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Unter http://27c3.buetow.org sowie ftp://27c3.buetow.org habe ich einen temporären Mirror diverser Vorträge (Video und Audio) des 27. Chaos Communication Congresses angelegt (thx @ fuchur für die Idee). Diesen Mirror werde ich ggf. gegen mitte des Jahres wieder löschen.

Der Mirror ist noch nicht vollständig, da er noch synchronisiert. Nach jeder vollständigen Synchronisation wird derzeit alle 10 Stunden überprüft, ob es etwas Neues gibt. Da der 27c3 bereits vorbei ist ist es noch eine Frage der Zeit bis alle Dateien vorliegen.

Als Grundlage dient folgendes einfache Skript:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash -x

server=$1

cd ~/public_html/27c3

while $(true); do 
        lftp ftp://$server/CCC/27C3/ <<END
mirror -c
END
        sleep 36000
done

Vim is my favourite editor (and IDE) for programming, editing, writing etc. Vim is like Perl: You always find something new how do do things. I think this is amazing! I found a small advanced Introduction to Vim in the internet. The following commands I didn't know until now: gs ga gf gD :later :earlier :mkview :loadview :bufdo . It's worth reading it, because it's not so much to read and it should contain a few tricks you don't know already :)

On Slashdot I found a review about Das Keyboard. In germany it's available for 79 Еuro at Getdigital. If we belive the review, the keyboard seems to be nice but too expensive because not enough extras offered. I don't need any extras (special keys, sound intensity controls, USB hub etc). I've read several reviews about this keyboard so far, and everybody thinks that it really feels nice while typing. The other thing I like very much is, that you can order this keyboard without any lettering/markings. This makes it look even nicer.

And I really don't need any markings on my keyboard. At the moment I am using a 5 Euro cheap PS2 keyboard from bulgaria. It has as well as cyrillic and latin (us layout) markings (I may ll post a picture of my cyrillic keyboard here one day). Well, do you think this keyboard is worth its 79 Euro?

Cool! OpenJDK 1.6 now passes the Java Test Compatibility Kit and can now be recognized as a full working version of the Java SE implementation. Recently I do a lot of stuff in Java and my next future job may be heavily based on Java too :) Well I would like to do C/C++ or even Perl stuff too at least as much.

Perl 5.0x was the first language I knew well (besides of german) and it is still surprising that Perl 5 comes up with new stuff again and again. Perl 6 nears completion (Rakudo, Perl 6 on Parrot), however I think that it ll take at least yet another year (or two) until its first release is available. But this is no reason to cry. Development also goes on on Perl 5! Here is a nice Perl 5.10 tutorial. It includes some of the new stuff which has been introduced since Perl 5.8. :)

I've always been a fan of the Top Level Domains (TLDs). My favourite TLD is, of course, .org. However, if we believe whats on Slashdot, we soon could register our own TLDs like .buetow or so ;-) Everything will be a mess in the internet namespace, but it will be cool as well!