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)
Omniorb Python Bindings - Documentation of the Python bindings for OmniORB
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Steve Roy, Software Design : Action Helper - Tool for managing Folder Actions
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
Device drivers in Haskell? Cool
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
... 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.
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.
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).
ModelingObject-Relational Bridge for python - Framework for object-relational mapping of Python classes to SQL databases
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.
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.
Association of Democratic Lawyers - does that mean all lawyers not organized there are undemocratic? Or is that something like the Holy Roman Church, where really only the Roman part is correct, and that only because of the location? Would fit, because I really can't see it as democratic when people cry out loudly for (demonstrably non-functioning!) censorship measures, instead of considering whether democracy itself, carried in their own title, isn't endangered by excessive allocation of power ...
At Telepolis News (17.02.2004) there's the original article.
3.3 weakref -- Weak references - How to create weak references with Python
A few more details about the Epson and Cosina rangefinder digi prototype.
my-zope - LocalFS-1-1-0.tgz - LocalFS for Zope 2.7 - the one on Source Forge is too old
Python Dispatch Package - Complex signal dispatcher for Python
XML-RPC Client/Server Protocol Reference - LiveJournal XML RPC API
BBC - OneMusic Sample Bank - Drums - Drum loops for GarageBand
Dent du Midi - MIDI File Converter for GarageBand - Tool to decompose MIDI music into individual tracks (for GarageBand)
Der Apfelbaum - Links around GarageBand
While his languages are no longer relevant to my current work, they accompanied my education, professional activities, and private programming projects for many years. So, my hearty congratulations to Switzerland!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Oh man, our politicians can't be any more stupid than this. Let's just turn the long-term unemployed into modern slaves. We can certainly expect that from them given the support they've received.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
myelin: Feed Normalizer - Normalizer for feeds - can also convert Atom to RSS
Too bad. A colorful rider who was often good for surprises. :-(
At VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling you can find the original article.
Oh, great, so the dishonest British government now wants to flatten an important organ of free reporting.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Violin loops,Fiddle loops,violin samples - Violin loops for Garageband
The edifice of lies is wobbling and shaking, and still there are people even outside the US Administration who defend the Iraq War and see it as necessary. Built on lies, a pure power game of the Bush Administration, yet it continues to be defended as necessary again and again. The lies sit very deep in people's heads ...
At Telepolis News (14.02.2004) you can find the original article.
del.icio.us API documentation - An API to access data from del.icio.us (social bookmarking service) and send new bookmarks
macosxhints - More info about remote wake and sleep - More tips on Wake on LAN
macosxhints - Wake a sleeping Mac from the network - Tips for waking a sleeping Mac over the LAN
The Common Lisp Cookbook - Creation of an open book with Common Lisp code snippets
Anyone in Brandenburg/Havel or the surrounding area should probably go see the play.
At Telepolis News (14.02.2004) you can find the original article.
Wake550 Help - Small service utility for waking up other computers from the Mac
Since SCO hasn't responded, Novell has now denied SCO the right to view Sequent Dynix in any way as a derivative of Unix System 5. Let's see if SCO responds to that, after all the Dynix code is quite an important part in the proceedings against IBM.
I have no idea if this is real, but if it is, then that's incredible: a Bessa R2 retrofitted to digital by Epson!
Of course, according to Schily, genetic fingerprinting should only be used for serious crimes such as sexual offenses or terrorism. As you can read here, in Hesse (naturally, where else, in Koch's personal swamp) this apparently means property damage with political motivation. In other words: damage to election posters.
At Telepolis News (13.02.2004) you can find the original article.
In the comments to the previous posting ( P1951) I received a tip to take a look at something:
Any questions?
By the way, the imprint on the site is not accessible without JavaScript ...
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
A quality code for public broadcasting corporations? That would be an approach. However, I doubt that it will produce any usable result - the broadcasting corporations are far too entangled with other interests. I increasingly doubt whether the public broadcasting corporations are even serious anymore about their actual mandate - ultimately, they're only chasing ratings. You can see this nicely over and over again in how they squander millions on ridiculous football broadcasting rights.
Moreover, there is no longer any political support for public broadcasting - politicians are only eyeing the money and letting themselves be manipulated by media moguls like Saban or Murdoch and put to work for their power interests.
Of course, it would be nice to end up with an offering comparable to the BBC (curiously, BBC content is apparently being bought primarily by private television stations at the moment and unfortunately only served in ad-interrupted snippets), but I don't believe that will happen in the foreseeable future. And I base this claim on the existence of all these dreadful quiz shows, tralala music programs, public stupefaction events (including silly carnival sessions) and similar aberrations of public entertainment ...
I found the original article at DIE ZEIT: Feuilleton.
... I find it somewhat annoying that I can't use bookmarklets anymore that open their own windows. These custom windows end up behind the current window as a matter of principle. Really inconvenient, that.
Pretty cool, yet another rip-off attempt with an already existing domain. Hopefully the Gravenreuth law firm will fall flat on their face with this.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Took quite a while for Minolta to enter the DSLR world.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.