Worry-Free Package for iPod Upgraders

A few sources for iPod batteries and battery replacements in Germany.

At MacGuardians you can find the original article.

Leica To Develop Digital "M" Camera - Source

Here are a few interesting rumors again:

• a digital camera with fixed focal length. Something like a digital CM?
• a digital M. The problems with the small distance between sensor and lens exit plane and the resulting issues from the flat light incidence on the sensor are supposed to be solved by a microlens array over the sensor.
• not so nice: job cuts. Something like that never sounds quite right.

The first is interesting for everyone who finds the previous digital Leicas either too un-Leica (D-Lux) or too bulky (Digilux 1 and 2).

But the second is absolutely stunning: a digital M.

I think this is something many people have been waiting for. And I think I know what I want to save up for now! Well, okay, first comes the Macro-M, but a digital camera that handles like an M and where I can use my M lenses, that would still be a dream.

Here's the original article.

RFC 1864 (rfc1864) - The Content-MD5 Header Field - Securing content against loss using MD5

What Shame

I'm not ashamed. So! After all, I partly programmed the software for the comments myself!

At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.

GROKLAW - SCO vs IBM, 0:1?

Ok, I think this is one of those situations that can best be described as shit hits fan.

In a nutshell: IBM has established in court that SCO has not met the requirements. Apparently only 17 files from SCO were named and even then only a few lines that were allegedly copied unlawfully from Unix. So definitely not the thousands of lines that SCO had announced so loudly. Furthermore, it looks as though SCO would be dropping the part about IBM's violation of trade secrets and the copyright business is probably also slowly falling apart.

And IBM apparently shows no signs of letting go. I think IBM's lawyers now want to bury SCO for good.

Here's the original article.

PLT Spy - Python in Scheme

Wow. A Python implementation in Scheme. Ok, the standard library is still missing (and that's really what makes Python so interesting), but anyway, it would then be the fourth Python environment (one for Java, one for .NET and of course the original CPython environment).

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

0700 phone numbers in imprint warned

What a load of crap. The Wettbewerbszentrale (yes, exactly, those guys back then - P1512 - also sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Under Construction Club) is making a fool of itself again with such a ridiculous cease-and-desist letter. You can find the original article on heise online news - here it is.

Music industry raids Kazaa

Apparently, a court in Australia has given the music industry permission to search several companies in the ISP sector (Akaai, NTT Australia, Telstra Corp and NTT Australia IP, as well as the Kazaa operator and three universities) and seize documents. What an absurd situation: granting police powers to an industry (albeit apparently limited to this one situation).

At algorhythm there's the original article.

Opposition sees government at the end

Clear. The political vultures are spouting their intellectual drivel. Was to be expected.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.

RFC 2445 - vCalendar - Definition of the vCalendar format

Schröder Steps Down as SPD Chairman

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: Copyright Lawsuit Against IBM

If the court approves this expansion of SCO's lawsuit, it would have a delaying effect of several months. - and SCO will continue to scream unproven claims into the world.

At heise online news there is the original article.

Toolserver Framework for Python

If you want to set up a SOAP web service in Python and don't want to use a monster server like twisted, but instead prefer a small, lean web server based on Medusa (though with dynamic multithreading!), you can check out my linked project. Nothing groundbreaking, but quite useful as an all-rounder. UPDATE: the stable version is now 0.2.0 and includes XML-RPC support in addition to SOAP. Version 0.3.0 is now in CVS, which adds support for implementing REST APIs.

Here's the original article.

booklooker.de - buy and sell used books. Huge selection & lots of bargains! - Used book marketplace

DevChannel | The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution Loophole - License specifically for web services - Network operation is equated with distribution

.:index deutsch:. - Book crossing in German

OS X Options Now Include CMUCL

Now CMUCL also runs under OS X - and thus another Common Lisp is available.

At lemonodor you can find the original article.

PEP 324 -- popen5 - New POSIX process module - Python extension for easy integration of external processes

Weise to become new BA director

Are we putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Don't Try This at Home Kids...

It was bound to happen eventually: someone has hacked the firmware for the EOS 300D so that some of the 10D features that the 300D lacks are activated.

You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG.

Eidetic Document Management System - Open Source document management system with web interface

Leo's Home Page - Outliner in Python with TCL/TK interface

ATPM 10.02 - ATPO: Outliner User Interfaces

A lot of info about the development of outliner user interfaces. And the answer to the question of where the triangle for displaying an expanded and collapsed subsection comes from.

Oh, and the unimportant information that Framework (that integrated application package that already had a - albeit character-oriented - window interface under DOS) still exists ...

Here's the original article.

GraphPath Language - Query language for analyzing graphs

RSS Feeds for Apple Knowledgebase

Apple provides a whole bunch of RSS feeds for knowledge base articles, grouped by topic. Maybe interesting for some of you.

Here's the original article.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: A Visit from the FBI

An interesting article about an FBI visit and discussion about various data espionage and manipulation techniques. Also the FBI's tip to rather get yourself a Mac, because it is secure out of the box Here's the original article.

Why your Movable Type blog must die

On Kuro5hin, a blog opponent is having another meltdown. This time he's ranting against Moveable Type and Trackback. So it's not just the established press that has a few problems understanding reality ...

Oh, and the colleague has some pretty harsh names for bloggers — if you have a weak stomach or weak nerves, you'd better not go there.

You can find the original article at kuro5hin.org.

A Retrospective on PAIP - Peter Norvig reflects on where Lisp stands today

André Simon - Startseite - Tool for the shell to colorize by syntax

Astronauts should sacrifice their lives if necessary

Some scientists have a slight roof damage. Some, however, have a severe one ...

At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.

Exploitation of genetic resources in Antarctica

Patent Madness Again

At Telepolis News there's the original article.

Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated - Continuations in Python

No co-payment relief for nursing home residents

What makes one feel so great when you can cut pocket money from residents of care homes ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

PEP 327 -- Decimal Data Type - Decimal numbers in Python - Proposal for a Python extension

Python for Lisp Programmers - Python from the perspective of a Lisp programmer

pyXLWriter - Generate Excel files with Python

SourceForge.net: Project Info - bytecodehacks - The Bytecodehacks for Python.

WAD - Crash debugger for script languages (especially useful for segfaults)

User Guide for Radio Userland 8.0.8 - Instructions for Radio Userland in German

camlFloat - Numerical Algorithms with OCaml

Free Software between Private and Common Property

Found via a Telepolis article. A book about free software and its historical context and its social and societal significance. Worth reading through, especially since the book is alternatively available as an eBook for free download or as a printed book for little money ... Here you can find the original article.

Stories from the Service ...

That's simply brilliant.

I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.

Kästner ./. Schlu

Well, that's the - bitter - end of the whole story surrounding the Kästner quotes. Thus a great poet is defamed by stupid lawyers and stupid laws more than it happened during his lifetime - simply by the fact that people think they have rights to his thoughts that run counter to the dissemination of his ideas. Kästner would probably have written a few biting remarks about it, I can only be sad and hope that the poems of one of my favorite poets are still known when the copyright has expired - which, given the fact that teachers are striking him from the curriculum, is rather questionable.

The banana republic Germany rages not only among politicians. The nation of poets and thinkers, fettered by miserable petty bureaucracy.

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.

Minolta DiMAGE A2, Z2 and XG Rumoured

Minolta is showing once again how to mess with its customers and is teasing a Minolta DiMage A2, even though the A1 is barely more than half a year old. Very future-proof, I think.

At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.

MozPython - Embed Python in Mozilla

Pod2Go - Directions, weather and RSS feeds on the iPod

tagesschau.de: Fata Morgana in Ice and Snow

The biggest critics of the moose were themselves once - camels?

Here you can find the original article.

www. is deprecated. - www. is redundant!

SCPlugin - Context Menu Tool with CVS and Subversion Support

A context menu tool for CVS and Subversion support.

CSU Disputes Financial Problems

Can the difference between the donation declines and solid financing be divided evenly by black briefcases?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.