Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
I lost 20 € because I didn’t put them away, but kept them in my pockets. Stupid me.
And I went to a optician and finally found glasses I like.
They’re approximately 300 €. *Ack*
And another 240 for the glasses. *Ack*
What should I do now? Is it wise to spent so much money on something you wear? Or is it not wise to, because you have to live with those for quite a while?
That’s interesting. Today I installed Google Desktop Search cause I thought it might come handy when searching those thousand mails I stored on my computer as well as the literature for my thesis. I patiently waited until the program was done with indexing my drive. To my dismay it does not know how to search OpenOffice-documents and Trillian-Chatlogs. But maybe there is an plug-in for those.
The real surprise was, when I started to search for the term “indefinable knowledge” which I knew was somewhere in the book “Democratizing Innovation“. GDS didn’t found a single hit. So while fearing that I somehow misquoted the term I started the Acrobat Reader and used the internal search. Well, there it was, right on page 67. So I googled my desktop for democratizing and surely got a result. A closer examination brought the reason for GDS blind spot to the light: Only the first few pages were stored in the cache. I wonder if this is a single fault within the pDF oder the search engine or if the program somehow fails to mention that everything above a certain filesize will simply not be searched.
Also, when googling my emails I finally felt one of the major drawbacks of mail encryption. The mails are stored encrypted. Anyone here who’ll write a thunderburd plug-in that somehow adds decrypt-and-store-capabilities to enigmail?
Besides planning an druid only WoW-party for the time after I’m finished I distract myself these days with the fabulous Konfabulator. Amongst other things I have found this neat little widget that counts down to the second when I have to turn in my thesis.
Another great way to drive myself crazy. Yay!
Even when I wasn’t a vegetarian I never understood how one label a chunk of meat - skin still attached - as appetizingly or even delicious. My grandma did so today…
Edited on Jul 24th 2005, 20:59 by jeck
I’d like to point out an interesting discussion. Just in case someone has missed it… =)
On my neverending search for good arguments which I can use to convince people, that enryption is a good thing I came up with a new one.
The next time someone will tell me that (s)he has nothing to hide I will make the following proposal.
“If you are so unconcerned with your personal communications because you have nothing to hide: How about I install a tool on your computer that sends me a copy of every mail you write without notify you or the recipient of the mail of its behaviour?”
Then the argument might that unencryptened mails might fall into the wrong hands but at least these hands would belong to a stranger not someone who already knows the person. I would then offer to forward the mail to a complete stranger. [Anyone one here who wants to become that stranger?]
However, at some point it will be pointed out that this would not really be the same because there are so much emails that one would have really bad luck to have ones emails read.
By then I need a good reasoning which explains why the installation of said program and not encrypting your mails is basically the same. This is still not worked out, so any help will be appreciated.
Also to make my arguments more descriptive it would be an interesting experiment to find out how much one can learn about a person when having read their emails for a month.
[Quote] Es gibt Tausende von guten Gründen, warum Magie nicht die Welt regiert. Sie heißen hexen und Zauberer, dachte Magrat, als sie den beiden alten Frauen zum pfad folgte. - Terry pratchett, MacBest, Seite 459* [Quote]
Das ist genau das problem der fähigen Leute, so wie ich es wahrnehme. Viele Experten sind damit beschäftigt dieselben probleme auf unterschiedliche Arten zu lösen. Generell gelten natürlich all die guten Grundsätze wie zum Beispiel “Konkurrenz belebt das Geschäft”. Um mal nur ein Beispiel zu nennen: Aber brauchen wir wirklich Trilliarden verschiedener Desktopumgebungen für Linux?
Ich werde Eindruck nicht los, dass - gerade im technischen Bereich - die Menschen mit den am Besten ausbegildetsten Fertigkeiten oft nicht in der Lage sind, sich gut auf andere Fachleute einzulassen oder mit Menschen, die weniger von einem Thema verstehen, darüber zu reden. Und das obwohl die Experten in manchen Fällen selbst die Notwendigkeit erkennen, dass es sinnvoll wäre, wenn möglichst viele Leute über ein Thema informiert sind.
Besondere Effekte hat das, wenn Leute dann über die Grundlagen von Führungsqualitäten verfügen und es so schaffen, eine Menge Leute, die sich für ihr Thema interessieren um sich zu sammeln. Allerdings stellt sich dann irgendwann heraus, daß sie es gut finden, wenn Leute dabei sind und mitmachen. Aber sie sollen bitte ihre eigenen Ideen zu Hause lassen! Häufig kommt es dann vor, dass konstruktive Vorschläge als Kritik oder sogar - und das ist mein persönlicher Favorit - persönlicher Angriff gewertet werden.
Meine ehemaliger Karatelehrer war meiner Meinung nach so ein Fall. Als ich ihm erläutert habe, dass ich nicht mehr zum Training kommen will, weil mir a) sein Konzept von Sicherheit nicht sicher genug für mich war und ich b) erst meine Verletzung auskurieren wollte, behandelte er mich von da an auf diese höfliche, aber sehr distanzierte und kühle Art, wie sie auch bei Rechtsanwälten und verfeindeten Nachbarn trifft.
* In dem Heyne-Buch, in dem “pyramiden” und “MacBest” enthalten ist.
Edited on Jul 25th 2005, 06:50 by jeck
Go and get Gizmo. For the usual geeky reasons it seems to be better than skype.
Well, yes you two, I was talking to you… =)
Edited on Jul 23rd 2005, 16:20 by jeck
[Quote] The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for the brains to get into a really creative state. [Source: /.] [Quote]
Or he distracts himself with the inter-nets or a innocent game of minesweeper.
So all I’ll ever need are eight minutes…
[30 days to go]
…is trying to give me a cookie whenever I load a g-blog.net-page. Never happened before. Something wrong here?
And while I’m using the glue-category: What about flickr-sidebars for everyone? :p
Edit: Scrolled down to the end of the page, where one can see the pagerank image. Lalala. Here are the numbers for g-blog. Geez. Someone could have told me!
Never scrolls down, but will not accept unknown cookies: Jeck
Edited on Jul 19th 2005, 11:50 by jeck
… sein EyeToy unter Xp zum laufen zubringen: Hier ist ein Forenthread in dem Links zu den wichtigsten Treibern enthalten sind.
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