Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated - Continuations in Python
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
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
PEP 327 -- Decimal Data Type - Decimal numbers in Python - Proposal for a Python extension
Python for Lisp Programmers
Python for Lisp Programmers - Python from the perspective of a Lisp programmer
pyXLWriter
pyXLWriter - Generate Excel files with Python
SourceForge.net: Project Info - bytecodehacks
SourceForge.net: Project Info - bytecodehacks - The Bytecodehacks for Python.
User Manual for Radio Userland 8.0.8
User Guide for Radio Userland 8.0.8 - Instructions for Radio Userland in German
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.
tagesschau.de: Fata Morgana in Ice and Snow
The biggest critics of the moose were themselves once - camels?
www. is deprecated.
www. is deprecated. - www. is redundant!
cmp blog: Announcing SCPlugin | Goin'' to the chapel...
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.
DP Essentials #05 - Improving "Presence" in Digital Images
An interesting report by the author of QImage about the effect of mosaic CCDs (CCDs with Bayer pattern) on image sharpness. He describes a filter that applies different levels of sharpening based on color differences, thereby compensating for the sharpness differences between color ranges that result from color interpolation. Unfortunately, there is no software available for Mac OS X that offers a filter of this type. The original article can be found here.
German Keyboard Layout
German Keyboard Layout - German Keyboard Layout
Combat Robots
Actually depressing when visions regarding war see the exchange of humans for machines, but not the abolition of war itself...
Particularly depressing when you think about the fact that these combat robots will certainly only exist on the side of high-tech states - and today they don't fight against their equals, but against technically much less equipped countries. Since no domestic soldiers would be endangered, there would certainly be another inhibition threshold removed for waging wars. It only costs the lives of the enemy.
At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist you can find the original article.
Just wanted to say ...
... that it's really great that the Powerbooks also work with an external keyboard, monitor and mouse plugged in and the display closed
Rainer Brockerhoff :: USInternational
Rainer Brockerhoff :: USInternational - US PC Keyboard Layout for Mac OS X
Splasm Software - Brightness Control
Anyone like me who has a calibrated CRT monitor knows the problem: when you're not doing image editing, the monitor is set way too bright, especially as it gets darker. But you can't adjust the contrast control or especially the brightness setting — the calibration only works correctly if the luminance is set properly!
This little utility comes to the rescue: just start it and you get a small graphical slider with which you can adjust the screen brightness. Works splendidly. And as soon as you're working with images, you can stop it beforehand (and give your eyes some time to adjust, so your brain can adapt and everything doesn't look wrong).
XPde desktop environment
XPde desktop environment - Desktop for X-Windows that looks like XP. If you need it ...
BA interim chief prevented Gerster's exoneration
The mud-slinging continues ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Guardian of the Lost Sentence - sueddeutsche.de - Culture
The Commission for Orthography would thus be the only instance of the executive branch to be removed from political control – it had never allowed for societal control from the outset.
And this in a matter that affects everyone's life. Is it stupidity, ignorance, or cunning scheming that is on display here? Were the spelling reformers, driven by a diffuse anticapitalism, not once set out to break the monopoly of a private enterprise, the "Duden" editorial office?
Well. For the political failures for whom there are no serious tasks one could entrust to them, there is always spelling to botch ...
NASA will reconsider decision on Hubble shutdown
Jo, let the old lens keep spinning successfully for a few more years ...
At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.
News: Will XFree86 become GPL incompatible?
That's annoying. Do some people never learn? This stupid advertising clause has been causing endless trouble in the original BSD license when combined with other licenses. What's the point?
Python Apocrypha
Python Apocrypha - Python example for a multithreaded application that works with a pool of workers.
Disposable DVD turns out to be a slow seller
And that surprises anyone?
At heise online news there is the original article.
Yahoo! News - Decomposing Whale Explodes on Street
I can't think of anything to say about this either. Except that fortunately I wasn't standing nearby.
833786 - Steps that can help protect against fake ('spoof') websites and malicious hyperlinks ...
Original quote from the knowledge base article: The most effective way to protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is simply not to click on them. Instead, you should manually enter the URL of the destination into the address bar. This way you can ensure that Internet Explorer uses the correct URL to get to the website you want. Enter the URL in the address bar and press [ENTER]. - Microsoft really nailed it. Sure, we all just stop clicking on hyperlinks, completely absurd idea. The best way to protect yourself from evil hyperlinks is to use a different browser than IE.
Chutzpah - the Blog for the Show
I also want a sister who is a lawyer
Dirk Olbertz :: Blog: Dealing with Public Criticism
And once again a company wants to take action against a blog hoster because allegedly something legally relevant is supposedly posted in a blog. I'm not going to summarize that for you, read the posts under the link yourself. It seems to me that a company is puffing itself up quite vigorously here. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Dirk that he gets through this unscathed.
However, I would say that a publication of the company name by Dirk would be useful - because only then is publicity also public. And only then can appropriate pressure be exerted. But probably the company already sees the mere mention of its name as something worth warning about...
Update: The Schockwellenreiter has more information.
FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - Is there a way I can use staticmethod and classmethod in Python 2.1?
Klassenmethoden mit Python 2.2
Class methods with Python 2.2
NeoOffice/J Home - OS X natives Open Office
T-DSL should become faster
I want more upstream at last!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
EU Council urges criminalization of minor copyright infringements
And once again politicians are harnessing themselves to the dirty carts of industry. This time it's the EU Council - even against the explicit wishes of the European Parliament. And then politicians wonder why European elections aren't taken seriously?
At heise online news you can find the original article.
MultiSync - A Synchronization Tool
MultiSync - A Synchronization Tool - general synchronization tool for various PDAs and Gnome
NETZEITUNG PEOPLE: Ex-member of Jethro Tull is now a woman
Um. Yeah. So. Um.
Somehow confusing when the keyboarder of one of the bands you've always enjoyed listening to is suddenly now the keyboardist
Once More on the IE Bug
Just a small example of what exactly happens. Let's take the following HTML code:
blubb
And the following stylesheet: h2 a { font-style : bold ; } h2 > a { font-style : italic ; } IE 6 would then set the link text blubb in bold in the above examples. Mozilla would use italic, since "h2 > a" is more specific than "h2 a". Ok, I admit it, I just wanted to point out the capabilities of the Python Desktop Server to highlight source code by syntax.Public Image Unlimited
And PIL once stood for rebellion and protest for us. But in the end it's probably always just about the money ...
At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist there's the original article.
Mystery of IE problem likely solved
Well, I had to solve it myself after all (and to be honest, VMware with Windows NT is a way to run IE 6 under Linux, but it really hurts - and it's incredibly slow).
What was it? Well, IE 6 doesn't support child selectors. That was it. I replaced the child selectors with descendant selectors, and it works. Child selectors express an exact and direct dependency: an A tag that sits directly inside an H2 tag is selected by the selector H2>A. Descendant selectors express a relative dependency: an A tag that sits somewhere inside an H2 tag is selected by H2 A. But there can certainly be more between H2 and A in the HTML code. A code like
Title
would not select the links with child selectors, but it would with descendant selectors.In this case I could easily change it, since I generally want all links within the headings in white anyway, not just the direct links - so to speak my stylesheet wasn't correct, because if I had ever introduced a span or something, it would have broken.
Still, it's annoying when a browser simply doesn't implement a feature ... All defined selector forms are documented at the W3C. Bugs with IE regarding selectors can be found for example in this bug list.
Tax reform: Union doubts its own capabilities
The egg dance of the Union will put satirists out of work in the long run if this continues like this
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
MPs receive 1,950 euros more
And surely this provides many good reasons why the markup on a member of parliament's salary must be higher than the average monthly wage of a worker ...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Syntax-highlighted code blocks for docutils - Source Highlighter für viele Sprachen als Python Modul
Bill Gates Predicts Successful Fight Against Spam
That's making me more scared than courageous now ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Color management
A pretty nice introduction to color management and what it means. In typical Petteri style, a bit cheeky and humorous. My personal highlight: If you're shooting or converting to Adobe RGB. Adobe RGB pictures displayed on a non-colorspace-aware application or badly color-managed system will look wrong, wrong, wrong. The colors will be flat and gray. If you like them that way, fine -- but remember they'll come out bright and vivid if you send them to a competently run photo lab that prints from digital originals. To ensure flat and gray prints, use sRGB and make them flat and gray in your image editor instead.