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Thrilling second game
We had a really exciting game against Minho that ended in a draw 0:0. Hector was able to defend the goal against two really dangerous attacks. Minho burned a hole into the carpet while trying to push Hector with the ball into the goal - without success. We had two really good chances, we missed one of them by a couple of centimeters... One more to go for today at 15:00 against Persia.
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AllemaniACs won first game!
We won the first game against the PaderKicker 5:0! Let's go on and kick some more asses :-) Pics to come on the AllemaniACs homepage. Next game will be at 13:00 against Minho from Portugal.
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RoboCup German Open 2004
We (AllemaniACs RoboCup Team) are attending the RoboCup German Open 2004. We are right now getting the robots ready to kick some opponents asses :-) You can get live pictures from our booth in the team area! Come, join and support us :-)
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Nothing really new on CeBIT 2004
Buck, Tob and I attended the CeBIT yesterday. Equipped with curiosity we got there by train (first class, of course, for just 60 cents more as we would have paid for the second class... :-).
We arrived in the late morning and jumped into the fountain of new techniques some might think. No, not this year. The were merely any really new inventions to see. In some newspapers they tried to hype UMTS for this year but in the end we did not see one UMTS banner or even product, and we did visit some of the major telcos.
There was a really impressive new Vaio at Sony's booth which seemed to be limited in it thinness by the thickness of the USB port! And they had the new Sony Clie (the TH55) which felt really good and has some cool new features. If they would not have this shitty memory stick though. The palmOne boot was rather disappointing. They were showing the new Treo 600 which is pretty nice but lacks some of the features I would expect from a modern PDA like bluetooth and a high resolution display. Anyway, one of the Treo guys told me that he expects a Treo 610 (at least for the US, they are not even shipping the 600 here in Germany) for the near future that will remedy those shortcomings. The woman at the Tungstens was just unfriendly and not really interested in customers asking quesions...
Asked when I can expect new Tungstens (especially with Palm OS 6) she just said "Not in the near future" but on PIC you could read an article about new palms recently. So let's see if that will bring a new Tungsten.
Interesting was a short talk of Sven Herzenberg about Gnome which shed some light on the relations to other projects like KDE and Mozilla which was pretty interesting. Seems that these really friendly relations are a wealth of code for all parties because lots of code and features is shared between the different projects not at last because of the FreeDesktop.org people! I'm really looking forward to wednesday and the Gnome 2.6 release. This will probably make me dist-upgrade to the Fedora development tree :-)
The Buck really had fun photographing all those eye catchers on the CeBIT that usually have a female appearance... (pics yet to come).
In the end it was a nice day on the CeBIT but we did not see any real eye opener or THE new item or killer application. Of course we can't have a new hype every year. Last year we had the WLAN hype and the Linux hype some years before.
On our way home we had a nice bottle of wine the Buck took with him and I read some reviews about the new Minolta Dimage Xg :-)
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Some more spam stats...
I thought I got a lot of spam the day before yesterday. No! I got even more. Yesterday I got a total number of 441 mails. 6 mails of those went to me personally. 3 came from my server mentioning some scanning script kiddie and notifying me of last night's successful update... Let's sum it up. I got 435 spam mails yesterday! 166 of those were detected by SpamAssasin and marked as such. Of the remaining 269 mails about 9 where "real" missed spam. The rest were returning mails from Mailerdaemons around the world *argh*. Some of them were that crypted zip viruses that my virus scanner did not filter out...
Today my mails contained 98.6% spam. I had to sort out 97.8% of the mails that finally made it into my inbox... Only 38.2% were filtered out by my spam filters.
This makes a spam mail every 3.3 minutes! Heeelp! We need to fight those idiots. I want some kind of "reverse DNS" protection mentioned in yesterday's post...
