new snapshot tarballs finally - OpenMCL gets Unicode support.
Linkblog - 9.10.2006 - 25.10.2006
Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords - speechless.
Köhler stops privatization of air traffic control - to take in a billion (which could just fill a small tributary of the German billion-dollar hole) to change the Basic Law and hand over air safety to corporations. Great idea, right? Selling off the family silver is nothing compared to this ...
Ogoglio - 3D worlds in the browser. Sounds interesting, let's observe.
Pi - in pixels. One pixel per digit, the digit as color. Cool. (and yes, I know, only a snippet of Pi)
Press freedom increasingly threatened - off to Scandinavia or Bolivia, which rank significantly ahead of Germany (and far ahead of the supposedly free USA). But we still think our Western culture is so wonderfully liberal ...
Towel Incident At The Westin Tokyo - for a change, the hotel "stole" the towels from the guest ...
Fefe's Blog - here with a nice collection of links about the voting machine debacle in Germany. Mainstream press? They don't care. It's just a few crackpots making noise ...
Fefe's Blog - about the (admitted) use of (banned) phosphorus bombs in Lebanon. It's just an additional agreement that you didn't sign ...
Category Consumer Protection: Association of German Insurers — BigBrotherAwards - exemplary picked out from the Big Brother Awards because it so nicely shows how little the economy cares about the rights of customers.
Unmut über Honorarsystem: Ärzte schließen Praxen - am I actually the only one who sees this whole thing a bit as extortion? With the patients as hostages?
Apartments to be removed from REIT law - the real competitive disadvantage for Germany are just the lobby-controlled politicians ...
Bundestag Petition against voting computers - I just signed it. Would it be something for you? Don't be surprised about the address - if you go through the Bundestag pages, you also end up on this .uk server for the e-petitions. Actually a poor performance that they apparently cannot be operated in Germany ...
Even at Bildblog, milkmaids are doing the math - yeah, that bothered me too. This silly Eschonda argument. Cars just fall from the sky and are given to people or something ...
The Dictatorship of the Meritocrats - a critical look at the current underclass discussion.
Ralph Griswold died - Snobol and Icon were long my preferred languages for string processing and tools. His Icon Analyst Newsletter was a long-time favorite read. His book on the implementation of Icon is a well-read read on building bytecode interpreters and compilers.
Addressbook X LDAP - interesting tool that can replicate data from the OS X Address Book to an LDAP server.
Edelentmant: Lies, Bribery, and Defamation Instead of Dialog - Don is doing investigative journalism again. Good stuff, that.
Companies return penitently from the East - politicians will certainly not talk about this, because you cannot justify social cuts, reductions in benefits, wage cuts and increased working hours with it.
Glos wants more flexible apprentices - what a windbag. Of course, prospective trainees who are not yet fully grown, fresh from school, why do they make a fuss, they should just travel all over the republic. Do the Prolethicians in Berlin ever think about the nonsense they talk?
Innen-Staatssekretär: Internet wichtiges Mittel für Islamisten - oh yes, the evil Internet and the bad users who download things there. By the way, this Hanning guy is with the SPD, just in case someone might think that he is from the right-wing camp because of his outbursts. He is. The SPD was never really left-wing, but nowadays it has also left the center to the right ...
Terror-Dentists - at least in the UK, former members of the British National Party are better equipped for terrorist attacks than the usually media-effective arrested Islamic terrorist suspects. Are dentists now being put on the general suspects list in the UK?
Would you like fries with your spyware? - funny. Our most hated fry factory (hey, their working conditions are at UPS level and their customers - who go to the factory next door - are too stupid to pay attention to traffic lights) distributes SpyWare.
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use - Elsewhere in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine. "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.
World’s worst use of a jpeg - security by stupidity?
Concrete and Clay - nice music blog with CC music
doctor paradox: the metaphysician. - electronic, funky, funny.
G2Image - Plugin for Tiny-MCE to select images from a Gallery2 installation - should be able to be rebuilt for Django.
HotBitchArsenal - cool and relaxed.
Paulo Sacramento - creative commons soundtracks and photos - what you see is what you get. And it's good, in a Herbie Hancock style of good.
Simple image manager/uploader - another image picker, but much simpler. Maybe a better basis (integrate into the upload!)
Power outage at Hetzner hosting took thousands of servers offline - ouch. Good thing my server is in one of the older data centers ...
TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor - GUI editor for HTML textareas with plugin interface
Schünemann demands ban on downloading hate messages - neither the Vatican nor the Federal Government had provided a statement on the blocking of their offers by the time of publication ...
Evil big publishers, poor little translators - regardless of the facts, I find comments where the commenter repeatedly emphasizes that no one (except himself, of course) knows anything about the subject, always very strange. The gentleman from the publisher insists a bit too much on that ...
Fabjectory - 3D plots of Second Life avatars. Sounds pretty good, but expensive.
Genealogical Database: First Names - only one first name starting with Sch, and it's also so obscure? (And yes, I read the Titanic RSS feed)
Geonames - maps names of cities, mountains etc. to geographic information (and vice versa). Plus a web service to use this data. The whole thing as a community project with data content under CC license. Very cool.
Google code search - funny games with the code search.
Lightning exits woman's bottom - autsch.
MoinX - very nice. MoinMoin with OS X Controller in the menu bar. Ok, not the feel of VoodooPad - it is still a web application - but the performance of MoinMoin is not to be underestimated.
100,000-year-old camel bones found - rumored to be the party chairman of a large conservative people's party.
China's Cheap Goods: Who Really Benefits? - worth thinking about.
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Security vulnerability in Python 2.3 and above - definitely not just Ubuntu, but also Debian. Ubuntu is only linked because there is no security advisory from Debian yet. Is someone sleeping?
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)