Google will auch Email-Verkehr für Domain übernehmen können

Posted by Ansgar Berhorn on November 28, 2006

Google Apps for Your Domain soll Googles Produkte für meine Domain verfügbar machen.

Auf der ganzen Seite ist nichts darüber zu finden, wie Google denn nun technisch an die Emails meiner Domain herankommen will. Das scheint bewusst auf “Entscheider” abgestimmt zu sein, die mehr am Google-Wohlfühlfaktor und dem Hoffen auf Premium-Services besorgt sein sollen.

Immerhin wurde mein Registrierungsversuch für eine .de-Domain nicht gleich aussortiert und dieses Beta-Programm scheint gleich internationalisiert zu starten. Google ist damit ja fast schon unamerikanisch.

Typo at speed

Posted by Ansgar Berhorn on November 27, 2006

I have switched the delivery of Typo from Apache-Proxy/Mongrails to Apache-Proxy/lighttpd-fastcgi .
The change is noteable. The pages of the blog are loading way faster now. This is still a subjective point of view. I guess that running via fastcgi gives the biggest progress. But overall it is sweet to see a 1MB lighttpd process coming up in the tasklist instead of a 20MB+ Apache process.

I had some unsuccessful tries to get the fastcgi running with Apache. With lighttpd now it was a really simply task.
The only thing that is left now is to get rid of the Apache-proxy and put lighttpd in the first row.

Resources:
Installing Typo on dev411.com

Goldgräberstimmung dank Playstation 3

Posted by Ansgar Berhorn on November 20, 2006

Am Freitag ist Sonys Playstation 3 hier in den USA auf den Markt gekommen. Unter den College-Studenten hier hat das so etwas wie einen Goldrausch ausgelöst. Wenn man den Zahlen trauen kann, die hier in der Luft herumschwirren, dann waren in Platteville wohl um die 20 Geräte zu haben gewesen sein.
Einige Glückliche die erfolgreich angestanden haben konnten dann am nächsten Tag die Ebay-Verkaufsstrategien diskuttieren.

Bucks vs Jazz

Posted by Ansgar Berhorn on November 12, 2006

Last night we have been to Milwaukee and watched the NBA basketball game Milwaukee Bucks vs. Utah Jazz in the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.

In the beginning the game was pretty lame. Jazz was dominating the Bucks. Jazz was steadily 20 points ahead and in the beginning the Bucks were not able to alter that.
In the second half Michael Redd turned up the heat, scored several tree-point shots in a row and brought the Bucks back in the game. In the end the bucks lost 111-113 after they managed to get to 111-111 12 seconds before the end.

Some pictures:




This is home

Posted by Ansgar Berhorn on November 07, 2006

Thank god there is an “Aldi” in Platteville, which imports German quality to affordable prices. After getting accustomed to the U.S. beliefs of what beer and bread is, it is really great to notice that once in a while that there is the “real thing”.


Interesting in this case is where the beer and the bread come from. Although the Neuschwanstein Castle is printed on the packing, “Pumpernickel” is true Westphalian and this one was produced 25km away from my hometown. And the “Odenwälder” is a good old friend from Darmstadt. So out of the hundreds of regions where such products in Germany can come from, I get those from my home regions.