Tuesday, May 12, 2009

extreme photo retouching

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Krupp - Eine deutsche Familie

Krupp - Eine deutsche Familie
Deutsch Dolby Digital 2.0
Als Alleinerbin des 'Kanonenkönigs Fritz' erlebt Bertha (Iris Berben, Valerie Koch) als junges Mädchen die glanzvollen Zeiten, in denen Krupp unter Kaiser Wilhelm II. zur 'Waffenschmiede des Deutschen Reichs' wird. Ihre Mutter Margarethe (Barbara Auer) erzieht Bertha nach einem streng preußischen Regelsystem. Älter geworden zieht sie die Fäden im Hintergrund, da ihr als Frau, die Unternehmensführung nicht gestattet ist. Unerbittlich schwört sie ihren Ältesten Alfried (Benjamin Sadler) die vertrauten Werte ein: 'Krupp' steht über allem. Als 'Kronprinz' des riesigen Konzerns und Patenkind von Wilhelm II. wächst er isoliert von seinen sechs jüngeren Geschwistern in der Villa Hügel in Essen auf. Er wird zeitlebens um seine persönliche Unabhängigkeit kämpfen müssen. Seine große Liebe, Anneliese (Mavie Hörbiger), hält dem Druck nicht stand und verlässt ihn schließlich; der gemeinsame Sohn Arndt (Nikolai Kinski) wächst ohne ihn auf. Alfried übernimmt mitten im 2. Weltkrieg die Unternehmensleitung - und wird von den Alliierten später als Kriegsverbrecher vor Gericht gestellt. Als er in den 50er Jahren sein Vermögen zurück erhält gestaltet sich der Wiederaufbau sehr mühevoll. Und so entschließt er sich, die Firma von der Familie zu trennen und in eine Stiftung umzuwandeln: eine Entscheidung, die das Ende der großen Stahldynastie besiegelt. Der historische Fernsehfilm des ZDF in drei Teilen erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Krupp im 20. Jahrhundert als eines der facettenreichsten Kapitel der deutschen Vergangenheit - Erfolgsstory, Skandalreport, Polit-Thriller und menschliche Tragödie zugleich. Dreiteiler mit den Episoden: 1. Mit großem Pflichtgefühl 2. Von der Last erdrückt 3. Der letzte Krupp.



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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Heinz Erhardt - Die Made

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Useful scripts to plot charts in web pages

In this post I want to suggest you a list of some interesting scripts you can use to plot easily charts (line, area, pie, bar...) in your web pages using jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and other JS frameworks.

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

LAbg. Karl Schwab, FPÖ

Monday, February 23, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Automatic Backup and Version Control on Windows

While working on a project that requires a lot of writing - like coding, or authoring a book - it is a good idea to make backups or even better, maintain a sort of version control so that you can go back in time to see changes you’ve made to an article.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.


Features
State-of-the-art stitching algorithms automaticaly place source images and determine panorama type
Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
Support for different types of camera motion
Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
Automatic cropping to maximum image area
No image size limitation - stitch gigapixel panoramas
Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista
Output in a wide variety of image formats: HD View Silverlight Deep Zoom TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and more

Friday, January 30, 2009

DHTML Demos

DHTML Demo

HTTP File Commander
"HTTP File Commander" is a DHTML remote file management tool. The server side is an ASP based service. The client side is just Internet Explorer. You can copy, delete, move, and edit files on remote computer the same way you do it on a local one.
Outlook Backup
"Outlook Mail Backup" is a CDO based program which exports Microsoft Outlook mail (not Outlook Express one) to XML based backup. By using HTML based mail viewer you can navigate through you backup and search mail by keywords.
IE Spy
Using "IESpy" you can connect to any IE instance on your computer and navigate through document model.
WQL DataProvider for ADO.Net
WQL DataProvider is ADO.Net data provider, so you can use it just like usual MS SQL DataProvider, but for WQL (WMI + SQL = WQL). This DataProvider supports SELECT, ASSOCIATORS and REFERENCES queries. Doesn't support event queries.
WQL Analyzer
"WQL Analyzer" is an application which will help you create and debug your own WQL (WMI+SQL=WQL) queries.
HTTP Computer Manager
WMI based Asp.Net application for browsing system resources on remote network.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Museumsdorf Niedersulz

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Build a Skype Server for Your Home Phone System

Build this Skype server to provide 24/7 phone service through regular phone handsets in your home—and save a bundle of money in the process!

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

EXt/2 Ext/3 ReiserFS XFS UFS/FFS NFS driver for Windows 2000, 2003 and XP

Crossmeta has a free driver package for windows 2000 (SP3 and later), Windows 2003, and Windows XP, allowing the mounting of Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, UFS/FFS and NFS Partitions under windows. The NFS allows the aforementioned types as well as NTFS, FAT (32?) and CDFS to be shared via NFS on a windows box.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Securing RDP Remote Desktop and Terminal Server Connections

In this article, MVP Daniel Petri will summarize some of the most common security considerations you should take into account when designing your TS and RDP security. By following these guidelines you will be able to better protect your data and applications.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Visualizing mpeg4 motion compensation vectors using mplayer

Visualizing mpeg4 motion compensation vectors using mplayer
The MPEG4 video encoding process makes use of block motion compensation to achieve compression. The motion compensation process serves to produce the intra frames which are the frames between keyframes. I’ve always been fascinated by this process and was delighted to find out that my favorite video player, mplayer, allows one to visualize this process.

mplayer -lavdopts vismv=1 -vo x11 motion_vector_video.avi

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Set Up a Web-Based Desktop with EyeOS

While there are several web desktops available these days, the free and open source EyeOS application is the most accessible, useful, and promising one out there. Follow along to see what a web-based desktop looks like, and how it can help you get things done when you're locked down or out of pocket.

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Ken Block - Subaru STI Gymkhana Practice

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

Even though the ext4 file system is still in the early stages of development, it's already showing better performance under some workloads. ReiserFS 4 is also a nice surprise. And both are running stable for development file systems.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

Erfunden im Krieg (Moderne Wunder)

Erfunden im Krieg
Haben Sie heute Morgen, als Sie sich fertig gemacht haben, um zur Arbeit zu gehen, einen Moment innegehalten und nachgedacht, wie stark Ihr Leben bisher von Krieg beeinflusst wurde Aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach nicht. Die USA waren seit über 50 Jahren nicht mehr in einen Weltkrieg verwickelt. Dennoch haben unzählige Dinge des täglichen Gebrauchs ihren Ursprung in Erfindungen, die ursprünglich für kriegerische Einsätze vorgesehen waren - von Haarbürsten bis hin zur Mikrowelle. Auf der einen Seite bringt Krieg schreckliche Massaker, Krankheiten und Leiden. Auf der anderen Seite hat er einige der größten Erfindungen ermöglicht, die die Welt je gesehen hat. Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit für Rüstungszwecke hat nicht nur das Kommunikations- und Transportwesen, sondern auch die Medizin revolutioniert. Sie hat Erfindungen hervorgebracht, die der Menschheit zugute kommen und sich für den alltäglichen Gebrauch eignen. In Kriegszeiten ziehen alle an einem Strang und arbeiten auf ein gemeinsames Ziel hin, wissenschaftliche Ziele stehen über Konkurrenzdenken, und finanzielle Mittel und Personal stehen in Hülle und Fülle zur Verfügung. Einige Erfindungen werden aus der Not geboren, wie beispielweise Margerine aufgrund der Nahrungsmittelknappheit an der Heimatfront. Einige stammen direkt von zerstörenden Waffensystemen ab (Atomkraft), andere wiederum von Verteidigungstechnik (Mikrowelle). Die Ironie des Krieges ist, dass die gleiche Wissenschaft, die zum Töten Abertausender von Menschen erfunden wurde, heute eingesetzt wird, um Leben zu retten. Vom Handy bis zum Haarspray - der Bezug zum Krieg ist in unserem täglichen Leben allgegenwärtig. ‘Erfunden im Krieg’ verfolgt einen Tag im Leben einer ganz normalen Frau und untersucht, inwieweit ihr Leben von Kriegserfindungen beeinflusst wird.


Erfunden im Krieg

Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)

Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you're on someone else's network. Today we'll set up a local proxy server that encrypts your online activity from your Mac, PC or Linux desktop.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

23+ Tools for Faster Javascript/Ajax Development

A wide range of tools and applications that could really help you build, test and debug Javascript and Ajax applications.

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51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

There’s stuff all over the Web about jQuery, but finding the best tutorials to get you started can be tough. Here are Examples and tutorials from jQuery masters to keep you on the right track.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Javascript online massive social password cracking ?

What about a javascript online massive social password cracking ?

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery

Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth...

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery

Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth...

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery

Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth...

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Ext3, ReiserFS & XFS in Windows thanks to coLinux

If you ever: needed to access your ext3, reiserfs or XFS partitions from Windows, wanted to use one of your favorite file systems via FUSE, or had an idea to mount an image of your hard drive, then this article is for you. This is a how-to, describing what to do, if you want Windows to handle file systems in a similar way as Linux does.

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College Teacher Shows Students How To Be Hackers

In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers.

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Biggest Military Hack of All Time Was Done With a 56k Modem

Gary McKinnon, a British computer expert, claims he's just fascinated with UFOs. Using his home computer and a modem — how WarGames! — he infiltrated military networks and accessed thousands of computers trying to find evidence of alien contact

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

New 3.2Gbps FireWire spec approved, not as fast as USB 3.0

The IEEE 1394 working group has formally approved FireWire's next-generation standard. The new version defines transfer speeds of 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps, is backwards compatible with FireWire 800 and 400, and uses the same cable standard as FireWire 800.

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