Linkblog - 15.2.2006 - 9.3.2006

Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development - the Waterfall development model is back!

Aries - Environmental Products, The Specialists in Biological Pest Control - some information about biological warfare against moths.

MP3 Python Module - simple lib for accessing MP3 information.

OPUS - Zivilrechtliche Ansprüche gegen unerwünschte Mitbenutzer von privaten Funknetzen - even with unprotected networks, there are claims for the operator against unwanted users.

aspectes.tigris.org - Aspect Oriented Programming for JavaScript.

CPU/MEM with swap on/off - the load plugin for the Nokia 770 to display memory and CPU load in a version that can enable/disable swap (provided you have set it up accordingly).

MANaOS 0.1.2 is out - MiniMo for Nokia 770 is slowly coming along. Ok, the installation is still a bit awkward (as root rights are required), but as a preview already quite nice.

Principia Discordia the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion Fnord! - Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!

SharedAppVNC - interesting VNC variant that only replicates application windows, not the entire desktop. Also with special OS X support.

UFRaw - a free raw converter based on DCRaw and LittleCMS. Sounds quite interesting.

Blue Ball Machine - giant ball machine on a website. Beware, it has background music.

BranchBasedDevelopment - interesting list of points on how to work with branches in Subversion in a meaningful way.

Divmod - a whole series of very interesting Python projects. Of course, also its own web framework and its own ORM, but also a few smaller, interesting things like, for example, a Bayesian Classifier.

NASA World Wind - Software like Google Earth, but with NASA satellite images. Unfortunately only for Windows.

Pictures of a guy in a blue shirt - weird

Disk Inventory X - also provides overviews of where disk space is lost, but with a very clever graphical display.

ID-Design, Inc. | WhatSize - provides a good overview of where disk space is consumed.

Monolingual - removes language versions of OS X that you never use. Brings back a lot of disk space.

Textpander - a very nice tool that automatically converts abbreviations into long texts. It works in all programs via the UI Scripting interface (so activate Assistive Devices in OS X Accessibility Preferences).

Hetima:SafariStand - yet another monster plugin for Safari that includes everything possible, filtering, colored source, thumbnail previews on tabs, page modification ...

Pimp My Safari - Plugins and tools around Safari.

stripsquad.se - very weird, very loud, very mean - I love it.

SurfRabbit - and another Greasemonkey-like tool for Safari (I don't know if the Rabbits are written in JavaScript, but the effects are similar).

Democracy Player - an RSS aggregator that expects BitTorrent files in enclosures and automatically downloads them. Many features, essentially implements TV-on-Demand.

Google Macintosh Dashboard Widgets - what you see is what you get. Google Dashboard Widgets for Google.

Growl! - everyone knows it by now, visually appealing info windows, can also be used from scripts.

Live Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow - interesting article about creating large images directly from thumbnails without changing pages. However, due to the invented attributes, it is not valid HTML4.

The Little Calculist: JavaScript language level - JavaScript as a language directly supported in DrScheme. This gives the brilliant tools of DrScheme for editing JavaScript as well.

Water: the structure and properties of liquid water - everything you want/should/know about water (yes, that H2O stuff).

RubyForge: Ruby Port to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet: Project Info - Ruby is now also available on the Nokia 770. With Python and TCL, that's quite a number of on-board programming languages.

Scsh PhotoBase - is a photo management software like iPhoto, but written in Scheme and for use over the web. So far only an announcement, but the source will definitely be released.

Tomato Torrent - a nice BitTorrent client for OS X.

Wasabi Systems has a quite useful analysis of what the GPL actually means for companies. Furthermore, there is also a chapter that deals with binary kernel modules - and why these represent a GPL violation.

Clim-Desktop project - first approaches for an integrated Common Lisp development environment based on the free CLIM implementation.

The Linux Kernel Driver Interface - why the Linux Kernel has not designed its internal kernel interfaces as a "stable binary interface" (or even as a "stable interface").

#4G European Grounded "Shuko" Adapter. Walkabout Travel Gear (tm) - Adapter for a bunch of plug formats on Schuko. Could be my savior if Expansys does not have the power supply for the i-Tech keyboard available in Schuko version ...

8-p.info - Creammonkey - something similar to Greasemonkey, but for Safari.

Bluetooth Security - Bluetooth Security - what's possible, what's being done, what's behind it.

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - interesting article that covers a series of pitfalls when switching between IE and Mozilla.

PlayDeluxe Shop - Online-Shop - there's also an English-to-German adapter. Much cheaper. Search for "adapter englisch".

Know Your Enemy: Learning with VMware - how to build a virtual honeynet with VMware and see what and how is being hacked.

Snowball - finds word stems in various languages. Algorithms in a specially developed language. Practical for classic word lists.

Stéphane Ducasse :: Free Online Books - a whole series of free books about Smalltalk. Some are only scanned, some are real text PDFs. A whole series of classics are included.

ZNC - RottenBoy - interesting IRC bouncer (proxy) for multiple users. Significantly more powerful than the Muh I have used so far.

Gauche:ObjectiveCBridge - there is also an Objective-C Bridge for Gauche Scheme. However, with fewer sophisticated examples.

HOC: A Haskell to Objective-C Binding - even for Haskell there is an Objective-C Bridge that I didn't know about.

Nokia 770 and Virtual Bluetooth Keyboard - how to connect the Laser Keyboard with the 770.

OpenVPN on Maemo - Porting OpenVPN to the Nokia Pad. Could be quite interesting, as you are now a bit too visible to others over free WLAN hotspots.

Google Maps Plugin for Address Book - Brian Toth - a plugin for the Apple Address Book that allows you to jump directly to Google Maps from an address.

MUlliNER.ORG : Nokia770 - a whole range of tools for the Nokia pad, such as the Wireless Tools or dsniff. Interesting for analysis in case of WLAN problems