Month: September 2010
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What is cURL good for?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67125/what-is-curl-good-for Quite a nice list! Let it inspire you! The other week I attended a presentation, where curl was used for triggering all sorts of actions on a data base engine through an HTTP server. curl is really the swiss army knife of web-2.0.
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Apple is a ‘mutant virus’ says Acer founder | 9 to 5 Mac Apple is a ‘mutant virus’ says Acer founder | Apple Intelligence
Apple is a ‘mutant virus’ says Acer founder | 9 to 5 Mac Apple is a ‘mutant virus’ says Acer founder | Apple Intelligence
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the ISP doesn’t let you ssh
Did that occur to you before? Your (new) Internet connection seems to work instantly, but then you recognize, that you do not succeed with ssh connections. (Search engine question: “Why does my SSH connection not work?”) That may have different reasons. The ISP block connections on certain destination ports like 22. If you can, get…
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my 1st hummingbirds on Martinique
Sitting on the sofa on the balcony / terrace at my customer’s place, thinking about sad IT issues, my eyes got aware of a very nice and lovely “irregularity” in the garden: 2 black+blue hummingbirds. I hope, they will return soon.
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a very nice pier, but unluckily connected to a construction area and not open to the public
The location given here is not precisely, where I was standing and what I was referring to. I was standing right by the waterside, which was rather close. And the pier went between 50 and 100 meters into the ocean. I would have loved to sit their with my MacBook hooked to the Internet and…
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just completed some part of my overseas communication with Europe
I video-skyped with son#1 and his mother, and for the first time the timezone shift was the other way round: I was in broad daylight, and they at Berlin were already in the “darkness of the night”. Quite funny.
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Facebook locked me out from Facebook chatting, because they found my IP-address weird
Once I logged into Facebook on their web-site again, they confronted me with “weird” activities on my account with them, showing me a log-in attempt from Gouadeloupe. For them Gouadeloupe and Martinique seem to have something in common. After I confirmed that as OK, they also let me log into their XMPP style chatting again.…
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returning home the 1st time on Martinique
Longing for my 2nd shower “inside” and still for the 1st shower “outside” for today. There is a lot of delightful sweetness here. Update / 2010-11-19: It is so hot and humid on Martinique. My host had told me, there are a couple of showers each day, and I was eagerly waiting for them to…
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first things first on Martinique
Got the router working and hooked up on the Internet again, before I went to bed. The customer’s ISP imposes non-default PPPoE parameters. which we sorted, but the ISP seems to not want SSH connections, so the packets need a change of tags. Against my hunger I am eating guave, nice baby bananas, and later…
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outspoken media: “6 Ways to Lose Customers, Credibility & Friends On Social Media”
6 Ways to Lose Customers, Credibility & Friends On Social Media