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Very soon we will have the opportunity to participate in advanced Perl trainings and even some trainings about presentations. Here are the Details. I found these trainings useful, when I visited them. They are done by Damian Conway, one of the core developers of the Perl programming language. The courses will be held in English. …
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Deutsch Microsoft has officially announced that their database MS SQL Server will become available for Linux in 2017. I think the time has come for this. Since the departure of Steve Ballmer Microsoft has become a little bit less religous and more pragmatic. There are good reasons to be skeptical about companies like Microsoft and …
„Microsoft SQL Server will be available for Linux in 2017“ weiterlesen
English Microsoft hat angekündigt, den MS-SQL-Server auch für Linux anzubieten. Ja, die Zeit ist reif dafür. Es gibt genug Gründe, Vorbehalte gegen die Firmen Microsoft und Oracle zu haben, aber deren DB-Produkte sind gut und wenn es mehr Konkurrenz gibt, ist das auch gut. Ich denke, dass Oracle noch etwas besser ist, aber andererseits ist …
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When scanning a paper, it is possible to use a lot of parameters within xsane. The output format can be chosen also, for example PNG, JPG or PDF. The outcome may be a PDF-file that is way too big, easily more than 10 megabytes for a single page. It is quite easy to transform it …
„How to make a scanned PDF smaller (Linux)“ weiterlesen
In the German city Chemnitz the conference „Chemnitzer Linux-Tage“ (Chemnitz Linux days) will take place from 2016-03-19 to 2016-03-20. Links: * Informatik aktuell (German) * Wikipedia (German) * Offiical page (German)
In conservative circles, laziness has a slightly negative connotation, but in IT it should be seen positive, if we understand it right. If we as humans get our job done in a more efficient way, by working less, this laziness is a good thing. So let’s be lazy by becoming more efficient. For now, just …
My wordpress installation suggested the update of a plugin for captcha, but it actually failed with an error message mentioning permissions and the files „captcha/cache/index.php“ and „captcha/cache/.htaccess“. What did help: In the directory of the wordpress-installation go to wp-content/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/captcha/cache Then delete the files index.php and .htaccess Make a backup of them outside of the wordpress …
„Update of captcha-Plugin does not work“ weiterlesen
Functional programming languages have become a bit of a hype. But the ideas are not really so new. The first languages beyond Assembly language that have maintained some relevance up to today were FORTRAN, COBOL and Lisp. Indirectly also Algol, because it inspired pretty much any modern mainstream programming language in some way through some …
English Viele Webseiten werden heute für Desktop-Geräte mit einem bestimmten Bildschirmformat optimiert und man versucht vielleicht noch nachträglich eine gewisse Mobiltauglichkeit ranzuflicken. Dabei wird schnell vergessen, dass das Anschauen der Webseite mit einem Mobiltelefon kein Nischenfall mehr ist, sondern häufig vorkommt. Manche Webseiten funktionieren gar nicht auf Mobiltelefonen, man kann es einfach aufgeben, sie zu …
„Webseiten für Mobilgeräte“ weiterlesen
Deutsch Many web pages are still created for desktop devices and optimized for a certain screen format. Often an additional effort is spent on adding some mobile capability on top of that. This tends to neglect the fact that viewing web pages with a mobile device is no longer an edge case, but quite a …
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