Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form

Furthermore, Binalshibh is supposedly programmed to lie as a matter of faith. The Muslim religion supposedly commands the faithful to speak "non-truth" if their own lives or property or those of people close to them are endangered. - oh yes. Clear, terrorists belong - if they are convicted as terrorists of the acts they are accused of, they belong in prison. But could one please reserve a cell right next door for the prosecutor for this audacity?

At Telepolis News there is the original article.

ESA writes off 'Beagle 2'

Well, literally left in the sand.

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

Keyspan launches USB Device Server

Not quite uncool: being able to put any (ok, certainly not just any) USB devices on a server part hanging in the network and then use them throughout the entire network. Could definitely be interesting for shared scanner use or similar purposes.

At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.

KODAK: Cleaning Imager Coverglass and Filters - Reinigung von Kodak DCS Chips und Filter

Kodak DCS 520

Kodak DCS 520 - Test report on version 3 firmware for the DCS 520

Majority of Germans consider politicians corrupt

After the perceived inflation, the perceived corruption. For the former, there is now evidence that it is not only perceived ...

Teufelsgrinsen

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

NRW threatened by flu wave

Oh man.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Photoshop: No License to Print Money

Adobe has a slight defect. Either the sluggish thing only recognizes part of banknotes anyway, or the filters also recognize data other than banknotes. Or both. In any case, the time and energy spent on implementing such a silly feature would have been better used elsewhere. But Adobe also felt the need to build in silly copy protection ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Rau''s Successor: "Schäuble can do it"

Not the porter.

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Preview version of Gimp 2.0 available

That all sounds quite good already. OK, it won't tear me away from Photoshop just yet, but color profile support in particular is already an important point.

At heise online news there's the original article.

ACEROLA Fruit Facts

ACEROLA Fruit Facts - What all can be found in my buttermilk ...

Aduna

Aduna - Full-text search software with cluster maps

AsciiDoc Home Page

AsciiDoc Home Page - Possible alternative to DocUtils?

Bizarre Twin Reveals His Secret

So black holes can also overeat ...

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

CL-SDL: Common Lisp bindings for SDL

CL-SDL: Common Lisp bindings for SDL - Graphics library for Common Lisp - also OpenMCL

DrPython

DrPython - IDE with strong focus on learners for Python

Hearing and Seeing Only for the Wealthy?

Bad eyes? Bad teeth? Bad ears? Out of luck - the state doesn't like you. So that only wealthy, healthy, strong, blonde and blue-eyed citizens may be gainfully employed...

At Hexentanz you can find the original article.

HP-12C for Mac OS X

HP-12C for Mac OS X - Another emulation of an HP calculator

Mambo at the Yard

Mambo at the Yard - Mamblog Homepage - Blogs for Mambo Open Source

Movitz: A Common Lisp OS development platform

A very interesting project: a minimal system with a cross-compiler and Common Lisp as the programming language. Not quite a Lisp machine, more like a platform for embedded Common Lisp - so a minimal runtime for the target system, while development takes place on the PC. The target code runs directly on standard PCs, for example via a boot disk.

Here's the original article.

OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan

OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan - VPN solution for heterogeneous networks, also Mac OS X

Photo.net Reviews HP Photosmart 7960

Interesting for Jutta since she is considering whether this might be a usable photo printer - so far she has a Deskjet 840c, which is not really optimal for the purpose.

At PhotographyBLOG there is the original article.

What is Mac OS X?

What is Mac OS X? - Interesting report on Mac OS X from a hacker perspective

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - Guide for scripting in Bash

One Tenth of the Practice Fee for Bureaucracy

That the practice fee is outrageous nonsense hardly needs discussion. But why allegedly the administrative costs are so high, especially for dunning notices, someone needs to explain that to me. Every retail business deals with far more complicated payment methods and dunning procedures than doctors do. This is elementary software and the dunning system can also be well centralized. The actual effort is quite comparable to that of a typical newspaper kiosk, except that the kiosk operator doesn't have the advantage that he gets the address from his customers for later dunning and collection procedures right away...

It seems to me that the real problem here is that the rip-off artists in the doctor software industry and the chronic complainers in the medical associations are working hand in hand.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Mambo Open Source

Mambo Open Source advertises itself with bold claims:

Mambo Open Source is the finest open source Web Content Management System available today.
The easiest to use CMS there is.

Does it live up to these self-imposed expectations? I installed it and tested it a bit. Here are my first impressions:

Installation via the web installer is very easy - however, you won't find any instructions on the homepage about how to do it. You have to switch to the documentation server for that.
Mambo supports various languages. The basic package only contains English though. If you want additional languages, you search the homepage in vain for hints or links. Only Google unearths the Mamboportal, where you can finally find what you're looking for.
There is plenty of documentation for Mambo. It's worth taking a look at beforehand. Unfortunately, there isn't a single link to the documentation from the homepage - it's on a different server.
The standard layout is surprisingly good for a standard template. However, it has some nasty display errors with Mozilla (text wrapping issues, graphics overlapping). Especially from an open source project, I would expect it to at least properly support the open source browser par excellence (Mozilla)!
Mambo has WYSIWYG HTML editing fields. Unfortunately, in a variant that only works with IE. I'd like someone to explain to me why a Mozilla-compatible variant isn't used instead (especially since they exist)!
Search engine-friendly links (i.e., those without query strings) are optionally supported, which is good. However, they're not used as standard, and modules often use normal links instead. These naturally won't be converted. Links are hardcoded, not generated programmatically, so such an implementation only works if the template creator remembers to add the function calls themselves. However, this feature is still very new, so it will probably spread.
Mambo strictly requires MySQL. I always find it a shame when software locks itself into a single database. For PHP there is PEAR for database access, so you don't have to restrict yourself like that.
Mambo is incompatible with PHP's Safe Mode! Completely incompatible: if Safe Mode is active, you can't install components. Error messages point to errors with mkdir.
Mambo basically needs write permissions on its entire tree. So either you have to set everything under owner www-data, or make it world-writable. Combined with the missing Safe Mode support, this means secure operation is only possible in a chroot jail!
Additional modules (I looked at, for example, yopsFM and Mamblog) are of very varying quality, especially regarding layout integration and consideration of search engine-friendly links.
The administration interface sometimes uses confusing terminology - what is a module, what is a component?
Mambo is a plug-and-play-possible package. After installation, you have a finished system with a finished layout to play with. This can be a decisive advantage!
There are lots of ready-made modules that you can pull in when building a new site.

Generally speaking: Mambo is an absolutely impressive tool, there's no question about that. Of all the PHP-based CMS I've looked at so far, it's definitely the most convincing (Typo3, for example, was much more confusing and harder to access - and I have CMS experience with Zope and various custom developments). So this isn't about dissing Mambo - anyone looking for a powerful CMS, already using PHP+MySQL as a base and comfortable with it, and willing to read the documentation, will definitely be well served by Mambo. What is absolutely bullshit, however, is the hype that the Mambo programmers are creating around their product. It's only as simple as they claim if you just edit content and don't do anything more advanced with it. Otherwise, you'll also spend time at Mambo digging through the documentation (at least it exists!) and if necessary looking at source code. However, to be fair, the same can be said of Plone: there's also a lot of hype there that unfortunately also misses reality. Put your code where your mouth is! When you look at Mambo's source code, that's where the crux of the matter lies: anyone who is a PHP guru will certainly be able to dig through the PHP sources. But modules with thousands of lines of source code aren't everyone's cup of tea - searching for bugs and features becomes quite laborious. I don't see a major advantage of Mambo over Zope or Plone here. Mambo is not small! You always have to keep that in mind - getting into Mambo is similar to getting into Zope. Mountains of source code, but well-structured extensibility. A clear gain compared to Zope is Mambo's plug-and-play approach. The first working page comes together much faster. In principle, you shouldn't really compare Mambo with Zope, but rather with Plone, since Mambo - like Plone - already offers completely finished content tools.

Another advantage is Mambo's rather modest server requirements: Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP = LAMP. You can get that on any street corner. Zope hosting is harder to find (or you get a root server, then you won't have any problems with Zope or Plone).

Here is the original article.

MamboOS Documentation : Home Page

MamboOS Documentation : Home Page - Documentation server for Mambo Open Source

Mamboportal.com - Mambo Open Source CMS Portal

Mamboportal.com - Mambo Open Source CMS Portal - Mambo Open Source Modules and Languages

MOS

MOS - Homepage of Mambo - Open Source CMS

mt-daapd - Home Page

Nice: an MP3 streaming server that is Rendezvous compatible and cooperates with iTunes. You can use it to build a central jukebox that can feed multiple computers. Ideal for training rooms and computer pools at universities

Here's the original article.

NASA: The ISS may have a leak

A hole is in the bucket, Karl Otto, Karl Otto, a hole is in the bucket, in the bucket a hole! At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the the original article.

Registrar Network Solutions unsettles Strato customers

Cool methods that Network Solutions is showing off again. They really never learn ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

RWE asks private customers to pay up

The goal of RWE boss Harry Roels, who has been in office since February 2003, is to build closer contact with customers. - but if angry customers visit him with clubs, is the contact close enough then?

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

SCG / Stéphane Ducasse / Free Books

SCG / Stéphane Ducasse / Free Books - Free books about Smalltalk

Does coffee protect against diabetes?

Couldn't it have been something other than coffee, of all things? Ok, Jutta will be happy about it, and the Schockwellenreiter probably too, but I just don't like that brown stuff.

At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.

UADE - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator - an amiga music file player for unix

UADE - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator - an amiga music file player for unix - UAE-based player for old Amiga sound formats

Webgres

Webgres - Web interface for PostgreSQL

WhatOS: Free Real-time Operating System (RTOS) Solution

WhatOS: Free Real-time Operating System (RTOS) Solution - Complete real-time operating system for control computers with all necessary tools

yops.de ::: what are you waiting for?

yops.de ::: what are you waiting for? - More downloads for Mambo Open Source (e.g. file manager)

Commerzbank terminates occupational pensions

Isn't that just great? The bank executives mess up and the employees are supposed to pay for it with their retirement benefits. That's how business bosses imagine life: take no responsibility, because you have employees you can squeeze when customers no longer cover the costs. :-(

Update: As I just heard in the news, of course the board of directors is exempt from this.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.