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xsdb html index - compact and feature-rich database in Python
A garbage collector for C and C++ - Garbage collection for C and C++
Mainly a note for Jutta that she wants to have the book
At The Macintosh News Network there is the original article.
Let's hope it's not also the first crashed spacecraft and the first atomic catastrophe on a Jupiter moon - given NASA's recent track record of success, they should probably send less dangerous equipment on the journey...
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
FocusFixer by FixerLabs - Corrects blurry photos
SCO claims that its web server was once again crippled by a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. Two security experts express their opinion on Groklaw and provide brief analyses on why this claim from SCO should rather be viewed with skepticism.
JSch -- Java Secure Channel - Java implementation of SSH2 with X-forwarding
Read, throw 5 euros in the Chauvi box, have a laugh.
At passe.par.tout you'll find the original article.
The right thing for today's hacker: writing file systems for Linux directly in Python. I could think about whether I should rewrite my suckfs to LUFS-Python. The current implementation via dnotify in any case has some strange effects and race conditions that under certain circumstances cause the data inventories to no longer be in sync. However, a LUFS-Python implementation would unfortunately also be realized through Python on read, and that would most likely be too slow for the intended use of suckfs (replication of static data contents on a Zope cluster). Here's the original article.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he's doing well. He is a fantastic photographer and his images impressively showcase the effects of war, chaos, and famine. Outstanding is the book Inferno with a selection of his images from various crisis zones - I have rarely seen such impressive photographs. He always manages to show the suffering and agony of people without depriving them of their dignity. No sensationalism, no hunger for sensation - but a clear statement against war and abuse. He is certainly one of the great photographers of today. Here you can find the original article.
I've extended the Python Desktop Server with another module: Blogmarks provides a blog with mini entries. The idea behind it is to simply post links. For this purpose, I use a bookmarklet (a bit of JavaScript that opens a window and calls up a URL), which passes the current link and the title of the current window to the Python Desktop Server and asks the user for categories and a short description (which is stored as a title tag on the link element and displayed on mouse-over). The whole thing is converted into compact HTML and is available as a blog with RSS feed and everything that goes with it. In the long run, I'll probably add further features like caching of the original page (in case it goes offline) and a category overview of all links, but for now I'm starting as it is. Let's see if this isn't a useful alternative to private bookmarks.
The most interesting thing about this project is the juxtaposition of the Python and Perl source code. I like both languages, but somehow in this comparison I find that I should actually be ashamed that I like Perl too.
ScummVM - Interpreter for LucasArts games, also available for the Zaurus
That doesn't sound bad at all. An AppleScript editor with an interactive AppleScript shell, various extensions and above all an interface builder. And the whole thing available for free download. And the description sounds like it would be a decent alternative to the much heavier (but also much more powerful) AppleScript Studio for small hacks.
TrueBlur by FixerLabs - Simulates shallow depth of field through artificial blur
Nothing has changed, the same old arguments, the same false conclusions, the same false demands. It's quite alarming how Die Freie Wirtschaft still fits like a glove, even after so many decades. The original article can be found at gnurps here.
Loch an Loch and yet (not) holds
At heise online news there is the original article.
Full agreement. I never understood all the fuss about Harald Schmidt when it was still new. He's quitting the show now. So what.
There's the original article at Nochn Blogg.
The programmer of JPython/Jython (a Python implementation for the Java Virtual Machine) apparently is working on an implementation of Python for the .NET Common Language Runtime. And first benchmarks look very good, better than some other attempts that were made at ActiveState. It looks like in the foreseeable future Python code can be used both within Java applications and .NET applications, in addition to the native implementation that already exists. I find that very pleasant, because it allows me to use my currently favored programming language even in silly Windows projects that we'll be dealing with in the near future.
In the Java environment I'm already using Jython as a convenient alternative syntax when I have to work with any foreign libraries in Java - Jython is much more comfortable there (and the interactive environment is absolutely great when you need to experiment with foreign libraries, because the documentation isn't sufficient again!).
Of course nothing new - just more FUD about Linux and hype about Microsoft again. What bothers me about the whole thing though: apparently an institute at the University of Münster let itself be bought for this study. Since Münster is my hometown, I take this kind of nonsense somewhat personally - I would have expected more integrity from the University of Münster. But money rules the world, nobody cares about facts anymore.
Confusion, anarchy, chaos!
Well, whether Microsoft releases patches or not doesn't really matter anyway - the security holes come faster than the patches anyway...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
According to the schedule, SCO has to provide a large amount of information, in particular exactly where the alleged patent violations are located (with file and line number specifications), as well as stating why SCO believes a patent violation exists, whether and if so who else had access, and some other information surrounding this whole matter. I'm really curious to see what SCO can actually submit to the court.
IBM, by the way, doesn't have to submit anything until SCO has completed their part, and that's also part of the judge's ruling.
Ok, I understand that the tree lobster needs to be saved. But is the approach of poisoning an entire island so that all rats die really the right one? Rats can adapt well - it's possible they won't catch all the rats, but then the survivors will have an easier time with the weakened other animals afterward? Or the Noah's Ark experiment doesn't work and the other animals die out - what does the tree lobster get out of that?
In the end it always comes down to the same thing: whenever man tries to fix something, it can almost only get worse...
Actually just blogging so I can find it again later. Medley Lisp is the successor to the Lisp that runs on Xerox Lisp machines. Two releases run on my Lisp machines: Koto Lisp and Lyric Lisp. Koto Lisp is a pure Interlisp-D environment (by the way, Rainer Joswig put the introductory manual online, and there's also a film about using Interlisp-D online), whereas Lyric Lisp additionally includes an implementation of Common Lisp. Medley Lisp is the direct successor release to Lyric Lisp, thus strongly Common Lisp centric, though the system basis still builds on Interlisp-D. Medley Lisp no longer runs on Lisp machines, but is instead brought to various platforms via an emulator. I still have a version of the emulator for DOS; only an old Solaris version and a Linux version (for Intel processors) are still sold. The software has a long history; the first releases date from the early 1980s, much code from that time is still found in the system (all of Interlisp-D, that is). But I'd guess that the TCP/IP implementation in Interlisp under the emulator version is no longer used; instead, it probably accesses the system's own TCP/IP stack.
At home I still have two functional Siemens replicas of the Xerox 1186 machines, and over a meter of documentation. It's fascinating what's packed into these machines and what performance they already had back then—and this despite the processor not being the fastest. The processor itself had loadable microcode, so the instruction set could be adapted to the system (Smalltalk, Lisp, or Prolog). In principle, that was also an emulator back then, just realized in hardware.
Wow. That was quick. Great performance!
And to the Hamburg residents: at the next election, it really doesn't have to be the Schillhaufen ...
At Nochn Blogg. you can find the original article.
Once again, proof of the inhumanity of certain judges. The verdict could easily come from Schill: Rather, due to existing neglect tendencies resulting from the lack of educational influence from their parents, the children were recognizably interested in the sexual acts themselves. (...) Moreover, the abused children suffered no recognizable further psychological harm beyond their already existing environmental damage as a result of the accused incidents. How can a judge deliver such a contemptuous justification? Are children from socially problematic circumstances now the lowest of the low, whom one can simply abuse?
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Ok, yet another programming language. But the mix is what appeals to me: taking inspiration from Self, Common Lisp and Smalltalk really hits my taste. I'll have to get the whole thing and try it out. Certainly it won't reach the critical mass needed to do anything serious with it - lately only Ruby has managed that, and even that was something of a sensation - but it's interesting nonetheless.
An interesting article about various user scenarios for outliners and related programs. It provides a good overview of software available on Mac along with their respective focuses and areas of application. Anyone planning to acquire such software should browse through here, which saves a lot of personal trial and error.
That's exactly what the Ich-AG concept is all about: the formerly employed worker is thrown between the millstones of large corporations with a small concept that might just barely work at the local level. When the big players no longer like it, they can easily get rid of him. He then no longer falls into the unemployment statistics, but at best among those receiving social welfare. The balance sheet looks great and an existence is destroyed.
Or did someone really believe that the Ich-AG was in any way about a forward-looking concept that people are supposed to live from long-term? Fooled you. Gotcha.
If it were really about that, the Ich-AG entrepreneurs would also be offered security measures when they go into self-employment. But that gets shifted by the state to the private sector; these people are supposed to get their own security.
Of course, the sloppy founder meetings (more hype than facts) and the rather time-constrained advisory services are not sufficient to turn a former employee into a full merchant. And promptly there are problems later with insurance, contracts, payments, taxes or contributions.
The Ich-AG would be a good concept if it really built on a sustainable model that included security and comprehensive support in business formation—and in a way that would allow the Ich-AG entrepreneur to take the risk. The way it's running now, the most frequently used advice will probably ultimately be debt counseling...
At WDR.de there's the original article.
It took a long time, but now it's done. The first level cracked. Sure, a 2048-bit key is still quite difficult to crack, but it's foreseeable when these limits will also fall. Time for new algorithms and new approaches. My PGP 2.63uin version (please don't be alarmed by the layout of the pages, that's all still from 1998) already had 8129-bit key length, which should last a little while longer. At heise online news there's the original article.
Wow, Riots in Hamburg
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
An interesting breakdown of all the clauses not included in the SCO NDA. As a result, such a signed NDA would mean that the signatory could only report about SCO what SCO had previously allowed them to sign – regardless of where that knowledge came from, whether they already had it beforehand or whether they might have received it from outside sources. In principle, anyone who signs this NDA would be completely eliminated as a critic of SCO. This would obviously make free investigations of SCO's claims impossible.
At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.
The British Home Secretary fears that British Guantanamo detainees could be acquitted in British courts. And that's why he's arguing that they should remain in Guantanamo. Quite perverse, if you ask me. An acquittal in British courts would be a determination that the detainees are innocent - but that would actually require that they be removed from Guantanamo as soon as possible. But the British government isn't interested in the rights of its citizens, only in the image that Bush's little lapdog presents ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Well, you can definitely be fooled by that. According to this discussion, there are problems with several programs displaying the processor speed. My PowerBook G4 867 is also promptly displayed as 533, even though it encodes music CDs just as quickly as before. Something seems to have changed in the system interfaces with 10.2.8 that misleads some programs. At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
So folks, please keep SCO financially alive at least long enough until they get roasted in court. I want to see the debacle and watch the stock prices crash because of the CEO's stupidity
At heise online news there's the original article.
Perhaps an interesting exhibition for some.
You can find the original article on WDR.de.
Wow, that's quite a rapid self-destruction. That's what happens when there are no viable political concepts, only stupid polemics and stupid slogans.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Sometimes you can't quite shake the feeling that researchers watch too much bad science fiction
There's the original article at Telepolis News.
Ouch. Yes, it really still works:
simon:/usr/local/sbin# traceroute bell.ca traceroute: Warning: bell.ca has multiple addresses; using 204.101.196.36 traceroute to bell.ca (204.101.196.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 HOSGate.your-server.de (213.133.111.1) 2 et-2-1.RS86001.RZ3.hetzner.de (213.133.96.121) 3 gi-2-2.RS8K1.RZ2.hetzner.de (213.133.96.57) 4 nbg.de.lambdanet.net (213.133.96.234) 5 F-2-eth100-0.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.105.13) 6 PZU-1-pos100.fr.lambdanet.net (217.71.96.34) 7 LDCH-1-ge000.fr.lambdanet.net (217.71.96.86) 8 109.ge1-0.er1a.cdg2.fr.above.net (62.4.77.225) 9 pos0-3.cr1.cdg2.fr.above.net (208.184.231.206) 10 so-5-1-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net (64.125.31.129) 11 so-0-0-0.cr2.lhr3.uk.above.net (208.184.231.146) 12 so-7-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.above.net (64.125.31.182) 13 pos12-0.pr1.lga1.us.above.net (64.125.30.190) 14 bellnexxia-mfn-oc12.pr1.lga1.us.mfnx.net (64.125.12.34) 15 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.103.197) 16 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.103.213) 17 64.230.243.217 (64.230.243.217) 18 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.97.206) 19 bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia. (206.108.105.138)
It's quite embarrassing when someone points out a security problem to you in this way.
The original article can be found at kasia in a nutshell here.
It would actually make quite a lot of sense. It's been annoying me for a while that I have to check for various software updates separately. From Debian I'm used to only needing one update service. On OS X that's a bit cumbersome sometimes ...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
A fundamental overhaul of the school system would be the logical step. Better training opportunities for teachers also result in better-trained teachers – contrary to popular opinion, there are indeed motivated teachers out there (I even got to know a few during my school days). And ultimately, it is the teachers who educate our future – or destroy it.
On the other hand, one can hardly expect that in times when there are calls for schools and universities to be geared even more rigidly toward later use in the economy, that knowledge transfer itself can still be the central focus. Just look at what politicians are calling for at the moment when they present their wonderful education reforms. Shortening the total time in school, earlier enrollment – what is that supposed to achieve? Approaches to problems in the school system must start with teaching methods and personnel. Children want to learn. The older they get, the more motivation needs to come into play – why they should continue learning – after all, learning is not without effort, and no child will sustain it for 10-13 years without motivation. This also includes further education after school – study places and apprenticeships must be available so that kids can see perspectives on where their learning leads. Otherwise, even if the teacher wears a red foam nose ever so often, by middle school no one will take him seriously if he cannot point to a potential future. And this also requires their own concepts – merely parroting concepts from yesterday borrowed from other countries doesn't help either.
Where, for example, are the continuations of the alternative school systems that were examined? What about the promotion of specialized school forms that were supposed to help children with problems in school? Look at the austerity programs of the states; these areas are affected too. Instead of investing precisely here – after all, it is our future – cuts and cancellations are happening here as well. Instead of prospects, concepts include making higher school forms more expensive – as if money were a guarantee of competence.
The fiasco in both the school system and vocational training is a glaring deficiency in our society, one that is no longer willing to build its own future, but instead prefers to smash everything and sell itself out.
I found the original article at TAZ.
Great. Microsoft wants to exploit patents in the area of the clunky FAT file system. When will Microsoft take action against FAT implementations in open systems? The whole thing is absurd. File systems are standards for data exchange; charging licenses for them is completely absurd. Especially since the implementation of FAT is so primitive that even at the time of its invention, the actual inventive achievement couldn't have been particularly high...
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there's the original article.
Oh man, not a good week.
At heise online news there's the original article.
If someone is interested in the drivel that Darl McBride is spouting, here's a link to an open letter from SCO. Absurd to the point of ridiculousness, the way he spins things together. In any case, the GPL in this case isn't about some derived higher rights, but about explicit licenses that the authors of software willfully define for their own works. I hardly believe that the US Constitution can be used to interpret an author's copyright in such a way that the author themselves can't decide on the license under which they release their work. That would be too absurd even by American standards, I think.
Quite apart from the fact that SCO itself explicitly used the GPL — they never said that the GPL was illegal and invalid. Because if it really were, under what right would SCO have been allowed to distribute Linux at all?
What's really shocking about this is that this edifice of lies is actually succeeding on the stock market and the SCO stock — which has absolutely no backing in any form in its core business or products — is being kept high. I'm hoping that the stock market will eventually realize what garbage this is and hopefully the stock value will plummet into the abyss before (or even better in the middle of) the proceedings. I'd like to see the faces of the lawyers who at the moment probably still have millions in their eyes, and then suddenly only see blanks.
At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.
A report on the occasion of his 75th birthday about Noam Chomsky - a remarkable person both as a linguist and as a political figure. And as a critic of the US government, definitely a different caliber than Michael Moore.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Sorry, as incompatible the Shockwave Rider is with Communities, that's how incompatible I am with Awards. I just find them ridiculous.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
All four areas (SMP, Journaled Filesystems, NUMA, and RCU) that SCO claims were stolen were knowingly distributed by SCO themselves under the GPL (with their Linux product), explicitly promoted, and supported by employees and even actively enhanced and improved through patches by Christoph Hellwig in person. I believe SCO can expect a few problems in court.
No wonder - of course Möllemann wasn't solely responsible for the whole mess. The FDP has some skeletons in the closet. But the fact that Möllemann just slapped a million in cash on the table, that's something. Somehow I imagine dimmed lighting, smoky, raspy voices, cigar smoke. Maybe even a henchman in the background cleaning his fingernails with a switchblade.
But it probably happened much less romantically and much more mundanely than I imagine...
At WDR.de there's the original article.
Wow. That would be a bombshell for the next Tour. Not only strong, motivated rivals who finally want to beat Armstrong, but also his strongest helper as a new competitor? Armstrong should already be thinking about how he'll get through a Tour like that. After all, Heras was not insignificant in some of his successes. And in the mountains, he's one of those who – if he's in good form – can definitely keep up. Even if he looked a bit thin against Armstrong and Ullrich in the mountains at the last Tour.
So let's summarize who could have ambitions for the throne: Hamilton certainly after his gigantic fourth place last year. Vinokurov definitely, his dominant third place and his fighting spirit last year were a clear sign. Beloki will certainly maybe still be a bit wobbly after his crash, but motivated for sure – after all, he kept up fantastically until his crash last year. And of course Jan Ullrich, who probably finally wants to break Armstrong's streak.
And then all the up-and-comers and the second tier – if one of them rides a good Tour, he can mix it up well. I'm thinking of the Euskatel captains for example, or Heras. I'm starting to get really excited about the next Tour, it could be really exciting.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.