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Month: July 2009
Die Frage die gestellt werden muss: Wird Wikileaks gesperrt? Denn Wikileaks wird die gesperrten URLs veröffentlichen. Wird Rapidshare gesperrt? Denn bei Filehostern kann jeder einfach Kinderporno verstecken. Kann jedes Angebot, das unmoderiertes Veröffentlichen erlaubt für Deutsche aus dem Netz verschwinden? Das ist die wahre Frage und man sollte sie jedem Politiker stellen […].
I don’t understand German (computers)
There are many reasons why I don’t trust localized computer software, and only run the US English version. First and foremost is the inconsistency of translations across applications by different vendors. Luckily, the usual words like “Tools” or “Paste” are almost always correct, but there are still cases that have confused me to no end.
Worse though is when everyday terms get mangled. Really, does anyone say anything other than Copy and Paste? “Lim in”, the Norwegian term for Paste, literally means to glue in. Now, a lot of people who know where the term paste originated from will understand this, but is that really necessary?
And just today, I was discussing BOMs (Byte Order Marks) with a friend who said his editor didn’t support them. Turns out his editor was the same as my editor, except in his, the option to use them was “Ident. Bytes bei UTF-8 hinzufügen” (add ident. bytes to UTF-8). Not only is the editor using a term that none of us had heard before – and we’re both programmers whose native language is German – it managed to abbrevimangle it to the point where even the translation became incomprehensible.
Back in the days of DOS 3.x, this was never a problem. Can I please get my time-machine already? With a big shiny “take me back to the 80s” button. Or “Ich möchte in die achtziger Jahre reisen”, if you have to.
The Weatherforecast, hour by hour. Summer is already over.
Moved
My blogging activities have moved to Tumblr, you’ll find me at http://ennorehling.tumblr.com/. This blog is left online as an archive.
Germany is buying new tanks on an unheard-of scale, redefining its army to be an offensive force (not strictly a defense force as before) and handing out medals for bravery again.
I suggest we rename it the ministry of war again. Because defense, really, that’s so last century.
This is the coolest custom Game Boy I’ve seen so far.
Custom Game Boy painted by The Popo.
See also: Original Game Boy (White), Game Boys with Pro Backlights