Too Far Afield

Bad weather in most parts of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, the DWD issued a gale warning for the northern parts of Hamburg. On both days I was on the island Sylt in the north of Schleswig-Holstein. And the weather was great. Sunny, a bit windy and around 25° Celsius. Shortly after the auto shuttle passed the middle of the Hindenburgdamm, it started raining. On Tuesday, the rain was so heavy, that it even rained into the car (OK, it was an old Peugeot from Northelbian church, but still).

Aaron Toponce has written a nice post called Aptitude vs Apt-Get, in which he compares the features of the tools aptitude and apt-get available on Debian-based Linux-distributions.

Aaron says, that, while Apt and Aptitude basically share the same features, Aptitude better solves orphaned dependencies. Also it has a cool curses (i.e. text-based) user interface and is better integrated than Apt (e.g. you have one tool instead of 16 different tools). Therefore, he concludes that Aptitude is the superior way to manage your packages and everyone should use Aptitude in the future.

I knew of these differences for a long time, but have not made the switch so far. Package management is such a fundamental concept, it’s really hard to switch tools. I think this is somehow like switching from Windows to Linux. It takes some time, until you finally feel comfortable with the new system. However, after reading Aaron’s post, I think I should try a bit harder. Let’s see, if I manage to finally use Aptitude exclusively.

DECIX, Germany’s largest internet exchange in Frankfurt/Main, is expanding to Hamburg. They are currently taking over WorkIX, a local internet exchange point originally created by n@twork.

See also:

• DE-CIX übernimmt technisches Management des WORK-IX in Hamburg
• Decix bald in Hamburg?

Well, now is a bit overzealous. It’s tomorrow, actually. See also: Dell Answers Customer Calls for Linux in Europe.

Today, the German network information centre DENIC displays information about upcoming maintenance on their website:

Die Member- und Public-Whoisse sind verfügbar.

They tried to construct a German plural from the English word whois. In my opinion they failed miserably. Denglisch at it’s best. I’d like to know what the Duden says about it. But I don’t have a recent edition at hand.

Mozilla just made a claim on how long it takes them to deploy a fix for any severe security flaw to their customers: Mozilla Says “Ten Fucking Days”

I just came across Mounting a Nokia Phone a Little Bit Easier and thought I’d try it with my SonyEricsson T610. As a result, I can now show you these nice pictures from Chicago.

It’s like a real camera. Except for the quality.

If you search the context menu of the Jabber client tray icon for the stop button of the music player, you should probably…. go to bed. Good night.