Furious start of Diablo III

Sanctuaria is open to everybody. Since midnight (european time) you can
officially log on to the game server and play Diablo III. Since yesterday 5pm
the installer no longer refused to install. The installation of the game took a
mere 30 minutes on a classic notebook and 10 minutes on a highend system.

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May 15, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Security issues with WhatsApp

It seems as if WhatsApp Has also attracted the attention of hackers. An
Android App called WhatsApp Sniffer allows tapping of conversations
between users on the same network as the hacker is on with his device.
Google has already put down the App from the AppMarket.

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May 14, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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The best smartphone ever and Siri

When it comes to Siri, you remember the iPhone 4S introducing this feature.
You can ask Siri any question and most of them are adequately answered.
The question about “Will you marry me” for example is being answered with
“Sorry, but my Terms of use do not cover marriage”.

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May 13, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Greece back to Drachm?

Seems as if the Unthinkable gets closer and closer for more and more star
economists. Greece is about to loose the Euro as currency and going back to
the drachm. Seems as if all effort to avoid the expulsion of Greece from the
european currency union has failed.

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May 12, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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The German BKA to fail with trojan!

Seems as if the german BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) still has no tool
to tap the encrypted VoIP lines or EMail traffic of Suspects. The trojan horse
“Staatstrojaner” still does not comply with current law specifications and
thus is illegal to use on any private computer yet!

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May 11, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Why Automation isn’t always perfect!

This is a wonderful example why you shouldn’t use automated patterns to
generate e-mail adresses for example. In this case, a german company has
faced severe problems and moch more worse: The email system there seems
not to accept any changes to that generated addresss…

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May 10, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Driving in Russia… – Part 2

I have already posted some videos, how dangerous driving in Russia can be.
This video is no exception and goes one step further. I guess You all know the
zipper scheme when you are on a two-lane intersection. slow down your car,
let the car next to you slip in between. But what happens if you don”t give in?

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May 9, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Watch the Freedom Tower grow!

I already mentionned, that I like Timelapse videos. This time, it’s from the
construction site of the Freedom Tower in New York where a camera has
recorded pictures of the construction over 8 years. They are now finally put
together into a 2 minutes long timelapse video. The result is amazing!

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May 8, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Mac OS X with a big security hole?

What almost sounds impossible, seems true right now. The usually so-secure
Mac OS X seems to have a big security hole allowing hacers to spy on passwords.
It seems as if FileVault has a Debug option that allows writing unencrypted
passwords to FileVault files to the log file. This debug option has been…

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May 7, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Back to Bern, back to work…

So that’s it! Time to take the train back to Bern, time to get back to work and time
to wait another 365 days to celebrate with Pianoman. Now it’s time to face the
“enemy”, called Deutsche Bahn, again and hopefully coming home in time. But I
am confident that everything will go well as this train is operated by the SBB…

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May 6, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Happy bday, Bro!

So… Now Pianoman has hit the 31st bday. Time to celebrate his special day and
enjox the other people joining us. For this reason there won’t be anything posted
today as my status will probably go from plain ordinary to ordinary drunken.
Expect serious updates on Monday again! PARTYTIME!!! YEAH!

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May 5, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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A day with Deutsche Bahn…

…or: An instruction how to learn to hate the service of Deutsche Bahn. It all
began with a planned trip to Munich from Bern. No problem. Just take the
14:02 train from Bern to Zurich HB and then switch trains to Munich Central
station. 5h42m travel time and less hassle with train switching… WRONG!

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May 4, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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How Chinese people protect their bike!

This is amazing. While browsing youtube in my lunch break I stumbled upon
this really nice video. While here one is securing his bike with a heavy lock,
the chinese people seem to use much more “natural” ressources to protect
their transportation device. The follwoing video is self-explaining! Have fun!

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May 3, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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SSD selftest: I did it!

So finally I decided to updated my rig with a SSD. The reason? Well, although
my rig fired up in under one minute, I thought: Hey, can I give it some more
power? So the SSD was the next object to put on my wishlist. But wait, there
was something when I tried to give my netbook an update…

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May 2, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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The Galaxy S3 – Unpacking on May, 3rd

Long-awaited and probably the most-feared iPhone-Killer, the Galaxy S3 will
be unpacked and officially presented to the public in Loondon. There are lots
of speculations about the design, equpment and general specifications about
Samsung’s new flagship. However the excitement is still there.

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May 1, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Huawei to take another bitter pill

Not only Australia seems to have lost trust in Huawei (read here), now even
Germany’s universities seem to seek for other network equipment deilverers.
The actual statement from the DFN (Deutsches Forschungs-Netz) has also
mentionned security issues besides formal contract issues.

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April 30, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Groupon and balance problems!

It seems as if the famous portal that has gone stock, seems to have to deal
with problems concerning their balance figures. So it’s only logical that
Groupon now employs a professional finance&economy management team
to get things straight. Possibly to fend off any stock-related issues!

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April 29, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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GB to censor the web!

So it’s official! Five big providers have been forced by the High Court of Great
Britain to lock access to the famous Pireate bay site, a site containing links to
torrent files that allow establishing network links to a specific file among
various clients. An example for de-centralized file distribution.

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April 28, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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Don’t mess with the cops – NYPD

Another news just came in. When you have ruffle with the police, you’d better
not screw with the cops. In Harlem, a young man has been striked down with
not less than 84 bullets! The man has been put on file for potential murder of a
13 years old girl he is supposed to have shot. Domestical turbulences…

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April 27, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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CISPA now active!

The house of Representatives have now agreed to the CISPA with 248 against
168 votes. 15 haven’t been counted. CISPA (aka. Cyber Intelligence Sharing
and Protection Act) allows governmental institutions and businesses to share
private data from persons all over. So if you had ruffle with the CIA, your…

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April 26, 2012Netspark No Comments »
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