Today, heise wrote about Linotype’s offer in the “fonts for webpages” market. If I’m not mistaken, that’s not the first commercial offering of licensing fonts for the new HTML/CSS font feature. On one hand, this a really good offer, as it allows amateur sites to use professional fonts for free and commercial, high-traffic sites can […]
I’ve just uploaded mod_epp 1.7 to sourceforge.net. Thanks to CentralNIC for funding the debugging effort. (And no, there will no picture of me with a brown paper bag over my head on this blog. But yes, that bug was stupid.)
c’t magazine runs a biweekly column shining some light on the most egregious customer experiences with IT companies. To no-one’s surprise, thing start to get resolved if the company is facing public outrage and public shaming. So, in the same spirtit: paypal is worst company in the world. Further opportunities at Naming and Shaming are […]
I recently upgraded from the old Nokia Suite to the Ovi-branded version. In other word, I replaced one piece of sh***y bloatware with another. But one thing is interesting: When using USB-based tethering, I get the following notice: Well, if they think it makes the bloatware work better, ok. Then I took a closer look: […]
After a long break, Clemens and I finally built a decent set of tracks today. We had lots of fun pushing trains and playing the “can you push the train to this spot?” and the “oh no, wrong turn!” – game.
Just a quick remark: a “aptitude install ddd” showed that this package depended on lesstif2 which is an Open Source re-implementation of the Motif GUI library. Most of the reader here will never have heard about Motif. Back when I started working with X, there were two competing GUI standards: OpenLook and Motif. Free Software […]
Laut FuZo baut die Türkei ein Zentrum für IP-Verfolgung. Gut für sie. Aber könnten die bitte statt Zensur für die eigene Bevölkerung was zum Schutz des restlichen Internets vor Spam und script-kiddies mit Testosteron-Überproduktion aus dem türkischen Internet tun? Danke.
At work, we’ve been running IPv6 for a while and back home I’ve also got v6 on my DSL connection (not native, though, silverserver implemented that with a tunnel). My root-server also got v6 connectivity via a Tunnel from the nic.at network (easy enough to do if you’re the router-admin :-), but I never used […]
This years soccer Word Cup seems to be the first one for which streaming video is widely available on the Internet. The Austrian public TV (ORF) is offering a decent livestream (or in the case of parallel games, two streams). So what do the public traffic statistics of the Internet Exchange Points show? This graph […]