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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

Here's the original article.

Scan incoming mail with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning

Die japanischen Schriftzeichen - Information about the Japanese writing systems

The World of Language - The Languages of the World - Information about various languages and their origins

Exotische Schriften lernen - leicht gemacht - Scripts and Languages Information

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.

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.

Here's the original article.

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.

Here's the original article.

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 (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.

Here's the original article.

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 - Sync tool for Entourage and notes and Mail.app

Safari Extender by Ricardo Batista - Extension tool for Safari

Version Control with Subversion - Book about Subversion - the successor to CVS

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.

iPoding | What's that in your pocket?

A disassembled iPod Mini proves that the drive is a Hitachi Microdrive. This makes the iPod Mini probably the cheapest source for 4 GB CompactFlash memory cards.

So if you have a digital camera with FAT32 support, you might consider buying an iPod Mini and looking for some tools...

(and of course report back on whether the card works without any problems)

Here's the original article.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

And what politicians make of it ...

Here is the original article.

Omniorb Python Bindings - Documentation of the Python bindings for OmniORB

Postal customers in Hamburg facing locked doors

Cuts to employee compensation and bonuses even though a company is profitable? It's completely normal these days. No matter what, employees' pockets are hit first. All it takes is the shareholder dividend not being as high as perhaps desired. Or whatever else — any flimsy excuse will do to take money from those who happen to be exactly the people who are supposed to be consuming. Of course they don't consume anymore. And suddenly the economy is complaining that sales are dropping, retail collectively goes bankrupt, and the next round of fleecing and cutting begins.

The fact that all of this is completely nonsensical and serves no purpose other than feeding the egos of stupid executives and lobbyists and filling the pockets of major shareholders apparently bothers hardly anyone. Even when these major shareholders themselves then lay off employees and cut compensation. Despite higher revenues.

And what's the end result? The companies go bankrupt anyway, because some managers would rather sell out their own employees for double-digit millions, or because stupid bosses hire even dumber management consultants to run a perfectly good company into the ground so that they finally have real reason to squeeze and fire employees. One last time...

The German economic location is run by stupidity, corruption, and arrogance. A lethal mix.

You can find the original article at tagesschau online at tagesschau im Internet.

ai.planet - World Simulation under Windows

Nice free software, unfortunately for the wrong operating system. A world with different properties and inhabitants is simulated. You can use it to recreate various natural feedback loops, or simply watch how the world changes. Or throw meteors at it.

Here is the original article.

ARD and ZDF terminate contract with Kabel Deutschland

Well, but the cable networks absolutely had to be privatized so that competition would bring cheaper prices and better services for customers. And what came of it? A monopolist that does every possible nonsense — not only wanting to sell the public broadcasting programs, but also demanding fees for the ad-financed private channels. Great. Really delivered for the consumer.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

A World Power, Not Quite of This World

According to a recent poll by TV network ABCNews, Christians in the USA, contrary to enlightenment and science, predominantly believe Bible parables literally and treat religion as a substitute for politics. - are we now allowed to count them among the other religiously fanatical groups and make them members of the axis of the stupid?

At Telepolis News (22.02.2004) there's the original article.

Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Hungarian

Fascinating. A story about how Apple discovered Hungarian notation (variable names with prepended characters for the variable type) by Charles Simonyi. Literally discovered — in the source code of the memory manager for Mac OS

Well, the reaction to the discovery speaks volumes: the source code was first purged of this defacement, then commented and documented, and then manually reimplemented in Assembler. Good old days...

Here's the original article.

Hartblei - Ukrainian manufacturer of medium format optics and cameras

Steve Roy, Software Design : Action Helper - Tool for managing Folder Actions

Schwarzenegger wants to stop same-sex marriages

Oh yes, aging actors should not go into politics ...

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

asynchttp - Asynconronous HTTP Client - HTTP client that integrates with asynchat and thus does not block in Medusa

hOp - Haskell Micro-Kernel

Device drivers in Haskell? Cool

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

Smileys ...

... are really something nice. I've now got a set for this blog (ok, I got them from a theme set for Gaim), which aren't as terribly conspicuous as the old ones. Yes, I know the world won't get any better from it. Still, I like that sort of thing.

Using the iPod Hold switch to prolong battery life

I'm not saying I'm stupid, but I still learn something new from time to time - this time, for example, that you can actually turn off the iPod by holding down the pause/play button longer. No idea why I never noticed that before.

Here's the original article.

GROKLAW - RedHat Also Joins In

Looks like RedHat is now also getting caught up in the fuss surrounding SCO. They're filing a letter in which SCO attempts to coerce a RedHat customer into concluding the nonsensical SCO license. Similar actions are currently underway in other places as well (in Germany this has been settled for a long time, in Australia things are also starting to stir a bit).

Here's the original article.

ModelingObject-Relational Bridge for python - Framework for object-relational mapping of Python classes to SQL databases

Interview: "Greed Has Clouded the Mind"

Toll Collect thought it was invincible with its mothers backing it up. But that doesn't help at all when the child goes way too far. Then you have to watch as this child possibly dies an early death. I just find some metaphors plain shit.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Toll Collect must go - not Stolpe

What fascinates me again and again is the persistence with which the opposition knows only one single demand: the resignation of whoever happens to be in the spotlight. Regardless of whether that person is now doing something that the opposition itself demanded a week earlier. How boring. Exactly one single form of reaction. Always the same reaction.

The opposition is simply too stupid to be interesting.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.