Month: November 2014
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O’Reilly Media book: EPUB 3 Best Practices
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024897.do The new EPUB 3 specification from the IDPF incorporates a wide range of technologies and functionality that are set to revolutionize electronic publishing. The format is poised to make the static two-dimensional page a thing of the past, introducing the world to new rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted interactivity. But a specification that…
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PDF OCR X – Mac & Windows OCR Software to convert PDFs and Images to Text
http://solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx
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my NAS currently experiences a massive SSH login attack – I do have a couple of IP addresses, but which provider owns them?
103.41.124.48 103.41.124.32 103.41.124.35 103.41.124.38 103.41.124.39 103.41.124.17 103.41.124.55 103.41.124.27 103.41.124.14 … – the attack ist still ongoing … All of them got automatically blocked forever, but still … And Synology provides me with no means to export a full machine-readable list of all the IP-addresses, that my NAS keeps as blocked. That’s actually rather sad.
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“City of New Orleans” – “Good morning, America, how are you? Don’t you know me? I’m your native son.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrbxGtYWkY – Arlo Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2woV2_25SU – Johnny Cash Here you can find the complete lyrics (by Steve Goodman): http://www.lyrics.com/city-of-new-orleans-lyrics-arlo-guthrie.html This is the song, I had on my lips, when I got up today. “Good morning, America, how are you? Don’t you know me? I’m your native son.” And of course, I’m not your native son, America 😉 But I still like…
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Anshel Pfeffer’s critical review of Shlomo Sand’s book “How I Stopped Being a Jew”
http://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium-1.626312 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand#Criticism_of_gene_studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand#How_I_Ceased_to_Be_a_Jew – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2081278363 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1781686140 Here you find a few deliberate quotations from the book review (the 1st two are only ther because of the terms they use, which I find interesting): This is classic Haredi thinking: Judaism and Jewishness only manifest in rabbinically prescribed religious practice – everything else is goyishe stuff. …
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connecting to a NAS on my LAN – Firefox shows”This Connection is Untrusted” – how to use it anyway?
“I Understand the Risks“, “Add Exception“, “Confirm Security Exception” – but they still don’t let you procede – they think for you it is better, not to “Permanently store this exception“, so please uncheck that box, and then “Confirm Security Exception“. A while ago I wasn’t really aware of that checkbox, and I did not…
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Jürgen Habermas Recalls Philosophers of Jewish Background as Returnees to West Germany – Tablet Magazine
Judische Philosophen und Soziologen als Ruckkehrer in der fruhen Bundesrepublik via Jürgen Habermas Recalls Philosophers of Jewish Background as Returnees to West Germany – Tablet Magazine.
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upgrading openSUSE again: openSUSE-13.2
As decided during my last upgrade (…->13.1) I am now taking the “complete DVD” approach. I will have this upgrade resp. installation on exactly 2 (virtual) machines (MacBook Pro + Mac mini “Alternate Edition”) The ISO image download takes less than one hour. I am expecting a far faster installation – less than 3 hours…
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upgrading my Macs to Yosemite …
Lessons learned from Yosemite upgrades: back up your Pictures, Documents, and Downloads directories (just below $HOME) yourself, before starting the Yosemite upgrade! All my Macs got their Xcode packages and their Fink installation updated beforehand, as apparently that helps preserving a properly functioning Fink installation. The first “fink selfupdate” on an upgraded OS X Yosemite…
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Joni Mitchell – interviews
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/186723/joni-mitchell-malka-marom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJuiZN3jI8 – extended version of interview with Q host Jian Ghomeshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc – short version of interview with Q host Jian Ghomeshi