CVS Module for Apache
CVS Module for Apache - An Apache module that serves files from a CVS repository and performs a checkout when needed
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Data from the Socket - Garbage in the Radio
And here we learn how once again something useful (shortwave radio) is being sold off for something useless (Internet over power lines), simply because economic interests have changed.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
The Unbearable Lightness of Stone, Part 2
Here we learn how physics solves the fundamental questions of life and engages in active problem-solving.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
mailman-discard home
mailman-discard home - Batch processing of Mailman administrative requests
NeoOffice/J Home
NeoOffice/J Home - Porting of Open Office to Mac OS X Native via Java
News: GPL Violation by KISS-Technology
Once again a company that believes licenses are only for them but not for others. I'd wager if someone were to copy their products and use them to create their own products, they'd scream bloody murder. But licenses for free software can simply be ignored, apparently that's what they think.
Seven See Offending SCO Code (LinuxWorld Feedback)
So so. SCO shows the allegedly stolen code to various people under their NDA. And what kind of people? Employees of analyst groups and reporters. Very competent people, especially at assessing code origin in an operating system kernel. So again just hot air from SCO.
The Best Page In The Universe.
This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong. - is there a better motto for a blog?
www.alscher.ch > podboard
www.alscher.ch > podboard - A completely pointless stainless steel stand holder for the iPod
Canonware Onyx - Perl meets Forth and creates a bastard child
Cooperating Systems HelloWorld Overview
Cooperating Systems HelloWorld Overview - P2P platform with interesting approaches
[Gd-hackers] XCode and Dylan
[Gd-hackers] XCode and Dylan - XCode had Dylan support for syntax highlighting
Healthy thanks to chocolate
It just keeps getting better. Red wine against cancer and heart attacks, chocolate against depression, against cellular aging and against harmful blood fats. Life can be so beautiful when you live healthily ...
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.
House arrest for all children under 14 years old
The CSU has gone crazy again. To tackle juvenile delinquency, they don't want to investigate and address the root causes—no. The CSU won't make it that simple for itself. Instead, all children under 14 years old are to be generally criminalized and should only be allowed outside after 8:00 PM if accompanied by adults. And just to add insult to injury: if children become neglected in the CSU's opinion, their parents' financial assistance should be cut (so they slide into crime even faster?) and if necessary, custody should be taken away from them more quickly (because children in care homes never become criminals, right?). In return, schools are supposed to teach values like politeness, respect, morality, and consideration.
Well, the next step will surely be a Söder Youth, re-education camps, and a snappy greeting with a raised hand?
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
OmniWeb 5 Preview
Yeah, everyone else has already written about it, but I think the features really sound useful, so it's worth linking to. Of course, I'd prefer it if Apple would build some of them (especially the Workspaces!) into Safari.
For Jutta, however, the Site Preferences feature is certainly interesting: website-dependent settings. If that includes JavaScript activation, I think it could really appeal to her.
Original Instructions Yashica FX 103 Program
Original Manual Yashica FX 103 Program - Manual for the Yashica FX 103 Program
Snakelets - simple Python web app server
Seems like quite an interesting alternative to heavier web servers - perhaps for small control systems with web interfaces, or for management servers or similar.
Adapters: Leica R or Nikon F to EOS
Adapters: Leica R or Nikon F to EOSÂ - Adapters for the Canon EOS system to attach other lenses. Also Contax MM!
Germans Should Work Longer
Certainly the ideal remedy for unemployment...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
fauxident - ident (auth) server in Python.
Hosting at Common-Lisp.net
Hosting at Common-Lisp.net - Free hosting for Common Lisp projects
Panorama freedom with gaps?
I hope this reasoning is more correct than the stuff in the FAZ, because if not, it would really be fatal for my photography websites ( Leicaesk and hugo.f-2.org). It's really bad that you have to think about this at all, because you can no longer be sure that common uses like photographing publicly accessible buildings or artworks are still covered by copyright law. At netbib weblog there is the original article.
Rollei 6008i Camera Review
Rollei 6008i Camera Review - Commentary on the Rollei 6008i - also reflects my opinion about the camera well.
T-Mobile Team
T-Mobile Team - New homepage of Team T-Mobile (formerly Team Telekom)
THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL OFFICIAL ARCHIVE
THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL OFFICIAL ARCHIVE - The role model of sysadmins
Transition from Telekom to T-Mobile with Glitches
Why are they surprised - it's not much different than the contract problems ordinary citizens have with Telekom
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
Ari Paparo Dot Com: Big List of Blog Search Engines
Ari Paparo Dot Com: Big List of Blog Search Engines - A list of search engines that specialize in weblogs
Eye examination costs nothing extra
So now the consulting service will become a hassle between the statutory health insurance association, health insurance companies, and the health ministry. It's not worth betting on the loser—it will probably just be the patient who ends up running around with their receipt from pillar to post...
And it would be nice if the statutory health insurance association would realize that IGeL already ends with "-service" and therefore an IGeL service is about as useful as an LCD display...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Railway Tariff Jungle
The nonsense with regional transport associations - in which suddenly Deutsche Bahn tariffs no longer apply, but only regional tariffs, even if they are regional trains operated by Deutsche Bahn itself and not by a private competitor. Which means that BahnCards no longer work on the MĂĽnster-Nordwalde route, since the RVM doesn't accept the BahnCard. In Schleswig-Holstein it seems only the BahnCard 50 was affected, but that's already annoying.
Long-distance trains seem to be the only thing Deutsche Bahn is still interested in - and those were quickly upgraded from Interregio to IC and now to ICE, making them more expensive accordingly. For me, BahnCard tariffs still apply since I usually travel between MĂĽnster and Hamburg, but it's also gotten more expensive when I take one of the ICEs. Not that they get to the destination significantly faster than the ICs on the same route...
I had actually hoped Deutsche Bahn learned something from the last fiasco, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
At .::: [unsinnfälliges] you can find the original article.
Up to ten percent of the Milky Way habitable
Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here.
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp
CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp - Portable Common Lisp system with bytecode compiler - now as a GNU project
The Wankel Engine and Its Inventor, Felix Wankel
The Wankel Engine and Its Inventor, Felix Wankel - All about the alternative engine type
GROKLAW - some background on SCO's ABI claim
Groklaw sheds light on the situation of Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), which are allegedly supposed to be SCO property, specifically the situation of errno.h and the Linux Personalities for SCO Unix.
Homonym Alarm
And more about American paranoia...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you'll find the original article.
IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python
IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python - Interactive Python shell with many convenience features
Kabissa - Browse the World Wide Web by Email!
Kabissa - Browse the World Wide Web by Email! - Use the web via email
LinuxWorld | Linux's other file sharing software
Nothing particularly special has happened: Red Hat has bought another company, this time Sistina. Sistina is interesting because they have been driving the commercial development of GFS - a cluster filesystem for Linux. OpenGFS has existed for a while, but GFS has more features and above all can work with more base technologies (e.g. via network block devices or iSCSI).
Now another company, Proserve, is writing that their product MatrixServer would be much better, that Sistina would need two more years to bring their product up to their level, and of course that their product would be better suited for critical services. Oddly enough, their product is naturally commercial software.
Where's the logical flaw? Quite simple: OpenGFS already exists and is maintained by more people than just those from Sistina. The features of GFS that were previously reserved for the commercial version will find their way into the free version, provided they are useful. OpenGFS will continue to develop, not necessarily GFS - Proserve has picked the wrong opponent. Proserve will have to think carefully about what to do - mere noise won't be enough on its own. It may well be that their product is better - but the question is whether it still will be in a year, or in two years. Open source develops on the basis of needs, not on the basis of marketing features - and development can happen damn fast.
Of course, there can be a disaster like with Mozilla or OpenOffice, where almost only the original developers from the companies work on the projects, and free development only proceeds very hesitantly (Mozilla is slowly getting better, but who knows OpenOffice hackers?). But given the need for cluster filesystems without a single point of failure, I don't think that's the case here.
SPD politician Maas stirs up headscarf dispute
|KK| Once again the annoying reference to the invocation of God in the Basic Law - and of course from the ranks of the Union yet again. People, the word God is used in the preamble, that's correct. But only in one place: "Conscious of their responsibility before God and mankind" - and that's all there is about God in the Basic Law. And that's good. It's already absurd what some politicians think they have to read into this single mention of the word in the Basic Law. But if it helps: I'm in favor of removing the invocation of God from the preamble as well. At least it saves two words, makes the Basic Law shorter and no poor politicians' brains will be confused and thrown into bewilderment anymore.
While we're at it, also delete the addition to the oath "so help me God" without replacement. That's obsolete - just like crosses in schools. Or oaths on the Bible. Or state collection of funds for the large Christian churches. Or religious education. And school religious services. It is in any case highly absurd to derive from this single mention that the state must accept Christian symbolism. And of course it is in no way a form of discrimination when Merkelnix talks about not being able to agree to equal treatment of religions in the public service and derives from this that Christian symbols cannot be insignificant to the state and that their removal is no solution.
The separation of church and state apparently never took place. Or Merkelnix wasn't paying attention in school. Or both ...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Substance in red wine works against cancer
I have two bottles of red wine left in the cellar. I think I'll devote myself to cancer prevention this weekend.
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
URL · Python software · LivingLogic AG
URL · Python software · LivingLogic AG - URL handling (and resources) according to RFC definition
Adobe Photoshop 7: Sketch Effect
Adobe Photoshop 7: Sketch Effect - Simple technique for creating line sketches from photos using Photoshop
The Be-All and End-All of Terror Search
I wouldn't be surprised if I think of some CIA maps
At TAZ I found the original article.
Feed Parser [dive into mark]
Feed Parser [dive into mark] - Mark's ultra-liberal feed parser in Python
Fighting to Save Hubble Telescope From Fiery Death
It's crazy, I still remember when the Hubble Telescope had to be repaired and the initial disappointments after launch when the errors were discovered. And now there's already talk of scrapping it. The currently missing service missions of the Space Shuttles are the reason. I think NASA should only retire Hubble once another telescope is up there and, most importantly, working. It wouldn't be the first time something went wrong at NASA ...
At National Geographic News: Science & Technology I found the original article.
Forbes.com: Linux''s Hit Men
Need an adrenaline rush after a wild New Year's Eve bender? Yes? Then read the linked Forbes article. A bunch of wild claims, insults and lies cooked together by one of the mouthpieces of business. A truly disgusting pile of garbage.
Where's the problem? Companies are too stupid to read through the license terms of software they want to use beforehand. They violate the openly available (and by now really thoroughly analyzed) GPL. They get into trouble with the FSF (which, after all, enforces the GPL - that's their job, among other things). Companies realize they screwed up and settle amicably with the FSF. So far so good.
What does Forbes make out of this? A communist conspiracy aimed at destroying commercial software. Wild insinuations that the GPL is just terrible and the companies are naturally just victims. And besides, that's the dark side of open source - how dare these proles actually enforce their licenses?
According to Forbes, everything should take a backseat to commerce and economic exploitation. For Forbes, open source programmers are probably just idiots who are supposed to supply material to talented managers and visionaries. Open source should apparently only consist of performance that can be exploited by companies free of charge and without conditions. Of course Forbes has no problem when the music industry enforces its rights. Or when Microsoft goes after software pirates again. Or when the film industry demands stricter rights to push through even more absurd restrictions on consumer rights.
What I find truly alarming about this is simply that Forbes can still write such garbage and that it's not only read but also believed.
Nyetwork Wiki: MiniWiki
Nyetwork Wiki: MiniWiki - Simple wiki as mod_perl module for Apache
Perl Monks - The Monastery Gates
Perl Monks - The Monastery Gates - Tips and tricks about Perl programming
XFree86 Core Team Dissolves
I'm curious to see what kind of model this will turn out to be. Although I'd really like to finally have a usable alternative to X11 - X11 is simply a rather gruesome construction in places. A solution like Mac OS X would be good: a new, native GUI with a workable model and a well-integrated X11 server for old applications.
Because let's be honest: the mess of GUI toolkits that arose from the fact that X11 was designed to be toolkit-neutral and doesn't prefer any one of them is one of the big handicaps for Unix on the desktop. And no, KDE or Gnome aren't really a complete answer to that, because they disguise the problems of the base technology but don't really solve them.
That would be something for 2004: finally develop a usable GUI for Unix. Does anyone still need a good New Year's resolution?
At heise online news there's the original article.
An oversized fan book devours the doctors
A book about the doctors. Hopefully it doesn't go to their heads - 3 kilos of paper in the noggin would certainly be detrimental to the texts in the long run
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.