In January 2010 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced one more product of its very successful i-products. A tablet computer called iPad. It was released in April 2010 in the US and is already available in other countries as well.

But the iPad was by far not the first tablet computer. Apple started development of a touch based mobile device in 1987 and released the MessagePad in 1993. There were many other tablet computers during the time between the MessagePad and the iPad but none of them was very successful. A very interesting one was EMC’s WiiN-Pad which gave you the option to use a stylus, a finger or a virtual keyboard.

Windows Vista, despite it’s SP1 really sucks in terms of network compatibility … read the simple trick to make Microsoft applications find “localhost” (commonly used for spam filters) again

Now this is an insightful comment from a US client this morning :-)

Instead of hediging via bank’s instruments (and paying them big $$$ for that which I’m still trying to setup)

I could try just hedge via labor cost ….

nice idea and obviously with work-laws in the US a lot more flexible than currency options running for 3/6/12 months :-)

hmmm.. your 2c ?

I received an abnormal high number of signals and messages from people abandoning their Wordpress blogs,

because of their hacks, just like Fridaynite did .

It appears to me that simply because there are so many vulnerable Wordpress installations out there, it became a promising goal

to hack Wordpress installs and

• inject some HTML code (for links)
• inject WHOLE POSTS into the wordpress archives (backdated)
• put in some cookie-stuffing code in to overwrite affiliate links’ credits

So DRUPAL6 was released last week finally – this is the GO for all module developers (like us) and heavy drupal users (like us)

to set aside their “normal” business (which is NOT drupal maintenance, consulting or else) and plan for DOZENs of hours and days

to upgrade all their sites…

Frankly,

we are running DRUPAL 4.x sites

we are running DRUPAL 5.x sites

and we will be running the new company site for cemper.com on Drupal 6 soon (postponed launch for DP6)

BUT, I will not and cannot commit to an upgrade mania solely to generate work and say we’re running recent versions

Once every year a new web hoster horror story comes along…

It's hard to imagine that anyone with an inkjet printer hasn't at some time had their printer run out of ink, only to find themselves without a replacement ink cartridge.

Whether you are using your computer only for private use or as part of your business this can be a really frustrating experience. At best not having a replacement ink cartridge might mean you can't print some information off the internet; or at worse if you're a business user you might not be able to process a letter to seize a business opportunity. You will then not only have to spend money but also waste your precious time shopping around to get your replacement ink cartridges. The convenient way to get replacement ink cartridges today is, of course, to do it online.

Now I guess at least one of you guys will find this highly uninteresting, but for the others,

I just realized that folks in Kiribati must be high on something for asking $1,299.48 for a domain name…

I mean cemper.ki doesn’t sound bad, but it doesn’t sound too good also… so why spend $1,299.48 on that per YEAR?

Now I’m not sure if Keira would like this ….

a little roundup and critical view at this blogs purpose

So I finished my marketing studies successfully finally… and you have to read about the real meaning of marketing …

The alpha version of the anti proxy hack module is available…

Announcement of the anti proxy hack module for Drupal

Completely revamped NAS hardware – but my broadband has 3x more bandwidth… what’s going on in Taiwan?

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve had problems on three sites with the exact same problem.

The watchdog table grew FASTER than the cron job (which should delete old log entries older than e.g. 3 days) would have deleted it.

This again ended in a “device full” last night when one watchdog table became 5 gigs.

(and I had a “table full” problem on another site last week – tough 64bit MYSQL should be able to do 4TB spaces, that one was 4GB only)

Now, it’s obvious that disk full problems shouldn’t be a problem for a content management system like Drupal to take care about,