In der Gischt des diesjährigen RAF-Hypes (u.a. die Filme “Mogadischu” u. “Baader Meinhof Komplex”), ist folgendes Interview mit Horst Mahler, einem der Gründungsmitglieder der Rote Armee Fraktion, meines Erachtens nach ein wenig untergegangen. Bevor es also in den Archieven der Vanity Fair verstaubt, verlinke ich es hier lieber noch einmal schnell:

Teil 1: http://www.vanityfair.de/articles/gesellschaft/politik/horst-mahler/2007/09/11/09724
Teil 2: http://www.vanityfair.de/articles/gesellschaft/politik/horst-mahler/2007/11/01/10118

Tags: german, horst mahler, interview, raf, vanity fair
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If you’re also thinking about doing a dist-upgrade of your Ubuntu VPS over at Hosteurope (from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS), don’t dare. I just got off the phone with a technical assistant from Hosteurope, who confirmed that, at the moment, it is not possible to upgrade the system since that may very well cause problems with their virtualization software (I think Parallels Virtuozzo). So I guess I won’t risk it Well, I couldn’t resist And it seems to have worked by doing the following. Before I start, I should mention that I’m running Hosteurope’s “Virtual Server Linux L 3.0″ WITHOUT Plesk installed. Also I didn’t do the update using the new “update-manager”, but went the old fashioned way instead. So here it goes:

Tags: 6.06, 8.04, dist-upgrade, hosteurope, linux, lts, server, ubuntu, update, upgrade
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Some time ago I got the WD MyBook (1TB) (which btw I can only recommend, especially, if your Mainboard contains an e-SATA interface) to backup all my data. Running ViceVersa every 2 or 3 days works like a charme for me.
While local backups might help in case of a (main) harddisk failure, they leave you with nada in case of a fire or burglary, which is why one shouldn’t just distribute your backups amongst harddisks, but also geologically.

Tags: backup, incremental, online backup, storage space, unlimited, viceversa, wuala
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Hey y’all,

I just released the source code of iTunesSnarl. It is available via Google Code. So if anyone out there could please fix the cover issues, I’d be more than happy

Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/itunessnarl/

Tags: google code, iTunes, iTunesSnarl, open source, plugin, snarl
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Tags: english, low, pants, video
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Alright, I give up! Until someone explains to me, how to save the image, which that *beep*-ing iTunes Visual SDK function PlayerGetCurrentTrackCoverArt is supposed to return, this will remain a minor update:

Version 1.1, released 2008/09/04

• The current song’s title is now displayed in the title of the snarl window.
• The snarl window now also lists the artist’s album title (most of the time….don’t know why it bails out sometimes).
• Removed Snarl_CMD.exe and any dependencies to it.
• Plugin now registers with Snarl and popups can be disabled via Snarl.

Tags: extension, growl, iTunes, iTunesSnarl, plugin, snarl, windows
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Update: Go here for version 1.1

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Over the last weeks I’ve become a huge fan of Snarl, which is a Growl-like notfication system for Windows. With the appropriate plugin, applications like Firefox or Miranda can display user messages through Snarl, which only opens small “bubble” message boxes that close itself after a certain period of time. This way the desktop isn’t cluttered with message windows that the user has to close by hand.

So far, the number of extensions/plugins that are available for Snarl is still small, but with the software below I’m doing my part to increase it

Tags: extension, growl, iTunes, iTunesSnarl, plugin, snarl, windows
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Unter http://www.nichtlustig.de gibt es wunderschöne Comics über depressive Elefanten, ängstliche Zebras, kreative Lemminge, sowie viele andere skurrile Alltags- und Nicht-Alltagssituationen. Absolut sehenswert!!!

Tags: comic, german, online
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Already a little while ago Robert postet some example code on how add meta data to images using the relatively new WPF.

After playing around with the code for a while, I got some weird exceptions thrown at me, e.g. “A first chance exception of type ‘System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException’ occurred in PresentationCore.dll“. Now, the only thing I had changed was letting the tagging routine run in a seperate thread:

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Thread t = new Thread(writeMetadata);
t.Start();
Application.Run(new Form1());
}
static void writeMetadata()
{
// write the metadata to the image here
}


Tags: .net, bitmapmetadata, c#, COMException, PresentationCore.dll, STA, threads, wpf
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What if you’re implementing an application in .NET (C#) that is supposed to automatically update itself once a new version comes out? Well, you have multiple options, some of which cost a lot of money, while others are free but come with certain restrictions, like being only compatible with an ISS or solely running in user space like ClickOnce apps.

Tags: .net, apache, appupdater, c#, dav, development, http, programming, webdav, windows
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