Camino Bookmarklets - a whole series of bookmarklets specifically (but not only) for Camino.
Current case - Google sued for patent infringement:
One of the two patents with the number 5,425,085 relates to a technique for establishing the cheapest call connection, the other with the number 5,519,769 describes a system for updating a database with call charges to select the cheapest connection. The lawsuit was filed as early as October 2005 and has now come to light through the New York Post newspaper.
Take another look at the proposals for software patents and consider whether you want to encounter such patents in Europe - and what it would mean. Because exactly such things were covered by the draft from the Federal Ministry of Economics (then still Wolfgang Clement).
I really like the Web Developer Toolbar as an extension, but Firefox itself is sometimes quite a mediocre piece of software. For example, Firefox consistently refuses to display the icons for the Web Developer Toolbar on my Mac at home. And this isn't just with the latest version, but across several versions of both Firefox and the toolbar. The toolbar itself works; it appears as a strip and the menu items are there and functional. It's just that the icons absolutely refuse to appear.
And yes, I've already deleted and recreated the profile, hunted down and eliminated all preferences, reinstalled Firefox multiple times, and done all this with various versions. It's quite annoying, especially since there's no error message whatsoever that even hints at what the issue might be.
The fact that this whole situation runs completely problem-free at work on another Mac Mini (with 10.3, but at home, I've had the same problems with 10.2 and now with 10.4) doesn't make it any clearer.
I guess I'll stick with Camino and Safari for now. They may not be as extensible, but they are more deterministic in their behavior ...
Lisp at Light Speed - a really interesting Lisp blog
CamiTools by nadamac - Server-based ad-blocking for Camino, as well as some other nice extensions.
This time it's the advertising blogger who got caught - the father of the advertising goose (who married this pseudo-musician) warns him that he is advertising with the name of his daughter. Somehow it seems to be spreading - first the Bremen Social Court, now the Klums ...
Well, I think this will be a similar shot in the dark for the Klums as it was for the Bremen Social Court - from whom you can find almost only reports about their rather strange action on the first pages of Google. Very sensible, the action - anyone who wants to inform themselves about the Bremen Social Court now gets the right impression.
What the lawyers expect from such actions is clear: they are paid by their clients for this. However, to what extent such nonsensical actions against name mentions are really in the interest of clients - how does this actually fit with the self-image of lawyers? Shouldn't they advise and represent their clients to the best of their ability? And not mess with them?
However, it is worrying that lawyers now seem to be targeting URL components - it's no longer just the domain that seems to bother them, but also the URLs. Which naturally fits quite often with blogs and good CMS - because a good CMS packs the title into the URL so that it has a meaningful name. Could therefore become quite unpleasant if this plague spreads and possibly a court is found that supports this nonsense.
And the legal protection insurance mentioned several times in this context: I don't know if that's a solution - the insurers are currently regularly excluding these areas, for good reason. An insurance only insures something when the income exceeds the risks to such an extent that they play it safe with their profits - don't believe that insurances are fair insurances - even if some call themselves that.
A bit more about the risks can be found in the Weblawg by Sascha Kremer.
NoScript - Whitelist JavaScript blocking for a safer Firefox experience! - what is it? - InformAction - and another extension, this one selectively blocks JavaScript. I wish for something like this for Camino.
Taste for the Web - a nice cartoon about Paul Graham's articles. Yes, his sometimes rather uncle-like style with constant plugs for Yahoo Stores can get on your nerves from time to time.
We hope that the constitutional complaint against unrestricted customs sniffing in Karlsruhe is successful:
The Humanist Union, a journalist from the Berliner Zeitung and a lawyer with procedural authority before the Federal Constitutional Court have filed a lawsuit in Karlsruhe against the controversial Customs Investigation Service Act. The Bundestag had extended the associated powers of the Federal Customs Criminal Office for the preventive monitoring of mail and telecommunications for 18 months in mid-December despite strong objections from the opposition and civil rights organizations with the votes of the grand coalition. It could thus initially come into force again on December 31, 2005. At the same time as the constitutional complaint was filed, the civil rights activists also applied to declare the law unenforceable until a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court.
It is already quite absurd how the federal government - and the Bundestag through its approval - simply ignores the demands from Karlsruhe. One really starts to wonder what the point of a Basic Law is if any gathering of prolethikers can just trample over it ...
Web Developer Extension - blogged about a thousand times, but only here as a reminder: the new Webdeveloper-Toolbar for FireFox 1.5. Essential for every web developer.
