Gestern beim abendlichen Einkauf hatten wir uns erfolgreich an Schokolade, Chips und Cola vorbeigeschlichen, nur um kurz vor der Kasse beim Zeitschriftenregal kleben zu bleiben.
Schon länger hatte mich – als Fan italienischer Küche – das Hochglanzmagazin “so isst Italien” angelacht. Da ich schon länger mehr kein “Eins Ah!” (sehr gutes Baden-Württemberg Magazin) gesehen hatte, griff ich mir also die Weihnachtsausgabe, es war nicht mal eine Gans vorne drauf abgebildet. Meine dies und letztjährige Dezember Ausgabe von “Lecker” hatten nicht nur fast identische Cover sondern auch viel zu ähnlichen Inhalt … selber schuld.
Zurück zu “so isst Italien”. Also nach überfliegen des Magazins: ich hoffe so isst Italien nicht. Da hatte ich bisher einen besseren Eindruck aus meinen verschiedenen Kochbüchern zum Thema. Das Magazin ist ein bisschen wie ein “findet den Fehler” Bild.
1. Rezept mit Bresaola Rucola Parmesan Röllchen für 6 Personen. Klingt total gut, muss ich unbedingt mal machen. Nur ob für 6 Personen, 16 Scheiben Bresaola eine gute Menge sind?
2. Risotto Milanese: ganz klar das beste Risotto, dass es gibt. Das Rezept habe ich mir dann allerdings nicht angeschaut, nachdem das zugehörige Photo statt Risotto einfach nur gelben Basmatireis zeigt.
3. Ein weihnachtlicher Hexenpunsch. Nachdem ich das Bild gesehen hatte, musste ich dieses Mal ausführlich das Rezept studieren, nur irgendwie fanden sich da zum Glück keine Erdbeeren drin.
Ich will gar nicht wissen, was ich alles noch nicht gefunden habe. Aber ich bin mir sicher, diese Kochzeitung kaufe ich nicht nochmal.
Amazon is too fast. The game was ordered and only hours later we found out that it is one of the games that infects your computer with the malware that is SecuROM. By that time it was already sent out and we could not cancel the order anymore. On Amazon.de and Amazon.com the game is getting tons of 1-star reviews because of this. As I write the number of negative reviews nears the 2k mark on Amazon.com.
While I think that the negative reviews are much better than not buying a game, I am not willing to have a DRM-Rootkit on my computer. Thanks no. I’ve always been a paying customer for all you DRM industries out there. This game I am returning. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just some DRM but SecuROM is really just too much.
“Die Partnerseite gibts nicht mehr”
“Was hast du gesagt?”
“Partnerseite!”
“Buttmassage?”
Vergesst nicht abzustimmen dreckstool.de und euch weiterzubilden scheissprojekt.de.
I broke some stuff today.
Today I’ll be extra careful on my way home. So far I have – after just having recovered from a database crash – deleted an important table on my blog. Luckily only after making a complete backup.
Later I managed to ‘rm -r *’ one directory higher up in the hierarchy than I thought I was. Lucky again, I noticed before all the data was deleted because my -hacked- local java install was not writable and asked wether I wanted to delete the files. I was then able to rsync the missing data from another host in the same cluster.
I guess today’s luck is used up.
Update: to top it all, when going home I wanted to lock my screen and instead of ctrl-alt-l for the lock ein managed to hit ctrl-alt-backspace .. killing my X-windows … yay me …
Because I felt like it, I installed MessageFaces on my mail client which is supposed to make use of the ‘face’ header in emails. So far so good. The plugin installed without trouble. But I have now spent half an hour trying to get an image that conforms to the restrictions placed on the images I can use for that header.
Can someone please tell me how I get a png that is exactly 48×48 pixels and less than 726 bytes large? Why not jpg? I can just reduce the image quality of my jpg …. pngs are much bigger and my best try so far was 2k. Is it gimp? Am I overlooking some of the more obscure options?
Of course it’s just a small gimmick but I would have liked to try it anyway. It seems that the gods of png won’t let me.
Edit(h) says: there’s a guide on the page … oops ;)
It would have been wise to fully use the automatic system and refrain from modifying stuff somewhere deep inside the generated results and thus undermining the automatics.
This neatly explains the trouble I have had the past few days to deploy something on two different systems that should have been equal … should have been … because they were installed with the same automatic configuration. Except … that on my local system I ‘fixed’ some stuff with a quick hack and forgot all about it … until … 6 weeks later …
This cost me several days of work and a lot of frustration.
Naturally this stumbling happened just after me saying “Oh I think I have finally worked out how system XYZ …”
So my new linux distribution (ubuntu in case I had not mentionned) does not install sshd by default. It took me just about half an hour to realize that one.
Of course why should a desktop workstation need sshd running … so it’s probably wise to not install it by default.
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