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Rage Against Acer – Windows XP on X1700

February 23rd, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous

As my Computer (AMD Sempron) got a little outdated I searched for a replacement and bought an Acer X1700. It came with Vista x64 pre-installed. As I need some Apps that just don´t work well on Vista, especially not on 64-bit Vista I decided to make a Windows XP parallel install. more about Acer X1700 and Windows XP

Google turns whole internet into malware

January 31st, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous

It seems Google has some kind of a problem. Currently I don´t know if they got hacked or just have an internal problem. The state of things is that google returns all searches with malware warnings. So google finally found out that the whole Internet is one big bunch of malware ;.). I am going to update this post as i gather new Information.

Update1: It seems the syndrome has been discovered – googles outsourced malware partner, stopbadware.org, has gone down.

Update2: stopbadware claims to be innocent! see: StopBadWare Blog

Update3: Official Statement form Google (Essentialy they blacklisted “/” )

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Paragliding in Castelluccio

January 28th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Paragliding

Castelluccio FogIn September 2005 and 2006 we have been Paragliding in Castelluccio (Italy,Umbria). In Castelluccio I always feel like beeing on another planet. Every morning there is fog in the crater of Castelluccio. Besides being a wonderfull and remote landscape, its an ideal place for soaring along the hills with your Paraglider. Be warned, its nothing for the faint heart, as the winds often get quite strong. More »

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How to list numeric file permissions on Linux

January 25th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in How-To

Anybody who installs php or cgi scripts on linux webservers knows, that you often have to adjust the permissions for the script files or folders. In the majority of cases the guidelines for the permission settings are documented for those scripts in numeric notation. (for example: 755 or 777 etc.) More »

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Google Germany Hijacked

January 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous

Google Germany HijackedJust got the info from my friend Matthias that google.de has been hijacked. It seems they forgot to renew ;.): More »

Poisoned Duty – Ancient Music

January 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Music

Update: Our Band has a name now and its own website. See Anokato.de for more…

Poisoned Duty is a song I wrote at the age of 14 or so. As my English was even worse in those days than it is nowadays, the lyrics are quite mazy. At that time i thought I would never be able to live up to the expectations of society. (Today I know I don´t have to ;.). More »

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Erwin on Tour

January 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Miscellaneous, Paragliding

Erwin Zipfel BlondNext friday Erwin (he likes to call himself Airwin), a paragliding teacher and good friend of mine, is going to cruise around Teneriffa on the Roald Amundsen. I wish him lot of fun on this sea voyage an I am curious about his trip-blog (German Language): http://erwins-seereise.blog.de/

(I just had to re-publish this picture of Erwin with blond hair before he decides to remove it from his Blog ;.) )

Lightsaber – The Fascination

May 27th, 2006 | 5 Comments | Posted in Gadgets

Artist LightsaberSince my first encounter with a lightsaber I was fascinated by the idea of this weapon. I must have been about 6 years old, when i saw a lightsaber for the first time on a movie poster of the original Star Wars movie. It happened on my daily walk to elementary shool. And guess what – I came late that day ;.)

It seems there are a lot of people out there on the internet who share this fascination. Doing a research on the topic of Lightsabers you will find mind-blowing things like:

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