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Ein unerklärliches Massensterben von Rinder hat eine "federal investigation" in texas veranlasst. Vorläufige Tests behaupten, dass das Essen von Gras die Kühe krank macht. [...] Der Farmer nutzt das genmanipulierte Gras seit 15 Jahren: "Es ist gutes Gras, getestet und voll von Proteinen - es hätte perfekt sein sollen". [...] Solange man nicht herausfinden kann, warum das Gras anfing Zyanid zu produzieren, wird der Farmer seine Viebestand nicht in dessen Nähe lassen,

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Bis jetzt soll dies ein Einzelfall gewesen sein, weil der Farmer rechtzeitig Alarm geschlagen hat und so andere Farmer ihr Gras frühzeitig testen konnten. Mit Sicherheit wird die Genindustrie versuchen sich heraus zu reden indem man angeben wird, dass dies ein "altes Produkt" ist und man diese Fehler in der neuen Version längst behoben hat ("Es besteht also keinerlei Gefahr für Mitarbeiter oder die Bevölkerung" ;-) ). Ich würd mich besser fühlen, wenn es gar keine Genexperimente gäben würde. Selbst in der IT, wo man "seine Welt" von Grund auf erstellt und nicht mit vorhandenen, komplexen Strukturen arbeitet, entstehen ungewollte Nebeneffekte. Ich muss sowas nicht in meinem Essen haben. Dann lieber lebe ich damit, wenn mir der Farmer sagt, dass es im Winter weniger Fleisch gibt weil es die Jahreszeit nicht zu lässt. Mir fällt bei Genmanipulation immer die Farmer ein, die Ihren Mais nicht mehr selbst verarbeiten können, weil er durch die Genmanipulaton "Robuster" gemacht wurde, oder dass der Einsatz von Pestiziden 20 % mehr Ertrag bringt - diese 20 % Gewinnzuwachs aber direkt in die Pestizidindustrie fließen, weil deren Chemie so teuer für den Farmer ist.

Three different pages in two languages pushed an entry on top of there page so i have to investigate the linked content. The entries are about "opa", an self designated "enterpriese framework for javascript". Opa can handle server and client side javascript, and writes the javascript for you. That means while creating your web application, you write all the code in the opa programming language and the framework does the rest for you. Opa uses jQuery on the client side and node.js on the server side. After a few hours investigating, i love the fact "strong static typing" as much as "available for linux, freeBsd and other systems". I recommend the tour and walk through some examples/use cases.

By surfing through the web for opa, i stumbled upon HaXe and this looks quite promising.

[...] IDair makes a machine that Burcham says can photographically capture a fingerprint from as far away as six meters in enough detail to match against a database. Add facial and iris-recognition technology, Burcham said, and you have the basis for a good biometrics system that can control access to any building or room within a building. [...] "Yes, it can be abused," Burcham agreed. "Anything can be abused. The point is, are there restrictions in place to not abuse it?" The answer with IDair is yes, he said. "But what it's going to come down to is: Do you want to go through that door? Do you want to buy something with Amazon?" [...]

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Time to wear gloves 24/7 ;-).

Ok, as everybody i am running out of time but i want to play around some linux distributions. For playing around you either need some virtual pc's or a real one and some blank cd's/dvd's.

Inasmuch as i want to install it on a subnotebook, i decided to use a real pc. The only question is, should it be a debian (or a child of debian) or arch linux? I couldn't decide so i need to install/start and try them out. But for trying you need blank cd's/dvd's or a usb stick. I guess my household hasn't seen a blank cd or dvd for quite a while, means the selection met the usb stick.

The general process was to us a tool like unetbootin, by using "dd" of find howtos like the one at nixCraft. By the way, this howto is pretty cool since even linux starters are learning a bit the power of linux tools :-). But all methods are ending up with the effect "on os per usb stick". When you want to try out multiple OS, this i definitely not a satisfying method ;-).

Thats why i searched in the www and found a lot of solutions. Because of the numbers, i decided to write an entry :-).

First i found something at the german arch linux board. Even the link at the end is even better. By the way if you have some loopback problems, try to take a look at link. Also the howto from pendrivelinux.com is worth to have a look.

But i must admit, i want to have it nice and gui driven like the windows tool sardu i mention here. After i while, i was near by to do it the arch way but the god of laziness had mercy on my soul and presented me the link to multisystem. It is very easy to use, fast and works like a charm :-D.

By the way, since my plan was to have fun with the subnotebook, the choice felt on arch. Just for fun you know (and the community it is worth.

By searching for a funny distro to try, i stumbled over the good old slax i never booted - maybe in the future :-D.