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These are really good: part 1, part 2. You'll need a bit of German to get the point or read my translation.

I recently took a look at the list of registered users of my site and found that there truely are some people visiting this place. However I do not really know why they registered (except for the very few who added comments to some posts)? Registration does not bring any advantages/services/etc. with it. One of the users even uploaded a small picture to her user profile.

Currently the only way of interaction is adding comments to my posts and this is available for anonymous visitors, too. This is quite a restriction so I considered adding a forum (in Drupal this is just a few clicks), where registered users can add questions/topics not related to any of my posts.

A colleague of mine gave me the hint about RoundCube, a fairly new webmail client written in PHP. It uses MySQL (and supports a number of other databases) to store various data (sessions, user preferences, addressbooks, cache, etc.) and IMAP (with support for IMAP over SSL) to access the mail repository. It utilizes AJAX to add some extra over the standard HTML pages that so many other webmail clients already provide.

In my experience the overhead of PLSQL procedure invocations is so small that you'll most probably never have to think about it. In 99.99% of all cases the "real" overhead comes from the way you do things inside the procedure(s) and not from the procedure invocation itself. So putting as much code into a single procedure as you can won't help.

IMDb, PORT.hu

A film egy fiatal lányról szól (Cathrine ~ Gwyneth Paltrow) kinek az édesapja (Robert ~ Anthony Hopkins) valaha zseniális matematikus volt, de huszonéves korában (nem sokkal világhírnevet hozó publikációi után) szellemileg labilissá vált és nem tudott többé maradandót alkotni. A film már az apa halála után kezdődik, de a lány visszaemlékezésein keresztül megismerhetjük őt is.

A temetés után előkerül egy jegyzetfüzet, mely nagy valószínűséggel a kor egyik legjelentősebb matematikai bizonyítását tartalmazza. A lány azt állítja ő írta, de sem testvére, sem újdonsült barátja (egy fiatal matematikus srác) nem hisznek neki. A történet Cathrine harcáról szól az őt marcangoló kétségek ellen ... azaz, hogy esetleg örökölte édesapjától a labilitásra való hajlamot.

Érdekes film, de annyira azért nem zseniális, hogy moziban nézzem meg.

Normally a Linux daemon should work flawlessly and if it's not, one should try to solve the problem at its root cause. However sometimes this won't work. Either you cannot find the cause or you don't have the time to find it, but you have to make it work despite of crashes of the software. I had this situation in an Exim setup and came up eventually with a small script that I run from crontab every five minutes to assure the continuous running of Exim.

I'm usually online in a number of IM services (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Gmail Talk, AIM) by using the Miranda client. I change my avatars (contant picture) quite rarely so I tend to forget the constraints that these services put on the avatars one can use in their network. I collected the constraints for the avatars in these services here.

Another old classic featuring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. I did not even notice before: Grease got to the cinemas in the year I was born.

Another nice little music vid. I like the little monkey in the video. This title is from the soundtrack of the movie "Curious George". [update: youtube has removed the video due to so called "copyright infringement". I wonder why is publishing a music video (that was made to popularize the song and the artist) infringing copyrights ... but sure they know what they're doing. :-P]

A quite amusing video about various eras of pop music.