ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX
ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX - Combo installer for all possible video format converters
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Court approves nuclear transports to North Rhine-Westphalia
Great. The most brainless of all variants won. The court has decided in its favor. Completely irrelevant that there has long been a decision that atomic waste should be stored temporarily near the producers. Completely irrelevant that it is absolutely absurd to haul garbage from Saxony to North Rhine-Westphalia. Completely irrelevant that for this transport, due to Saxon stinginess, trucks are to be used whose transport security costs many times more than transport by rail. The important thing is that ignorance and stupidity prevail and are even confirmed in court.
You can find the original article at WDR.de.
Münster: Tillmann remains mayor
Well, unfortunately the people here in Münster are just too lazy to go out and show that guy where his politics belong. So the Union together with the FDP will be allowed to muddle through Münster for another 5 years with the gigantic majority of the mayor's vote.
At least this stupid hole in the roundabout has been averted. But unfortunately there are still far too many stupid ideas that can occur to them. But maybe the other city councilors will be unusually united enough to at least spit in the Union's soup where necessary.
At WDR.de there is the original article.
Parliamentary committee rejects EU Justice Commissioner
Sorry, but what the heck is a papal advisor doing on the commission in the first place?
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Provider liable for domain loss
Hmm - could this perhaps also apply to this mess between Strato and Network Solutions? That could end badly for Strato though
At heise online news there's the original article.
Blow in the face of T-Online shareholders
Can you be more audacious in deceiving, cheating and ripping off shareholders?
At WDR.de there's the original article.
wxAcceleratorTable
wxAcceleratorTable - How to make hotkeys for menu entries in wxWindows
wxValidator overview
wxValidator overview - How to transfer fields between form and dataset in wxWindows
Copy and Paste Judgment for Websites
If that really is in the OLG Hamm ruling - meaning websites with stylesheets and graphics have no significant level of creativity and can therefore be freely copied - then that would be a blow to all designers. I'm still hoping that with both websites it was really only about trivialities in the copy and not really about proper layout, but still - such a ruling would be an invitation to help yourself in the Internet.
At kniebes.net. you can find the original article.
FDP - Ifo Chief Wants to Cut Social Welfare by 30 Percent
Alarming demand. This would force social welfare recipients not only through economic hardship (which they already face de facto), but literally through life-threatening need to do anything to survive - if necessary also taking on illegal employment, accepting whatever they can get. An absolutely inhumane attitude is then the consideration that introducing people into work would be easier with a reduction in social welfare by one-third, and the saying that business leaders have plenty of work in their heads that just wouldn't be profitable is the icing on the cake of audacity. What he ultimately demands is the extortion of socially disadvantaged population groups and the introduction of serfdom - because people in such employment relationships as he envisions them are no longer able to defend themselves against abuse and misconduct due to their situation - for them it's about bare survival.
And someone like that is consulted to assess the business climate.
Daniel Barlow: Araneida 0.9 released
Exciting. This should be the first web server running in the CLISP environment - and thus can truly be ported to virtually everything that looks like a computer.
At Planet Lisp you can find the original article.
GEZ fee for internet PCs is coming
The Fee Extortion Central is really getting more influence then. Somehow absurd - the whole thing could simply be solved by treating public broadcasting stations as part of state infrastructure services and simply financing them through tax revenues. But of course that contradicts the idea of capitalism - and so the rules become more and more absurd.
So we'll forever pay GEZ fees on silly devices, have increasingly arrogant GEZ employees on our backs if we think we want to defend ourselves against it, have the ridiculous discussion about this topic over and over again. Meanwhile, tanks and bombers are still being built from tax revenues - those are of course much more important parts of infrastructure than broadcasting.
At heise online news there's the original article.
awaretek.com :: Python Tutorials - diverse Python Tutorials
gmail atom feed
gmail atom feed - Address of the Google Mail Atom Feed - unfortunately only Atom, no RSS
Laszlo - Products
Laszlo is the premier open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web. - what? This thing just got put under an open source license and is already supposed to be the "premier open source platform"? Zope, Drupal, Mambo, Typo3, Plone, Brickolage, Scoop, Xoom, Slash and all the others - are those all figments of imagination? Apart from that, LAMP is probably (unfortunately - I like neither MySQL nor PHP) the leading platform if you interpret platform in the usual sense.
Marketing hype has moved in with the companies into open source as well.
SQLite 3.0.7
Very nice - the new version has Unicode (UTF-8) support and rudimentary data types. However, PySQLite (the Python interface) still seems to work with older SQLite versions. The original article is available here.
And another small change to the RSS feed
My latest images are now being included in the main RSS feed. Otherwise they got a bit lost in the pure image blog. So for the first time there will be a small batch of images as new items, and after that of course only what I've newly created. And I don't add new images as often as I would like...
Farewell to the Industrial Estate
One last look at the magnificent panorama from the hotel room's skylight and then back to Munich. Next week then in a different hotel in a different business district ... ![154-400-300.jpeg][P1]
CIA Report: Iraq Did Not Possess Weapons of Mass Destruction
Don't bother anymore. War is repeatedly presented as important and correct, the supporters have talked themselves into the mess so many times that they believe their own lies. What do facts matter then...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Debacle of Chess Grandmasters Against Chess Machines
It's always funny how humans want to prove their superiority over the machine specifically in a game where humans have to become machines in order to win ...
You can find the original article on heise online news.
Customer liable for PIN misuse
Yeah, great. What total idiots handed down that injustice again. With manipulation of an ATM, the PIN can be stolen - and definitely without the customer necessarily noticing. And then the thief can happily start withdrawing money - and the customer is screwed. Because now they have to first prove that such manipulation is taking place. And once again the burden is placed on the weakest person in the group, because the banks simply aren't willing to provide at least a minimum level of service for all the money they're ripping off from their customers.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Microsoft Chief: Stolen Music Mainly Lands on iPods
Well, whoever rages around like a monkey probably behaves that way otherwise too - and then makes a fool of themselves on other topics as well
At heise online news there's the original article.
Net activist convicted of fine for hyperlinks
And yet another mindless court ruling. Beautiful Germany, where people as devoid of understanding and knowledge as the Düsseldorf RP can bend the law and even get confirmation for it in court.
At heise online news there's the original article.
NRW Prisons Test Partial Privatization
Omni Consumer Products?
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Rollei Announces Rolleiflex MiniDigi
Dreadfully bad display, terribly slow, fuzzy operation and at best a joke. The image quality is accordingly poor. Well, at least you can swap the memory card. Still: a real reflex viewfinder wouldn't have shown the digital image, but would have had at least some style. Oh yes, and it promptly crashed during the presentation at Photokina.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
Season Over for Zabel
Of course. He fights his way through every sprint forward, battles to the bitter end for his position - and where does he get injured? Climbing up a ladder.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Terrible Lizard in Feather Dress
Surprises again and again.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
SCO vs. Linux: Motions Rejected, Deadline Extended
Well, let's see if they finally have something to show for it in 30 days - but I wouldn't bet on it
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Business leaders demand swift tax reform
Clear. Exactly. Corporate taxation is too high. Of course. You can imagine what a bold reform should look like. Rip-off mentality at its finest. At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Censorship in Germany
It's so beautifully simple, really. A cease-and-desist letter, horrendous costs, and you've already squeezed small private projects out of existence. And you pat yourself on the back for showing those left-wing punks or whoever happens to be in the line of fire. Maybe you even brag about it at your fraternity meeting. Or at the regulars' table. Because it's so great to throw your money around and assume the arrogance that the world belongs to you...
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
one of Landshut's landmarks
Got shown around the city this evening. Pictures of the castle and the highest brick tower in Germany didn't work due to lack of light. ![153-400-300.jpeg][P1]
The End of the World
In parts quite picturesque - but nothing going on here. Nothing at all. ![150-400-300.jpeg][P1] ![151-400-300.jpeg][P2] ![152-400-300.jpeg][P3]
The Hotel at the End of the World
Not in Munich, not in Landshut as claimed either - instead in the industrial area of a small town somewhere near Landshut. Do you have any idea how boring an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere is? |:-)| ![149-400-300.jpeg][P1]
The Unwanted Voices
Why OSCE Observers at US Elections Would Be Entirely Appropriate.
At Telepolis News (03.10.2004) you can find the original article.
Erik Zabel is Vice World Champion in Road Racing
Not bad either. Sure, the world champion jersey would have looked good on him too, but finishing in his proven 2nd place at the world championship somehow fits him as well
iPod Information Center - the ultimate site @ http://www.cilly.dyndns.org/iPod/
iPod Information Center - the ultimative site @ http://www.cilly.dyndns.org/iPod/ - all possible information about the iPod
Munich Again
next week and the week after I'll be on the road in Munich again. So things might get a bit thin here - or terrible if I make good on my threat to moblog with the PDA
Pope beatifies last Habsburg Emperor
An organizational mass murderer and a crazy nun. That's fitting. Blessed are the poor in spirit, right?
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.
Warez Raid: The FTPWelt Story
Buy the current CT, open page 62, read and laugh your socks off at Syndikus and his bandit antics. Or as the chocolate wave rider always says: Read! That's an order!
Judith Arndt World Champion: "A Great Day"
Yes, let's congratulate them!
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Leica - a la carte
I saw this demonstrated at the trade show. Brilliant. I wish it had existed when I bought my M6. On the other hand: if it had existed back then, I probably would have paid double for my M6. After all, the MP/M7 has now almost reached in euros what my M6 cost in marks.
Flowers
Blumen
In the flower beds. For once, they actually chose a pretty witty - because naturally looking - planting.
Autumn - Time of Fruits and Seeds
Autumn - Time of Fruits and Seeds
No idea which tree this is - but the fruits look funny. The leaves somehow remind me of rowan.
and always more rain
and again and again rain
It's annoying when going for a walk, but it makes otherwise boring subjects more interesting.
US Government Shows Little Interest in Computer Security
Fits right in that the energy ministry gets hacked every two days
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.