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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Nicholas Negroponte, sun of a Greek shipowner and brother of the US vice secretary of state has initiated a project which not only has a very reasonable objective – getting all children of the world...
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Engineers needed ! ( EWeek 2008 started in Germany )
EWeek is coming up again here in Germany. Since three years I am participating as one of the engineers sent to several schools in our area to explain students why it is important ( for our economy )...
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DVD Recorder out of control …
Some days things just go wrong. You make a mistake and in order to fix that you make an even worse decision. Last week I was attempting to format a DVD on my new computer with Windows Vista installed....
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My favorites for week 33, 2010
Something to laugh: my favorite comic strip of the week – about next generations This “Moderately Confused” comic strip reminds me of a day a few years ago when friends visited our house and had...
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My favorites for week 50, 2010
Something to laugh: my favorite comic strip of the week – about Christmas presents Every year you have to find out: what to buy for your beloved ones for Christmas ? Do you better ask them instead of...
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My favorites for week 1, 2011
Something to laugh: my favorite comic strip of the week – about change Since I ended last year with a comic strip from Garfield, let’s start the New Year with Garfield as well: Change is not always...
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My favorites for week 13, 2011
Something to laugh: my favorite comic strip of the week – about Baseball 2.0 Things 2.0 are sometimes very different to how they used to be in the good old times, don’t you think ? How do you like...
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My favorites for week 17, 2011
Something to laugh: my favorite comic strip of the week – about redundancy One road to simplification leads through reducing redundancy. Redundant solutions or processes lead to confusion, expensive...
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Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer, IBM Part Number 6109030
"Saturn V Computer Ring" Did you know that IBM designed the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer in the 1960th ? I didn’t until my wife and I stopped at Huntsville, Alabama, on our 4-week-trip...
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Longest internet outage you ever experienced ?
In March my internet connection provided by Vodafone was broken for 6 days. That means: no phone, no internet @ home, for a long period of time. Luckily I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini with LTE and...
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