Writing about many topics: computers, internet, politics, cars, sports, sustainability.
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Star Wars turned 40 years in 2017 I have to admit: I'm not the big Star-Wars enthusiast, I'm more in favour of Star-Trek. Nonetheless I really like these movies as well. And I feel it as a kind of personal duty, devoting Star-Wars a tribute in this big...
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A brief overview about CPUs 2017/2018 The development in PC-CPU-performance 2017: In the last 7 years there has been little progress at PC-processors: In terms of computational-performance and efficiency Intel was miles ahead of AMD and year for year...
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The new spaceship Enterprise turned 30 Today exactly 30 years ago, on 28th of September 1987, a very important event for Star Trek, for the science-fiction-genre and even for TV-series overall took place: The 1st airing of „Star Trek: The next Generation“,...
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Scotland and the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is implemented to facilitate public discourse. It is not implemented so that people can insult each other. Including in the US, people are not “able to say whatever they want”. Some expressions are...
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Viennese Fire in the Alps for freedom of expression Since 1988 on every 2nd Saturday in August in the whole Alpine-region the initiative "Feuer in den Alpen" (Fire in the Alps) takes place. With admonishing-fires the organizers point on a specific issue,...
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In Vienna at the Donauinsel (Danube-Island) from 28th of July to 6th of August (so this week) the beachvolleyball world-championship takes place. So in the true sense of the word a major-event takes place in my backyard – I live only a 10 minutes walk...
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About 4 years ago, in 2013, I stumbled upon the young British popera-duo "Jonathan & Charlotte" (this is Jonathan Antoine and Charlotte Jaconelli). Shortly thereafter I wrote a blog-entry about them.1 year later, in 2014, the duo broke-up then, whereat...
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An open letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump: Dear Mr. President Trump! Early in the morning at 7th of April, you as President ordered to attack an airbase of the Syrian army with cruise-missiles type "Tomahawk". Much is uncertain....
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There are many content management systems (CMS) existing. To most famous belong WordPress, Joomla and Typo3. But all of them require an MySQL-database of the server. And above all the installation and the adaptation of the systems to your own needs is...
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Today on 23th January 2017, the people-initiatve (Volksbegehren) "against TTIP, CETA and TISA" is launched in Austria.The 3 trans-atlantic "free trade agreements" for 2-3 years are under massive criticism from a myriad of sceptical organizations – and...
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