1. Anlässlich des Pabst Besuchs in Freiburg am 24./25.9.2011. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Logo Eignet sich hervorragend für den Druck von Bannern, Flyern oder sonstigem Propagandamaterial.

    Anlässlich des Pabst Besuchs in Freiburg am 24./25.9.2011.

    Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Logo

    Eignet sich hervorragend für den Druck von Bannern, Flyern oder sonstigem Propagandamaterial.

  2. It’s possible to switch your Google Mail Account from @googlemail.com to @gmail.com (and back, as you can see above) now. It has been a while in the UK, just saw it in Germany. Ein Wechsel/Abänderung einer deutschen Googlemail-Adresse zu einer ‘echten’ Gmail-Adresse (und zurück, s.o.) ist jetzt möglich.

    It’s possible to switch your Google Mail Account from @googlemail.com to @gmail.com (and back, as you can see above) now. It has been a while in the UK, just saw it in Germany.

    Ein Wechsel/Abänderung einer deutschen Googlemail-Adresse zu einer ‘echten’ Gmail-Adresse (und zurück, s.o.) ist jetzt möglich.

  3. Coworking Space in Freiburg

    Gerade haben wir den ersten Coworking Space in Freiburg aus dem Boden gestampft: Bitte hier entlang: Coworking Freiburg

    Egal ob längerfristige Bürogemeinschaft oder tageweise Miete. Für kleines Geld direkt in der Freiburger Altstadt arbeiten und leben - anschauen!

  4. Discotel Smart with an iPhone/iPad

    Just switched from T-Mobile to DiscoTel for my mobile communication needs. They are offering an interesting package:

    • Vodafone network
    • 7,5 Cent per minute / short message
    • Great Data-Packages (200 MB or 1 GB full HSUPA speed)

    and best of all:

    • Tethering on the iPhone works
    • Visual Voicemail works as well

  5. SQLite3::SQLException: cannot rollback - no transaction is active

    — This nearly killed me. Check if you also have an attribute called ‘hash’ - if so rename it and you are golden.

  6. NOTE: Gem::Specification# default_executable = is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.

    To get rid of this warning after updating RubyGems, and you are lucky enough to run RVM, use this:

    rvm rubygems current

    This will get rid of theses depreciation warnings until the gems you are using are updated.

  7. Multiple Outgoing Email Addresses on your iPad or iPhone

    It is an obvious oversight/triage that iOS out of the box does not support multiple email addresses to send from. My usage scenario is as follows:

    Have one mobile.me mailbox with it’s superior push feature and the ability to search through mail while on the go. Because I am working on a handful of projects in parallel I use a few ‘real’ (not reply-to or mobile.me aliases) ‘from’-addresses.

    Assuming a clean iPad/iPhone/iPod, the cleanest way, so far, works like this:

    Create one mobile.me Account and let it sync everything (Calendar, Notes, Find my iDevices etc.) but NOT email. This will take care of everything besides email.
    Create one ‘Other’ Account On the incoming side enter in the original mobile.me settings:

    • User: <your_mobile_me_id@me.com>
    • Incoming Mail Server:  mail.me.com
    • Outgoing Mail Server:  smtp.me.com

    On the outgoing side enter the credentials of your SMTP-provider. In the Address-Field enter all your email addresses as a comma-separated list, like so:

    me@addr1.com, me_again@smtp-addr.net, me3@gmail.com

    Now you’ll be able to select (by clicking in the ‘From:’ field) the email address to use while creating and sending an email.

    But for some reasons push is not working for this solution. I’ll see an Apple Genius and see what they have to say. Apple has a solution for this in place in mobile.me, but I don’t know if they sync it to iOS somewhere.

  8. Office of the day - pariSoma

    Office of the day - pariSoma

  9. Office du jour&#8230;

    Office du jour…

  10. Linux on iOS devices as app

    For developing software based on a Linux/BSD stack on the go, it would be very neat to have an app-encapsulated light Linux or BSD running in userland on e.g. the iPad. Linux/BSD would simply expose an SSH- and http-port (or more) to other apps on the iDevice.

    This way you could work on and test code on the go in your favourite stack (LAMP, Rails, Django…) without relying on a slow/non-existent ssh connection (this feels to me like working through a keyhole…).

    This Linux app combined with an capable editor like textastic would be quite nice for whipping up some lines of code.

    I understand that apple has some limitations on in-app interpreting/compilation but I am by no means a pro here. Could this be done? I haven’t found anything like that so far.

  11. Solved: Kindle for PC error “Registration timed out”

    No need to work with an older installer, 1.4.1 just works fine. What got it working for me was:

    Go to ‘Internet Options’, ‘Advanced’-Tab and disable ‘Check for revoked certificates’ or something similar. It’s way down in the list, in the ‘Security’ group.

    Now just close and re-open Kindle for PC, and register your Reader. Voilá!

  12. Dass der Zweck der Freiheit ist, die Möglichkeit von Entwicklungen zu schaffen, die wir nicht voraussagen können, bedeutet, dass wir nie wissen werden, was wir durch eine Beschränkung der Freiheit verlieren.

    — Friedrich August von Hayek

  13. Reasons Tumblr went down →

  14. Managing Nerds →

    Insight in the inner workings of a nerd. Nerd as someone who is driven by the need to fully understand things.

  15. A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he’s working on.

    — http://paulgraham.com/head.html