Is superb italian dry wine, a concentrate of Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara grapes.
Here is the unavoidable Wikipedia article.
Tasted a bottle of Masi 2002 at Bottega del Vino. Photos of the Verona - Bassano - Asolo - Treviso trip.

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Some laptop do not enable VMX (VT, Vanderpool, hardware virtualization support) in their BIOS. An example is my Sony Vaio VGN-C1S.
Here is a forum posting with a detailed story with the progress on reverse-engineering VMX support for Phoenix/Sony BIOS.

posted at: 23:29 | path: /rant/Sony | permanent link

Watched the terrific movie Branded to Kill (1967, 'Koroshi no rakuin', directed by Seijun Suzuki) in Das Kino and, wow, I could recognize one hiragana character, ka.

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Photos can be found at pmeerw.net, the last entry is from a hike to Werfner Hütte.

posted at: 14:19 | path: /fun | permanent link

The runtime library of the VC8 C/C++ compiler which comes with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 checks if certain symbols reside in read-only sections.
Affected are __dyn_init_tls_callback and certain symbols used to initialize the floating point code (eg. printf("%f", ...) will mysteriously fail with code R6002 if the runtime is not properly set up).
Workaround can be found in UPX and also SecuROM now :)

posted at: 14:15 | path: /rant | permanent link

2nd place for ->/_ Team Salzburg in the BOWS-2 watermarking competition, 1.5 dB after Andreas Westfeld but also 1 dB before the 3rd place.
Episode 2 is on...

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Reasonable priced food, hardly any smoke, but air condition too cold. A trade-off. Recommended.

posted at: 23:38 | path: /fun | permanent link

Yesterday I joined a walk with a 'Gruselgeschichtenerzähler' near the Salzburg castle. The story telling was quite enjoyable, although neither the devil nor a proper ghost made an appearance.
Spooky was at least the admission fee set as 12 eur, but I got invited by the narrator. Thanks!

posted at: 23:35 | path: /fun | permanent link

It is impossible now to access account and billing information online as this service now receives 'SecureCode' for which one needs to accept unacceptable terms and conditions.
They seem to require a room shielded against electromagnetic emission to operate SecureCode securely.
Furthermore, it would be wise to digitally sign important email for a credit card company.
Complaint is one the way... good, old postal account statement!

posted at: 23:30 | path: /rant | permanent link