Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Water makes Money
Kampf gegen die Privatisierung des Wassers on Sueddeutsche
Seit Jahren kämpft Jean-Luc Touly gegen die Privatisierung des Wassers. Wegen Vorwürfen gegen seinen Arbeitgeber Veolia steht er vor Gericht.
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
DRM made by W3C
Perspectives on Encrypted Media Extension Reaching First Public Working Draft - W3C Blog
The HTML Working Group has announced their decision to release a First Public Working Draft of the Encrypted Media Extension (EME) specification. A preliminary version of the document has been public for some time, prompting the Free Software Foundation...
#defectivebydesign
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Ob das so alles stimmt?

Microsoft "Die Fäulnis setzt bereits ein" by Jörg Thoma on Golem
Microsoft verliert immer mehr an Boden bei der Entwicklung seines Kernels, weil es an guten Programmierern fehlt. Interne Strukturen verhindern zudem kleine, aber signifikante Leistungsverbesserungen.
Categories: Micro$oft
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Am Donnerstag Diesel für €1,38 an einer Markentankstelle getankt. Als ich von der Kasse zurück zum Auto bin war es schon €1,44! Im nächsten Dorf gab es eine freie Trankstelle und den Liter Diesel für €1,32!!! o_O
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
We need more war machines
This is a really bad move of the german government. Germany's attitude towards worldwide trading of war machines is so hypocritical. #GermanWeaponsForTheWorld

What will a country - that has somewhat of 17000 islands - do with such huge and heavy tanks? How should these get used to defend the country? o_O This is so ridiculous! So either it is for the sake of wasting money or to use it for purposes that other governments were already concerned about and rejected to deliver tanks for.

Germany OKs export of over 100 tanks to Indonesia on Thejakartapost
The German government has approved plans to export 104 main battle tanks to Indonesia along with dozens of other armored vehicles — drawing ...
The Nederland rejected to sell tanks because of questionable human rights conditions and concerns.
Germany clears tank sales to Indonesia | News | DW.DE | 08.05.2013 on Dw
An opposition politician has told DW that the German government has approved the sale of 164 tanks to Indonesia. The country joins Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on a contentious new export list.
Another interesting article by DW from last year already
Indonesia tank deal raises moral questions | Asia | DW.DE | 05.11.2012 on Dw
With Indonesia set to invest in a major tank deal with German suppliers, concerns over human rights abuses refuse to go away. There are also questions as to whether the archipelago nation needs such equipment.
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
I take green tea
CEO Tomi Pienimaki: Hints At More Colours by JollaTides on Latest Jolla Sailfish News
After Marc Dillon gave us a brief glimpse of a new orange coloured Jolla handset on stage at GMIC, a tweet from new CEO Tomi Pienimaki earlier this week might have hinted towards some more 'colour'...
#unlike :-)
Categories: Jolla
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
How to Retrofit the First Law of Robotics
Why haven't I seen this yet? Very interesting talk again by Eben Moglen.

Eben Moglen speaking at HOPE Number 9 in NYC about Walled Gardens and the First Law of Robotics by Ben Solwitz on YouTube
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Lost without a mobile phone
People are totally lost nowadays without a handphone. Also when you made an appointment it seems even not possible anymore to meet when no handphone is available. o_O How did this work in the last hundreds or thousand years? Also being in restaurant most people seem to be busy with their phones while waiting for the food only.

So nice todays Dilbert Daily Strip:
Dilbert comic strip for 05/09/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. on Dilbert

The more time I spent without a mobile phone the more I enjoy and like it this way.
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
*DAV support in upcoming Horde
Oh this is great! The current beta for the next Horde release have #CardDAV and #CalDAV support! Looking forward to replace ActiveSync and better integration into KDEPIM.
Categories: Horde
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
KDE on Slackware
Slackware-current already ships #KDE 4.10.3 :-) Nice work!
#kde
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
I see nothing. :-) Eleven more days until the full #Jolla reveal date.

Dillon Flashes Orange Handset @ GMIC 2013 by JollaTides on Latest Jolla Sailfish News
As predicted in an earlier post, we are getting reports that during Marc Dillon's keynote @ GMIC 2013, he cleverly teased the audience with what looked like the back of the new Jolla branded handse...
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Why the Web worked and Gopher didn’t
WWW: Why the Web Worked and Gopher didn't by Simon Phipps on Meshed Insights & Knowledge
The document CERN signed that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available without restrictions to everyone in the world showed up recently as part of CERN's celebration of 20 years of t...
Mr. X
1 month ago
I was a gopher developer (you can probably find me as an attendee at gophercon).

Gopher and WWW existed side-by-side for a couple of years. The advantage of gopher is that you could just point it at a directory and it would serve up the contents. WWW had hyperlinks withing the content - but it was harder to create HTML files with links in them. Most people couldn't be bothered to edit files for little perceived gain.

The reason gopher died was the day Mosaic was released with Marc Andreesen's new <img> tag and images were rendered by Mosaic inline. Gopher and the CERN linemode browser needed to spawn an external process to view images in another window. Mosaic showed them on the same page with the text - the first TCP/IP application to do so. It was like reading a magazine with glossy photos, except it was online. This was the game changer. Within *one week* traffic on our gopher server went from thousands of hits per day to a handful. The WWW server went from a handful of hits a day to thousands. The change was that dramatic. Gopher literally died overnight. It wasn't due to WWW. It was due to one little tag, and a dev team that knew the Motif toolkit and the Windows API inside out - to be able to show you inline images cross platform. In my office, jaws dropped.
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Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
VPS Upgrade
Oh this is a nice announcement. My VPS hosting at JiffyBox got an upgrade: I have now 3 instead of 2 CPU cores, 25GB more HDD and the RAM has doubled to 2GB now! The price stayed the same.
What should I do with all these extra ressources? ;-)
Categories: hosting
Klaus Weidenbach
1 month ago
Icinga 1.9
This release really wants me to update it asap.

Icinga 1.9 released by Michael Friedrich on Icinga
What could be better to celebrate Icinga’s 4th birthday with a new Icinga release? We’ve resolved the last release-critical issues and are happy to announce the release of Icinga 1.9! Icinga IDOUtils now uses a socket queue and transactions for large object dumps by default. With asynchronous data processing, the core is not only freed...
Categories: SysAdmin , Monitoring , Release
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
obsolete hgroup
Just eliminated hgroup. Not sure yet about the right alternatives. At least my page validates as valid #HTML5 again.

How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines by Steve Faulkner on Html5doctor
If you don’t already know, the hgroup element is obsolete in HTML5. Advice is now provided in the HTML spec on how to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines using existing and implemented HTML features. The important question for developers is: How do I mark up these buggers??? To answer this advice has been added to the ...
Categories: Webdesign
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Das Ende des Zufalls
Das Buch hört sich ganz interessant an:

Das Ende des Zufalls | Wie Big Data uns und unser Leben vorhersagbar macht. on Dasendedeszufalls
Das Ende des Zufalls - Wie Big Data uns und unser Leben vorhersagbar macht. Ein Buch von Rudolf Klausnitzer.
Categories: books
zottel
1 month ago
Gleich mal bestellt.
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Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Neukunde
Bericht: Flatrate-Kappung der Telekom gilt auch für Tarifwechsler on Heise
Alle bisherigen Festnetz-Kunden, die künftig einen Flatrate-Tarif hinzubuchen, würden "als Neukunden behandelt", berichtet das Magazin "Focus".
Wollt ihr mich jetzt total verarschen?!? Wenn ich jetzt also einen Tarif wechsle bin ich Neukunde? Bekomme ich dann auch ENDLICH #IPv6, oder gibt es das immer noch nur für Neu-Neukunden?!?! o_O
Man weiss ja nie, bei der Telekom scheinen die selben Sachen ja nicht immer die gleichen Sachen zu sein. o_O
#ipv6
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Bin ich in einem schlechtem Traum, oder was habe ich eigentlich verpasst?

Bundesrat lässt Zugriff auf Passwörter und IP-Adressen zu on Heise
Die Länderkammer hat das umstrittene Gesetz zur Reform der Bestandsdatenauskunft abgesegnet. Ermittler von Bundesbehörden dürfen demnach zahlreiche Informationen über Anschlussinhaber von Providern abfragen.
Sind Telekommunikationsdienste jetzt eigentlich verpflichtet Passwörter im Klartext zu speichern? Das wird lustig.

#1984
#1984
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Kinderbetreuung beim Sport eingestellt *grrrrr*
Wollte heute Morgen mit meinen Kindern wieder ins Fitnessstudio und musste dann feststellen, dass es gar keine Kinderbetreuung mehr gibt! :-(
Davon stand in dem Schreiben zum neuen tollen Kursangebot aber nichts drin. Sauerei! Dabei war die jedesmal gut besucht wenn wir da waren und ich glaub es ist auch eins der teuersten Studios schon die ich gesehen habe.

Kennt jemand in Bonn noch andere Fitnessstudios die Kinderbetreuung haben?
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
BlackTrax on Cast-soft
BlackTrax is the turnkey tracking solution that will revolutionize our industry by enabling realtime spontaneous creativity + artistry + technology! BlackTrax is an affordable comprehensive tracking technology solution that delivers precise 3D & 6D positioning in realtime to controllers for automated/robotic technologies. Its ease-of-use means BT...
Categories: Sound & Light
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Rhein in Flammen
Heute Abend ist es wieder so weit. Grosses Feuerwerk in der Rheinaue.

Rhein in Flammen - Rhein in Flammen in Bonn on Rhein-in-flammen
Unter dem Motto "Götterfunken und Rheingold - Beethoven meets Wagner" steht das traditionelle Feuerwerksspektakel zu Rhein in Flammen am Samstag, 4. Mai, ganz im Zeichen des Richard-Wagner-Festjahres anlässlich des 200. Geburtstages des Komponisten.
Hätte mal gestern Abend hingehen sollen. War ja ein lustiges Programm.
Categories: Bonn
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Jamendo and ogg files?
Did Jamendo drop ogg support? Seems I cannot download any ogg files from Jamendo anymore. :-( Did they change something? This is really bad. My Amarok stopped playing MP3s some time back. My collection is ogg anyway, but now I cannot get new music from Jamendo.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Looks like albums are MP3 only.
audioformat enum: {mp32} The audio format you wish to use on the fileurl returned field. At the moment mp32 (mp3 192kbps) is the only existing format.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Netdot VM
Tried the Netdot v1.0.4 VM today. Looking for an #IPAM solution.

DownLoad - Netdot - Redmine on Uoregon
Network Documentation Tool project

Netdot is an open source tool designed to help network administrators collect, organize and maintain network documentation.
#ipam
Categories: SysAdmin
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers
Very impressive work! Using CSS and prime numbers to generate appealing random patterns.

The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers - DesignFestival by Alex Walker on Designfestival
A few weeks ago we looked at the process of making seamless tiles. As super-​​useful as seamless tiles are, it can be tough to get the balance just right.
Categories: Webdesign
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
IP Multicasting
In IPv6 this concept even replaced broadcasts completely, but unfortunately this part is completely missing in this article. But it is a good introduction in how it is implemented in IPv4.

What is IP Multicasting? Concept of IP Multicast Address Explained by Himanshu Arora on Thegeekstuff
IP multi-casting is a communication mechanism in which data is communicated from server to a set of clients who are interested in receiving that data. Any
Categories: SysAdmin
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Next Generation Networks vs. Internet
Sehr ausführlicher Artikel über NGNs.

Next Generation Networks on Heise
Fast zwei Jahrzehnte lang hat sich das Internet zur Plattform für die Massenkommunikation entwickelt – weitgehend ohne die klassischen Telekommunikationsunternehmen. Die streben nun mit dem Next Generation Network in eine Führungsrolle und nach Gewinn.
Sehr schön auf den Punkt gebracht!
Wo im Internet bislang Selbstorganisation, Ad-hoc-Vernetzung und Innovationen am Rand des Netzes die Treiber der Entwicklung waren, dreht sich im NGN alles um Steuerung, Kontrolle und mehr Intelligenz im Netz selbst.

Könnte man ja fast glauben, das käme der Politik nur Recht. Daher gab es also keine Mehrheit für gesetzliche Vorgaben zur Netzneutralität. o_O
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
ActiveSync improvements for Horde
Horde_ActiveSync 2.4.0beta1 will bring support for EAS 14.0 and 14.1.

Actually I would prefer working *DAV support much more, because ActiveSync as a protocol and it's implementation in devices it totally broken. Syncing birthdays in contacts between two devices is a guarentee to make them complete unreliable.
Categories: Horde
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers
Interesting talk by Richard Fontana.

Episode 0x33: Richard Fontana at LinuxCon North America 2012 - Free as in Freedom - Free as in Freedom on Faif
Free as in Freedom is a bi-weekly oggcast about legal, policy and other issues in Free, Libre and Open Source Software
The slides: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers on Rhcloud
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago from Red
rtof next try
auf ein Neues... scheint mein CAcert nicht zu mögen
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Mal sehen welches ca-bundle ich noch nicht geupdated habe.

Das ganze Zertifikatssystem ist doch am Arsch.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Vapiano?
Vapiano is from Bonn, but I still don't get what people like on it and why it is so popular. I even saw one in Dubai last time. For me eating there is pure stress and when you are in a group the first are already finished eating when the last just have their food. Everything so noisy and hectic. Can anybody explain me the concept of this? Am I too old?
Categories: Restaurant
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Piwik Plugin Marketplace
Nice to find #Piwik Plugins at one place, but all I was interested in seem not to work with current 1.12 beta.

Plugin Marketplace on Suenkel
Download, install and update Piwik plugins from the Plugin Marketplace
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Open-AudIT
Has someone experiences with Open-AudIT? Sounds interesting, but haven't heard about it before.

Open-AudIT - The network inventory, audit, documentation and management tool. on Open-audit
The network inventory, audit, documentation and management tool.
Categories: SysAdmin
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Fair Phone
After Fair Mouse now Fair Phone.

Fairphone - A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first. on Fairphone
A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first
You will also have root access so you can choose your OS. Looking forward how this project will develop.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Lorem Ipsum Alternatives
I didn't knew there exist so many Lorem Ipsum alternatives.

Keine Lust auf Lorem Ipsum? 15 schräge Alternativen by Profil von Lars Budde anzeigen on T3n
Du bist auf der Suche nach Fülltext, hast aber keine Lust auf Lorem Ipsum? Ob Bacon oder Veggie Ipsum, wir haben die perfekten Fülltext-Variationen für jeden Webdesigner. Sogar Charly Sheen, Samuel L. Jackson und Barack Obama sind dabei.
Categories: Webdesign
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
The stage looks nice. A great blog!

April 29 on M-m-pr
M & M Production Management is a global entertainment production resource company.
I also want 800 Clay Pakys in my livingroom! :-D
Categories: Sound & Light
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Lessons to learn
1. RAID1 without monitoring is nothing better than having no RAID1 at all.
2. Configuration of M$ Windows IIS 6 is really, really scary.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Auf dem Gelände der Uni Klinik Bonn zu parken ist echt verdammt teuer. Die lezten zwei Tage über €15 da gelassen. Erinnert mich daran mein Fahrrad wieder flott zu machen, wäre so viel günstiger und schneller gewesen.
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
Oh no... the notebook hdd starts making scrape sounds. :(
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
I don't think this has an impact on the the code quality, maybe on the commit messages. ;-)

gitdown by noidontdig on Github
gitdown - Don't commit when you're drunk
Klaus Weidenbach
2 months ago
StarRSS
Oh this could be my new feed reader ;-) #CSS3
http://fotcorn.github.io/StarRSS/
#css3
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