Monthly Archives: November 2008

Winter!!!

In diesem Jahr sogar recht früh und auch in Mengen. Wir waren am Wochenende in Templin und konnten so am Sonntag sogar noch mit den Kindern rodeln gehen. Der Seeberg war gleich von Kindern mit Schlitten und sonstigen Rutschgeräten übervölkert. Die Schneedecke war vielleicht 10cm dick wurde im Laufe des Tages dann aber zu einer Schneeplatte zusammengedrückt. Gegen Abend waren dann doch schon deutliche Spuren von Rasen und Erde zu sehen. Continue reading

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my first rails project – chunky downloads

As a system administrator I often get calls from colleagues who have to send a bigger file to our clients or partners. … Of course we have an FTP-Server for such purposes but believe me… explaining the use of FTP everytime and fiddling around with FTP download problems on the client/partner side as well is pain in the … you name it. Sometimes there are also some special requirements to the download as an expire date or max download count. A solution to these requirements is chunky the download manager in RoR (Ruby on Rails). … You will be notified by email about the new link and you can even notify your client about the new link. Continue reading

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when phones go mad

Somewhen in the plot it was introduced that Wayne Enterprises (the company of Batmans alter ego Bruce Wayne) is cooperating with the government in building mobile phones. And then later on Batman turns every phone in the city (obviously the ones his company equipped) into his eyes and ears by accessing them remotely. … A hidden console can be accidentally started and this takes every text input and interprets this a system command executed by the super user. … It’s also well known that both, Google and Apple, are able to delete applications remotely from their smartphones. … And you can be sure it’s technically absolutely possible to silently turn on your mobiles microphone and camera without your knowledge. Continue reading

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