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Have you heard of the “Not tested in IE initiative“?

If your site matches this criteria, use one of these images there.

Regards
Usn

If anybody ever considers joining irc.freenode.net #oracle (what I’d recommend for all Oracle interested folks), be prepared for being treated like that:

<nayyares> it worked !!!
<usn> wait some time, it might crash, or restart all cluster
services to see if there is a boot bug
<nayyares> ok, i am monitoring usn
<Rudemeister> Im also  monitoring usn
<Rudemeister> he's quite stable at the moment
* usn hits Rudemeister with a large, ugly, locking,
waiting, CPU-consuming SELECT!
<Rudemeister> thank for the fact I have you stuck in a
resource consumer group

Nice channel…
Usn

Basically, I don’t like mirroring google. But this one is really cool stuff, and, by the way, it’s merely linking google.

ZFS-Video by Systemhelden

Yeah, I really like it!

But the video has a weak point: After randomizing the devices this way, you can’t simply pull the plug of one USB hub any more. Anyway, the demonstration is impressive. The usefulness of this feature is, that you can pull and plug the devices within one element of availability (here one USB hub) without caring for the right slot. Means: “swap the sticks only out of one USB hub at a time and retry the cable-plug gag successfully”.

Have a highly available time :)
Usn

Doing chat support in several IRC channels, I’m hardened in several ways. Especially newbie questions are not always easy to handle for all participants. Let me give you an example (in German), how things sometimes are seen by the youngsters.
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Hi,

http://www.openstreetmap.org is a very cool project. Just discovered it for me, and spent the weekend with tracking and editing my hometown by car. Have a look here to see.

I am using SportsTracker for my Nokia E90 and JOSM for the editing at home.

Also checked for TrekBuddy on the phone to use a real moving map on the cellular. Maybe you want to use a little help for generating the map files for TrekBuddy?

Still much to learn, stay tuned for reports.

Regards
Usn

EDIT: Today (18th of June) at the LUG meeting in Mitterteich will be a short talk about OSM including some practices.

Today (huh, it’s still “today”) I attended a so-called parent’s training (in German “Elterntraining”) at a local grammar school (Kepler Gymnasium Weiden). It’s topic was the handling of youths in contact with computers, internet and addiction risks. The lecturer was Jörg Kabierske, Regensburg (klicksalat.de).

I was there just out of curiosity, to see what kind of questions would be asked, what kind of answers would be given. Since it’s a difficult field for sweeping answers, the latter point was a bit short – to some people’s regret.
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Hi,

germany’s highest court of justice , the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) has given a new direction to the discussion about German authority’s online searching of home computers:

http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rs20080227_1bvr037007.html

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Hi friends,

the Linux User Group Mitterteich has a new webpage and a new URI (http://www.linux-mitterteich.de). The old URI (http://www.lug-mitterteich.de.vu) will be redirected from today on.

Well, the page isn’t perfect at the moment – but finally we started working on it:

• The free template (made by Ramin Hossaini) used at the moment will be replaced: Maxi works on a new, customized one.
• I developed the page structure and filled it with first, generic and historical content, most items simply have been migrated it from the old page.
• By and by, the content will come.

Please review the new page, and tell me you opinion. I’d be glad.

Thanks
Usn

Hi Folx,

have a look at http://vionetworks.de, a VoIP provider with an interesting concept.

Have fun
Usn

Hi,

this idea looks good to me: http://www.linux-lancers.com/de/
It’s a free job platform for Linux and OSS – I think the world needs things like this. Please let me know whether it works or not.

Good luck,
Usn