Since SCO hasn't responded, Novell has now denied SCO the right to view Sequent Dynix in any way as a derivative of Unix System 5. Let's see if SCO responds to that, after all the Dynix code is quite an important part in the proceedings against IBM.
I have no idea if this is real, but if it is, then that's incredible: a Bessa R2 retrofitted to digital by Epson!
Of course, according to Schily, genetic fingerprinting should only be used for serious crimes such as sexual offenses or terrorism. As you can read here, in Hesse (naturally, where else, in Koch's personal swamp) this apparently means property damage with political motivation. In other words: damage to election posters.
At Telepolis News (13.02.2004) you can find the original article.
In the comments to the previous posting ( P1951) I received a tip to take a look at something:
Any questions?
By the way, the imprint on the site is not accessible without JavaScript ...
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
A quality code for public broadcasting corporations? That would be an approach. However, I doubt that it will produce any usable result - the broadcasting corporations are far too entangled with other interests. I increasingly doubt whether the public broadcasting corporations are even serious anymore about their actual mandate - ultimately, they're only chasing ratings. You can see this nicely over and over again in how they squander millions on ridiculous football broadcasting rights.
Moreover, there is no longer any political support for public broadcasting - politicians are only eyeing the money and letting themselves be manipulated by media moguls like Saban or Murdoch and put to work for their power interests.
Of course, it would be nice to end up with an offering comparable to the BBC (curiously, BBC content is apparently being bought primarily by private television stations at the moment and unfortunately only served in ad-interrupted snippets), but I don't believe that will happen in the foreseeable future. And I base this claim on the existence of all these dreadful quiz shows, tralala music programs, public stupefaction events (including silly carnival sessions) and similar aberrations of public entertainment ...
I found the original article at DIE ZEIT: Feuilleton.
... I find it somewhat annoying that I can't use bookmarklets anymore that open their own windows. These custom windows end up behind the current window as a matter of principle. Really inconvenient, that.
Pretty cool, yet another rip-off attempt with an already existing domain. Hopefully the Gravenreuth law firm will fall flat on their face with this.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Took quite a while for Minolta to enter the DSLR world.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
Beautiful images.
At WDR: Landung auf dem Mars you can find den Originalartikel.
This is almost even more amazing than the announcement of the digital Leica M: Polaroid is bringing a new format for Polaroid film to the market that is specifically designed for medium format cameras. Old film backs can be adapted, or you can also get new film backs. Also included is the ingenious positive-negative material again (here as 85 film), with which you can simultaneously produce a positive and a negative using the instant image process.
Hey, the Omniweb beta is really great. Ok, there are still issues, but it's a beta after all. But the new user interface is really slick. And the implementation of tabs in Omniweb is pretty cool - I could get used to this browser, even though I'm actually a Safari fan. By the way, the feature that lets you open a textarea in its own window is really nice when, like me, you edit your weblog through the web browser. Finally, better editing options than with these boring textarea peepholes...
Well, I don't know if I'm a tech heretic now, but I'd say that at a price of 3500 euros for a Volksbot, widespread adoption will be significantly difficult.
Just so you notice: some newspapers could learn a thing or two from the way Zeit does it. It's already pretty remarkable that under the official Zeit label, journalists and editors maintain weblogs.
And the fact that they can actually write is of course also a pretty nice thing.
At Beruf Terrorist The Enemy of all the World there's the original article.
Ok, that should have given SCO some heartburn: Novell is giving SCO an ultimatum to drop its interpretation of the restrictions on Sequent code (Dynix - one of the Unix derivatives that SCO views as problematic in its lawsuit against IBM, since code from it allegedly made its way into Linux). Novell's key argument is that the protection clause only applies to the original AT&T code and not to code that was newly added in Sequent. That of course directly undermines one of SCO's arguments. SCO's case is getting shakier and shakier.
And once again reason and common sense have to take a backseat to the purely monetary interests of large corporations (and not even necessarily domestic ones). To hell with the will of the citizens, the only thing that matters is the sound of cash registers ringing for con artists and fraudsters, no matter what kind of crap they're selling.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Sorry, folks, but Münster is just provincial. The State Museum for Archaeology is gone, the theater is provincial, the city's cultural funding can only be described as non-existent, and otherwise there's really nothing here about being a cultural capital. The application is ridiculous. Big talk and grand speeches, but nothing but hot air.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Google appears to be in the process of removing support for RSS feeds from Blogger or at least restricting their use to users who have had an RSS feed for a longer time. New blogs will probably only be set up with Atom. What's the problem with that? Well, Atom is still only a 0.3 version - it's still in flux, still being discussed, and the format is far from complete. Why does a company jump on such a bandwagon, especially why does a company do this when they already have functioning infrastructure for RSS? One can really assume that Google (or rather the Blogger team) is trying to use their market position here to strengthen Atom against RSS.
Of course, this is particularly ridiculous from the perspective that there are currently significantly more RSS readers than Atom readers. Blogger's behavior is more than just impolite toward the existing community.
You've probably heard of Corba Bindings for Common Lisp. But here there's a whole Corba Implementation in Common Lisp.
This is gradually starting to sound quite concrete. Until 2006, I still have some time to save up
Well, all these attempts by industry to dictate what we're allowed to do with our computers according to their ideas are a constant annoyance. If it were up to the industry, we'd soon have to get permission from various manufacturers for any application use, and free software development would be banned anyway. It's already absurd that some people invest hundreds or thousands of euros in a device over which they're supposed to have only very limited control...
You can find the original article at J-O-S-H DOT NET - DIARY here.
But even now there are considerable protests against the comic, which according to its own advertising is about "office politics in the workplace, where this workplace is the Vatican and the boss is the Pope". He is supposedly depicted as abundantly childish and scatterbrained, the workplace, the Catholic Church, as corrupt and the cardinals as sinister. - and where is the satire in that? That's bitter earnest!
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Russian experts believe, according to a report from the Interfax news agency, that it is possible that insulation material or a fastening tape has come loose from the space station. - so are the rumors true that the ISS is only held together by duct tape?
Now that's quite interesting - an open source version of Palm OS. Could do the system a lot of good. If only the new Palms weren't such power-hungry devices...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
A few sources for iPod batteries and battery replacements in Germany.
At MacGuardians you can find the original article.
Here are a few interesting rumors again:
The first is interesting for everyone who finds the previous digital Leicas either too un-Leica (D-Lux) or too bulky (Digilux 1 and 2).
But the second is absolutely stunning: a digital M.
I think this is something many people have been waiting for. And I think I know what I want to save up for now! Well, okay, first comes the Macro-M, but a digital camera that handles like an M and where I can use my M lenses, that would still be a dream.
I'm not ashamed. So! After all, I partly programmed the software for the comments myself!
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Ok, I think this is one of those situations that can best be described as shit hits fan.
In a nutshell: IBM has established in court that SCO has not met the requirements. Apparently only 17 files from SCO were named and even then only a few lines that were allegedly copied unlawfully from Unix. So definitely not the thousands of lines that SCO had announced so loudly. Furthermore, it looks as though SCO would be dropping the part about IBM's violation of trade secrets and the copyright business is probably also slowly falling apart.
And IBM apparently shows no signs of letting go. I think IBM's lawyers now want to bury SCO for good.
Wow. A Python implementation in Scheme. Ok, the standard library is still missing (and that's really what makes Python so interesting), but anyway, it would then be the fourth Python environment (one for Java, one for .NET and of course the original CPython environment).
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
What a load of crap. The Wettbewerbszentrale (yes, exactly, those guys back then - P1512 - also sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Under Construction Club) is making a fool of itself again with such a ridiculous cease-and-desist letter. You can find the original article on heise online news - here it is.
Apparently, a court in Australia has given the music industry permission to search several companies in the ISP sector (Akaai, NTT Australia, Telstra Corp and NTT Australia IP, as well as the Kazaa operator and three universities) and seize documents. What an absurd situation: granting police powers to an industry (albeit apparently limited to this one situation).
At algorhythm there's the original article.
Clear. The political vultures are spouting their intellectual drivel. Was to be expected.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.
If the court approves this expansion of SCO's lawsuit, it would have a delaying effect of several months. - and SCO will continue to scream unproven claims into the world.
At heise online news there is the original article.
If you want to set up a SOAP web service in Python and don't want to use a monster server like twisted, but instead prefer a small, lean web server based on Medusa (though with dynamic multithreading!), you can check out my linked project. Nothing groundbreaking, but quite useful as an all-rounder. UPDATE: the stable version is now 0.2.0 and includes XML-RPC support in addition to SOAP. Version 0.3.0 is now in CVS, which adds support for implementing REST APIs.
Now CMUCL also runs under OS X - and thus another Common Lisp is available.
At lemonodor you can find the original article.
Are we putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
It was bound to happen eventually: someone has hacked the firmware for the EOS 300D so that some of the 10D features that the 300D lacks are activated.
You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG.
A lot of info about the development of outliner user interfaces. And the answer to the question of where the triangle for displaying an expanded and collapsed subsection comes from.
Oh, and the unimportant information that Framework (that integrated application package that already had a - albeit character-oriented - window interface under DOS) still exists ...
Apple provides a whole bunch of RSS feeds for knowledge base articles, grouped by topic. Maybe interesting for some of you.
An interesting article about an FBI visit and discussion about various data espionage and manipulation techniques. Also the FBI's tip to rather get yourself a Mac, because it is secure out of the box Here's the original article.
On Kuro5hin, a blog opponent is having another meltdown. This time he's ranting against Moveable Type and Trackback. So it's not just the established press that has a few problems understanding reality ...
Oh, and the colleague has some pretty harsh names for bloggers — if you have a weak stomach or weak nerves, you'd better not go there.
You can find the original article at kuro5hin.org.
Some scientists have a slight roof damage. Some, however, have a severe one ...
At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.
Patent Madness Again
At Telepolis News there's the original article.
What makes one feel so great when you can cut pocket money from residents of care homes ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Found via a Telepolis article. A book about free software and its historical context and its social and societal significance. Worth reading through, especially since the book is alternatively available as an eBook for free download or as a printed book for little money ... Here you can find the original article.
That's simply brilliant.
I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
Well, that's the - bitter - end of the whole story surrounding the Kästner quotes. Thus a great poet is defamed by stupid lawyers and stupid laws more than it happened during his lifetime - simply by the fact that people think they have rights to his thoughts that run counter to the dissemination of his ideas. Kästner would probably have written a few biting remarks about it, I can only be sad and hope that the poems of one of my favorite poets are still known when the copyright has expired - which, given the fact that teachers are striking him from the curriculum, is rather questionable.
The banana republic Germany rages not only among politicians. The nation of poets and thinkers, fettered by miserable petty bureaucracy.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.