I find the price then - given the fact that a 1 GB microdrive can be obtained for a maximum of 150 euros, which for 12 GB would only be 1500 euros - a little bit overpriced
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Today we visited the Henrichenburg ship lift in Waltrop, near Datteln. It's only about an hour's drive from Münster - and it's absolutely worth it! For one thing, of course, there's the old ship lift from 1899. Then there are all the outdoor facilities - at the upper water level there are complete canal port facilities. And finally, there's also the museum in the boiler house, which houses a complete steam engine that still functions. In addition, there's plenty more to see all around: the motor boat harbors, the old lock system from the same time as the ship lift, and of course the new ship lift as well. All of it can be visited as part of the Westphalian Industrial Museum. However, you should bring more time than we had - you can easily spend an afternoon there seeing everything.
The steam engine stands in the boiler house of the Henrichenburg ship lift.
The ship lift in Henrichenburg - construction year 1899!
Where we're on the subject of lawyers and their dubious dealings. It's not a violation of anything if a lawyer lends his name as Admin-C for something like malvorlagen.de. But of course it is a violation of the Legal Advice Act if one offers forums in which those affected by precisely this offer - as it exists on malvorlagen.de, for example - can exchange information. The lawyer certainly finds all of this quite normal. Does anyone still wonder why lawyers have such a terrible reputation?
At heise online news there's the original article.
Little known, according to Huffnagle, is that the gut is also involved in immune defense against respiratory diseases. Pathogens arriving in the airways are transported by the cilia of the bronchial mucosa toward the pharynx and swallowed from there. This way they reach the gut, where the immune system recognizes them. Defense cells are formed that also reach the lungs via the blood, where they help fight the infection. Very interesting article. For someone with chronic allergies, finally a glimmer of hope - because previous allergy medications are either chemical sledgehammers or symptom suppressants. But one would have to get at the real causes of allergies; then one could finally get rid of these annoying problems.
At passe.par.tout I found the original article.
I'd much rather deport hate preachers like Beckstein - but what country would want them... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
I already revealed (P2235) that I'm a Jim Jarmusch fan. But today I finally put the Ghost Dog DVD in the player. Simply genius. I had only seen it once on television before. Just fantastic. How those old mafiosi discuss rappers, Native Americans and their names - hilarious absurd dialogues. And then there's the ice cream vendor with the speech problem. How can anyone come up with such crazy characters? Brilliant.
What stupid drivel from Zypries. Show me the open source project or small company that can afford patent proceedings - let alone the later enforcement if one of the large corporations grabs the subject. Conversely, large corporations will use the patents to block others. That won't create jobs. Except perhaps for patent lawyers ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Of course. Where else can you achieve such high results with such cheap lies as here (wild rationalizations, idiotic high salaries and million-dollar severance packages for failed executives) ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Well. What do I expect from a distribution? And why do I use Debian in particular - and have for years? Probably it's different expectations that's why I'm so satisfied with Debian.
A distribution must realize the base system for me - this must be stable (which is why I almost always use Debian Stable), but should be easily expandable (which is why I use backports from Unstable or Testing at selected points).
The distribution must make updating the base system simple - a base system consists of a bunch of components, all of which can have some vulnerabilities. I have no desire to deal with these potential holes - that's the job of the distribution. Debian makes this almost trivial through apt. I want to be able to see what an upgrade means - so I can decide whether to do it or not. Debian provides the tools for this (e.g., automatic display of changelogs and critical bugs before installing a package). The distribution must allow me at defined points and with simple means to break out of the normal distribution. Every binary distribution has the same problem: package maintainers decide how programs should be configured. This often works well - occasionally it goes extremely wrong. Therefore, a binary distribution must allow me to compile the packages myself if necessary. With Debian, the build structure for packages is very simple. Adapting packages, backporting packages from Unstable or Testing (to get newer versions than in Stable), and creating your own packages is easy. I'm not forced into the Stable corset - but I can still stay in Stable for the base system to take advantage of Debian's good security infrastructure. The fact that it's additionally trivial to distribute your own packages to many machines by setting up your own package repository and including it alongside the standard repositories is not just nice to have - it's essential with a sufficiently large number of machines. A distribution must have functioning package dependencies and actually use them. Consistently. I have no desire to start a program and then get strange messages just because some libraries or other tools are missing. Sure, other distributions also have dependencies - but sometimes they're optional or only used very shallowly. Debian is consistent and goes very deep - everything is built on dependencies. This means you can be relatively sure that dependencies are met when you install a package normally. If not, that's a clear bug and can be reported via bug reporting - and will be fixed. Dependencies are not nice to have, they're essential. Period. Of course, a distribution must also allow breaking out of the corset with dependencies. Debian has several nice utilities for this that let you resolve dependencies - e.g., pseudo-packages that simply say a particular package is installed. This package can certainly be installed manually. A distribution must know what config files are. That means it must under no circumstances trample on my config files. If a distribution overwrites my configs on update and I get comments like make backups of them first, the distribution is out. Sorry, but I have absolutely no tolerance for that. A distribution may only change a configuration under clearly defined circumstances. And no, I have little sympathy for Debian's debconf either - if a package upgrade shreds my configs, it rains bug reports. Config files belong to me, not the distribution. Period. A distribution should damn well not try to solve all the world's problems. And especially should not try to be smarter than the original programmers of a package. If a program has a structure of config files, then it should at least optionally be usable without problems with the distribution. And that also means the distribution doesn't trample on it just because it thinks it has a better tool for it. Besides, all configuration tools stink to high heaven.
What I'm not particularly keen on: always having the very latest packages. Sorry folks, but that's the stupid update-itis that spreads in the Windows world. Always having to have the latest. Such nonsense. Apache 1.3 does its job well, you don't even need the latest 1.3 - as long as security patches have been backported. And that's what Debian does. Security patches for Stable don't simply update silently to a new version with new, unknown problems. Instead, the patch is - if possible - backported to the old version and made available via that. Security updates should only under absolute exceptional circumstances require configuration changes from the admin or alter system components, which leads to potential problems. I want a smoothly running system before and after the update!
I'm also not particularly keen on nice graphical or text-based configuration or administration tools. Sorry, but the ideal tool for these purposes is called vim and the perfect data format is text files. And yes, I can't particularly stand debconf - fortunately you can simply work around it where it's annoying - and Debian keeps its hands off the existing standard configurations, even if a package normally uses debconf. If not, that's a bug.
But I do expect a certain transparency from a distribution in what it does. I don't like one-man shows that you can't see into - where someone autocratically decides what's good or right. Or perhaps a few. I want to be able to look into everything - because the process of distribution creation can also have bugs that are essential for me. Therefore, I'm also not keen on a company building a distribution. Sorry, but sooner or later come the nice profit-maximization strategies à la RedHat Enterprise or comparable Suse approaches. If a distribution changes the standard mailer, I want to see the discussion about why it was changed - with the pro and con arguments. I want to be able to understand why something develops the way it does. I want to be warned in advance. Of course, I'm not interested in this for every package - but for the essential ones that interest me, I want this information. Transparency is important - it starts with transparent bug tracking and ends with a transparent project structure. If I had no interest in transparency, I could just as well install Solaris. Or Windows. I have no problem with: a learning curve in using the system. System administration is a job. A job requires learning. Anyone not willing to learn should stay away from the job. Arguments like I first have to understand how the system works don't count. There are plenty of documentation and good books on Debian as a starting point. Read. Learn. That's just part of it. No colorful tools and no grandiose promises from manufacturers about the easiest-to-install Linux distribution help either - it's all bullshit. When push comes to shove, you have to master the system from the kernel to the dotfile. And you have to learn that anyway, no matter what the system is called. Learning a distribution and how it works is an investment for years. Therefore, I also don't want to see my investment go down the drain just because the system was suddenly rebuilt because it appeals to the manufacturer or because it's cooler or because it sells better or because another buzzword is fulfilled. Distributions need evolution, not revolution.
Debian is not the perfect Linux distribution - no such thing exists. But Debian is damn close.
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you can find the original article.
How was that again? Privatization brings lower prices and better offerings through competition? Oh yeah. Absolutely clear.
Of course we must keep privatizing everything we can. There are still many new monopolies to create...
At heise online news there's the original article.
And once again a few impressions from walks. There's not much action on this vacation
Another tuned dinosaur returns to its ancestral world
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Sure. The software is aimed at professionals, which is why it doesn't support compact cameras with fixed lenses. But because it's so professional, it only supports JPG, not RAW images. However, the price is very professional indeed.
Sorry, but you can do the same thing with some Photoshop actions, and many of these actions can be found online and purchased for little money (or created yourself). Prices of 100 dollars for a lens module are certainly not justified.
Enblend - Blend images together without visible transitions - preliminary stage to panorama software
Haeufige Augenkrankheiten - Description of common eye diseases
Little Snitch - Reverse Firewall for Mac OS X - take a look when I have time
Noise Ninja 2.0 Beta - Noise reduction for digital images - now also for OS X
Could be quite interesting. I have some acquaintances who use Skype for calls - just Windows users (I can't exactly convert everyone to the one true faith ).
At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.
Xblend - OS X Frontend to emblend
Since today around 2:00 PM or so:
traceroute to pages.ebay.de (66.135.192.85), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 firewall (10.0.0.88) 0.751 ms 0.437 ms 0.459 ms 2 217.5.98.26 (217.5.98.26) 58.647 ms 49.401 ms 85.632 ms 3 217.237.152.194 (217.237.152.194) 46.751 ms 48.2 ms 46.915 ms 4 paix-gw12.sfo.us.net.dtag.de (62.154.5.245) 232.335 ms 232.182 ms 232.114 ms 5 * * * 6 * * *
Pretty cool. Prions have been found in muscle meat of sheep. Well, I don't eat lamb shanks or similar stuff anyway...
At New York Times: Science there's the original article.
I had already covered Prothon before - a fusion of Python and Self. Very interesting - and it has received a new version that seems much more polished.
randomthoughts: PyLucene - Lucene Wrapper for Python
And the spammers will certainly continue trying to get this garbage through the courts. But I hope they also fail in the next instance - these fake calls are an absolute cheek. These absurd advertising measures are just a nuisance for mobile phone users and have no real value - or does anyone really believe that mobile phone users would be so stupid as to use a paid service after it has spammed their phone multiple times? I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet.
Hmm. klack.de isn't so bad after all. Ok, a little colorful, but I find a TV magazine that offers RSS feeds for TV programs right on the front page sympathetic
At ab::gebloggt there's the original article.
Every time I read upgrade stories like this, I wonder what the actual advantage of Suse over Debian is supposed to be. What good is a distribution that looks nice and colorful during installation but can't be upgraded properly? And don't tell me this is an isolated case with Suse 9.1 - I've read similar horror stories about pretty much every Suse upgrade.
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you can find the original article.
Ouch. I always find it amazing how they manage to get back up and then finish the race with some broken bones anyway. Somehow their pain threshold must be way outside the normal range ... I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Triumph? Please, what? He has the absolute majority - no wonder given the starting position in the Federal Assembly. But what kind of triumph is it when we get a Federal President that no one knows and no one can do anything with - just because the parties are stubbornly clinging to their stupid party politics again? Just because stupid power-mongering by the Union and silly haggling by the FDP had to turn the presidential election into a farce once more? What kind of triumph could possibly be represented by the election of an absolute candidate of last resort? If such embarrassments are already being counted as triumphs, I don't want to experience what such people would call a debacle...
A few impressions from the city festival. Not much - I wasn't really in the mood for more pictures.
Wow!
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Once a year, blue pennants are hung up in Münster and cheerfulness is ordered. Sometimes it works too - despite the acoustic pollution that comes with the pennants.
Very handy: setting the various default handlers for various file types, URL types, MIME types, etc. Exactly the panel that Apple left out of System Preferences...
The final is out. However, trackbacking still doesn't work quite right - at least not when the target is a topic at TopicExchange. At WordPress WordBlog there's the original article.
Every user of a Canon digital camera that produces RAW images should get this update and install it as soon as possible. The EOS Viewer Utility is much more pleasant to use and it is significantly faster. All information is displayed well integrated - the only annoyance is the file tree that is still laid out far too thick, which never fits into the small area if you've created larger directory depths. But you can now hide it by pressing a key.
It's also annoying that you still can't open the EOS Viewer Utility with a start file under OS X - even with the new utility, only the folder of the image is opened as an overview, not the specified image directly. For integration with iView Media Pro, that's not exactly optimal.
Otherwise, it's definitely generations ahead and better than the old File Viewer Utility.
By the way: contrary to its designation as an English version, the updater also contains a German translation - at least under OS X.
At PhotographyBLOG you'll find the original article.
Cool. Exactly the right food for a programming language freak like me.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Awesome! Absolutely worth seeing remake!
At Ideen und Irrtümer - Streifzüge durch die neue Weltordnung you can find the original article.
Currently running on Pro7. This reminded me that I wanted to compile a list of the different versions of this theme sometime, so I'd have them ready when I want them. The original material is certainly Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa. But the most well-known version of the material is certainly For a Fistfull of Dollars by Sergio Leone. And then there's Last Man Standing by Walter Hill. Okay, and now for the puzzle: a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a sci-fi version of it and forgot what it was called. It wasn't impressive, but for completeness I'd like to have it listed here too. Any takers?
NeuroKode Labs, LLC: remoteD - Interesting IPC solution: shared storage across process boundaries with dictionary interface
I could now make the tasteless assumption that these people are concentrated in the British government apparatus. But I would never make such a mean joke at the expense of others.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
And once again a software producer that just doesn't get it. In this case, however, the problem can easily be helped along: make GAMESS so good that Gaussian software simply becomes obsolete
At heise online news there is the original article.
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Finding out the number of values the caller is expecting - Using bytecode disassembler to find out how many result values a function caller expects
The advantage of vacation: you finally get to do photography again. The disadvantage: you have to come up with titles and descriptions for all the pictures ...
