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I just decided to sit down on Monday mornings and summarize a couple of things. Hence this morning I had a look at the blog-o-sphere.

Iman, a friend from UK just stated his own blog. I am looking forward to read what he has to say. Damir once again became MVP. I am wondering why I never become a MVP... Otherwise, the blog-o-sphere was quite silent this week. I guess Clemens is busy with his daughter right now and BtK is not blogging for ages... Martin Calsyn, our architect also has a rarely used blog. Since I have still some issues with the encoding in categories within the DasBlog engine, Alexander started to help me in finding out why... Guess what? He has a blog, too.

Currently, I had to solve some optimization problems remembering me to my early studies in computer science. To refresh my memories I was looking for some resources about the knapsack problem. Here I found a book as free download (22.5 MB) dealing with the knapsack problem, written by Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth.

Source: http://www.or.deis.unibo.it/knapsack.html

Finally,I set up my Technorati Profile. And this is just the blog claim posting...

Synchronizing my laptop folders with three servers on different locations makes it difficult to keep track of what is already copied. SyncToy 1.4 should help me in getting this managed since I haven't used it on my new machine yet and my XP machine still running version 1.2.

Source: Download

DasBlog does finally support Gravatars [1]. One step more away from the anonym beginnings of the web. Check the comments of this blog entry to view how they work. Definitely another Web 2.0 application. Gravatars can be easy added to any weblog:

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

[1] http://site.gravatar.com/

Just 24h after I have upgraded my site to the DasBlog engine 1.9.7174.0 daily build, build 1.9.174.1 was release as stable. The work is going on and Clemens [1] gives a first impression on what is happening in the future:

Once the project switches over to be "native" on the CLR/BCL 2.0 (we're discussing the actual target framework version), I'll rejoin the effort and I already have several truckloads of new features or changes in the wait loop. You'll be surprised what that little engine will learn to do over the next several months.... ;)

[1] http://vasters.com/clemensv/PermaLink,guid,62191618-0f0f-4017-bfe4-f6577c8db0f6.aspx

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac [1] r0ckz. Listening music on the Mac mini, sometimes I had to do things on my server. Consequently, I had to start one of my machines to connect to to the server remotely. Using the Remote Desktop Connection Client that's a thing of the past. there are some c00l features, not seen on the Windows client, yet (maybe I should have a better look): Copy and paste seems to be working from and to the host system and you can print on your Mac printer while being in the remote session.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient

Just getting the microcode update [1] since I am running only Intel processors. Read [2] for more information about the patch. 

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...
[2] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936357

While a dozen RSS feeds are subscribed in your favorite feed reader, you might be interested only in some particular feeds being updated during the day. Windows Live Alerts [1] give you this new experience. If you want to get a alert within Windows Live Messenger when aheil.de blog is updated, simply click the Windows Live Alerts button on the menu pane. Definitely a Web 2.0 application.

[1] http://alerts.live.com/