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The apple seems to be a bit rotten on the inside...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Archive 5.5.2004 - 14.5.2004
Vatican warns against Christian-Muslim marriage
And when will the Catholic Church begin to respect human rights, personal rights, and democracy?
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.
Missing in NRW: Almost one billion euros
Dieckmann finds the situation alarming? I find it alarming that politicians apparently knew nothing about it beforehand - do these idiots actually just manage everything without any plan? Doesn't any of them make calculations that have something to do with reality? Has "Oops - we're missing a billion, sorry, no problem, let's just carry on" already become the norm for politicians these days? The original article is available at WDR.de.
Federal Government in the Camp of Software Patent Critics
I'll believe it when I see it...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Five Friends of the Sasser Author Under Suspicion
Can the rights manager of Enid Blyton now sue over this? Or is there a new book - Five Friends and a Worm? At heise online news you can find the original article.
Google spammers are also extortionists
It's all very strange already. The comments on the post too. Though I'm not sure who should seem funnier to me: the embarrassing Google spammers or this Don Alphonso...
Well, let's wait for the second part, when the great detective has found Jörg
At Der Schockwellenreiter there is the original article.
Greens demand dismissal of Wolffsohn
That's outrageous. Once again, a brainless idiot who thinks that fighting terrorism demands abandoning all principles. And lo and behold, Hohmann immediately shows solidarity with him - because they're both just poor victims. Oh, those poor misunderstood worms. Funny only that these poor misunderstood souls always spout such intellectual garbage.
And no, I am absolutely not of the opinion that one should fight terror with terror (because torture is nothing else). Whoever advocates that - fighting terror with torture - deserves to find themselves in a corresponding situation as a suspect. Then they won't talk such bullshit anymore...
Therefore: such a historian who has learned so little from what he researches deserves to be fired. As a professor, someone so stupid and resistant to learning is unacceptable.
You can find the original article at tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD: the original article.
Hackers and Painters
Paul Graham has written a book about hackers (in the Lisp sense — not the twisted and false sense that the press abuses) and their motivations and ideas. It's coming out soon. The whole thing started as an article in which he compares programming to painting — and now there's an entire book about it. Certainly interesting, since Paul Graham himself is one of the more interesting Lisp hackers. Reading the book could therefore also be worthwhile. And it won't make you any dumber either.
HTMLTemplate - Interesting compact template technique for Python
Jim Jarmusch is a cinema god
Today I finally took advantage of the terrible TV program and threw Down by law into the player. Wonderful. And once again I get to be annoyed that I never saw it in the cinema on the big screen. Shots like photographs by Feininger, quirky characters, oblique dialogue, the music by John Lurie and songs by Tom Waits. That's almost cinema nirvana.
Vehicle License Plate Abuser Takes Case to Court
This is almost cute. He gets slapped down twice in court and he tries again with the same nonsense as before. By the way, there's prior art: MausNet has always used the vehicle registration abbreviation in the domains for the respective mailbox, just as in the name of each mailbox. And that was long before the silly EU patent ... At heise online news there's the original article.
News: »Debian GNU/Linux« is back
YES!! No, I don't need the manual anymore. But I can use it to shut people up who bug me with questions
OpenBSD Chef de Raadt criticizes patented TCP fix
Great. Cisco wants to get a technique into TCP/IP that is patented and licensed by Cisco. I hope the IETF doesn't accept this nonsense. As Theo de Raadt correctly noted, there are better solutions. And what Cisco has so proudly patented is so trivial that you have to wonder why on earth anyone granted a patent for it...
That's all we needed, patent madness and patent absurdities in the basic internet protocol
At heise online news there's the original article.
The Joy of Specs
Now the W3C is meddling with Atom by wanting it to become an official W3C spec instead of an IETF draft. I find things like references to how well the Atom group built consensus in the community embarrassing—anyone who followed Atom's development even a little knows that much of this has nothing to do with consensus, but simply with the fact that some people spend more time on it than others and apparently have nothing important to do—and just push through their ideas via relentless siege tactics. The loudest mouths also like to resort to falsifying history and lies just to take a shot at their competitor RSS. Of course, this is answered accordingly by the equally obtuse loudest proponents of RSS. A lovely mud-slinging match with no real value for users.
Anyone who now thinks this exactly reflects the development of HTML back when HTML was still an IETF draft, and believes that the corresponding people deserve nothing more than having their spec end up as a standard at the W3C, has understood the point.
On Workbench you can find the original article.
BBC develops 'alternative' codec | The Register
Very interesting, a new video codec. And the BBC put it under an open source license right from the start!
Emu48 for Mac OS X
The emulator I use for calculators on the Sony Clie also has relatives for OS X
Firewalls and Complexity
Ouch. =F6 reports on a rather silly article in Computerwoche that dreams of magical web validation firewalls ...
At The Wonderful World of Isotopp you can find the original article.
iSync and Daily Appointments
Is there a valid reason why iSync doesn't synchronize all-day events? My calendar displays the all-day event. PHPCalendar also shows the all-day events. iCal also displays the all-day events correctly as all-day events. But neither my Palm nor my mobile phone are syncing the all-day events. However, the iPod does get them and displays them - albeit with a time of 00:00. I really don't understand what that's supposed to be about...
Rau admonishes elites: "Lost all standards"
They will listen to Brother Johannes just as much as they listen to Chief Silverlock - namely, not at all.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
More Bluetooth Phones Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks
Now I've got the S55 and what's this? It's also vulnerable to Bluetooth attacks. But at least only Denial-of-Service and not Bluesnarf. The latter would be rather annoying - after all, I use the phone and Bluetooth for remote administration of servers ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
iTunes Cracker: New Name, New Attempt
On to the next round.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
New Phone - New Problems
Now I got a Siemens S55 as a replacement for my Nokia with the broken Bluetooth. The phone can also fetch emails from a POP3 mailbox. Great. Except it doesn't work. I've already tried all the included providers, played around with all possible custom settings, tried the data from T-Mobile and T-Zones, searched and configured and fiddled. The phone alternates depending on the setting between "No response from network" and "POP3 port of the server cannot be reached". Makes perfect sense. Why do these little bastards have to have such a pathetic user interface and an even more pathetic manual? Setting up my Clie to fetch email over GPRS was trivial. Setting up my notebook accordingly was of course also easy. This stupid phone of course not. The smallest piece of junk in the bunch and causes the most trouble.
If anyone thinks as twisted as the phone manufacturers or has already figured out how to set up the S55 so it retrieves from a normal POP3 server via GPRS, please get in touch.
Update - got it working. This damned phone is not capable of telling you that the GPRS connection is not active and therefore doesn't use GPRS but something analog instead, which for reasons beyond my comprehension but completely irrelevant to me doesn't work.
PearPC - About - Emulator for PPC hardware on non-PPC systems
Photographic Solutions, Inc. - New Products - Manufacturer of chip cleaning tools for digital cameras
The Price is Hot
OK, the price is crazy, but if we get music from Simon and Garfunkel again, I think it's worth other people paying for it
At No Retreat, No Surrender there's the original article.
Just posted! Leica Digilux 2 review
Everything you never wanted to know about the Leica Digilux 2 but are now being told anyway
By the way: the excessiveness with which Digital Photography Review tests and describes equipment is fascinating. For many consumer cameras, the DPreview test can easily serve as a manual...
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
At the latest ...
... if someone in the apartment below you in a rental building is dribbling a basketball ...
PyInvoke - interesting RPC mechanism for Python
Rsync Vault Manager - Backup system based on rsync
SCO vs. Linux: Royal Bank of Canada wants to exit
So here's the summary:
- Royal Bank of Canada out
- Baystar Capital in big
- Baystar Capital wants stronger focus on the court proceedings
- more technicians will be laid off
- no more usable support for SCO products
- customers finally jump ship from SCO
- SCO's financial foundation goes down the drain
- IBM tears apart SCO's alleged claims in court
- SCO is history
So what did all this madness accomplish? A traditional name in the Unix world disappears, many programmers are unemployed and many SCO customers are left out in the cold with outdated products and no support. And a few lawyers are making a killing.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Sven J has messed up...
What bothers me about this, though: now they've caught the stupid guy who produced Sasser. Ok, he's getting what he deserves - rightly so. But who's finally going to do something about Microsoft and their criminal neglect of security? Who's going to hold the real culprit responsible - the one whose crappy software makes all these worm waves possible in the first place?
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you'll find the original article.
TimeCopy Conduit - Synchronize time and date (as well as time zone and daylight saving time/standard time) on the Palm from the Mac desktop
Calculate More Beautifully
Yes! Thanks for the link. Exactly what I need. The RPN for the Palm is nice, but I'm used to better things.
Update: I've installed it now. All I can say is: Wow. With three exclamation marks. The emulator is really fast and - because it uses original ROMs - perfect. And the ability to use all three calculators independently is genius. You basically have three calculators with you.
I've dug out my HP48 manual again.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Suse Live CD open to network attacks
Suse seems to have interpreted the "open" in OpenSSH a bit differently
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Calerga - SysQuake - Mathematics software for OS 9 and OS X
You outdated visitor of our homepage!
Wow. That's quite a way to address visitors: instead of providing alternative representations that would pique the visitor's curiosity about the missing content and motivate them to install the required plugin, you're insulted for being backward. Quite a strategy. Of course, something like this could only happen on pages like those of Hamburg Medial School.
If media designers of the future are being trained there, we're in for a lot of arrogant bunglers...
I found this at netbib weblog where I came across the original article.
LispMe Homepage - Lisp for the Palm - also for Palm OS 5
Schröder Pressures Banks to Merge
Another mindless call to sell out.
You can find the original article at tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD here.
There are marks at the base of my PowerBook's display screen
Ouch. The PowerBooks are built so flat in some cases that the key caps may press against the display in the area of the PowerBook's hinge and leave pressure marks there. The designers of this thing probably also wear pants that are too tight and shoes that are too small.
At Apple Computer Top PowerBook Knowledge Base Documents you can find the original article.
Business rejects training pact
And Clement keeps spouting off that the economy would manage it on a voluntary basis. While in North Rhine-Westphalia the number of training applications is rising, but the supply of apprenticeships is dropping dramatically. And what's the result? Youth unemployment. Just great. And then the business bosses whine about the poor state of training at Germany as a business location. Lying scumbags.
Companies that don't train even though they could are deliberately destroying the future of young people out of egoism and arrogance. Young people who can't defend themselves because politicians would rather crawl up the arses of business bosses than show some backbone for those who should be our future.
That's one way to destroy the future. Completely deliberate, completely systematic and without any real economic reason.
It takes on extremely idiotic features with the Union, by the way: on the one hand they whine that the population is ageing and not enough children are coming along, on the other hand they're naturally massively against offering the existing children and young people a future. And immigration laws – which could also lead to a supply of young people, for example – they naturally want to block those too.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
A.L.Digital : The Bunker : Press - More info about the Bluetooth hack
Art of B/W #005 @Digital Outback Photo
An interesting article about B&W conversion. Here, multiple layers are used to create the B&W image, with the normal color image retained in the base layer. All conversion components are designed as separate layers and can therefore be adjusted at any time later. Certainly a quite interesting technique, especially since you don't need any additional plugins.
Boyz need Toyz: Sony Clie PEG TH55
I've had a Son since yesterday as a PDA. Very nice. MP3 player, camera, image viewer, document viewer, Bluetooth, WLAN, voice recorder, Memory Stick slot - everything you could wish for. And the battery life on this device is finally decent - not like the high-end Palms that need to be charged daily because they barely get through the day on standby... With The Missing Sync you can synchronize the device beautifully under Mac OS X and with Apple's iSync Palm Conduit you can link iCal and the Sony together via Bluetooth. Very nice. Especially since I've connected my iCal to several company calendars with a little homemade tool and can thus pull my work appointments from the Exchange server via my iCal to my Sony - and that without having to be at the office. Now I just need to figure out how to elegantly connect the Sony's camera to my blog - via GPRS of course (surfing already works, I would just need a MetaWeblogAPI client for Palm OS 5 that can also handle media). Then I could do mobile photoblogging.
«Longhorn» only for super-PCs
Well, then Microsoft will just have to hope that the 4-6 GHz processors they're envisioning come soon. Or they could finally start learning how to program decently. New OS X releases, meanwhile, got faster rather than slower from release to release.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Security Corporation - Nokia 6310i
And now guess which phone I have ...
smittyware.com - upIRC - IRC Client for Palm OS® - IRC Client for Palm OS
:: t e k t o n i c a ::
Looks like a nice and complete blogging software for Palm OS 5 devices. It even supports media uploads via MetaWeblogAPI - though I would first have to teach that to PyDS and Wordpress before I could use it. But oh well, I have way too few projects on my plate anyway.
Vagablog - Blogging for Palm Devices
And yet another blogging software. This one also looks quite usable. It could also take care of my rather neglected Livejournal. However, it cannot upload images, that would have to be done via email beforehand.
What becomes of formerly interesting websites
Previously the source for Security Exploits. Today you can find information about warts and how to have them removed ... Here's the original article.