http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This page compares the user experience of a legit DVD with that of a pirated movie. I would add to this to get the packaging open: There are often the shrink wrap + 3 ugly white stickers on each open side saying “Security Device enclosed”. I remember that early ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/03/10/time-before-the-movie-starts/ Naturally my son wanted his own computer. He is 11 so isn’t it a birth right to have one? I only pointed to a stack of parts, being left overs from some upgrades and told that he could have one if we can put it together himself. He looked and ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/25/youtube-videos-in-gmail/ Readwrite web wrote about Facebook login Which happened to bring them high in the google search results for “facebook login”. Then facebook did a re design. I didn’t notice much difference. But some people got confused and looked for the “facebook login” on google. And as we all know clicking on the ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/14/facebook-login-and-the-madness-of-crowds/ A boarding pass design I really like this. Also because it gets to show that we take too much junk in the -after all- man made environment around us for granted. Boarding passes right now have a format that looks like a computer punch card, which came into being in that size ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/11/boarding-pass/ Eric Alba shows some shelfs And -as so often- he has a point. http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/09/got-a-reel/ Adding more machines for INTERDUBS. They get tested, triaged and configured for a ridiculous long time. That way once they are production machines they do only one thing: Run. We experimented with benchmarking the performance effects of SELinux. As we expected it is not worth disabling. But now we know. ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/06/enable-selinux-and-a-reboot-can-take-forever/ A very nice project A small vertical slice of (Socal) life. Marvelously documented while it is fading out of existence. http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/06/vans-and-the-places-they-have-been-in/ As we are running slowly out of IP addresses addresses are being used that were deemed to be reserved. This wouldn’t be the internet if this would go smooth. See pollutions in 1/8 for the details (thanks David for the hint). Turns that out that 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 and not ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/03/cool-ip-hm-maybe-not-so/ And they keep doing them: Very nice visualization by the times http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/02/03/forecasts/ Often I work with a couple of shells simultaneously in the same directory. One may be the editor with a program in it, and the other one running it. When I add the following lines to .bashrc alias sd='pwd > /tmp/ddd' alias d='cd `cat /tmp/ddd`; pwd' I just need to type ’sd’ (for Set ... http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2010/01/31/getting-shells-in-the-same-path/