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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

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