Trojaner-Basteln für Dummys - ouch. Big ouch.
Archive 29.6.2007 - 20.7.2007
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. - sounds strange, but potentially useful.
Nokia veröffentlicht Browser für Maemo - nice. The Opera on the devices is not bad, but a Mozilla runs a bit smoother, as the Opera is of the older kind.
Project details for leJOS - now also for the NXT. It's exciting, on the other hand, Lego tinkering has a disadvantage: you have to put it away if you don't want to constantly trip over it ...
Schenk? - wasn't she the BDR president at the time when the BDR deliberately ignored all the allegations against Team Telekom because there was an Olympic champion and Tour winner and generally only great cyclists? Funny how the coat turns with the wind ...
The History of Software Patents (BitLaw) - in the USA.
Abmahngrund: Fotos vom Fotostudio - the whole thing is so strange that you don't even understand what was not understood at all. However, one should remember: it is best to fix in writing exactly for what a photo should be used.
Absurdities of the Media
In the doping circus, there's once again a real howler that I saw today in the Tour ticker:
Dear cycling friends! For good reason (the case of Patrik Sinkewitz), coverage of the 2007 Tour de France will initially be suspended until the allegations against Sinkewitz are clarified. We thank you for your interest! À bientôt, your tour.ARD.de team
Ok. So another rider under doping suspicion. Just like it's been all the time. Nothing really new - Team T-Mobile probably has a lot more to work through. Uh - and what is the point of stopping the coverage now? I mean, it was already pathetic enough - stopping it now changes what exactly?
The media could of course, instead of the great outrage, think about how much they themselves are involved in the whole mess. Wasn't there something about direct cooperation between ARD reporters and Deutsche Telekom? Wasn't there the years-long hype of the media around Jan Ullrich and the free mega-advertising for Deutsche Telekom? Wasn't it the case that for the German media, hardly anything else existed except Telekom and their team?
And all of this is completely innocent in the pressure that was built up? The Tour commentators this time had sayings ready that one should also talk about the non-winners - and yet again, as every year, they have fueled the winner speculation and stirred up the hype. But certainly, stopping the coverage will help the non-doping riders (if there are any, I don't know if that's the case) tremendously. And ARD is setting a real sign - of their own stupidity and arrogance, because the media, the sports associations, and organizations have diligently built up all this nonsense.
Cycling is left in the lurch - but the hypocritical directors and functionaries couldn't care less about that. Doping once brought in ratings, so it was ignored. Now they're just playing the big critic - and make just as ridiculous a picture as back then.
BrowseBack: Visual Web History You Can Search - looks quite nice. Could elegantly solve the problem of lost web pages. Disk space is not such a huge problem today.
"Amflora" comes: EU wants to allow BASF potato - "Germany, along with Sweden and others, is among the supporters - after all, BASF is a German company."
integer overflows - and how the PHP maintainers imagine preventing this ... is anyone still wondering about the many problems in the PHP interpreter? Maybe it's time for some of the maintainers there to learn how to program?
Microsoft's Digital Rights Management bypassed - well, anyone who relies on DRM is building on sand ...
iPod Operating System - someone hacks into the system level of an iPod. And finds a stripped-down OS X. Kudos for using SNOBOL for the example program.
Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns Nasty - yet another case where I think Linus should just sit down and write code - and otherwise keep his mouth shut. Open source is always opinionated software and this silly bashing of Stallman (who admittedly is completely crazy - but which visionary wasn't?) is ridiculous. Without RMS, open source would not be what it is. Writing a kernel based on 1970s technology is one thing - but building a community based on (not only technical but also moral!) ideas is a completely different matter. The FSF people at least have an idea of a better society, whereas their opponents couldn't care less about society. On which side do the "hypocrites" sit, I wonder?
low-level network packets with python - we hack IP packets. And scan the network. And filter packets. With Python.
Tinderbox: Downloads - wow, a lot of changes since my last update. It might make sense to switch to a newer version again, especially since I now have use for statically generated pages again (on the other hand, I have thousands of other tools for that - but Tinderbox is somehow like a good old buddy you'd like to meet again)
Bishop demands creationism in biology class - Creationist nutjobs in Germany. Will surely find support from the Hessian education destroyer. This bullshit has no place in biology class. None. This sanctimonious act that one would advocate for multiple ideas and the fixation on only one idea is unscientific is simply nonsense.
Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia) and stones - anyone who wants to know how the world looks to a face-blind person, a rather interesting article.
AT&T Cingular iPhone contract terms examined - will the contracts in Germany contain similar stunts by the end of the year?
Genera Concepts - who is interested, why Genera is so brilliant and why many people think that it is conceptually far ahead of even today's systems.
Ampache Web Musicbox - I should take a closer look at this sometime when I have time.
EU "pulled over the table" on passenger data - "A closer reading of the documents shows that the triumphantly announced breakthrough rather resembles a capitulation to the USA, warned representatives of the ALDE and the Greens. 'The EU was pulled over the table,' judged Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (ALDE). In particular, it was criticized that the German presidency had emphasized the reduction of the categories of transferred data. The question asked twice by Green Kathalijne Buitenweg to Commissioner Frattini, which data would no longer be transferred in fact, he did not answer. It was only a summary of the data in fewer categories, the deputies complained."
Skype comes to Nokia's N800 Linux tablet - hmm. Skype. I guess I'll have to upgrade now. It's not terribly complicated, but having to reinstall my own software is rather annoying. It would be nice if the base system could also be upgraded through the normal package mechanisms.
Perlbal - a balancing proxy server focused on performance. In Perl. Tons of features that make it easy to compose a single frontend from many backend systems.
Popstars save the Earth - "We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah.", Bon Jovi
Schäuble demands "detention", internet and mobile ban for "potential threats" - I demand detention, internet and speaking ban for crazy politicians. We could just build a wall around the government district ...
SQLite performance and Django - tuning tips.
Union threatens ARD and ZDF with advertising ban - because the public broadcasting internet offering is so terribly threatening. Or are the private media industry's donation funds just speaking again?
WinMTR - mtr with GUI for Windows.
BGH facilitates telephone information disclosure of data - and goes with the argumentation Web 2.0. Opt-out instead of Opt-in. When will they finally understand that only Opt-in is fair and correct. No, data is not simply there to enrich companies, just because no one objected.
Company names in blog domains are problematic - "class" decision, LG Hamburg. Right away, the dirty masses have been silenced. When will Bildblog be shut down, by order of the authorities?
The story of Mel - real programmer.
Bush on overruling judgements: "I don't believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own," - George W. Bush on why he signed death warrants for 152 inmates as governor of Texas. (außer natürlich es geht jemanden wie Libby - dann kippt man schnell mal ein Urteil, weil die 30 Monate waren ja viel zu überzogen, im Gegensatz zu Todesstrafen)
Karlsruhe: Lawmakers must disclose secondary incomes for the first time - well, that's something. Not much, but at least a small step towards transparency.
The state, it's me - "If President Bush thinks a 30-month sentence for Scooter Libby is excessive, what does he think about 55 years for selling marijuana?"
Freace - The Same Old Pattern - about the usual mindless madness from Berlin, where every failed "terror" attempt is used to justify further erosion of fundamental rights and freedoms. Even though the actual "attack" was banal and botched, and all the means demanded here did not help in prevention at all.
Perian 1.0 turns Macs into universal video players - check it out. Could be useful.
Terror suspects all linked to NHS - "Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned." Islamistisches Gesundheitssystem in UK? Wie bringt Schäuble das jetzt in seinem Islamistenbedrohungsszenario unter?
Gulf Stream threatens to die by 2100 at the latest - well then it will be fun. Please then add a proper asteroid impact, okay? I mean, I want to see something for my money!
Deutsche Telekom blocks TCP port 8085 - they're crazy, those Deutsche Telekom people. Because they sold their customers junk that can't be made secure, now a port is being blocked.
Giant hogweed is being combated - "Giant hogweed, also known as Hercules' club, is poisonous and can cause second-degree burns. That's why road maintenance workers in NRW will be clearing the slopes of this plant in the coming weeks." - one could wonderfully make a bad science fiction out of this news ...