Last year, we had troubles getting spares delivered via UPS. This year I ordered a book from Blurb and FedEx was the carrier. This time, it was addressed to my flat in Vienna. The tracking info sounded all right, up to the first missed delivery. They were definitely trying as the delivery guy left a […]
I’ve had the following two links open for the last few weeks. Instead of bookmarking them, I’ll just list them here: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Change Requests The South Park Movie: Answer to MPAA’s Rating note
Folks, this one is so simple: Whenever I have a batch of photos converted from jpeg to paper by any random online photo print service, they print some information on the back. Usually that includes the current date, perhaps the filename, order-ID, or some other information the shop needs to keep track of its print-jobs. […]
This is more of a memo to myself than anything else: The solution is here: 1) Make a static playlist called “All Live Files” and copy your entire library into it. 2) Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with the rules set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is’ ‘Music’ ” and another rule set as ” […]
An intern working for facebook created a beautilful map based on the relationship graph of facebook users. So far, so widely blogged about. One thing is remarkable: you can still see the border between the old west- and east part of Germany: vs. I wonder whether this is just the result of more people per […]
A few years ago, Comcast generated a lot of negative PR based on their RST–injecting P2P throttling scheme. This lead them to adopt a new strategy which is protocol and destination-agnostic and is designed to shift inevitable packet-loss to those users that stress the network. Comcast has now published their strategy in an informational RFC. […]
The story so far: WikiLeaks posted some secrets, the US governments throws a hissy fit and some spineless companies see it as their “patriotic duty” to withheld service from WikiLeaks. This doesn’t especially endear them to the 4chan/Anonymous crowd which then starts to DDoS the pushovers. So how is a Civil Libertarian and Network Security […]
This year, we organized a Nikolaus Fest again. This time we had: 11 kids (only the twins (Isabel and Leo) could not come) 11 parents my sister and a very impressive Bishop. Many thanks to our neighbor who played the role perfectly and dealt with all the idiosyncrasies of the kids.