I am having trouble connecting to our Windows File Server for a couple of days now. Finder always gives me this error message: Changing my password or using the server’s ip did not solve the problem. Next I tried to connect with the command line tools smbclient. That worked perfectly. But what the hell? I […]
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Report Nine: Open Source Is Not a Business Model How do vendors make money from free and open source software (FOSS)? The question is as old as FOSS itself, but over time it has shifted from a theoretical question — “How is it possible to generate revenue from something that is free?” — to a […]
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Eureka is an American science fiction television series set in a town inhabited almost entirely by geniuses. The show is aired in the United States and Canada. It is currently on its third season and takes a short break. The plot explains pretty clearly that this is a show for geeks and nerds. In the […]
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I admit. I do SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Why? Because it still works and it is free and brings real traffic. Through my skills I managed to push a website of mine at position #3 or #4 for a widely user query. Thanks to that, the traffic exploded: And the proof, that the traffic comes […]
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I got myself a new mobile phone after my last one died ;-(. The new one is again a Sony Ericsson – the C702. Awesome device, GPS and all the other stuff you could live without years ago but once you have it, you will never be without it 🙂 The biggest problem I had […]
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