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Since being ill for almost 4 weeks starting with stomach flu, heading over to tonsilitis and ending up (fairly) with otitis, it seems that I'm back on track now (hopefully).

Lot's of work to catch up!

Because my 2 1/2 year old Acer Travelmate 800 is going to die (slowly but surely), I ordered a new machine, which has arrived this morning:

The specs:

• Intel® Pentium®M Processor 760 (2.0Ghz 2MB L2 cache 533Mhz FSB) w/ ATI X600 128MB Video
• 2.0 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533 MHz
• 100GB (5,400 rpm) Hard Drive
• 8 X DVD-RW +/ - Drive

Now it's time to develop some really cool applications ;-)

Happy Birthday, Bill.

If you're using Skype (like me) you should be aware of these both Security Advisories released by Skype today:

SKYPE-SB/2005-002: Buffer overflow in Skype-specific URI and VCARD import handling

SKYPE-SB/2005-003: Heap overflow in networking routine

I already thought this joke will never appear ;-)

First the german version:

"Dies ist eine kleine Geschichte über 4 Kollegen namens Jeder, Jemand, Irgendjemand und Keiner.

Es ging darum, eine wichtige Arbeit zu erledigen und Jeder war sicher, dass sich Jemand darum kümmert.

Irgendjemand hätte es tun können, aber Keiner tat es. Jemand wurde wütend, weil es Jeder's Arbeit war.

Jeder dachte, Irgendjemand könnte es machen, aber Keiner wusste, dass Jeder es nicht tun würde.

Schließlich beschuldigte Jeder Jemand, weil Keiner tat, was Irgendjemand hätte tun können. "

Translation:

This is a short story about 4 colleagues namely everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.

Important work had to be done and everybody was sure that somebody would take care of it.

Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Somebody was angry because it has be everybody's work.

Everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody has known that everybody won't do it.

Finally everybody accused somebody because nobody did what anybody could have done.