In der Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs und der Oberlandesgerichte gebe es „soweit ersichtlich keinen einzigen Fall“, in dem eine fristlose Kündigung eines Geschäftsführers oder Vorstandsmitglieds wegen eines geringfügigen Eigentums- oder Vermögensdelikts Bestand hatte.

So seien in der Vergangenheit selbst unberechtigte Spesenabrechnungen in dreistelliger Höhe als zu gering angesehen worden, um eine außerordentliche Kündigung zu rechtfertigen. Wenn dagegen bei einer Arbeitnehmerin die Einlösung zweier Bons in Höhe von 1,30 Euro als Kündigungsgrund ausreichen würde, verstoße dies gegen das „Gebot der Gleichbehandlung“ nach Artikel 3 des Grundgesetzes.

Quelle: Spiegel Online

If you are having trouble with wifi tethering on Ubuntu, your problem may well be caused by Ubuntu’s inconvenient treatment of ad-hoc wireless networking.

Just put your wifi card into ad-hoc mode manually and you are ready to go.

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc

You only have to do this once. Afterwards Ubuntu will readily allow ad-hoc wireless networking.

In part one of this post series, I explained how to use disper to simplify switching between display configurations on Ubuntu. In this post I will explore the next level of convenience: reusing display configurations.

Chances are, you have a couple of settings that together make up most of the situations in which you use your notebook. For instance, I use mine at home, at work and of course, on the go. These three scenarios cover more than 90% of my notebook use.

Now, I am lazy and I do not want to rethink time and time again which arguments to pass on to disper after turning on my notebook. So I use auto-disper, a little script by Stefan Tomanek, to save the respective display configurations. Let me show you.

Install auto-disper

cd
git clone git://github.com/wertarbyte/auto-disper.git

Now we need to put the script someplace that is on your path. I find ~/bin a convenient location. Ubuntu adds it to your $PATH by default.

If ~/bin does not exist yet, create it, then log out and log back in.

mkdir ~/bin

Let’s put auto-disper there.

cp ~/auto-disper/auto-disper ~/bin

Save configurations

Now use disper to configure the displays the way you want them. For instance, at home, I want to use only my external monitor:

disper -S

Then I tell auto-disper to save this as the home configuration:

auto-disper --save home

auto-disper uses the names of the attached monitors to identify configurations. For instance, my ~/.auto-disper/home/setup reads as follows.

display DFP-0: CMO
display DFP-1: LG L227W

Obviously, I have a 22” LG at home.

Reuse configurations

From now on, whenever you want to reuse a saved display configuration, just type

auto-disper --change

and auto-disper will detect and apply the appropriate configuration.

Again, you can go one step further and assign this command to a global hotkey, so you only have to hit, say, Super+F4 in most situations in order to configure the monitors the way you want them. Now that’s something I did not know how to do on Windows.

Dealing with multiple monitors on Ubuntu used to be a pain for me. No more. In a three-part series, I will explain how I have made it very comfortable.

In this installation of the series, I will explain how to use disper, a nifty little tool by Willem van Engen, to simplify changing your monitor setup.

Install disper

I assume you are on Karmic. If you are not, dealing with PPAs differs slightly.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wvengen/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install disper

Use disper

The following basic commands will be enough for most cases. If not, use disper -h to find out more.

disper -s

This will switch to your primary display. If you have a notebook like me, it’s the internal TFT panel. The external monitor or projector, if connected, will remain dark. I use this on the go, of course.

disper -S

This will switch to your secondary display. This could be an external monitor or a projector. Your primary display, in the case of a notebook the internal TFT panel, will remain dark. I commonly use this at home, as I am not too fond of dual-monitor setups.

disper -c

This will show the same contents on both, the internal and the external display. If their resolutions differ, disper will use the lower of the two. I commonly use this for live coding, for instance during a TDD Camp.

disper -e -t top

This will extend your desktop to the other display to the top. You can specify other directions, too: left, right and bottom. I commonly use this for presentations with the OpenOffice.org presenter console.

That’s it. No more manually manipulating nVidia X Server Settings. A quick command, that’s it.

Use key bindings to quickly switch between setups

If you only have a couple of setups you need to quickly switch between, assign hotkeys to them. If you use Compiz, which I believe is the default in Karmic, you can do so via the Commands plugin in the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

In part two, I will explain how to use auto-disper to save and use monitor configurations.

Der Bund will Computer-Benutzer mit von Viren infizierten Rechnern bestrafen. Konkretes zu Sanktionen gibt es noch nicht, aber schon die Idee ist bemerkenswert. Zur Argumentation bemüht Sven Karge die TÜV-Metapher:

Wer im Netz ohne Virenschutz unterwegs ist, gefährdet andere Nutzer in etwa so, wie ein Autofahrer, der mit kaputten Bremsen unterwegs ist und so andere fahrlässig gefährdet. – via Spiegel Online

Habe lange nicht mehr so einen Unsinn gehört! Mit einem Computer habe ich die Möglichkeit, mich selbst zu schützen. Damit können andere mich nicht gefährden. – Ganz andere Situation mit einem nicht kontrollierbar gewordenen Auto.

Earlier today, I was looking for a continuous testing solution for Python and I stumbled upon Patrice Neff’s post about continuous testing for Python – alas, on a Mac.

Of course, I could reuse the engine, Bruno Bord’s test daemon, which simply reruns your tests with Nose whenever you save a change. It works fine, but you have to look hard at the console to recognize the result. So I gave Rudolf a try. This is a plugin for Nose that colorizes its output.

But I was still envious of those nice and shiny Growl notifications. So I wrote a Nose plugin myself that shows notifications of test results on Gnome: nose-gnome-notify.

A harbor doesn’t prevent all waves from rocking the boats, it just makes the big ones smaller. MVC and its ilk make maintenance easier by reducing the cost of change, not creating a plug-replaceable system.

Right on the money, Ben Rady.

If anyone is building an Android or iPhone app, you might want to check out these icons:

• Glyphish
• Android icons

Nav4All offers free turn-by-turn navigation for all major smartphones, except the iPhone. Nav4All updates the route automatically when you deviate. The voices are quite pleasant too.

Of course, there are some glitches. On my HTC Hero, Nav4All fails to navigate to addresses of my contacts. And the address book search itself is painfully slow. Also the app does not feel native on Android.

Overall however, Nav4All is fairly functional and intuitive to use. If you do not have fruit on your hardware, be sure to give this a try.

Yeah, vol. 29 is here. A rather scary number. The good thing though is that they are still trying. In my opinion, Mixed Tape 29 is miles better than the previous couple ones. It is not that sickening blend of maple sirup, honey and cocoa powder anymore that it has been at times. Rather a collection of good elevator tracks that have small surprises to offer when you listen more closely.

Download Mixed Tape 29 for free.

Panda Cloud Antivirus has the most user-friendly interface I have seen on antivirus program. It is supposed to be very good at protecting you too. If you are on Windows, give it a try.

via Lifehacker

via Lifehacker

This is not even funny, or is it?

The vast body of academic research demonstrates that most mergers add no value or reduce shareholder value for the acquiring firm. Given the failure of so many mergers, the question of why mergers continue to occur in large numbers remains. Overconfidence and optimism have come to the forefront as the most common behavioral explanations for the continued prevalence of ill-advised mergers. This paper investigates a different type of behavioral bias that also may influence merger and acquisition decisions—confirmation bias. Using a unique experimental data set, we provide evidence in support of the existence of confirmation bias in merger decision making behavior, particularly with respect to the behavior of actual corporate executives.

Vicki Bogana and David Just: What drives merger decision making behavior? Don’t seek, don’t find, and don’t change your mind. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,
Volume 72, Issue 3, December 2009.

via Google Blog

Ever typed in a command and then realized you need to do something else first? Like you typed in

mv some.file target/

and then realized you need to create the target directory first? If you use Bash, the solution is simple:

1. Go to the beginning of the line with C-a.
2. Cut the whole line with C-k. (In Bash speak this is called killing to the end of the line.)
3. Do what you need to do first. In this example: mkdir target.
4. Paste your previous command with C-y. (In Bash speak this is called yanking.)

This is my most common use case for killing and yanking. But you have a couple more options with both. You can read up on them in the Bash reference manual.

Here is a web tool you would rather not use, but will like to, if you need to.

via Lifehacker

These are some serious tricks that could improve your interaction with the shell.

I particularly like:

• Quickly add a prefix in front of the previous command. Example:
  1. updatedb
  2. sudo !!
• Reuse the arguments of your previous command with !:1, !:2, …, !$ and !*. Example:
  1. less foo.py
  2. rm !*
• Use ˆoldˆnew to fix a typo or change something quickly. Example:
  1. locate -i modonna
  2. ˆmodˆmad

However, I absolutely agree with one commenter that editing the history interactively (using Up to get the last command line and then editing it) will often be a better choice, for it provides you with immediate feedback about what happens to your command line.

Before getting my HTC Hero, I really was looking forward to trying Shazam. Now I did – and got a reality check.

I played

• California love by 2Pac feat. Dr Dre,
• Rock with you by Michael Jackson,
• Lento from the String quartet no 1, op 7, by Bartók,
• Allegro from the Sonata in F major, K 376, by Mozart,
• Allegro inquieto from the Piano sonata no 7 in B-flat major, op 83, by Prokofiev,
• Sky and sand by Paul and Fritz Kalkbrenner,
• Soul clap by Jean Grae
• and some track I do not know.

Of these Shazam only recognized

• California love,
• Rock with you and
• Sky and sand.

Shazam recognized Sky and sand only on my second attempt. The track that I do not know was misidentified as Circus by Britney Spears.

All in all, it seems you should not even try feeding anything to Shazam that is not charts material. Pity, but that’s the way it is.