At November 11th at 16:27 CET there is again the event Long Night of Research organized by universities and research institutes of Innsbruck.
The program is available as PDF.

It will have been a year ago that I've visited the Austrian government portal for citizen services.
With the social card (e-card) each Austrian has the possibility to use this card as digital signature card. With the card and a card reader for your computer (something I don't have) you could use online services to communicate with governmental authorities.
The alternative is to visit offices in person or mail via postal carrier.
So it would be quite a nice, comfortable way.
Yes, but for the SSL certificates used on the secured websites it is difficult for the citizen to trust...

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Just listened to local radio station and the report about the ski opening at the Kaunertal glacier.
Afterwards I've needed to update my knowings about the snow depths and current possibilities to go skiing...

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It is really a simple and fast solution to use google-gson to convert Java objects with primitives to JSON and back.
A call to new Gson().toJson(primitiveObj) is all you need.
There's also a Maven repository for easy integration in your project.
Try it out before you fiddle around with your own object converter!

There are really interesting sessions at the next ubuntu open week:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/13/next-ubuntu-open-week-announced/

The harddisk encryption is only defense against simple theft.
A spy can install a tool on Alice's unattended computer and get to know the password for her encrypted disk.
Afterwards the spy Bob knows the password and can boot Alice's computer with its encrypted harddisk or can copy all the unencrypted disk data.
The so called "Evil Maid Attack" by Joanna Rutkowska replaces the boot code on disk to sniff Alice's password and continues with boot afterwards.
If the boot is protected by BIOS, Bob has to connect the encrypted disk to an own computer to install the tool.
If the encryption is hardware based there might be possibilities to hack the BIOS for a password sniffer. But this kind of encryption is much safer because Bob has to know a lot specifics about Alice's computer. Bob might run out of time doing his work without getting nabbed by Alice.
Mmh. I've to check the laptop of our team. I'm interested in how safe its encryption is ;-)

I've just read at the website of the local indoor climbing center that the National Cup is canceled. In contrast to the website of the Austrian climbing competition association ÖWK the climbing center (place of event) also posted a statement.
There seems to be some controversy between the officials, state and the managing director of climbing center and chief coach of Tyrol Reinhold Scherer.
The Tivoli climbing center has great walls and routes but the floor area is limited and there is no possibility to expand.
The sanitary installations are intolerable for serious sports. There is one toilet and one shower for women and men. (Of course both have their own.) Every school gym is better equipped.
There seems to be no support to change this situation and provide the top athletes the deserved training center with regeneration area.
In consequence Reini resigns. The Tivoli climbing center won't host official competitions anymore.

jQuery UI is an extension JavaScript for the jQuery JavaScript library which provides widgets and effects for web userinterfaces. The Lift Webframework provides some elementary support for the bundled jQuery library. jQuery UI is not included...

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