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By the end of 2006, when Open BC (XING) went public, I predicted their stock price to raise up to 50 € by the midth of 2007. As for today they are at 45 € 😉

For some projects we need to test port switching and behaviour of clients behind company firewalls. For that we needed a solution to simulate different firewall settings and log, how traffic goes through, what is blocked, filters etc. For that purpose we found Flying Buttress quite handy: it’s easy to handle and serves some extended…

MacFuse is a cool app for OSX: one can mount drives to your finder via ssh or ftp. the best is the GUI MacFusion. (via kazam.de)

Sorry, aber die Spamwelle, die in den letzten Tagen über uns hereinrollt, schafft Begeisterungsstürme! Hier die Top Platzierten: 1) Nimm die Pille, sei kein Tor, dann steht er wie ein Ofenrohr! 2) Wer abends mit der Pille wurzt, sich nachts auf seine Alte sturzt! 3) Nimm die Pille, sei kein Dummer, sonst schaffst du nie…

When I was looking for a song on google today I noticed, that on the first two results there was the direct link to the according youtube video and one could watch it directly through a simple AJAX trick on the results page. Very „nice“ 😉 but what about Wikipedia? Couldn’t there be a link…

For all to you I missed to send an invitation: feel free to join us on our opening party on thursday, 28th of june, 19.00… in Düsseldorf, Mintropstr. 20-22. We’ll have Kölsch and Würstchen, nice DJ music and great people here… hope to see you next week 😉

Fiddeling around with ssh-tunnels I want to keep myself reminded, on how to set up a tunnel to a remote server via ssh, forwarding port 80 to my port 4711: ssh -L 4711:127.0.0.1:80 root@myserver.com Then open your webbrowser and point it to 127.0.0.1:4711 and voila, you are on the internal webserver.. 😉

whew, as they say in their blog, the fast growing audio-community last.fm was just bought by CBS. They seem to be on a shopping tour, having just announced major agreements with social networking sites and providers: looks as if the fat boys are going into new distribution channels – we are going to see some…

….liefert ganz fein, wie das in Deutschland so üblich ist, der Bundesverband digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) 😉

Then this site might be of interest for you: some guys are walking down the streets through the metropoles of the world, shooting amateur models in stylish outfits.