Month: September 2014
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O’Reilly Media book: Getting Started with Impala
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781491905777 Learn how to write, tune, and port SQL queries and other statements for a Big Data environment, using Impala—the massively parallel processing SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. The best practices in this practical guide help you design database schemas that not only interoperate with other Hadoop components, and are convenient for administers to…
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happy birthday to Starr Lisa, my sister! born June 15th, 1961, Heidelberg, Germany
Please let us know, how to contact you! We would like to get in touch. You were born on June 15th, 1961, presumably in Heidelberg, Germany. Your mother’s first name is Charlene.
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“oblivious” – what a nice word, even with a Latin etymology
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oblivious And it really doesn’t apply to me, I am so into constantly questioning myself.
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this is an “Earth, Wind & Fire” night here in my place
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_%26_Fire Their music will accompany me through this night, until I will finally go to bed. And somehow it was the iPod, that led me to choose EWF, because I was somehow on my way to H.F. or Asaf Avidan, but then EWF made me stop. The home-brewn CD I once got as a gift,…
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pls do not follow me on Twitter, just so that I follow you back! that’s not going to work out
recruiting firms started following me on Twitter, and I seriously doubt they are interested in my statements if I don’t know you and you don’t introduce yourself properly and I find you interesting, why should I follow you?
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a constructive proposal for the Palestine conflict: new edition of the Ottoman Empire from Tirana to Cairo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire My colleague and friend”Erdem” and I used the exercise fire alarm in the office in Hamburg’s HafenCity, to elicit a feasible way to a lasting peace in Palestine, Syria, Egypt etc.. He was afraid though to take responsibility, but we promised each other finally to address the matter. The longest peaceful time with working multi-ethnic…
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at work we are now into “Kanban” for process management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban https://pragprog.com/book/hklean/lean-from-the-trenches: “Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban” by Henrik Kniberg (their category: Agile Practices)
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setting up a new Synology NAS (“DiskStation”) to look and behave like an “old” one
When I set up my new DiskStation DS115j, it started with DSM5 from the beginning. My old DiskStations “obviously” came from DSM4 and got migrated to DSM5, and therefore they had different default settings. Issue: It does not have the “Control Panel” icon on the desktop initially. Category: DSM4-DSM5 migration issue. Solution: Simply go to…
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Thursday evening treadmill running at Hamburg Jungfernstieg: 8 km in 00:39:41
https://flow.polar.com/training/analysis/26756923flow.polar.com ??° C, pressure ???.?? kPa, dew point: ??° weight afterwards: 94.5 kg