After installing Expression Web (version 1) and the German language pack on my new PC running the German version of Windows Vista (Home Premium x64), my previously English Expression Web suddenly displayed the user interface (UI) in - you guessed it - German. I’m not sure if the language pack or the operating system is [...]
Do your friends like to complain about their jobs? Do you sometimes think they should pay you just for listening to them? Well, x-change.lu can’t do that, but if you use this new recruiting website to find a job for someone else you can earn between 250 and 5000 €! (Yes, we’re [...]
Some pictures from last weekend. The new terminal A goes into operation on May 21st.
Links: Wort.lu has pictures of the construction and a “special report” (PDF, in German).
The problem: Multiple domains hosted on one server needed access to the user’s session data. In my case, various shopping domains were sharing one (SSL-enabled) domain where the users could place their orders.
The solution I found was surprisingly simple: Since these domains were hosted on the same server and used the same session [...]
Auf der ursprünglich für ihr Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch bekannten Seite LEO ist seit kurzem auch ein Deutsch-Chinesisches Wörterbuch verfügbar. Unterstützt werden sowohl traditionelle als auch vereinfachte Schriftzeichen sowie Pīnyīn. Die Pīnyīn-Eingabe kann praktischerweise auch mit Ziffern für die Töne erfolgen, so z.B. yan2lun4 zi4you2 statt yánlùn zìyóu (weitere Suchtipps hier).
Many of the books available on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online come in HTML format, which I like because it makes it easy to copy code straight out of the book (no need to search for the “companion files”). However, program listings in books often use line numbers, which prevent the code from running if it’s [...]
Luxembourg’s CLC (commerce association) has gone web 2.0 and launched a blog at goodidea.lu to promote Luxembourg as the “pôle” for shopping in the greater region. Interestingly, the blog is available in French and English only. German speaking visitors can still admire the pictures. Let’s see how this one evolves (remember blogdelux, another Vanksen Culturebuzz [...]
It was a bizarre situation: Paypal had acquired a bank license and transferred its headquarters to Luxembourg and still, if you were a Paypal customer in Luxembourg, your only option was to withdraw funds to a U.S. bank account or to spend them. Withdrawal to a local bank account or to an account in another [...]
A while ago, a corrupted XD card gave me an opportunity to try a bunch of picture (and video) recovery programs. When reading the following reviews, please keep in mind that 1. files can “disappear” for different reasons, so what didn’t work for me might work for you and 2. the more programs I used [...]
Following the 3rd incident (video link) in a few weeks with the landing gear of a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, SAS has decided to permanently remove all their remaining Q400 from service, despite Bombardier’s claims that this incident was different from the two previous ones.
“SAS’s flight operations have always enjoyed an excellent reputation and there [...]