Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010
Bei Schufa & Co Auskunft verlangen Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Update: informa (Arvato Infoscore GmbH) hat nach 73 Tagen geantwortet.
Ich habe einfach mal bei dieser Mitmach-Aktion mitgemacht und schildere hier kurz meine Eindrücke. http://www.netzpolitik.org/2010/mitmach-aktion-bei-schufa-co-auskunft-verlangen/ Ich habe am 08.05. an alle Agenturen auf der Liste die Briefvorlage geschickt und nun keine Geduld mehr auf die letzten Antworten zu warten. Folgend mein Eindruck in der Reihenfolge wie sie bei mir ankamen. Deutsche Mieterdatenbank DEMDA, 18.05.2010 Bonitätsdaten halten sie nicht selber vor, dafür soll ich mich an Infoscore und Accumio wenden. Habe ich ja bereits gemacht. Vermieterdaten über mich liegen keine vor und wurden auch nicht in den letzten 12 Monaten angefragt. Dann folgt eine Belehrung darüber, dass mikrogeographische Daten nicht personenbezogen sind und somit nicht unter mein Auskunftsrecht fallen. Jene Daten werden nur auf Anfrage an die Firma GEMINI DIREKT Marketing Solutions GmbH in Idstein übermittelt. Es liegen keine Daten zu meiner Person vor und ich habe hilfreiche, bündige und verständliche Informationen erhalten. EOS Information Services GmbH, 19.05.2010 Drei Seiten unverständliches Juristen-Kauderwelsch, das sich so liest als sei meine Anfrage eigentlich vollkommen unberechtigt und beinahe unverschämt. Letztendlich aber doch die angefragten Infos. Sie wissen, dass ich existiere und einen Gewerbebetrieb angemeldet habe. Mehr nicht. Niemand hat meine Daten in den letzten 12 Monaten abgefragt. Deltavista GmbH, 20.05.2010 Sie kennen meinen Namen und meine Anschrift, welche sie von der Acxiom Deutschland GmbH bekommen haben. Ein Scoring-Wert liegt nicht vor und übermittelt wurden meine Daten auch nicht in den letzten 12 Monaten. accumio finance service GmbH, 25.05.2010 Meine Person und Anschrift ist bekannt und einen Scoring-Wert haben sie auch. Auf zwei Seiten wird leicht verständlich erklärt was alles an Daten in diesen Wahrscheinlichkeitswert einfließt und wie das Ergebnis zu verstehen ist. Allerdings wird nicht erwähnt woher die Daten stammen. Immerhin wurden diese Daten auch nicht in den letzten 12 Monaten abgefragt. SCHUFA Holding AG, 25.05.2010 Der mit Abstand dickste Brief, der aber nicht gerade vor Informationen strotzte. Ich bin mit Anschrift bekannt und es gibt einen Scoring-Wert. Wie dieser gebildet wurde oder was er bedeutet wird zusammenfassend und verständlich erläutert. Unter http://www.scoring-wissen.de/ könne man weitere Informationen finden. Dazu gab es Werbung mit einem Gutschein für einen vergünstigten Online-Zugang bei der Schufa und der mehrfache Hinweis wie wichtig es ist seine Daten bei der Schufa im eigenen Interesse zum Vorbeugen von Irrtümern aktuell zu halten. Bürgel Wirtschafts‐informationen GmbH & Co. KG, 03.06.2010 Kurz und knapp: sie kennen mich nicht. Arvato Infoscore GmbH, 21.07.2010 Ich habe einen Scoringwert von 510 auf einer Skala von 275 (min) bis 634 (max). Damit bin ich besser als 56% der Bevölkerung. Das Interessante daran: Sie haben keine Daten über mich außer meinem Geschlecht, meinem Namen und meiner Anschrift, die sie wohl auch nur durch meine Anfrage kennen. Und das reicht ihnen um mein Alter abzuschätzen und das Alter in ihr Scoring einfließen zu lassen. Keine Antwort nach über 1,5 Monaten Arvato Infoscore GmbH und CEG Creditreform Consumer GmbH Keine Ahnung was ich davon halten soll. Samstag, 3. Juli 2010
Aktienkurse mit Gnucash 2.2.9 unter ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Vor einiger Zeit habe ich das Thema schon mal behandelt. Wer die Tipps daraus versucht anzuwenden wird feststellen, das es so wie beschrieben nicht mehr funktioniert. Daher hier eine neue Beschreibung.
Deutsche Fondsbesitzer haben mit GnuCash ein paar Problemchen wenn sie die Fondskurse von GnuCash aus abrufen wollen. Es ist schwer erkenntlich wie genau an welcher Stelle welche Bezeichnung des Fonds eingetragen werden soll. Aber es geht. Zuerst installiert man sich neben GnuCash noch libfinance-quote-perl sudo apt-get install libfinance-quote-perl Das ist leider zu alt. Daher updatet man das Modul etwas unschön neben der Paketverwaltung per CPAN mit: sudo gnc-fq-update Nun muss man nur noch in GnuCash wissen welche Angaben man wo platziert. Um Kurse abrufen zu können muss ein Wertpapier existieren. Unter Werkzeuge/Wertpapier-Editor kann man eines erstellen. Wichtig ist die Angabe der ISIN im Feld "Symbol/Abkürzung" und unter "Börsenkurse online abrufen" findet man unter "Einzel" die Börsenkursquelle "Yahoo Europe", welche die ISIN+Währung direkt verarbeiten kann. Die restlichen Angaben sind nicht wichtig. Zum Testen kann man auf der Konsole gnc-fq-dump verwenden $ gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe DE0009805002EUR Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: symbol: DE0009805002EUR <=== required date: 06/29/2010 <=== required currency: EUR <=== required last: 60.44 <=\ nav: <=== one of these price: 60.44 <=/ timezone: <=== optional Solange in der Ausgabe nicht steht, dass diese Informationen nicht mit GnuCash genutzt werden können ist alles in Ordnung. Nun muss man einem Konto vom Typ "Investmentfonds" die neu angelegte Währung zuordnen indem man sie unter "Konto bearbeiten" im entsprechenden Feld auswählt. Unter "Werkzeuge/Preis-Editor" kann man nun den Button "Kurse abrufen" anklicken und die Kurse sollten abgerufen werden. Dienstag, 29. Juni 2010
Wie ich Hansenet/Alice auf ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (6) Trackbacks (0) Wie ich Hansenet/Alice auf IPv6-Unterstützung angesprochen habe
Update 03.07.2010:
Schlussendlich hat ein Mitarbeiter den richtigen Textbaustein, der auch schon in den Kommentaren genannt wurde, gefunden. Ich würde gerne nativ IPv6 nutzen um ins Internet zu gehen, also habe ich mal bei bei meinem Provider Hansenet/Alice angefragt wie deren Stand dazu ist. Man beachte, dass ich immer keine zwei Male eine Antwort von der selben Person bekommen habe und einige Punkte, z.B. meine Frage bzgl. der Genehmigung zur Veröffentlichung, unbeantwortet blieben. Ohne weitere Kommentare der (noch nicht abgeschlossene) Emailverkehr. Datum: 10.05.2010 Datum: 13.05.2010 Datum: 15.05.2010
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HowTo compile MeshLab from source on ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (0) Trackbacks (0) HowTo compile MeshLab from source on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04I want to use the latest MeshLab from source because of an annoying bug which makes it impossible to use MeshLab with any locale setting where "," is used instead of "." as decimal separator. Like my German one. I mainly followed this extensive HowTo: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Compiling_devel#Getting_the_sources and I used this advise: http://byeworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/libf2cso-undefined-reference-to-main.html Here you find the most important steps in a short instruction set. $ sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential lib3ds-dev libbz2-dev liblapack-dev libf2c2-dev libmuparser-dev $ cd MyWorkFolder $ svn co https://meshlab.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/meshlab/trunk/meshlab meshlab $ svn co https://vcg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vcg/trunk/vcglib vcglib $ wget http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/levmar-2.5.tgz $ tar -xzf levmar-2.5.tgz $ cd levmar-2.5/ $ sudo rm /usr/lib/libf2c.so && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libf2c.a /usr/lib/libf2c.so $ make $ mkdir ../meshlab/src/external/lib/linux-g++ $ cd ../meshlab/src/external/lib/linux-g++ $ ln -s ../../../../../levmar-2.5/liblevmar.a liblevmar.a $ ln -s /usr/lib/lib3ds.a lib3ds.a $ ln -s /usr/lib/libbz2.a libbz2.a $ ln -s /usr/lib/libmuparser.so libmuparser.a $ cd ../../.. $ qmake -recursive meshlabv12.pro $ make Now create a little shell script e.g. meshlab.sh and adjust your paths:
#!/bin/bash Make it executable and enjoy $ chmod +x meshlab.sh $ ./meshlab.sh Samstag, 10. April 2010
HowTo use jGnucashLib to import ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (0) Trackbacks (0) HowTo use jGnucashLib to import PayPal transactions to GnuCash on UbuntuUrgh, got stuck at a bug. Too late to finish it tonight. So here you go with a few bulletpoints of the progress so far. Else download and extract jGnucashlib: Open the right file when jGnucashLibGui starts (not in .gnucash/books/ but wherever you actually saved your file) Be annoyed and give up in the end anyway because of: Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010
Music Festival Packing and Tips List Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (0) Trackbacks (0) Music Festival Packing and Tips ListI've been to a couple of music festivals so far and every time again I'm thinking about what you should bring to a festival. Although I usually only bring my backpack and thus am quite limited there is a lot of stuff I came up with in the past or new ideas I had later. This list is far from complete and mostly a reminder for myself which I'll update over time. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
So, any other itmes or tips missing? EDIT: Added lighter. Freitag, 8. Januar 2010
How I build a webcam mounting Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (2) Trackbacks (0) How I build a webcam mountingMy webcam has a clamp which is too small to put it on my monitor, so I clamped it to a CD jewel case and jammed it next to my screen like this:
This is not very satisfying because I always look at people sideways when videochatting or recording a video. I want my webcam on top of my monitor, so I decided to build a little mounting for it. All it needs is a piece of wood, some screws and two metal brackets.
I had to drill some holes in the metal brackets for the screws to fit, but after 20 minutes it looked like this:
After dusting off my bookshelf and screwing the mounting on the board it's done. Works great! Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2009
How I repaired my jeans' fly button ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (0) Trackbacks (0) How I repaired my jeans' fly button with a rivetLike two weeks ago I bought a nice jeans (looks good on my bottom, I was assured) but just a couple days later one of the fly buttons fell off. After a little inspection it was clear that it was a productionfault. But seriously, going back to the store in the city center, during Christmas time, just to find out they probably don't have this model in my size anymore? I'm not suicidal. But I'm handy Actually my brother had the idea to use a rivet. Great idea since those buttons are actually 'rivet buttons' and we always have rivets around (no pun intended!). Here is the broken button (before I drilled out the bottom so the rivet would fit) As you can see the rivet is a little older, but the bolt will be removed anyway (for details about the rivet check out Wikipedia about blind rivets). After putting the rivet and the fly button in place and straining my hands trying to operate the manual rivet tool, I got it. It's not perfect because the button is a little less in height and has parts of the rivet standing out, but it's tightly attached and works just fine. View from the top with the outstanding rivet: And a view from the inside. You can clearly see it's a different way of attaching the buttons. So, what are you doing on Christmas Eve? Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009
unlabeled QR code on trainstation ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (2) Trackbacks (0) unlabeled QR code on trainstation HallerstraßeYesterday on my way to the cinema I took the subway and spotted a billboard while passing through the trainstation Hallerstraße. The billboard had nothing on it but a QR code on a plain white background. Not a single word, number, logo or anything. Naturally it arose my interest. So today I detoured myself on my way to uni to stop by the billboard again and took a photo: Then I googled an online QR Code reader and checked it out. Rather disappointing, though, I was hoping for more than just one simple link. Like a little riddle, a challenge and a scavenger hunt or something. But to not take the fun out of this I won't say anymore about it than feed the photo to the QR reader, check it out for yourself and maybe polish your German Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009
How I solved my Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (5) Trackbacks (0) How I solved my Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 ALSA OpenAL Sound problemsI was suffering from a soundproblem on my fresh Ubuntu Karmic installation. All programs using OpenAL would stop playing sound and start to play scratchy sounds until sound drops completely out. Plus those programs will hang when trying to shut them down. For example OpenArena and Warzone2100 are affected which comes really hard to me I tried a lot of different things with little success. Most solutions only helped for a moment until the problems came back. I think it's just that it works a little while after a reboot. Basically I don't know what really fixed the problem, but these changes here are in efffect right now and work for me.
Montag, 14. Dezember 2009
Using a guitar pick as a stylus for ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (2) Trackbacks (0) Using a guitar pick as a stylus for your OpenMoko FreerunnerWith the OpneMoko Freerunner comes a stylus which you need if you want to use for example the tiny keys of the keyboard. In general the software I know of is not finger-use ready, yet. So to use a stylus is a good idea. But you have to separately carry the stylus around with you because it's not attached to the phone or has a pocket it goes into whennot in use. Actually I stole this idea from my friend:
Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2009
A plugin for using GCstar to ... Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (0) Trackbacks (0) A plugin for using GCstar to catalogize your Lustige TaschenbücherYou might know that I collect Lustige Taschenbücher (LTB) since I was a little kid. I got 258 issues by now and wanted to catalogize them with GCstar to have a better overview. Unfortunately the plugins to automatically fetch all information about the books shipped with it do not cover any webpage listing LTB. That's probably because LTBs are only sold in German speaking areas and thus are only locally popular. But there is a quite nice webpage listing a lot of them at http://www.lustige-taschenbuecher.de/. So now all I had to do is writing a plugin to grab the data from this webpage and insert it in the database. Something dozens of people already did before me and is documented. I won't go into details here (I might at some other point in time if someone wants me to) but Perls HTML::parser comes directly out of hell! Anyway, I got it. If you want to use it as well download the plugin and place it in your GCstar lib directory (on my Ubuntu it's /usr/share/gcstar/lib/GCPlugins/GCcomics/). I changed the database layout of the generic GCcomics model a little to make it work with LTBs. See this diff for the changes and apply them to yours or the plugin won't work (most likely the file GCcomics.gcm is to be found at /usr/share/gcstar/lib/GCModels/). Now start your gcstar, create a new comicbook collection, add a new item, enter the issue number of the LTB as the volume, hit the internet search button, select to query by volume, select the LTB plugin and get happy. I just catalogized my whole collection within an hour. Be aware that some reprints are not listed on the webpage. Especially the early reprints up to about volume 120. PS: Anyone willing to swap some LTBs with me? Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009
My Backup Solution using BackInTime Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentar (1) Trackbacks (0) My Backup Solution using BackInTimeSince a while now I'm trying to figure out the right way of doing backups on my Ubuntu Linux system. I have some requiremtens I want to descibe brefely before continuing. Don't do regular full backupsI used sbackup so far but it regularly does a full backup, thus taking a long time (I have about 100GBs I want to be backuped) and using up a lot of disk space. Store the backups on a remote systemBackup basics: keep your backup at a logicaly and spacialy seperate place from your computer. So I want it to work over network and please encrypt the file transfer. And do only send the data of changed files, keeping nettraffic low. Don't bother meWork in the background and just do your job. Don't tell me what you're doing unless I ask you to do so. I don't even want to know you exist. The only reason I interact with you is the worst case: I got to restore something. Easy to setup and use I want an easy to setup solution which doesn't need complicated settings and extensive care to be kept running. I don't want to change tapes or drives, free disk space tell you that the target is avilable or not, figure it out for yourself and do something sensible. And if I ever have to restore files I want an easy to use interface which enables me to quickly restore everything. Restoring is also without the backup program easily possibleNo, looking inside incremental .tar.gz files is not easy. More like complete snapshots I can browse easily and copy the files I want out of with any basic operating system. But keep the needed needed space low. Try to backup every little change, ASAP Most annoying with most backup solutions I think is the fact they only do a backup once a day or similar. With a full backup of 100GBs over the network this might take longer than the longest contiguous uptime of my computer while at home for the day. But I still want pretty much any changed file to be backed up, so I can undo very recent changes. My solutionI really liked what I heard about TimeMachine from Apple. But I don't use Apple, so I was looking for something similar for Linux. There are a couple of promising projects like TimeVault and FlyBack, if they weren't deserted since about two years. And there is BackInTime which works fine and is quite recently maintaned (June 2009). It even looks like it's going to be part of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (release date Oct. 29th). So what does BackInTime do that I like it so much?
But it does not store backups on remote systems. Well, you can mount a remote share and do the backup on that one. Luckily BackInTime internally uses rsync which uses Delta Encoding to reduce the amount of data to be sent over the network. But whenever the target is not available BackInTime gets annoying telling me about it every 30 seconds or so. Inacceptable. But there is something you can do about it. BackInTime is called every 5 minutes by Cron, so I wrote a little wrapper script checking if the target computer is found in the local network and mounting the share prior to calling BackInTime. #!/bin/sh It's assumed your servers share is accessible via SSH and your user uses SSH keys to log in. There's a good howto on that on Ubuntus help pages. Save it as e.g. ~/bin/backintimeprep.sh and change the crontab entry to something like ∗/5 ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ~/bin/backintimeprep.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 This script is very basic and fails if it finds another server with the same IP address. Try it out and have fun! I just finished my initial backup and have it running in the background. Hopefully this ended my struggle for a good backup solution. Using CIFS instead of SSHFSMy slug is very slow and I had a transfer rate of only about 1MB/s whilst totally hogging my CPU rendering it unusable for anything else during a backup. So I was looking for another solution with less CPU usage and better transfer rates. CIFS is quick and doesn't use much CPU time. But it lacks the security of an encrypted connection which I decided to be negligible in my local network. I assume you know your way around with samba i.e. how to add users. My /etc/samba/smb.conf on the server looks like this: [global] In the script backintimeprep.sh change the lines for mounting and unmounting the sahres like this. Mounting: # you might need to fiddle around with the charset to make i.e. Umlauts work Unmounting: unmount.cifs ${MOUNT}; Works great like this. Much better performance. EDIT:
Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009Online storage/backup/synchronisation services: UbuntuOne vs. DropBoxRecently a couple of services offering online sotrage and a software client for easy synchronisation between several clients, easy sharing and backup came up. It seems like the idea is actually quite old, but as I think really sexy. I only have a look at DropBox and UbuntuOne here, because those integrate fairly well with my Ubuntu. An incomplete list with similar services can be found at Wikipedia. There is a nice video at DropBox's webpage explaining what those services are good for, so I won't explain these advantages anymore but redirect you to the video. Storage sizeIf I wanted to backup all my valuable data I would need more than 100 GB, which is more than the 50 to 100 GB both services offer to paying customers. But just for quickly sharing files or making some important files available everywhere or similar things the 2 GBs offered by both services are fine.
Software ClientsWhile UbuntuOne comes with an open source client which can be trusted, adapted and ported to other plattforms DropBox is a proprietary closed source product. Funnily enough DropBox is also available for Mac and Windows while UbuntuOne isn't, yet. The DropBox client needs some tricks to install on a Ubuntu and probably other Linuxes, too. But in the long run I see a bigger potential in UbuntuOne being ported to anything you could possibly wish for just because it's open source. Both clients integrate very nicely with Nautilus and enable you via right click to share files or folders. Only details differ here. FeaturesFeaturewise those clients are not very different either, but the way it works is a little different. There is only one feature I really miss at UbuntuOne and why I use Dropbox. With DropBox you can share files via a simple http link while at UbuntuOne you can only share files when both partners have a launchpad.net account. This is very bad for the very typical situation where you want to send a large file to someone. DropBox's direct link you can obtain by right clicking a file comes in very handy in this use case. Conclusion Just now I prefer DropBox over UbuntuOne because of the Windows client being available and not needing any client or account for sharing files via direct weblink. But I predict bigger potential for UbuntuOne because of better integration possibilities with Ubuntu, easier installation and it being open source so there can be clients for any OS and architecture. Montag, 28. September 2009
Wishlist for my birthday (Oct. 27th) Geschrieben von Jan Girlich
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Kommentare (4) Trackbacks (0) Wishlist for my birthday (Oct. 27th)Usually people ask me every year if there is something I wish for for my birthday and usually I answer no, I'm happy and have everything I need or want. This year I asked myself this question early in advance and put together some things I want to have but didn't get yet. Mostly because I'm blank right now Note: Prices shown are final prices including all taxes, fees, handlling & shipping to Germany. Laptop bagFor my baby, my Lenovo X61, I need a bag to put it in. Mostly to protect it while resting in my backpack. So it needs to be small and no extra fancy, big stuff. But a handle would be nice. I really like this model from Grumpler for USB thumbdriveSometimes I need to handle some files. Like copying from computer to computer without network connection and stuff. I usually run around until I find someone I can borrow a USB thumbdrive from. To stop this annoyance I want a USB thumbdrive which is as small as possible while having as much GBs as possible so I can take it around with me wherever I go. Like on my keychain. The 16GB SuperTalent Pico Mini-A USB Stick is the best combination of size and capacity I found and still affordable at €32. UMTS deviceI spend so much time riding trains and busses, waiting at the doctors and public authorities or being stuck at an internet free place for a weekend or something. It would be a perfect time to do my emails and look up stuff I always wanted to check out and so on. So I want UMTS. First I need a device to do so and found the Sierra 875 Aircard to be working well for my needs. It's sold in the US, but works fine here and costs only €21.72. Don't worry about a mobile data plan, I'll take care of that myself. Fonera 2.0nOur router at home is getting old. In fact we use two routers, one for a wireless you can only log in shortly after rebooting it but doesn't have ethernet ports and another one which does have some ethernet ports but only totally insecure WEP wireless. Anyway, there is a new router out there with a fair price of €89 which has all the features we need here plus some really cool other features I love like torrent downloading, upload handling for dozens of services like flickr, works as a network attachable storage, can work as a UMTS router and if there is anything I want missing I can just hack it in there myself because it's open source! It's the Fonera 2.0n! Big laptop harddriveI love my laptop, but it's not perfect, I admit. For example is the harddrive with 160GB a little bit too small to hold the excessive photo collections my girlfriend creates during every holiday or to extend my little (legal) music collection. And te harddrive isn't the fastest either. But the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 G-Force 500GB SATA II (ST9500420ASG) is a nice harddrive at €104.99.
I might add some more things to that list in the future. So don't get me chocolate and tell me you didn't know what else to get me Just an idea, but if you're getting something write an anonymous comment to this post (I'll edit the article accordingly) so people know and I won't end up with the same thing five times. |
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