Modem ...

... schockt nich :(.

Vorallem wenn man tabbed browsing gewöhnt ist.

iPhone

Hype hin oder her.

Es sieht einfach super schick aus und ich beobachte den ganzen Rummel schon ne Weile. Es sah und sieht immer noch ziemlich nach "genau dem" Mobiletelefon aus das ich selbst bauen würde (abgesehen von dem telepatischen Interface, den 15'' Bildschirm, das es Krebs heilen kann, ...).

Ich hatte das Ding sogar durch glückliche Umstände mal in der Hand und es gibt ein Look and Feel, wie tante und ich schonmal über die PSP gesagt haben, das sehr sehr Wertig ist. Webbrowsen ist echt der Hammer mit dem Ding (Wi-Fi Zugangn vorrausgesetzt).

Jetzt wo die ersten "reviews" raus sind ( [www.engadget.com], [www.nytimes.com] , [online.wsj.com] ) wird's natürlich noch interessanter.

Einige Dinge die mir beim lesen als erstes "sauer" aufgestossen sind, keine mp3s als Klingeltöne, keine MMS, keine Video aufzeichnungen, kein Adobe support für den Webbrowser.

Trotzdem steht es noch immer ziemlich hoch auf der "das will ich haben" Liste, allerdings sind +500$ definitiv zu viel. Mal sehen wie sich das ganze weiter entwickelt.

Girl + Gamer

English:
"Intimate Controler"

German at Golem:
Spiele-Controller im BH als Masterarbeit

o.O

Knowledge is power

Some might remember this:

My graphic card just broke down ...

Meh ...

Well, I found out what it was.

My webcam seems to cause problems with my sound and with my video card.

It have to reinstall my graphics drivers after I just updated my webcam stuff.

Adminspotting

I sah this today in my current sysadmins office and since I know some more of those:

Have a nice day!

Meh ...

I did some testing with my graphic card, again, and I got it to work, again.

Not sure what caused the breakdown of it, but so far it is working, although I'm closely monitoring it. I also checked the warranty and it is 24months, so I have some time to check if it just was a hickup in the system, the card not fitting or if it is somehow broken.

Apart from that, my DSL WLAN Router is still off duty because, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting randomly, what makes surfing the internet and especially gaming rather difficult.

I'm also thinking about stopping on my WoW adventure for a while, or at least change the subscription method from credit card to game time cards. Although it is really fun to play with my old SWG mates and hang around and game with them, it just doesn't appeal to me. Having that said, expect tante to comment here in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...

So now for the good news:
I mentioned it to some already, Tako announced last week tuesday that some of the new people at Kendo, among them myself, would receive their armor this friday.

Well, she changed her mind, I got mine already yesterday :) wooooot!

My graphic card just broke down ...

... and it's 11 days + 1 year ago I bought it :-/ .

I'll see what mindfactory wants to about this.

Weeee !!!!

Waffeln für Nerds

Ich hätte gern das Bild direkt geposted aber nen Clicky bringt euch schon nicht um.

Hab das bei tante in seinem letzten Blogpost: Wo er recht hat… gesehen und wurd da einfach mal neugierig und aufdringlich.

Danke an tante, ich denke nicht das ich das Gerät in die Finger bekomme, ich kann aber das nächste Mal Waffeln mitbringen wenn ich in OL bin.

Weeee !!!!

;)

Handy

IBM about MMOGs

Massively
multiplayer online games, Part 1: A performance-based approach to sizing
infrastructure

Some hard-won objective advice for
structuring your next online game project

Haven't read it yet, since I'm still at work

E-Peen ... ;)

Size does matter at http://www.the-gay-bar.com .

Anybody remember this:

http://awhisperinmyghost.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-baby-is-mine-now.html ?

Well, I bought a second one :D.
I had planned to buy it a little bit later to save up some more cash, but with the opportunity to get rid of my old CRT when I visit my partent during eastern I ordered it last week and it arrived yesterday.
Very nice =).
Now if my 7600GT just would be able to push the horizontal spawn across the two screens ... . It seems that are a little bit to many pixels to push so I'm "just" using it as Dual Screenview lol. Still now I'm thinking of getting another 7600GT to see if they could push it in SLI mode (just have to find the same card again) ... .

The long term plan is to buy a third 22'' one (somewhen in 2008) and then buy a capable graphic card which can support all three and then do this:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/gaming/eve.php

Yeah ... my E-Peen is bigger than your E-Peen ;) and all that for a screensaver browser game like tante would say.

Weeee !

Toys toys toys ...

I bought 2GB Kingston RAM for my Laptop to "upgrade it" rather than buy a whole new Laptop. It does make a difference if you spend 200Euros or 2000Euros =) .

The Acer support pointed to me to an online shop, who is selling spare parts for my model and had also some exploded diagramms of it. Disassembling wasn't that easy as I expected, or it was but not that obvious as I missed two screws who were holding the keyboard and the main part together but apart from that everything went smoot. Well as smooth as Murphy allows it. I have one screw left over and I don't know where it belongs ... :D ... .

Wer's glaubt wird seelig

Spionagevorwürfe gegen Microsoft
22. Feb 08:09, ergänzt 11:05

Die Firma WebTrends ist bei Microsoft wohl bekannt. Es handele sich bei ihr um «einen unabhängigen Dienstleister», gab ein Microsoft-Sprecher auf Nachfrage des ORF zu. Er widerspricht jedoch dem Vorwurf der Datenspionage. „Die Daten, die WebTrends sammelt und analysiert, verwenden wir dazu, unsere Online-Hilfe benutzerfreundlicher zu machen“, beteuert auch Microsoft-Managerin Pamela Sindall in Redmont (USA): «Dabei werden keine persönlichen Daten gesammelt.» (nz)

Bah!
Desweiteren nur ein kurzer Link zur tante, der sich über das SchülerVZ auslässt. Mehr hab ich dazu auch nicht zu sagen.

p.s.
Ja, ich gestehe ich bin bei StudiVZ gemeldet, aber das was die an Daten von mir haben ist nicht "nutzbar". Wollte da nur mal "angeln" gehen und sehen wer da alles ist. Ja, ich gestehe ebenfalls ich bin auch bei Xing.com, allerdings kann ich darüber mit ein Haufen alter Kollegen in Kontakt bleiben. Es hängt immer auch ein wenig davon, wie man diese Portale nutzt.

But I haven't started threatening anybody yet !

Another call to 08003301000 to the t-com at 14:45 took me 11 min. into a waiting line with easy "Fahrstuhlmusik". Easy on the speaker from the phone I was able to keep working, but I wanted a result and not just mask the fans in my office.

The last t-com henchmen mentioned to me the 08003302000 and braniac and desperate I was I just randomly tried that one. Got into another waiting line, got somebody on the phone who wasn't responsible, got into another waiting line and finally got to a person who was appareantly capable.

Using "several different t-com programs" to handle "their data" he was able to get me some information about the status and an approximate time and date for a "technicel inclined t-com henchmen", who needs to visit my appartment but he called back to confirm everything.

30 mins. later and a call he said everything is set for thursday 15. febr. somewhere between 12 and 17:00 but the they'll call me half an hour in advance so I don't have to waste another day at home rather than work.

So, I'll just go to my kendo lesson this evening rather than trying some stuff at a some random t-com henchmen in a shop, bah! ;) Could have been soo much fun!

So the mighty T-Com screwed up my move ...

.... should I start threatening people with brute force or am I polite and offer them the possibility to do hara kiri themself ?

Also, what's going on germany? - Did I missed something ? Can I go out and beat everybody up now as well? I realy would like to see how my bokken or my bahi sticks work out on some meat but so far my parents teached me that hurting people is bad.

Another thing, if we are hurting people, why don't we try it on some who realy would deserve at least some kind of beating: LARIDSCHANIS SKANDALAUFTRITT IN MÜNCHEN.

Munich isn't that far away. I could drive there if somebody askes me too ;).

Multiverse Forum for the Firefly MMO

Multiverse Forum for the Firefly MMO


I stopped reading it mostly for the reasons tante is not reading it at all. Too many of those people there, even when they have "software developer" as occupation in their profile, IMHO, don't have any clue about what they are talking.

Especially this focus on the ship, the crew, combat is realy turning me off. What made the 'verse so attractive as MMORPG setting is it's open space environment, giving the chance to create that "uncle own simulator" type game. You can become what you what in that 'verse, you weren't forced to become the next jedi or in this case Mal or Zoe.

I become more and more disgusted by any discussion especially as that the level of discussion is that of a 6 year old playing WoW with his daddy holding his hand buying him stuff from ebay because he can't compete.

It's realy realy realy bad there.

I'm already thinking about "being the total prick" writing a very offensive post there just to clear their heads but I don't think anybody would understand me because I can't set my mind to that of a brainless dead body which seems to be the level of discussions ... :( ... .

I fear for the worst for the Firefly MMO, if "that" fanbase even gets one idea into the game, the game is even more screwed that SWG with the NGE :( ....

Want an extraordinary example? Here:

If a Firefly game hopes to reflect the themes of the series, it will need to break from convention in significant ways. Here's one I've been thinking about recently.

I think the game should avoid the usual MMORPG tendency to simulate too much of the game world (or universe as the case may be). In most games, there seems to be the implied goal that players will fill a wide variety of roles, forming an more-or-less complete simulated community.

Isn't this the strenght and the fascinating thing of an MMORPG ? Creating a real "living" environment where you're trader is not just an NPC but a real person ?

That's great for social sims, but this is (or should be, in my opinion) a game about
crewing a tramp frieghter on the frontiers of space. The idea of designing
generalized systems for the economy, player housing, crafting etc., etd. could
be a lot of fun, but it would have very little to do with Firefly. These kinds
of systems should only be developed to the extent that they support the central
mode of play.

If you don't want to socialice, why play an MMORPG at all?

I want to see the devs putting 95% of their creative energy in nailing the one thing that matters most about Firefly. Namely, crewing a tramp freighter on the rim. The gameplay for the basic activities of doing that should be at the forefront. Navigating, piloting, mechanicking, communications, trading, speculating, smuggling, detection, stealth, etc, should receive the lion's share of the developers attention. Within reason, every aspect of keeping a ship in the air should be represented with fun, integrated gameplay. The bulk of the design effort should be in support of this notion. If crewing a Firefly isn't the 'fun' part of the game, it will have missed its target.

I put that into my reply in that thread. If you want that game play, you better play an adventure

Firefly is about a special breed of people. Not everyone has the spirit and gumption to head out to the black. Only a select few people are willing to give up on civilized life and take up the travails of the vagabond. Most folks are just looking for safety and security. They're called NPCs.

And that's just one example, there are multiple of similar thread on this level discussion "possible" gameplays for Firefly ..... :(

MS Windows Vista Voice Control: "Open File Explorer, Select all, Delete, Yes"

Fun with MS Windows Vista:

Security Warning - Turn off Your Speakers while Surfing on Windows Vista

Topic: Notebooks and PCs
Recommend Story: Digg Del.icio.us

Posted on Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:05:02 CST
Warning! Turn of your speakers while surfing the web on Windows Vista. Windows Vista's speech recognition could listen to audio files commanding to delete files. This is the funniest security flaw I ever heard about. A report by George Ou on ZDNet talks about the possibility of playing audio files on web sites that would issue commands that the Vista voice recognition understands. Microsoft already responded and acknowledged that this is possible and a security issue. Of course only commands can be issued that the currently logged in user has the rights to. This has the potential to become a sport though.

You should try this. Call your buddy who already has Vista installed and ask him to put you on speaker phone. Then you say "Open File Explorer, Select all, Delete, Yes".

I didn't get it.

It seems after talking to the owner, that the appartment is a social supported appartment.
To be allowed to rent such one you have to get either social help and/or your wages need to be lower that a certain limit.

So in this case, I earn to much, doh!

I have to keep on looking.

p.s.
the iPhone is there
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/

In between ...

I don't have that much to tell, something is going on in my mind but I haven't come to a conclusion yet, so I just gonna toss some random links to you.

First this webcomic I got from Tante: Gone with the blastwave - a single one is kinda weird, this one being one among my favourits but if you start reading them from the beginning you'll get the "full experience" of it's awesomeness ;).

Another link I got from Tante during the last few days is: McDonald's puts patent on sandwiches - yeah, so becarefull or they are gonna sue you next time when you prep your meal.

Also another google tech talk: Human Computation - also very very interesting. It's how you can get people to solve problems for you, which computers can't.

Another google tech talk

Scrum et al

I'm not allowed to talk about what's going on in side my company - naturally - but this talk as uneasy as it is, is more describing exactly, what IMHO went wrong, even though he is "just" talking about the Scrum Methodology of developing software.