my world – brain::dump https://mla.apob.net Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:10:30 +0000 de hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Meet Dorothy… https://mla.apob.net/2011/10/13/meet-dorothy/ https://mla.apob.net/2011/10/13/meet-dorothy/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:10:30 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=297 So… Nachdem nun auch mein neuer kanadischer Führerschein eingetroffen ist, machte ich mich also daran ein Auto zu kaufen. Eigentlich sollte es ja ein Pickup-Truck werden, damit ich dort einen so genannten „Camper“ auf die Ladefläche setzen kann.
Ich habe mir also bei diversen Autohändlern und auf Craigslist (Kleinanzeigen im Internet) ein paar herausgesucht und angeschaut. Naja, sagen wir es mal so: für dasselbe Geld bekommt man eine sehr hohe Bandbreite an unterschiedlicher Qualität angeboten… Aber es ist für einen Deutschen toll, einen „long bed extended cab“ Pickup zu fahren, der einen 7.3 Liter Diesel mit 480 PS hat. Das treibt einem dann doch ein Schmunzeln ins Gesicht. Aber leider waren wir beide nicht für einander bestimmt. Ein Blick unter das Auto zeigte: da muss eine Menge gemacht werden.
Aber, dabei habe ich Dorothy kennen gelernt. Sie ist 33 und ein wahrer Sonnenschein. Ich habe mich direkt verliebt…

Sie ist ein 5.7 Liter Chevrolet Van G20, Baujahr 1978, mit nur knapp 60500 gelaufenen Kilometern. Umgebaut zu einem Camper Van. Also habe ich zugeschlagen, Dorothy dann neue „temporary license plates“ besorgt und bin mit ihr nach East Vancouver zum Aircare gefahren. Dorothy hat zuvor noch nie einen Aircare machen müssen, da dieser in British Columbia nur im Lower Mainland (Großraum Vancouver) gemacht werden muss.

Sie hat den Test (Abgasuntersuchung) mit fliegenden Fahnen bestanden – die Mitarbeiter von Aircare waren total überrascht. Immerhin ist sie 33 Jahre alt!
Also bin ich mit den Unterlagen zurück zum Versicherungsmakler gefahren, habe meine Versicherung bezahlt und meine neuen „Beautiful British Columbia“ Plates bekommen. Dorothy hört nun auf den schönen Namen: 154 LMK.

Dann also noch eine Parking Permit für Vancouver West End besorgt und nun steht Dorothy um die Ecke und wartet auf ihr erstes großes Abenteuer mit mir…





]]> https://mla.apob.net/2011/10/13/meet-dorothy/feed/ 2 49.283933 -123.14227949.283933-123.142279 Canada 2012 Itinerary https://mla.apob.net/2011/07/12/canada-2012-itinerary/ Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:07:34 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=227 So, I started to plan a route for my round trip all the way thru Canada in Spring 2012. Plan is to buy a camperized van and get going around may 2012.

At the moment the itinerary is to start from Vancouver, BC up north to Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska, then back down south to Edmonton, Jasper, Banff and Calgary in Alberta.
Continuing thru Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Ottawa and finally to Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The way back to Vancouver will be thru the northern states of the US, adding up to a total mileage of ~20.000+ kms for the whole tour.

the itinerary for the Canada trip 2012

]]> 48.2785720026824 11.56079292297363348.278572002682411.560792922973633 World IPv6 Day https://mla.apob.net/2011/06/08/world-ipv6-day/ Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:49:30 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=224 The Internet Society (ISOC) is coordinating the efforts of several major internet organisations to promote today’s World IPv6 Day. The major players involved in todays test include Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai, Limelight Networks and many others: the ISOC web site lists a total of over 400 participating web sites. All of these, for this one day, have committed to offer their content over IPv6 in what is described as a „test flight“. In my opinion it is about time that IPv6 will be used as the major IP protocol as IPv4 addresses are (nearly) exhausted. But this yields another issue – a privacy one – as there are no so-called privacy extensions in the native IPv6 stack. As much as I can understand advertisers and content providers to have end-to-end IP connections again to be able to track each and every customer, as much do I like my own privacy and not everyone snooping around my private network at home.

What I hope to see in the future is native IPv6 addresses on mobile devices to be able to roam around the net and be able to seamlessly connect your VPN endpoints, SIP and therefore VoIP connections and be free again.

If someone is interested in some little stats like myself, have a look at the DE-CIX traffic stats. And yes, BTW, it’s really tera bits per second. Wow!

]]> 48.286105727169215 11.58697128295898448.28610572716921511.586971282958984 Project YVR, step 2: flight booked. https://mla.apob.net/2011/04/04/project-yvr-step-2-flight-booked/ Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:40:24 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=221 It’s getting more and more real now that I booked my flight and started to cancel all my contracts and insurances…
Leaving for Vancouver October 2nd @ 0740 CET…

]]> 48.27839492822914 11.56079292297363348.2783949282291411.560792922973633 Project YVR, step 1: complete. https://mla.apob.net/2011/02/05/project-yvr-step-1-complete/ Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:41:13 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=214 LOI - approved
LOI approved! Project YVR: ready for departure!

]]> 48.27845204953743 11.56122207641601648.2784520495374311.561222076416016 Sharepoint Server 2010 Foundation and PDF Search https://mla.apob.net/2010/12/06/sharepoint-server-2010-foundation-and-pdf-search/ https://mla.apob.net/2010/12/06/sharepoint-server-2010-foundation-and-pdf-search/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:34:50 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=205 I’ve been fiddling with Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010 Foundation for a while now and was wondering, why the heck I could not index PDF documents.
I could add the PDF icon and all, but search would not work. Even if I did the same trick workaround that worked with WSS 3.x.

After a myriad of registry edits I found a working solution:

In SQL Server Management Studio open your Sharepoint 2010 Search Database (usually WSS_Search) and open the table MSSConfiguration for edit.
Insert a new row with the following values (lookup you GUID and insert accordingly):
Name: <guid>\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList\48
Value: pdf
LastModified: Current Date and Time

Restart your Sharepoint services (or the whole server). When done, start a new full crawl by issuing the following command:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN\STSADM.EXE" -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart

Remember! You will need a working PDF iFilter installation (Adobe PDF iFilter or Foxit PDF iFilter).

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Twenty years back I have lived behind the iron curtain and we dreamt about visiting these „exotic“ places. Now we just book a flight and go there. It’s a strange world we live in, isn’t it? Constantly changing.

A friend of mine once said: „Nothing endures but change.“ So true.

Well, make sure you keep following my travel blog, my Flickr photostream and the maps.

]]> 48.28616283985548 11.5865850448608448.2861628398554811.58658504486084 Augsburg – Zugspitze – Augsburg https://mla.apob.net/2009/08/17/augsburg-zugspitze-augsburg/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:48:41 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/archives/2009/08/17/augsburg-zugspitze-augsburg/

Zugspitze

Originally uploaded by oscailte


After a too long time I boarded the little plane once again and lifted myself upon the stars… aehaem… clouds.
It was a smooth ride from Augsburg to the Zugspitze and back… Have a look at the GPS log I established recently at: https://mla.apob.net/gps/

]]> 48.4229923511231 10.9309029579162648.422992351123110.93090295791626 Deploying .NET Security Policies via GPO https://mla.apob.net/2008/07/18/deploying-net-security-policies-via-gpo/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:00:06 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=178 When you are developing .NET applications for your business you will need to deploy these to production at some point. Usually you will deploy the tool to a network fileserver and let the users run the application from there without local installation.
Of course one can use click-once since .NET 2.0, but sometimes the company developing the software will charge you a fortune for some minor changes like this (or digitally signing the application).

Well, I found another interesting way to configure the .NET security policies and deploy these via an .MSI installer file or even via a GPO (group policy object). Hence you can combine granting access rights to the file share with the deployment of the GPO. Nice.

Also, there are some really good Security Policy Best Practices at the MSDN site.

]]> 48.286418 11.5854948.28641811.58549 the US – so far https://mla.apob.net/2008/06/14/the-us-so-far/ https://mla.apob.net/2008/06/14/the-us-so-far/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:40:18 +0000 http://mla.apob.net/blog/?p=175 Just a short summary of where I’ve been so far:

  • New York (3 days)
  • Mukilteo, WA
  • Kettle Falls, WA
  • Moses Lake, WA
  • Tumwater, WA
  • Los Angeles, CA – got the RV
  • Huntington Beach, CA
  • San Diego, CA
  • Seaworld
  • Seaport Village
  • Twentynine Palms, CA
  • Joshua Tree National Park
  • Yucca Valley
  • Mojave Desert
  • Grand Canyon National Park
  • Marble Canyon
  • Springdale, UT
  • Zion National Park
  • Bryce Canyon National Park
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Hoover Dam
  • Death Valley
  • Yosemite National Park

So far it have been 2050 miles in 10 days in the RV (California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada) and 1100 miles in Washington state in the first week of June.

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