Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form

Storms flood parts of North Rhine-Westphalia

Sure. And here? Of course only scorching heat.

(I live on the second floor and the house is on a hill, so storms only affect me through the puddle at the house entrance)

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Beckstein welcomes planned refugee camps in Africa

Yes sure, intern them far away from Germany, then the upstanding German citizen won't have to be confronted with the fact that there are asylum seekers. It's much more humane for the German citizen if he's not constantly having his nose rubbed in the suffering of the world.

angry face

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Lafontaine threatens to get involved with Left party

For whom is this actually the worse threat - for the Chancellor, or for the new left-wing party?

At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.

NETZEITUNG MUSIC: Pink Floyd''s «The Wall» Becomes Musical

Well, Pink Floyd is not identical with Roger Waters - and only he is making the musical. He's doing what he's been doing the whole time since his departure: exploiting what already exists. That he hasn't created anything new since he left doesn't seem to bother many people.

Since I'm listening to old Pink Floyd records right now: I think it's a shame that the band is no longer active. And I'm still convinced that a large part of the responsibility for that was Roger Waters' ego - because he now believes that he is identical with Pink Floyd...

Here you can find the original article.

NETZEITUNG SPORT: Voigt continues in the yellow jersey

Maybe he'll get Danish citizenship as an honor after all

Here's the original article.

Server migration is delayed somewhat

Because the provider only sets up running machines with 1 partition and 1 system on it. And when copying from one system to the other system while it's running, you can easily make mistakes that make the system unreachable. And thus abruptly interrupt the server update.

It would be so much easier for administrators if you simply installed 2 independent systems on the disks as a matter of principle, so that you could install into an inactive system during restructuring work. Well, the low price has to have some reason ...

Tens of thousands of policyholders have their legal protection cancelled

Because it's absolutely outrageous when customers take out insurance and then get the absurd idea of actually claiming on that insurance...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

On the Situation of the "Nation Blog" [blogosfear.org]

An interesting - because pointless and silly - discussion. Someone accuses the bloggers of selective perception. Upon pressing further, it turns out that his perception of this selectivity is based on the fact that he analyzed a link list that was pre-filtered to only include a certain type of links - namely established (because registered) news services. He's given a different list that would be more representative. What does he do? Sweeps it all away because it doesn't fit his expectations. Although this other link list shows the exact opposite of what he claims, he first throws out what would contradict him and summarizes the rest under techie babble. That's how simple the blinkers are. And what is all this? Clear. The summer doldrums.

Update: after reading a few other things on blogosfear, I had to grin. Because the site is exactly what he accuses the bloggers of: incestuous to the point of dismissal, follows the big news and consists largely of the usual suspects who comment and write there. So nothing new and nothing original. So to speak, the institutionalized summer doldrums.

Devilish grin

Here you can find the original article.

Capitol Hill Blue: Dubya Does It Again!

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we," Bush said.

Teufelsgrinsen

Hier gibts den Originalartikel.

SCO vs. Linux: After the Code Come the Licenses

Here it should be clarified, among other things, whether it is permissible to compare SCO with a company that sells boxes that protect against earth radiation or serve as orgone accumulators.

Teufelsgrinsen

At heise online news there is the original article.

Simulators: Virtual Machines of the Past (and Future)

Wow. A bunch of old machines simulated. Nice toy.

At Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog I found the original article.

Spiegel and Springer: Writing as it was before

Ok, let's add even more confusion to all this chaos through silly obstinacy campaigns. It doesn't matter if ultimately – regardless of how the squabbling turns out – several generations of children can't write correctly. You have to make sacrifices like that when you're searching for the one true way ...

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Strato data centers certified by TĂśV

Given the regular database outages, disappeared homepages and lost domains, this is somehow a mockery of the seal. But that's just how it is: certificates say nothing about reality, only about the wishful thinking and wallets of the certified and certifiers.

At heise online news you can find the original article.

T-Systems opens spam gateway

Blockhead.

angry face

At heise online news there's the original article.

Warm

Too warm.

Benneter: Anti-Schröder Letter is Impertinent

Well. And as you can read elsewhere, it's actually just a hoax - old, created by only one person, uninteresting and not circulating at the grassroots level, but only among journalists. Great research... Even Tagesschau participates in the summer lull stunt. At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet I found the original article.

Cyclone

An interesting C derivative that has borrowed from many other languages - including those of the ML family. A C with type safety, memory management (though still manual memory management), polymorphic functions, pattern matching, type inference and many other nice features. Packaged in a perversely bloated syntax that builds on the already perverse C syntax

Here's the original article.

dude, where''s my python?

I can't add anything to that. If the Python community starts bringing features into the language by argumentatively besieging Guido, and if these compromises are then realized according to the motto "a syntax that everyone likes equally little", then it's time to switch languages. Ruby looks nice and the available modules for various purposes easily match Python. Or Prothon - though the available modules are still very sparse there. Or simply back to good old MzScheme? Here's the original article.

Henri Cartier-Bresson is dead

His images will live on forever.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

iMovie removes copy protection from Apple's purchased music

I find it somewhat silly to write that iMovie removes copy protection just because you can do a re-encoding of AAC files with it - coupled with the quality losses that come with re-encoding. It becomes particularly silly when you know that iTunes itself can do a re-encoding of AAC files to MP3 - and also removes the DRM in the process. But of course that way the headline sounds much cooler ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

News: Munich puts LiMux on ice

Great. Really cool.

Here's the original article.

Security vulnerability allows reading Linux kernel memory

Yuck. Ugh.

At heise online news you can find the original article.

ALG II: Children''s savings accounts are also being checked

As if politicians' hypocrisy were the biggest problem with unemployment benefit II ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Nepotism accusations against Hohlmeier's office

Should betting offices start taking bets on how long ministers stay in office?

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.

c't - Article Search

Sins of Youth

Here you can find the original article.

Gmail Full!

Cool, so someone managed to fill up the GB Mail at gmail

You can find the original article at Disobey Nonsense Network.

Youth Media Protection: Age Verification via PostIdent is Not Sufficient

Strange. Recently, another court said that entering a personal ID number (and subsequently checking the date of birth) would be sufficient. But here even Post-Ident isn't enough - even though the procedure itself is used by authorities when identification from a distance is required. All rather odd...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Cod is slowly dying out

Just reminded of it by an article on NDR. Somehow a shame. And I don't even particularly like it that much. On the plate, I mean.

Here's the original article.

Panasonic R3 Review

Unfortunately the wrong operating system for gaming kids. Ok, I could maybe run a Linux on it, but I've gotten a bit spoiled by OS X on my notebook...

You can find the original article at Gizmodo here.

Protesters Once More Arrested for Protesting Bush

Would still be something for Federal Chancellor Schröder: just lock up the annoying demonstrators ...

At morons.org headlines there's the original article.

Railway plans to close hundreds of ticket counters

If there are even fewer ticket counters open in Münster, then you could easily walk to Dortmund on foot instead of taking the train — both in terms of the length of the queue and the waiting time ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

In case of doubt against the defendant

About the nonsense that lawyers, their clients, and technically incompetent judges are causing to break the Internet.

At Telepolis News (02.08.2004) you can find the original article.

Klöden hesitates with contract extension

Another piece of evidence of how stupid Godefroot is - rejecting Klöden's contract extension is now likely to prove expensive for him. Serves him right.

I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.

Server maintenance on my server

Since I'm replacing the hardware with larger hardware and need to move all the data from one machine to the other, my weblog (and the other things currently running on simon.bofh.ms) will be down for a few hours today or tomorrow. I hope everything goes smoothly. Domains hosted with me won't have any DNS problems since the other server is still running. Anyone who has emails or other things stored with me will of course be affected by the downtime as well.

Otherwise, imagine a construction sign here with a diligent construction worker shoveling away behind it

USES AND APPLICATIONS OF 35mm LENSES

Cool. Mike Johnston evaluates the application of various focal lengths. Worth reading

Here's the original article.

Ambrai Smalltalk

A new Smalltalk for OS X. Integrated into Aqua. With all the tools you could wish for. Unfortunately only from OS X 10.3 onwards - too bad, I would have liked to take a look at it, but I'm still on 10.2.8 ...

Anyone who can give it a try - the beta is freely available. I'd be curious to know what it's like. Smalltalk used to be one of my favorite languages - though that was before my contact with Lisp machines and back in DOS times

Here you can find the original article.

No Pirates on the (Dream)Ship

The war against terror. Oh no, it's the other absurd paranoia, the one about evil pirates.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Criticism of Vatican Letter on Feminism

No Church!

Exactly one year ago today, the scarecrow ranted against same-sex marriage (P1096). Today he's ranting against feminists. The arguments are just as ridiculous and absurd as last time ...

On WDR.de you can find the original article.

Team Time Trial in BĂĽhl: Victory for CSC Duo Voigt and Julich

Great success for CSC. But of course also impressive success from Gerolsteiner - to place both teams so far up front. Armstrong? Well, he just doesn't take anything really seriously except the Tour. A shame. But the organizer already put it quite rightly at the Night of Hannover. In essence: for what Armstrong demands as a starting fee, he doesn't deliver the corresponding performance.

I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.

A Toast to the System Administrators ...

Exactly!

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Financial data online -- unreachable

I'm sorry folks, but anyone who trusts their financial data to the Moloch deserves what's coming to them

Devilish grin

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Hightech-Konzerne wollen "JPEG-Patent" kippen

It would be good if it works out. The JPEG patent could otherwise have pretty serious consequences. Still, it's clear proof of why software patents are nonsensical. If it weren't a patent that a few industry giants were interested in, the situation would be completely different. How could a small company or an open source project defend itself against such a patent? Hardly a chance ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Band Rammstein makes Rammsteinfan.de shut down

Someone who doesn't understand the internet again ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

That Gunk on Your Car

A book. About insects. In squashed condition on the windshield.

astonished face

I found the original article at www.lisaneun.com.

Bosco HOWTO

A tutorial and example code for building OpenMCL Carbon and Cocoa applications. Very interesting, this could slowly make OpenMCL on the Mac a fully-featured environment.

Yes, I'm still dreaming of a free Lisp implementation with a decent development environment

Here's the original article.

IronPython - A fast Python implementation for .NET and Mono

IronPython is now Open Source and available in version 0.6. For .NET or Mono programmers, this might be an interesting alternative to the usual C# languages.

Here you can find the original article.

Jake Ludington's Digital Lifestyle - Using the tools that make computing fun.

Ouch. A mini tripod made from a bottle cap. That really sounds very stable too.

Here's the original article.

Last.FM - Your personal music network - Personalised online radio station

Hmm. A customizable internet radio station with a kind of friends network based on music taste. Buzzword compliance is definitely there.

Here you can find the original article.

safeurl.de

This can be a danger to you. Because your website can be localized through the log files, you can be found too. This is, for example, a danger in the case of deep linking if the webmaster of the linked page does not allow it. - I see, referrer suppression explicitly propagated as a means for deep linking to content. As if one gets terribly endangered when referrers are reported on. Yeah right, a tool by webmasters for webmasters. If I were a pig, I'd say from bandwidth parasites for bandwidth parasites - but I'm nice and never say such things.

Teufelsgrinsen

Here you can find the original article.

Siemens Surprises with Profit Jump

This will certainly make the workers at the two plants very happy that the rip-off is now increasing Siemens' quarterly figures. After all, that means more money for pointless projects and if necessary it can be distributed to shareholders. But the economy is doing so badly ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.