Speedflying is this year's new winter sport and a combination of paragliding and skiing.
The parawings can be operated between 35 and 75 km/h and allow for high jumps and turn and even direct flying to the landing area.
Gin's Nano is one of the first wings specifically designed for speedflying.
See a demo.
Amazing: Speedflying from Mt. Blanc summit (www.aerobase.com)
And here: Speedflying from Aiger, Switzerland
BTW: Here are some Davos impressions
Thursday, 22 February 2007
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Morbid Obesity Surgery: New Website
The new german Website
http://adipositas-chirurgie.net/
offers patient-orientated information on various surgical procedures.
Good artwork. It's worth a visit !
http://adipositas-chirurgie.net/
offers patient-orientated information on various surgical procedures.
Good artwork. It's worth a visit !
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Google is everywhere
Google seems to be everywhere. Unfortunately and unlike Microsoft, I like most of their products and ideas.
First of all, Google owns www.blogger.com, the system this blog in written on. Google now has an own text-processing software (Writeley, http://docs.google.com/ ) and spread-sheet calculation. When you register your Google account, access to the beta of the two products is free.
The idea behind this is to persuade people to use an online office application, store their texts and documents online and invite others for cooperation.
The question is: How secure is the online office ?
Once registered, you can add elements to your google starting page in a fly. The ease of this process is amazing. I have local weather information, satellite image, Nasa Picture of the Day, news headlines and wikipedia search engine.
If you don't like all the thrash that is delivered by Googles main search engine - why don't you build your own one ? Just tell Google to only search specific homepages. So - building your own search engine is a matter of minutes.
To be honest - sometimes the level of Googles IT-presence frightens me. On the other hand - we all more or less depend on a monopolistic IT company anyway, two is better than one.
First of all, Google owns www.blogger.com, the system this blog in written on. Google now has an own text-processing software (Writeley, http://docs.google.com/ ) and spread-sheet calculation. When you register your Google account, access to the beta of the two products is free.
The idea behind this is to persuade people to use an online office application, store their texts and documents online and invite others for cooperation.
The question is: How secure is the online office ?
Once registered, you can add elements to your google starting page in a fly. The ease of this process is amazing. I have local weather information, satellite image, Nasa Picture of the Day, news headlines and wikipedia search engine.
If you don't like all the thrash that is delivered by Googles main search engine - why don't you build your own one ? Just tell Google to only search specific homepages. So - building your own search engine is a matter of minutes.
To be honest - sometimes the level of Googles IT-presence frightens me. On the other hand - we all more or less depend on a monopolistic IT company anyway, two is better than one.
Big laugh
Do you like to watch people doing something absolutely stupid ?
www.willitblend.com will be the right place for you.
Tom Dickson destroys various things, ranging from household goods, hockey pucks, toys, iPods and much more in a conventional household blender.
The procedure is always the same, kind of an old fashioned TV series, they have a charming production lab and a great trailer music.
Will it blend ? It usually will ....
I am still thinking why this kind of destruction is that funny. Maybe, because you are taken back to your kid-age - putting nasty things into the blender and vaporized them is something that I always wanted to do. Watching these films reminds me of listening to ridiculous scientific presentations on one of these congresses. The face of Tom when his loaded items fall to dust is absolutely unique. You can even suggest items to BlendTec for getting blended. They have challenged Tom with an iPod - and it was done. Maybe blending a blender would be the next great clip.
Have fun
www.willitblend.com will be the right place for you.
Tom Dickson destroys various things, ranging from household goods, hockey pucks, toys, iPods and much more in a conventional household blender.
The procedure is always the same, kind of an old fashioned TV series, they have a charming production lab and a great trailer music.
Will it blend ? It usually will ....
I am still thinking why this kind of destruction is that funny. Maybe, because you are taken back to your kid-age - putting nasty things into the blender and vaporized them is something that I always wanted to do. Watching these films reminds me of listening to ridiculous scientific presentations on one of these congresses. The face of Tom when his loaded items fall to dust is absolutely unique. You can even suggest items to BlendTec for getting blended. They have challenged Tom with an iPod - and it was done. Maybe blending a blender would be the next great clip.
Have fun
Nasty Exchange problem on a Windows 2003 server
We have finally solved a nasty MS Exchange problem that was present on our Windows 2003 server.
Symptoms: Outgoing mails were 'collected' in a SMTP queue for about one week, although our SMTP server settings were correct and our IT's mailrelay was working. Mails to the mailrelay worked.
In fact, the IT-department had blocked one of our Server IP addresses, so that no internet out connection was present: Normal webpages and even IP-connections to the rest of the world were blocked - but only for one particular address. The connection to our mailrelay was not blocked.
It seems as if MS Exchange validates email addresses before sending them off by it's virtual SMTP server. After reconnection of the IP address Exchange started to fire immediately.
Symptoms: Outgoing mails were 'collected' in a SMTP queue for about one week, although our SMTP server settings were correct and our IT's mailrelay was working. Mails to the mailrelay worked.
In fact, the IT-department had blocked one of our Server IP addresses, so that no internet out connection was present: Normal webpages and even IP-connections to the rest of the world were blocked - but only for one particular address. The connection to our mailrelay was not blocked.
It seems as if MS Exchange validates email addresses before sending them off by it's virtual SMTP server. After reconnection of the IP address Exchange started to fire immediately.
Saturday, 10 February 2007
Freeware tool to cut DVR-MS files (cut out ads - the easy way)
You have your new dual core with DVBT and the Windows Media center.
You can record your favourite films and series in a fly.
But: Which program would allow you to edit your streams (f.e. cut out ads and concatenate the rest ?)
The windows media center will not, and the windows movie maker will not too. Why ? This must be a MS secret ...
I tried Nero Media Center, but Nero cannot import DVR-MS. Puh.
After about one hour of Google search I found a very nice, fast intelligent tool that can do exactly what you need here (but not more).
The DVR-MS Editor can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxpmce/html/dvr-ms.asp
You can record your favourite films and series in a fly.
But: Which program would allow you to edit your streams (f.e. cut out ads and concatenate the rest ?)
The windows media center will not, and the windows movie maker will not too. Why ? This must be a MS secret ...
I tried Nero Media Center, but Nero cannot import DVR-MS. Puh.
After about one hour of Google search I found a very nice, fast intelligent tool that can do exactly what you need here (but not more).
The DVR-MS Editor can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxpmce/html/dvr-ms.asp
My favourite popup blocker
... is Ad-Aware SE from Lavasoft.
The free version has been used here for years and reliably blocks popups, spyware and more.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Use this in combination with a free Antivirus program like Antivir
http://www.free-av.de/
to stay disease-free .....
The free version has been used here for years and reliably blocks popups, spyware and more.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Use this in combination with a free Antivirus program like Antivir
http://www.free-av.de/
to stay disease-free .....
Download the XP resource kit from Microsoft
This free bundle contains interesting stuff like ISO burner, Memory Cleaner or Link Checker.
Go www.microsoft.com/downloads and search for "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit".
Go www.microsoft.com/downloads and search for "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit".
Stop Dr. Watson
You can easily deactivate Dr. Watson protocols by calling up 'drwtsn32' from the command line or from the 'run' entry in your windows 'Start' menu.
This may save 100reds of MB on your hard drive.
This may save 100reds of MB on your hard drive.
Great housekeeping - Beclean !
Beclean is a great tool for cleaning cache, history, registry, temporary files and much more.
Go http://boozet.xepher.net/index.htm to grab your file or google for it.
Go http://boozet.xepher.net/index.htm to grab your file or google for it.
Friday, 9 February 2007
Autostart thrash -> msconfig
If you want to get rid of autostart thrash, simply execute msconfig from either the 'run' entry of your windows start button or from the command line.
Msconfig will allow to select extactly the services and autostart programs that you really need.
Msconfig will allow to select extactly the services and autostart programs that you really need.
Surgical logbook
This seems interesting:
http://www.oootta.com
Surgical logbook for residents to keep track of operations, publications, and more.
http://www.oootta.com
Surgical logbook for residents to keep track of operations, publications, and more.
Morbid obesity
When I was returning from the 10th world congress of laparoscopic surgery in Berlin, this has been a very interesting event although the location was a bit out-placed. Morbid obesity has been on focus amongst many other things and it was interesting to learn that 55.000 people die from morbid obesity in france every year. In the US, even 300.000 persons die from obesity-related illnesses - three times the number of people who die each year from breast cancer and colon cancer combined.What a killer - eating - can be ....
Fortunately, there are now many options for help - including surgery which offers advanced gastric banding, Roux-Y gastric bypass, gastric sleeve resection and duodenal switch operation.Who should undergo surgery ? This question was debated - any person with a BMI (body mass index) of 35 (in europe, surgeons define 30) is a candidate for surgery.
Fortunately, there are now many options for help - including surgery which offers advanced gastric banding, Roux-Y gastric bypass, gastric sleeve resection and duodenal switch operation.Who should undergo surgery ? This question was debated - any person with a BMI (body mass index) of 35 (in europe, surgeons define 30) is a candidate for surgery.
Cheap laparoscopy simulators ?
Are there any out there ?
Maybe Simendo is worth a try. No force feedback or organ simulation, but USB connection to any medium-powered laptop should do.
http://www.simendo.eu/ gives you more information ....
Maybe Simendo is worth a try. No force feedback or organ simulation, but USB connection to any medium-powered laptop should do.
http://www.simendo.eu/ gives you more information ....
Hey !
Somehow my previos blog became deleted so I am about to set it up again here at blogger.com. I found bit's of my previous posts on google cache, that goes into the restart today. Hoping that you will have fun in this blog, it will be the right place for people seeking medical as well as leisure information.
You know that I am addicted to surgery and computers - a rare combination. Maybe worthwhile to follow this blog - cya
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