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by cimddwc · 2009-03-31

Translation: Cyberport says Thank you, Dresden

Why does an online shop say thank you to the city of Dresden on my credit card bill…?

(March 2009)

by cimddwc · 2009-03-28

Translation: “anhalten” means “to pause”, “to halt”, “to stop”… So which button means which function in this translation of Norton Antivirus 2009?

by cimddwc · 2009-03-26

No, not here in the blog, but instead:

The pink box contains a note that a word in the yellow box has been replaced with a shorter one.

Don’t think this annotation was supposed to be printed, was it?

(LTB Enten-Edition 24, p.190, Germany)

by cimddwc · 2009-03-24

Translation: “…Intel used the catchy argument: “Two are better than three”: The Nehalem CPU’s memory controler has three memory channels…”

Neither Intel nor the c’t could have meant it like the c’t wrote in a paragraph about Intel’s new Nehalem CPUs…

(c’t 7/2009, Germany)

by cimddwc · 2009-03-10

Translation: “For timeLab/24 bit”

A message when saving an animation – well, Corel Photo-Paint never was a great program for animations anyway… shortly afterwards it crashed.

(March 2009)

That’s what it was meant to read: For time settings to be saved…:

corel-zeit2