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    Karelian Bear Dog

    By Viggen,

    Right now, the Karelian Bear Dog is the most named dog in Austria. Given that this breed was basically unknown a couple of days ago here, it is a rather big jump in popularity! So how did this Karelian Bear Dog became so famous overnight?
     
    There is a bear in western austria, he is ratherr naughty and kills sheep, destroys dens and gets closer to humans every day, experts speak about a "problem bear" meaning he lost fear of humans. Now one way would be to just shoot him. However the european brown bear is protected in Austria, so next best thing is to catch him. Thats were the Karelian Bear Dog comes in to play. A handfull of this breed came over to Austria from Finland. and now they search for the bear and Austria is watching....
     
    ...here is an english article about "Bruno" the Bear
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    Currently H&M`s summer collection is heavely advertised in german/austrian television (anywhere else too?), and it is a beautiful ad. Striking good looking women lying on the beach relaxing to the tune of a song that sounds just wonderful. This song is "Just cant get enough" from Depeche Mode, but in a very relaxing version of Nathan Larson. (you can download the mp3 version on the HM site just wait a bit scroll to the right and wait till download link appears.).
     
    Now i wanted to check out the original version from Depeche Mode on Youtube and indeed there it was. And i was thinking OMG; once i was dressed sort of like that too... Although it was like 100 years ago...
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    Dalai Lama Was Here

    By Viggen,

    The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, attended a ceremony on Sunday to launch the building of a Tibetan health and cultural center. Planned at Huettenberg is an international center of Higher Tibetan Studies,' which local Carinthian officials say will include 'the first and only training center for Tibetan medicine in the western world.' via Moster&Critics
     
    Huettenberg (actually in correct german its H
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    China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs.
     
    But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.
     
    more at Toronto Star
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    Abbey Road

    By Viggen,

    Yesterday I found by accident an old Vinyl of mine in the basement. I had all forgotten about it. The last album from the Beatles. "Abbey Road"
     
    After listening to it for basically the whole of yesterday and today, i have to say. It sounds fresh, vibrant and you can hear at every tune that this is a true master piece. The ending medley espcially Golden Slumber/Carry that Weight/The End is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made. It includes features never heard before by the beatles, rough guitar riffs, one of the few songs to feature harmony vocals from all four Beatles and the only ever drum solo by Ringo Starr...
     
    I am all in love again with the Beatles...
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    Time for a little bit of statistic...
     
    We have now quite a big list on roman writers on our site, so i thought it might be interesting which ones are visited the most. Below you find the so far top 5 visited Roman Writers on Unrv.com in 2006.
     
    1. Tacitus
    2. Diodorus Siculus
    3. Galen
    4. Cicero
    5. Livy
     
    So, which one is your favourite Writer?
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    You must know, in Austria, sport Nr.1 is alpine skiing. We are crazy about it. During winter season there is only one thing that will gather half of the population in front of the TV ---> a downhill race!
     
    Now our downhillers are our true superstars, and one in particular is Hermann Maier. I was looking on Google Video if there was something about him, and indeed i found the IOC promo with his monster crash in Nagano 1998. If you look at it, one is happy he survived, but as the video says, just a few days later he won two gold medals....
     
    The infamous Hermann Maier Crash of 1998 in Nagano
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    Well this is not going to make headline news around the world, but it makes me angry. In a few words; A diplomat wants his shoes polished in a noble hotel in Vienna. The bootblack tells him that he is now on a break and he has to wait a bit. The diplomat gets upset starts arguing and eventuelly fires a shot at the bootblack...
     
    Now nothing is going to happen to the diplomat, "Diplomatic immunity ", All we can do is tell him to leave the country... Do you feel this is right?
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    Spam

    By Viggen,

    Wow,
    lately i am getting flooded with spam mails, from pills to *or*, from poker to mortage, from diploma to software.....
     
    People I dont want your crap, stop it!
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    Similar to distributed super computers such as the SETI @ Home project, the BBC along with a bunch of Universities and the MET office call on users to help predict weather patterns. I dowloaded it and it looks pretty interesting...
    Take part in the biggest climate experiment ever undertaken
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    Subfora

    By Viggen,

    Now that we have our first subforum, i would like to know what other topics could we make into a subfora? Keep in mind that it should be related to the parent forum and of course the main forum should be busy enough to support a split into a more specific niche...
     
    cheers
    viggen
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    Johann who?
    ...you might ask, well he was a great baroque composer and his Canon in D is well known and very often played, a classic so to speak...
     
    Now take Johann Pachelbel`s work Canon in D and add a brilliant taiwanese with a hot electric guitar and you get that!
     
    i only say WOW
     
    regards
    viggen
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    There was always a way to use an integrated spell checker on the forum, however it was only available if you use the rich text editor, and this one had some serious bugs, so i never mentioned it...
     
    With the latest upgrade of our forum software (2.1.4), most of those issues have been fixed, so i am happy to explain it how it works...
     
    First, this only works with Internet Explorer...
     
    You need to install the spell checker software here ---> http://www.iespell.com/download.php then go back to the forum, go to My Controls, there you go to Board Settings, change "Type of text editor to use when posting" to "Rich Text Editor" then save it...
     
    Now you have when you post a new icon on the top bar (says ABC), once you are finished typing your post just click on it and it will spell check the text for you....
     
    cheers
    viggen
     
    p.s. ok the spell checker is not perfect though (it tries to replace viggen to virgin )
  14. Viggen
    My grandma (85 years old) was invited to have dinner with my mother, so we go there in the late afternoon to pick her up. She was almost ready, just need to brush her hair, get dressed and off we go downstairs to the car...
     
    Well she slipped at the last staircase and bang there she was lying on the floor not able to move. We tried to get her up but to no avail. So we call the ambulance, they arrive pretty soon afterwards, moved her to the hospital and there they made x-rays examinations etc...
     
    Well she has broken her left arm, and she got some bruises on her back, but not as bad as we thought at first. My grandma seems now in good hands, she got some pills for the pain, and we will of course visit her tomorrow again...It is now 11 in the evening and i haven thought of christmas once today (in austria we celebrate christmas on christmas eve)...
     
    but in any case, merry christmas to everyone...
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    I am not sure if all people know what a rss feed and a feedread is, so i will explain it a bit first...
     
    more information here ---> What is RSS 
    Now that you know what rss is, and that the Unrv.com Blog has a RSS Feed, you need a RSS Reader to get that info without actually having to go to the site. For example i use Firefox (you should too) and there is a simple Rss Reader extension called Wizz RSS News Reader, just install that and then you get a nice RSS Agregator Toolbar, where you can add categories and Channels. For example, you create a category called UNRV then you create within the category UNRV a channel you give it the name Blogs and add underneath the rss fead of the UNRV.com blogs http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...g&cmd=syndicate
     
    Now what happens is when you switch on your computer and you click on the RSS feader and then click on channels you will see immediately if there are new entries in the blog, just click then on the new entry sentence and you are brought to the actual blog, well it is easy and every one should use it, saves time keeps you up to date and oh btw our main site has a RSS Feed too
     
    cheers
    viggen
     
    p.s. if this is all confusing, let me know and i am happy to answer all questions...
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    Krampus

    By Viggen,

    Well i guess the average person outside the alps never heard of that word....
     
    However it is BIG here in Austria, on december 5th, every child goes out and chase and get chased by the mighty Krampus.
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    Where Are People From?

    By Viggen,

    To give you some insight from where visitors to UNRV.com are coming from, here some stats...
     
    United States 60%
    UK 16%
    Canada 6%
    Australia 4%
     
    From all the USA visitors are..
    10% from California, 9% from NY State, 5% from Pennsylvania, 5% from Virginia, 5% from Texas, 5% from Florida and 4.5% from New Jersey....
     
     
    Some exotic places we had visitors from the last couple of days are....
    Tanzania, Sudan, Malawi, Cayman Islands, Uganda, Palestinian Territory, Syrian Arab Republic, Vietnam and Guam....
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    Redbull Is King

    By Viggen,

    I just read this article Red Bull wings its way past diet sodas
     
    It doesnt happen often that an austrian company is known in the USA or worldwide, one example would be PEZ, yeah you heard right, thats from Austria
     
    Now i guess everyone knows RedBull, but did you know it is from Austria? Headquarter is in Salzburg, about an hours drive from my home town.
     
    cheers
    viggen
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    This is a list in progress of color laser printer models that do or do not print yellow tracking dots on their output.
     
    Remember that a "no" simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; it does not prove that there is no forensic watermarking present. (For example, the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series does not include any yellow tracking dots that we can see, but it may still include some kind of forensic marking, since the majority of earlier CLJ models did.)
     
    Remember that a "yes" simply means that we (or another source, as noted) saw yellow dots that appeared anomalous to us. Until we decipher the marking schemes or receive other confirmation, this does not constitute proof that any particular kind of information is represented by these dots. In a very few cases, for example, they might be the result of a poor dithering technique, rather than a forensic mark.
     
    the list of printers that track your printing can be seen at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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    12288 / 1024

    By Viggen,

    12288 / 1024 thats the fastest (and sort of affordable) dsl rate in austria. I know that austria is relatively expensive when it comes to broadband fees, for that 12288 down/ 1024 up connection you pay 89 Euro per month (about 95 dollars), i wonder what the fees are in other places around the world.
     
    Here are some prices for broadband in Austria;
     
    12288 / 1024
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    Psp Virus

    By Viggen,

    Well this is new to me, a virus for a handheld game console!
     
    The PSP (PlayStationPortable) has now its very own Virus/Trojan called Trojan.PSPBrick, which once installed deletes very important system files and won`t start again and is then as usefull as a brick hence the name of the Virus.
     
    More info about the Virus are availabe at Symantec
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    Google Loves Your Blog!

    By Viggen,

    We only have the Blogs up for a couple of weeks and Google already indexing and ranking it pretty nicely!
     
    Some examples;
     
    Ursus`Blog with the search phrase Another Day In Customer Service 1st!!!!! out of 90 million
     
    Primus Pilus`Blog with the search phrase A Cold in September 1st!!! out of 70 Million!!!!!!!!
     
    Pompeius Magnus Blog with the search phrase Latin Language Education 7th out of 27.3 million!!!
     
    Maximus' Blog with the search phrase Maximus' Blog is 4th out of 600.00!
     
    Zekes Blog with the search phrase Zeke
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