Es ist mal wieder ein aufregender Trip. Aufregender als uns lieb ist. Nachdem unser Lufthansa Flug nach Frankfurt wegen des Flugbegleiterstreiks gestrichen wurde, bin ich Freitag nach dem verspäteten Feierabend noch zum Flughafen geradelt und hab mich dort ans Ende einer Schlange begeisterter Reisender gestellt. Immerhin: man konnte umbuchen, ( Read more... )

I do incremental backups on my linux server using rsync, creating a backup directory for every day. Only changed files will be synchronized, unchanged files will be hardlinked to the location of the previous backup. That way unchanged files truly exist only once on the backup drive but every backup directory will show all files of that day ( Read more... )

More of a note to myself...:

• Notebook: Schenker S403 (actually Clevo W840SU)
• Operating System: Ubuntu 13.10 (same in Ubuntu 12.10)
• Problem: Fn+F9 to increase display brightness (backlight) not working

Fixed by adding paramter "acpi_backlight=vendor" to kernel command line.

In fact, this was a bitch to track down.

References:

• 8086:0416 [Clevo W350ST] ( Read more... )

So, you would think that those few remaining parts of the Berlin Wall (see East Side Gallery) form the most outstanding symbol of the cold war in Europe? Oh well,...

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Have you ever wondered about all those free services that Google is offering? Actually, I don't really wonder, because its not a secret that Google uses these services to collect user data, create user profiles and use those for advertising and whatever else they're doing. That's all well known and - if you don't like it, don't use Google services ( Read more... )

Habe vor einiger Zeit so ne schicke Fritz!Box 7390 Fon gekauft, und damit so einige Probleme behoben, die ich in der alten Installation hatte, nämlich:

• mein alter Router stürzte öfter mal ab
• mein IP-Telefon stürtzte auch gern mal ab

Die Fritzbox routet nun zuverlässiger und übernimmt auch noch die Funktionalität des IP-Telefons ( Read more... )

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As the days are passing by and the news are getting worse I must admit that I am seriously sad about the oil desaster at the shore of Louisiana. And I'm also seriously pissed because that was absolutely unnecessary. :-\

The good thing about the iPhone is, that mobile users actually start using their mobile web browsers. The bad thing about the iPhone is, that mobile users expect the Web to work in their iPhone ( Read more... )

I'm in Bangkok, againJanine and I have been in Thailand for almost three weeks already and we've been so busy, I simply haven't managed to update my journal with all the exciting news about our trip. Over here you just experience crazy stuff on a daily basis that you wouldn't dream of happening in the "western world ( Read more... )