So there I am, just spending 3 days in the hospital (medical technical term: thermocoagulation of an osteoid osteoma), and someone goes and kicks Schill out. I mean, I think it's nice and all, but if I could have experienced it live, it would have been even nicer.
At Nochn Blogg. you can find the original article.
Always these intrusive hitchhikers
At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.
Hey, that's already a start. Street price should land around 1000 euros, which is already significantly more acceptable than previous prices for digital SLRs. However, it's a Canon, who wants a Canon anyway
But it could be that this is where the price drop for digital SLRs finally begins and other manufacturers follow suit. Sooner or later they'll have to do it if they want a piece of the cake.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
So well then, it works
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Oh how nice, a little scandal in Hesse that could develop into a full-blown scandal. But in a country where a leading politician can simply shovel double-digit millions abroad and doesn't have to go to jail for it and the Minister President isn't held accountable either, something like this certainly won't make big waves. Hesse is just Germany's banana republic number one.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Wow, they're completely crazy in Hamburg.
It's about time that public broadcasting lived up to its mission. Unfortunately I missed the documentary. Hopefully more will come in that direction. Because a genuine reappraisal of the entire RAF history and its background - particularly the state hysteria - would really be necessary.
You can see how easily terrorist organizations and their attacks are used to trample on citizens' rights right now.
At Telepolis News there's the original article.
Cool. If that's all SCO has, then it's going to be really amusing when they get torn apart in court ...
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Transparency of the administration to the citizen would make fraud, waste of money and nepotism just as difficult as it would expose the sometimes abysmal incompetence of the public administration. So, what does the good politician do? It's obvious: put a lid on it and cover it up. That's how Büssow already rammed through his appalling blocking order.
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
But the thing does have a few catches:
The little device is somewhat heavier than I expected, but feels quite premium for it. And the accessories go well with it and are also quite well built (for example, the remote control also makes a fairly premium impression).
Quite a lot of small parts, but quite intelligently used multiple times - for example, the FireWire cable is simultaneously used as a cable for the power adapter for on the go, so you only need one cable. And everything in a format so that it fits well into the included accessory bag.
But what's really cool is the control via the touch elements, especially the wheel is amusing: essentially a round touchscreen that understands exactly two gestures (turning left and turning right). The user interface could be more intuitive, but it's okay.
In any case, it's good that there are no moving or protruding parts on the outside, so nothing can break off or get stuck.
All in all, quite a musical 30GB hard drive, and that's what it should be after all.
I assume a new 12-inch PowerBook will be coming. Why? Simple: I just bought one. Now there are only two possibilities: either the old ones become drastically cheaper (which I can't quite imagine) or a new one comes out. This always happens to me...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
That fits perfectly. Always keep the lid on tight.
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Cool. So it wouldn't be the first time if the worm actually had something to do with it ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Cowardly Chickens!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Oh, that would be nice if the worm really had something to do with the power outage. Oh, how nice that would be.
At heise online news there's the original article.
What all exists out there: a port of an OpenStep subset to the Zaurus, so you can build programs for the Zaurus with Mac tools and Mac sources. Wild.
At VersionTracker.com - Mac OS X I found the original article.
Wow. The feature list really does sound impressive. Could this device perhaps replace my good old Olympus E-100 RS? Actually, all that's missing for my happiness is image stabilization.
They should simply take the GUID instead of the content of the link tag. After all, the GUID in radio blog postings is always the link to the article itself (that's how it's defined anyway - only if the GUID element is marked with isPermalink="false" is it not the case). The Python Desktop Server does it exactly the same way, the link element contains the link of the posting, the link to the posting is in the GUID. So it's more of a problem with NetNewswire, that it doesn't ask the user which link it should pass as the link to the blog posting ...
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
From the SCO FAQ on Linux licensing:
If I am running SCO Linux or Caldera OpenLinux do I need to obtain a SCO IP License for Linux? - Yes.
This means that SCO itself sold products that are illegal (by their own definition). But SCO certainly sold these products to customers who in good faith purchased them from SCO believing the business was legitimate. Does this now mean these customers can sue SCO for fraud?
In any case, this should be a goldmine for any consumer protection advocate — a company that sells a product and then later comes along and tries to charge people again for the same service they already purchased.
Absurd. Completely absurd.
Today must be the day of the absurd - disposing of asbestos-contaminated subway cars in the sea is completely insane even by American standards.
What? Of all people, the warmongers at Fox News claim a trademark on "fair and balanced" and try to prevent the publication of a book that strongly criticizes right-wing media? Absurd.
At Morons Dot Org you can find the original article.
This is really audacious now: they release software under a license that explicitly permits free distribution and use. This fact is actually well-known in the industry - so one would think that this license choice by SCO for their own distribution was deliberate. Nobody forced SCO to distribute their distribution. At that time, the GPL was quite convenient for them. But now they simply sit down and declare the GPL unilaterally (and retroactively) invalid. Idiots.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Funny - the entire American Northeast and parts of Canada are without power. The pictures from New York are already absurd: thousands of people trudging among the cars on the streets, the whole thing reminds you a bit of an anthill.
Then they should start training midwives diligently, in 9 months they'll probably be urgently needed in larger quantities.
The current rumor about the cause is incidentally an overload of the hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls.
Probably the shortest wiki in Python, just 23 lines of highly unreadable and cryptic source code. And thus proof that Python's mandatory indentation in no way prevents the creation of stupid code. Here you can find the original article.
An interesting article about potential pitfalls for Python newbies.
I found the original article at Tao of the Machine.
Well then, let me try that right away ...
At Nochn Blogg. you can find the original article.
Hey, another one - I just got my PowerBook too. Really nice devices these are. I went with the 12-inch model because it's nicely compact and power-efficient. Though with SuperDrive, if you're going to do it, do it right - DVDs are quite useful as a backup medium.
However, I'm not a switcher, I've been doing things sensibly for a long time
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Interesting part - basically something like Visual Basic, just with AppleScript as the language. Sure, you can do some of that with AppleScript Studio, but FaceSpan was quite a manageable software under OS Classic back then, and if they were to transfer that concept to OS X, it could be very interesting. Especially through the support of scripting systems (Apple Events as well as Cocoa Scripting), you can nicely integrate other applications - FaceSpan would thus be ideal for creating graphical automation tools. Basically what TCL/TK is under Unix.
At welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource there's the original article.
Pretty cool how Aldag got away from both Zabel and Ullrich
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview I found the original article.
I can understand if small business students get worked up because their credits (wow, I feel like I'm in a video game here) supposedly fail them. But if they then extra push back but aren't even capable of researching properly themselves - because then they would have noticed that readers of Thomas' weblog can definitely find their way back to the original article, even if it's somewhat inconspicuous given the IMO improvable layout - then it just gets silly. But if they then go ahead and steal graphic symbols from blogger.com, instead of painting their own, then it becomes additionally embarrassing too
Ok, welcome to the summer break of summer breaks
But it does raise an interesting topic: types of weblogs and their function on the net. For me there are three primary weblog types - certainly there are many subtypes, but these three strike me spontaneously when browsing through the net:
What's the point of all this now: quite simple. Here two formats collide: more link-hub-oriented ones (SWR and Randgaenge) meet more content-oriented ones (eDingse). Result: the link hubs do what they do: they see interesting content and link to it. They usually only link to the place where they read it - precisely where the interesting stuff was that they're referring to. Links from link hubs are simply to be understood as hey, take a look, there's really cool content there. Not editorial work or content work in that sense (I'm not denying either to SWR or Randgaenge - I'm only referring to the primary character of the two blogs at the moment! Both can certainly write!) but rather directory service and attention filter.
Is it sensible for a content producer to then get upset that Randgaenge linked to SWR and listed it as the source, because Thomas certainly read the content at SWR? No. That's actually highly nonsensical.
The reason: the link hubs are precisely the distributors through which content gets to others. Not everyone reads eDingse or other content - usually you read a few specialized blogs and a set of link hubs. The latter nicely filter for you where you want to read further. Anyone who reads link hubs knows that they have the beginnings of link chains there that eventually lead to the content. That's completely normal. Nobody would believe based on the quote at Thomas' blog that the text was written by Jörg, just because SWR is listed as the source. If a content blog severs ties with link hubs by threatening them with legal action and wielding the copyright club over a couple of sentences of quotation, then ultimately they make their content less accessible - because link hubs will generally simply ignore and exclude the content afterwards.
As a content writer to believe that the whole world reads your blog directly and that you thus reach your entire audience shows little understanding of how things work on the internet. Link hubs are quite important for this, as they perform a purely subjective pre-filtering that readers explicitly choose themselves - because the one doing the pre-filtering covers part of their own information needs.
It's equally counterproductive for link hubs to mess with content producers - however, the link hubs have the longer lever here, as content producers generally create and publish content based on their own interests (internal drive, value chain or similar motivations). And link hubs can link to what's public.
Sure, a content producer can now shut down their RSS feed. But that doesn't hurt the link hub - they just read something else, link to something else, or occasionally browse manually (if they think something interesting is happening there).
What gets hurt regularly are readers who suddenly no longer have access. And what gets hurt are currently still non-readers who possibly learn nothing about the content because it's not linked.
And what's the function of public diaries? No idea, I'm still puzzling over that
... and now we're installing diligently
Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows bugs. Lately, there's been a universal exploit for XP and 2000 for the RPC bug that works independently of Service Pack level and similar factors. And this opens the door wide for script kiddies in Windows - if you're running your Windows system without a hotfix, you'll soon become an involuntary employee of some script kiddies ...
At INSTANT NIRVANA you can find the original article.
Oh - is this now ushering in pro-Israeli propaganda reporting in private television? Away with journalistic freedom? So that we too are blessed with reporting like Fox? It's also absurd that he's proposing to take advertising away from public broadcasting by replacing it with one or two hours of educational programming. What does he actually think, that anyone wants someone like that to educate their children? So that they are normalized early on into his lobbying worldview? I hope that politicians will also give this absurd proposal a firm rejection early on. All a nice picture of the fact that things can indeed get much worse than they already were with Kirch.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Multimedia.
Evil times lie ahead when an SPD minister-president can pull off such nonsense without being punished for it by the grassroots. Sure, some will now say why, it doesn't affect us, it's just civil servants, finally they'll work too - well, folks, don't celebrate too early. If such methods take hold in the public service, they will sooner or later (sooner rather than later) also come to the economy. And then we'll end up sitting in the stone age again when it comes to working conditions. The fact alone that he's still scheming together with agitator Koch is already bad. What he's doing there has nothing to do with social democracy anymore.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
... on my G3 Mac. That's why there was nothing here for a while - my computer was off and wouldn't start up again. For now, I've moved the installation of the Python Desktop Server with which I create http://hugo.muensterland.org to another computer, so I can still access things here with my old computer if necessary. Hopefully my new Powerbook arrives soon ...
... not only does my G3 keep taking heat breaks, now I also have to work with my old Mac. It's not so bad, really, if it weren't so difficult to find an adequate web browser for Mac OS 8.6. Just to give you an impression of the extent of the catastrophe: the only adequate browser is Internet Explorer
Netscape 4.something can barely do anything in the area of CSS and HTML 4 - and PyDS relies heavily on that. iCab under OS 8.6 has constant display problems (not the HTML, but the window itself!), Opera doesn't work at all and all other browsers are rubbish. Well, at least I have web, IRC and news running again. Only email is still miserable - the best I have is my webmail interface on my server. And PopFile doesn't work under OS Classic and not on my old Debian either (because it still doesn't have Perl 5.6). Bloody weather
But of course it was never about the oil.
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
Wow, if they manage to sign Jens Voigt now, they won't just have good people, but also seasoned veterans in the team. And if Udo Bölts gets involved as sports director, then Gerolsteiner could arrive in Paris next year with more than 3 people.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht I found the original article.
The same perverted madness as in Vietnam. Learned nothing
At Der Rollberg there's the original article.
Finally, the next round is being kicked off.
Too bad. Hopefully a new sponsor for the team will be found soon. :-(
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht I found the original article.
Folks, let me tell you from someone who lives there: it looks stupid. Reminds me a bit of cave paintings, except the cave is missing. There's no dialogue to it - just colorful silos. I would have preferred decent graffiti.
At Irene // Antville you can find the original article.
Another nail in the coffin of the lies of business leaders and Union politicians. After "immigrants are responsible for unemployment" comes now "we need a low-wage sector." But don't worry, surely no one will be disturbed by facts...
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
A very entertaining description of a Windows XP installation by Mark Pilgrim.
Apparently there's now confirmation for a suspicion that has been circulating for some time: there is a list of people who get into trouble at airports, which has nothing to do with terrorist connections, but is based solely on the fact that these people once said something that didn't suit the US government. So the first evidence of anti-terror laws being used against political opponents. Brave new world.
Well, I still think it's a shame that it wasn't continued, not even by another company. Really too bad - many aspects of the Newton were truly revolutionary. And its operating system was simply great - a Lisp machine for your pocket. Ok, for a large pocket, but still.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Eventually at the employment office you'll only get the rope at state expense. You have to buy the hook to hang it from yourself. Brave new world
At TAZ I found the original article.
That would really be a shame. Once is simply an old team that has repeatedly delighted with good riders and good performances.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht I found the original article.
The next free Common Lisp for OS X. Nice - SBCL is indeed quite well-known in the realm of Common Lisp implementations. However, it's rather cumbersome, so use a beefy machine for testing...
At lemonodor you can find the original article.