Postings by Mathias in October 2008
Intrepid Ibex on Berliner Fenster
Berlin's underground waggons are equipped with LCD screens showing news headlines, event tips and local advertisements. This morning those screens catched my attention by suddenly showing a well known wallpaper, making me smile: "Intrepid Ibex - Ubuntu 8.10 - Available now for free - http://www.ubuntuusers.de/" (in German of course).
Well, done guys.
Looking forward to see other Linux ...
Static Panel Nonsense
Vuntz, you ask for angry reactions, here is your first one: This static panel stuff is the biggest nonsense I've seen in years! You've presented us an early April's fool joke, didn't you?
Please visit some real people and look at their Windows or OSX desktop, look how they customized the Quick-Launch area respectively their dock and then come again, please.
Important hint: Whenever you try to improve something, you should be ...
DHL Online Fraud
Dave, the sad side of the story is, that the German DHL site doesn't make it clear, that it just serves as masquerade for some simple postal service. DHL spent quite some money on marketing the brand "DHL" as full parcel service , comparable to UPS, FedEx, TNT, ... Turns out, that the parcel service of "DHL" is called "DHL Express", not just "DHL" ...