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More servers for Deutsche Bahn!

by cimddwc · 2007-11-14

At least 31% more, what the hell, at least 3x more servers for Deutsche Bahn (German Railways)! That’s my demand, and I’m gonna go on strike for that now! Anyone wants to join?

Those who are currently looking for backup schedules on bahn.de must be very lucky to get at least the page’s title after an hour… and that when I want to go by train tomorrow.

The long-distance schedule, at least, is also available at N24.de (left hand side, “Mehr zum Thema”), but which short-distance trains will run and which won’t? Who wants to get to the station in time for one of the 50% of trains that will be cancelled, and with having to change trains later, too?

Update: Kinda funny, just after I had written that, the servers are reacting ~~quite~~ almost quickly again…

Regardless:

Thunderbirds are go!

by cimddwc · 2007-11-10

This is my entry for a German blog parade about e-mail programs – which program you use and why. Sorry that I didn’t translate it yet, does anyone desperately want me to?

MUA-Parade iKA veranstaltet eine Blog-Parade zum Thema Mail-Programme (MUA), auf die ich bei der Prinzzess gestoßen bin.

Ich verwende Thunderbird (gewohnheitsmäßig in der englischen Version; gibt’s auch auf deutsch) – und das schon, wenn ich mich recht erinnere, seit über drei Jahren, als Version 0.7.x aktuell war. Ich hatte damals was Neues gesucht, um vom nicht unproblematischen OjE wegzukommen, und ein paar Programme ausprobiert (ich weiß gar nicht mehr welche sonst noch) und bin dann bei Thunderbird hängengeblieben, weil’s mir am meisten zugesagt hat.

Außerdem, das mal am Rande, benutze ich seitdem 40tude Dialog fürs Usenet, anstatt OjE oder TB für beides (Mail+News) zu verwenden – das Mail-Programm läuft den ganzen Tag, die Newsgroups brauche ich nur vorübergehend, und so ist es wesentlich übersichtlicher mit den ganzen Ordnern (s.u.) und Gruppen.

Thunderbird hat einen lernfähigen Spam-Filter, bei dem (v.a. neuartige oder seltene) Spams zwar anfangs durchrutschen (was auch gut sein kann, denn sonst hätte ich “meine” Anghela wohl nicht bemerkt ), aber mit einem Klick als Spam markiert und entsprechend in den Junk-Ordner verschoben werden, wo sie automatisch nach einer einstellbaren Zeit gelöscht werden (bei mir 10 Tage). Und mit jedem solchen Klick lernt der Filter wieder dazu. Outlook Express hatte damals sowas gar nicht, und ein externes Programm (K9) funktionierte zwar gut, erforderte aber natürlich etwas mehr Arbeit.

Search Queries October

by cimddwc · 2007-11-05

“Cuckoo”. Don’t be shy. “Excuse delay”. Never mind, you’re here now, so we can start commenting a fine little selection of search queries (displayed in italics with grey background; I translated the German ones) that led visitors here in October.

“no” – sorry, there’s no getting around it.

“searching for something something”. You should know what you’re searching for before you feed that to Google. “about”. C’mon, not you too, the other 70 people are enough, for whatever reason they search for that – and get here (via Microsofts Live Search)!

“listen”! Okay, I’m all ears. “advent advent a” – stop, hold it, wait a few more weeks, okay? Something else, please. “fidirallala”. Is that all you have to offer? “it make’s me just feel like crying baby”. (“I have got no doubt” that there was an apostrophy too many.)

“God speak to me”. If he doesn’t here you, you might need a prayer antenna. But “what would you ask god”?

“I’m looking for magic love quotes”. I doubt God will tell you some, but notify me when you found some, okay?

“The devil wears praguers”. Well, there surely are some sinners in Prague. Guys that “reed devil’s bible”, for instance, or some like you: “manipulated dice to buy”. Won’t find that here. Shame on you! “your sin will find you out”!

“the wrong way of playing lotto” is of course with “lotto numbers to buy”. But what do you mean with “lotto numbers out of the kafe”?

There are also many requests for translations. I’m gonna answer a few: “what does ois mean ??”: “everything” (Bavarian dialect). “what does hello wien mean”: “Hello Wien (Vienna)”. “halloween english”: “Halloween”. “hotpants english” Ho— enough, I’m tired of that.

“You are so good baby”. Thanks! But who are you, calling me “baby”? Maybe “Anghela”? “She’s the best you’ve ever had”. Regarding language humor, in any case.

“diapered in public” – “if you don’t make it yourself it ain’t fun”. Well, dunno, that’s really not my thing. I’d very much prefer thongs, then – the English speaking part of the world is mostly still asking “do men wear thongs”, the Germans already know: “men wear thongs”, even “everyone wears thongs”. Well, almost, I considered it a little too cold for me today…

Well then, bye and “all the best”!

“Einer geht noch einer geht noch rein” (there’s still room for one more) – okay:

“asian beauties nude”. There you are! Show picture ▼

Browser statistics and more

by cimddwc · 2007-10-30

Now that Webtrekk GmbH published its current statistics about browser & co in Germany for the 3rd quarter (see also Golem) – IE 6 is still used most (41,15%), then Firefox/Mozilla (27,08%) and IE 7 (25,23%); Windows XP clearly dominates (79,56%) in front of the rest (more in the official PDF) – I thought I’d publish my blog’s statistics, too.

My numbers were collected by Blogcounter.de since late August – with the advantage that they do not count my own visits, so that doesn’t blur the data.

Browsers:

IE (all versions put together) dominate here too, but the share of Firefox/Mozilla is higher than in the Webtrekk statistics (“sonstige” = other):

Stats: Browsers

Operating System:

Quote of the Day (6)

by cimddwc · 2007-10-29

Read on “Cruelty’s Blog” (German) which I found via Yigg.de:

“Layer-Ads is […] just a simple layer that moves into view with a little animation.
Thus, the user is not irritated and quickly finds the Close button, if he doesn’t wish the ad.”

(Emphasis and translation mine. And dear Cruelty, I don’t want to attack you personally, I just want to tell my opinion on such ads.)

Yigg screenshot of the blog Hmm… does anyone know anyone who doesn’t mind an ad thingy of about 750×500 pixels covering the page content? (Except those making money from it, of course…) Even if it disappears after viewing and closing once for all future (what I doubt; at least, it seems to work that way temporarily), that could alienate one visitor or another – and if even the Yigg screenshot consists almost completely of an 1&1 ad, one could think: ‘Oh, that blog with that ads, no, don’t need to go there.’

By the way, Layer-Ads.de says (my translation):

“Even visitors with pop-up blockers will see a layer.
The webmaster won’t lose a single compensated visitor.”

My Firefox–Proxomitron combination worked anyway, I had to dig up the unfiltered IE to get an impression of these ads.

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