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Bitter experience at the Magic Circle Festival 2009…

IMPORTANT: I AM NOT A JOURNALIST, JUST A BIG FAN ! I wanted to attend the festival because I love Manowar ! So, I drove 5h30min to Loreley on 18.07.09 to see and hear Manowar. Here is my (bitter) experience: 1. The location was badly chosen Why ? In order to go there you must […]

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Puzzle globe

After more than 10 h of work (distributed in about 2 weeks) I managed to finish the puzzle globe from Ravensburger. Here is the entire set of pictures: puzzle globe And here is just one (because I might delete the set sometime):

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They have arrived …

No, not the aliens… The tickets for the Magic Circle Festival. Here the tickets and the flyer look like : And a ticket: Looking forward to attend even if we have to drive for four hours to Loreley.

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Opera Unite and Security

Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]

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Just installed Firefox 3.5

Yes, I got it 😉 PRO: it is better in rendering, it is faster. Zooming a page works perfectly this time. CONS: I think it eats more RAM than its predecessors. One single TAB requires 100 MB RAM and 78 MB VM. Firefox 3.0.11 needed about 80MB RAM with the same plugins and theme.