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No video for me

Today I tried to view a video on YouTube. The URL to it was mentioned on a Linux related IRC channel. After opening the Link inside my Browser here at the Campus02 in Graz I was confronted with the error that this video is not available in my country (presumably Austria, but it’s not mentioned anywhere). This leads me to the conclusion that the Internet is starting to become more national after being the biggest international medium. Some years ago it did not matter from which country you were connected to the net. Maybe I’ll try the Tor network to circumvent such measures. It’s sad to see where all this is heading to.

Following the recent announcement of the child database in UK a lot of discussion has spawned here in Austria and Germany on how long it will take the ones responsible for this system to lose all their data.

The UK has become quite popular for forgetting USB-sticks with government data inside cabins or to sell unformatted hard-drives on Ebay. Their latest creation, the child protection database, will be a bit too large to fit on a single USB-stick so it is quite obvious that it has to be “forgotten” on one of this fancy new 1,5TB (or even 2TB, they are about to hit the market soon) hard-drives. Bets are still accepted on the manufacturer or the place where it will be found.

Another interesting fact about this database is the lack of data on childs from politicians and celebs. It seem to me that those childs are not worth being “protected“. Or did somebody responsible for this database learn at least a little bit from the past british databases, lost all over their country?

I hope that our government here in Austria does not accidentially stumble across this idea. I’ll really do my best to oppose such a development!

Found this one while browsing the web. It’s old but i have not seen it before and it gave me the typical what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-Microsoft look on my face

A great, mind boggling knowledge article directly from the bowls of redmond: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en;276304

In the aftermath of the recent announcement of some additional CSS2.1 test passed by IE 8 RC1 I got curious if this latest version of their soon-to-be-released browser is finally able to render SVG graphics (at least they got the PNG alpha channel right in IE7). A vanilla installation of Windows 7 Public Beta provided a good opportunity to try some SVG tests online. There was especially one test that did show my mood on the results very clear:

No fun at all!

This site should show a green smiley if SVG can be rendered correctly and which overlays a red one, which is only visible when the browser is incapable  of SVG.

It turned out that Microsoft didn’t even try to implement it but rather leave it up to thrid party developers to write SVG rendering addons for IE8.

Firefox passed the same test without any complaints!

The first one of our three new 19″ server racks has been installed. When everything is in place these new racks will be filled with hosts for our VMware cluster.

I hope it does not get clogged up too soon because we are already at the maximum racks that can fit into this room.