Browsing slashdot, I just found a reference to this: When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids. It talks about an US school board member taking a maths test for pupils. He was not able to answer the 60 questions, but was able to guess 10 of them. That guy also claimed to be
Some people are obsessed with names when it comes to software products: Ubuntu Linux names its releases, as does Fedora Linux. Eclipse is doing it too (Fortunately, those projects still have a numbering scheme below the name-hood). And people are using those names. But why, I ask?
So I want to know a detail about the certificates they offer. Because talking to them on the phone never works, I am currently trying their “live chat” feature:
One of my neigbours asked me if I could take a look at a skype problem she was having. Her husband, currently in a far, far away country, could not hear her when they were using Skype.
Some time ago I signed up for http://www.xing.com/. This is a social network for professionals. Implicitly it promises to generate more business. This is presumably mostly a matter of being active on the platform. Which I wasn’t. So no additional business for me. I even signed up for the payed version – 60 EUR per
So I had to change the network configuration of a Cisco Secure ACS Appliance (basically a central authentication server). Now even if this “wonderful” appliance uses Windows as its operating system, it does not allow you to configure it through a GUI (the GUI just tells you that the appliance is fully operational and cannot
Internationalization (I18n) is a big topic for many people. While I agree that it is a good idea to have software available in many languages, as a system administrator I often hate it.
For a couple of years now, downloading files from the internet has become increasingly annoying, IMHO. Before the emergence of “user-friendly” download pages (“Your download will start shortly, if it does not, click >here<” is still the best of these, because at least they give you the final URL) it was as simple as copying
Der ORF titelt zur Winterzeitumstellung (wie er das bei jeder Zeit-Umstellung macht) schon wieder “Die offene Frage nach dem warum”. Und wie immer wird das alte Energiesparargument ausgegraben. Da haben es die Englischsprachigen besser: Dort heisst es “Daylight saving time” – und das sagt alles. Aber mittlerweile wird ja wenigstens die Abschaffung der Winterzeit gefordert…
While I cannot wholeheartedly recommend The Daily WTF, I want to point you to a very interesting article I just stumbled upon: Documentation done right. It is the first time I have seen such thoughts written down, and I will definitely try to pass on the word about this. It also reinforces one of my