Category ‘Personal’
Christ’s Resurrection… in Little Switzerland
Seen in a village in Little Switzerland:
The text reads “Christ’s Resurrection”. I had a thorough look, but couldn’t spot what that sign was trying to point me to… maybe it’s stating the obvious: Jerusalem is located in Little Switzerland? 
RapidShare. Completely unusable?
RapidShare is changing it’s free download limits (as in speed, time and size) like others are changing their underwear. Their current setup however, is the worst I’ve experienced so far and makes RapidShare almost completely unusable without a client software.
I had to reload about 20 times and wait around 15 minutes, before I even got a download ticket. I had to wait 90 seconds after I got the ticket for the download to finally start. For each reload I had to click twice, after I got the ticket it took another click to start the download. In total, that sums up to 20 * 2 + 1 = 41 clicks on a website that advertises itself as “1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting”.
The download itself took 43 minutes 25 seconds for a total of 114.83 MiB, that’s about 45.14 KiB per second. Compare that to a test download I did from a full-speed server that delivered 657.37 KiB/s for a 30.6 MiB file in 48 seconds. That’s more than 1400% as fast as a download from RapidShare, not counting the waiting time.
The numbers speak for themselves – in my opinion RapidShare is completely unusable at the moment (and even more for less tech-savvy people than for me).
Bon Appetit at the Erlangen canteen
It’s no secret the canteen on the Erlangen university’s southern campus is not the best – but I haven’t seen something like that before.
A little bit disgusting if you ask me – I was lucky, it wasn’t my meal, though…