Terror-Dentists - at least in the UK, former members of the British National Party are better equipped for terrorist attacks than the usually media-effective arrested Islamic terrorist suspects. Are dentists now being put on the general suspects list in the UK?
Archive 2.10.2006 - 16.10.2006
Would you like fries with your spyware? - funny. Our most hated fry factory (hey, their working conditions are at UPS level and their customers - who go to the factory next door - are too stupid to pay attention to traffic lights) distributes SpyWare.
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use - Elsewhere in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine. "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.
World’s worst use of a jpeg - security by stupidity?
Concrete and Clay - nice music blog with CC music
doctor paradox: the metaphysician. - electronic, funky, funny.
G2Image - Plugin for Tiny-MCE to select images from a Gallery2 installation - should be able to be rebuilt for Django.
HotBitchArsenal - cool and relaxed.
Paulo Sacramento - creative commons soundtracks and photos - what you see is what you get. And it's good, in a Herbie Hancock style of good.
Simple image manager/uploader - another image picker, but much simpler. Maybe a better basis (integrate into the upload!)
Power outage at Hetzner hosting took thousands of servers offline - ouch. Good thing my server is in one of the older data centers ...
TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor - GUI editor for HTML textareas with plugin interface
Schünemann demands ban on downloading hate messages - neither the Vatican nor the Federal Government had provided a statement on the blocking of their offers by the time of publication ...
Evil big publishers, poor little translators - regardless of the facts, I find comments where the commenter repeatedly emphasizes that no one (except himself, of course) knows anything about the subject, always very strange. The gentleman from the publisher insists a bit too much on that ...
Fabjectory - 3D plots of Second Life avatars. Sounds pretty good, but expensive.
Genealogical Database: First Names - only one first name starting with Sch, and it's also so obscure? (And yes, I read the Titanic RSS feed)
Geonames - maps names of cities, mountains etc. to geographic information (and vice versa). Plus a web service to use this data. The whole thing as a community project with data content under CC license. Very cool.
Google code search - funny games with the code search.
Lightning exits woman's bottom - autsch.
MoinX - very nice. MoinMoin with OS X Controller in the menu bar. Ok, not the feel of VoodooPad - it is still a web application - but the performance of MoinMoin is not to be underestimated.
100,000-year-old camel bones found - rumored to be the party chairman of a large conservative people's party.
China's Cheap Goods: Who Really Benefits? - worth thinking about.
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Security vulnerability in Python 2.3 and above - definitely not just Ubuntu, but also Debian. Ubuntu is only linked because there is no security advisory from Debian yet. Is someone sleeping?
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)
Your Ancestors Disgust Me - you inbred spawn of illiterate, unhygienic, penis-worshipping child molesters!
3D-Scanner aus Webcam und Laser für jedermann - wow, cool!
6502asm.com - 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript - completely crazy. I love it.
Fefe's Blog - about the media's "reactions" to the voting machine hack.
How to create a new generation of scientists. - awesome. Bringing science closer.
Parallelport-Adapter with USB and Bluetooth - I still have an old Epson (A2 inkjet printer - you don't just give something like that away), which I could actually revive with this ...
Scribus/Aqua - manual installation (why don't they package the libs in the application bundle?), but maybe still worth a look.
Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up - Background of a game console manufacturer. Reads like a John LeCarre ...
iCalamus.net - sometimes they come back ... (hey, what's the panic, they only want to eat your brain!)
Nedap-Wahlcomputer gehackt - these are the same voting computers used in our country ... (which, by the way, received a certificate from the PTI - so much for the suitability of the PTI for testing such devices)
New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus - wow. If there's something to it, wow.
Chess computer - a few more small details about the voting computer hack. Only fh's hope that this would have done away with voting computers, I do not share. Politicians are forgetful and resistant to learning.
Publishers demand unrestricted right to information from providers - Data protection? Oh, forget it. Nobody even knows that word anymore. Terrorists, child abusers, and copyright infringers - with these, you can push through anything today, even a total police state or a snitch state.
Exploding Hello Kitty toys recalled - that was. definitely.
immaterial music - a label run by the musicians. Music under CC license.
Novell will SCO an die Kriegskasse - and wants to relieve SCO of 25 million from license sales. Nice move by Novell ...
PubSigs - another band under CC license - they deliver their music as a podcast for iTunes right away.
Shearer - kick ass rock. Under CC license.
A-Bike - a super-compact folding bike by Sir Clive Sinclair (yes, the guy who brought us the ZX 81). At 200 pounds not even overpriced - it would be interesting to read some ride reports (and about the stability - so far none of the Sinclair products have been overly stable ...)
ATI-Graphics Chips Fold Proteins Faster - of course. Just a matter of time until the GPUs become more powerful than the CPUs.
Teacher Fired Due to Dallas Museum of Art Fieldtrip - the trip was approved by the school administration and the parents had previously signed a waiver. Nevertheless, the teacher is fired due to a piece of art in a museum ...
Vmware how to - OSx86 - a guide on how to run Mac OS X under VMWare on a regular PC.