And nobody is suspicious for a second that the source is from a direct competitor of the company that currently delivers routers to Google? Hello? I hope the SEC gets notified of this.
Well, it's Christstollen. It's not even difficult to make.
125gr of currants 100gr of candied lemon peel (cut) 100gr of candied orange peel (cut) 300gr of sultanas (maybe a bit more, but 300 is normally OK) 250gr of rough-cut almods
soak in rum for 1 or two days. Not too much rum, just so that the fruit can soak-up everything.
1.2kg of flour, 200gr of sugar, 4x40gr of yeast, 250ml warm (warm, not hot!) milk
take about one kilo or 900gr of the flour, put it in a large bowl and create a pit in the middle, put the yeast, some sugar (some!) and the warm milk together in that pit. Let this pre-dough rise for 30minutes.
Then, put between 250 and 500gr of molten (but no longer hot) butter (300 or 350gr is OK for normal purposes - it still tastes good, but have some mercy with your figure) + the rest of the sugar to the pre-dough and create a good, compact, non-sticky dough (put in more flour as you need - the more butter, the more flour you will need) Let it rise again for 30 minutes. Then, work the marinated stuff from above into it. Let it rise again for 30minutes Then, form two loafs, folding-over each in the middle, separate them by baking-paper and let them rise again for a couple of minutes. Put in a pre-heated oven (200ÂC), for 15 minutes, then cut back to 175ÂC for 50 minutes. I found that ovens don't always do the temperature that is written on the turn-switch - you might want to control it via an oven-thermometer. Before the 50 minutes are over, melt some more butter and coat the hot loaves with it, applying powder-sugar (a very thick layer) immediately afterwards (so that the sugar can still melt).
Should cool out, then be packed-up and left at a cool place for a couple of weeks. But can also be eaten the next day already.
See, it's so easy, any kid with a free afternoon could do it.;-)
Couriers are notoriously paid badly in Germany - but I didn't know that it was that bad;-)
The translation-error is really in the word "fruit-cake" it's a Christstollen - and that's what this recipe is about;-) It really happened like this. The Christstollen was not mailed by the bank, but by some other company. The parcel was just at the wrong place at the wrong time;-)
In Germany at least, this was first most widely used by leftwing RAF terrorist. They took two sufficiently "generic" cars with the same characteristics (model, year of production, color) and stole one of it, copying the license-plate of the other. These "doublets" were very difficult to spot and caused a lot of hassle for the person owning the actual license-plates. Germany's Toll-Collect road-pricing (for trucks) infrastructure with plate-reading cameras all over the (autobahn-) place would make it much easier to filter out two cars with the same license-plate. But a court-ruling stopped the large-scaling license-plate reading of all cars some time ago. For now.
Simply put: do you want to eat or do you want to fill 'er up? Every area that goes into producing bio-fuels cannot produce food anymore. In addition to our current way of producing food not being sustainable without the availability of cheap oil, using agricultural areas to produce crop that isn't even eaten is insane. Does anybody actually have an idea how small the world's surplus on corn etc. actually is? Does anybody have an idea how much land would have to be wasted (literally) to produce enough crop to satisfy the world hunger for fossil fuel? I don't think, one earth would be enough. I don't believe, bio-fuels make any sense at all - even economies aside. Stop the lunacy!
Thank you for this post. I'm a child of an American soldier and a German mother. My German relatives were good people in every sense of the word. Wouldn't hurt a fly - literally (my great grandmother would catch flies and put them outside rather than kill them. She would sneak food to a russian soldier captured in the town because she felt sorry for him, despite the risk of the crime of treason). My grandfather fought in WWII on the german side and had lots of stories to tell.
I asked them all about WWII when I was a child and they said that honestly few people really knew what was going on with the concentration camps and such...
... That really depends. Asking tough questions was never a good idea in those years. I just had to look up something myself: There's a fine distinction to be made: authorities never denied the existence of concentration-camps (AFAIK, the US had camps for most of the Japanese population in the US) and even used them as a deterrent. Death-camps, however, were top-secret. Rumors of the Concentration- and Death-Camps made the rounds all the time (mostly through soldiers home on vacation - many of them considering the simple killing of civilians "unsoldierly") - it's just that people honestly believed all this was taking place unnoticed of Hitler himself. A common phrase these days was "Wenn das der Führer wüsste - If the Führer would know that". People didn't know, because they didn't want to know - maybe because they felt that there was something really big and horrible going on. A lot of the staff in concentration-camps (guards etc.) could only cope with the emotional stress by consuming large amounts of alcohol (which was consequently distributed in large quantities), leading of course to more brutalities and stress.
To the credit of your Grand-parents, the death-camps were built in the most eastern places, on newly conquered territory - but concentration-camps were littered all over the country.
A friend of mine recounted that his grandfather (from the mother's side, IIRC) returned from the war and never ever spoke about what he did during the war until he died. The family believed, he was a guard in a death-camp. My grandfather seldomly touched the topic, too, and when he touched it, he only told episodes about how he created some tool or fixed some machine with the rudimentary tools available. This generation (which is mostly dead now) only wanted to forget the war and get on with life - and everybody (US included) agreed that this was the best solution at the time. US soldiers led the local population of Dachau through the concentration-camp of the same name, a kind of "shock and awe"-strategy that was quite effective in silencing Holocaust-deniers and "Everything-was-better-under-Adolf"-apologists. If the internet had existed back then, we wouldn't be able to read the data now;-)
As mentioned in the comments, this women basically agreed to defraud some government of the money "held in an escrow account". It's not like these guys stole her lottery-jackpot. She had no problem taking part in an illegal transaction.
But some people really only seem to see the money and think "Heck, it could work".
This is BS. Clearly. You have certainly never done this yourself. First of all, the P800 is a PoS for anything but the included RAID5 or 6 (we haven't even tested RAID6, IIRC). It has a maximum number of logical disks it can create and you will most likely have to reboot the server and go into Array Manager to setup another "array" (single disk). You can't use the RAID on the card, because ZFS wants to control the disks themself, without a RAID-controller in between (and ideally no Cache-RAM). My co-worker's been there, done that, got the t-shirt. So, you've got to buy one of these: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/sas/specs.xml and connect a good external JBOD chassis to it (MSA70 e.g.). For SATA, we use Promise VtrakJ610s (which are not good, but cheap...). Then it works. But you will miss some features, like the red or yellow light when a disk is dead (so you'll have to count...). And of course, you also don't get all the integration-work SUN has done with their new filers, all the statistics, all the health-checks, the GUIs. In the end, you end-up a bit cheaper, but with a lot more labour and no support and no warrantee from anybody (best-effort only support from HP and SUN for Solaris on the DLxxx,)
I don't think it's that expensive. I use Promise's VtrakJ610s at work (16x1TB SATA), and it cost about half that - but I still need a server for it (DL385 in our case). And I need to fit the disks myself (16x4 countersunk screws...) into the ultra-cheap harddrive containers. A MSA70 full of SAS-disks (25) costs 10k, IIRC - but you need a server, HBAs etc. I'm soooooo sick of the "I could build one for XXX% less using YYY"-comments. Please, all the winers: go and start your own company selling and supporting storage-systems. Good night and good luck....
No mod points, too bad. To make it more clear: they have been fighting modern asymmetric wars for a very long time. The people doing it now have practically grown up with it. Even the USSR, with all their resources (and absolutely no qualm or HRW really worrying them) couldn't defeat these people (OK, so they had Uncle Sam's help - but anyway...) Unfortunately, it also means that a western-style democracy is highly unlikely to work in such an environment. There's just no concept of a "loyal opposition" in this region. When you're defeated, it only means you have to try harder to overthrow your opponent next time. And god forbid you follow the orders he issues from the capital - your peers might think you're a wuss.
will only be able to pick up our trash (because that's the only thing that lasts) and try to figure-out our lives from ads in newspapers or flyers and empty tv-dinner packagings...
Personally, I'm sure not much will survive from our generation. We're a throw-away-society, for a large part (not only the US) and most stuff is done to last as short as legally possible. Sometimes I think about making some black and white prints from my digital photos (they conserve much better over decades) - but I never get around to actually do it.
But let's face it: most of the "information" around today is barely worth preserving. It may be useful for future generations to figure out exactly how we got them into the mess they are in (then), but depending how big the mess is, they might not care at all...
They're not printing this on paper, right? Can't you print into a PDF and convert it to a TIFF with ImageMagick and give the OCR thingy that file? Would go a lot faster, too...
2 macMinis - one is your streaming media server one is for synching 1 airport extreme base station (N band wifi) 1 airport extreme base station (older b/g band wifi) 2 appleTV's (1 for each movie viewing room) 3 airportExpresses (1 for each audio only room) 1 drobo with 2x1TB HDs 1 iPhone 1 iRemote app
In other words: turn your house into the biggest microwave in the whole neighborhood.
AFAIK, the construction-plans to build the Apollo rockets have more or less been "misplaced". The factories and machines to build the parts have long been dismantled and destroyed. And Wernher von Braun died over 31 years ago... Maybe there's a new Wernher von Braun in Iran, who is just waiting for an offer for US-citizenship (after the war, of course)?;-)
When the German social-system was founded (by Bismarck), in 1889 the pension-system was introduced. Asked at what age people should be able to get the pension, Bismarck decided on the age of 65. At that time, the average lifespan of a citizen in Germany was 48 years.
Based on that, we'd have to set the retirement-age close to 100 years nowadays...
I know that I will probably have to work 'till I drop.
Secondly, all more or less recent versions of IBM i OS,i5/OS,OS/400 (V4, V5, V6) can talk to a vt100 telnet client. The default Windows telnet client works just fine - but the F keys don't work, so the use is pretty limited on an i.
At, OK, so it was a "z-style" mainframe, back then. And it didn't do vt100 at all.
You forget: for US Customs, it's just a legal problem. There's a contract. And that contract deals with all the possible "nightmares" that you and I might be able to come up with. Of course, they're only dealt with from a legal point of view - but that's usually enough in your and my country. You see, lawyers have long ago taken over all parts of the government - and for a lawyer, a problem is usually solved if there is a law that deals with the situation. The problems start, when reality doesn't conform to world of lawyers and law-makers...
Actually, he tried to enroll in the art academy in Vienna. Two times. He considered himself an artist.
Of course, he was also Austrian, as pointed out by some AC below me. Some people argue that his German citizenship is bogus at best and Germany should just 'nix it and hand him back to Austria;-) My history teacher used to say that Austria managed to turn Beethoven into an Austrian and Hitler into a German...
But a motorized wheelchair would? How about a Segway?
The Segway, in Germany, has a different problem: it only has one brake circuit. In Germany, every motorized vehicle needs to have two independent brake-circuits. Also, it probably doesn't help that no German car-manufacturer is envolved and so it doesn't have a big industrial lobby (which is essential to get anything new going in Germany, law-wise)
In Switzerland, BTW, you've got to have a mandatory bike-insurance (it's a 7 dollar worth sticker that needs to be attached to your bike), which is to be renewed every year. The insurance only pays for damages you create with your bike. But as someone else already said - if you hit some pedestrian with a 18kg downhill-bike and at full-speed, that poor guy is lucky if he survives it. It's not much difference compared to getting hit by a motor-bike....
Because people can't stop touching, sqeezing, pressing and fumbling all the fruit and vegetables which lets them get bad much faster. The exception is the super-expensive fruits that the general public don't touch because they're too expensive. When I had a greengrocer next to where I lived, I would always buy the stuff there - only the staff was allowed to touch the fruit and as a result, it lasted much longer than anything available elsewhere - even though it was more ripe than usual supermarket-fruit. I really hate self-service - but mostly because of the other people who can't behave and pretend they are the last shoppers on earth.
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And nobody is suspicious for a second that the source is from a direct competitor of the company that currently delivers routers to Google?
Hello?
I hope the SEC gets notified of this.
People will just start reading more books again, won't they? ;-))
Well, it's Christstollen.
It's not even difficult to make.
125gr of currants
100gr of candied lemon peel (cut)
100gr of candied orange peel (cut)
300gr of sultanas (maybe a bit more, but 300 is normally OK)
250gr of rough-cut almods
soak in rum for 1 or two days. Not too much rum, just so that the fruit can soak-up everything.
1.2kg of flour, 200gr of sugar, 4x40gr of yeast, 250ml warm (warm, not hot!) milk
take about one kilo or 900gr of the flour, put it in a large bowl and create a pit in the middle, put the yeast, some sugar (some!) and the warm milk together in that pit. Let this pre-dough rise for 30minutes.
Then, put between 250 and 500gr of molten (but no longer hot) butter (300 or 350gr is OK for normal purposes - it still tastes good, but have some mercy with your figure) + the rest of the sugar to the pre-dough and create a good, compact, non-sticky dough (put in more flour as you need - the more butter, the more flour you will need)
Let it rise again for 30 minutes.
Then, work the marinated stuff from above into it.
Let it rise again for 30minutes
Then, form two loafs, folding-over each in the middle, separate them by baking-paper and let them rise again for a couple of minutes.
Put in a pre-heated oven (200ÂC), for 15 minutes, then cut back to 175ÂC for 50 minutes. I found that ovens don't always do the temperature that is written on the turn-switch - you might want to control it via an oven-thermometer.
Before the 50 minutes are over, melt some more butter and coat the hot loaves with it, applying powder-sugar (a very thick layer) immediately afterwards (so that the sugar can still melt).
Should cool out, then be packed-up and left at a cool place for a couple of weeks.
But can also be eaten the next day already.
See, it's so easy, any kid with a free afternoon could do it. ;-)
Couriers are notoriously paid badly in Germany - but I didn't know that it was that bad ;-)
The translation-error is really in the word "fruit-cake" it's a Christstollen - and that's what this recipe is about ;-) ;-)
It really happened like this.
The Christstollen was not mailed by the bank, but by some other company. The parcel was just at the wrong place at the wrong time
In Germany at least, this was first most widely used by leftwing RAF terrorist.
They took two sufficiently "generic" cars with the same characteristics (model, year of production, color) and stole one of it, copying the license-plate of the other.
These "doublets" were very difficult to spot and caused a lot of hassle for the person owning the actual license-plates.
Germany's Toll-Collect road-pricing (for trucks) infrastructure with plate-reading cameras all over the (autobahn-) place would make it much easier to filter out two cars with the same license-plate.
But a court-ruling stopped the large-scaling license-plate reading of all cars some time ago. For now.
Simply put: do you want to eat or do you want to fill 'er up?
Every area that goes into producing bio-fuels cannot produce food anymore.
In addition to our current way of producing food not being sustainable without the availability of cheap oil, using agricultural areas to produce crop that isn't even eaten is insane.
Does anybody actually have an idea how small the world's surplus on corn etc. actually is? Does anybody have an idea how much land would have to be wasted (literally) to produce enough crop to satisfy the world hunger for fossil fuel?
I don't think, one earth would be enough.
I don't believe, bio-fuels make any sense at all - even economies aside.
Stop the lunacy!
OMFG, YES!
Thank you for this post. I'm a child of an American soldier and a German mother. My German relatives were good people in every sense of the word. Wouldn't hurt a fly - literally (my great grandmother would catch flies and put them outside rather than kill them. She would sneak food to a russian soldier captured in the town because she felt sorry for him, despite the risk of the crime of treason). My grandfather fought in WWII on the german side and had lots of stories to tell.
I asked them all about WWII when I was a child and they said that honestly few people really knew what was going on with the concentration camps and such. ..
...
That really depends.
Asking tough questions was never a good idea in those years.
I just had to look up something myself: There's a fine distinction to be made: authorities never denied the existence of concentration-camps (AFAIK, the US had camps for most of the Japanese population in the US) and even used them as a deterrent. Death-camps, however, were top-secret.
Rumors of the Concentration- and Death-Camps made the rounds all the time (mostly through soldiers home on vacation - many of them considering the simple killing of civilians "unsoldierly") - it's just that people honestly believed all this was taking place unnoticed of Hitler himself.
A common phrase these days was "Wenn das der Führer wüsste - If the Führer would know that".
People didn't know, because they didn't want to know - maybe because they felt that there was something really big and horrible going on.
A lot of the staff in concentration-camps (guards etc.) could only cope with the emotional stress by consuming large amounts of alcohol (which was consequently distributed in large quantities), leading of course to more brutalities and stress.
To the credit of your Grand-parents, the death-camps were built in the most eastern places, on newly conquered territory - but concentration-camps were littered all over the country.
A friend of mine recounted that his grandfather (from the mother's side, IIRC) returned from the war and never ever spoke about what he did during the war until he died. The family believed, he was a guard in a death-camp. ;-)
My grandfather seldomly touched the topic, too, and when he touched it, he only told episodes about how he created some tool or fixed some machine with the rudimentary tools available.
This generation (which is mostly dead now) only wanted to forget the war and get on with life - and everybody (US included) agreed that this was the best solution at the time.
US soldiers led the local population of Dachau through the concentration-camp of the same name, a kind of "shock and awe"-strategy that was quite effective in silencing Holocaust-deniers and "Everything-was-better-under-Adolf"-apologists.
If the internet had existed back then, we wouldn't be able to read the data now
AIX - Ain't Unix anyway ;-)
As mentioned in the comments, this women basically agreed to defraud some government of the money "held in an escrow account".
It's not like these guys stole her lottery-jackpot.
She had no problem taking part in an illegal transaction.
But some people really only seem to see the money and think "Heck, it could work".
Linux does not have ZFS.
This is BS. Clearly.
You have certainly never done this yourself.
First of all, the P800 is a PoS for anything but the included RAID5 or 6 (we haven't even tested RAID6, IIRC).
It has a maximum number of logical disks it can create and you will most likely have to reboot the server and go into Array Manager to setup another "array" (single disk). You can't use the RAID on the card, because ZFS wants to control the disks themself, without a RAID-controller in between (and ideally no Cache-RAM).
My co-worker's been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
So, you've got to buy one of these: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/sas/specs.xml and connect a good external JBOD chassis to it (MSA70 e.g.). For SATA, we use Promise VtrakJ610s (which are not good, but cheap...).
Then it works.
But you will miss some features, like the red or yellow light when a disk is dead (so you'll have to count...).
And of course, you also don't get all the integration-work SUN has done with their new filers, all the statistics, all the health-checks, the GUIs.
In the end, you end-up a bit cheaper, but with a lot more labour and no support and no warrantee from anybody (best-effort only support from HP and SUN for Solaris on the DLxxx,)
I don't think it's that expensive.
I use Promise's VtrakJ610s at work (16x1TB SATA), and it cost about half that - but I still need a server for it (DL385 in our case). And I need to fit the disks myself (16x4 countersunk screws...) into the ultra-cheap harddrive containers.
A MSA70 full of SAS-disks (25) costs 10k, IIRC - but you need a server, HBAs etc.
I'm soooooo sick of the "I could build one for XXX% less using YYY"-comments.
Please, all the winers: go and start your own company selling and supporting storage-systems.
Good night and good luck....
No mod points, too bad.
To make it more clear: they have been fighting modern asymmetric wars for a very long time.
The people doing it now have practically grown up with it.
Even the USSR, with all their resources (and absolutely no qualm or HRW really worrying them) couldn't defeat these people (OK, so they had Uncle Sam's help - but anyway...)
Unfortunately, it also means that a western-style democracy is highly unlikely to work in such an environment.
There's just no concept of a "loyal opposition" in this region.
When you're defeated, it only means you have to try harder to overthrow your opponent next time.
And god forbid you follow the orders he issues from the capital - your peers might think you're a wuss.
Available to today already:
http://blogs.sun.com/sistare/entry/solaris_for_the_t5440
But I don't see a port of Windows7 to SPARC on the horizon, so there's hardly something to compare here...
will only be able to pick up our trash (because that's the only thing that lasts) and try to figure-out our lives from ads in newspapers or flyers and empty tv-dinner packagings...
Personally, I'm sure not much will survive from our generation.
We're a throw-away-society, for a large part (not only the US) and most stuff is done to last as short as legally possible.
Sometimes I think about making some black and white prints from my digital photos (they conserve much better over decades) - but I never get around to actually do it.
But let's face it: most of the "information" around today is barely worth preserving. It may be useful for future generations to figure out exactly how we got them into the mess they are in (then), but depending how big the mess is, they might not care at all...
They're not printing this on paper, right?
Can't you print into a PDF and convert it to a TIFF with ImageMagick and give the OCR thingy that file?
Would go a lot faster, too...
2 macMinis - one is your streaming media server one is for synching
1 airport extreme base station (N band wifi)
1 airport extreme base station (older b/g band wifi)
2 appleTV's (1 for each movie viewing room)
3 airportExpresses (1 for each audio only room)
1 drobo with 2x1TB HDs
1 iPhone
1 iRemote app
In other words: turn your house into the biggest microwave in the whole neighborhood.
Ah-well, only kidding ;)
AFAIK, the construction-plans to build the Apollo rockets have more or less been "misplaced". ;-)
The factories and machines to build the parts have long been dismantled and destroyed.
And Wernher von Braun died over 31 years ago...
Maybe there's a new Wernher von Braun in Iran, who is just waiting for an offer for US-citizenship (after the war, of course)?
When the German social-system was founded (by Bismarck), in 1889 the pension-system was introduced.
Asked at what age people should be able to get the pension, Bismarck decided on the age of 65.
At that time, the average lifespan of a citizen in Germany was 48 years.
Based on that, we'd have to set the retirement-age close to 100 years nowadays...
I know that I will probably have to work 'till I drop.
Actually, no.
First of, the IBM i uses 5250, not 3270.
Secondly, all more or less recent versions of IBM i OS,i5/OS,OS/400 (V4, V5, V6) can talk to a vt100 telnet client. The default Windows telnet client works just fine - but the F keys don't work, so the use is pretty limited on an i.
At, OK, so it was a "z-style" mainframe, back then.
And it didn't do vt100 at all.
I've seen many people directly exposing Port 23 to the Net, cause the i is secure.
Me too. But you've got to connect to it with a 3270-capable telnet to actually get something meaningful from it ;-)
You forget: for US Customs, it's just a legal problem.
There's a contract. And that contract deals with all the possible "nightmares" that you and I might be able to come up with.
Of course, they're only dealt with from a legal point of view - but that's usually enough in your and my country.
You see, lawyers have long ago taken over all parts of the government - and for a lawyer, a problem is usually solved if there is a law that deals with the situation.
The problems start, when reality doesn't conform to world of lawyers and law-makers...
Actually, he tried to enroll in the art academy in Vienna. Two times.
He considered himself an artist.
Of course, he was also Austrian, as pointed out by some AC below me. ;-)
Some people argue that his German citizenship is bogus at best and Germany should just 'nix it and hand him back to Austria
My history teacher used to say that Austria managed to turn Beethoven into an Austrian and Hitler into a German...
But a motorized wheelchair would? How about a Segway?
The Segway, in Germany, has a different problem: it only has one brake circuit.
In Germany, every motorized vehicle needs to have two independent brake-circuits.
Also, it probably doesn't help that no German car-manufacturer is envolved and so it doesn't have a big industrial lobby (which is essential to get anything new going in Germany, law-wise)
In Switzerland, BTW, you've got to have a mandatory bike-insurance (it's a 7 dollar worth sticker that needs to be attached to your bike), which is to be renewed every year.
The insurance only pays for damages you create with your bike.
But as someone else already said - if you hit some pedestrian with a 18kg downhill-bike and at full-speed, that poor guy is lucky if he survives it. It's not much difference compared to getting hit by a motor-bike....
Because people can't stop touching, sqeezing, pressing and fumbling all the fruit and vegetables which lets them get bad much faster.
The exception is the super-expensive fruits that the general public don't touch because they're too expensive.
When I had a greengrocer next to where I lived, I would always buy the stuff there - only the staff was allowed to touch the fruit and as a result, it lasted much longer than anything available elsewhere - even though it was more ripe than usual supermarket-fruit.
I really hate self-service - but mostly because of the other people who can't behave and pretend they are the last shoppers on earth.