Alex Kiesel on June 14th, 2009

Now, after some practice, I think switching between A, D and G works quite ok, I’m progressing to the next chapter. This introduces E, which is not hard to hold, but gives me some headaches when switching quickly from D – I guess I need to practice this a bit more.

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Alex Kiesel on June 14th, 2009

As every beginner, I have to learn the basics. So far, the book covers the chords D and A – both with three fingers down and a simple version of G where only the small finger presses the high e in the third section – I’ve already seen G is actually a bit more difficult, [...]

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Alex Kiesel on June 14th, 2009

I’ve tried to learn playing guitar more than a year ago. I borrowed a classic guitar from my brother, who also started to play, but never really learned it. The guitar was not being used, so I could use it:) My fate was the same.

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Alex Kiesel on January 18th, 2009

There’s an update for the problem described here. As already suspected, Windows Vista applies some heuristics to mark files, so users need to elevate to administrator to be able to execute those programs. However, the “heuristics” that are applied seem to be rather simple:

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Alex Kiesel on December 30th, 2008

I currently try out git because of its ability to do full version control without access to the server (like when in traveller mode). While on Gentoo Linux it’s quite easy to get it working, on my laptop’s Windows Vista installation with cygwin, I’ve encountered problems that could yet only be worked around in a [...]

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Alex Kiesel on April 18th, 2007

“Die Zeit, die PHP-Programmierer an Entwicklungszeit gegen

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Alex Kiesel on March 25th, 2007

I’ve installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It’s been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they’ve got. So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work. I waited several hours and tried to boot. [...]

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