Jamendo: Fabrice Collette
Jamendo : Fabrice Collette - good French blues. Under CC license. I really should have learned French instead of Latin in school ...
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Tour continues, despite all problems
Tour continues, despite all problems - "Is there more doping in the 100m race or in the marathon? For ten years we have been shortening the stages, with known success. People don't cheat because the race is hard, but because they want to win, for fame and money. If there were Olympic sack races, people would cheat there too to win."
We're All Gonna Die
We're All Gonna Die - "Will everyone forget about the scandals of June and July 2007 amid these deadly warnings of coming death?" - unfortunately, this also fits our situation far too well. Schäuble's saber-rattling.
DarwiinRemote
DarwiinRemote - Driver to connect the WIIRemote to the Mac.
RE: question about Erlang''s future
RE: question about Erlang's future - Erlang's status at Ericsson today (not as positive as one would wish, but an explanation for Bluetail and e.g. their SMTP server in Erlang).
The Real Problem With Alexa
The Real Problem With Alexa - taking a closer look at Alexa's number nonsense.
Judgment against Skype for GPL Violation
Judgment against Skype for GPL violation - it seems that with every case that is actually opened, the legal certainty of the GPL increases. Very good!
David Carr: Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime
David Carr: Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime - what overtime really does in a programming project. Would be nice if managers read that. But they have been ignoring "The Mythical Man Month" for several decades anyway ...
What Linspire Agreed To - "It's worse than Novell's, actually. It's worse than Tivo, in my book. I know some say that Tivo doesn't interfere with you modifying, as long as you give up using the modified software on Tivo hardware. To me, that is a penalty not contemplated by GPLv2, because if you buy a Tivo, it's because you wanted to use the software with the Tivo hardware, but with Linspire's agreement, you have to give up pretty much all your GPL freedoms, as far as I can make out, and more. And what do you get in return for giving up everything? True Type fonts, Windows Media 10, DVD playback, patent coverage..."
Chax - miscellaneous iChat improvements - pimp my iChat.
Played through
Played through - Draw.
iGlasses for iChat AV - pimp my iSight.
Learning from Dave Winer
Learning from Dave Winer - ok, only when it comes to blog comments. And yes, I have also drastically changed my format by using the link component much more strongly instead of the page component (pages automatically have comments for me, links do not). If I write longer texts, I might want comments. If I just point somewhere, rather not.
Tiny PC sips power, runs Linux
Tiny PC sips power, runs Linux - nice little box.
Trojan Horse Crafting for Dummies
Trojaner-Basteln für Dummys - ouch. Big ouch.
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. - sounds strange, but potentially useful.
Nokia Releases Browser for Maemo
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
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 ...
Reason for warning: Photos from the photo studio
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
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" arrives: EU wants to allow BASF potato
"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
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
Microsoft's Digital Rights Management bypassed - well, anyone who relies on DRM is building on sand ...
iPod Operating System
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
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
low-level network packets with python - we hack IP packets. And scan the network. And filter packets. With Python.
Tinderbox: Downloads
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 Creation Theory in Biology Class
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
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 Terms and Conditions for iPhone Examined
AT&T Cingular iPhone contract terms examined - will the contracts in Germany contain similar stunts by the end of the year?
General Concepts
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
Ampache Web Musicbox - I should take a closer look at this sometime when I have time.
EU 'pulled over the table' on passenger data
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."
Nokia Skypes its N800 Linux tablet
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
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
Popstars save the Earth - "We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah.", Bon Jovi
Schäuble demands ''internment'', internet and mobile ban for ''threats''
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
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?