Maybe we get this as early as the end of this week (together with Android 2.3).

via TomTasche

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And indeed, this Javascript file tracks visitors to the qq829.com domain. The hosted domain cnzz.com seems to offer website tracking stats and other services.

As far as I can tell now, it does not look like this is a malicious service (yet). What I do not understand is, why somebody wants to track webesites of mine for some stats. I have never registered anything at cnzz.com. And the exact affiliation of qq829.com and cnzz.com is unclear at this point. As a security measure, don’t click any links and do not visit those sites. For now there seems to be no real solution to block such access.

qq829.com was registered in August 2009 and is hosted in China.

More information can be found on the Google Analytics Support forum.

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You may wonder why people want to add an email address to your profile. The reason is, that if you do this, they can request a password reset and can then use your Facebook profile.

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Hat man das Dokument in den Papierkorb verschoben, kann man es ganz einfach auf den Desktop verschieben und hat vollen Zugriff auf das Dokument. Also kopieren oder per E-Mail versenden.

Vielleicht klappt der Trick auch für andere Steuersoftware. Verifizieren kann ich das selbst nicht . Auch nicht, ob es einen ähnlichen Tipp für Windows Systeme gibt.

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• Firefox: 55%
• Internet Explorer: 23%
  • IE7: 50%
  • IE8: 37%
  • IE6: 13%
• Safari: 8.7%
• Chrome: 8.1%

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• You have a folder with 200 photos of your list paragliding trip
• You want to send 20 photos to your friend or copy them to another folder
• What you would do now is chose all the 20 photos from the list of 200 photos selecting all the ones you want and copy them

Now my idea is to have a more intelligent clipboard. Mine would allow you to add objects (like photos) to some sort of a collection or list. Lets say you copy the first three images and you have to scroll down for more. Now if you select more photos and copy them, they are added to the collection of the previous selected photos. Now your clipboard contains five of your photos. Now you can paste these or add more photos to it.

One problem I have not found any solution for is how to empty such a collection. Of course, if you have those 5 photos and copy some text, the photo collection should be emptied. But what if you want to start a new photo collection? They should not be added to the previous clipboard (= photos from paragliding).

What do you think? Is this a good idea? Personally I would like to have something like this. Realistically speaking, this should not be such a big problem. The copy mechanism just should check the file header for the file type and add it to the appropriate stack or list. And the pasting method should ask what stack/list should be pasted.

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Dabei tratt auch Andreas Töscher, einer der Mitglieder des Siegerteams des Netflix Prizes auf. Er erzählte über seine Erfahrungen, das Dataset und einige Tipps und Tricks zu ihrem Algorithmus und ihrem automatischen Parameter Tuner. Äusserst interessant und spannend. Es zeigt auch, wieviel Zeit nötig wären, um einigermassen erfolgreich zu sein. Die meisten Teams im Challenge-Projekt konnten bisher nur die bereits vorhandenen Algorithmen testen und auf das riesige Datenset anwenden. Viele Ideen wurden Andreas Töscher vorgestellt, welche von ihm jedoch als unnützlich oder zu zeit- und ressourceintensiv angesehen wurden.

Zum Schluss wurde noch der “HSR Netflix Progress Prize” vergeben.

Gratulation an Team 6 mit ihrem virtualisierten Linux System

Ich werde die restlichen Präsentation sammeln und wenn erlaubt, ebenfalls online zu verlinken.

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According to the newest domain newsletter and own researches, the domain sfr.ch has been sold in the last week for 6000 EUR. A quick whois reveals, that Swiss television is the new owner.

I think this is the first step in the strategy, to merge television (sf.tv) and radio (drs.ch) to one big platform. sfr can be interpreted as “Schweizer Fernsehen und Radio” (Swiss Television and Radio).

Time will tell.

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Dear Sir/Madam

We are a internet service (software development, website design and development, wifi network works to promote the protection of brands, search engine optimization, etc.) company in China,

Several days ago we received a formal application submited by Robert Jiang who wanted to use the keyword “keyword” to register the Internet Brand and with

suffix .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn/.hk/ .asia/ domain names.

After our initial checking through Internet , we found that the keyword “keyword” to be applied for registration is same as your keyword.Accordingly,before we finish his registration,we would like to get your final decision about this,whether you mind his registration,if you believe his registration would affect your bussiness and produce conflict,then we could give your priority to register them,as the keyword is first used by your company.However,if you do not think so,please advise of that and then we will finish his registration.

For proceeding the next step, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible. Under the circumstance of no your reply during the next 5 working days ,we will consider you to give it up and finish his registration.

Yours sincerely

Hannah

Checking Department
Tel: 86 513 85330968
Fax: 86 513 80260106
Email:Hannah@wifint.cn
Website: www.wifint.cn

Nice try Hannah but I call your bluff. There is no way that somebody wants that domain name and for sure are you not allowed to display names of a potential buyer. And no, I do not want you to “take action” and send me a bill for “your work avoiding some third party” to register a domain name.
If you get an email like that, just delete it. This will not harm you.

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* 24 Gigs of RAM
* Intel® Xeon® Processor E5520, 8 real CPUs
* Nvidia Geforce FX 3800
* Windows 7 Enterprise 64Bit

Windows Experience Index: 5.9 (because of the hard drive)

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First their lab really looks like a lab. Hundreds of servers (over 400 to be precise) are either mounted or lying around in a small room – a former lumber-room – with cables allover. The servers are important, because they should reflect real world behavior an scenarios. Beside those servers the OSTC has access to over 360 Linux distributions for testing and developing. All together is this the highest density of computer power in a single lab inside of Microsoft.
Besides the Redmond lab Microsoft has a second lab in Cambridge which they are using with Novell and their employees. This lab is primarily used for SAMBA support and interoperability testing.

The Microsoft Commitment to Open Source

Make Windows the best platform for Open Source. To reach this goal, they need a strong community and developers willing to do this. And this might be one of the bigger challenges. As seen in the discussion, people still see Microsoft as a big evil corporation. Steve Ballmer’s comments about “Linux being Cancer” are still present in peoples mind. And they are hard to get out.

Microsoft and Open Source Projects

A big item on Microsoft’s Open Source list is PHP. The team set up windows.php.net to give developers on the Windows platform some news and insights.
For example, the PHP team still uses Visual Studio 6 to compile the binaries. The reason is that there are some dependencies to an old Apache version. Asking the Apache Software Foundation about that, they said that’s because they have some dependencies to an older Perl version. The Perl team said, they did not know why the dependency still exists. And because the original source code is not available due to various reasons (programmer left the project, nobody has a copy) the OSTC re-wrote the library and PHP can now be compiled on the latest Visual Studio 2008 version. Many hours spent, but that helped to bring the PHP 5.3 version to the same level as the Linux version, feature and bug level.
Besides fixing old version, Microsoft is also adding new features such as support for Windows Azure on PHP, methods to read and write Excel and Word documents (something many companies requested for invoicing or automated document generation) and better support for Active Directory and Exchange.
In case you wonder now why Microsoft supports PHP, it is because it has a huge market share. Hank also told me that a few years ago Tim O’Reilly said based on books sales that the next big thing is Ruby and Python. But you barely see those languages. The decision for PHP is solely based on capitalization. But also most PHP installations are on Apache httpd servers on Linux machines. I still think Microsoft should either port ASP.net or the Internet Information Server to Linux

The Microsoft team is also working and extending Hadoop. A technology developed by Google to store and map large collections of data and computing them. I knew that Yahoo is a big player and I think it is great to see Microsoft using Hadoop for their search engine Bing.

Microsoft and the Linux Kernel

On July 21st 2009 Microsoft announced the release of 20’000 lines of code to the Linux Kernel. If you look back a few years and you would thought that Microsoft would release code to the Linux Kernel everybody would think you are mad. But now it became reality.
Of course as many other big companies behind the Linux Kernel (if you still think most of the Linux code is written on weekends and by hobbyist, you are wrong) also Microsoft is doing this for their benefit. The source code that was released is for a technology called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a visualization technology as Xen, VMware or how they are all called. The code Microsoft contributed is actually driver code to emulate hardware. This helps to run the Windows operating system better on Linux. According to Hank his code should be available in a few weeks in the next kernel version 2.6.32.
You know think it mus be impossible for a big and closed source company like Microsoft to release code in open source. And yes, it was quiet challenging as Hank told me over a beer. He had a meeting with each and every lawyer Microsoft has. But no one said immediately no to him. He never had to change any line of code for reasons like patents violation or other policies. But one of the problems he came across was the fact, that Microsoft and other companies like IBM use a software to analyze source code and verify that no offensive language or profanity is used. As you maybe know, coding Linux drivers require some includes and usage of pre-defined variables. One of this variables is “slave”. This word is also on Microsoft’s list. Hank had to argue that he could not change a word he has no influence on. And in computer terms, everybody knows what a “slave” is.

Conclusion

I have one request: Stop thinking “Microsoft vs. Open Source” and start thinking “Microsoft and Open Source” or “Microsoft for Open Source”.
This post could sound to “Microsoft friendly” for you. Well, you are not open minded enough then. Microsoft is no different than IBM, Red Hat, Novell or Google. They just have a different history. And maybe we should put that away… In the end every contributor (as a company) to Open Source wants to make money.

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Poken is a technology that utilizes Near Field Communication technology to allow the exchange of online social networking data between two keychain accessories.

They can be used to connect people with Internet profiles like Facebook, Xing or other social networks. All you need to do is let the hands touch each other. Later you connect your Poken to your computer and synchronize it with the Poken servers.
In theory a pretty cool idea. But in Switzerland Poken has not yet lifted off much. All people that have one are already connected with each other. So what to do? Ralph had the great idea to destroy them.

So we met today, on a rainy, cloudy day to destroy our Pokens. The big question you know have is how we destroyed them. That is the fun part.

We used a steamroller! This is incredible fun. Just check out my pictures and see for yourself.
And yes, we must be nuts to do such a thing

Thanks to Ralph for organizing and all other parties involved. Was really fun and enjoyable.
I wonder what the official word at Poken is about our destruction

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The changes are minimal, but lighten the design up a little.

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Or IRC. Or a forum. Just the design is cleaner. And the subscription model is different.

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