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Black Macbook MagSafe Board

After I „offered“ my Macbook to the rain in last August, the battery didn’t charge anymore, though the macbook works seamlessly. After reading a lot on the net, I now decided to get myself a new magsafe board, which is a small piece sitting inside the macbook, and connects the magsafe connector to the mainboard – I suppose, this is broken due to the rain. After trying 120345890 times to get someone at gravis to the phone, I finally went there last saturday, wanting to order the spare part. All they said: Apple dosen’t sell spare parts, and so do we (ehm, well, ok…). Now I ordered it at comtecedv.de Let’s see how this will work out.

UPDATE:I’ve just finished installation of the new Magsafe board – but it didn’t work – so, the mainboard seems to be defect ;( Damn – could have been so easy. Btw: got two screws left – hope that doesn’t hurt my MB 😉

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My trip to Sweden and Lativa

During the last weeks I made a small but very nice trip to the north, fliying from Dusseldorf to Stockholm (ryanair), taking the ferry from Stockholm to Riga (Silja Lines) and flying back from Riga to Dusseldorf (ryanair).
For accomodation I chose the community couchsurfing.com which I can highly suggest to anyone out there wanting to travel „the special“ way. The cool thing with couchsrufing.com is, that thre are people from all over the world who host you on their couch. So of course, no money for hotel etc. but most important: you get your guide for free 😉 I really liked the idea of getting connected to people who live in the towns you visit – and it really worked out for me, getting to know Stockholm and Riga from the „insight view“ (Thanks to Olov and Agnija). These guys where so helpful and pleasant, that I had a wonderful time in both cities (photos following 😉 ). What really excited me was Riga, the capital of Latvia, with their young people, fully addicted to the internet – first thing I discussed with Agnija was the impact of converged media – she is studying somethint like media science. I was a bit disappointed by Stockhom, because during my stay, streets were nearly empty – but this might have to do with holidays and it was quite cold, so no need to go outside for the Swedish, only stupid german tourists like me were walking around… 😉
I think my next travel to the north will be in summertime – because Riga and Stockholm are really beatiful towns, with lots of green and water.
Now, refreshed, and back to work, kickin 2009…


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Whew, wheres 2008 gone???

So I havent blogged for a while-and yes,twitter is one reason for that 😉
Many things have happened: I now live in a cute flat in ehrenfeld in cologne, with direct view to the Dom – unfortunately I am not yet ready, and I have to live with the boxes 😉 it’s too much work to do-but I don’t want to complain- no, not for a second! Motionet is really growing and we mamaged to finish some really exciting projects this year- and there are still some great new customers to be anounced 😉 but for me personally our p2p in-browser streaming tool emundoo is the most exciting project,and I’m really proud of what we managed to reach this year – there is still a long way to go, but we are going into first public tests by the beginning of the new year,and boy: these partners really rock…
I’m not quite sure how the current financial crisis will work out and if our business will be affected- but we have a great team and so I think we will manage what will come whatsoever…
I’ve just organized my first holidays since ages: I am going to fly to Stockholm, Sweden, on the 27th for some days and will then take the ferry to Riga, Lattvia-I am going to meet a good friend of mine and stay there for new year-during planning I found couchsurfing.com a very cool community for finding and sharing your couch with people from all over the world:for Stockholm alone there seem to be more than 1000 acommodation possibilities -that’s impressive. Let’s see how things are going to work out-I’ll let you know and post some „cold) pictures 😉

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typepad account

got a reminder today from typepad regarding my blog account: the credtit card information wasn’t valid anymore. DOI had to remember the „good“ times when oli got me into blogging which was back in 2003-yes we are getting old 😉 and I had to remember some strange kind of deal oli and I made to pay each others typepad account because we got one year for free for that. Don’t remember what kind of goodie typepad gave us back then exactly…;)

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damn rain today

huh bad weather today! Let’s see how our boys from the german team will perform today against Croatia. My bet: 3:0! 😉

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emundoo: our p2p video-streaming system

For over a year our team has developed emundoo, and we are now in "geek mode" which means, we are running a closed alpha to find all the bugs and cracks we need to fix to offer emundoo to the public asap.

What is emundoo

                                 
                        

emundoo is a Content Distribution System targeted at Video on Demand
services. It uses advanced Peer-2-Peer networking technology to
distribute the load on the network to all participating machines. The
system is still in development. Currently it provides the basic
functionality required to deliver video content to users. emundoo is
video format agnostic, so that nearly all video formats developed until
today can be transported by the system. It is built around open
standards to ensure interoperability with third party software.

                                 

How does it work

                                 
                        

In
its current implementation emundoo in essence provides you with a local
streaming server that will fetch the data you request on demand from
the emundoo network. The emundoo network is comprised of personal
computers around the globe running the emundoo client software. Each
time a video is requested by a user, the video data is transferred as
needed to the user’s local machine, where a portion of the data is
stored for later redistribution to other participating machines.

If yoou want to participate in emundoo and give it a first glance, please drop me an email at ingmar at motionet.de and I’ll send you an invitation…

                                 

                

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Why I like TV under public law

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Last saturday night I somehow could not sleep so I watched TV: boxing on ARD, which is the first program in germany. Castillejo (Spain) vs. Sylvester (Vorpommern, Germany). Castillejo (called „The Fox“) 40 y old with lots of KO on his winners-list vs the young german guy who knocked Castillejo K.O. in the 12th round – and boy: Castillejo really didn’t look that good afterwards. It took him appr. 5 min to get back to his feet again. What I found truely remarkable is that the cameras of the TV went away from him: they didn’t show ONE SCENE of him laying on the floor – the reporter told us, he looked like mess, but they didn’t show. And I liked that – I liked the way the editors let him his intimacy in this moment of defeat. I am not sure, if a privately held station would have acted like that. Is moral a question of money? Is courtesy a question of Adimpressions?

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Couch potatoe

This evening my second beloved football club (just behind Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Cologne) played against Borussia Mönchengladbach, which is a traditional derby. I haven’t got a TV since 2 years anymore, but my notebook with a DVB-T card, which is fine for all the channels I’m normally watching, Unfortunately the game tonight was on a channel I can’t get via the antenna – instead of going to the pub next door I gave zatoo a chance – and was quite impressed. I met their CEO about 3/4 year ago, and they now have all major channels on their program in germany. the quality is quite good – I loved not to have a complicated registration process and sound quality was very good. I noticed, that my upload capacity was quite small -which leads me to the opinion, that they use a mixed p2p and client-server architecture behind their system, with a bigger part for client-server. Being on the couch I had my blackberry in my hand, writing mails with Thomas in the editorial office, had my ipod touch in touch for twittering with friends in the stadium – and guess what – it was great. It was a much cooler experience than watching the game on the couch just together with my potatoe-chips – I love the idea of watching TV interactively with friends. It’s much more about the experience than about the content (they played 1:1, but it was a really exciting game). I’m so happy that we at motionet are able to take part in a small part with our technology emundoo – we’ll soon start our browser based p2p streaming service i alpha mode – and it’ll be great. We won’t have these interactive parts from the beginning, but we’ll bring you an excellent user-experience in picture- and soundquality and ease of use.

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OSX Umlaut svn problem

We found a workaround for the OSX svn problem: You might want to add this small pre-commit script to your svn which checks for umlauts before commit and gives the user a warning:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS=“$1″

TXN=“$2″

SVNLOOK=/usr/bin/svnlook

## NOTE: This is a quick hack! WILL let many „dangerous“ characters pass!

if $SVNLOOK changed -t „$TXN“ „$REPOS“ | grep ‚^A.*\\195‘ >&2

then

echo „Auf diesem Server sind nur ASCII-Zeichen erlaubt!“. >&2

exit 1

fi

exit 0

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MySQL Enterprise support – not that cool

For quite a large project we booked MySQL Enterprise Support. As always when working with 3rd party companies we needed to set up an NDA with them. Unfortunately MySQL germany is not able today to accept our standard NDA – they have to use the american version which allows MySQL to use everything their consultants do not „write down“, but „keep in their minds“. I’ve never seen such an NDA up today – and of course we could not accept that 😉