France: iTunes law violates human rights - isn't it cute how the human right to property protection is misused to give companies (what do they have to do with human rights?) a big lever against individuals (who actually have the human rights) in their hands?
Archive 10.7.2006 - 2.8.2006
Apple - Support - Download TechTool Deluxe - quite useful for Apple Care users: the latest TechTool version, which, for a change, shouldn't shred the disk structure ...
Cruel.Com: Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh? - how good that I don't particularly like Chinese food ...
Humorous Poems by Joachim Ringelnatz - German and English translations.
Outrage following French landmark ruling on copyright - shocking, when you look at what the French have been given in their nest ...
Police officers criticize statements by the federal data protection officer on mass genetic tests - yes yes, the security of our citizens. Important. Especially also the efficiency. Where would we end up if every Tom, Dick, and Harry data protection officer would criticize there. Strange only, that with all this efficiency and security, the mass genetic tests actually don't find any perpetrators ...
Nonsense poetry by Christian Morgenstern - German and English translations.
SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPL Still. Yes. Now. Today. - strange. One would think that SCO would have already taken down all downloads that allegedly violate their rights. Wrong guess ...
Apple replaces defective MacBook Pro batteries - I need to check what I have.
Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons - Considerations of various SciFi weapons (some of which are real weapons) and their effects in space.
Banken: Vollstrecker aus Texas - Real estate locusts. Surely, many will now feel the need to explain to me why it's not that bad after all ...
Free Movies Fallen out of Copyright (Public Domain) - free movies. There are a few gems among them.
How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately - system administrators and firewall operators should take a look at this.
How To Criticizing Computer Scientists - Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed
Introducing Django 0.95 - new Django release out. Magic removed.
Living with Errors - the Key to Scaleout - good article about system scalability.
New in JavaScript 1.7 - exciting to see what's being added to JavaScript. Given the slow pace of IE's development, we can expect to use these features in 2010 - or earlier, if Microsoft's browser embarrassment is simply pulled from the market ...
RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person - open Wi-Fi seems to have helped in a few cases as an argument.
Wings 3d - 3D modeler. Open source.
Intershop continues to write losses - and Microsoft Word has bugs and in China a sack of rice fell over.
Landis positiv - if the B sample also tests positive and he doesn't have a good explanation (but sorry, even the best explanation would brand him as "stupid," because he could have registered the medication beforehand), then it's probably over for him.
Uncertain future for Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt - now begins the scrapping of the GMD remnants. Nothing will remain of what was once a top-class research forge. How strategically cleverly orchestrated by the politicians and the officials of the Fraunhofer Society ...
WPHP - Call PHP from Python via a FastCGI server. This could, for example, integrate PHP into Django.
RWE will Strompreise erneut erhöhen | tagesschau.de - Record profits. Of course, prices must be raised.
As T-Mobile Sports Director - well, I would have preferred to keep him as a commentator, his memories are still fresh enough to be interesting for commentaries. This makes the unbearable babble of the public broadcasters' sleeping pills a bit more bearable.
Employment Agency: Decrees on the Net - just a little more transparency. And even that you have to fight for in court. That's how our Freedom of Information Act looks like ...
The Computer Club is back - Revival of the Wolf-Gang. But if this is a podcast - how are we supposed to notice when the fat one breaks everything again?
Metasploit: Internet Drive-By Shootings - interesting article about the possibilities of exploiting browser bugs.
BlogHUD : Second Life blogging system - actually more like a del.icio.us for SL, as you can link and comment on positions in the world. Tagging would be nice, so an interesting catalog of inworld positions could be compiled.
My Boring Ass Life - Silent Bob (yes, that Silent Bob!) speaks. Writes. Whatever.
Woe betide my Dell - quality tech support by Dell.
Landis is back - and he's gaining time on his competitors again. The top three now within 30 seconds, and Klöden is also in a good position. That's weird. Absolutely weird.
Cheap and willing - Exploitation of volunteers. So that the fat cats can get richer. And anyway - the unemployed have plenty of time for volunteer work.
Rasmussen wins, Landis collapses - and the entire ranking is thrown into disarray. And I'm sitting (sweating) at the office and can't watch live.
The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile - Russia is big and so is China.
TLS Lite - a nice small Python-only lib for SSL, TLS and low-level X509 handling. Quite useful for quick-off projects and for larger systems it integrates with other PKI libraries for Python.
IT-Branchenverband will Zuwanderung gegen Fachkräftemangel - of course, immigration is important in today's world and should not be unnecessarily blocked. But still, I somehow believe that the shortage of skilled workers can be remedied through training in companies. Preferably then also foreign young people in the training positions, to get the curve back to integration. And at the same time address a series of social problems that are initially triggered by the hopeless economic situation of young people ...
Another opinion - on the crisis in and around Israel. I'm still missing the hint that politicians in Europe and the USA (and the former USSR) now see this crisis as a welcome opportunity for their image care ... (and everyone is busily selling more weapons to both sides)
Numbers station - these strange shortwave stations that only read streams of numbers.
Debian-Hack: Intruder exploited known vulnerability - quick reaction and resolution, that's good. Kernel on a several-hundred-user system not updated in time, that's rather bad.
Garfield: Permanent Monday - Garfield comics analyzed.
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer - now also available for the Nokia 770 tablet!
Magnolia Hall Victorian Furniture - don't ask.
beaTunes ~ build better playlists - automatically analyze and classify iTunes libraries.
Pink-Floyd-Co-founder Syd Barrett has died - shine on, you crazy diamond.
Blue People of Kentucky - strange ...
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources - exactly what it says on the tin. Fascinating.
Enigma Homepage - an Oxyd-lookalike for various platforms.
Galileo encryption cracked - and thus the door is open for free decoders.