If you need a good text to tell people, how it all began:
The Complete Concise History of GNU/Linux

Currently I'm again learning for a test. It's an oral 'Complex-Test' - on the 'Complex' "General Business Information Technology" containing five different subjects.

• Business Knowledge Management
• Organisation and Project Management
• Processmanagement
• IT-Strategy
• IT in production plants

Why do I do it?

Hmm, when I tell you that - you'll think, that I deserve not to get an university degree. ;)
Originally those five subjects get written seperately and the average of all five tests counts. Well, I only went to four of them - and then decided, that getting a fake sick certificate is lame and you just don't do that. Well, I failed in the original try because of that (and I only needed about 20 of 60 points in the last test). That was, hmmm... ok, let's call it, how it is: dumb!
The second and third round are then 'Complex-Tests'. All five subjects in a three hour written test. Well, I didn't pass those either. For the first I didn't learn. For the second only three days. And the second broke my neck by asking some nice questions like "Draw the image of page 276 of the book - make it exact or you won't get any of the 30 points for this question". I missed 12 points of 240 for passing that test.

And what's up now?

So, now I'm in the oral 'Complex-Test'. One hour quiz-show about all five subjects. If I don't pass this one - my studies end right here. I'll get 'dishonorably dissmissed', so to say. And at least I don't want that!

Why not in the regular testing period?

I was subscribed to this test in the last regular testing period. A week before the test university staff called me to tell me, that I don't meet all conditions to do this test. Now some weeks ago they called me again and said: "Hey, why weren't you there - you meet all conditions!" Argh! Well, thanks to the examination office on this one: To not end my studies right away, they organized me a second chance for this test on 01.12.

Wish me luck! :)
Thanks!

... it should be "Is Google good or bad" - but well, with some freight containers they could come closer to being the internet super power - so no correction of that typo! ;)

Besides Sony's enormously dumb DRM-fiasco there is one other news circulating heavily on the internet currently. Google's shipping container. "A shipping container?!" I hear you ask. Yes, a shipping container - packed with 5000 Opterons and 3.5 ))PetaBytes(( of storage capacity. I bet the NSA would like to have some of those! ;)
Here is a well written prediction of Google's plans:
Google-Mart at PBS
I'm eager to see, what this guy will have to say next week...

1. Go to Google
2. enter "failure"
3. hit "I'm feeling lucky"
4. laugh
5. spread the word

;)