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milking a dead horse ...
Oct. 12th, 2006 02:55 amSudoku - Das Quiz
Some of you probably know that I usually watch ZDF around noon every day. I like to know what's going on in the world.
Anyway, at 2.15, they've got a new quiz show. "Sudoku - das Quiz". They should've called it Yet Another Non-Innovative Quiz Show, but I guess Sudoku is shorter.
*shurgs*
What really irks me about that show though, is that it's got nothing much to do with Sudokus. With a Sudoku riddle, the challenge lies in finding a field in the grid that you can fill. The number to fill it with logically follows from finding the field.
Now, what did they do with the quiz show (other than reducing the grid size to from 9x9 to 4x4?). The contestants have to answer random questions that have nothing to do with Sudoku, and then they have to fill in a field that's already been highlighted for them. No searching for a field, just telling people which number should go in there. Where's the challenge in that? It's like shooting fish in a tank. And why call it Sudoku when all you do is pretty much ruin that part of the show anyway ...
*shakes head*
CokeFridge.de
I signed up with that, because you can win iPods there. You use codes you can find in coke bottle caps to register and take part in the draws. To sign up, you have to agree to the usual stuff (yadda yadda, you agree to let us use your personal info for whatever the hell we want to, blah blah ...). And then there's this bit about being careful with your user name and password. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere, anyway.
So, what I don't get, is this. You get an e-Mail to verify your account (and the e-Mail addy of course), and what do they do? Cleartext user name and password. There just might be people out there who're sharing their computers with other people, innit? And I'm totally capable of remembering a password, thank you very much. I don't need a reminder, especially not 5 minutes after signing up!
Btw, I hate flash. There was a time when my CPU wasn't maxed out surfing the web. ):
Sunbird
There's a new version of Mozilla Sunbird out. That's a standalone calendar software. I've been using v0.2 for quite some time, but now it's up to v0.3. That's good, because developers are promising better performance with lots of tasks. Unfortunately they've also changed how it saves calendar data. When installing the new version over the old one, it wouldn't even start until I got rid of old ini and prefs files. It started afterwards, but I couldn't quite properly import my old calendar files. It did import, but read only, and I couldn't find an option to move events from the old file to the new calendar.
Anyway, since it looks prettier, and in fact does seem to be faster too, I moved stuff by hand. Not a lot I had to move anyway, just my work schedule, and lots of birthdays I had entered into my old calendar. And those concerts that are coming up, but I very much doubt I would've forgotten those anyway.
Importing remote calendars is still possible, so I subscribed to german national holidays again.
Anyway, looks good, recurrences have been improved in such a way that more complex patterns are possible, and you can choose if you want to edit all instances of an event, or just the one you clicked. Very, very useful!
Let's just hope they're sticking to the file format now d;
Some of you probably know that I usually watch ZDF around noon every day. I like to know what's going on in the world.
Anyway, at 2.15, they've got a new quiz show. "Sudoku - das Quiz". They should've called it Yet Another Non-Innovative Quiz Show, but I guess Sudoku is shorter.
*shurgs*
What really irks me about that show though, is that it's got nothing much to do with Sudokus. With a Sudoku riddle, the challenge lies in finding a field in the grid that you can fill. The number to fill it with logically follows from finding the field.
Now, what did they do with the quiz show (other than reducing the grid size to from 9x9 to 4x4?). The contestants have to answer random questions that have nothing to do with Sudoku, and then they have to fill in a field that's already been highlighted for them. No searching for a field, just telling people which number should go in there. Where's the challenge in that? It's like shooting fish in a tank. And why call it Sudoku when all you do is pretty much ruin that part of the show anyway ...
*shakes head*
CokeFridge.de
I signed up with that, because you can win iPods there. You use codes you can find in coke bottle caps to register and take part in the draws. To sign up, you have to agree to the usual stuff (yadda yadda, you agree to let us use your personal info for whatever the hell we want to, blah blah ...). And then there's this bit about being careful with your user name and password. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere, anyway.
So, what I don't get, is this. You get an e-Mail to verify your account (and the e-Mail addy of course), and what do they do? Cleartext user name and password. There just might be people out there who're sharing their computers with other people, innit? And I'm totally capable of remembering a password, thank you very much. I don't need a reminder, especially not 5 minutes after signing up!
Btw, I hate flash. There was a time when my CPU wasn't maxed out surfing the web. ):
Sunbird
There's a new version of Mozilla Sunbird out. That's a standalone calendar software. I've been using v0.2 for quite some time, but now it's up to v0.3. That's good, because developers are promising better performance with lots of tasks. Unfortunately they've also changed how it saves calendar data. When installing the new version over the old one, it wouldn't even start until I got rid of old ini and prefs files. It started afterwards, but I couldn't quite properly import my old calendar files. It did import, but read only, and I couldn't find an option to move events from the old file to the new calendar.
Anyway, since it looks prettier, and in fact does seem to be faster too, I moved stuff by hand. Not a lot I had to move anyway, just my work schedule, and lots of birthdays I had entered into my old calendar. And those concerts that are coming up, but I very much doubt I would've forgotten those anyway.
Importing remote calendars is still possible, so I subscribed to german national holidays again.
Anyway, looks good, recurrences have been improved in such a way that more complex patterns are possible, and you can choose if you want to edit all instances of an event, or just the one you clicked. Very, very useful!
Let's just hope they're sticking to the file format now d;
