18
Feb 11

Demokratie?

Gewaltenteilung eines demokratischen Staates aus dem Lehrbuch – 3 (Legislative, Exekutive, Judikative)

Nummer 4 – die Medien.
Klassisch, die Verlagshäuser (TopDown)
heute viel demokratischer, das Internet. (Welches viele Bewohner dieser Welt übrigens zum ersten mal übers Handy zu Gesicht bekamen.)

Das Internet ist “by Design” ein Bollwerk freier Meinungsäusserung und ungehinderter Kommunikation.
Komplette Freiheit und damit natürlich auch Chaos und Anarchie – JEDER darf mitmachen.

Unserer Elite gefällt das nicht.
(weil unkontrollierbar)

Frankreich wird beispielsweise einen nationalen Internet-Filter basteln, um die armen Bürger vor bösen Seiten zu beschützen.
Vielleicht sollten sie mal die Chinesen fragen? Die kennen sich da aus. (Die grosse Chinesische Mauer hat es tatsächlich ins digitale Zeitalter geschafft… )

Um solche Internet-Filter durchzusetzen wird hierzulande oft das Thema Pädophilie missbraucht.
Denn dagegen kann ja keiner sein, dass man Kinder Porno Seiten sperrt oder? oder?
Nein dagegen ist natürlich keiner, will ja keiner Pädophile unterstützen. (Lassen wir mal ausser Acht das das zensieren solcher Seiten keinem einzigen Kind hilft (Filter Idee: Deutschland zensiert russischen Server. Punkt. – Besser: Deutschland forscht nach, informiert die russischen Behörden über illegale Aktivitäten auf dem Server und diese schreiten dann ein!)

Filter gehören auf ein anderes Level.
Mit heutigen Browsern wird man vor illegalen Seiten gewarnt und kann solche auch komplett sperren.
Um seine Kinder zu schützen gibt es spezielle Programme die das Internet Kind-Gerecht filtern (-Porno -Gewalt usw…)
Jeder kann selber entscheiden was er filtert und was nicht.
Ist wie beim Reisen, einige meiden das Ghetto, andere wiederum finden dass man Land und Leute nirgends besser kennenlernt als im Armenviertel.

Das Internet ist Weltweit – JEDER kann mitmachen. Ein statliche Instanz die entscheided was ich sehen kann und was nicht? Mit welchem Teil der Welt ich kommunizieren darf und mit welchem nicht?

Wieder der Reisevergleich: Östereich ist ok, aber nach Italien darfst DU ab morgen nicht mehr, weill der Berlusconi ist sexistisch.

Das Problem ist ein zentraler staatlich kontrollierter Filter.

Freie Kommunikation ist eine Grundvoraussetzung einer freien Gesellschaft.
Das Internet ist noch frei… obwohl der Anteil der Menschen die nicht hinter einem staatliche Filter sitzen stetig sinkt. China, Frankreich und die Amerikaner filtern bereits und die gesamte EU ist auf dem besten Weg dazu.

Negitiv-Beispiel: Homeland Security hat letzte Woche durch Dummheit und komplette Abstinenz von Sachverständnis 84′000 völlig normale amerikanische Seiten offline geschaltet... mit einem netten Bild dazu.
Homeland Security
Das muss nicht sein oder? (üble Nachrede und Rufmord kommen mir in den Sinn…)

PS: Damit so ein Landesweiter Filter effektiv filtern kann muss er den gesamten Internet-Verkehr ANALYSIEREN um ihn auf verbotene Muster/Protokolle/Wörter/Bilder zu untersuchen. Um dann zu entscheiden was gefiltert wird und was nicht.
Je nach Entscheid liefert der Filter dann die Seite an dich weiter oder eben nicht.

Na? Kommt jemand drauf was man mit so einem zentralen Nationalen Filter sonst noch alles anstellen kann?


25
Jan 11

United States ignorance against basic human rights

Probably you have heard about Bradley Manning the poor guy revealing War Crimes of the US.

Actually he’s a 22 year old soldier, being under arrest for about 8 months now … under a special condition. He is under solitary confinement which means he sits alone in his cell, with no contact to anything at all for 23 hours a day.
No contact, means nothing, no talks, no tv, no internet… (for leaking a video)

I actually accuse the US of torturing Bradley Manning. Ask some Psychologist, a lifetime damage is for sure – even after 2 months of solitary confinement.


beware, the video is highly shocking – but important to see!

Bradley Manning didn’t kill, steal or rape – he is accused of revealing war crimes of the US.

In my Opinion he is a Hero, fighting for the good.

It should never be a crime to reveal war crimes!

Please support Private Manning!

It’s a new time. we are aware. we fight back…

And in the spirit of time:

Knowledge is free.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us!

The Powerfull are in fear of Anonymous, there is no hierarchical structure, EVERYONE can join a cause, be the next organiser/leader, no clear structure, it’s dynamic, fast, distributed, independent – CHAOTIC.

That’s what frightens them… There’s no Head to chop of – it’s a movement


23
Sep 10

Now thats a nice Concept!

Well done Dell.
If the Screen does not fall apart after a week – then i think it’s just blody great.

Sexiest tablet pc ever seen…


23
Sep 10

Ubuntu Default Editor

Ubuntu has abandoned a long tradition to have vi as the standards editor…

Now nano pops up every-time there’s something to edit in the shell (like an svn commit). This is a great move for new users, as nano displays it’s help about basic functions all the time.
But nano is a toy – no offense.

So if you want to change the default system text editor use:

$> sudo update-alternatives –config editor

There you can set the default to what you want

  • emacs
  • vi
  • nano
  • ed

Have Fun


07
Jul 10

How to migrate Linux to a bigger Harddrive

One single Gap

you kneed to know your hard drives… (experienced linux users skip to next title!)

On modern linux distributions /dev/sda (..yes they abandoned /dev/hda and such…)

is normally your primary disk, the source you want to use…

do a

$> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

to assure that… -l means list that device (you should see a list of your partitions…) … (and sudo is only a way to achieve root rights  in ubuntu!)


$> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Platte /dev/sda: 80.0 GByte, 80026361856 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 9729 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1311 10530576 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1312 9729 67617585 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 1312 9380 64814211 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9381 9729 2803311 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

for me  sda is a 80GB harddrive and has the following partitions:

  • sda1 with crappy windows on it.
  • sda5 with my main linux partition
  • sda6 is linux swap…
  • (sd2 is a secondary partition and basically just acts as a wrapper around partition sda5 and sda6 – partition sda1 has a * which means primary partition… windows tends to need that :-P )

a second drive (internally or attached as usb) should show up as /dev/sdb

(once again assure that with $>fdisk -l /dev/sdb )


$> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
...
Platte /dev/sdb: 640.1 GByte, 640135028736 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 77825 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
...

I shortened that – because the Disk size (here 640GB opposite to the old 80GB) is probably all you need to be sure about source and destination drive. (and yes, my terminal is in german…)

Clone in one line!

Now if you want to clone disk a to disk b just:

$> sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32256

Be sure to dd if=source of=destination !!!

The blinking hd light is your only indicator now…

after termiantion it shows some info:

2425911+1 Datensätze ein
2425911+1 Datensätze aus
78250192896 Bytes (78 GB) kopiert, 5880.85 s, 13.3 MB/s

to clone 100GB to usb it takes about 1 hour
the bs= parameter adjusts the block size for faster speed… on a “near to death” source you probably want to ommit that and use the default block size of 512 which is even more fail proof.

Finish

you just cloned your whole disk onto a new one…

Operating Systems, Programs, Customizations, Boot-loader … all included …

in one single fucking line…

After your first boot from the cloned disk you probably want to use gparted to resize your partitions to fit the new harddrive (if it’s bigger than the old one…)

you can even use a frigging live cd (it’s even free to download!) and clone your MacOS/Solaris/Windows etc… onto a bigger disk that way… (in my example i cloned a Ubuntu/WinXP/ThinkpadRecoveryPartition Dualboot setup)

it will work… it’s simple… it’s linux!

oh… i almost forgot… dd is no kids tool… so check your syntax twice!


18
Jun 10

Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins

Why we should pay attention to penguins, not only in operating systems ;-)

Very inspiring Talk, also accusing oil to polute the whole ocean (trough cleaning of tankers – speech from before the spill)


07
Jun 10

Why the Internet rocks for Artists and Creatives

Creative people have an unfair advantage in the internet world. let me explain you why…

history

As a [musician/painter/cartoonist/writer] you had to got to that special someone, that knows the right people in the right positions.

A painter needs a running a Gallery. The band needs a Record Contract. The writer needs a publisher. i could go on…
If they didn’t like you

- no chance, doors closed forever.

today that’s over

You no longer need the Company/Manager/Politician…

In the cloud Age (Internet Time) you can reach a huge Audience in no time! Build a presence and show off your work to the world!

As a writer you could start blogging. If you do good you will attract a certain amount of people. All enjoy reading your stuff. That’s because they return to your blog right? Probably you have written a book yourself? Advertise for it on your Blog – and sell directly!

That’s the big point here. You can hop over all the hands involved in traditional distribution models. You directly reach your audience!

The math

So instead to sell 1′000 Books an get 2.40€ share per sell … ummm… 2′400 €
… you sell 80  Books directly at 35€ each … whoooppaa… 2′800

see :-D

And as an artist/creative your website doesn’t has the looks of beeing Marketing – which makes the perfect advertisement.

I want to add, that you will only be successful if you stay pure and honest.

  • Bands provide free streams to listen in… share the fun.
  • Artists feature some inspiring Galleries.
  • Cartoonist shows his weekly cartoon.
  • Job coach blogs about his experiences and thoughts about his work…

All free for anyone to enjoy…

Some visitors lure into the attached shops and buy prints/poster/songs/mugs/consulting/books/carpets/goats

But selling is only a side effect the main purpose is to transport passion!

…like… oh look, there is a shop too.

take action!

Sell direct, sell local or global… get direct feedback or possibly even fans!
So you Creative/Artists/Whatnot start showing off your work! and do it because you like it – not because you want to earn a lot.

Inspired by

“Why Artists and Creatives Have an Unfair Advantage at Internet Marketing”

, by Mark McGuinness


05
Jun 10

Apple Standards

I don’t think Apple knows the real meaning of the word Standard.
Following message came from their HTML5 Showcase Page (Note that HTML5 will be the next web standard)

Apple's interpretation of Web Standards

Apple's interpretation of Web Standards

Yea, download Safari to view…
So if you read “Web-Standards” in some Apple Texts, they actually intended to write: “works with safari”. Common typo.

I’m waiting for the first “best viewed with safari” buttons to appear… Mocking guaranteed.


04
Jun 10

iPad – Alternatives to blow 750€uros or less

750€ (approx 1′050 CHF) is way too much for such a toy device… (No Flash, No USB, No Webcam, Apple Approved Software exclusively)

look what you could buy for the same price or less…

A kick ass Home NAS Server like the brand new QNAP TS 459 for 757.- €uros. Serve your Sound Files everywhere around the house, make backups (even time machine ones), use as a web-server, sync your calendar and adresses (even sync to mobiles via addon)…


now thats a device to have fun with for years to come! And it is actually a very useful device.

Or buy one of the Asus Touch Tablet PC’s 439.- €uros, USB, 320Gig Harddrive, Keyboard and so on :-P

or if you need more power, a bigger screen, 4Gigs of Memory and an Intel Duo-Core – and yet still pay less than for an iPad, (namingly 576.- €). Then get the marvellous Acer Aspire 1825PTZ-414G32n (Which has a serious naming problem…)

Uh, and if you search a nice music and video-player to chill in your living room and impress your friends… Get a Squeezebox Touch from Logitech. (Only 285€) The Interface is just beautiful – And it works perfectly together with the QNAP Music Server…

It is surely the next gadget i’m gonna buy!

With the appropriate controller of course 285€ (which ist remote control and a portable player at once)
(even if you buy both logitech products you spend less than for an iBad)

What will you get instead of an iPad?


03
Jun 10

Nerd kryptonite

source: http://www.guyandrodd.com/

from http://www.guyandrodd.com/