Friday, January 4, 2008, 04:00 PM - Moped
Lisbon, Friday the 4th of January 2008
A.S.O. cancels the 2008 edition of the Dakar rally
After different exchanges with the French government - in particular the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - , and based on their firm recommendations, the organisers of the Dakar have taken the decision to cancel the 2008 edition of the rally, scheduled from the 5th to the 20th of January between Lisbon and Senegal’s capital.
Based on the current international political tension and the murder of four French tourists last 24th of December linked to a branch of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, but also and mainly the direct threats launched directly against the race by terrorist organisations, no other decision but the cancellation of the sporting event could be taken by A.S.O.
A.S.O.’s first responsibility is to guarantee the safety of all: that of the populations in the countries visited, of the amateur and professional competitors, of the technical assistance personnel, of the journalists, partners and rally collaborators. A.S.O. therefore reaffirms that the choice of security is not, has never been and will never be a subject of compromise at the heart of the Dakar rally.
A.S.O. condemns the terrorist menace that annihilates a year of hard work, engagement and passion for all the participants and the different actors of the world’s biggest off-road rally. Aware of the huge frustration, especially in Portugal, Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal, and beyond the general disappointment and the huge economical consequences in terms of direct and indirect repercussions for the countries visited, A.S.O. will continue to defend the major values of great sporting events and will carry on its engagement for a durable development through the Actions Dakar, started 5 years ago in sub-Saharan Africa with SOS Sahel International.
The Dakar is a symbol and nothing can destroy symbols. The cancellation of the 2008 edition does not endanger the future of the Dakar. To offer, for 2009 a new adventure to all the off-road rally passionate is a challenge that A.S.O. will take on in the months to come, faithful to its engagement and its passion for sports.
Source: http://www.dakar.com/indexus.html
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Thursday, December 20, 2007, 08:35 PM
Mr. T in a World of Warcraft Commercial at Youtube:
Edit (2008-01-04): I hope still that sometimes there'll be an A-Team movie.
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Sunday, October 7, 2007, 03:34 PM - Computer, Linux
Making scripts run at boot time with Debian
Good HowTo about creating Startupscripts for Debian.
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Friday, October 5, 2007, 12:15 PM - Computer, Linux
I moved the blog entry about the Debiansetup an my Laptop to a static page in this blog.
See here.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 07:58 PM - Web, Blog
The domain martin-enders.de inclusive the mentioned sub-domains in the old post are not available longer. The provider freedoms.de provides no longer cost-free domain hosting.
I'm not willing to pay for this domain because we got the enders.name domain, perhaps I'll set up something like martin.enders.name in future.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 06:59 PM - Computer
I learnd some RegEx the last few days.
It is really cool, I used it to convert .cvs files in html-tables.
At the first shot I used a macro in emacs to convert the comma-divided cvs in html.
But dad told me how I can do this with repalce-regex in emacs.
The list:
foo,boo
boo,foo
The Output I'd like to have:
<tr><td>foo</td><td>boo</td></tr>
<tr><td>boo</td><td>foo</td></tr>
The RegEx:
Replace: ^\([^,]*\),\(.*\) with: <tr><td>\1</td><td>\2</td></tr>
This is my first big Regular Expression.
I found much useful things at: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Manuals
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006, 01:28 PM - Computer, Linux
"linux is free and easy, so it must be a slut.." (from linuxsult.net)
http://linuxslut.net/album/linuxsluts/
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Friday, July 21, 2006, 09:53 AM - Moped
Gute Anleitung wie man Wheeles mit dem Mopded macht.http://www.wheelen.de/start.html| permalink | related link
Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 03:48 PM - Moped
The article [in German] about the DRZ-400S-battery switch is finished now.
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Monday, July 3, 2006, 03:53 PM - Computer, Linux
I've read an article in the c't magazine and they said ubuntu is a real debian system with many user-friendly configuration-tools, so you can decide how much debian you want to use. I think this is an interesting aspect speaking for the ubuntu-system.
But the last time I tried ubuntu (a half year ago) I was not satisfied because I found some inconsistences. I changed my password with passwd in the comandline but the password for the gnome system was still the old one (I was really confused). But in the last few tests I read about ubuntu it performed pretty good.
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