Swiss Factbook

Montauk monster

2008-08-04T01:29:00.000-07:00

a terrible creature found near New York! could not help posting that: video on youtube

Immobility in Switzerland

2008-04-03T04:57:00.000-07:00

www.homegate.ch
http://www.alle-immobilien.ch/
WG: http://www.wgzimmer.ch/
ETH Zürich immobility ads (for students): http://www.marktplatz.ethz.ch/index.cgi

How to start japanese applications.

2008-02-20T02:52:00.000-08:00

If you are trying to start a japanese application and it does not work, the possible reason is that it is designed to run on japanese computers. Following the instructions you will be able to run it.

The below illustrations are from Windows XP. The steps for Server 2003 are almost identical. Differences are noted in BOLD.

Go to Control Panel.

Click on Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options. Skip this step if you are running Server 2003.

Click on Regional and Language Options.

The Regional and Language Options applet appears.

Click on the Languages tab.

Under Supplemental language support, select the check box beside the applicable language collection:

•	Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages, or
•	Install files for East Asian languages

The complex script and right-to-left languages include Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, the Indic languages, Thai, and Vietnamese; the East Asian languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The files for most other languages are installed on your computer automatically by Windows.

To find out which language collection to install to support the language(s) you need, see Windows XP - List of Locale IDs, Input Locale, and Language Collection

Click OK or Apply.

You will prompted to insert the Windows CD-ROM or point to a network location where the files are located.

8.	Click on the "Advanced" tab
9.	Under "Language for non-Unicode program," select the language version of non-Unicode programs that will be used.
10.	Click OK
	Follow the on-screen instructions. You will be prompted to reboot the system. Click Yes to complete the change. Are you still having problems? write a comment on this post.

Dating in Switzerland

2008-02-14T04:37:00.000-08:00

Especially for the Valentine's day we decided to publish for you our list of dating services in Switzerland. Find your love or make friends.

http://www.swissfriends.ch/
in german, french, italian and english. Registration free for a trial period.

www.PARSHIP.ch
match your soulmate

don't forget to have a look in social networks such as:
www.facebook.com

Zurich

2008-02-13T06:54:00.000-08:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zürich (German: Zürich (help·info) [ˈtsyːʁɪç], Zürich German: Züri [ˈtsyɾi], French: Zurich [zyʁik], in English generally Zurich, Italian: Zurigo [dzu'ɾiːgo]) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972) and capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre (the political capital of Switzerland being Bern), and is widely considered to be one of the world's global cities. According to several surveys in 2006 and 2007, Zürich was named the city with the "best quality of life" in the world.

Basel

2008-02-13T06:53:00.000-08:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basel (British English traditionally: Basle [bɑːl] and more recently Basel ['ba:zəl][1][2], German: Basel ['ba:zəl], French: Bâle [bɑl], Italian: Basilea [bazi'lɛːa]) is Switzerland's third most populous city (165,529 inhabitants (2006); 731,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerland's second-largest urban area as of 2004[3]).

Located in north-west Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The city borders both Germany and France. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: "Regio TriRhena". It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation (1460).

Berne

2006-07-31T01:30:00.000-07:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The city of Berne or Bern (German: Bern (help·info) [b̥ɛrn], French: Berne [bɛʀn], Italian: Berna [ˈbɛrna], Romansh: Berna [ˈbɛrnə], Bernese German: Bärn [b̥æːrn]), is the Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of Switzerland and, with 128,041 people (agglomeration: 344,000), is the fourth most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich, Geneva and Basel).

Most of Berne's residents speak German, or more specifically, Bernese German, which is a high-Alemannic dialect. The Canton of Berne has a French-speaking part. Very few people still speak the Mattenenglisch, a language game used in the former workers' quarter of Matte, but several words have found their way into Bernese German.

Berne also functions as the capital of the Canton of Berne, the second most populous of Switzerland's cantons.

Illustrious Bernese include the reformer Albrecht von Haller, the poet Albert Bitzius and the painters Hans Fries, Ferdinand Hodler and Paul Klee. The German-born physicist Albert Einstein worked out his theory of relativity while employed as a clerk at the Berne patent office. A culturally important person was Mani Matter, a songwriter performing in Bernese German.