Tobi + C# = T#

Wow, that’s what I call sleezy! What a fraud and what a missleading letter. I just got some snail-mail claiming that one of my domains is about to expire. Which is so not true. But seriously, even me got a bit edgy, but I just wonder what it does to people that are not too familiar with domain registration and/or are in a hurry reading through this letter. But be aware that I believe any notice from Domain Registry of America (DROA) (and of Europe, Canada, etc.) and/or namejuice is a fraud and a ripoff. As far as I am concerned they are intentionally being misleading. By using fear, uncertainty and doubt they persuade the recipient that they must pay DROA, or lose their domain registration.

Read about it here:
ArtVerif
and
DomainRegistrationTips

… and yet here I am blogging about it. Kind of an oxymoron. But today is shirtless Thursday at work. Good thing I’ve got my own office.

For all of you needing a little recreation – check out Fingerskilz. Coooooool. Hang in there!

Nonono, not me personally did upgrade from 800×600 to 1024×768 – but my blog did. I guess it was time, since about 2000 the new standard resolution is 1024×768, but I guess by now even those rotation their TFTs to a vertical position have upgraded to 1024×1280 so it was really time to get rid of the 800x design. Especially since posting code in this design is really quite cumbersome. But here is the neat trick: the new design is still 800×600 compatible – if you loose the left navigation while reading: Voila, the content box fits exactly into your browser. Hope you like the improvement.

I personally think that it’s not the fact that they post on my site. That’s what the Akismet Spam plugin is for. By the way, great work guys! Your plugin already caught 830 spam messages, in 7 weeks. But that’s not the point. I am just always upset by the horrible, horrible English they use. Seriously – aweful! Even those one-liners are full of mistakes and bad grammar. But I guess it is not worth putting more thoughts into those messages – since I delete them anyway.

Hahaha, why is that such a big deal? Well, I have been using Debian for more than 10 years now and I thought I was well read, when it comes to the dpkg and apt commands. But today I actually learned not one, but two new things related to apt. Aaaaand the winners are: apt-build and volatile.

Well, as far as I am concerned there is no need for Gentoo anymore. Let there be apt-build. Nice work on making recompiling performance critical packages as easy as directly installing them using apt-get. Nonono, please don’t start a flame on Debian vs. Gentoo, or Gentoo vs. rest of the world. I was just joking.

Second cool thing is Debain Volatile, a project aimed at getting more recent software like AV-scanners into the stable branch. So now there is less need to do some apt-pinning and/or upgrading to testing on your production servers. Nice.

Sorry about the downtime of my blog. The university that is hosting this site had some weird dns trouble. first we thought that it was our local ldap that was acting up, but fortunatelly I discovered that the dns entry for our ldap server had simply vanished. But now everything is back online.

For all of you waiting for the continuation of my previous partial post about custom attributes and reflection. Well, hopefully it will be done on Monday. I’ll be spending a LOT of time in trains the next 4 days. And that should create enough “spare” time for me to finish my work on a hopefully informative article about custom attributes, reflection and setting values dynamically at runtime. So stay tuned and be sure to check back on Tuesday.

On the same note as my post on baiku – how did this happen: UN Human Rights Council election results. China, Cuba, etc. Damn, they know for sure what human rights are…

That’s what they call “open” in China. Well, as you probably know, Wikipedia is banned in China due to its political content. Now they claim that the IDEA is not banned. Or is it? China’s biggest search engine Baidu is creating an online enzyclopedia baiku like wikipedia, but I think it is nothing like wikipedia.

Here are the main differences:

• Articles may only be published, if they do not offend the Censorship of Publications Board
• It is illegal to publish any criticism against the functionaries and administration, hurt the public order, etc.
• Baidu alone is judge what is appropriate and what is not.
• Baidu owns all the legal rights to every article published within their system.
• etc…

Do I have to go on any further? Sad, sad …

Wow, has it already been 5 years since the death of Douglas Noel Adams? Thanks for making me recognize the little absurdities of life and the universe and everything in general and give me reasons to laugh in it.

Long after his death his poems were found and wondered over. News of them spread like morning sunlight. For centuries they illuminated and watered the lives of many people whose lives might otherwise have been darker and drier.

from “Life, the Universe, and Everything”

21 is only half the truth! Don’t Panic…

~Tobi

P.S.: The UserFriendly paying tribute to DNA.