What is your cybernationality?

Google, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo, GMX, MSN, Windows, Apple, Linux distributions etc. are like nation states in cyberspace: if you engage in their society, they provide something to you, but also might demand money from you, to know things about you, and to control you.

So in addition to being a citizen of a nation state [...]

Damned to stay yourself?

It is shocking to see that adults are damned to stay as they are. Only children are supported to learn something new, but once they threw you into the world of the adults to go out and earn your own money, all support is gone. It seems they just intended to educate you as far [...]

Two big problems

This world has only two big unsolved problems. First, the truth about God is not apparent (so people cannot believe the right thing easily). Second, people are bad (so people cannot live in freedom and peace and sustainable manner).

It’s an important insight that these are disconnected problems: even if Christianity is the right religion, [...]

Don't fight the circumstances – change them

From a practical, motivational and experience-based perspective, it is useless to try to do something that is not favoured by the current circumstances, if that activity is something regular or habitual or something that requires many contributions over time (as part-time work). Such attempts will all fail eventually, and up to that point of time, [...]

How to enter a WLAN key with a special character on Mac OS X?

In the specific case, the WLAN key contained a German umlaut “ü”. It was possible to use it without problems from a Windows computer, but impossible to even enter the “ü” into the WLAN key form field in OS X. The WLAN router in which that key was set up was an Astoria DSL Easy [...]

What are some interesting SugarCRM extensions?

This list is the result of a comprehensive research on sugarforge.com (done on 2009-12-02) forthe most helpful and most interesting plugins from sugarforge.org that are helpful for the purposes of a SugarCRM deployment that I created  at that time. Especially, I searched how to realize the feature to to see for multiple contacts at once by [...]

What are some good hints to SugarCRM documentation?

Official, English documentation: SugarCRM CE documentation. (There is also the SugarDocs project on SugarForge, but everything on there is outdated, and the official docs were moved to the address mentioned.) German SugarCRM 5.5 manual by iscon. (iscon created that manual once for version 5.0 and offered it for free on their website [source], but [...]

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