Month: November 2014
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this is my November Chromecast day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromecast Despite its disadvantages and shortcomings I do fancy this nice little device. “Watching” full albums (from YouTube) on a TV with a nice audio system attached – that’s rather good fun, I just want to tell you. Keeps me going with my donkey work.
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2014 account statements, transactions, bills, … – dowloading, filing, renaming, … – my current donkey work
All these have account statements and bills from transactions with me, but they all have different interfaces to get at them – my wish for 2016: pls provide us with a unique interface for retrieving all these documents (but I doubt, we will be any closer to this in 2020): postbank.de amazon.de paypal.de oreilly.com –…
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running a YouTube playlist through Chromecast or through HDMI cable
using Chromecast absolutely looks neat but ProxFlow only applies within my browsers (Chrome, …), Chromecast talks to YouTube itself, not taking ProxFlow into account
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CéU – CéU (Full album) (2005) – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxf5qF0KnEg http://www.youtube.com/v/rxf5qF0KnEg
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“Yoobao Long March Capacity Power Bank” – looks like a nice and useful device
http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Berlin/events/215366592/ http://www.amazon.de/11000mAh-Yoobao-Capacity-iPhone-Mobile/dp/B00EA8IE60 Last night at the Big Data Berlin meetup I came across somebody with this nice “little” device – he powered his tablet computer with this device – he had it for quite a while, and he seemed rather satisfied. Costs like EUR 30 at Amazon.
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attended tonight: Big Data, Berlin v3.0
http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Berlin/events/215366592/ Thomas Bestfleisch (“Solution Engineer” at Exasol AG, Nürnberg) held a talk titled “A Tool for a Job“: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thomas_Bestfleisch the lawnmower pictures were “nice”, the analogy “impressive” the traditional DB systems are: Hadoop, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle the competitors “simply” extended these traditional DB systems some of them operate in main memory (“in core”), which is…
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NFS UID mapping without NIS – how to achieve that? is NFS weaker there than AFS and Samba?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System = NFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service = NIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System = AFS (Mac OS X) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS AKA SMB AKA Samba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_security#Root_squash – re “root=…” http://linux.die.net/man/5/exports – /etc/exports My (reduced) I.T. landscape: a Synology DiskStation NAS (with some Linux and “Busybox”) functions as an NFS server an openSUSE Linux VM is the relevant NFS client – the other clients don’t use NFS but AFS (for…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
https://pragprog.com/book/rdbcd/behind-closed-doors
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Fire in the Valley
In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that…