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Logo and slogan: Ideen bewegen

In the course of my participation in the training sessions on project management I created for my delegation to Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge above logo and slogan. It is a reference to the logo of our university. The slogan is ambiguous and can mean “ideas move” as well as “[we] move ideas”.

my experiences with HTC Desire vs. Iphone

Having resisted the Iphone effect of my Informaticians and CS peer group, last Wednesday I’ve read on MyDealz about the HTC Desire deal at Deutsche Telekom and finally ordered one as business customer and have gone Android. The device arrived last Saturday, and since then I have used it extensively. So, thanks to my not-reluctand-to-borrow-you-one-(in-the-hope-you-join-us)-guys, here is my personal comparison of the HTC Desire and Iphone. It is not about what CPU or any other specs are inside, but about the stuff you can experience, see and which ultimatively matters: Read more »

Erfahrungen mit Netcup

Enttäuscht wird man von Netcup, wenn man von Vservern von Rackspace oder Amazon ausgeht. Netcup setzt sein Angebot anders um und es sind viele wichtige Dinge technisch nicht möglich, was zu Frust führt und von denen ich einige nachfolgend beschreibe. Als studierter Informatiker erscheint mir “Linux-Vserver” vielmehr eher einer Chroot Umgebung mit Extras wie Prozess-Separation oder “logischen Serverpartitionen zu entsprechen. An sich Techniken, die mangels Overhead performant sind und an denen es nichts auszusetzen gibt. Wenn man denn soetwas wollte. Kunden, deren Erwartungen durch Rackspace, Amazon oder Strato virtuelle Server (“Vserver”) geprägt wurden, wie ich, fühlen sich durchaus in die Irre geführt1:

Der Unterschied zeigt sich, Read more »

my BeQuiet power supply died

Yesterday I’ve switched my workstation off. Happily, I must add, as all the data from a former webserver has been successfully transferred to my SheevaPlug. In a minute or two, after something to eat, I wanted to commit that modified paper of mine – but nada! The PSU has died. Again (the last time was last December). So I currently have only my headless miniature server, a PDA and four harddrives along with a RAID card and my notebook, in which the former don’t fit in.

In case you didn’t know, today is German Unification Day and no store has opened. Great.
And yes, I have backups. And spare parts, but no additional PSU.

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