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Bookmarks for June 12th

delicious — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for June 12th from 16:44 to 16:44:

Tabelle Niedrigtemperaturgaren – Garzeitentabelle – Niedertemperatur-Methode

Bookmarks for June 3rd

delicious — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for June 3rd from 10:09 to 10:09:

Building Web sites optimized for the iPhone and Android OS 2 – Apple’s iPhone 3.0 OS and Google’s Android run recent branches of the Open Source WebKit browser. To this end, they are able to support technologies that are only just making it to desktop browsers. In this article you can learn how you can build Web sites that target iPhone and Android Web browsers.

Bookmarks for May 30th

delicious — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 30th from 14:13 to 14:13:

Kulturflatrate: Spenden für einen schönen Zweck – Die Idee ist gut, doch die Welt noch nicht so weit: Freiwillige Spenden sollen die Kultur im Netz retten. Neue Programme wollen das Geldgeben nun einfacher machen.

Bookmarks for May 24th

delicious — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 24th from 12:40 to 12:40:

google_pacman at master – GitHub – This is a copy of Google's playable Pacman game logo hosted for

Pacman's 30th Anniversary.

Bookmarks for May 18th

delicious — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 18th from 13:46 to 13:46:

Rob’s Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s – Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue?

"I am standing directly beneath the enemy's scrotum."

Bookmarks for May 17th

delicious — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 17th from 18:14 to 18:14:

OStatus – OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near-real-time

Bookmarks for May 16th

delicious — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 16th from 11:19 to 11:19:

Five Filters – Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky describe the media as businesses which sell a product (readers) to other businesses (advertisers). In their propaganda model of the media they point to five 'filters' which determine what we read in the newspapers and see on the television. These filters produce a very narrow view of the world that is in line with government policy and business interests.

Bookmarks for May 13th

delicious — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 13th from 11:24 to 11:24:

LDAP Directories: The Forgotten NoSQL – And yet, when we look around today, it’s not LDAP directories that have the NoSQL buzz; it’s the far looser and simpler key-value stores like Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis. So where did LDAP fall down, and is there anything to be learned from its (relative) failure?

Bookmarks for May 2nd

delicious — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for May 2nd from 08:53 to 08:53:

The Weaver, the Princess and Goldman Sachs – The moral is that you should conduct your affairs in such a way that if you fail, it will lead to someone or something even bigger or more powerful failing too. This lets you get away with anything.

Bookmarks for April 29th

delicious — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for April 29th from 11:11 to 11:11:

Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking – Simply put, the reason the iPad and iPhone do not support multitasking is because it is hard to allow multitasking in a system with no swap and a limited amount of memory. Apple could enable multitasking—indeed, there is no reason that the devices couldn’t support it right now, with a one or two line code change—but your applications would constantly be killed. That isn’t a very useful feature.

Bookmarks for February 20th

delicious — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for February 20th from 10:10 to 10:10:

500RPM Chaingun – Crank up a Nerf dart blaster to 500 rounds per minute and add a round counter

Bookmarks for February 18th

delicious — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for February 18th from 13:51 to 13:51:

Google – Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps – The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let's go!

Bookmarks for February 17th

delicious — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for February 17th from 13:16 to 13:16:

jvm-gc-stats – A Ruby script to parse Java Virtual Machine (JVM) garbage collection
trace output, push the data into Ganglia and alert on anomolies.
The data and graphs produced are intended to support operational
monitoring and inform GC tuning decisions.

Bookmarks for February 9th

delicious — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for February 9th from 09:16 to 09:16:

gMap – Google Maps Plugin For jQuery – gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.
Dynamic Dummy Image Generator – This is a simple tool for generating dummy/filler images on the fly at whatever size you want.

Bookmarks for February 7th

delicious — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for February 7th from 14:00 to 18:59:

8 Ways to Kill Your ECM Project –
Redis Virtual Memory: the story and the code – Redis is an in-memory DB. It's persistent, as it's disk backed, but disk is only used to persist, all the data is taken in the computer RAM.

Bookmarks for January 24th

delicious — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 24th from 14:07 to 14:07:

How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution – In case you don't know what a heatmap is, it's basically a table that has colors in place of numbers. Colors correspond to the level of the measurement.

Bookmarks for January 18th

delicious — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 18th from 09:44 to 09:44:

Papersnake.de – Papier selbst drucken –

Bookmarks for January 17th

delicious — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 17th from 14:46 to 17:22:

check_mk – Mathias Kettner – Check_mk adopts a new a approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components. It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient and check_snmp. It has many benefits, the most important of which are:
Significant reduction of CPU usage on the Nagios host.
Automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.
The larger your Nagios installation is, the more important get these points. In fact check_mk enables you to implement a monitoring environment exceeding 20.000 checks/min on the first hand.
From the Mule’s Mouth » Blog Archive » Tomcat Restarts: Is it a Big Deal? – We know that Apache Tomcat is a proven, rock-solid application server; however, as many have found out, restarting a Tomcat instance is not an exact science. Sometimes a shutdown will end up leaving the process running and holding onto the ports, causing subsequent starts to fail.

Bookmarks for January 16th

delicious — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 16th from 13:13 to 13:13:

Operation “Aurora” Hit Google, Others – The world has changed. Everyone’s threat model now needs to be adapted to the new reality of these advanced persistent threats. In addition to worrying about Eastern European cybercriminals trying to siphon off credit card databases, you have to focus on protecting all of your core intellectual property, private nonfinancial customer information and anything else of intangible value.

Bookmarks for January 11th

delicious — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 11th from 09:31 to 09:31:

Why People Don’t Like Video Chatting – Maybe all the stuff we thought we wanted in the future sucks. Flying cars would block our light, food pills would make Gordon Ramsey's screaming even more preposterous, and those moving sidewalks just give me another reason to hate fat people at airports. Far better is to have control over our most valuable commodity: time. Sure, we complain about being busy, but that's pretty great as long as we get to choose when we do things.

Bookmarks for January 9th

delicious — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 9th from 14:54 to 14:54:

The Scale-Out Blog: Simple HA with PostgreSQL Point-In-Time Recovery – On balance, the PostgreSQL warm standby solution using PITR compares very favorably to MySQL as well as many commercial databases. Two things that would help are better management and proxies to help redirect reads to hot standby servers, once these are available.

Bookmarks for January 3rd

delicious — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for January 3rd from 17:16 to 17:16:

Simple Desktops – Simple Desktops is a collection of minimal distraction desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson.

Bookmarks for December 31st

delicious — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for December 31st from 11:50 to 12:35:

Akinator, the Web Genius – Akinator reads your mind, really!
jsmpp – Project Hosting on Google Code – JSMPP is a java implementation (SMPP API) of SMPP protocol (currently support SMPP v3.4). It provides interfaces to communicate with Message Center or ESME (External Short Message Entity) and able to handle traffic 3000-5000 messages per second.
Devil’s Pie – A window-matching utility, inspired by Sawfish's “Matched Windows” option and the lack of the functionality in Metacity. Metacity lacking window matching is not a bad thing — Metacity is a lean window manager, and window matching does not have to be a window manager task.
Devil's Pie can be configured to detect windows as they are created, and match the window to a set of rules. If the window matches the rules, it can perform a series of actions on that window. For example, I can make all windows created by X-Chat appear on all workspaces, and the main Gkrellm1 window does not appear in the pager or task list.

Bookmarks for December 30th

delicious — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for December 30th from 13:06 to 13:06:

A list of top 75 Tokyo blogs by Blog Rank –

Bookmarks for December 29th

delicious — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0000

My delicious links for December 29th from 11:28 to 11:31:

Some other SharePoint 2010 tidbits – FierceContentManagement – Quote: "He points out that the path of ECM is littered with failure and that Microsoft's goal with SharePoint 2010 is to put the end user front and center (while providing more comprehensive back-end administration). The idea, he explains is to get the end user to use the system. If it's too hard or too restrictive, then end users will always find ways to work around the system to the detriment of the CMS. It will be interesting to see as the SharePoint 2010 beta goes into wider use, and use cases emerge, how well Microsoft has solved this perennial issue."
How to Increase SharePoint End User Adoption – Depending on who you are in your organization, you may either LOVE SharePoint or HATE it. There are many promises on what SharePoint will deliver; however, have those promises become a reality in your organization? The answer may be the key to why your colleagues, employees, and end users use SharePoint or create work-arounds to avoid taking the time to understand it.