Inaugural Address
Next he starts lisping and shouting Tschaka ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Dashboard III
Some more background on what Dashboard is technically and how it works. Cool construction: Bundles (basically marked directories) with a web page, CSS, JavaScript and optionally native code that gets loaded into this whole mess. And all the graphical effects are simply CSS3 possibilities, so everything is built on standards. Sounds quite interesting.
At Surfin' Safari there's the original article.
Glibc-based Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Glibc-based Debian GNU/kFreeBSD - Debian on the FreeBSD Kernel
Open Source Applications Foundation
Open Source Applications Foundation - Interesting PIM with reference to Lotus Agenda
Symbolic decision against software patents in The Hague
The Dutch once again. Showing us what reason and parliamentary democracy can be. But nothing like that will come our way, surely. After all, our members of parliament would have to show something like an independent opinion and even criticize the government ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Knowledge management, data mining and information mapping with Grokker.
Knowledge management, data mining and information mapping with Grokker. - Visual search tool
Leica Announces Summilux-M f/1.4/50mm ASPH. Lens
You can still teach old dogs new tricks.
At PhotographyBLOG you'll find the original article.
"Lord of the Rings" now has artificial satellites
I'm already looking forward to the pictures that will come from the probe (now it's actually a satellite).
At Telepolis News (01.07.2004) you can find the original article.
Security hole in iptables in Linux kernel 2.6
Disgusting. Ok, not relevant for all configurations, but still disgusting. And once again proof that C is a stupid language - at best a glorified assembler.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Is Siemens Squandering Its Good Reputation?
Sometimes there are really new things in the news that I wasn't aware of. For example, the fact that apparently Siemens has a good reputation that it could squander...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Xanalys LispWorks Press Release
Xanalys LispWorks Press Release - LispWorks for OS X
Dashboard
The Safari programmer's blog tells quite briefly what Dashboard widgets are made of: HTML pages with CSS and JavaScript for the dynamic portion. That's clearly quite different from Konfabulator widgets, which are written in JavaScript only and have far less to do with web pages. Sure, Dashboard copied the idea from Konfabulator - but from what one can read, Dashboard goes well beyond Konfabulator in many ways (for example, the configuration pages on the back of the widget - cool idea). Whether this really is a copy of Konfabulator, or whether it was simply logical that this feature would eventually come along, is certainly debatable. To those claiming that Konfabulator was copied, I just want to remind them of one thing: NextStep already had irregular windows and similar graphical gimmicks in its time, albeit much more moderately and of course not in this technical implementation. Still, the idea really isn't as new as some would have you believe now. Strictly speaking, the sticky notes are already an application that moves in the Dashboard direction in terms of design - just not built generally, but specialized.
My personal assessment is that the Konfabulator people simply anticipated something with their tool that had to come sooner or later - they simply filled a gap until that point in time. But expecting that Apple wouldn't come out with such tools would be just as naive as expecting that Apple would stop delivering a web browser for its own system.
On the other hand, I could of course be completely wrong...
At Surfin' Safari you can find the original article.
Ministry of Justice wants to place further obstacles in the way of online copiers
No, Mr. Hucko, with such an absurd proposal, poor pigs is the wrong term. Stupid pigs is more fitting if you're suggesting extending the information rights of law enforcement agencies towards Internet providers to private snooping operations of the film industry. Such nonsense. At heise online news you can find the original article.
Tour withdrawal for Jaksche after training accident
And darn. I like Jaksche - a likeable driver, always seems pretty relaxed in interviews and not as intense or even arrogant as some others. And he's a damn good driver - he certainly would have brought a bit more excitement to the Tour.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Bergen Linux User Group
RFC 1149 - TCP over Avian Carrier - was actually implemented once. There are pictures of the event and a short description. Ping times of over 6000 seconds. Wow.
Law-free spaces are illegal
A small but important victory for reason in the USA.
At Telepolis News (29.06.2004) you can find the original article.
Save the iPod
In the USA, there's another crazy bill proposal to regulate music users. In this case, if the proposal becomes law, all devices that can play music without explicit permission from the music industry would be illegal. That includes the iPod - after all, it plays all music tracks without DRM. Or iTunes, which rips CDs and doesn't use DRM for files created this way.
Ruling: Performance-based civil service remuneration is lawful
With such things, I always find myself questioning the definition of performance... At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Cupertino, start your photocopiers!
Well, the Konfabulator programmers are taking the latest alleged screenshots of Tiger with humor and striking back
Limited Microdrives in Creative's MP3 Player Muvo
Oh man. What nonsense. Now I have to search around to see if I can still find a cheap old MuVo2 somewhere
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Kate Bush Discography - Albums - This Woman's Work
Kate Bush Discography - Albums - This Woman's Work - Kate Bush album that I'm still missing - with some songs I don't have yet
Levenshtein
Levenshtein - Very simple Levenshtein distance in pure Python
mono » Fast Company's Linking Policy
That's just crazy: Fast Company demands a signed document (which is only available in Word format) in order to give a website the right to link to a page from Fast Company ...
More Pictures of the Handkerchief Tree
Since you don't see a flowering handkerchief tree very often, I put the remaining images online on my image server (no longer online since 2007).
"Polar Bear" Belongs to Grönemeyer
Will Eisbär von Grauzone now become retroactively illegal? And what about the little polar bear and its DVDs? Somehow this trademark registration seems more than strange to me ... At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft there's the original article.
Doctors protest against public insurance
Funny. When it came to cutting copayments for therapeutic treatments for public insurance patients, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians didn't exactly jump into action. Nobody really stands up for patient rights - and ultimately for patients' healthcare provision either. In the end, it's all just about the money.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
"Bernd the Bread" only has to suffer during the day now
Well, thanks to this stupid ISH thing, I haven't had the Kinderkanal from 21:00 onwards anyway, just MDR or something like that, so I haven't been able to watch Bernd for much longer. It's still a shame though ... At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Digital Camera with 30x Optical Zoom
That would be something for Jutta - after all, she's already thought about wanting to have a spotting scope with Digilux. There's the original article at PhotographyBLOG.
Largest flower production since euro introduction discovered
Why didn't they just counterfeit coins? They're in short supply.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
idw - University of Bremen: Early building blocks of the genome discovered in meteorite
Eventually we'll discover that we're all aliens
LinuxTag: Global File System under GPL
Finally. Maybe there's finally a usable cluster filesystem solution for Linux. We've needed that for a while now ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Mark/Space launches The Missing Sync 4.0
The feature list sounds nice. Especially the Internet connection sharing via Bluetooth. It would be quite convenient to chat on the Palm from the couch using the Mac's Internet connection, wouldn't it?
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
More Work, Less Money
What comes next? Will more companies blackmail their employees and unions? Because that's exactly what Siemens did here. And then it's celebrated as a patriotic act. The original article is at WDR.de.
Union demands more sex
Oh man, when something like these pathetic CSU politicians comes out, then I ask for more restraint ...
And again it shows that there is nothing so stupid that a politician couldn't be found to express it publicly.
At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD you can find the original article.
Berlusconi will not have lost the election
Yes. Now he's completely lost it. Of course. Italy's media mogul claims he was cheated in the election by the oh-so-professional opposition - meanwhile it was him who normally tipped the scales in his favor through massive media deployment during elections. But as always with politicians: they themselves are definitely not to blame. If necessary, it's the evil opposition, cosmic radiation, or the stupid voters. But never the politicians themselves.
At tagesschau.de - The News of ARD you can find the original article.
OpenMCL Documentation
OpenMCL Documentation - Documentation for the best free PPC Lisp environment
PostgreSQL News 3rd Beta of Slony Master -> Multi-slave replication system
PostgreSQL News 3rd Beta of Slony Master -> Multi-slave replication system - Replication solution for PostgreSQL
Free fonts by the tons at Fontazm! M Fonts
Free fonts by the tons at Fontazm! M Fonts - Tons of free fonts
Image theft htaccess and online aggregators from Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent
I've already complained about those deep-link preventers based on the referrer being pretty stupid when you include your images in the RSS feed - because then aggregators can no longer display the images without further ado, since the deep-link prevention kicks in. Pretty annoying - especially when the aggregator is displayed in a web browser, because then it caches the prevention image and when accessing the original pages, it no longer loads the correct image, but first has to be forced to refresh.
Apple - RSS Information
What else Apple has in terms of RSS feeds. I have no idea if I've covered this before, but it's still useful anyway.
Canon EOS 10D - non-functional design
The prism of the EOS 10D protrudes beyond the bayonet. Completely without any useful function - merely an homage to older designs. Stupid. Because the EOS 10D cannot be connected directly to my bellows this way, as the prism collides with the camera standard. I need an extension ring as a spacer.
Classic case of design ignoring function...
Medication Nation
If you read through this - medication abuse could certainly explain one or another slightly paranoid behavior of the US administration ...
At Word Soup you can find the original article.
Ullrich wins Tour de Suisse in time trial
It's already a bit mean to win with only a one-second lead
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.