* Posts by Volker Hett

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Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies

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Re: The answer is "JavaScript"...

Yes, the answer is C++, but I forgot the question :)

Romanian Bitcoin baron 'stumps up $20k to keep OpenBSD's lights on'

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They are somewhat entangled.

SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge

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Patch Tuesday in the kitchen? The Horror!

Patches for your phone, tablet, laptop, PC, TV, microwave, blender, fridge, dishwasher, hairdryer, car, bicycle, razor and much more.

That'll be a very busy patch tuesday!

Mine's the one with paper and pencil in the pocket for when my fridge refuses to mail my shopping list.

Rosetta comet chaser due to wake up for final rendezvous on Monday

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Re: Harpoons, eh?

and we may call him Ismael :)

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Descartes might disagree with the christian part in this. Galileo probably too and I'm unsure about Da Vinci, he had some protection from the christians when he made his dissections.

Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses

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when we're at it

pass a law against french dressing, or any dressing that is, on salad!

Coming in 2014: Scary super-soldier exoskeleton suits from the US military

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Re: Any chance...

To me it looks as if they happily do the killing themselves if left alone for some time.

Microsoft tries to trademark 'Mod' in the US

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The punters are excited

first reactions in the news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E4znu82XhE

Kiwi inventor's court win rains on Apple's parade

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My first thought

why the i?

Thai man reportedly dies clutching his scorched iPhone 4S

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Re: It's all about the money

At least they'll have a more durable CE sticker :)

Whovians, your Doctor needs you: Take back the Day from One Direction

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Re: Well hello ducky...

I wouldn't mind being trapped in the Tardis but prefer Martha or even Rose over a boy band!

Or beer!

Coroner suggests cars should block mobile phones

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Re: Yes well...

#2 and #4 are closely related. You have to either educate those who can't drive at a speed they can manage or have physics sort them out.

IMHO getting rid of ESP and such would help in the process ...

Naughty Flash Player BURIED ALIVE in OS X Mavericks Safari sandbox

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As a long time linux user I know that flash for non MS systems is a mixed bag at best. So I don't use it.

As far as I remember, Adobe claimed lacking support from the linux community for their fine software, looks like Apple, Google and Microsoft sent them real programmers to fix that mess and had to add additional security because it's still broken ...

Brazil's anti-NSA prez urged to SNATCH keys to the internet from America

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Leaving the DNS root servers under control of a government which can not pay the personal to maintain them seems a bad idea to me.

And to brazils economy, Ms. Rousseffs government is about to cancel an order for 36 F/A-18 Super Hornets and save 4 billion dollars which might be better invested elsewhere in brazil .....

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This depends on which side of the governments weapons you are and how you feel about being "collateral damage"

500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?

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Wine!

We still rely on financial software from 1995, it even has to be on a path which screams netware :)

Remember .pif files? Yeah, that's it!

So I gave wine a try and I got it to work on my macbook first and CentOS 6 later.

EU move to standardise phone chargers is bad news for Apple

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And then ...

we will have Micro USB as only solution for the coming decades with lots of adaptors to connect our Galaxy 15 to the USB 5.1 plug in out new Lenovo ThinkPad whatever ...

Rare gold iPhone 5s goes up against 50 caliber high precision rifle

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Ok, now I want to see him dropping the rifle in water, on dirt and concrete, will it fare better?

Apple blings up new iMac with latest Intel chips, next-gen Wi-Fi

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Re: New Option

I'm used to that, back from the days when I needed another computer in my Apple ][ to run CP/M :) Later I had to buy HP for MPE and DEC for VMS and IBM for OS400. It'll never change!

USB 3.1 demo shows new spec well on its way towards 1.2GB/sec goal

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Re: Thundercats

Do you mean the company who was first with USB instead of legacy connectors on that funky translucent 15" all in one computer? The one which has Thunderbolt and USB 3 in all but one of its current Computers?

TDK calls it quits on tape media thanks to 'difficult environment'

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Re: Backup

Plus offsite storage in a bank vault :)

Furious Frenchies tell Apple to bubble off: Bling iPhone isn't 'champagne'

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The rest of the world is a pretty big market for iPhones, but if they choose to sell it in the USA only, then it's probably ok. Like that fake Havana Club headacheinducer made somewhere from something and bottled and sold by Bacardi violating a trademark from Pernod-Ricard.

Storage vendors: You're next over the cliff after the server salesmen

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With at 34Mbit/s pipe at some 5000 Euros a month

I see a lot more storage in my server room!

Snowden journo's boyfriend 'had crypto key for thumb-drive files written down' - cops

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Re: Remarkable.

>It's remarkable to me that certain people here seem to hate their own countries more than those who are actually despotic, enough to support Snowden in his vainglorious attempt to get recognition.

Funny you say that, I do love my country within reasonable limits. I really don't like GCHQ and PRISM to spy on me. Both are breaking german law doing it!

Star Wars revival secret: This isn't the celluloid you're looking for

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Re: Future Digital

Yes, and you get extremely detailed enlargements of film grains :)

Take your best slide and have it scanned at different resolutions at a pro shop, drum scanners and such, and then compare.

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Lens flares and Leica Glow

Are both due to coating, shading and the lens design.

The "Leica Glow" is mostly found on old pictures taken with non aspherical lenses with a single coating. Modern multicoated aspherical Leica lenses don't show this "glow".

I mostly use 35mm lenses on small format film and have lots of them. The one I love most is a bastard made from an old 1938 Zeiss Biogon, a Jupiter 12 PT1030 from Arsenal in a Leica Thread Mount from another russian lens. The results, on film and digital, match the look from the old pictures my grandfather took with a comparable lens in the late 40s.

Lens flare? Yes, if I point it to a strong light, which my grampa taught me not to, and then they are less prominent then in J.J.s films.

If I use slide film instead of traditional B/W like FP4 or TriX, then I prefer the brutal sharpness of modern lens designs with close to perfect correction, aspherical elements and any single surface multicoated. Like the current Zeiss Biogon T* 2/35 in ZM mount. Lens flares? Not with one of those!

When I compare scanned Provia with pictures from a digital sensor, taken with the same lens, I can't see much of a difference, if at all.

Mystery of Guardian mobos and graphics cards which 'held Snowden files'

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How do you torture a BOFH?

Make him destroy his own kit!

Climate change made sea levels fall in 2010 and 2011

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Interesting

so this must be Australia here at the north sea where the recently rebuilt dykes barely helped against last years floods.

British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport

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Ok, so better not travel via UK if you happen to know somebody who published something embarrassing?

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So I better not fly via UK

"This is a routine hazard for people of interest to spooks or serious police investigations, and it could be seen as a little odd that Greenwald, Miranda and Poitras didn't anticipate it."

Since I don't know if I'm of interest to spooks, I better take no chances.

Next trip to Brazil via Lisboa ...

BOFH: Backup server's failed? We have a backup backup server

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Reduce Halon cost with a fireproof and airtight tape safe!

Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud

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It's not about my sensitivity, I have to comply with german and european privacy laws. As long as I'm liable for any security breach I can't use cloud services by companies who have to comply with USA laws.

Sorry, no Office 365, gmail, outlook.com, Amazon .....

Apple KILLER decloaked? Google lovingly unboxes Nexus 7 Android 4.3 slablette

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Re: It only just clicked

All well and good, as long as you don't earn a living selling PCs.

Microsoft: Still using Office installed on a PC? Gosh, you squares

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Cloud?

My companies confidential documents? Never!

PRISM leaks: WTF, you don't spy on your friends, splutters EU

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Imagine you're Airbus Industries

Would you store any document in a cloud ready for the NSA to channel it to Boeing?

MSX: The Japanese are coming! The Japanese are coming!

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There was a british camera industry?

Just asking.

Samsung quits desktop PC biz, will stick to all-in-ones and portables

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Exactly! You have to pay and pay again and again :)

We've done it - we've gone and made LONG-LIFE BEER

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At last, from those who brought you Fosters

stale beer even staler ...

Picture this: Kodak could get out of bankruptcy as early as July

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So what?

To me Kodak was Plus-X, Tri-X and the 'chromes.

Mines the one with the Weston Master IV and Leica M2 in the pocket.

Apple's next OS X said to be targeted at 'power users'

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The half price comparable PC myth ....

I bought my first Macbook in 2007 because it was CHEAPER than a comparable Sony or Asus. Ok, I could have settled for a Celeron instead of a C2D ...

The MBP I got in 2010 was cheaper again and I still use it all day long, with a SSD and 8GB RAM I installed myself.

Have a look at the Mac mini, it is not too expensive if you compare like to like. Same for the iMac compared to other AiO PCs.

Upgrades and repairs are a problem, no onsite service :(, and the more modern the less repairable they are.

A Retina Macbook Pro is not for me, I just don't want to buy a maxed out machine because I might need it next year. Same for the smaller iMac where one can't even upgrade RAM. Not to mention the braindead position of the SD cardslot on the back ....

So yes, Apple is less attractive to me now then it was two years ago, but let's have a look next year, when I need a new one :)

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Re: forced obsolescence, Apple douchebaggery

It's bad enough with iOS5!

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Re: forced obsolescence, Apple douchebaggery

"Oh sweet! So it'll transfer my development environment, and my servers, and my VMs, and my Kubuntu partition, and my Windows one?

No? Then perhaps upgrades are a better idea."

If you know how to clone a drive, it does.

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Re: PathFinder

No, powerusers use "touch" in a terminal window!

Ten ancestors of the netbook

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Re: HP 800CT?

I had an Omnibook 300 then and from a price/performance/portability point of view my Macbook Air today is a steal :)

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Re: Standards Dropping

A Lego reenactment at least!

Beer, because ...

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The HP 95LX helped me through my economy exams and the 41CX through statistics :)

Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement

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The time is GMT, isn't it

The ical link is without timezone information.

Foxconn must pay Microsoft for EVERY Android thing it makes

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Re: …And we still have no idea what these patents are

Apple and MS have a Patent deal of some sort.

Antarctic ice sheet melt 'not that unusual', latest ice core shows

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And I nearly believed in another report.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1787.html

Now I have to convince the north sea, that the dikes are high enough and we don't have to spend more money on those.

Gov report: Actually, evil City traders DIDN'T cause the banking crash

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Those loans where the fuse

which set lots of investment banks trading derivatives on fire.

If some of the things I'd been taught in Business School, some 20 years ago in the City :), are true, then there has to be a compromise.

Trading options on derivatives of derivatives nobody understands in nanoseconds is a very big risk. And one algorithm gone mad costs billions in minutes.

Nowadays 6 milliseconds latency make a difference of 100 million a year to a hedgefund in London trading in NY!

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