Down Speed

Posted on Januar 27th, 2006 in Allgemein.

Insane speeds ! Azureus peaked at > 500 kB/s, my screenshot being a little too late.
In theory, my 5 Mbit-line should give me 625 kByte/s, so what do I pay for when regular throughput is 200 kB/s only ?!

James Porto

Posted on Januar 1st, 2006 in Allgemein.

Just for a change, here’s a simple link: www.jamesporto.com has got brilliant visuals !

Baby Names Again

Posted on Oktober 19th, 2005 in Allgemein.

We’ve been through that Kal-El stuff, but naming one’s baby Google is a crime against human dignity.

Anyway, Swedish authorities seem to be cool about it…

50 Mbit

Posted on September 22nd, 2005 in Allgemein.

50 Mbit down / 5 Mbit up for non- business customers at wilhelm.tel for EUR 149,00 p.m. flat. (GBP ~105)

Fifty ! That is 781 x plain single- channel ISDN…

Charlotte Engelhardt Goes Playboy

Posted on September 18th, 2005 in Allgemein.

Charlotte used to host German computer TV-show NBC GIGA, but as everyone knew was not picked because of her computer wisdom.
Too bad she’s doing something different now.

The Morris Thompson Incident

Posted on April 26th, 2005 in Allgemein.

Yesterday, 15:25, this website got a pagehit from Google.de, referring to the query words “Morris Thompson”.
Well - I don’t know no Morris Thompson and I was pretty sure he had nothing to do with my site. But then I checked again, and found this old post.
But still: Who would search German Google for Morris Thompson, [...]

Spam Spam Spam

Posted on März 28th, 2005 in Allgemein.

Als ich gestern nach Hause kam, hatte ich ~ 50 mails in meinem Postfach. Darunter keine “echte” mail, 3 (gmx-) newsletter und 47 x spam. Der ach-so-hochgelobte Thunderbird- Spamfilter ließ ca. 5 spams unerkannt in meiner inbox, und so hab ich dann folgende mail (aus London !) gelesen:

Dearest,
I am a staff of Natwest Bank [...]