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Category Archives: Thoughts
Ukraine
Long time no see. Now that I’m back in Ukraine after eight years and almost departing again, old and good memories came up again. Sure, the roads right after the Polish/Ukrainian border still suck. True, the people still tend their … Continue reading
Oh damn … debug symbols as MSI (upd)
Yesterday I still defended them, now I have to criticize the guys in Redmond again. Since Windows 7 the debug symbols are only delivered as MSI, no more as an EXE file that can be extracted to anywhere and then … Continue reading
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“Bad” Windows XP
So Microsoft offers a downgrade to the Windows 7 pre-predecessor Windows XP for everyone buying a computer until end of April 2011. Nice. Maybe the fellows at Redmond should take a minute or two and ask themselves why people are … Continue reading
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Strange concept of “email”
When trying to contact Amazon, one is forced to use a web form to “email” them. That’s not unusual and often the initial step in establishing a contact with the support staff of a company. The Amazon support does respond … Continue reading
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Reminder to self
… if someone approaches you and asks to advertise on any of your websites, they have more to gain than you. Ergo: any such arrangement is pointless.
Posted in /dev/null, EN, Thoughts
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“Terrorists” sending aid to UK
Following an article in the Daily Express that as much as one out of twelve pensioners may die as a result of the cold winter, Icelanders have sent woolen garments to the UK. An incredible gesture after last year’s use … Continue reading
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Why is it, everyone is interested in the US elections?
… I mean at the end of the day only US citizens will have had the chance to vote, right? Is it perhaps because the world has learnt the painful way how far an American President can go?! Let’s see … Continue reading
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“Yes we can” …
Can you? There is one candidate in the race for the next US presidency who advertises with the slogan: “Change” and “Yes we can” – Barack Obama. For me there is one reason why I think it might be interesting … Continue reading
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Dear Film Industry, … you suck!
That said, please let me go into more detail. Today I tried to watch a Russian DVD (title “Сёстры”, on IMDB) that I bought from a shop in Germany. Now, the shop certainly imported that DVD from Russia according to … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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Icelandic krona plummeting (update) …
It could be seen months ago and now it finally is getting scary, the Icelandic krona is dropping rapidly. The Icelandic prime minister had a speech to the nation today and talked a lot but didn’t say too much, I … Continue reading
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Dear hockey mom
As a citizen of this planet I’d rather not have you as the US-president. It’s presumably okay to not know the term “Bush doctrine”, although it’s borderline and many people abroad could have told you immediately what’s meant by it … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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“Did you find any WMDs in Iraq?”
No comment. Update #1: here is the full 5969th security council meeting from 2008-08-28 (English) as video stream [1:59h] (entry). Above clip was taken starting at approximately 1:25h in the second speech of the Russian permanent representative. The downloadable MP3 … Continue reading
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Time for a Russian missile shield on Cuba then?
History repeats itself, it seems. You don’t need to be particularly bright to admit that the so-called missile shield is hardly targeted at Iran and the other “rogue states”. There is a frightening scenario in sight again for Russia and … Continue reading
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Good for a laugh – but not much more …
… as serious as the standoff in Georgia/South Ossetia is at the moment, as laughable the following quote: As I have made clear, Russia’s ongoing actions raise serious questions about its intentions in Georgia and the region. In recent years, … Continue reading
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You are on camera
In Great Britain, if you visit a cinema, you’re likely on camera now. Two of the biggest companies have installed CCTVs inside the cinema halls, claiming it “prevents crime”. I still don’t get how cameras can do that, but that … Continue reading
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What’s the deal with Obama?
It seems Germans are overly enthusiastic about the visit of presumptive US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obviously no German has a say in the election, but putting that fact aside, it is still astonishing how enthusiastic many Germans are. I … Continue reading
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GoDaddy.com SSL cert …
It was a bit of trouble to get it done, even after my purchase was approved. But I have ît now 🙂 Here I just want to share the information with you, since the FAQ on the GoDaddy website wasn’t … Continue reading
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Nice work! Found hardware keylogger in a DELL laptop.
Read the full story here. DHS denying request under FOIA. PS: If you read the scanned document closely, you notice the two times 8-digit “file number” which could be a date. If this was state of the art three years … Continue reading
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Very thorough anti-fraud department ;)
I just ordered a five-pack of SSL certificates at GoDaddy.com a few days ago because they have the best offer in that the price is nice and the browsers they cover are virtually 100% of all browsers. The remaining close-to-zero … Continue reading
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Saving the world?
Programs of a new type have been created by different companies recently. The first I am aware of was developed in 2006 and violated the GPL back then. More of them seem to be offered all the time. These programs … Continue reading
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