Just a reminder for myself:
To copy a whole directory from or to a remote server via scp, secured by public ID, and this is not standard id_rsa use the following string:
sudo scp -r -i root root@remote_ip:/path_to_directory_on_remote_machine /path_to_directory_on_local_machine
where „-r“ id for recursive (the directory)-i is for the different identity fileand „sudo“ cause I key_genned my public key with sudo – if you didn’t, you won’t need it.
What I’ve just discovered when watching this blog on my ipod touch is that embedded YouTube videos are automatically shown with a preview picture and when you tap on them the iPhone built in YouTube app is called, playing the according „flash movie“ in the transcoded QuickTime format. Now this shows me that flash won’t come to the iPhone anytime soon. But very good move here, apple, for pushing QuickTime even further and of course a great move for google (YouTube) to become exclusive video provider for the iPhone …
For many of you out there this may be old stuff,but tonight I was once again realLy impressed by the power of twitter when the plane landed in Hudson river. I was doing some stuff at home on my notebook when the tweet of Robert scoble came in with the story of the accident – no german website nor german tv I was watching at that time did cover the story when the first photos were posted to twitpic-and I have to agree with Oliver so much, that journalism has completely changed-it’s not about the quality of the photos, it’s about the speed they’ve been posted (as Robert said the first photo was made with an iPhone.)
Well, I should start running again – feels so good, especially when it’s so cold outside (-7 in cologne).
Before the run – man am I’m looking old
After the run, looking even older 🙁
This guy is SO awesome – be sure to watch his other movies as well 😉
Togehter with our friends over at clicktivities we have just launched the new site for the RVM: erlebniscard.de . „Erlebniscard“ is a kind of customer loyal program for Rhein Main Verkehrsverbund GmbH which is a big company in the transport sector in Frankfurt, germany. The whole site is based on plone – which was our first project based on this CMS and I have to say, after quite a hussle in the beginning it worked out as a very good CMS, we now gained very deep knowledge in and will offer it other customers as well. Plone is mainly based on the application server zope and python, and is a very powerful and flexible „framework“, though the learning curve is stall in the beginning. We managed to connect background systems and doing a lot of business logic stuff in connection with existing ebusiness structures. Thanks to all participating teams for doing great work during the last weeks.
In case it occcurs, that Apple Mail crashes after the latest Leopard Update, then it might be, because you use GPG with it – updateing to the latest version solved the problem for me. Get it here
I’ve been using my blackberry as phone and email device since 2 years – and will stop it now. During my 2 weeks on holiday I had completely switched the device off, and boy: this was really relaxing. I feel I have to focus more on the work I’m currently doing and not having one of my two eyes completely stuck to the red LED of the device, always checking (even during meetings) mails, answering, editing… I am convinced, that the „always on“ mentality in itself is not the problem – it’s the „always avaliable“ thing, that made myself unproductive. I ordered an iPhone two days ago: because: I want and need an email device to be „always on“ but I want to choose when and how I read and react to emails.
Tonight I’ve been doing some backup stuff, and when I went through all the files, I found a directory called „backup_240106“: it contained a neat PDF I had forgotten: a first presentation of „SYMP“, which I had written on the 24.08.05 – SYMP (which fancy-like stodd for Sync Your Mobile Phone) was a kind of „MobileMe“ which I had thought of back in ’05 – and I remember a guy called „Nico“ which I had some nice discussions about that (and several beer in cologne, if I remember correctly 😉 ). The idea was to have a kind of open source CVS or SVN for everybody, with easy to use Accessing-Apps as well for the Desktop, as for your mobile. Of course, there was no idea about the iPhone back then, but I was thinking of J2ME, as it was (is) widely spread among mobiles in that times. There should have been a kind of XML index, for all syncing files, so that on your mobile, only the xml would have been parsed – and if you „ordered“ a document within, the device would have downloaded it, in order to reduce traffic-costs (which back then were the main problem). I feel like I should have thought about that idea in more depth, but as Loic can’t stop saying: Only execution matters. 😉
Together with our friends from clicktivities we had a great XMAS-Party: The biggest Rock-Contest in Germany took place during that evening – see some pictures below 😉
