RFC: Subscriptions harmonizer
RFC: Subscriptions harmonizer - Synchronization of blog rolls via XMLRPC
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Dear Federal Attorney General
If your work becomes harder because this outrageous Federal Court of Justice decided that even alleged terrorists have rights, then I'm truly terribly sorry for you. It is certainly extremely annoying when you have to present evidence and cannot simply withhold exonerating witnesses and otherwise base your case on unverifiable claims (because they're kept under wraps) when you want to throw someone in prison for 15 years. It is certainly a real cheek that in the future you'll have to think about how to incorporate information from intelligence services—the same intelligence services that have been wrong at every turn and have sometimes simply fabricated evidence—into proceedings.
I have a good suggestion for you: why not simply use only information that can also be presented in court. And remember the principle of benefit of the doubt for the accused. Then things will go better in the next instance...
SORBS - just another stupid implementation of RBL
Realtime Blocking Lists are actually a good idea for fighting spam. You register open relays or spammers and you can use them to block them well on mail servers. The downside: apparently such services are only run by sociopaths or alternatively complete technical idiots.
SORBS belongs to the latter category. Just enter the IP 62.153.201.130 (a server I administer). What problem does it throw out? High-port-FTP-server. So FTP servers on ports that deviate from the standard.
Great. What's unusual about that? Pretty much every Zope server has something like that (and the high-port FTP on 8021 is exactly that - a Zope). And the other two are simply private FTP servers for two users that happen to run on different ports because the main FTP server is on the same IP anyway...
Volcanic Eruption on Montserrat
Hmm. I hope the top-level domain .ms doesn't go the same way as .tv, namely under
At NETZEITUNG.DE Science I found the original article.
Welcome Page
Welcome Page - Hierarchical database for Python and large data quantities
Cacheability Engine
Cacheability Engine - Analysis tool for cache suitability of websites
c''t aktuell-wiretap botched: Partial victory for civil rights
Further reactions. If you look at the whole thing more closely, it's probably not as rosy as all that. Rosy, however, is probably the lens through which Schily is looking, otherwise I can't explain why he thinks the wiretapping has been confirmed as constitutional...
iPhoto Mailer Patcher
Anyone like me who uses a mail program not provided in iPhoto needs this application. Mailsmith, for example, finally works as a mail program then...
iView | Media Management Made Easy
In and of itself, excellent software for managing media data. However, the logic for which image formats are supported is somewhat very leaky. While all Kodak libraries are provided, which are necessary to access all Kodak raw formats, only a single format is supported - the format of the digital medium format back and the 14n. The old format, which at least generates around 10 models, is theoretically included in the supplied library, but is not supported by the manufacturer. Great attitude.
Definitely a sign that speaks against this software. Who guarantees that today's formats will still be in the software the day after tomorrow? This isn't about anything banal, where you'd be happy with conversion software, but rather it's about a media archive solution into which you'd certainly like to do long-term archiving of the images with their metadata. I consider the lack of support for older formats to be fundamentally wrong.
What absolutely convinces, however, is the ingeniously simple integration of keywords and other organizational features, the good support for IPTC and EXIF data, and the very fast display. Also the fact that it's a real Mac OS X application and allows drag-and-drop everywhere you'd expect it. All of this speaks in favor of this application.
Schröder no longer talks to 'Bild'
Even though Schröder looks somewhat like an offended party-pooper about it, I can understand him. That tabloid rag has been absolutely unbearable lately. And the campaign interference in Hamburg was anything but objective journalism. Unfortunately, though, the press's misconduct is not a problem that can be solved through legal or legislative means, but only through the integrity of journalists - and image journalists probably have to hand over their integrity at the door anyway ...
A functioning press is an important control mechanism in a democracy. But if the press sinks to the level of such sleazy tabloids, and these sleazy tabloids then make politics through their market dominance, then the whole thing becomes a problem. Sure, it wouldn't be a problem if readers didn't believe every bit of nonsense printed in these papers.
But unfortunately, every society gets the press it deserves ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
SCO vs. Linux: SCO sues auto parts dealer over Linux usage
What a pile of crap the SCO is producing there. They're really hard to beat when it comes to audacity (except perhaps by our Federal Interior Minister ...)
At heise online news there's the original article.
Writing PlugIns
Writing PlugIns - How to analyze Cocoa applications and modify them after the fact
There was supposed to be water on Mars
Water, water, water - what's all this nonsense? Is there beer too?
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
Browser or binary junk heap ...
Frankly, I'm quite on the side of the browsers that don't support this mess: the fuss over internationalized domain names (why are domains containing national special characters called "international" anyway?) is a complete scam, especially the way it was implemented. It's such nonsense, you couldn't get worse. For example, the limitation to only a restricted number of characters - no ampersand! Or this stupid idea that the browser resolves it and therefore this garbage only works on the web, but not in email (or any other programs that do name resolution). Or the brute-force method how the whole thing was rammed through in some registries. And so on, and so forth. None of this pile of junk is really worth going through all this trouble for ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
No Interest in Critical Consumers
That sucks. And then the Karstadt right in front of my door too. Couldn't something like that happen somewhere else, so I could keep the illusion that there's still someone around here with a bit of sense? But apparently the managers at Karstadt have, in good Münsterland tradition, kept the only brain in the bottle ...
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Track or Back
I like Trackback too. Even better would be if more people would include their trackback addresses in their RSS feeds using the trackback:ping tag, that would help avoid manual steps (and especially make this dreadful trackback autodiscovery unnecessary). The original article can be found at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
What you can find in log files...
From /var/log/exim4/rejectlog:
2004-03-02 12:11:04 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "POST / HTTP/1.1" H=tsunami.onyex.de [213.133.111.162]
elspy: Exim local_scan() with Python
elspy: Exim local_scan() with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning alternative method
Gentium Linux
Gentium Linux - Font under a free license
New Netsky Worm Spreads Rapidly
Fast is putting it mildly
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Online job exchange: BA chief Weise said to have known about cost explosion | COMPUTERWOCHE Online
Wow. The BA bosses are burning out faster than a box of tissues in winter
Scan incoming mail with Python
Scan incoming mail with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning
The Japanese Characters
Die japanischen Schriftzeichen - Information about the Japanese writing systems
The World of Language - The Languages of the World
The World of Language - The Languages of the World - Information about various languages and their origins
Learning Exotic Scripts - Made Easy
Exotische Schriften lernen - leicht gemacht - Scripts and Languages Information
iBeeZz.com - Home
iBeeZz.com - Home - Nice Time Control for Mac OS X
Your way to us...our warning
And since we're on the topic of cease-and-desist nonsense, this time Telepolis is about maps and greetings and the people who think they can make money off everything, no matter how absurd their demands may be ...
At Telepolis News (29.02.2004) you can find the original article.
Isolated Languages
Isolierte Sprachen - A listing of isolated languages
Expensive Fun
Wow. 700 euros to the IFPI and 2500 euros to my own lawyer for a lawsuit over the sale of a CD included with Computerbild. And that's only because this ridiculous legislation criminalizes circumvention tools - and once again opens another door for rip-off lawyers and associations to make money.
I found the original article at netbib weblog.
Stories from the Lives of Image Authors
Telepolis is looking for information about image journalists in order to turn the tables: everything that can be found about the journalists mentioned in the Telepolis article, preferably the embarrassing details. As revenge for all those who have been put down by Germany's biggest tabloid because of circulation figures or power-hungry campaigns (such as, for example, the current election support that the Bild newspaper is providing for the Union in Hamburg).
The tabloid hasn't had anything to do with press or journalism for years anyway. So they can certainly get a taste of their own medicine...
I found the original article at ab::gebloggt.
GROKLAW - Eben Moglen's Response to McBride's Speech at Harvard
Eben Moglen puts his finger on — among other things — the central wound in the nonsense that SCO is perpetrating: how can SCO derive from its disputes with IBM and other companies a right to collect licenses from Linux users? Even if SCO were right, SCO would at most have a claim against IBM. But deriving from that the ability to extort licenses from Linux users is extremely doubtful...
The speech is otherwise quite worth reading. Eben Moglen is definitely the more interesting speaker.
heise online: Adorno online, Reemtsma and the arrest warrant
What amazes me most about this: how can someone whose lawyers are calling for prison sentences for publishing two Adorno texts still call themselves a foundation for the promotion of science and culture? Since thinkers like Kästner and Adorno are now only supposed to be read under lock and key, according to lawyers and rights profiteers, could we finally please abandon this silly myth of the nation of poets and thinkers and finally admit to being a nation of profiteers and grudge-holders? Jutta had just the right comment on it: This is much more effective than book burning.
Arguments for Atheism
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof is against faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says man, "the Babel fish is surely an unconscious revelation, is it not? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and therefore you do not exist, according to your own argument. Quod erat demonstrandum." "Oh, my dear God," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly dissolves into a logic cloud. Brazenly stolen from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.
Thick Thing ...
That an overweight former chancellor with a dubious reputation is now advertising on television for the nation's tabloid just because they print his sentimental outpourings shouldn't impress me further now, should it?
Former CDU Treasurer Speaks Out
Hopefully this will help prevent Schäuble from becoming a candidate for Federal President ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.
HIV - natural defense mechanism discovered?
Sounds at least somewhat positive.
At passe.par.tout I found the original article.
iPod Volume Booster
iPod Volume Booster (German) - Remove volume limitation on European iPods
News: Microsoft will patent ''Pager''
Great. Microsoft wants to implement a technology from the field of graphical user interfaces that has not been available on Microsoft operating systems to this day. Idiotic.
Panorama: US soldiers shot at wounded
Well, Bush deliberately did not recognize the International Court for War Crimes in The Hague ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
SCO vs. Linux: Boycott of Free Speech?
SCO thus means it can decide on behalf of its customers whether they want contact with an SCO critic or not. A very interesting interpretation of the rights and responsibilities of a software supplier...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
T-Com accelerates T-DSL
I'm really curious to see when a Telekom technician will stop by to replace my DSL modem (an ancient version - so not one of the newer standard models). And after that I'll probably want to switch to T-DSL 3000.
By the way, not because of the downstream - that's fine as it is. But a larger upstream would be really nice. Uploading pictures to my galleries with my current connection is simply a pain ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Microsoft's Solo Effort in the Anti-Spam Campaign
Not great. Microsoft is doing what they always do: just charging ahead, putting a half-baked and undiscussed implementation online and ignoring existing standards development mechanisms.
At heise online news there's the original article.
PocketMac iPod | Call Toll Free 1-866-POCK-MAC
PocketMac iPod | Call Toll Free 1-866-POCK-MAC - Sync tool for Entourage and notes and Mail.app
Safari Extender by Ricardo Batista
Safari Extender by Ricardo Batista - Extension tool for Safari
Version Control with Subversion
Version Control with Subversion - Book about Subversion - the successor to CVS
Apple - RSS Information
Apple - RSS Information - Directory of Apple's RSS feeds
EU Commissioner Bolkestein supports Microsoft in cartel proceedings
And what comes to mind? Obviously: stupidity, corruption and arrogance. Breaking up monopolies has the task of restricting the property rights of the monopolist - in favor of competition and diversity. But competition and diversity don't seem to interest the EU commissioner. I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet.
Stamp for Emails
Nunja. Such a stupid idea - payment systems on a completely authentication-free protocol where not even the originator can be conclusively identified - can only come from Microsoft direction...
Of course Microsoft would be delighted to supply the necessary infrastructure, the necessary clients and of course the necessary proprietary SMTP extensions to grab another market for itself. Of course all purely out of humanitarian concern.
Ok, the alternative solution of finally throwing these unspeakable garbage mail processing programs out and replacing them with functioning tools - that would certainly be too simple and too logical.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
EU Council pushes for software patents without borders
Regarding stupidity, corruption and arrogance ... Or does anyone know a better reason why the EU Council completely ignores the opinion of the EU Parliament and takes a direction that runs counter to all reason and all warnings and analyses?
At heise online news there's the original article.