Hi everybody, Recently, I found another way to watch UK-TV outside the UK, and it even supports livestreaming of Channel 4 and Five (however, only the livestreams, no on-demand like IPlayer, 4oD or ITVPlayer are supported). This time, there is no need for a UK-Proxy or a VPN. Just go to www.filmon.com and you have a quite wide variety of UK-Channels available. Since it seems that they already had some legal fights with the broadcasting stations, I am rather positive that this will be an option that is available for a longer time. If you want an easier way to…

Hi folks, I wonder sometimes if in many years from now we will be called the ‘Generation Quality-Killer’. I just noticed that ‘The H’, one of the most current and best resources regarding IT-news, is closing down. And this really makes me wonder how a page, where billions of people are exchanging tritenesses obviously is making money and a quality site like ‘The H’ does not get enough revenues to survive. Somehow, we are living in very sad times and this does not only regard the Internet, but also to a lot of other products (planned obsolescence) or buildings. In…

Hi everybody, Since Google is killing iGoogle in November this year, I have searched the net for alternatives. If you not yet have found what you are looking for as an alternative, you may look for these pages: http://www.ighome.com is currently my site of preferred choice. Especially if you do not want the look and feel of iGoogle changed, this may also be the site for you! The alternative I tried before, was http://www.netvibes.com, which offers a lot of possibilities, but has a quite different look and feel. Nevertheless, this may right be what you are looking for. Let me…

Hi everybody, During the last days I tried to update my IE9 on my Windows 7-machine to IE10 – actually, I did not want to initially, but Windows was quite insistent on shutting down trying to install it – and always failed with error 9C59. As you may have found on the Internet, none of the tipps of Microsoft actually work – I succeeded with the following steps (and several trial-and-error attempts and a lot of restarts :-)): Download and run the Microsoft fix-it-tool (http://support.microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall/) Download the Microsoft System Update Preparation Tool and run it Uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 9…

Hi there, About a week ago the annual Life Ball took place in Vienna – besides a lot of celebrities, there also was presented an initiative called ‘The Girl Effect’, which, in my opinion, is quite worth sharing. Actually, it seems to be quite easy: If you improve the life of 12 year old girls, the chance is quite high that our world is becoming a better place within the next 50 years, as it will not only affect the girls, but also their children. It was presented as part of the initiative ‘Zero’ about no new HIV infections. Part…

Hi all, Last Thursday we watched another very funny play in the Vienna’s English Theatre: Key for Two by John Chapman and Dave Freedman. The play is about a woman who is juggling with two lovers, which goes quite well until an old friend appears and the two lovers, unfortunately for Harriet, the woman with the two lovers, also arrive nearly at the same time. The play is hilariously funny and – some time after the beginning, which is rather boring but needed to introduce the actors – attracts a lot of laughter from the audience. Find information in English…

Hi everybody, Finally, the minigolf league season in Lower Austria is over, and – although we hoped we could rank 2nd in the final overall standings of the Oberliga – the 1. MGC Vösendorf made the 3rd place. Nevertheless, only promoted last season from the Unterliga to the Oberliga, we are quite happy with this 3rd place of 6 teams. Find information in English on the 2-click solution here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/0115241/heises-two-clicks-for-more-privacy-vs-facebook

Hi everybody, Now that the spring has finally arrived in Austria, I am sorry that I am currently not posting so often. At the moment, the Lower Austrian minigolf league has started last weekend (my club – 1. MGC Vösendorf – has done quite successful in the first 2 tournaments on the last 2 Sundays with a 4th and a 2nd place we have moved up to the 2nd place in the overall ranking of the Oberliga), so I am spending much of my weekends on a minigolf course. Although myself not being very successful currently, I am very proud…

Hi everybody, You may ask now: Lorraine who? I don’t know her anyway…. Well, that’s not completely true, there’s a quite big chance you already might have heard of her: She’s the female voice in Meatloaf’s millionseller ‘I’d do anything for love’. This year, she auditioned for ‘The Voice UK’ – unfortunately, she did not make it through, although her performance of Midnight Train To Georgia was quite good – you can review it on Youtube. Find information in English on the 2-click solution here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/0115241/heises-two-clicks-for-more-privacy-vs-facebook

Hi, This weekend, I tried to run a polipo proxy as background task on Windows 7. That’s not that easy, because I did not want to have a dos-command-prompt-window open, even if it was minimized, but wanted it to be hidden. First, I tried to set it up as a service, however, for some reason that did not work (even if I used the Windows XP Resource Kit-tool srvany.exe), because for some reason it did not want to start the polipo.exe. Alsow, the daemonize-parameter also did not work on Windows 7 (it crashed the proxy). Then I tried to start…