Archive for January, 2006
Jedes Handy hat eine eigene, einmalige Seriennummer. Diese kann häufig mit *#06# aufgerufen werden. Diese Nummer notieren und aufbewahren. Wenn nun ein Handy gestohlen wird, muss man diese Seriennummer dem Telefonhändler oder Hersteller zum Blockieren melden. Die Blockade funktionniert auch wenn der Dieb eine neue SIM(Subscriber Identity Module)-Karte einsetzt.
Man bekommt davon zwar sein Handy nicht [...]
I watched the "Lotusphere 2006 keynote stream":http://play.rbn.com/?url=ibmpdc/pdc/open/demand/jan06/smarcus/lotusphere-v300.rm&proto=rtsp last night and found most of it to be quite boring if only because neither my customer nor myself really believe in the _real-time collaboration_ stuff.
One thing that caught my attention however, was the upcoming integration of Notes 7 into "Google Desktop Search":http://desktop.google.com/. I've yet to use Google [...]
It took a while, but it has happened: this site currently leads on the results when searching Google for my name.
Just a little ego boost.
When I started being a freelancer about fifteen years ago, I opened a business account at the "Norisbank":http://www.norisbank.de in "Mainz":http://www.mainz.de/, because they offerred the exact type of service that I was looking for at very reasonable rates. I've so-far been pleased with their service.
Today I got a lengthy call from the bank manager telling me [...]
Suppose some nice guy wants to make you a trillionaire by handing you a hundred dollar bill every second — day in and day out 24 hours a day. You would have to collect those hundred dollar bills every second, seven days a week, for _317_ years.
_Richard Russell_
via _Nic_.
Last night I zapped into "Arte":http://www.arte.tv and saw a good part of the documentary _Job: Foodhunter_. A film about a man named _Mark Brownstein_ who travels through remote regions of Asia looking for interesting food, condiments and
aromas which he then tries to make available to star chefs around the world.
I strongly recommend seeing the beautiful [...]
During the course of the next seven days, four hundred users in "eleven countries":http://blog.fupps.com/2006/01/16/difficult-support/ will get the Mozilla "Thunderbird":http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ MUA(Mail User Agent) installed on their respective workstations, desktops, notebooks or whatever. That will simply be a silent installation of Thunderbird, no questions asked. It wouldn't really be worth mentioning if it weren't for the fact [...]