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...on their journey to Mongolia...

"Ze Germans ...are coming! We"re taking on the Mongol Rally 2007. 13.000 kilometers, 5 mountain ranges, 2 deserts, some of the worst roads in the world and all this in car most people wouldn"t trust to get them to the local shops."

And as of today they are on the road doing the rally:

"If you read this after about 8am, then we are on the road and on our way to London. Thanks to Mirko, all our SMS Updates will also be posted here, so stay tuned! And for God"s sake, wish us luck!"

Source 1: http://www.mongolrally.de/
Source 2: http://mongolrally.theadventurists.com/

FeM is in need of a decent conferencing system for years now. And it seems that there"s something really cool showing up in the next days. As of now Microsoft is going to put it"s Roundtable on sale.

"Microsoft RoundTable is a very cool videoconferencing system featuring 360° panoramic views powered by its 5 built-in cameras."

"The RoundTable actually installs two USB camera devices. The first is the Active Speaker which uses the RoundTable"s 6 microphones to locate where in the room the active speaker is and then focus one of the 5 cameras onto that person. I suspect it may actually use 2 cameras to focus on a person, since it always appears that the speaker is "centered" which probably would require at least 2 camera images and then the images are "spliced" together, processed, and then transmitted over the USB cable. The second USB camera device is the panoramic camera which combines the 5 camera images into a single panoramic image."

Source: Roundtable Review

... you"ll probably can solve this problem by activating your integrated Firewall.

It seems that Vista just like Windows XP SP2 enforces the same stupid so called "worm restricting measure". To make it short: If you disabled the integrated Windows Vista Firewall you"ll have a connection limit. And you probably will run into this limit resulting in strange network behaviours, dropping VPN connections and so on.

Beside activating the integrated Windows Firewall you can disable the TCP/IP "Autotuning" feature:

Click on the Start menu and type cmd in the search box. Type CTR+SHIFT+ENTER to tell the command prompt to open with elevated privileges.
In the command prompt window, type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable and hit Enter
After getting the OK returned in the command prompt window, restart to activate the change.

Way to go when it comes to networking :-/

Hmm.. maybe you would have missed it:

Source: http://channel8.msdn.com/

Oh well...it"s getting more and more work in the last days. Since I cannot speak yet about the things I am doing lately I just can tell you it involves a trip to Vienna and a whole lot of coding work...

I wrote some test code for a project and after running that Test locally the Test Host process crashed. Oh well... seems I"ve written a Test for the Test...

Today I had a talk about IP-TV in our local research network - a project I am involved in the past year. And since I did some of the legal and coding work (YAPS) I was the one who wanted to talk about it the most...

First here"s the slidedeck:

The talk was recorded and you can watch it as soon as the post-production team has finished working on it - I"ll keep you posted.

Source: Slidedeck as PDF

We finally had the time to get to the FIWAK 07. I made these pictures:

Source: FeM Blog

Since my girlfriend has a turtle website she often stumbles upon turtle related websites... just like this one:

Source 1: http://www.lostgarden.com/turtle_main.htm
Source 2: http://blueturtles.schrankmonster.de

Look what I got here:

Painted from scratch just with the original game as a guideline. I"ll put some of these up in the auction house soon. So keep an eye out for them... Any sort of comment is appreciated.