Generic SOAP Client
Generic SOAP Client - Generic SOAP client with WSDL support for testing
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Hookworms against allergies
Just saw on WDR: a scientist trying to find a remedy against hookworms - a widespread parasite - in Africa accidentally infected himself. And suddenly his hay fever was gone. Strange world.
While researching this, I found the linked article from Netzeitung from 2001.
lython - lisp for python
lython - lisp for python - Lisp Frontend for Python
Microsoft classifies Outlook vulnerability as critical
8 months to recognize that a hole is critical after receiving a description of the hole and its effects? Respect!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
New Large Donation from Möllemann Emerges
The Misery Never Ends
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Paul Nevai's PaulComputing (www.paulcomputing.com)
Paul Nevai's PaulComputing (www.paulcomputing.com) - Powerful editor for Palm OS
RUS-CERT warns against Mozilla
No, open source is not necessarily connected with security. And Mozilla is a big pile of source. And in some respects more of a heap of garbage than a heap of gold ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
What tools I use
Just a list of additional tools I've installed on my Mac
Just a list of the additional tools I've installed on my Mac. Of course this isn't complete - I have quite a bit more installed. But each of the following small tools does a very specific job that's important to me. And it does this job efficiently, simply and reliably. Without any fuss or problems. And they look good doing it.
- ASM: the classic application switcher that sits in the menu and allows quick switching between applications. Brilliant for Mac old-timers - and I find it much more pleasant than the Dock for this purpose. It doesn't jitter around
- WindowShade: offers several alternatives to minimizing to the Dock. I think the transparency feature is particularly great - quickly take a look at a window underneath the current window. Or convert the window into a thumbnail that stays on the desktop. The third variant is title minimization.
- LaunchPad: a brilliant combination of graphical and command-line oriented application launcher. I often prefer a simple text interface. LaunchPad is essentially a form of command completion like shells offer, just graphical.
- Brightness Control: a lifesaver for users of calibrated monitors. With those, you really shouldn't fiddle with brightness and contrast, since they're part of the calibration. This tool allows you to adjust brightness independently of the hardware setting. Unfortunately there's a small bug with the screensaver engaging, but otherwise just great.
- Codetek Virtual Desktop: virtual desktops like they're common in the X11 world. I simply got used to it - I put a subject area with windows on each desktop. This allows easier switching between tasks, since the window layout doesn't get changed by newly started programs - on each desktop the window is in front again that was in front last time.
- Geektool: exactly what you'd expect it to be. A tool that delivers everything for the geek heart. Have logfiles written directly to the background. Or display web addresses on the desktop live. I like it when I can see my logfiles - for example, many problems with GUI applications become much more understandable that way.
- MenuMeters: with this you can put small icons in the menu bar that provide information about CPU load or disk access, or memory usage. Ideal for quickly and easily staying informed about the system state.
From 2005: Abitur after twelve years
So that children can get into unemployment even faster. And be properly burned out beforehand.
You can find the original article at WDR.de.
The Dialer Scammers Continue
English Translation
If you visit malvorlagen.de again (no, I still don't link such sites, and you still shouldn't click on links there!), you'll see a shameful disclaimer at the bottom of the page stating that this offer is unsuitable for persons under 18 years of age (why then the direct address to children in the web design?) and that costs of 29.95 euros per call from Germany would be incurred. Particularly brazen about this: the upper limit that RegTP has set for dialers with flat-rate billing. Are these signs of a legitimate business operation? A website that targets over 18-year-old children looking for coloring pages for 30 euros? And requires a dialer for that? It's absolutely a mystery to me why something like this is still legal. On one hand, the entire page is still clearly geared toward children (and children certainly won't pay much attention to the sentence at the bottom), on the other hand, a dialer at 30 euros per call for coloring pages is definitely not something that can be considered a normal payment system - no matter how absurd some lawyers argue about it (who even register themselves by name as the admin-C of such domains). The whole thing is simply revolting. Fortunately, the Federal Court of Justice has now at least put a stop to this, so that such nonsense can no longer be collected directly by the telecommunications provider. (P2025). The addition with the price is new - probably due to the cease-and-desist letter that was sent to the domain owner by the Berlin Consumer Centre. Unfortunately, it's likely that children will still fall for it in its current form.
Oracle ...
Q: Why do I get an "ORA-01400: Cannot insert NULL into column name" when inserting a blank string?
A: This is a known Oracle issue. When inserting or updating a value for a varchar2, if you try to insert an empty string (""), Oracle interprets the value as NULL. If there is a NOT NULL restriction on the column in which you are inserting the value, the database throws the ORA-01400 error.
Moppelkotze
Telekom CEO Ricke: Staff will continue to be reduced
Manager: back in the black, rake in atypical industry profits, but of course continue laying off employees. And then whine that all the unemployed people you just created yourself are a burden on you. Wonder why nobody in the domestic market wants to buy your overpriced products anymore and then complain that Germany as a business location is unproductive and too expensive. And never take responsibility for your own actions.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Textile chain Boecker is bankrupt
Oops. Not only did I not know that there was a chain behind it, I also didn't know they had problems.
At WDR.de there is the original article.
Divmod.Org :: Home :: Projects :: Quotient
Divmod.Org :: Home :: Projects :: Quotient - Python messaging server based on Twisted
Digilux 2 Review - Part 1
First part of a planned three-part series on the Leica Digilux 2. What's interesting is the good rating of image quality when using RAW. This was one of the main criticisms of the Digilux 1.
What strikes me as negative from the first impression, of course, is again the electronic viewfinder and especially the lack of write buffer for RAW images, so that even with a fast card you have to wait 6 seconds between two shots. In my opinion, this is no longer up to date; many cameras have reasonably sized write buffers for RAW as well. However, even more compact digital cameras don't have a RAW mode at all...
All in all, the first impression sounds quite positive.
Emmanuel Renieris's Software Page
Emmanuel Renieris's Software Page - Python interface to agraph from GraphViz
Counterfeiters in the Wild Domain West
And the cease and desist letter madness continues. Now with umlauts. Äbmähnwähnsinn!
At Telepolis News (08.03.2004) you can find the original article.
FDP must hold European party conference again
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
gnutellavision: intro
gnutellavision: intro - Radial layout of graphs
mfGraph Library Homepage
mfGraph Library Homepage - Windows Python module for reading GraphViz Dot files
My blogging space - a meme
OK, so if this is a meme (I always thought a meme would be neuter, but never mind, it's beside the point), then of course I have to participate too. On the left a Mac, on the right a Mac, in the middle stands a TV. I'm glad I didn't get the rest of the 20 computers in my room in the picture...
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Parser-SIG - SIG on Parser Generation for Python - Liste von Parser Generatoren für Python
Hamburg Central Station North, U2
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Nord, U2
U-Bahn station Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Nord, U2.
pyparsing -- a class library for text processing in Python - Interessante Klassenbibliothek für Parser in Python
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification - Vector graphics on the web - Specification
TAMS Home Page
TAMS Home Page - Text analysis on OS X - produces GraphViz output
WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator
WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator - Useful accessibility tester
Worms switches from Sendmail to Microsoft Exchange
Driving out the devil with Beelzebub. And why? Because an MTA doesn't support file sharing and calendar management? Oh man, with such qualified IT management, you can only wish the city of Worms good luck ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Groundbreaking Ruling: Federal Court of Justice Ends Dialer Madness - Networld - SPIEGEL ONLINE
And here we go again with something sensible. Hey, the BGH is really on a roll at the moment
today.t-online.de - Union apparently wants to relax wage and labor law
And it turns out that all sides once again have no concept other than taking money away from citizens. Except that the Union's approach is supposed to be even more brazen and shows even less respect for citizens.
Linux Magazine - CUPS
I don't see a Markdown blog post body to translate in your message. You've provided a link reference to a Linux-Magazin article about CUPS, but there's no actual Markdown content that needs translation.
Please provide the blog post Markdown body that you'd like me to translate from German to English, and I'll translate it while preserving the Markdown structure and leaving code blocks untranslated.
LWN: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract
Because I'm currently dealing with GPL-FUD in a discussion again, here's the appropriate link to an explanation of why GPL is not a viral license with contractual character, but simply one thing: a license for the use of source code.
Incorrect use of GPL source does not automatically make the new project GPL as well. The reverse path is indeed correct: if you want to use GPL software as an integral component, then your project must also be under GPL. But that effect works in exactly only this direction. Incorrect use of GPL source at worst only leads to one thing: the withdrawal of the license to use that source. So the project simply has to do exactly what it should have done anyway: write the corresponding part itself.
Equally absurd is the claim that you give up your rights to your source code when you contribute it to a GPL project. Of course you retain all rights to your own source code. My experience with arguments of this direction: I'm not contributing to the project because it's under GPL and therefore I can't freely use my own source code anymore are just lazy excuses for what is actually the case: I'm not contributing to the project because I can't freely use your source code for my other projects because my projects shouldn't be GPL. And that's something entirely different - nobody takes away your rights to your own source code (unless you explicitly give them up - in the context of official GNU projects it's customary to transfer rights to the FSF). But you don't automatically gain rights to other source code just because you contributed something yourself. And another thing: people who threaten that their great innovative ideas won't go into a project because it's under GPL usually don't have anything really innovative to deliver anyway. Actually, the number of innovative contributions to projects is minimal anyway - and strangely enough, the people who really deliver innovative parts have the least problems with the license...
Jaguar slow with context menu
Maybe one of my readers has an idea: my Jaguar has been acting up for a few days. Specifically, the context menu is very slow - it takes about 10-20 seconds to open. While it's not opening, the computer reads lots of data from the disk. It somehow looks like something's mixed up somewhere, but I have no idea what it could be. Any tips? The normal menu isn't exactly fast either, but not as sluggish as the context menu. Once it's been open, it's fast as usual after that - it only seems to be searching for something the first time ...
I originally only noticed it in Safari, but then I realized it happens in other programs too. Apparently generally with the context menu.
Update: it was either Cumulus or Portfolio. Probably the latter - because Portfolio installs a whole bunch of additional components, like a context menu plugin for example. And when I threw it out of /Library/Contextual Menu Items/, the machine was back to its usual speed with context menus. What a piece of junk ...
Open Source Initiative OSI - Doc10: Halloween Documents
Already embarrassing the whole thing, especially since SCO now also had to admit that it's real. Of course we're all interpreting that completely wrong ...
Python: module inspect - Introspection for Python modules
What the Bild newspaper can do, we can do too!
Nice. So the Springer Press doesn't like it when it's supposed to taste its own medicine. And what does it do then? Exactly. What all these oh-so-truth-loving and upstanding citizens and institutions do: they hire lawyers and threaten with them.
At Telepolis News (05.03.2004) you can find the original article.
Canto - Digital Asset Management with Cumulus - Products & Services
The most problematic test subject: confusing interface (the icons in the toolbar are admittedly coordinated with each other, but are barely distinguishable at first glance) and significantly worse performance compared to the competition (P2008 and P2004) and then there are also display errors. For example, the entire layout would get scrambled when using the scroll wheel of the trackball. Additionally, extracting information for keywords is not transparent without studying the manual. And the view switching options involve too many clicks for me - I want to be able to quickly and easily regroup my database contents according to different criteria. Here too, iView Media Pro wins hands down (P2004). IPTC photo data is also not read by default in Cumulus either; possibly the optional modules could help there. Of course, the option of different server sizes is good - for professional shops possibly the central criterion, more important than handling issues or greater learning curve. But I'm looking for a solution for an individual photographer.
Also good is the seemingly lower price at first glance. However, you pay for it through option packages - many features that are included with the competition are only available here through option packages. And the demo is only for the basic package and a few optional extras - so you can't test everything beforehand. This made it impossible for me to check whether Kodak RAW format is fully supported here. Which is particularly annoying since I would have been interested in this feature specifically.
All in all, Cumulus leaves me with a very mixed impression - perhaps Canto should let some fresh air into development and give the program a complete overhaul; it simply seems a bit baroque and cumbersome.
Delirium that fills the lines
With as much money behind him as Reemtsma has, one can certainly smile coldly while spouting off. Of course it is completely justified to take action against the publication of texts on the Internet with arrest warrants and similar nonsense. Of course we all understand that the toy of a wealthy moneybags must proceed in this way.
Sure. And pigs can fly ...
At netbib weblog I found the original article.
Extensis Portfolio - Digital Asset Management
Also a powerful media database. Nice is the option to support a server installation. Good also that it is a clean Mac OS X application. However, I find the user interface somewhat sparse.
A significant disadvantage is the small number of supported image formats - with my old DCS I'm stuck anyway, but other digital camera users will certainly miss one or another raw format.
Similarly, I find it rather disadvantageous that no information can be extracted from IPTC image data. Apparently only EXIF is supported - but professional cameras (especially the older ones) store image data in IPTC fields. All in all, I find iView Media Pro (see P2004) significantly better, especially the folder overview available in iView I find very intuitive. In Portfolio I have to work with searches and possibly then create collections from them - but these are static again, not dynamically adapting to new imports. Of course, this was only a quick test for me, so it's quite possible that some things are indeed possible, but the first impression is important to me - if I haven't used software for a long time (because I had no time for photography), I don't want to have to reread the manual...
GROKLAW - Deadline for SCO
SCO has been given a deadline of 45 days to name exactly which code sections IBM illegally passed from AIX or Dynix to Linux. IBM must provide the corresponding sources within the same timeframe, but SCO cannot insist on receiving the sources first and then taking action themselves. The advantage is that SCO can no longer worm their way out and issue absurd claims to buy more time. The disadvantage is that for another 45 days SCO will continue to confuse the market before their accusations turn out to be hot air ...
IHMC CmapTools - Concept Mapping Software Toolkit
IHMC CmapTools - Concept Mapping Software Toolkit - Tools for concept maps
No More XXL at McDonald's
I'm realizing right now that I urgently need an emoji of someone banging their head on a table out of despair over human idiocy...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Mod-pubsub blog
Mod-pubsub blog - Infrastructure for Publish Subscribe with Websites
Philips Fluid Lenses
Fascinating: liquid lenses for rapid focusing, modeled after the human eye.
Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) has the original article.
Embarrassing Confession: Coca-Cola Sells Tap Water - Business - SPIEGEL ONLINE
I always knew that Bonaqua was pure rip-off ...
PyTable RDBMS Middleware
PyTable RDBMS Middleware - Simplified work with database drivers in Python