war of the weblog giants (austrian version).
martin blumenau: "der [...] Knallgrau-Werbefritze, der sich nicht entblödet Weblogs in erster Linie als 'Marketing-Instrument' zu definieren und damit ihrer Seele zu berauben, hat mich vor ein paar Monaten unter einem anonymen Nick in eine Debatte über die Moral, Integrität und Qualität von Weblogs verwickelt, die abrupt zu Ende war als ich mich über sein Schnarchnasen-Log lustig gemacht habe, das er vor mir verbergen wollte."
for one year radio talker blumenau stepped into the shoes of a daily blogger and told his stories, thoughts, opinions and adventures online. well-done most of the time, btw.
as kind of summarizing review he now published an article by karin pollack about weblogs – which originally appeared in austrian news magazine profil – and did not forget to abuse his verbal power (as quoted above).
besides of that (and the usual sleazy journalistic research), the profil article mentions our beloved goldchen of girlscamp fame and franz manolas legendary karl kraus quote.
while (true) antville = !"antville.org";
Online-Communities, Weblogs und die soziale Rückeroberung des Netzes, Eigner/Leitner/Nausner/Schneider, Nausner & Nausner, november 2003.
good advice for austrian adsl users lost in pptp (or the like) configuraton: www.internet-hilfe.at
a great play currently in vienna at my favorite theatre, the schauspielhaus: poppea.
"On the premise that any film with talking cats in it can't be all bad, Minoes turns out to be a cracking little film - knockabout, accessible and entertaining without being over the top. The pity is that it's unlikely to get a wider release or find its way into the Xmas TV schedules until it is remade (and ruined) by Hollywood."
My Sweet Home – "A collection of tragicomical stories which take place during the failed 'Polterabend' (the German traditional party on the night before a wedding) of an American exile and a German woman. Stories about people who have lost their aim in life: what they have, they don't want, and what they want, they'll probably never get. Realizing the absurdity of this trap, they celebrate their misfortune, at least for one night."
a hilarious and frightening scene when the multi-ethnical melange of people start to bet on who will succeed in calling one's parents to admit that one has failed in life, one has become a loser.
german internet provider telekom offers a device called t-sinus 154 for wireless access via dsl.
i got one of these thingies for my parents and the wireless connection is ok. what i consider more interesting, though, is the built-in printserver. because my efforts to connect a newly bought usb printer to a vintage non-usb powerbook via an appropriate pcmcia card failed shamefully (well, at least i found out that you surely can use serial printers with os x), i considered this as a welcome opportunity to give the printer another chance.
trouble was that (as usually) all documentation and driver support is available for windows only.
so i started to do some research on my own and first of all ran a portscan on the t-sinus.
as a result i got (besides the notorious http port for administrative access via a web browser) port 515/ldp and a port 4626 listed open for connections.
while trying the ldp port became a waste of time (its name was simply too tempting) i googled for port 4626 and pretty immediately found a good hint.
it's been said that most of telekom's hardware is manufactured by siemens, so if the t-sinus is a siemens-in-disguise device, why shouldn't it come with exactly the mentioned printserver features and settings?
so i opened os x's printcenter app, option-clicked the "add" button, selected the advanced settings from the drop-down menu, chose the appropriate printer model and finally entered lpd://192.168.2.1:4626/lpt1 in the device uri field.
then i printed a simple test document. and what shall i say? it worked. and it still works. and again i am amazed by the internet. (and by my intuition :)
BALLESTERER online. now (or: for a short time, resp.) with real articles. if they only had not that bad, bad self-advertising pop-up window on every page.