Agata Report is something like Crystal Reports, but for Linux and Open Source. Could be quite practical at times, especially since it can also generate reports that can easily run on a web server.
For the Münster locals: Köster near the train station is selling Contax N1 equipment (bodies, lenses) at quite good prices. These are likely remainder stock from the dissolution of Contax Germany. Since Kyocera is exiting the photography business and thus Contax is at an end for now, this could be the last opportunity to acquire one or the other lens. The lenses are manufactured by Zeiss and also serviced by Zeiss...
Well, the Federal Schröder really wants to blow money up the ass of big corporations through corporate tax cuts. Yes, exactly, the companies that either made huge profits and laid off large numbers of employees, or alternatively made huge losses and laid off large numbers of employees while increasing executive salaries. This will definitely boost the job market.
And the opposition? They call what the Chancellor proposes conceptless, which is correct - we already knew that. Because these are partly exactly the demands that Merkelnix and the Oberstauber themselves have made - and what the opposition is doing has been completely conceptless for quite some time ...
What I don't quite understand is how this nonsense is supposed to combat unemployment? Oh, the highways that the Federal Schröder wants to build (or whatever great traffic projects he has in mind). Well, then our tanks will soon be rolling quickly to Hindukush, where they are supposed to defend the Basic Law according to Strucki. Although this is actually much more urgently needed here in this country given Otto Orwell and the sheer incompetence of the Ministry of Justice (but perhaps it's better not to, given the rather strange attitudes in the Bundeswehr ...).
Somehow, the German politicians and their market rhetoric would be much funnier if they were governing a country other than precisely the country in which one lives ...
Basic rights without reason or ground - how citizens' basic rights are trampled on in the name of security.
Linux Unsuitable for Large Enterprises? At least that's what the Agility Alliance claims. And who are they? Let's take a look at Pro-Linux:
The Agility Alliance, a coalition of various industry heavyweights such as EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell, and EMC, warns large enterprises against using Linux due to security concerns, scalability issues, and a lack of compelling cost advantages.
Ok. Microsoft. SUN. Cisco. These are, of course, three companies that are particularly predestined to recommend the use of Linux to enterprises.
Rasmussen's particular concern is the potential use of Linux on mainframes, so-called supercomputers. Here, the Agility Alliance believes that Linux does not have a compelling cost advantage over the operating systems promoted by the initiative and also has scalability issues.
Well. Where is IBM in this group - I mean, when it comes to mainframes, wouldn't it be practical if there was someone involved who actually offers real mainframes? Oh, I see, IBM does indeed promote the use of Linux on the mainframe. Well, well, the scoundrels ...
Honestly? Just scrap the ProTour and its silly jersey again. It's just marketing hype and nobody will miss it.
On Tuesday, I spent a day in Cologne taking photos. Some of them are now online - but since I shut down the corresponding site in 2007, they are no longer available.
After the Job Summit: Agreement on Tax Cuts - great concept. We don't have any money, but we give it away to companies. Who then screw us over again and cut more jobs, which means fewer people consume even less, and in the end, the economy complains again. And everyone pats themselves on the back for the great achievement they have accomplished.
In Kiel, the prime minister has to fail at a traitor from her own ranks and is probably forced into a grand coalition. In Berlin, pure lack of planning and stupidity is enough, without any elections. But the Berlin proletarians are really good at making decisions against the citizens ...
The railway company should urgently fire the programmers of the online system. Today, I encountered the situation again where a reservation cannot be fulfilled - of course, this is only communicated at the very last step of the booking process. This is annoying, but still bearable - if it weren't for the fact that the only options left to me are the following:
- Book with reservation (which makes a lot of sense, if the reservation cannot be fulfilled)
- Book without reservation (of course, if the train is fully booked with reservations, I will book it without reservations ...)
- Cancel
And cancel with the railway company means exactly that: cancel the booking history. Back to the start. Do not pass simplified inputs or train changes. No, I have to start all over again. To find out that the second train is also overbooked.
Usability? Not at all. Probably doesn't exist in the vocabulary of the monkeys who programmed this brainless booking junk heap ...
It would have been so easy to at least offer "earlier train" or "later train" as buttons, or even the pinnacle of luxury: "search for a train with free seats", so that you can plan reasonably when you want to travel.
The horror of software patents and Microsoft - take a good look at what we can expect in Europe soon, thanks to idiots like Clemens and Zypries. Yes, exactly this kind of thing would also pass here according to Clemens - data storage methods are one of the examples that are repeatedly brought up from that direction as something worth protecting, even if it's just an algorithm + software. Great. So much for interoperability. But we software patent opponents are all completely uninformed and hysterical and, according to Clement, have no idea.
Incomprehension and criticism after Wolfowitz nomination - somehow fitting. One of the biggest US war agitators is nominated as a candidate for the World Bank presidency and who says to support the "candidacy constructively"? The industrial chancellor. But his rejection of the Iraq war was of course not a bit of political calculation, no, he did it out of full conviction. Which is why he then also sees Wolfowitz favorably as World Bank president - because there he can cause even more and even more efficiently damage, without the US having to send troops again - and you don't get your fingers dirty with book money either ...
US Senate approves oil drilling in Alaska and once again sacrifices reason at the altar of the oil industry. Well, if a state even wages wars for oil (sorry, but apart from Blair, nobody believes in weapons of mass destruction anymore), you shouldn't be surprised that environmental protection is even less valuable to them.
Election debacle in Kiel. Great, with this we can then erase Schleswig-Holstein from the map of reason. No matter how the squabbling turns out, if your own people don't even stand behind their leader in the first decisive election, such a government cannot function. It's nice how you can rely on the fact that in times of need, your comrades will stab you in the back.
I feel particularly sorry for the SSW: they had to listen to a lot of nonsense and endure many insults for wanting to support the model - and now they get a kick in the back of the knee. And it should be clear that the SSW will be among the losers if a grand coalition comes about.
