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English – a hard language

makii — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:00:12 +0000

English, despite what we’re told in school, is a hard language to learn for non-natives.

I just received a notification that a task assinged to me was closed by a collegue, this was his comment:

G. S. closed DEFECT-0815.

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Resolution: Fixed

Caused by a version mismatsh.

:-)

Questionable Desktop Operating System

makii — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:41:41 +0000

Of course I usually prefer Linux over Windows. It’s more flexible, especially for a developers’ needs, despite the IDE I use for Java I have a powerful shell to fulfil arbitrary tasks, it just looks neater than the standard Windows desktop and I just love it!

So I was pretty lucky when, finally, my new workstation arrived:

Dual Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 GHz
4GB RAM
150GB HD
nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570 (never mind, I’m just interested in the two DVI-exits)
Gigabit Ethernet
…

So far, so good. I had already the latest Ubuntu disk to set up the box, when my nice co-worker told me we had to use CentOS as OS, as this one is also running on production.

…

And then we found these quotes on the net (original source lost, unfortunately):

We’re famous!!!

makii — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:49:52 +0000

I just found out that fettgaumen.de just recognized us as “serious in-house competition”. We’re getting famous, even without bad-taste monday. And yes, Guenni acutally has the copyright on research and destroy, but I asked him in advance and he had no objections. He’s used to it, as he, as you might recall, also has the copyright on fettgaumen! :)