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 ...
So they can't do that in Berlin either
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Münster it didn't become. And no, Münster is not a normal case in cultural policy. At least I hope that a disaster case like Münster is not the norm ...
Tillmann's blather can be thrown in the bin anyway - as usual. Pure hypocrisy. The only true statement was "Cultural policy in Münster remains a citizens' movement" - exactly. Citizens, not a politicians' movement. The politicians in Münster at best demonetize cultural institutions and projects - the city council hasn't actually built anything.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
Yes, we've had this motif before. But it's not the same screw.
Cool. The boozers have good weather today, but at the weekend during the city festival there's a wet and cold ass? Well, we'll see. But if the city festival falls through, I wouldn't like that at all ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Speaking of strange again: SCO's behavior probably falls under that term as well. Slowly but surely, SCO seems to be preparing a witch hunt against Free Software.
You can find the original article at heise online news under this link.
So much for our government allegedly being against software patents, as it claimed itself just recently (P2234). It was all just a lie. The original article can be found at heise online news.
Somehow the Tocqueville Foundation and their appearance on the topic of Linux seem pretty strange to me...
Well, probably Tanenbaum is right: they simply have no idea what they're writing about.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Since I'm currently playing around with blog utilities and CMSes, my current WordPress installation has already gotten some content and layout improvements. Of all the alternatives for small sites, I still like it the best. For Drupal (my current favorite for larger sites), I might also find a use case.
Do I have too many domains and sites? Oh well.
Update: since I'm now running this blog with WordPress and the other one had become outdated, I simply shut it down. One less site to maintain...
WordPress Support › Static "like" pages - Discussion about creating pseudo-static pages (e.g. imprint) in WordPress
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Transactionable Objects - oversimplified idea for transactions on objects - not thread-safe, not stable
I'm currently playing around with Drupal a bit. First impression: wow! Extremely powerful, extremely many features. Though possibly too many features. But what I like right away is the very clean interface with quite logical menu structure, and how all extensions automatically hook into these menus. I also like the solution with templates and themes: themes can be divided into templates or stylesheets. This allows you to change the general system, but also just choose variants of a system. The default theme is table-based, but there's another CSS-based one to choose from. I can't really say yet how XHTML compatibility looks. Also good is the support for MySQL and PostgreSQL - I normally prefer the latter. You can also make weblogs with it, as well as static articles, entire books, stories with discussion forums similar to Slashdot or Kuro5hin and much more. However, what stands out right away is that the tools in the individual content areas are somewhat sparse - tools that specifically target weblogs often seem more complete. Specifically things like Trackback, Pingback, update pings or similar have to be installed afterwards or at least reconfigured - the standard only pings drupal.org itself for the distributed login mechanism. Also such elementary things as simple categories (more complex categories - even hierarchical - do exist, but elsewhere) for blog entries require some searching. RSS feeds are automatically created, but on some pages (for example the homepage) they first have to be linked (in user blogs the link is automatic though). Otherwise they are only contained as alternate links, but not necessarily visible to users. Overall, the whole system clearly aims to design and build entire websites with entire groups of users. However, the distributed login mechanism is really cool: users from participating systems can log into other participating systems with user@host and the login is automatically passed to the home system. Login with always the same password, but with distributed authorization. Very nice! Overall, a lot of value is placed on user management - it almost has Zope dimensions with its permission groups and the ability to create symbolic permission groups for individual activities. Less cool are the many missing metadata. There's actually hardly any metadata on content. Author, date, status - but that's more or less it (of course besides title and text, those are self-evident). Content organization is also left to the user - though there are helper tools that make creating navigation easier. However, many metadata topics (such as categories) can apparently be solved using taxonomies - these are groupings of content. The description of this is somewhat unintuitive, the topic is quite complex. Taxonomies are groupings of keywords on a topic. So I don't assign posts to categories, but rather assign keywords to posts and then organize the keywords into categories. While this provides mountains of metadata, it's far more complex than the normal blog categories you're used to.
Great again are all the content status and content versioning functionalities. All changes are logged. All changes to content are versioned. You can go back to older content and thus, for example, fix errors (or remove garbage from rogue users).
The whole system is extensible, but I suspect (haven't checked it yet, but given the range of functionality it's a likely guess) that creating plugins and filters is more involved than with small solutions like WordPress. But that's in the nature of things.
Another potential disadvantage is the unavailability of a ready-made German translation. While there are other sites working with Drupal in German, apparently no one releases the complete translation tables for download - at least I haven't found anything, neither at drupal.org itself nor on Google.
Where would I classify Drupal? Clearly in the CMS category - that's where systems like Typo3, Mambo Open Source, Plone and similar systems shine. However, it beats discussion-oriented CMSs like Scoop or Squishdot by a mile - as well as simple blog CMSs. For a simple blog system it's clearly overkill. For a complete site it seems very usable.
Python MQI Interface - pymqi. Version 0.5c - MQ Series Interface for Python - interesting in IBM environments
Releases | drupal.org - Download page for Drupal modules
Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation - Interesting text conversion to XHTML for PHP and Perl - similar to reStructured Text
If I were to slap every politician and official who doesn't suit me, my hand would fall off from pain...
At tagesschau.de - The News from ARD you can find the original article.
Once again proof of the stupidity and/or corruption of the EU Commissions and Councils. For how else could one explain such nonsense? There are not many European companies that could have an interest in software patents. But American companies are certainly ready to ram their idiotic patents through Europe and kick competitors out of the market.
There is no macroeconomic need for blocking patents - and that is precisely what software patents are.
That this decision also clearly goes against the decision of the elected representatives of the people - parliament - apparently bothers no one anymore ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Of course such an extortion strategy is entirely in the interest of the patient and health and has nothing to do with rip-off and shirking of responsibility. How could anyone get the idea that in a health system with problems all stakeholders must accept disadvantages. Absurd notion, when it is so clearly obvious that only the patients have drawn the short straw. Whatever you do, don't touch the vested interests ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Another blogging software in Python - seems similar to PyDS
papercut.org - nntp server for the masses - NNTP server with flexible backend - integrable in forum software
Well, it's about time that Canon cleaned up their outdated RAW utilities. The previous ones (File Viewer Utility and Image Browser) are terribly slow and rather mediocre in terms of usability. Hopefully the release of the new tools with 10D support will come fairly soon, and hopefully Canon won't forget the OS X platform again...
Shrook 2 - RSS and Atom for Mac OS X - Yet another feed reader for OS X - similar to iTunes
Oh, he apologized? Well then everything is fine. It's not really a problem anyway, he only teaches at the Bundeswehr University of Applied Sciences, where future officers are trained. And after all, they need to be prepared for when Germany defends democracy at the Hindukush or elsewhere sometime ...
At tagesschau.de - The news from ARD you can find the original article.
Did you know that with the technique of Chinese body control you can influence your testicles to withdraw into your body for protection? - I'm doing that right now! - Mulder in The X-Files. When the show was still good.
b2evolution also makes a good impression on paper. It's surprising how far all these blog programs have come while you're not looking.
In any case, b2evolution makes a very good showing when it comes to antispam and security. And it also seems to have good XHTML support and a plugin architecture. The plugins are divided by purpose (Edit-Plugins and Toolbar-Plugins). I think the somewhat simpler form of plugins in WordPress will be easier for many to understand, but programmers will probably prefer b2evolution.
Personally, the admin environment is a bit too playful for me - though I only looked at it in the online demo. Also, the standard template doesn't look as clean and tidy as WordPress's - I think with the latter you have an easier start to impose your own layout. What's definitely nice is the choice of input parser for posts - I've done something like that in the Python Desktop Server too, precisely because you don't always want to have certain plugins active. Otherwise, it's of course very similar to WordPress - it's also a b2 descendant. WordPress probably has better support for images since it can automatically create thumbnails. Also, b2evolution lacks the metaWeblogAPI. On the other hand, what's nice is the integration of referrers and search engines directly into the blog - similar to the evaluation that the Python Community Server does for me. The usability design of b2evolution seems a bit confusing in places: permalinks to posts are small chain symbols, permalinks to comments are small document symbols. It's also somewhat inconsistent in other places.
Conclusion? If I can draw one at all from this mini-test, I'd say that for me, b2evolution implements just one small checkbox, switch, or option too many for most features. Therefore, I would personally lean more towards WordPress - I can imagine the code is somewhat simpler in structure and therefore custom hacks can be integrated more easily.
In terms of function, however, b2evolution clearly wins on points. Whoever prefers lots of features and likes to draw from a full well, or who wants to venture beyond normal blogs more strongly into the CMS area, will certainly be thrilled with b2evolution.
What I don't understand with either b2evolution or WordPress: neither of the two projects implements stories. That is, article formats that are not fixed to the calendar. Sure, you can realize that with a category or with a separate blog (with b2evolution's multiblogs functionality certainly much easier than the category hack needed for WordPress), but I find it impractical that you have to go to such lengths just for an imprint...
Computation Streaming in Python - Interesting alternative technique to threads - particularly interesting for Medusa
entrian.com - goto for Python - goto for Python - GOTO and COMEFROM for Python
