against fat people, considering myself still part of that population1, is kind of a disgrace that falls back on you, mainly for the weak main point you make. You’re perfectly right that … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Thoughts, Weight loss
Tagged fat, fat people, obesity, Ricky Gervais, weight
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Re: “Not a convert” and “Copyleft vs. BSD …”
Almost one year ago I wrote about the GPL and in February last year about the GPL versus BSD license. Today I noticed the following inside OpenSSL code by Eric Young: The license and distribution terms for any publically available … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Software, Thoughts
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Reverse Engineering site at StackExchange, yay!
There is a reverse engineering site over at StackExchange in public beta. It is aptly called reverseengineering.stackexchange.com and everyone interested is welcome to participate, ask and answer. The site isn’t limited to reverse code engineering (RCE), but currently seems to … Continue reading
Putin approves …
… of the show Femen put up for him and gives a thumbs up: … and enjoys it visibly: Merkel didn’t join the bare-breasted protest, though. // Oliver PS: The young lady’s back says: “Иди нахуй Путин” which translates roughly … Continue reading
Posted in /dev/null, EN, Human Rights
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Hekla …
… dammit … bad news? (photo is unrelated to the text, text is the relevant part) Perhaps it could wait until White Sunday this year. Pretty please? Thanks!
Norwalk virus
… it makes for pretty shitty weekends (pun intended)
Posted in EN, Germans have no notion of sarcasm
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Re: Let us hope this pans out for the PSF
Great news: Settlement reached in Python trademark dispute
Cheeky and stupid bot …
The bot with user agent Linguee Bot (http://www.linguee.com/bot; bot@linguee.com) just downloaded approximately 2 GiB of stuff from a ViewVC-listing on one of my servers. Just because it’s stupid, but also because it’s so cheeky to ignore robots.txt. So be it. … Continue reading
Another one …
Ever since I worked in Göteborg (Sweden) and heard the word “torg”1 for the first time I wondered: is this related to the Russian root -торг- as in “торговать”2? Turns out my hunch was almost right from the beginning. It … Continue reading
How to get English error messages on a localized Ubuntu?
Have you ever noticed that oftentimes people in anglophone forums will almost be offended if someone quotes an error message in their local language? Well, on one hand I can understand it, on the other I see more value in … Continue reading
Clever indeed
Just for giggles and some test I installed Kubuntu in Russian and it turns out that the “Д/н” prompts can also be acquitted with y or n as one would expect. Otherwise I would have been in a kerfuffle as … Continue reading
Bizarre
And I don’t mean the fact that “Kindergärtner” in German describes the kindergarten teacher, not the child. Bizarre is that a five year old girl – in all seriousness – gets suspended for suggesting to another kindergarten child that they … Continue reading
Imagine this a 1000 years ago …
When I look at the majestic and at the same time scary images of the meteorite fall in Russia (e.g. here), I’m wondering what impression this must have made on humans a thousand years ago. Or imagine something like that … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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Let us hope this pans out for the PSF
Read the article over here: Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help!. I really hope this backfires so hard that no one else will try similar things on well established names that have been spread by non-profit … Continue reading
Unimaginable?
The media doesn’t seem to deem it possible that just about any catholic man could rise to the position of pope. Let’s face it, they’re probably right. Only cardinals have been elected for hundreds of years now. Similar to the … Continue reading
A few websites I like when improving my Vim skills
http://vimcasts.org http://www.vimdrills.com https://www.shortcutfoo.com
In which Hg repo is the hook getting executed?
REPOPATH=$(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’) Based on this, btw, I came up with the following hook in the hgrc file: [hooks] changegroup.bundlerepo = hg bundle -a $(hg showconfig|sed -n ‘s/^bundle\.mainreporoot=//p’)/.hg/bundled.hg The idea is to create a bundle with all revisions whenever … Continue reading
Mercurial woes
Today I stumbled over an awkward issue. Pulling from a repo mounted read-only I always got: searching for changes adding changesets transaction abort! rollback completed abort: index [filename] is corrupted! where the filename would differ. First I tried downgrading my … Continue reading
Re: Oh the pain
Referring to this earlier post. In November a person from their complaint department1 contacted me and told me I would get a replacement. He arranged it so that I would receive it on short notice in December, during my brief … Continue reading
Verdicts in the IceSave case available
PR – 02/13 – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”) plus actual judgment here (local copy here). PR – 01/13 – Pre-announcement – Judgment in Case E-16/11 – ESA v Iceland (“Icesave”)
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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