Linda and Service Oriented Architectures
Linda and Service Oriented Architectures - Description of TupleSpaces - PDF Version
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Optimal syntax for Python decorators
Optimal syntax for Python decorators - a significantly better alternative to the current decorator syntax in Python
Welcome to Myghty!
Welcome to Myghty! - Perl's HTML::Mason ported to Python
A Conversation with Manfrend von Thun
A Conversation with Manfrend von Thun - Fascinating when a K (APL descendant) fan interviews the creator of Joy (a kind of functional Forth).
Debian Backports
Debian Backports - Backports of Debian packages - the answer to "stable is outdated"
Google Mail Invites available
So I currently have 6 invitations for Google Mail accounts available. If you want an account, just send me an email via the contact form (the small envelope icon at the bottom right of the sidebar). Please fill in your name, though — I don't feel like sending invites to Donald Duck or whatever.
Main page for the programming language JOY
Main page for the programming language JOY - Joy is a kind of functional Forth
The Pentax OptioX
Couldn't you not only rotate it, but also flip the part with the display in front of the optics, that would be really brilliant. Ok, I admit, I have no idea how you'd make something like that work, but still - that would be brilliant.
There's the original article at Engadget.
Ilford Goes Into Administration
Oh shit. Now Ilford too.
You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG.
Microsoft Receives 'Sudo Patent'
How annoying, the US Patent Office has no idea again and Microsoft gets a patent on something that's existed for Unix since the 80s
At heise online news there's the original article.
News: Trouble with cdrecord
Yes, some programmers of GPL-licensed software probably didn't fully understand the meaning and implications either ...
SourceForge.net: Project Info - DoXFS Document Management System
SourceForge.net: Project Info - DoXFS Document Management System - Document archive with XFS and PHP frontend
vnunet.com - Micro Focus lifts and shifts Cobol to Linux
The horror won't let go of me: I spent the first 10 years of my professional career programming with exactly this compiler system. An inventory management system. And now the monster is coming to Linux ...
The Word for Monday
A very interesting interview with Norbert Blüm. My favorite quote from it: That reminds me of the fairy tale of the fisherman and his wife Ilsebill - the more she has, the more she wants. Apparently all their fuses have blown. They think the welfare state is now being auctioned off. First Geisler, now Blüm. With old Union politicians, reason seems to slowly be dawning. Unfortunately far too late - because during their active time in government, they did not stand up against neoliberal ideas and ultimately helped ensure that neoliberal ideas became firmly established in the Union, among other things (I'm thinking of something like the March Hare).
The SPD may still make excuses that adopting neoliberal ideas is necessary to survive in the political arena (which I personally think is complete nonsense). But what excuse does the Union have?
You don't need to ask the FDP for an excuse - they're completely burying their political ideas under the neoliberal dungheap...
I found the original article at Der Rollberg.
Flambéed Sapphire
Hmm. Is that Scotty's transparent aluminum now?
At Physikalische Kleinigkeiten there's the original article.
Paolo Amoroso: Update on McCLIM''s Beagle backend
From the linked article, it emerges in passing that someone is working on a McCLIM backend for OpenMCL. Namely, building on Cocoa. That would really be amazing - a CLIM-based interface. Ok, that would be just a listener and some toy code for now, but in the long run perhaps the kind of tools you know from the old Lisp machines. At least something like that would be conceivable at all.
Besides, CLIM is a pretty cool GUI library with features that would make all the Java bells and whistles green with envy - even if CLIM is many years older
At Planet Lisp you'll find the original article.
Future EU Commissioner Made Bill Gates an Honorary Doctor
Independent and neutral ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Germany loses two gold medals - olympia.ARD.de
Regardless of whether this is now a gold medal for Germany or not, this rule-mongering and this whole song and dance, as well as the fact that something like a gold medal is decided in court really gets my goat. And yes, I would think the same way if it were about a gold medal for Pakistan or the USA or anyone else.
Form submission and the ENTER key?
Form submission and the ENTER key? - Discussion of the problem of Enter=Submit in HTML forms
Hacker Attack on Research Station at the South Pole
Should I be concerned that I just imagined a bunch of hackers dressed as Eskimos with clubs in their hands? I mean, that's pretty silly - Eskimos only exist at the North Pole...
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Science.
Internet telephony not with any area code
I am very much afraid: Contrary practices endangered the national numbering plan. - that would be the true catastrophe, the downfall of Western civilization, the annihilation of all being! The national numbering plan must be protected, come what may! Save the national numbering plan! At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet I found the original article.
PmWiki - very extensively developed wiki
With PmWiki there is a really very powerful version with translations, templating, various ready-made layouts (which also don't just look ugly in wiki primitive styling) and mountains of options. And funnily enough, it's much easier to understand than many high-end CMS systems. I like it very much, even though the thing is written in PHP - a language that I simply find disgusting. Well, as long as good systems come out of it, that's fine with me.
Newspaper: Authorities can access bank accounts from 2005
Because recipients of unemployment benefits II are by definition suspicious and you can't trust them anyway. That's why they have fewer rights than normal suspects - for those you still need a court order for something like this ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
"Coffee and Cigarettes" - Jim Jarmusch''s new film
Hmm. Episode films aren't really my thing. On the other hand, Jim Jarmusch is simply a brilliant filmmaker. And now? In or not in, that is the question here ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
details about the shebang mechanism
Details on script interpreter invocation - that is, the shebang (#!) line. And the list also reveals a problem with Linux: the path of an interpreter in the #! line is ignored. Classic example: a Python 2.2 installation in /usr/bin, another in /opt/pyds/bin. Now a script is supposed to run with /opt/pyds/bin/python - but if you enter that in the #! line, Linux ignores the path and takes the installation in /usr/bin anyway, and thus the wrong libraries. ! is a nasty hack that sometimes does what you expect. Sometimes. But not always. And certainly not more often than not.
Infection through Internet Explorer vulnerability despite Service Pack 2
Yeah, so that's what the IE development blog said recently: IE in XP SP2 stops all currently known critical exploits, so it's a heck of a lot more secure than pretty much any other browser. Well, that turned out to be nothing ...
You can find the original article on heise online news here.
Modeling Object-Relational Bridge for python
Modeling Object-Relational Bridge for python - Database modeling and mapping to Python
SCO vs. Linux: IBM strikes back
Slowly IBM lawyers are letting their vicious streak run free
At heise online news there's the original article.
Debacle in the race against time - olympia.ARD.de
Yep, the hype and reality...
"One-Euro Job" - what is that?
State-sanctioned serfdom? Fascinating how the right to work becomes a duty to work - although back in the times of the existing GDR, there was always insistence that the GDR only had such low unemployment figures precisely because of this duty to work. And of course, at that time the duty to work was considered unthinkable for a free democracy.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
NewsForge
Everything you never wanted to know about screenshots and screen recordings. And a bit more. On Linux.
Olympic Games: Leontien Van Moorsel''s Glorious Farewell
That's good - especially since her crash a few days ago looked really nasty.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Things to make you go "Ow, stop, my head hurts!"
When the programmer of the new Virtual Machine for Perl talks about Continuation Passing and Multimethod Dispatch, that excites me. When he then pivots to Intercal and the COME FROM statement, that scares me.
At Squawks of the Parrot there is the original article.
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Yeah, I got a confusing email like that too. Would have been a nice April Fools' joke on April 1st, but like this it's just embarrassing.
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp there's the original article.
Employers want to cut civil service pensions
Nice to see the incompetent loudmouth talking about things he doesn't understand again. Sure, from a certain rank level, some civil service pensions are absurd. But unfortunately, the average civil servant is not a state secretary or anything like that. And let's guess which civil service pensions would definitely be cut? Exactly.
But it doesn't matter, most lower-ranking civil servants are barely above welfare anyway, so it will surely be very easy for them when they end up just below it afterwards ...
At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD there is the original article.
FastMail: Fast free or paid IMAP webmail with SMTP, POP & IMAP access
Inflation of webmail providers in the GB area. Why am I mentioning this one in particular? Well, although it's paid, it has both a Weblog for the service and a Wiki for the API documentation. And the API is built on SOAP. Additionally, there are IMAP4 and POP3 access options - which Gmail hasn't offered so far. Furthermore, it has existed for quite some time - which is not necessarily a disadvantage when you want to entrust your email to someone else. No, I don't have an account there and don't know anything else about it. I just found the feature list and the capabilities being used quite interesting.
Google Search: Georg Bauer
A question for the legal experts: when I do a linked search (yeah yeah, I know you're not supposed to constantly search for yourself, it's bad for your self-esteem), an AdWord for www.buecher-cd-dvd.de shows up quite frequently. This domain is just an eBay redirector with a — incorrectly configured — search for eBay listings. Pretty pathetic. But what actually really interests me: is it even okay under German law for someone to run ads on Google under the names of other people? Isn't my reputation (okay, I don't have one, but let's say I did) being exploited to place products (yeah yeah, in this case products aren't even being placed, just a silly redirect to eBay is set up, but let's say that ...) ?
No, I'm not planning to sue anyone. Too stressful and too stupid for me. I'm just interested in whether this silly trademark/trade name/name/whatever law would actually be useful for something if it were relevant at all ...
Oh, and yes, I'm currently bugging Google about the fact that they create possibilities for users to contact advertisers directly. Because somehow it's absurd that Google in disputes refers you to contacting the advertiser — and nowhere is this advertiser named. Of course nothing will come of it, Google has never responded to sensible suggestions. But at least this way I have something I can publish to document how arrogant Google is.
Since it's a pure eBay redirection, the site has no impressum anyway. And since it's running AdWords, it's clearly operating commercially, right? If so: if someone wants to send a cease-and-desist letter, fire away ...
Children of offenders should be recorded and monitored from kindergarten age
Temperature-related failures of British brains, or long-term consequences of BSE?
At Telepolis News (17.08.2004) you can find the original article.
Kanther in court: "Left vanguard blunted" - Politics - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The rejection of any criminal consequences for their fraudulent actions has long been a tradition within the Union ...
NPD in the Saxon State Parliament?
I could puke.
At Telepolis News (17.08.2004) there's the original article.
Patent on Delay in User Registration
Wow, what a fantastic innovation. Let's praise Microsoft, because they've figured out store-and-forward. And there's even a patent on such a ridiculous thing.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Perl.com: The Evolution of Perl Email Handling
If you want to process emails with Perl and aren't entirely satisfied with the Mail:: hierarchy of Perl modules - especially since performance often leaves something to be desired - you might want to take a look at the Email:: hierarchy.
Trial against Kanther begins
I would think prison would be fair, but based on recent experiences with proceedings against corrupt politicians and business executives, I'm not holding my breath...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD I found the original article.
Fraud with Stone Age skulls | stern.de | Science & Health | Humans
Amusing. Another scientist on a rampage.
Barter Deals
Well, I understand the confused young man. Sometimes I'd like to swap my (company) phone for bongos too - in my case, even regardless of the temperature.
You can find the original article at merlix.