And so the will of the citizens is trampled underfoot. And for what? Why do we need genetically modified canned corn? Who - apart from the manufacturer - benefits from its existence? And how much did they pay the members of the EU Commission for it? Because I can't explain this nonsense any other way than through corruption. And we're already used to corruption from the EU Commission...
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
And here we go again with the Commission's gross mischief...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Mail loss is not a standard feature of mail servers? You'd think someone would have to explain that to Microsoft – they won't figure it out on their own ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Interesting for people still working with Frontier: the kernel is likely to become open source. As a result, this could mean that some of the uglier problems (e.g. the terribly poor performance under OS X) could be solved. After all, Frontier is still pretty cool in many corners even today (the OO database with outliner basis, for example, is something that doesn't exist in this form elsewhere - even if some people grumble that you don't actually need this particular combination).
At Second p0st you'll find the original article.
I don't often agree with Mark Pilgrim, but here - it's about free software in the broader sense and Moveable Type's price changes in the narrower sense - he hits the nail on the head.
Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com. - I find that frankly embarrassing what Microsoft is currently doing. Who cares about an operating system whose interesting features are supposed to come sometime in 2009 or so? In IT, that's an eternity. The whole thing Microsoft is pulling off really reminds me strongly of Apple before they bought NeXT.
Cool. An AppleScript applet that has an icon that looks like a Microsoft installer. Absolutely horrifyingly terrible trojan. That's so trojan-like. I get genuinely scary anxiety thinking that I might accidentally deliberately download that thing, and despite having no Microsoft applications, feel immediately compelled by the icon to double-click it, only to be completely taken aback when my home directory gets deleted. People, if I hit myself on the head with a hammer, it hurts. That's pretty stupid of me, but the hammer still isn't a trojan. Even if someone writes chocolate on it... And no, completely doesn't fit well here either. I just wanted to use it once... At welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource you can find the original article.
Perverse - Soldiers positioned 2.5 km away from the explosion to get them used to atomic explosions. The military's ideas back then were quite stupid, even for that time's rather low level of knowledge about nuclear power.
At Telepolis News (14.05.2004) you can find the original article.
The apple seems to be a bit rotten on the inside...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
And when will the Catholic Church begin to respect human rights, personal rights, and democracy?
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.
Dieckmann finds the situation alarming? I find it alarming that politicians apparently knew nothing about it beforehand - do these idiots actually just manage everything without any plan? Doesn't any of them make calculations that have something to do with reality? Has "Oops - we're missing a billion, sorry, no problem, let's just carry on" already become the norm for politicians these days? The original article is available at WDR.de.
I'll believe it when I see it...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Can the rights manager of Enid Blyton now sue over this? Or is there a new book - Five Friends and a Worm? At heise online news you can find the original article.
It's all very strange already. The comments on the post too. Though I'm not sure who should seem funnier to me: the embarrassing Google spammers or this Don Alphonso...
Well, let's wait for the second part, when the great detective has found Jörg
At Der Schockwellenreiter there is the original article.
That's outrageous. Once again, a brainless idiot who thinks that fighting terrorism demands abandoning all principles. And lo and behold, Hohmann immediately shows solidarity with him - because they're both just poor victims. Oh, those poor misunderstood worms. Funny only that these poor misunderstood souls always spout such intellectual garbage.
And no, I am absolutely not of the opinion that one should fight terror with terror (because torture is nothing else). Whoever advocates that - fighting terror with torture - deserves to find themselves in a corresponding situation as a suspect. Then they won't talk such bullshit anymore...
Therefore: such a historian who has learned so little from what he researches deserves to be fired. As a professor, someone so stupid and resistant to learning is unacceptable.
You can find the original article at tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD: the original article.
Paul Graham has written a book about hackers (in the Lisp sense — not the twisted and false sense that the press abuses) and their motivations and ideas. It's coming out soon. The whole thing started as an article in which he compares programming to painting — and now there's an entire book about it. Certainly interesting, since Paul Graham himself is one of the more interesting Lisp hackers. Reading the book could therefore also be worthwhile. And it won't make you any dumber either.
Today I finally took advantage of the terrible TV program and threw Down by law into the player. Wonderful. And once again I get to be annoyed that I never saw it in the cinema on the big screen. Shots like photographs by Feininger, quirky characters, oblique dialogue, the music by John Lurie and songs by Tom Waits. That's almost cinema nirvana.
This is almost cute. He gets slapped down twice in court and he tries again with the same nonsense as before. By the way, there's prior art: MausNet has always used the vehicle registration abbreviation in the domains for the respective mailbox, just as in the name of each mailbox. And that was long before the silly EU patent ... At heise online news there's the original article.
YES!! No, I don't need the manual anymore. But I can use it to shut people up who bug me with questions
Great. Cisco wants to get a technique into TCP/IP that is patented and licensed by Cisco. I hope the IETF doesn't accept this nonsense. As Theo de Raadt correctly noted, there are better solutions. And what Cisco has so proudly patented is so trivial that you have to wonder why on earth anyone granted a patent for it...
That's all we needed, patent madness and patent absurdities in the basic internet protocol
At heise online news there's the original article.
Now the W3C is meddling with Atom by wanting it to become an official W3C spec instead of an IETF draft. I find things like references to how well the Atom group built consensus in the community embarrassing—anyone who followed Atom's development even a little knows that much of this has nothing to do with consensus, but simply with the fact that some people spend more time on it than others and apparently have nothing important to do—and just push through their ideas via relentless siege tactics. The loudest mouths also like to resort to falsifying history and lies just to take a shot at their competitor RSS. Of course, this is answered accordingly by the equally obtuse loudest proponents of RSS. A lovely mud-slinging match with no real value for users.
Anyone who now thinks this exactly reflects the development of HTML back when HTML was still an IETF draft, and believes that the corresponding people deserve nothing more than having their spec end up as a standard at the W3C, has understood the point.
On Workbench you can find the original article.
Very interesting, a new video codec. And the BBC put it under an open source license right from the start!
The emulator I use for calculators on the Sony Clie also has relatives for OS X
Ouch. =F6 reports on a rather silly article in Computerwoche that dreams of magical web validation firewalls ...
At The Wonderful World of Isotopp you can find the original article.
Is there a valid reason why iSync doesn't synchronize all-day events? My calendar displays the all-day event. PHPCalendar also shows the all-day events. iCal also displays the all-day events correctly as all-day events. But neither my Palm nor my mobile phone are syncing the all-day events. However, the iPod does get them and displays them - albeit with a time of 00:00. I really don't understand what that's supposed to be about...
They will listen to Brother Johannes just as much as they listen to Chief Silverlock - namely, not at all.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Now I've got the S55 and what's this? It's also vulnerable to Bluetooth attacks. But at least only Denial-of-Service and not Bluesnarf. The latter would be rather annoying - after all, I use the phone and Bluetooth for remote administration of servers ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
On to the next round.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Now I got a Siemens S55 as a replacement for my Nokia with the broken Bluetooth. The phone can also fetch emails from a POP3 mailbox. Great. Except it doesn't work. I've already tried all the included providers, played around with all possible custom settings, tried the data from T-Mobile and T-Zones, searched and configured and fiddled. The phone alternates depending on the setting between "No response from network" and "POP3 port of the server cannot be reached". Makes perfect sense. Why do these little bastards have to have such a pathetic user interface and an even more pathetic manual? Setting up my Clie to fetch email over GPRS was trivial. Setting up my notebook accordingly was of course also easy. This stupid phone of course not. The smallest piece of junk in the bunch and causes the most trouble.
If anyone thinks as twisted as the phone manufacturers or has already figured out how to set up the S55 so it retrieves from a normal POP3 server via GPRS, please get in touch.
Update - got it working. This damned phone is not capable of telling you that the GPRS connection is not active and therefore doesn't use GPRS but something analog instead, which for reasons beyond my comprehension but completely irrelevant to me doesn't work.
OK, the price is crazy, but if we get music from Simon and Garfunkel again, I think it's worth other people paying for it
At No Retreat, No Surrender there's the original article.
Everything you never wanted to know about the Leica Digilux 2 but are now being told anyway
By the way: the excessiveness with which Digital Photography Review tests and describes equipment is fascinating. For many consumer cameras, the DPreview test can easily serve as a manual...
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
... if someone in the apartment below you in a rental building is dribbling a basketball ...
So here's the summary:
So what did all this madness accomplish? A traditional name in the Unix world disappears, many programmers are unemployed and many SCO customers are left out in the cold with outdated products and no support. And a few lawyers are making a killing.
At heise online news there's the original article.
What bothers me about this, though: now they've caught the stupid guy who produced Sasser. Ok, he's getting what he deserves - rightly so. But who's finally going to do something about Microsoft and their criminal neglect of security? Who's going to hold the real culprit responsible - the one whose crappy software makes all these worm waves possible in the first place?
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you'll find the original article.
Yes! Thanks for the link. Exactly what I need. The RPN for the Palm is nice, but I'm used to better things.
Update: I've installed it now. All I can say is: Wow. With three exclamation marks. The emulator is really fast and - because it uses original ROMs - perfect. And the ability to use all three calculators independently is genius. You basically have three calculators with you.
I've dug out my HP48 manual again.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Suse seems to have interpreted the "open" in OpenSSH a bit differently
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Wow. That's quite a way to address visitors: instead of providing alternative representations that would pique the visitor's curiosity about the missing content and motivate them to install the required plugin, you're insulted for being backward. Quite a strategy. Of course, something like this could only happen on pages like those of Hamburg Medial School.
If media designers of the future are being trained there, we're in for a lot of arrogant bunglers...
I found this at netbib weblog where I came across the original article.
Another mindless call to sell out.
You can find the original article at tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD here.
Ouch. The PowerBooks are built so flat in some cases that the key caps may press against the display in the area of the PowerBook's hinge and leave pressure marks there. The designers of this thing probably also wear pants that are too tight and shoes that are too small.
At Apple Computer Top PowerBook Knowledge Base Documents you can find the original article.
And Clement keeps spouting off that the economy would manage it on a voluntary basis. While in North Rhine-Westphalia the number of training applications is rising, but the supply of apprenticeships is dropping dramatically. And what's the result? Youth unemployment. Just great. And then the business bosses whine about the poor state of training at Germany as a business location. Lying scumbags.
Companies that don't train even though they could are deliberately destroying the future of young people out of egoism and arrogance. Young people who can't defend themselves because politicians would rather crawl up the arses of business bosses than show some backbone for those who should be our future.
That's one way to destroy the future. Completely deliberate, completely systematic and without any real economic reason.
It takes on extremely idiotic features with the Union, by the way: on the one hand they whine that the population is ageing and not enough children are coming along, on the other hand they're naturally massively against offering the existing children and young people a future. And immigration laws – which could also lead to a supply of young people, for example – they naturally want to block those too.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
An interesting article about B&W conversion. Here, multiple layers are used to create the B&W image, with the normal color image retained in the base layer. All conversion components are designed as separate layers and can therefore be adjusted at any time later. Certainly a quite interesting technique, especially since you don't need any additional plugins.
I've had a Son since yesterday as a PDA. Very nice. MP3 player, camera, image viewer, document viewer, Bluetooth, WLAN, voice recorder, Memory Stick slot - everything you could wish for. And the battery life on this device is finally decent - not like the high-end Palms that need to be charged daily because they barely get through the day on standby... With The Missing Sync you can synchronize the device beautifully under Mac OS X and with Apple's iSync Palm Conduit you can link iCal and the Sony together via Bluetooth. Very nice. Especially since I've connected my iCal to several company calendars with a little homemade tool and can thus pull my work appointments from the Exchange server via my iCal to my Sony - and that without having to be at the office. Now I just need to figure out how to elegantly connect the Sony's camera to my blog - via GPRS of course (surfing already works, I would just need a MetaWeblogAPI client for Palm OS 5 that can also handle media). Then I could do mobile photoblogging.
Well, then Microsoft will just have to hope that the 4-6 GHz processors they're envisioning come soon. Or they could finally start learning how to program decently. New OS X releases, meanwhile, got faster rather than slower from release to release.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
And now guess which phone I have ...
Looks like a nice and complete blogging software for Palm OS 5 devices. It even supports media uploads via MetaWeblogAPI - though I would first have to teach that to PyDS and Wordpress before I could use it. But oh well, I have way too few projects on my plate anyway.
And yet another blogging software. This one also looks quite usable. It could also take care of my rather neglected Livejournal. However, it cannot upload images, that would have to be done via email beforehand.
