Hey my friends!
Last Saturday some friends and I where playing some Paintball at this field.
It's a really nice field in an old four-edge-farmhouse. They will expand it soon with the inner side of the farmhouse and one part to simulate house-fights.
We were 11 people, some I didn't know, but in war there are no friends anyway ;)
The field has everything you need, from a tunneling-system to a tower, everything there. Our opponents were some kind of campers, so they always hide behind the wall and wait for the others to come. I didn't care, so maybe that was the reason that we lost most of the time. It was really funny and it didn't hurt that much (except next day, but this was the "sport" not the bullets).
Ok, what other painful things.... hmmmm
Actually I over reacted, maybe my master-thesis could be a painful thing *gg*. Or let's say Latex is a painful thing, it will not do what I want it to do. I work now for days to get the document in the shape I want it, but it won't work. Hopefully it will work soon, because I'm already one step behind.
Last Friday there was also open doors day at my university. It was also a nice day, because I like to show people around and the things we do. Most of the time I spent in the biometrics lab, where I showed people how to use iris scan, fingerprint scan and face scan devices. The funny part at the face scan was, we used some pictures of celebrities to compare with our users. The result was sometimes really funny, for example a couple, both compared with Paris Hilton, ... the guy was more Paris Hilton than his girlfriend *ggg*
My result, I do not really look like George Clooney, neither Bill Gates..... ;( *g*
Yeah, I had also a job interview on Friday. But more on that in another entry.
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Montag, März 17, 2008
Dienstag, Februar 26, 2008
Workshop Resume
I'm back for some days and I now want to give you a short feedback.
The workshop about Business Continuity Management was quite ok. The most interesting part was the practical part in the second half of the day.
Nevertheless it was hard for me to stay awake, not because the topics were boring, but after 8h overnight train and nearly no sleep, sticky air, ... *yaaaawn*
However, even if the topics were quite interesting, the workshop was not worthy the effort. First of all the wasted time in the train and secondly the money of course. 14h ours train (linz - frankfurt and back) 39€ + 39€, local trains (st. valentin - linz and back, frankfurt - darmstadt and back) 4,10€ + 4,10€ + 6,75€ + 6,75€, a room for one night 70€, tramway 1,45€ + 1,45€ and the workshop itself 35€ (student price).
I recommend doing it another way, for example booking a cheap flight as early as possible. (when I tried to book flight also would have cost 250€)
About the content:
The first speaker was from the BSI UK. This is the organization which created the BCM-standard BS25999. The topic should have been BS25999-2:Specification .. . But unfortunately it was mostly about part one of the standard, not part two. So nothing new for me in that case. But afterwards I asked the speaker some questions, so it was a bit helpful at all.
The second topic was "the concrete procedure in a BCM project". I disagreed a lot with the speaker. He has a lot of experience in the field of Disaster Recovery, but his mapping from "there way to implement BCM" to the 25999 standard was ... hmm... let's say, not how I understand it. One example, he always talked about assets and continuity of this assets. But in BCM normally you always talk about (business) processes and the continuity of those.
After a short coffee break the chairman and professor of the TU Darmstadt talked about how to measure efficiency of BCM. This topic was quite interesting, even if I do not need it for my master thesis. It was a mathematical approach how to calculate an efficiency value. You can calculate a result without even testing the BCM approach . It was very theoretical, but something different and interesting.
After lunch there was a presentation about a doctoral thesis. It was ok, but not very exciting. Would be nice to read the whole dissertation, because in such a "short" presentation it is only possible to get an idea of the content.
Then there was a presentation about the human factor in BCM,.... sorry can't tell you anything, I was too much concentrating of not falling asleep. (not the presentation, the followings of the train trip ^^)
The last two presentations were about practical implementations at Siemens and BMW. Those were also very nice and useful to get an inside view to a practical implementation.
The workshop about Business Continuity Management was quite ok. The most interesting part was the practical part in the second half of the day.
Nevertheless it was hard for me to stay awake, not because the topics were boring, but after 8h overnight train and nearly no sleep, sticky air, ... *yaaaawn*
However, even if the topics were quite interesting, the workshop was not worthy the effort. First of all the wasted time in the train and secondly the money of course. 14h ours train (linz - frankfurt and back) 39€ + 39€, local trains (st. valentin - linz and back, frankfurt - darmstadt and back) 4,10€ + 4,10€ + 6,75€ + 6,75€, a room for one night 70€, tramway 1,45€ + 1,45€ and the workshop itself 35€ (student price).
I recommend doing it another way, for example booking a cheap flight as early as possible. (when I tried to book flight also would have cost 250€)
About the content:
The first speaker was from the BSI UK. This is the organization which created the BCM-standard BS25999. The topic should have been BS25999-2:Specification .. . But unfortunately it was mostly about part one of the standard, not part two. So nothing new for me in that case. But afterwards I asked the speaker some questions, so it was a bit helpful at all.
The second topic was "the concrete procedure in a BCM project". I disagreed a lot with the speaker. He has a lot of experience in the field of Disaster Recovery, but his mapping from "there way to implement BCM" to the 25999 standard was ... hmm... let's say, not how I understand it. One example, he always talked about assets and continuity of this assets. But in BCM normally you always talk about (business) processes and the continuity of those.
After a short coffee break the chairman and professor of the TU Darmstadt talked about how to measure efficiency of BCM. This topic was quite interesting, even if I do not need it for my master thesis. It was a mathematical approach how to calculate an efficiency value. You can calculate a result without even testing the BCM approach . It was very theoretical, but something different and interesting.
After lunch there was a presentation about a doctoral thesis. It was ok, but not very exciting. Would be nice to read the whole dissertation, because in such a "short" presentation it is only possible to get an idea of the content.
Then there was a presentation about the human factor in BCM,.... sorry can't tell you anything, I was too much concentrating of not falling asleep. (not the presentation, the followings of the train trip ^^)
The last two presentations were about practical implementations at Siemens and BMW. Those were also very nice and useful to get an inside view to a practical implementation.
Samstag, Dezember 01, 2007
Facebook Security Issues
Facebook is a broadly used and well known community site and I know that a lot of you people outside are using it. I am also a user and therefore I have some suggestions for you to make it more secure.
Lately Facebook made some bad news with tracking the surfing behavior of its users, even when you are not on Facebook.
Nate Weiner made a very nice blog entry, which describes the whole issue in detail. If your are interested in reading it, you will find this blog entry here.
To secure yourself it is not necessary to read the whole article, because I will give you a shortcut what to do right now.
Use Firefox and use the add-ons from above and you will be much more safer !!
Lately Facebook made some bad news with tracking the surfing behavior of its users, even when you are not on Facebook.
Nate Weiner made a very nice blog entry, which describes the whole issue in detail. If your are interested in reading it, you will find this blog entry here.
To secure yourself it is not necessary to read the whole article, because I will give you a shortcut what to do right now.
- First of all, to use this security tools, you have to use Firefox, because the following tool is a plug-in for it.
- Install the BlockSite add-on / plugin
- After restarting Firefox, which is necessary to activate it
- Open the options of the add-on, you can find it in the list of add-ons
- There you enter this URL to block: http://www.facebook.com/beacon/*
- Confirm it with ok and be safe
- NoScript
- which is very good, it protects you from any kind of scripts and ads. It blocks them in default, and you can temporarily or permanent allow sites and scripts. Very useful!
- GreaseMonkey
- is for using user scripts, I would suggest it only for advanced users. It is used to activate some userscripts, for more information you should read the description. As I said, maybe better for advanced users.
- CustomizeGoogle
- also suggested by McKeay, and honestly I didn't know it before, but will also use it, sounds very nice.
Use Firefox and use the add-ons from above and you will be much more safer !!
Donnerstag, März 01, 2007
Abzocke durch Internetbetrug
Es ist soweit, nun kenn ich persönlich jemand, der auf eine Abzocke im Internet hereingefallen ist. War heute bei meinen Verwandten zu Besuch und wurde gefragt, wie das eigentlich mit dem Bestellen per Internet ist, weil sie einen Brief von einem Anwalt bekommen haben, der sie auffordert 123 Euros zu zahlen.
Das ist mir natürlich gleich mal spanisch vorgekommen und ich hab mir die zugehörige Webseite angschaut www.rezepte-heute.com. Die Seite ist schon etwas verdächtig, also hab ich mir mal die AGB durchgelesen und bin zu dem Schluß gekommen, dass da etwas nicht mit rechten Dingen zu geht.
Also hab ich mal nach der Firma die dahintersteht gegoogelt. Nämlich nach der Firma Andreas & Manuel Schmidtlein GbR und deren Anwalt Olaf Tank. Als ich die ersten Links gesichtet hab, kam mir schon ein Grinsen ins Gesicht. Hunderte, wenn nicht sogar Tausende von Geschädigten beschweren sich in diversen Foren und Blogs über die Abzocke. Versuchts einfach mal selber zu googeln und staunt, dass solche Firmen überhaupt existieren können.
Nachdem ich einige Beiträge gelesen hab und ich meinen Verwandten angeraten habe, die gefundenen Ergebnisse und den Anwaltsbrief zur Abeiterkammer zu tragen. Hab dann gleich noch auf www.arbeiterkammer.at nachgschaut und tatsächlich hab ich auch dort ein Ergebnis gefunden. Und zwar das hier Beschwerden über Websites und den Artikel Dubiose Internetdienste.
Hier noch die Liste der Webseiten, welche von dieser Firma ins Leben gerufen wurden um überall genau dieselbe Abzocke durchzuführen:
http:///www.p2p.ag
http://www.basteln-heute.com
http://www.drogen-heute.com
http://www.fabrikverkauf-heute.com
http://www.gedichte-heute.com
http://www.hausaufgaben.de
http://www.hausaufgaben-heute.com
http://www.kunst-heute.com
http://www.lehrstellen-heute.com
http://www.lexikon-heute.com
http://www.namen-heute.com
http://www.p2p-heute.com
http://www.pflanzen-heute.com
http://www.rauchen-heute.com
http://www.rezepte-heute.com
http://www.routenplanung-heute.com
http://www.songtexte-heute.com
http://www.sternzeichen-heute.com
http://www.steuer-heute.com
http://www.suchen-heute.com
http://www.tattoo-heute.com
http://www.tiere-heute.com
http://www.tierheime-heute.com
http://www.vornamen-heute.com
http://www.witze-heute.com
http://www.hausaufgaben.at
http://www.lehrstellen.at
http://www.songtexte.at
http://www.gedichte.at
http://www.sternzeichen.at
http://www.basteln.at
http://www.drogen.at
http://www.fabrikverkauf.at
http://www.kunst.at
http://www.suchen.at
http://www.tiere.at
(und das sind nicht alle)
Zum Schluß,
wer einmal auf so eine Webseite reinfallen sollte, NIEMALS Geld überweisen, selbst wenn Drohungen vom "Rechtsanwalt" kommen. Erstens gibt es anscheinend den Anwalt Olaf Tank gar nicht, zweitens die Unterschrift auf dem Anwaltsbrief ist kopiert nicht mit der Hand unterschrieben, der "Anwalt" hat nicht mal einen Titel, die Widerrufsmöglichkeit auf der Homepage ist nach österreichischen Recht nicht gültig und außerdem kommt nach diversen Aussagen kein rechtskräftiger Vertrag zu Stande.
Also ab zur Arbeiterkammer und ich empfehle auch eine Anzeige bei der Polizei. Übrigens gibts schon einige Abmahnungen und der Staatsanwalt ist in Deutschland auch schon eingeschaltet.
Das ist mir natürlich gleich mal spanisch vorgekommen und ich hab mir die zugehörige Webseite angschaut www.rezepte-heute.com. Die Seite ist schon etwas verdächtig, also hab ich mir mal die AGB durchgelesen und bin zu dem Schluß gekommen, dass da etwas nicht mit rechten Dingen zu geht.
Also hab ich mal nach der Firma die dahintersteht gegoogelt. Nämlich nach der Firma Andreas & Manuel Schmidtlein GbR und deren Anwalt Olaf Tank. Als ich die ersten Links gesichtet hab, kam mir schon ein Grinsen ins Gesicht. Hunderte, wenn nicht sogar Tausende von Geschädigten beschweren sich in diversen Foren und Blogs über die Abzocke. Versuchts einfach mal selber zu googeln und staunt, dass solche Firmen überhaupt existieren können.
Nachdem ich einige Beiträge gelesen hab und ich meinen Verwandten angeraten habe, die gefundenen Ergebnisse und den Anwaltsbrief zur Abeiterkammer zu tragen. Hab dann gleich noch auf www.arbeiterkammer.at nachgschaut und tatsächlich hab ich auch dort ein Ergebnis gefunden. Und zwar das hier Beschwerden über Websites und den Artikel Dubiose Internetdienste.
Hier noch die Liste der Webseiten, welche von dieser Firma ins Leben gerufen wurden um überall genau dieselbe Abzocke durchzuführen:
http:///www.p2p.ag
http://www.basteln-heute.com
http://www.drogen-heute.com
http://www.fabrikverkauf-heute.com
http://www.gedichte-heute.com
http://www.hausaufgaben.de
http://www.hausaufgaben-heute.com
http://www.kunst-heute.com
http://www.lehrstellen-heute.com
http://www.lexikon-heute.com
http://www.namen-heute.com
http://www.p2p-heute.com
http://www.pflanzen-heute.com
http://www.rauchen-heute.com
http://www.rezepte-heute.com
http://www.routenplanung-heute.com
http://www.songtexte-heute.com
http://www.sternzeichen-heute.com
http://www.steuer-heute.com
http://www.suchen-heute.com
http://www.tattoo-heute.com
http://www.tiere-heute.com
http://www.tierheime-heute.com
http://www.vornamen-heute.com
http://www.witze-heute.com
http://www.hausaufgaben.at
http://www.lehrstellen.at
http://www.songtexte.at
http://www.gedichte.at
http://www.sternzeichen.at
http://www.basteln.at
http://www.drogen.at
http://www.fabrikverkauf.at
http://www.kunst.at
http://www.suchen.at
http://www.tiere.at
(und das sind nicht alle)
Zum Schluß,
wer einmal auf so eine Webseite reinfallen sollte, NIEMALS Geld überweisen, selbst wenn Drohungen vom "Rechtsanwalt" kommen. Erstens gibt es anscheinend den Anwalt Olaf Tank gar nicht, zweitens die Unterschrift auf dem Anwaltsbrief ist kopiert nicht mit der Hand unterschrieben, der "Anwalt" hat nicht mal einen Titel, die Widerrufsmöglichkeit auf der Homepage ist nach österreichischen Recht nicht gültig und außerdem kommt nach diversen Aussagen kein rechtskräftiger Vertrag zu Stande.
Also ab zur Arbeiterkammer und ich empfehle auch eine Anzeige bei der Polizei. Übrigens gibts schon einige Abmahnungen und der Staatsanwalt ist in Deutschland auch schon eingeschaltet.
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