RaSchi’s Valhalla

In a recent initiative called Backfiles, Publisher Emerald Insight has opened access to some of their out-of-print content from several of their academic journals. One of the sample articles that has just made it to my list of “things to read, when time allows” is the article in which Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues allegedly […]

Everynow and then I still see some comment spam, despite Aksimet running on this blog. Akismet catches most of the spam and I really appreciate the work the fine folks over at Akismet.com are doing. However, inspired by the article in the most recent issue of c’t magazine, I installed the reCAPTCHA plug-in and it […]

You have a GPS in your car to help you navigate through Europe? Well, then you may want to check the European Speed Camera Database: Our Tip: SCDB.info - the most up-to-date speed camera database in Europe for your Navi. Download speed cameras as Points of Interest and be alerted (incl. the speed limit). No […]

In case you wonder what these acronyms mean:
Global Information Assurance Certification - GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
If you’re interested, find out more here and here. And what is this all about? I’ve just passed the certification exams and so from now on (for the next four years at least),  I may call myself a GCIA. I’ve […]

British telecom (BT) and FON Community today announced that BT is partnering up with FON. While many telco’s run their own networks of wifi hotspots (e.g. Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile) and probably consider the community their competitor, BT apparently goes a different route.
“We have integrated FON in BT and now more than more than 3 million […]

Intel Research has published about Intel Mash Maker Technology Preview, a Firefox add-on which is supposed to make mash-up development a point-and-click process. Unfortunately it’s preview only and only for a limited audience. That means you can sign-up and you enter the waiting list. If you watch these videos, you’ll most likely be as impressed […]

Well, it’s not that long ago that I upgraded my Wordpress installation to 2.2.2, with which I had some trouble due to a larger gap between the former installed release and the upgrade and also due to a non-restorable backup. Now Wordpress 2.2.3 was released today and I figured that it may be a good […]

German VoIP provider SipGate announced an open API to their VoIP service. The API is based on XML-RPC, the HTTP connections are secured using SSL/TLS. They have some Perl examples on their website, there’s a .NET SDK and a Firefox extension as well. Now, it would be interesting to look a little further into it […]

Cisco seems to have announced to bring it’s telepresence equipment to the consumer market (says computerwoche.de. Their current enterprise solution with three big screens, high-end audio, etc. is at about 300k$. A lower priced edition with only one big screen is available at 80k$. Now they plan to release an edition which will use […]

For a couple of weeks already I had some trouble with Gna’s touch screen. It seemed to send it’s controller the signal as if someone touched the lower right corner of it (where the battery indicator is located). Thus the backlight of the screen was switched on and depending on the lock being applied or […]