Yesterday I was booked on NRT-VIE-CGN (Toky0/Narita – Vienne – Cologne) in order to attend a meeting in Bonn from today. Due to some paranoia of the airline, the first section of the flight was changed to Narita – Beijing…
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Austrian airlines sucks
Power outages start
Today is the forth day after the large Earthquake followed by the disastrous tsunami. I was posting mostly on my Facebook account over the last days as this enabled me to give faster response to questions, than using this blog.…
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Moved to Drupal
After more than four years of keeping my homepage in pure HTML I switched over to Drupal to manage hobiger.org. This will not affect the blog, which will still be available under this address and will continue to run on…
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Tagged with: Blog software, Content management systems, Drupal, WordPress
Posted in computer, programming
Posted in computer, programming
GMT 5 is coming
The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) are a convenient software package for displaying data on a large variety of map projections. Until now data could be converted into GMT native (i.e. NetCDF) format and then output to postscript. With the announcement…
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Tagged with: Earth sciences graphics software, Generic Mapping Tools, Gnuplot, NetCDF, Software
Posted in computer, math, programming
Posted in computer, math, programming
Is my next flight save ???
One of my next flights will be on Austrian Airlines, but after reading about this incident I have my doubts about the safety of that airline. How careless was the ground maintenance that they even forgot to fix the screws…
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Avoiding “argument list too long” when using tar
When you have a huge number of files which you want to add to a tar archive you will be usually restricted by the ARG_MAX variable. Of course you could increase that value, but it usually goes along with a…
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Maybe its time for a smart phone?
I am possessing a cell phone here in Japan for more than 4 years and I am using it mostly to send or receive mails. Real phone calls are very rare and video calls are an option which I never…
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Tagged with: Android, cellular telephone, Japan, Mobile phone, Mobile telecommunications, Smartphones
Posted in handy phone, Japanese
Posted in handy phone, Japanese
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