Internet-Sperren

Update 27.06.2009 :

Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass mein Beitrag keine Frage enthielt wurde er nicht auf abgeordnetenwatch.de gepostet. Allerdings wurde mein Beitrag an den Abgeordneten weitergeleitet. Naja immerhin…

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(only in german – sorry)

Heute hatte der Deutsche Bundestag das Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Kinderpornographie im Internet mit Hilfe von Websperren verabschiedet. Ruft der Nutzer eine entsprechende URL auf, so erhält er statt der gewünschten Seite nur eine großes Stopschild.

Abgesehen davon, dass diese Methode technisch absolut wirkungslos ist – denn der DNS kann ohne Probleme verändert werden – ist das Gesetz der Einstieg in die Zensur – eine Methode der sich normalerweise nur Diktaturen bedienen.

Mein Bundestagsabgeordneter, Dr. Gerhard Botz, hat dafür gestimmt. Ich habe ihm über abgeordnetenwatch.de geschrieben :

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Sehr geehrter Hr. Dr. Botz,

mit großer Enttäuschung muss ich zur Kenntniss nehmen, dass Sie ebenfalls für den Gesetzesentwurf Internet-Sperren gestimmt haben.

Abgesehen davon, dass die Sperren absolut wirklungslos sind, was auch zahlreiche Gutachten von Experten belegen, die sich im Vergleich zu Politikern auch mit den technischen Hintergründen der Thematik auskennen, so ist dieses Gesetz der Einstieg in eine Zensur des Internets sowie eine Gefährdung für die Demokratie dieses Landes.

Besonders von ihnen als ehemaligen DDR Bürger (der ich auch war) – wo Zensur an der Tagesordnung war – habe ich erwartet, dass sie sich deutlich gegen Methoden stellen, die Diktaturen anwenden.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Sebastian Becker

http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/dr_gerhard_botz-650-5569.html

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Jeder der Zeit und Lust hat, sollte dies auch tun – wenn gleich es für den parlamentarischen Weg erstmal zu spät ist. Aber es bleibt der Gang vor das Verfassungsgericht…

Dazu noch die entsprechende Petition – 134014 Mitzeichner, mit weitem Abstand die meistgezeichnete Petition :

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/index.php?action=petition;sa=details;petition=3860

Schlimm nur, dass erste CDU Politiker gleich auf den großen Sperrzug aufspringen und Killerspiele als nächstes auf die Liste setzen.

Fokus Online dazu :

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/internet-cdu-erwaegt-sperrung-von-killerspiel-seiten_aid_409485.html

An dieser Stelle seien auch nochmal 2 sehr wichtige Quellen verlinkt :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9JRm3iQQak

http://www.killer-spiele.info/

World of Change

World of Change

Inspired by our 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the Sun—has changed during the previous decade.

September 17, 1979

October 4, 2008

In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring. This series of satellite images shows the ozone hole on the day of its maximum depth each year from 1979 through 2008.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/

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Impressing and scary…more on the NASA Site.

President of the USA

Barack Obama is the new president of the United States of America.Congratulations. Hopefully he won’t participate in JFK’s destiny. Good luck !

Update :

Well he´s still alive and will visit my beautiful home-state – Thuringia on the 5th of june.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hX0ownimfSxXD5eYxIloH_ejxo8w (german)

One of his grand uncles helped to liberate the concentration camp Buchenwald as an american soldier during world war 2 and so he want´s to visit the place.  Though the place is definetly no fun, I guess many people will be there to give him a warm welcome.

Update 2 :

That´s it, he has been here and now he´s gone. The MDR took some great pictures of the AirForce One landing in Erfurt.

And the white rose for all the victims of Buchenwald – may they never be forgotten.

Note : The Creative Commons License for this site does NOT apply on these pictures. All rights for these pictures Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, except the white rose pictures by ddp.

restaurant : IKEA, Erfurt / Germany

Short and simple – the food at IKEA is really cheap and the quality is really bad.

I´ve never been a big fan of this place but from time to time I go there to buy some fresh furniture. I want to be part of the yuppie hype too…

Anyway – I had a classical german Schnitzel with french fries and cream sauce. It was more cold than hot, the Schnitzel reminded me of my morning newspaper and the fries have never seen some salt. At least the sauce was okay, but also not a celebration for my palate. My girlfriend had some organic noodle casserole with tomato and cheese. The whole thing was dry like a desert, I couldn´t find any cheese and it was cold too.

The only good thing was the free refill for the soft drinks. My no-name coke tasted a little bit like a mixture of CoCa Cola (Coke) with some lemon limonade. Ohhh and the 2nd good thing was the price – not even 10 EUR for 2 persons is incredibly cheap.

Our menu :

– Schnitzel with french friens and cream sauce

– organic noodle casserole with tomato and cheese

– no-name coke

http://www.ikea.com


Größere Kartenansicht

restaurant : Alt Weimar, Weimar / Germany

Well it´s not one of my best protected secrets and so everyone who knows me or have seen me may already guess it : I like eating ! So from this point of view I decided to write a little bit about interesting places I visited to gain some food.

This is gonna be the first review, more to follow soon.

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<<< the bill – click to enlarge

The Alt Weimar is a higher class restaurant with a small but very interesting menu. Though I didn´t knew most of the items on the menu (or haven´t heard their names either) it was one of the best meals of my life.

The reason for that might be star cook Sten Fischer (http://www.fiese-koeche.de) who did a great job in serving an extraordinary, fresh and free of food additives dish.

Honestly – with 72,70 EUR for 2 persons it was not cheap and above my normal investment in food. But it was absolutely worth it.

My girlfriend did an interview with Sten Fischer about his job for her study and if we are lucky it will be available here soon.

The Alt Weimar has a website, too : http://www.alt-weimar.de – if you want to know more – check it out.

And last but not least – our menu (with absolutely no warranty for the translation) :

– selfmade woodruff punch

– goose liver soam soup

– anchorena lamb

– herb ribbon noodles

– variation from the frozen ananas

– variation from the torka bean

– water

Größere Kartenansicht

 

VNC on a Windows XP machine via iPhone

Well I never thought that this might work well, but today I was really impressed by an iPhone application called Mocha VNC. I tried only the Lite Version (because it´s free) and besides missing system keys there´s absolutely nothing to miss.

A fast and easy way to control a box from anywhere.

http://mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm

Works on iPhone and iPod. Give it a try if you need a fast and easy mobile vnc application.

FtpCube – a graphical (S)FTP Client

The power leechers may remember LeechFTP from the german Jan Debis. A very cool FTP tool with the possibility of multiple server connections and multi-threaded transfers.

http://www.leechftp.de

Development stopped about 10 (omfg) years ago and sadly some major bugs were never fixed.

After a lengthy search (hmm…this happens too often in the last time. Maybe I need a howto google) 🙂 on the net I found a alternative – though development seems to have stopped too.

The name is FtpCube – it´s Python based and still beta, but works good so far. I´ve contacted the developer – let´s see if there´s a chance for version 1.0

http://ftpcube.sourceforge.net

proxycfg & netsh winhttp show proxy

Update:

If you use Windows 7 or above the proxycfg command won´t work. Instead you can you netsh with the following syntax:

C:\netsh winhttp show proxy

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Howto find out the proxy configuration, if all IE security options are invisible and disabled ?

Good question and the answer took me 2 hours of search on the net. The answer is so damn simple, that I felt a bit annoyed after I found it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830605

example:

C:\>proxycfg

Microsoft ® WinHTTP Default Proxy Configuration Tool Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Current WinHTTP proxy settings under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections\ WinHttpSettings:

Proxy Server(s) : http=???.???.??.? Bypass List : ???.???.??.?