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Streaming with Linux
Streaming with Linux - simple introductory article, also a few interesting tips in it.
Using Nicecast with Streaming Server
Using Nicecast with Streaming Server - Streaming MP3s via DSS. In the long run, I could get rid of my Shoutcast streams with it. Let's try it out.
Build Me A Tapeworm
Build Me A Tapeworm - everything you never wanted to know about tapeworms.
Jungerl - a dense and chaotic Jungle of Erlang code
Jungerl - a dense and chaotic Jungle of Erlang code - it is what it says on the tin.
personal computers will never have gigabytes of RAM
personal computers will never have gigabytes of RAM - ouch. Someone really miscalculated there ... (especially funny is the question of whether one would want to wait 6 minutes for their word processor to start)
GrandPerspective
GrandPerspective - graphical display of disk usage. Useful to find out what is cluttering up the huge disk again.
The largest drain hole in the world
The largest drain hole in the world - when the drain is clogged ...
Schneier on DRM in Windows Vista
Schneier on DRM in Windows Vista - many reasons to keep your hands off Vista.
Scientist discovers new ocean inside the Earth
Scientist finds new ocean in inner earth - wow. Sounds almost like Jules Verne. When will they probably send the first robot probe down? Sure, a long way to go, but it would be exciting and certainly insightful for considerations about potential life on other planets and moons.
boto
boto - a library for accessing Amazon Webservices. Supported are S3, SQS and EC2 - exactly what I need. Documentation also looks quite useful.
Jython 2.2 Beta
Jython 2.2 Beta - finally something new from Jython, the Python implementation for the Java VM. Still Python 2.2 syntax level, but at least a new release. However, the roadmap reads a bit harsh when talking about code quality ...
Caught in the Network
Caught in the Network - it begins. A professor receives a visit from security for using TOR. We also have isolated instances of targeting TOR and other systems. Not entirely unimportant given the current paranoia and control freakery of the authorities.
Politicians against Kurnaz's naturalization
Politicians against Kurnaz's naturalization - the last trash, our politicians. First, they sell a human being, then they don't care what happens to him, and then there are "security concerns" against naturalization. Could someone deport Schönboom and Wiefelspütz? Their reliability and attitude towards the democratic basic order is more than questionable ...
Schäuble: Trojans should also search private diaries
Schäuble: Trojans should also search private diaries - in my opinion, Schäuble's attitude towards the democratic basic order and the constitution is no longer questionable. He has, in my opinion, long since completely left the framework to which he swore an oath of office.
Yahoo's Little Mashup Revolution
Yahoos kleine Mashup-Revolution - Zombies are just not dead to kill. How often I have seen programming systems that claimed "not to have to be able to program" and instead relied on the much-invoked flowcharts - none of the projects really survived. ProGraph was an early data flow language on the Mac with graphical representation and at least really usable as a complete language - but of course difficult to understand for non-programmers. Novell's AppWare was once again brewed and sold as Mindbrew, but that is also bankrupt. Labview is probably one of the few providers of a comparable solution, which, however, is also used in rather special areas (measurement and control technology, laboratories, etc.), but even there programming knowledge is required. And now all of this as Web 2.0. Cute.
» Wi-Fi hacking, with a handheld PDA
» Wi-Fi hacking, with a handheld PDA - I hope that soon the WiFi hacking tools will be ported and running on the Maemo platform, so that you can get something like this for less than 3500 US$. I already have the hardware ...
The Pi-Search Page
The Pi-Search Page - search for numbers in Pi up to 200 million digits. Has been around for 10 years, this time waster.
Useless Account
Useless Account - get a useless account, change your password, forget it, reset it. Everything for free!
Adium
Adium - now 1.0. I should really take another look at it, even though I'm actually satisfied with Psi. But Psi somehow consumes too many resources ...
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide - Color laser printer technology and code decoded. What they embed in an image to enable tracking of prints (you didn't know they do that? Well...)
''Electric Slide'' on slippery DMCA slope
'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope - his dance fool sends DMCA takedown notices to video sites that allegedly show "his" dance incorrectly. Among others to an employee of LindenLab (the makers of Second Life), because the dance was shown in a machinima. Totally nuts.
Secret online searches are inadmissible
Secret online searches are inadmissible - This follows, on the one hand, "from several provisions of search law in favor of the accused" (the BGH counts the right of presence and the calling of witnesses among these), which represent mandatory law and "are not at the disposal of the investigating authorities." The political response to this: Schäuble had already announced that, should the BGH deny the admissibility of online searches based on the current legal situation, corresponding adjustments to the laws would be made.
Schäuble fuels debate on online searches after BGH ruling
Schäuble heats up debate on online searches after BGH ruling - As the superior authority of the police, Federal Interior Minister Schäuble demanded the rapid creation of a legal basis for online searches. The Police Union demanded that the new legal regulation also eliminate the obstacles caused by data protection law. - Yes, that really gives you courage. On to the police state.
Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone
Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone - nice JavaScript toy for displaying images in a gallery.
Gothia Gazette - Steampunk galore!
ModWsgi
ModWsgi - an Apache module for WSGI applications (WSGI is a python standard for web applications).
Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston - Blinkenlights-Panic.
We need to remove this access barrier before it gets put up. (Incandescent lighting ban in California.)
We need to remove this access barrier before it gets put up. (Incandescent lighting ban in California.) - a point that was new to me, but ultimately makes sense. Fluorescent tubes (including the new energy-saving lamps) flicker. This can cause seizures, irritation, and problems in some people. Here, the affected person is an autistic individual, for whom massive irritation and migraines are the result.
An Iron Curtain is Descending: And Most Americans Don''t Know
An Iron Curtain is Descending: And Most Americans Don't Know - about the treatment of American political critics by U.S. border police upon exiting to Canada.
Courtney Love does the math
Courtney Love does the math - how the music industry squeezes musicians. Read it - music piracy gets a whole new definition there.
US urges scientists to block out sun
US urges scientists to block out sun - instead of reducing CO2 emissions, simply reflect part of the sunlight. Another stupid idea of the Christianist mullahs in the US of Absurdity ...
Worldmapper: The world as you''ve never seen it before
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - fascinating!
Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas - it is a freakish, doped-up, mutant clone which hasn't had sex for thousands of years.
Off to the Surveillance State
Off to the surveillance state - a chronology.
''Hobbit'' human ''is a new species''
'Hobbit' human 'is a new species' - Pendulum swinging the other way this time. Well, there will probably be a lot of discussion, but my money is on "own species" and not on "sick individuals of known species".
Legal dispute threatens India's generic drugs
Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk - Novartis is trying to influence patent legislation in India to prevent the production of generics. This would affect millions of Africans suffering from AIDS, as the costs for the necessary medicines would suddenly skyrocket. Profit before human lives, that is the motto of the pharmaceutical industry.
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it - rip off ala Microsoft. That's probably what they call development work and why they think only Microsoft is capable of innovating - funny twisted vocabulary at Microsoft ...
Blogs with Link Redirector have stupid ears
Decided that blogs (and webpages) that deface outgoing links through a redirector for the purpose of (potential) evaluation of visitor off-clicks are stupid. And therefore unsubscribed from some of those blogs. Even if the content is interesting - if I have to register the clicks on further information with the blog owner first, they can kiss my RSS feed.
Yes, there are sometimes technical reasons why one might want to do this - my link postings have their own GUID, but they are redirects to the original (since I only have a short comment there, which was already included in the RSS feed). But as a general measure? No.
Life Is Complicated
Life Is Complicated - Tim Bray on the OOXML vs. ODF discussion regarding Wikipedia. And he draws a nice comparison to the XML Working Group and how Microsoft reacted to him: "Netscape hired me to represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued. Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked there.".
Minimum Wages in Europe
Minimum wages in Europe - except of course in our country, because it's supposed to ruin the economy. And the union's demand is even below many European neighbors.