get the wor(l)d

Es ist soweit, nach 5 Jahren Warteschleife habe ich mich entschlossen, die mir vorliegenden Forschungsergebnisse der Forschergruppe, in der ich zwischen 1998 und 2000 an der Freien Universität Berlin beschäftigt war, im Internet zu veröffentlichen. Ursprünglich war geplant, eine Buchveröffentlichung zu erstellen, allerdings ist es bisher nicht dazu gekommen. Und bedauerlicherweise sieht es auch nicht danach aus, wie wenn die Veröffentlichung überhaupt realisiert wird.

Während der Forschungszeit wurde immer wieder auf die immense Bedeutung dieser Forschungsdaten hingewiesen, seit Jahren liegen diese nun auf einer einsamen Festplatte. Dies hat heute ein Ende, das „Digitale Datenhandbuch Regionale Schulentwicklung Berlin-Brandenburg 1920/45-1995“ ist hiermit in Version 1.0 veröffentlicht. Bei der Benutzung des „Digitalen Datenhandbuchs“ bitte ich Sie, die Nutzungshinweise zu berücksichtigen.

• Online-Version des Datenhandbuchs
• Download als Archiv zum Entpacken auf der Festplatte
  
  • dhb_1.0.tar.bz2 [41MByte]
  • dhb_1.0.zip [69MByte]
• Download als ISO-Datei zum Brennen auf CD
  • dhb_1.0.iso.tar.bz2 [41MByte]
  • dhb_1.0.iso.zip [55MByte]
  • md5-Prüfsumme der iso-Datei

Über Hinweise und Feedback würde ich mich sehr freuen. Bitte bedenken Sie bei Rückfragen, dass die mit der Erarbeitung des Datenhandbuchs verbundene Forschungsarbeit bei mir etwa 5 Jahre zurückliegt und ich darum zu inhaltlichen Fragen nur sehr begrenzt Auskunft geben kann.

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what a long story 😉 but to make it short, I finally released the data compendium about school history on my own. Seven years after the project is finished, five years after the digital version and the print-version (except some 20pages from the project leader) were ready, I waited till it might had been published by the project leader, Prof. Peter Drewek. But this didn’t happen, and I lost the hope that it might be released to the scientific community years ago.

But I had the finished digital version of this data compendium on my hard drive and I was told so often that this data is unique worldwide, describing school history in such a detail for around 100 years. That’s why I decided to publish the whole thing on my own in the Internet. To finally finish this project and give the work of all people, who participated over six years in this project any sense. And not at least to publish the empirical references of my PhD-work, which is by now also 3 years old.

So, if you are interested in school history and not afraid of 2600 structured data sheets of empirical data, have a look at http://dhb.absorb.it (and just excuse, it’s all in German there.)

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So, spring is here, and you might have realized that outside this virtual world the colors are coming back. This is reason enough to switch back this blog to it’s former grey state. Get out of your house if you lik to see more colors!

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What a beautiful spring… first warm days in Germany and I used the chance with some friends for a short trip to a nature reserve at an peninsula nearby called Darß. Nice place, great that the weather is getting better now – this get’s me out hopefully of my home more often…

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So much about google earth/maps, so much about reality. Wasn’t enough to hear about the possibility to identify people or camels or whatever, but this is what makes it really the image of the new century.

But since this image it is absolutely clear, that no terrorist at all who is able to use google maps (and you know how easy this is) will miss his missile. What about privacy, maybe the one who owns this missile wasn’t giving him the permission to look at any spectral prints (like images) of this object?

And who the hell likes to make this place as his default location…

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Today, you might have noticed this, is the International Womans Day. 150 years ago, on the 8th of march 1857, woman in New York organized a protest for their rights which was violently turned down. Maybe those historical backgrounds are not more than myths (see Kandel/Picq (fr) or Bader-Zaar (de)), but it’s time to look around and see what happened since than. A lot of things have changed, mostly by woman who fought for their rights them self. And there are enough things which had to be changed till we can speak of gender equality – just switch on your favorite news program, count people by their gender and you will see who still has the power to control this world.

This is the day to thank woman (for their patience?) and it has converted in my home-country to a day we give our woman some flowers. But are flowers a way to change the world? Sometimes. But isn’t it just conserving current gender inequalities if you give a woman some flowers in this day, telling her she should just wait another year for their rights?

So, real man, go out, buy yourself some flowers and think of how much you have to change to make this world a place to enjoy for all of us. And than, ok, give our woman some flowers too to tell them thank you for living with us another year.

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These days. So Tracey gave me the tip to add some pink to my blog, and some flowers too. And yes, to wear some pink, which is not as easy as it seems, but I choosed black instead, think this is ok too. Thats what real man do these days, and thats all what I like to be now, also when it hurts my eyes a little bit 😉
So just have a look at Tracey’s blog if you like to know what real woman are doing and wearing…

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Yesterday was another hands-on day to get our wireless network working better. Since more than a year we can use a church in our neighborhood as a Routing-Point for our network. The first installation from last spring was well made but never as useful as expected. So it was time to remade the whole thing. This time we decided to first install a test setup and make the whole installation more flexible than the last time.

We installed a 11b/g router to cover the ground and a 11a (5GHz) router to possibly create a backbone soon. Cause we are currently got the permission to use a hospital in the south of our town to install some routers and a local radio station gives us some connectivity, this is hopefully step to a better internet-supply for the whole area. We will see if we get the whole thing better this time. It will also be our first experience with the 11a/5GHz standard, we expect a much better throughput cause of less noise in this band.

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Looks like it’s nearly done. While translations are in progress at Babelzilla, I removed some small bugs in the last week and adapted the extension to work with the upcoming future Versions (Thunderbird 3a and Seamonkey 1.5a) too. So, I’ll wait some days for any response and than the whole thing will be published at addons.mozilla.org. You can download the new preview at virtual_identity-0.4.0pre2-mz+tb.xpi

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This is something. Just heard that Vancouver, yeah, this town in Canada, decided to create a city-wide wireless network. For public use, great. I think so, I’m not sure about who is destroying which spectrum range where in this case (just see the list of free networks there), and if this ‚free‘ is than free as in beer or whatever, but: There is a bigger problem.

Did you knew that anyone in Vancouver with a laptop and a wireless net can… [1]. Yes, you did? Damned. Crazy people over there. And high-skilled to. Or, as the image shows, there might also be a graphical interface for interfering with the train system – so its suitable for newbie terrorists, eeh, model railway fans too? Incredible. Dream of it, never waiting for train, just take one. And go wherever you like.

But as usually if something new is so great, there are always people which have to complain about it. For instance this Mark Fenton, who got a job there as a Detective in the Computer Crime Unit – Internet Investigations at the Vancouver Police Department and now is against web-interfaces for terrorists, or so. I don’t get it!

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