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Vielen Dank, dass Ihr uns aus unverstaendlichen Gruenden verehrt und
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zuzugeben, dass es fuer Peer-to-Peer-Technologien sinnvolle und legale
Anwendungen gibt, von denen unsere Kunden profitieren koennten.

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A few dozen of you already discovered my little "collage" on a movie called Bad Taste below. It's an old little low budget splatter movie by the - now famous - IMDB(Peter Jackson,name,nm0001392). I saw it somewhen in the 90ies late at night in a small cinema, forgetting its title but remembering the fun. Some weeks ago I found a cheap DVD but hesitated to buy it because it had only german (badly) dubbed audio. The more disappointed I was when I finally bought it (it was cheap, see) and the bloody thing had only 78 minutes - while the original move (the one I saw at the cinema) has more than 90 minutes. They simply cut all the splatter. Now the movie is completely pointless. Well, it's still a little funny and the image below shows why. The aliens look just great and action is good - without fany tricks or a big budget. Then I spent friday night watching The Sentinel in the cinema. Good entertainment. Nothing spectacular but well watchable. But I dont get why the spell "Jack Bauer" "David Breckinridge" Kiefer Sutherland's role is the very same. Oh, and Sledge Hammer as the US predident is just hilarious.

I consider south korean movies as always good for a surprise. They sometimes produce really interesting stuff as the last Fantasy Filmfests have shown. I just watched JSA which is really good. As a german I can relate to the country being divided story as I can relate to the "stupid wars" story as a human being. Watch it.

So, more stuff nobody needs (and that imply legal problems): These people demonstrate again what you can do with aa and too much time on your hand. As you see, you can watch the world cup with xawtv or telnet - I hope the GEZ doesnt get funny ideas.

Talking about funny ideas, a (still) big german tabloid has problems reading geographical coordinates which made me try Google Earth, that is now eventually available for Linux. The image below shows the spot Angelina Jolie has tattooed on her arm. I should've looked in the IMDB first - it says this is where her adopted children come from. I hope it's not the actual meadow on the airport.

Now let's see if showing Google Earth images is legal :(

Ich guck ja eigentlich nicht Fussball, aber da hab ich doch gerade untiges Bild gesehen. Es zeigt deutlich, was ich als Konstruktionsfehler im Waldstadion bezeichnen wuerde (wenn das Stadion jetzt gerade so heisst). Der Architekt hat vermutlich an alles gedacht und alles designt und alles simuliert - nur nicht, wie der Schattenwurf ist, wenn mal die Sonne scheint. Ich finde ja, das lenkt ab, die Spieler fallen fast nicht mehr auf. Aber die grossen Leinwaende sind schon wichtig, falls man das Spielfeld gerade nicht erkennen kann. Naja, egal.

It is actually in the docs but this is the condensed version of what you have to do to upgrade multiple 7.5 instances (on Linux) to current 7.6 of MaxDB:

• Full backup, Download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.6.00.html
• Shutdown all instances (db_offline), stop x_server
• Use SDBINST to install the software, don't touch any instance
• Connect to each instance with dbmcli -d DB -u dbm,dbm
• db_reg
• param_checkall
• db_online
• load_systab

If load_systab fails you might need to supply -d dba,dba and/or domain password again, whysoever.

One of my instances got toasted, it could not even perform a full backup anymore. But that was an old instance with uncertain family history, so I do not care.