Month: March 2012
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AVM has a daylight saving time problem with their FRITZ!Box and FRITZ!Fon products
My FRITZ!Box 7390 synchronises properly with the NTP servers, but it does not take the DST (“daylight saving time”, in German: “Sommerzeit”) into account, that started last night over here in Germany (e.g.). When I log in to my box, it shows the date (day and time) like this: $ telnet fritz.box # date Sun…
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o’Reilly Media book: Designing Data Visualizations
Designing Data Visualizations – O’Reilly Media got it on 2012-07-29.
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O’Reilly Media book: Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault
Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault: Microsoft HealthVault is the most prominent example of a personal health record (PHR). With its open API, flexibility, and connections with multiple health care providers, it gives people interested in monitoring their own health an unprecedented opportunity to do their own research on their own data. This concise book will…
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my FRITZ!Box 7390 stopped functioning last night, but now it works again.
I tried restarting it in the morning, but it did not wake up. I re-animated my 7270, and phone-wise it worked fine, but not DSL-wise – all that took quite a while. The guy at the Deutsche Telekom support hotline told me, the 7270 would not talk VDSL, and my access was configured to be…
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No Starch Press book: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (2nd ed.), by Michael Schrenk
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: There’s a wealth of data online, but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you? Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with…