Happy new year!
Posted on Monday, 31 December, 2007
After a long silence (don't worry, I have got plenty of half-written entries in my drafts folder and will try and catch up some time), I thought I might at least thank everybody for their Christmas wishes and wish you all a happy new year.
Categories: Loose Talk
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Back to the top of this pageRe-run Time
Posted on Sunday, 11 March, 2007
When I moved to my new CMS and design in autumn, I could not really figure how my old articles on music and my free-market advocacy would best fit in with the new structure. This is a pity: I noticed that a lot of visitors come here exactly for that content which is currently offline. Since this blog has not ever had any sort of real focus anyway, I now decided to rerun them here. They are all in German, but I might give my English-speaking readers a brief summary.
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Back to the top of this pageDual-Booting Linux Ubuntu And Win XP On An Old Fujitsu-Siemens C Series LifeBook
Posted on Saturday, 20 January, 2007
I started the new year falling love with Ubuntu, the Linux distribution that I run on my new desktop computer. Ever since the beauty of the Ubuntu desktop unfolded in front of my eyes for the first time, I have kept enjoying this sense of control and logic that Linux brings to personal computing – so much so that I wanted to benefit from its advantages on my old Siemens LifeBook as well. I am now running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my desktop PC and dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) on my notebook.
Whereas on my fresh desktop PC installing Ubuntu from the live CD had been a piece of cake, on my three-and-a-half-year-old Siemens LifeBook, I initially ran into some trouble. I, therefore, thought I might share my findings here in case others are experiencing similar problems. My most important recommendation is for users of old notebooks to use text-based installation (from the alternate distribution) rather than the standard desktop Live CD.
Categories: Loose Talk Web Development and Programming
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Back to the top of this pagechristianflury.com Relaunch
Posted on Tuesday, 14 November, 2006
As regular reader's may have noticed, I am almost done with the general overhaul of my old website. I have learnt loads of new things that I plan to blog about a bit in the future. In fact, my purpose was not “good design”, but a kind of design that would allow me to familiarize with a maximum of new concepts. The result is a CMS whose model is half database-backed (navigation) and half xml-based (main content), and a controller logic which is half object-oriented and half functional. However, I think, from the outside it looks acceptable by now, and so I have put the new site online.
Categories: Loose Talk Web Development and Programming
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Back to the top of this pageHappy Birthday, Ehrensenf – Congrats, Ruud Elmendorp – Long Live Internet Video Journalism
Posted on Thursday, 2 November, 2006
What the heck is Ehrensenf, you are possibly going to ask. Since you're asking, it's more or less like the German equivalent to Rocketboom. If you don't know Rocketboom, check it out. If you speak German and don't know Ehrensenf, have a look. Right, I am writing about video blogging/Internet TV/geek TV, whatever you want to call it.
Categories: Language and Translation Localization and Internationalization Loose Talk Web Development and Programming
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Back to the top of this pageWhy I Will Vote Conservative (ÖVP) At Today's Elections
Posted on Sunday, 1 October, 2006
As some of my readers may know, parliamentary elections are held in Austria today. (In fact, the title of this post is a lie since, due to an unexpected trip, I shall not be able to vote at all.) Following some vivid debate with friends and family, but also as an act of compensation for my inability to exercise my right to vote, I would like to share with you why I had decided to vote for the ruling conservative ÖVP of chancellor Schüssel even though I disagree with about 98% of their opinions. There is a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is: because I disagree with even 99% of the opinions of the other parties. Here is the long answer.
Categories: Free Thought, Free Markets Loose Talk
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Back to the top of this pageThe Fear of the Blank Page – or: Why yet another blog?
Posted on Friday, 1 September, 2006
My first post on my nice little blog – and the fear of the blank page is overwhelming. A good place to start might be to attempt to define what this blog is actually about and to outline why I believe it might contribute something new to this continuously evolving maze of more or less serious thoughts and interactions commonly referred to as the Worldwide Web.
Categories: Localization and Internationalization Loose Talk
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