I wish they would do a complete Simpsons episode this way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-56cSYP1do4

Found this on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1trkBh92bk

Microsoft wants to control not only your desktop, but now it seems their heading up for you frontshield as well. According to a patent application found at US Patent & Trademark Office Microsoft is applying for a patent for a interactive automotive userinterface using the car window as a display, like the HUD in airplanes.

Seems that the term crashing windows will have a whole new meaning.

Originally posted: 01.07.2007 14:45

Aus dem ARD-Morgenmagazin von heute morgen: Kinder interviewen Politiker zum Thema Internet

Großartig, wie die Jungs und Mädchen Ströbele und Co. bloßstellen.

Beängstigend, was unsere Volksvertreter an Nichtwissen offenbaren.

[edit:] Tippfehler korrigiert

Originally posted: 23.06.2007 12:55

Heute vormittag im Radio:

"Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 70%, es schauert also heute auf jeden Fall"

Originally posted on 16.06.2007 09:20

"Politik ist pragmatisches Handeln im Dienst moralischer Ziele"

Sagt Henry Kissinger über Helmut Schmidts Grundsätze. Gelesen in "Die Zeit" Nr 25/2007.

Originally posted on 12.06.2007 07:40

Am letzten Freitag ist bei meinem Fahrrad die Halterung des Ständers aus dem Rahmen gebrochen, und das während der Fahrt. Spricht nicht gerade für die Konstruktion. Aber der Rahmen hat ja fünf Jahre Garantie. Dumm nur, das die vor gut drei Wochen abgelaufen ist. . Ich also heute zum Händler.

 

Gute Nachricht: Ich bekomme einen nagelneuen Rahmen, der Hersteller tauscht ihn aus. (Das wäre auch mega-ärgerlich gewesen, wenn die sich jetzt wegen 3 Wochen angestellt hätten).

 Schlechte Nachricht: Dauert ca. sechs Wochen, die ich jetzt auf mein Fahrrad...

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(original date 7.5.2007)

Vielleicht hat es der eine oder andere mitbekommen, seit gestern sind wir nicht per Telefon erreichbar.

Es ist nicht etwa die SwyxWare, die hier Probleme macht, sondern der ISDN S2m-Anschluß der T-Com ist gestört. Das ist nicht weiter spannend. Interessant ist aber der Grund, warum der Anschluß nicht geht. Gerüchteweise soll sich folgendes zugetragen haben:

Vorgestern nacht haben Diebe in der Nachbarschaft in einen Laden eingebrochen. Damit die Alarmanlage nicht die Polzei benachrichtigt, haben die Halunken mehrere Verteilerkästen der T-Com aufgebrochen und dort alle Kabel gekappt. Folgendes Bild ist gestern abend enstanden (Sorry, für die schlechte Qualität. Mobiltelefon)

Das Zelt im Hintergrund steht über einem der Verteilerkästen. Dort herrschte noch hektische Betriebsamkeit. Die Wagen im Vordergrund sind übrigens alle von der T-Com. Man darf gespannt sein, wann sie die...

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Out of the box, SwyxWare delivers voicemails as wav-files, encoded as PCM 16bit mono, G.711 or GSM. That is configurable globally or per user via SwyxWare Administration. It's possible to instruct SwyxServer to use other file formats, too, by providing an encoder which converts from wav to the format you like. The encoder has to be a Win32 executable callable from the command-line. You configure the encoder by writing a configuration file called RecordingCodecs.xml and place it into

%allusersprofile%\application data\swyx\data\system SwyxWare ships with a sample file located in the same folder. It has this content:

 

    1 xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>     2 rl:recordingcodecslist xmlns:rl="http://www.lanphone.de/RecordingCodecsList">     3   recordingcodec>     4     id>128id>     5     codecname>Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)codecname>     6     extension>oggextension>     7     encodercommandline>oggenc.exe -q6 -t %t -a %a -c %c -d %w -o %d %sencodercommandline>     8     decodercommandline>oggdec.exe...

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Would you expect a man of 75 years, CEO of a big, globally acting company, "not very good with computers" to write a blog? Bill Marriot, Chairman and CEO of Marriott International does it since January this year:

http://www.blogs.marriott.com

Cool

BTW, he revealed in the comments to his first entry that he records his blog posts and has a team which transcribes it.

This blog entries starts a (hopefully) long series of SwyxWare features which are not very well known.

Starting with SwyxWare v6.0 it is possible to define more than one public access prefix. The public access prefix a user dials is noted in the call detail record. A typical use case is to distinguish private calls from "official" company calls. Before v6.0 this was possible by dialing a project number (*#), e.g. dial *1# before the number and filter call detail records accordingly.

You define available public access prefixes by entering them in the location properties, separated by semicolon:

 Using this configuration you can establish a policy in your company that users dial 0... for company calls and 9... for private calls.

Several times a day I ACCIDENTLY HIT THE CAPSLOCK KEY. That's annoying.  But now I've installed Ctrl2Cap which turns Caps Lock into a Ctrl key.  Problem solved

Mark Russinovich (Ex www.sysinternals.com now Microsoft) has a great article about Windows Vista's User Account Control feature in the latest TechNet Magazine. I agree with his introduction that UAC is mostly misunderstood. Recommended read, because he not only explains the why, but the how, too.

BTW, SwyxIt! v6.02 is Windows Vista compatible, even if this information cannot be found on the Swyx website.

Interesting remark on the Windows Powershell blog:

"While the end of life for VBScript has been announced (don't freak out – it is going to be supported for a long time but the clock has started (it will become an optional component, then a web download, then a memory)), [...]"

Windows legacy technologies tend to be around quite long for backward compatibility, and I agree that this will probably the case for VBScript, too, but the signs are clear. VBScript is done. Every new "investment" in VBScript should be questioned and newer technologies should be preferred.

Testing picture upload

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Not _the_ best, but one of the better Simpsons intros

If you can't see it, try this link:youtube

A few days ago I got two additional gigs of RAM for my main development machine doubling the RAM to 4GB total. However, Windows Vista only recognized about 3.5GB. Everybody knows that with 32bit one gets 4GB of address space. But where went the ca. 500MB on my system? I did some serious researchused Google to find out. Here’s the result:

Most of that 4GB address space is filled with RAM, but there are memory-mapped devices such as video cards which need some address space too. The BIOS probably uses some address space as well. That’s no problem when you have only two or three gigs of RAM, because everything fits well into the whole address space. But with 4GB RAM it obviously does not. It would be possible to address the entire RAM with the Windows /PAE option, but applications have to explicitly support this. The 4GB restriction is still true for modern 64bit processors like the Intel Core 2 Duo in my development machine when they’re...

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If you can read this, creating new posts works

Daniel C. Dennett talks at TED about memes, mental concepts that are propagating from one brain to another. Brillant



http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/116

 

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Great post from Joel Spolsky about the fight for usable software

"Dave Winer says, 'To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. [...]'

Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better. [...] A tiny improvement that will barely benefit anyone. One inch. There are thousands and tens of thousands of these tiny things. It takes a mindset of constant criticism to find them. You have to reshape your mind until you're finding fault with everything."

And he is right. It really shows in the product if those who are responsible have such a mindset. From my own experience I can say that it's not an easy fight. You loose more often than you succeed. But that no reason to stop.

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Das BILDblog hat einen Fernseh-Werbespot gemacht. Mit Anke Engelke und Chrisptoh Maria Herbst

Link: sevenload.com

Cool!

Today I tried figuring out why I could not connect to my computer at work via Remote Desktop. I opened the control panel, typed "remote". The first offered item then is "Allow remote access to your computer". Clicked and got the following:

Recognized the yellow exclamation mark and the "You must enable the Windows Firewall Exception for Remote Desktop"? A click on that link opened the Vista Help and Support Window with the topic "Use Remote Desktop when Windows Firewall is on" which explained step-by-step how to enable Remote Desktop in the Windows Firewall.

I'm working with Windows for years and I would have figured this out by myself. But with hints like this anybody can solve these types of problems. It's these small things which make the difference between good and great.

Our life, or to be more correct, our memories from life is now a matter of bits and bytes. How to protect yourself from digital Alzheimer.

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Paul Graham is a man with some provocative ideas. At least if you are a big software house and work in the traditional way.

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Ok, my todo list for today is quite long. A lot of traces to be sent to Swyx and setting up some evaluation servers for new possible resellers..... But when I got this e-mail I just new that it had happened!

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Soon a new law will hit the German security market hard.

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25 years have gone by and soon it may be history.

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The last weeks and month I'd spent a fair amount of time on a redesign of the Swyx License Database. This weekend I have updated the productive system and am quite pleased with the results.

Two major "faults" had made the database very slow over the last years. As you all know the Swyx licenses are dongled with the hardware of the server machine. So, the first fault was to do all the hardware comparisons needed everytime one wanted to have a look e.g. on a customer. The second fault was introduced when implementing the SUS license management 2 1/2 jears ago. Because of a lack of time I had decided to make (intensive) use of "User Defined Functions" on the MS SQL server. In the beginning everything worked fine, but over the time, with more and more licenses in the database, the UDFs showed their major drawback more and more clearly: they became a performance problem.

So, if you ever have to design a database application, stay with the good old-fashioned Stored Procedures or Views and better do not...

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Friday night I saw the movie Shut Up & Sing (just started here in Germany). A film about the Dixie Chicks, an american country band and in fact the most successfull girl band ever in terms of sold records.

During their Top of the World tour in 2003 the lead singer Natalie Maines said one sentence on a concert in London, between two songs, just meant as a joke. A sentence that changed her life and the life of her sisters. It was the evening before American and British troups invaded Iraq. She said that she's ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.

While being still on tour this sentence found it's way through the media back to the US with remarkable effects. I am not sure if this is a purely amerian phenomenon, but from my german point of view the reactions all over america are simply unbelievable.

What one will learn from this story is the following:

think...

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Hey guys, let's admit it. We are hooked on technology, so why not start classify women accordingly.

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Did you have a strange feeling after you watched the movie the Matrix for the first time? The world did not just feel the same anymore? Well, maybe your feeling was not so far off..

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It is not just the warming that has turned global these days. The acceptance of the fact that something is not quite right is definetly gone global as well.

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Converged networks has its weakness. You put all your eggs in the same basket some claims. What will happen then...

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Try this !

http://www.isnichwahr.de/r297535-Langeweile-beim-Shoppen.html

Just an idea...

I don't know if this is a pure german phenomenon but have you also ever wondered about all the christmas stuff already in the stores in august ?

Well, now there is an easy and purely logical answer to it. It's given a in short story (unfortunately in german language only - I hope you don't mind).

Before you read this, get yourself a cup of coffee, or tea or espresso. Take a good sip of it and enjoy this anecdote.

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I got a new favourite band now, they are called  'Cry Cisco'

http://www.web-records.com/en/p/2109673/cry_cisco-afrodizziact

I have become a digital nomad again. I used to own Windows Mobile phones, but switched to Nokia some months ago. I did miss the MSN Messenger client from the WM platform.

At last I am a complete digital nomad once again, a Live Messenger client is now available for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. Of course we are talking about a leak, it should not have been available from MS and Nokia for some time yet.

I have used it for some days now, and I must confess that this is a real good port of a Windows app to the Symbian platform. It is actually better that the client in WM5 (I do not know WM6). If you use a Symbian S60 based phone, you can find the client here:

http://www.endera.eu/sis/

If you think you have a bad day at the office you should have a look at this. It will make your day looks a lot easier....

http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/07/23/allo-paris-we-have-a-problem/