Yesterday I held a Linux Workshop at PCCP as Part 2 of the “Operating Systems” – course of lectures.
I used the recent Knoppix for all Demos. We tried Knoppix on separate PCs (with quite different Hardware) and we never had problems, everything worked fine. Once again I (and the majority of the participants) was very impressed about this Linux live-system.
One problem for me was the different level of the participants. But everyone played a little bit with Linux by his/her own, so I think finally the workshop was quite usefull and interesting for all.
Movable Type Update
I updated this weblog to Movable Type Version 3.11.
The fantastic new feature is the moderated comments feature. This helps to avoid Spam Comments. So feel free to comment …
Wald und Wiesen-Editor
Da mein Studium jetzt wieder weiter geht, befasse ich mich derzeit mit Pascal und bin dabei wieder auf den Emacs gestoßen.
In Michael Koflers Linux Standardwerk bezeichnet er viele Editoren als “Wald und Wiesen-Editor”. Was sich anfangs sehr lustig anhört, bewahrheitet sich immer mehr. Je mehr ich mit Emacs arbeite, desto klarer wird mir wie wichtig ein GUTER Editor ist. Auch wenn die Einarbeit einiges an Zeit kostet und speziell für Windows User nicht immer ganz einfach ist, lohnt es sich auf alle Fälle.
Ich arbeite die meiste Zeit am Rechner in einem Editor, da ist es wichtig, nicht mit einem Wald- und Wieseneditor die Zeit zu verschwenden.
BTW: How would you translate ‘Wald- und Wieseneditor’ ?
Live Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox
I recently updated to Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 and I tried the new Live Bookmarks feature.
It’s a quite nice feature, on each rss-suporting webpage you can subscribe to this feed via a ‘Live Bookmark’.
You can easily refresh this live bookmark folder. If there are new items in the feed, your bookmark folder will be updated.
Sadly there is no flag for new bookmarks, so there is no ‘unread’ – funcionatlity. I also miss a preview feature, a rss sidebar would be nice.
Despite of all this, I think Firefox is takeing the right direction, for me RSS support for a web-browser is a basic requirement.
Mac OS X Presentation
Yesterday I had a presentation about Mac OS X at PCCP.
For me, a former dissatisfied Windows-User, and now very happy Mac user, it was quite interesting to give the (majority Windows users) audience a short overview of my preferred Operating System.
Lan Party Fotos
Do Not Write That Code
Developer Books
I found an interesting link about books each developer should read.
Here is the link.
I add Internationalization with Visual Basic, this one is really good, even for non-VB Programmers.
made with a Mac
Since a few days I am a proud owner of an Apple Powerbook G4! The Hardware as well as the Software is simply astonishing.
For me as a long time (often frustrated) Windows user I now switched to Mac OS X.
I tried a dozen of Operating Systems before, but none impressed my as much as Mac OS X does. Simply said: It’s fun to work with a Mac.
This weblog entry was made with a Mac 🙂
DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER
I am currently downloading WindowsXP Service Pack 2 and I’m a little bit confused about this warning on the download page of XP SP2: “DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER”. Why shouldn’t I download this? May this cause a malfunction of my whole Windows XP System if I download this Service Pack just for updating one PC? I am very confused now and I hope that nothing horrible will occur. 🙂
Fortunately my MacOS X Box is on the way, so such warnings should not bother me anymore.