Möllemann is back
Möllemann is back - Out! Shoo! Yuck! Back, bad Möllemann! Wow, does he really want to meddle in politics again, where does something like that happen.
Found at tagesschau on the Internet.
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Doctors want to close on Wednesdays
Doctors want to close on Wednesdays - it's astonishing how everyone keeps talking about how we all need to do our part to save the social system, but apparently everyone only means the others, never themselves. I've always found the Hartmann Association suspicious; they were far more concerned with securing their own interests than with the health system, but it was never shown as openly as it is right now.
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
Konica and Minolta Merge
Konica and Minolta merge - hmm. This could get interesting, especially if Minolta puts old know-how into the Konica Hexar RF. Plus, something could happen in the digital sector too. Let's wait and see.
Found at tagesschau im Internet.
OpenOffice for Mac OS X
OpenOffice for Mac OS X - ... but the project website already shows promising screenshots. macOSXrumors has taken a first look at the - generally eagerly awaited - OpenSource office suite. Yeah, I'm also very much looking forward to it. It's silly to have to start the X Server just for an office package. Eventually Jutta can finally do her office work on her iBook too and I won't have to hear any more stories about alternatively using her Linux computer or Apple Works. Thanks to Industrial Technology & Witchcraft for the link.
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Distributed computing to crack Xbox Public Key [Update]
Distributed Computing to Crack Xbox Public Key [Update] - I just can't help but smile a little at that.
Found at heise online news.
bzero 0.14 available
bzero 0.14 available - now with Unicode support (ok, UTF-8 support, but that's close enough). Hmm. Now I probably need to plan that for PyDS as well? We'll see. His approach is quite simple - convert everything to &#xxx; format, which allows you to stream the result upstream without problems. Should be able to integrate that in a few places (getFirstValue, getAllValues), then that should do it.
Speaking of PyDS: categories are now there, generally the weblog is mostly complete, but the rendering part is still a bit behind - I've added some features (specifically categories and onhome) that are still missing there. And of course I still don't have upstreaming. Which limits PyDS somewhat. Found at Second p0st.
Beitrag ohne Titel
Rich Bowen: "After putting me on hold for a lengthy period of time, apparently talking to other experts, he came back and told me that the problem was beyond their expertise to deal with. He encouraged me to read the .htaccess file tutorial on the Apache web site at apache.org. Now, for those of you who don't already know, the reason that this was so very surreal is that I wrote the .htaccess tutorial on the Apache web site."
One to bang your head on the table over. Reminds me of the Korn-Microsoft debate. Lusers. [via Workbench]
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LLGPL Implementation of an XML-RPC Server and Client for OpenMCL
LLGPL Implementation of an XML-RPC Server and Client for OpenMCL - cool. I would have liked to see this come up a bit earlier, perhaps I would have written it together with the portable web server PyDS sooner as CLDS. Hmm. Sounds like a project I might still tackle.
Found at lemonodor.
"Monster von Aramberri": Erste Knochen in Karlsruhe
"Monster of Aramberri": First Bones in Karlsruhe - it would be nice if casts of the bones were assembled into a skeleton and exhibited in Karlsruhe (or elsewhere in Germany). Such a 50-ton monster would certainly be impressive to see.
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
X11 for Mac OS X by Apple
X11 for Mac OS X by Apple. Rootless, directly integrated and supposed to use Quartz. Hmm. The question is, does it already run on 10.1.5, or only from 10.2 onwards? Could be interesting, XDarwin is painfully slow and despite Oroborsx not really integrated. And occasionally I do need an X-Server after all, especially when I tunnel to my servers at the office.
First installation attempt failed anyway, the updater starts, but it won't unpack the file. Nothing, nada. No response. Strange. Maybe someone with 10.2 could test that?
Designated ECB Chief in Court
Designated ECB Chief in Court - perfect candidate. And the French really wanted to push this through? Well, Duisenberg already offered an extension ...
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
Clement wants change of direction in economic policy
Clement wants shift in economic policy - yeah, great strategy, having two strategies right away. Best of all two that are incompatible with each other, then the chancellor can express a clear maybe again. Good grief, don't they have anything in their heads?
Found at tagesschau im Internet.
Microdrive gets a major capacity boost
Microdrive gets a major capacity boost - neat, 4GB Microdrives. Not only interesting for photography (although of course having larger storage media is a blessing for current high-end digital cameras), but also for example for the OpenBrick. Cool.
Found at Imaging Resource News Page.
Package metadata repository for Python
Package metadata repository for Python - very nice, a kind of CPAN for Python. It's about time, because hunting down packages - for smaller packages - can already be annoying.
Found at Python owns us.
Donut discovered in space
Donut in space discovered - please with coffee. And a little icing on top
Found at tagesschau on the Internet.
Polaroid Dust and Scratch removal
Polaroid Dust and Scratch removal - a free utility from Polaroid that's supposed to make it easy to remove dust and scratches. In addition to normal use, there's also a plugin mode for Photoshop included. Worth taking a look at (I haven't tried it yet). By the way, the installer is pretty dumb - it searches all mounted volumes for plugin folders, but of course can't find "additional modules". Rarely such a dumb idea, especially with my 120 GB Firewire disc ...
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First test results with the Polaroid filter: not bad, it determines its own masks based on damage markings and removes elements in that area by blending with the surroundings. So exactly what you need. Ok, if I open an image of several people and the filter then wants to remove someone's glasses as scratches, that's a bit overzealous, but the idea itself isn't bad in principle. I think I'll give that a try soon when I scan dusty negatives again.
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Sometimes Python messes with me. Today for example: Initializers of optional function arguments are unfortunately evaluated at the time of compilation! So if you define a now=time.localtime(time.time()) as an optional parameter, you shouldn't be surprised if now is only the time of the last module compile, and not really today. I'm still not sure if I see that as a bug or a feature.
New rdflib release
New rdflib release - I should take a look at that, because I could use that for the aggregator in PyDS.
Found at Second p0st.
OpenMCL Now LLGPLed
OpenMCL Now LLGPLed - hmm, could this be the first sign that someone will take it and build a decent GUI around it to commercialize it? If the price were significantly lower than MCL, that would be interesting to me.
Found at lemonodor.
Masturbating Orangutans
Onanierende Orang-Utans - what is it with all these orangutans at the moment
Found at Telepolis News.
Easy Things Should Be Easy
Easy Things Should Be Easy - the power of high-level libraries.
Gefunden bei PyLog.
Friday 3 January AllegroServe : 3 edits
Friday 3 January AllegroServe : 3 edits - hmm, has it quietly become OpenMCL-compatible? That would be something worth doing, maybe playing around with OpenMCL again. Perhaps a parallel implementation of PyDS as ClDS? Or at least parts of it?
PyDS is making nice progress, by the way, a simple weblog tool is already there, but rendering and upstreaming are still missing. But the infrastructure is now largely complete. Let's see, once I have rendering and upstreaming done, I could actually take my stuff down from Radio and import it into PyDS.
I could handle news with AmphetaDesk for now and just patch the template so I can post entries to PyDS. That way I could do everything I do today. Just uglier.
Found at CLiki Recent Changes.
Telephone Game
"It seems the editors of DigiTimes confused iMac manufacturing with the production of TFT displays from Apple's Studio Display line." - Thanks to Industrial Technology & Witchcraft for the link, so I don't need to panic buy. Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Railway company sues Pro Bahn in court
Deutsche Bahn sues Pro Bahn in court - instead of complaining in court, Deutsche Bahn could simply fix the problems and adapt its pricing system to match its advertising promises ...
Found at tagesschau online.
20 Years of Mouse-Controlled Computer: "Lisa" Celebrates Birthday
20 Years of mouse-controlled computers: "Lisa" celebrates its birthday - oh well, I would certainly like to have one for my collection. But they do go for a bit of money on eBay ...
Found at tagesschau on the Internet.
MacBird Open Source Release
MacBird Open Source Release - well, it's been sitting around for three years and I'm afraid no one will pick up the ball. That's a shame really, because a GUI is what Frontier/Radio is still missing. The web interface isn't always optimal and the built-in editors are usable for the predefined types, but not necessarily always ideal for real applications. OK, Dave lives in the Outliner, but there are people who still want classic applications
Found at Scripting News.
The Cultured Orangutan
The Cultured Orangutan - interesting, the orangutan apparently has a kind of transmitted culture that can vary by region.
Found at Scientific American.
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Two cat images (scanned from old negatives) from The Witch - Juttas Fotoalben
Found at The Witch - Juttas Fotoalben.
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Navigation error - someone could have given them a GPS receiver as a Christmas present ... (Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft)
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
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I'm currently working on a larger Python project that could potentially replace Radio for me. We'll see how it goes. The infrastructure is already in place — I simply borrowed from PyCS and used the same modules. Next, I'll do some fine-tuning on the infrastructure, then comes template integration and themes. After that, I'll create the first tools. I'm curious to see how it turns out, but based on my previous Python projects, I'm actually quite optimistic. Python and all the available libraries are a fairly reliable tool — so I won't end up in the rain halfway through just because some annoying library starts acting up again...
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Cyclone 0.4 released - I talked about it with Kai at the regulars' table yesterday, and today I see the update. Ok, Kai said it means typhoon, but I think cyclone is meteorologically close enough (Found at Lambda the Ultimate)
Should I take a look at it? I've been quite happy with "Pyrex" and "Python" so far, but I still need the obligatory new programming language for this year that I want to explore ...
Found at Lambda the Ultimate.
Pornography or web radio patent?
Porn or Web Radio Patent? - ouch. A patent issue like this can have serious consequences, especially for things like the Quicktime Streaming Server (okay, Apple is behind that, they have less of a problem with it) or other open source streaming solutions (Ogg streaming for example). Internet radios would - if this patent goes through on a larger scale - probably only be feasible from the free world, no longer from regions bogged down by patent disputes like the States.
For Industrial Technology & Witchcraft this could potentially be relevant too, after all they want to set up a radiolog soon.
Found at Telepolis News.
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CBS Marketwatch: AOL said ready to boost blogging - ouch. Then the weblog infrastructure servers (I'm thinking of weblogs.com, Technorati, Blogstreet, blo.gs, the Blogs ecosystem and all the others) September ... (Found on Scripting News)
Found at Scripting News.
Flat-panel iMac production to be terminated?
Flat-panel iMac production to be terminated? - hey! They can't discontinue that before I get one! Seriously ...
Found at The Macintosh News Network.
Rürup calls for order
Rürup calls to order - wow, the commission is certainly starting off with full competence. I wonder if anything sensible can come out of it?
Found at tagesschau online.
The Song
Den Song could have easily been played on the radio again at Christmas. Oh well, they really don't make proper Christmas songs like that anymore ...
Rürup Commission: You''re in for 900 euros!
Rürup Commission: Get involved with 900 euros! - I'm hoping this is just half-baked stuff that reporters picked up and published in a way that's not quite but almost completely different from what was intended. Because if that's actually the plan, the whole thing becomes absurd. Then we're moving sooner or later toward American conditions and should already start looking for where we want our slums to be...
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
Botanical Garden
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Found at The Witch - Juttas Fotoalben.
Lost...
> look You are in a twisty maze of python build dependencies, all covered with inscrutable error messages. There are exits to: N, S, E, W. What do you do? > python setup.py build A compiler goblin rushes out of one of the passages, scribbles on a wall and runs gibbering down another passage. > help There is no help for you. > n You are in a twisty maze of python build dependencies, all covered with inscrutable error messages. There are exits to: N, S, E, W. What do you do? > get coffee
[ richard's stuff : /python] So (s/coffee/apfelschorle/) fühle ich mich auch manchmal. Meistens aber mit Perl, wenn eine Modulinstallation gleich das ganze Perl selber mit installieren will aufgrund seiner Abhängigkeiten ...
Gefunden bei richard's stuff : /python.
There's one thing I'm certain of: Return I will To old Brazil": Kate Bush, from the greatest ...
Simply beautiful. The film. And music by Kate Bush. Unfortunately, we haven't heard from her in far too long. A shame.
Thanks to Industrial Technology & Witchcraft for the link.
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Pevenage leaves Team Telekom
Pevenage leaves Team Telekom - a shame, his team management was really good, even if the Tour victory only worked out twice. Well, with the whole team in transition, it was perhaps exactly the right time. The main thing is that the magenta train keeps going (and more reliably than the railway)
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
19C3: The Linux Xbox Hack and the Future of Palladium
19C3: The Linux Xbox Hack and the Future of Palladium - I'm currently being attacked by perverse thoughts of an X-Box cluster ...
Found at heise online news.
Prominent .de domains: Not paid and blocked
Prominent .de domains: Not paid and blocked - unbelievable. Not that the domains were neglected - given the story, that's no surprise. But the fact that prominent companies actually register their domains through third-level resellers instead of handling it properly themselves through a primary domain provider is really embarrassing. Honestly, anyone who does something that stupid deserves what they get ...
Found at heise online news.
The Raelians
The Raelians - oh yes. Such people are of course absolutely predestined for cloning humans. Completely credible bunch. Sure. (Thanks to Industrial Technology & Witchcraft for the link)
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Schröder announces hard line
Schröder announces tough course - ok, when will ministerial salaries and parliamentary allowances be cut? When will companies be taxed appropriately again? When will those with assets have their wealth taxed again? What does "we're not doing that" mean? Strange. Oh right, tough only for employees. A very peculiar definition of "everyone".
Found on tagesschau on the Internet.
Schröder or Stoiber: Who has the best website?
Schröder or Stoiber: Who has the better website? - wow. That's pretty terrible, what's lurking in the websites of the Chancellor and the candidate. Well, so much for competence with new media...
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The Polaroid 600SE is one of my cameras. Tony is always a bit hard to find, so here's a link to his shop. You'll find lots of interesting information about the system from him. And I can only confirm one thing: the Polaroid 600 SE is a great camera. A photo album full of Fuji 100 B really makes an impression...
Criticism of Fischer from his own ranks
Criticism of Fischer from within his own ranks - Making wars is modern
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
Mehdorn threatens with fair-weather traffic
Mehdorn threatens with fair-weather traffic. The railway wants to maintain train service in the future even during extreme weather conditions. With this clarification, the company responded to a threat from railway chief Mehdorn. He had considered in "Focus" to completely stop trains in the future during freezing rain. - could these be the last convulsions of the railway chief? After all, it's quite an unusual situation when a company clarifies statements made by its chief ... Found at tagesschau on the internet.