Parallels and VPN
April 22, 2008
For future reference:
Parallels Ethernet Adapter only works with Cisco VPN client (on Mac OS X) if shared network is selected. Bridged network didn’t work.
Tags: parallels, mac os x, vpn, cisco vpn client,
Aloe Vera
April 15, 2008
Fair Trade products from Ecuador:
Colonche Line
Seen on TV
Bad Losers
April 9, 2008
Some politicians really are bad losers. And they don’t fear to show it. The actual campaign against a elected member of the swiss government shows this. The ultimatum posted by some hard liners of the SVP against Eveline Widmer-Schlupf is incredible, disrespectful and mysogynic by itself. Some incredible results of this campaign:
- The SVP showed a good result some county elections in spite of this campaign
- A supporting website was a victim of a distributed denial of service attack
Die Melde- und Analysestelle Informationssicherung MELANI des Bundes hat die Logdateien des Servers analysiert und ist zum vorläufigen Schluss gekommen, dass am 9. April 2008 wahrscheinlich kein DDoS-Angriff auf http://www.forza-eveline.net stattgefunden hat. Dies im Gegensatz zum amerikanischen Hosting Provider, der von einem historischen Schlag von nie gesehenem Ausmass spricht…Allerdings hat MELANI Indizien für einen möglicherweise erfolgreichen Angriff auf die Datenbank gefunden.
Running, Satellite and phpFlickr
April 5, 2008
Like many others I am using Flickr as a CMS for a website using Satellite. Unfortunatly Satellite offers no support for authenticated calls which I need now to get private pictures on the website. So I need to adjust Satellite myself, which is challenging, considering the fact that I know php only marginally. But then a programming language is a programming language is a programming language (I know that there are differences and everybody has his/her favorite, but I am not going into this). The documentation on Flickr Services is ok, but not extremely helpful. phpFlickr offered the most promising help, especially the authentication tool was very helpful (didn’t work with Safari though, Firefox was ok). phpFlickr also takes care of the ordering of the parameters and the creation of the api signature for you. So know the only task remaining is to make Satellite work together with phpFlickr… If I get it running I let you know here.
O, yes nearly forgot the running. Joined the Birslauf today. Was a lot of fun!
Happy Easter
March 21, 2008
Flock
March 20, 2008
I just discovered Flock, the social web browser. That’s how they advertise. They offer an offline/online blog post plugin, which I am trying out right now.
Looks promising, but need yet to try out the features.
Updated: After my first euphoria I realised that Flock is not particularly new. But what I like so far is that it can manage both of my blogs. Both Safari and Firefox got troubled by my two accounts on wordpress and I often ended up posting stuff to the wrong blog. Dito with Flickr. The Blog Editor is simple, but enough, it is easy to post things quickly.
Running again
March 16, 2008
Don’t worry, that’s not going to be a sports blog. May be I should start twittering about my runnings. Or not. But what came to my mind while running, was, that I am probably more a mind blogger than an actual blogger. Often when I am running or on my way with the bycicle I think about. And lately I noticed that I started to think if something would be interesting to blog about. Unfortunately it seems that thinking about blogging somehow prevents the actual blogging. Like having thougt about something actually is enough, may be to get a clearer picture of something or so. And then I often lack the motivation to actually write about it…
Picture Nr 2000
March 16, 2008
of my own digital camera: A Sony DSC-W50.
Running
March 12, 2008
The second time with the lauftreff. Today there was no slow group. (Last time the slow group wasn’t really slow, at least not in my opinion). But today we started really fast. I didn’t know how far you could go in an hour. The good thing about running in the group
- It’s motivating
- The people are very nice
- and supporting
- It’s longer than I usually run
- It’s faster than I usually run.
- I see places and streets I never were before (and I live know for nearly 15 years in Basel!)
Only one negative point: It’s mostly on paved streets… and my foot is complaining a bit.
Fitness Center – the Decision
March 5, 2008
As nchenga wrote we were evaluating fitness centers. Beeing tech geeks, we took the evaluation seriously. But today was the day and I subscribed. Started with a power yoga session because of my cold. Lesson learned:
- no big difference regarding the instructions
- they don’t negotiate. Obviously, there is no need.
- courses won
- and the sauna…
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