February 2008

Removing .NET Framework 2.0-3.5 because some software can’t deal with it-experience

Uninstalling the unwanted versions via Add/Remove Programs does not work. Searching the web for some uninstall tool, found some MSDN blog. Downloading the tool, selecting the unwanted frameworks, rebooting. Explaining the guy behind me that it’s okay that there’s an error message popping up every second. Re-installing the not-removed .NET Framework, working.

Updating OS X to version 10.5.2-experience

Starting Software-Update, waiting for the download to be finished, rebooting, done.

Their mailing list finally returns, well, at least an error:

PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 550 Denied by policy

Tested with my dreamhost and gmail account. WTF? Is it so hard to get your mailing list working correctly? I wrote the first email to their support on December 6th, they are friendly, but seem to be completely incompetent helpless.

Praise the lord! Looks like we’ve won.

How do you know it’s election time? Election time = poster time!

Most of those posters are pretty lame and they do not bother me. But some really make me think. Is it really useful to tell the people that climate protection looks different? Or that democracy looks different? We all know that driving to our place of work in a car is not climate protection and being stuck in a traffic jam isn’t either.

But what is the alternative? Telling people to boost public transport is fine, but how? Talking about a prohibition of SUVs in Vienna’s inner districts is fine but kind of the wrong signal for workers in Graz, who are manufacturing SUVs to pay for the lives of their families.