tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32535374108365041712024-03-19T15:59:48.461-07:00Thought patterns detectedDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-82529996188836638712009-10-01T22:06:00.000-07:002009-10-01T22:07:10.714-07:00Latest Adobe Flash update hangs - Please close getPlusPlusEarly this morning, Firefox updated itself to its latest version. Then it recommended me to update Adobe's flash player, so I did.The update is run by a utility called 'getPlusPlus', which at some point spawned another updater, who complained that 'getPlusPlus' is still running and 'Please exit this program'.So, what needs to be done is to go in XP's task manager and kill the process. I am not Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-748416020272963782009-07-22T23:44:00.000-07:002009-07-22T23:45:24.421-07:00הוצאות מחיה בעיר קטנהמאז שעברתי לעיר קטנה ההוצאות ירדו.אני לא גר במרכז גבעתיים שכל יציאה מהבית לגינה כוללת מעבר ליד חנויות או מכולת.כדי להגיע לחנות אני חייב ללכת לשם במיוחד - גם אם המרחק הוא רק 300 מטר, זה עדיין לא בדרך לגינה או לגן.זה אולי יישמע מוזר - אבל כשצריך לתכנן הליכה לצורך רכישה, זה עוזר למתן את הצריכה. הקניות האימפולסיביות ירדו.יש משפחות שבהן הילדים מבקשים ליד כל מכולת - מסטיק או קרטיב או ממתק(למזלי אצלי לאDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-23295303262126477452009-07-14T22:33:00.000-07:002009-07-14T22:36:43.521-07:00This is the meaning of Scheiss SommerScheiss Sommer is Shitty summer.Check out the weather forecast for today and you can see why they call it Scheiss Sommer.I had to wear my PVC rain coat and pants in order to get to work dry.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-35980043439288195932009-07-14T22:24:00.000-07:002009-07-14T22:30:31.081-07:00כנראה לא תגיע בקרוב לציי הליסינגMazda RX8The pictures were taken at one of the local supermarkets.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-54472606425375487442009-07-14T03:02:00.001-07:002009-07-14T03:10:12.263-07:00Cycling to workI am riding a bicycle to work since August 2003.Over the years i can say it saved me a lot of money. I had to live close to where i worked, and in Givatayim it meant that it cost me more on the rent, but i saved valuable time standing in traffic and could spend the time with my family.There is a guy who works with me who lives in a village 20 km from here.He ride a modified bicycle to work. It isDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-55350917851929387872009-07-10T00:59:00.000-07:002009-07-10T01:06:16.861-07:00Playground regulationsEverything here is regulated.Here is an example: there is a law that regulates playgrounds.You can't just walk into a playground and do what you want. You must read and comply.While this might seem awkward, it does make sense. If you compare it with Israel, then there you can only see requests like "please keep it quiet during 14:00 and 16:00". In Bayern, on the other hand, the playground is *Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-83525562917616214302009-07-06T06:37:00.000-07:002009-07-06T06:55:59.953-07:00Zone alarm's firewall - continuedAnother thing that improved after removing zone alarm's firewall is the integrity of downloaded files.After uninstalling it, i noticed that suddenly i don't have corrupted files.Oh, and now my windows can run for more than 24 hours straight.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-14538600283645737072009-07-01T23:56:00.001-07:002009-07-01T23:56:41.441-07:00What caused my Windows Vista to be very slow?Yesterday I found out. It was Zone alarm's firewall.If you installed it and your system suffers from the following symptoms, I recommend that you uninstall it.1. Slow start up - doubles the start up time2. Very slow shutdown - about 5 times slower than the usual Vista shutdown (which is slower than XP, but that is another story)3. Slow performance - after running for more than a few minutes, the Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-45833674566954495682009-07-01T03:39:00.000-07:002009-07-01T03:42:21.734-07:00Living in a small townOnly in small towns or villages, you can come to work and find a parked Segway in the bicycle parking lot.The picture was taken with my mobile phone, hence the poor quality.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-26845504751487009022009-07-01T03:20:00.000-07:002009-07-01T03:38:52.328-07:00Bayern - every reason is good enough to partyHere in Bayern (Bavaria), every reason is good enough to party:- Celebrate xx number of years an organization exists- Let people get to know your organization once a year- Religious holidays- A fair is coming to town- Get people to see your farm- Bock beer season opening. This is called the 5th season in Bayern.- Get people to see the old parts of a town/village- Play poker- Hear classical Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-41142094989346924512009-07-01T03:14:00.000-07:002009-07-01T03:18:05.389-07:00what is Kurzarbeit?מה זה ?המצב פה קשה. יש משבר גדול כמו בכל העולם. ההתמודדות של המדינה איתו קצת שונה מבישראל: אם מפעל נתקל בקשיים, המדינה רוצה לעודד אותו לשמור את העובדים ולא לפטר. הדבר נעשה באופן הבא: החברה מגישה בקשה למשרד העבודה לעבור למתכונת עבודה מקוצרת. זה יכול להיות החל מ 10% פחות לעבוד, או אולי יום או יומיים בשבוע, עד סגירה מוחלטת של המפעל לשבוע, שבועיים או יותר.בזמן הזה העובדים מקבלים 60% מהנטו שלהם ממשרד Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-17068800013998481992009-06-30T11:51:00.000-07:002009-06-30T12:14:52.025-07:00living in BayernLiving in Bavaria is different than living in Israel and even in other parts of Germany.I am not going to say that 5 months here is a long enough study, but here are a couple interesting things:1. Beer is taxed as food, and not as alcoholic drinks. Oh, and its very good and very cheap.2. In the summer, every week there is some kind of festival even in small villages.Combine 1+2 and you get lots Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-40030009717360128952009-06-26T00:40:00.000-07:002009-06-26T00:45:14.920-07:00Party beltsParty belts are very common in Germany.They are sold for 4-8 Euros and have small pockets with bottles with different drinks in them.Here is a guy with two belts, taking the underground train in Nuremberg on June the 20th at around 10 o'clock in the morning. He was traveling with 3 friends....and an Adv. for another oneDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-87227602984988613012009-06-25T23:34:00.000-07:002009-06-25T23:37:17.140-07:00Rhapsody's idea of Dialog boxesThis is another symptom of Rhapsody's bad IDE design. Their dialog boxes are packed with information, which often causes users to just click on OK without reading what they say.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-30860804592857132762009-06-18T00:51:00.001-07:002009-06-18T00:56:59.081-07:00IE8 has a meaningless progress barWhy add a progress bar animation if does not show any progress in the installation process?This progress bar just goes from side to side until the installation ends.If you don't have any info on how the installation progresses and you still want some animation, go ahead and use the silly files copy animation, or create something new.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-6592790891011434292009-05-27T00:16:00.000-07:002009-05-27T00:21:18.406-07:00We don't have a ground floor.Why start at the Ground floor or with a first floor when you can start with a 2nd floor?This makes your building look more impressive with 5 floors, instead of 3.Check out my elevator at work.Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-48819680331122107052009-05-25T22:23:00.000-07:002009-05-25T22:32:33.513-07:00The pirate party - GermanyGermany is on a course towards becoming a police state. The politicians and a few corporations want to control, filter and collect Internet traffic as a start.There is a law being proposed to censor the web - as a start, blocking child pornography. The movie and music industry are lining up next.There is, however one Party who is going to fight for the civil rights in Germany: The Pirate Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-90477699985334167942009-05-23T13:12:00.000-07:002009-06-18T00:59:53.142-07:00Freiwillige Feuerwehr Amberg-Ammersrichtמתנדבי הכבאים באמרזרישט(חלק מאמברג) חגגו 112 שנות פעילות שזה גם המספר שמחייגים אליו למכבי האשזו כמובן סיבה למסיבה כולל הדגמה של שריפת חדר עם גלאי עשן וכיבוי זריז במיוחדFreiwillige Feuerwehr Amberg-Ammersricht celebrated their 112th birthday, which is also the number you dial to get them.Here is a link to the celebrations webpageDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-28926164207062271322009-05-22T12:30:00.000-07:002009-05-23T13:12:29.359-07:00here is a good reason to master the language you sing intake me tonight is the name of the song that was written to the first DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar) - Germany's version of American idol.The composer / lyrics writer is Dieter Bohlen, who was the guy who was the keyboard/guitar player in Modern Talking & wrote most if not all of the material of the band.During one live TV show of DSDS, one of the other judges (dieter was also a judgeDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-14863897940833722842009-05-20T01:17:00.000-07:002009-05-20T01:26:42.072-07:00Microsoft's naming convention quizEarlier today I wanted to uninstall IE8. I opened the add/remove software application, and then started looking for IE8.Where would you look? under 'I', 'M' or 'W' ?Internet explorer 8Microsoft Internet explorer 8Windows Internet explorer 8If you guessed "Windows Internet explorer 8", you were correct.read more here: The 10 worst Microsoft product names of all timeDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-50367964388970690332009-05-18T00:08:00.001-07:002009-05-18T00:15:52.468-07:00Vista is slowI don't know why I am still working with vista.Maybe its new promising memory management. It was supposed to be great.The bottom line: it is very slow. very.Even after turning off all the things that might be the blame for being so slow: anti - virus, firewall, defender...and of course UAC. It is still much slower than the machine I have at work (which is at least two years older than the one i Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-78365280806517326062009-05-13T01:50:00.000-07:002009-05-13T05:06:19.435-07:00Plätten fahren wieder - שייט רפסודות בעיר אמברגפעם השתמשו בכלי שייט דומים כדי להעביר את תוצרת תעשיית הברזל מהעיר לערים בסביבהhttp://www.otv.de/default.aspx?ID=2104&showNews=430325Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-62099088225178460102009-05-13T01:35:00.000-07:002009-05-15T03:01:00.159-07:00צעדה / הפגנה של נאצים בווידןהראשון למאי 2009 - הנאצים צועדים בוואידן, באיירןהכתבה:http://www.otv.de/default.aspx?ID=2104&showNews=433453הנה הלינק לעיר עצמה:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiden_in_der_OberpfalzDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-12443604357576424482009-05-07T03:13:00.000-07:002009-05-07T03:15:02.513-07:00לאוהבי הקונספירציותהנה אתר שלא מזמן נתקלתי בוhttp://conspil.com/יש בו לא מעט מידע - בין היתר גם קישורים לסרטים מעניינים - למשל צייטגייסט - מתורגמים לעבריתDoron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253537410836504171.post-57481422145642615462009-04-27T03:07:00.000-07:002009-04-30T05:01:35.376-07:00Kirwa celebrations in Amberg.The Kirwa celebrations in Amberg are taking place in Ammersricht, 24-27/04/2009.I went yesterday. There was good music, great atmosphere and superb beer.The Bavarians know how to party. There is always an occasion and an excuse :-)They wear traditional clothes and hats, and after they drink a Mass (German - Maß), which means 1 Liter beer, they become very happy.Have a look here:http://Doron Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08255049049454809857noreply@blogger.com0