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Wie kann man den Licence Key erhalten? 9:21:47 PM
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Wichtige Stolpersteine beim Satellitensurfen
Das lange dünne Kabel zwischen Antenne und Basisstation schluckt sehr viel Feldstärke. Telefonieren ist damit möglich, aber keine Datenverbindung. Besser ist ein langes ISDN-Kabel. Dadurch hatte ich 100 Einheiten mehr.
Bei Feldstärke 520 habe ich 150 Mal vergeblich versucht eine Verbindung aufzubauen. Bei Feldstärke 571 hat es dann funktioniert.
Die Verbindung war sofort auf teure 64 KB eingestellt und E-Mails mit Attachements wurden gut übermittelt. Surfen ist nicht ratsam, da man angesichts der vermutlich hohen Kosten nicht genügend Dinge gleichzeitig machen kann. Das würde sich nur parallel zu datenintensiven langen Onlinezeiten anbieten. Außerdem kann man nur zufällig auf eine so gute Verbindung hoffen. In üblichen Fällen mit leicht bedecktem Himmel muss man den Rechner auf automatische 50 Wahlwiederholungen einstellen, die dann mehr als 20 Minuten pro Durchlauf dauern. Und wenn dann plötzlich die Leitung steht, ist man froh, wenn die vorbereiteten Abläufe ohne Leerlaufzeit starten.
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Noch mal Bildertest ...
... mit dem Mars-Editor
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Verbindungsdauer ...
... 8,56 Minuten 11:30:49 AM trackback []
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Es funktioniert!
Nach langem Warten. 11:26:22 AM trackback []
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Während die E-Mails empfangen werden ...
... lade ich mal ein Bild hoch.
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Online über Satellit
Dieser Text wird während der Onlinezeit mit Mars geschrieben. 11:23:33 AM trackback []
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Test INMARSAT upload
Dieser Eintrag soll dann hochgeladen werden, wenn ich mit dem Satelliten verbunden bin. 10:01:10 AM trackback []
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Bildtest Mars-Editor
Text neben der Ariane-Rakete
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Online anonymity
Cory Doctorow: My cow-orker Fred von Lohmann's latest Law.com column is a stirring call-to-arms in defense of online anonymity: "...your Internet Service Provider knows you're not a dog. And it knows your name, address and telephone number."In one recent case, the lawsuit and subpoena were issued in response to someone opining on an online message board that the president of a corporation had "a Napoleon complex." In another, the lawsuit was based on a statement that the company's executives were getting rich while the stock price was in free fall. Each of these suits was dropped once it became clear that the anonymous speaker was going to court to protect his identity, suggesting that the real purpose of the litigation was to discover whether the statements were made by employees so that the company could retaliate against them. The lawsuit was mere pretext for extra-judicial punishment.Though these two suits were dropped, there was a sad postscript: postings to both of the message boards involved dropped off dramatically once word of the lawsuit got out, and still haven't returned to their previous levels.
Courts across the country are beginning to develop some basic rules about when the anonymity of an online speaker should be protected and when it should be breached. Specifically, the emerging test, best articulated in a New Jersey appellate decision called Dendrite, holds that when a court is faced with a subpoena aimed at identifying an anonymous speaker, the court should (1) provide notice to the potential defendant and an opportunity to defend his anonymity via a motion to quash; (2) require the plaintiff to specify the statements that allegedly violate its rights; (3) review the complaint to ensure that it states a cause of action based on each statement and against each defendant; (4) require the plaintiff to produce evidence supporting each element of its claims, and (5) balance the equities, weighing the strength of plaintiff's evidence and the potential harm to the plaintiff if the subpoena is quashed against the harm to the defendant from losing his right to remain anonymous.
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Tennis court laid out on a helipad
Cory Doctorow:
The Dubai Duty Free Men's Open match between Roger Federer and Andre Agassi will be conducted is being promoted via a special tennis green that's been laid out on the 7-star Burj Al Arab hotel's helipad.
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What does a designer actually do?
I frequently come across a discussion about what design is, what it does and what a designer is doing. Lately a friend suggested that some definitions of design are descriptive (e.g. "Design is X"). These definitions don't work well in context of a scientific perspective, because they don't imply an agenda (especially no research agenda).See for instance these definitions about design and information design from IIID. On the very first homepage they quote Richard Grefé:
Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.But what does this mean? What does design resp. a designer do? The quote describes the effect of design - not a practice. There are numerous possible and complex descriptions to this. E.g. the definition page from IIID does list 15 items - each of which could be a start a fertile of a discussion about educational goals in design curricula and research agendas. And surely enough this is going on everywhere. But right now it seems that in relation to a scientific discipline design is in its early childhood.
I was once challenged to state with three items each to define a) what a designer does and b) how he does it. Not more than 3-4 items per answer! This got to be rough. Here is what I came up with:
What does a designer do?
- integrate new technologies/practices in daily life
- develop alternatives
- balance wishes and reality
- suggest formal solution strategies for informal problems
- create order from chaos
- create chaos from order
- copy best practices
I'd be happy to hear what you think. [gefunden bei owrede_log ...]
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