Did I say I hate Austrian mobile provider …
Recently I read on the Republica that on the line between Rome and Milano,
which is quite a long long ride, there are some stretches that do not allow
connecting via mobile to the internet. These places are the Appenin, not
surpisingly, and some others.
Ever travelled between Salzburg and Vienna, so not one of the remote
very rarely used lines in Austria, I got this wonderful ping return:
64 bytes from pub1.kernel.org (204.152.191.5): icmp_seq=61 ttl=50 time=76823 ms
Mind the time, 76 seconds. Yup, we are remote from the world. And that was
at times where I was at least connected …
[2008-10-06 | /Fun]
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Towel Day 25. May 2007
A tribute to Douglas Adams, don’t leave your bed without a towel!
Here is a photo of mine in front of a church in Barcelona (if I am right) at
one of the last towel days:
[2007-05-25 | /Fun]
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Carinzia - vacance tra nemici
Qualche giorni fa sono passato tra Carinzia, questo parte di Austria dove
un pazzo governa come un regno, dal un anno contra la costituzione austriaca.
Haider ha tolto le cartelle bilinguali colla spegiazione che nella legge
delle strade (Straßenverkehrsordnung) non sia niente detto delle cartelle
bilinguali. O che cazzo, mi pare che questo cavolo non ha mai sentito niente
della gerarchia delle legge.
Allora, io passo tra Carinzia senza fermarmi, senza spendere un Euro. Vacanze
tra nemici! Non capisco come la maggior parte della populazione in Carinzia
puo essere cosi stupido e continua votare per una fava come Haider. Grande.
Nemici.
Ricordate bene, vacanze in carinzia è vacanze tra pazzi, potrei dire anche
fascisti. Fate qualcos’altro! Austria è bellissima, non è necessario fermarsi
in carinzia!
[2006-12-28 | /Fun]
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My comment to the upcoming elections …
A fantastic, but unfortunately unavailable, T-shirt of the
Il Vernacoliere says the following:
La topa della Lega ‘un sa d’una sega
La topa toscana è saporita e sana.
I won’t translate this, but those who know a bit about politics and about Italian will understand.
[2006-09-29 | /Fun]
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Our prime minister
Election is closing in, and Herbert Lackner gives a good description of
our beloved prime minister in the Furche Nr.30/27. Juli 2006:
Wolfgang Schüssel gibt keine Interviews, sondern er hält Reden, die zu seinem
Missbehagen manchmal durch Fragen der Journalisten unterbrochen werden.
Please don’t forget to see the related comment on Gehrer below.
[2006-08-02 | /Fun]
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DeCSS is fun
It is already an old story, the one about the MPAA and CSS encoding, and
the Norwegian boy cracking the stupid encoding. But best of it, you can
get the DeCSS code directly from the servers of the
DVDCAA. I found this on the very
instuctive web page 42 ways to distribute DeCSS. It is simple, just do
for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig ${DVDs}.z.zoy.org @ns1.or.com ; done | \
perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip
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(all stolen from the above web page!)
Enjoy watching DVD on linux without the MPAA sanctum!
[2006-06-15 | /Fun]
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Our ministry of education
My comment to the Austrian government and the current ministery for
education cannot be better expressed than the following excerpt from
the Standard, print 3.2.2006, Lisa
Nimmervoll:
Heute gilt Gehrer als beratungsresistentes, selbstreferentielles System, das auf Autopilot läuft und läuft und läuft. Das tut sie, weil sie sich mit Schüssel in wechselseitiger Nibelungentreue verbunden weiß. Er wird sie nicht fallen lassen. Sie steht an seiner Seite. Populär sein mögen andere. Wir haben eine Mission.
[2006-06-06 | /Fun]
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Miserable Failure
Try searching Google for the term
Miserable Failure.
Oder, wenn Sie an österreichischer Politik interessiert sind, suchen
Sie nach dem Ausdruck “völlige
Inkompetenz”.
[2006-06-06 | /Fun]
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