Hello again after a waay too long time. But I have an important message to all of you and will try to get blogging by this again...

Russian crackers have used Tikis to create a bot-net. The exploit is as easy as it is dangerous and I urge you to upgrade immediately to 1.9.5.

Read more about the security problems here:

• Tiki under attack

Gete the release here:

• Tiki 1.9.5 at SourceForge

Today really is the last day on which I can do some preparing stuff for my move to Bayreuth(which will be tomorrow morning). I have been packing my books, CDs and DVDs into boxes - and found out, that with four full boxes my room is still as packed as before! Well, that's pretty common for moving people afaik..... ;)

This whole moving-thing needed some real change in mind: I needed to understand, that "I will be moving out of Ilmenau". Once I realized that, it wasn't any problem at all to start packing - once I realized, that I will be leaving Ilmenau. Ilmenau - this city, that coined seven years of my life - that city, that every student hates, but I love for all its dark secrets and the life underhands - that city, that is only a village of people from around the world(yes, chinese make a big percentage of students) - that city, that presumably produces the world's best graduands - that city, that is slowly leaving its GDR-past behind itself - that city, that is ruled by an university not worthy of being called an "alma mater" - the city in which I gained my freedom as an individual!

I just performed a symbolic act of leaving. My Finland-flag (which was hanging in every single appartment [4 of them all-in-all] I have ever had in Ilmenau) was just folded for transport according to the rules of the probably most nationalistic country of the world.

Since I'm not used to write by hand any more, I didn't have enough time to write everything I wanted. And the questions I answered, well.. they were tricky and I'm not sure to have gotten all right - actually I even know of some stuff, where I missed it, because I read the assignment incorrectly. :-/

Well, we will see... there is hope though.

amanuel just told me, that otavo is public beta now! :)

Check out the "floatlet" - it's perhaps the most genious enhancement of a bookmarklet ever! :D

... at least after reading for my IT-legislation test on thursday. Only that now I know, where to find it in the german law. Doesn't help me either really... since in the test only matters to have a certain scheme for solving the cases. Need to learn by heart a lot tomorrow (today actually, it's late again). But anyways..

.. I found an interesting definition, which translates somehow freely:

Concessing distribution-, copying- and modifying-rights in the sense of a simple usage-right on one condition by addressing the communalty.

.. let me just juxtapost this with the Free Software Foundations definition (/me cheats from his card):

Your software shall grant you these freedoms:
# to run for any purpose
# to study and adapt to your needs
# to redistribute, so you can help others
# to release improvements, so everyone benefits

.. yes, the last one is important.