Debunking Linus's Latest - Shapiro also has a few thoughts to share about Linus's latest misstep.
Linkblog - 2.4.2006 - 16.5.2006
Nokia Announces the Internet Tablet 2006 OS Update - very nice, especially since the new release will also work for the old tablet. However, the update is a bit tricky - reinstallation of all applications and data ...
Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate, Part II - Tanenbaum's counterarguments to Linus' Microkernel-stupid claim ...
In the mills of welfare - what it used to mean to be a foster child - and what it might mean again?
RWE: The profit that came from the cold - if anyone now thinks this will change the prices downward, forget it. We also have to continue financing RWE's nonsensical expenses in other industries.
Nokia will preinstall Google Talk - not bad, especially since Google Talk is based on Jabber.
Schneier on Security: Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines - is this finally the end for this dreadful Diebold disaster? Or will they try to wriggle out of it again and suppress the reports?
heise online - LG Düsseldorf: Forenhaftung erst ab Kenntnis des Rechtsverstoßes - great legal certainty. Now there are two contradictory rulings on the same topic.
Rotten Effort - how Microsoft tries to pressure consultants in companies with almost extortionate tactics ...
HashCaml - an extension of Objective Caml, which allows type-safe data to be serialized and deserialized. Basis for example for remote function calls.
Django for non-programmers - Django from a web designer's perspective.
Rolf wins his own farewell race - Goodbye Rolf!
Django Weblog "magic-removal" branch merged - gaaaah. Work. Crap.
How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide || kuro5hin.org - well. doesn't sound very nice, the method.
Workbench: Settlement Reached with Dave Winer - and now Dave Winer has lost his last advocate that one could still take seriously. Well. Will Dave now taste his own medicine? So far, he was the one who has put others down in blogs ...
When companies meet their doppelgänger - A particularly creative form of piracy
This was the Roots: How the Internet came to Germany - and not a word about the IN e.V. at Heise either - which was also significantly involved in private internet activity.
Oberon Script. A Lightweight Compiler and Runtime System for the Web - an Oberon compiler in JavaScript. Now that's weird.
World Press Photos 2005: Germany Premiere in Hamburg - and starting this Saturday, I'll be in Hamburg for a few days.
Mamiya to sell camera division - and the next old name in photography is sold off
WASG-Bundesvorstandsmitglied switches to NPD - because there's no difference between left and right in Germany anyway ...
Hyperlink-Prozess: Netzaktivist erneut freigesprochen - good. Very good!
Pur3d.de | TEXTURES - a lot of textures that can also be tiled.
UVMapper - 2.5D Software
AOL.de Zugang - WiFi Hotspots. And yes, that's the devil. But what can you do when network withdrawal threatens ...
Critical security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X - yuck. Please people at Apple - get your act together and use current and fixed versions of the various libraries. Otherwise, I might as well install Windows in the long run ...
Outrage over Schäuble - oh kids, now you're suddenly outraged about him. Do you really think he only came up with his ideas today?
Gazprom threatens EU with gas cut-off - again, great surprise all around. Did you really believe it would just stay with the threats against e.g. Ukraine?
Metasploit: Exploit Development: GroupWise Messenger Server - those who still convince themselves that the time from the discovery of a software vulnerability to an exploit is correspondingly long: forget it. Here someone shows an example development of a complete exploit one day after a hole in the GroupWise Messenger Server became known ...
'Pioneer-Anomalie': Mysterious Force in Space - something is slowing down our probes. No one knows exactly what yet.
YES, finally! me too! - how to deal with lawyer mail as well
Philips will to prevent switching during ad breaks - well, just another reason not to turn on the telly anymore ...
Incitement to hatred Part III - Public Prosecutor vs. Alvar Freude - Public Prosecutor's Block Wardens still on a censorship spree.
Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism - why you should simply avoid D-Link products.
SPD insists on de minimis clause for copies - "The SPD" probably does not include the federal justice incompetence. Maybe they should hand in their party membership?
Yummy mummy feeds young its skin - an amphibian. Looks like an earthworm. Lays eggs. And feeds the young with its own skin. Strange Nature ...
Hamburg Regional Court: Forum operators are liable for contributions - I hope this absurd ruling is overturned as soon as possible. Nonsensical nonsense that the judges are spouting, and absolutely not in line with previous case law.
2003 UB313: "Tenth Planet" barely larger than Pluto - I still support giving this object planetary status - or revoking it from Pluto.
Get A-Life: Core Wars / Tierra - a researcher lets a few Core-Wars algorithms loose in a digital primordial soup with simple mutation and simple death - and finds evolution and parasites shortly thereafter.
Texas Judge Orders Medication for Inmate - how perverse must a judge actually be if he first grants a mentally ill prisoner a stay of execution because of his mental illness - and then forces him to take his medication. Specifically so that he can be legally executed.
Using Vodafone and Sony Ericsson V600i / V600 UMTS via Bluetooth under Mac OS X - if it's the company phone.
Bundesrat considers software patents - and who cares about the Mittelstand and open source software. Certainly not the Prolethicians in Düsseldorf ...
PHI, the golden ratio - various definitions of the golden ratio.
The nonsense about AdSense - about the inconsistencies in Google's AdSense/AdWords programs.
Eiffel development environment becomes Open Source - yes, there was another object-oriented language.
Man Was Enduring the Dentist's Drill 9,000 Years Ago - a 9,000-year-old dentist? Scary ...
Patent Busting: EFF against patent on online exams - and no end in sight for the ridiculous patents.
Maemo Development Platform Roadmap - where the Nokia tablet with version 2.0 of the system is heading.
Colorblind Web Page Filter - a filter with which you can check websites for compatibility with various forms of color blindness.