31 August 2001

Grabbelkiste - Wer verkauft einen gebrauchten bootfähigen PCI-IDE-Kontroller, z.B. Acard?

Hier steht ein mächtig aufgemöbelter PowerMac 9500 herum, dem nur noch eines fehlt, um wieder in Lohn und Brot um kommen: ein IDE-Controller. Wenn jemand einen verkauft, bitte eMail an webmaster@textlab.de. (August 31., 2001, )

Twin-engined -

Today we've received a brandnew twin processor PowerMac with a DVD writer, 1 GB RAM and a 2x 80 GB RAID. This beast will be the basis for the new video and audio edit suite. (August 30., 2001, )

Hermann The User - New "Hermann The User" cartoon up for your amusement.

(August 27., 2001, )

Semi-Urlaub -

Zwischen zwei Jobs haben wir die stets offene TextLab-Tür halb angelehnt und bis 1. September eine Kreativitätspause eingelegt, in der DSL installiert, ein neuer Router eingebaut, der Intranet-Server umkonfiguriert, wichtige Leute und noch wichtigere alte Freunde getroffen, Projektpläne diskutiert, mit heimischen Pferden, Hunden und Katzen geschwatzt, ein Knoblauch-Weblog angefangen (demnächst in diesem Theater), dieses Weblog repariert, Garten gerodet, Kunst besichtigt, nachbarliche Semesterarbeiten Word-formatiert, eMails aufgearbeitet und in der Hängematte geschaukelt wird. (August 25., 2001, )

Speeeeeeeed - Anscheinend dringt der Fortschritt unaufhaltsam selbst in die hintersten Winkel der Republik vor: wir haben ADSL.

(August 24., 2001, )

BMWi contract extended - Our contracts with the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology have once again been extended.

Since 1999 we are helping the German Minister for Economics and Technology (BMWi) to run an Internet and PR campaign to keep industry and the public informed about Internet security politics. Our services to BMWi includes online editorial work,Êcooperation with industry, research and interest groups and promotion to the press and public. The site service offers daily news, a bi-weekly newsletter, a monthly selection of articles and real-life tutorials and a lively communication with end-users and experts. These contracts have now been extended and updated until 2002. (August 22., 2001, )

Thanks Frannie that you couldn't resist this delicate task.
The English translation appears when you click on the images. Please give us feedback in case it is misbehaving. (August 22., 2001, )

It's Toon Time! - We have added a weekly cartoon to "Industrial Technology & Witchcraft".

"Hermann der User" is a very successful cartoon strip [click image] by our old friend and companion Karl Bihlmeier. Many of our German readers will already know "Hermann", and we are extremely proud to present this "first, best and in any case funniest computer cartoon" exclusively for your amusement. For our english readers, we promise to provide an equivalent translation.

We have also thought about - but refrained from - renaming the site "Illustrated Technology & Witchcraft". (August 20., 2001, )

Realtime news - We provide experimental access to international near-realtime news, powered by NewsIsFree.

For some of our customers, we scan the international press every day. Besides other sources, we are using NewsIsFree, a free news service provider based in Zurich. On an experimental bases, we now make their headlines from 1809 sources avaliable to all of us news junkies. (August 17., 2001, )

Glad you found us - Welcome at the new URL. This way to the show please....

(August 14., 2001, )

New Address - This week, we'll switch "Industrial Technology & Witchcraft" to a new URL: http://www.textlab.de/news/.

More obvious, isn't it? Please update your bookmarks, if you don't want to miss the best. The rss file remains in place, so the news feeds via Userland and NewsIsFree will automatically link to the new address. And in case you haven't caught all this, you'll be also connected automatically.

Neue Adresse. Anfang dieser Woche werden wir "Industrial Technology & Witchcraft" auf eine neue URL legen: http://www.textlab.de/news/.

Falls Sie die kommenden Sensationen nicht verpassen wollen, sollten Sie Ihre Bookmarks ändern. Unsere rss-Datei bleibt an der gewohnten Stelle, so daß die Userland- und NewsIsFree-Newsfeeds automatisch zur neuen Adresse linken werden. Und falls Sie das alles nicht verstanden haben, werden Sie natürlich auch vollautomatisch weitergeleitet. (August 13., 2001, )

Syndication via newsisfree.com -

We have been added to the distribution list of newsisfree.com, the largest (and, in my opinion, best) European news aggregation and distribution site. Our newsisfree channel no. is 2169. And - just to remind you, our Userland channel is 4465. (August 9., 2001, )

Site Improvements - Topic archives, modified search, newsfeed export.

We've slightly improved this site with archives for each of the topics and a new search result page. This isn't the final stuff, since we are waiting for a search routine integrated in the editorial system, and for less work pressure (we'll probably wait indefinitely for the latter...).

You can now integrate our regular news feed into your site easily. All you need to do is insert the following snip into your page and marvel at the result:

powered by <a href="http://www.wc.cc.va.us/services/news/default.asp">wc.cc.va.us</a>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript
SRC="http://www.wc.cc.va.us/services/news/channel.asp?c=4465&limit=5&bg=CCCCCC&border=0"></SCRIPT>

This service is generously provided by the Wytheville Community College News Center, Virginia, free of charge, so please give them credit. And send us an eMail. We're bursting with curiosity.

For the practically minded: this works by customizing our Userland channel (4465). You can modify the look because the HTML delivered to the browser is full of style definitions. Netscape 4.x doesn't seem to support this, but Mozilla and IE 4+ do.
(August 6., 2001, )

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