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Feeling dizzy…

26-Mar-08

After staring at this for about a day in various rotations and flips just to get Oracle GeoRaster work together with a homebrew GIS like application made me feel somewhat dizzy. To be cartesian or not cartesian, that is the question 😉 Otherwise, Oracle GeoRaster works quite well, at least for that bunch of german […]

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Handle EXIF data with ruby (and style…)

09-Mar-08

I use rmagick when it comes to deal with images. I’m not that disappointed like Zed Shaw with rmagick (but Zed is totally right when he points out on page 4: “[…] and is difficult to install (unless your computer is nearly exactly the same as the author’s).”), but when it comes to deal with […]

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3 days with Linux

08-Feb-08

Since Tuesday i installed Debian Linux 4 times on my new Dell Vostro 200. The choice of hardware was kinda stupid. I thought, well this thing is not a special thingy but plain standard. Well, seems, it isn’t. The first setback was, that the Debian installer booted from CD-Rom but didn’t recognize it afterwards. Yippie… […]

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Apple’s making me sick…

04-Feb-08

iTunes changing music tagged Soundtrack to Filmmusik, another thread and guess what, i experienced the same feature. I really like some of the “i take care of your problems stuff” like don’t thinking in mp3 files anymore but in a collection but this is nuts. I choose soundtrack as a genre intentionally and nothing else. […]

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