Papal Pontificate: Criticism from Politics and the Church - the critical voices should not be drowned out by all the papal eulogies that are currently rustling through the forests of pages ...
Linkblog - 16.3.2005 - 4.4.2005
Systemhaus BOG files for insolvency - I already noticed it last week. It would be a shame if the store was gone - I haven't had much to do with them (only a few minor contacts when I still had to deal with cash register systems), but BOG has existed in Münster since I've been in the industry (even a bit longer) and somehow it's part of it for me ...
Javascript Windows simulate a desktop within a webpage. You have a launch bar and small applications that must be HTML-based, which then appear in windows that the user can move, minimize, maximize, and close - basically a desktop, but within a webpage. Crazy idea.
Epson R-D1 Review - I think I already said it, but does anyone have 3000 dollars for me?
The review of the HP Photosmart 8750 Photo Printer sounds quite good - well, the speed less so (13 minutes for an A3+ print is quite a lot), but time is my least concern when printing. And built-in networking is very nice - we have several computers to connect after all.
Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla - wow. Great extension: it directly validates the displayed webpage and integrates into the source view for debugging errors. Very nice - and has been featured in several weblogs in recent days (I don't remember where I first saw it).
Lufthansa's anniversary offers bring web servers to a standstill - after suing various people because of the online demo I now wonder: is Lufthansa going to sue its marketing department?
RFC4041: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts. A.... - exactly, this has been pending for a long time. We finally need to route in a morally correct way!
Security risk: Password protection for hard drives - yes, great, what a stupid idea by the manufacturers
upcoming change in PLT Scheme v300 - lambda, filter and fold out. Right. After all, Python's Guido has already demanded this.
America: Where A Bumper Sticker Gets You Banned - free speech means only being allowed to express the government's opinion. Dissent is punishable ...
Brussels heading for a showdown over data retention - yet another case where democracy and substantive concerns are simply ignored. Otto Orwell will be pleased, the citizens will have to bear the consequences. General suspicion of all EU citizens is indeed something fine, making the whole life of the investigators much easier - "in doubt for the accused" and other presumptions of innocence simply slow down too much when you are on your way to the police state ...
Stollwerck closes chocolate production - too bad.
class.jabber.php is a PHP class for programming Jabber services.
Preserve Code Formatting protects PRE and CODE blocks from wptexturize.
Friday 08.09.2000: Drips and drips - The three protocolists save their cynicism for the sequel - about the book Helmut Kohl, the power and the money from the Steidl publishing house. I'll probably have to get it.
Easier access for intelligence agencies to accounts and travel data demanded - what is a right-wing agitator against informational self-determination and data protection actually doing in the SPD? Oh yes, I forgot, Otto Orwell is also in the SPD. Strange party, calls itself "social" and has a bunch of asocial people sitting in Berlin ...
The SimCam: Film and Digital Camera Simulator is a camera simulation for photography beginners: you can play around with aperture and shutter speed and take virtual photos and then see how the result looks. Relationships such as depth of field, camera shake, correct exposure, film speed, etc. become directly tangible, even without a camera. Fun idea.
Terms and conditions for blocking phone numbers published - hmm, funny idea. Let's see how practical this will be.
BBEdit 8.1 brings Subversion support - maybe I should upgrade now, Subversion integration is quite practical.
The Pheed RSS Specification is an extension for RSS that allows you to explicitly include links to photos. Could be interesting for my Fotoblog. However, WordPress has few hooks for manipulating feeds.
SCO Uses Legal Documents from Groklaw and Tuxrocks - wow, great, the advocates of their own intellectual property steal IP from other authors for their websites without citing the source. How embarrassing is that ...
The Time Zone (WP Plugin) is a handy little plugin that uses the time zone in WordPress so that the somewhat silly adjustment of the time difference in the options can be omitted. Found at Perun in the comments.
Alice is now available in version 1.1 - including a Mac OS X port. Unfortunately only via the Unix path, so with X11 interface and without the native code Just-in-Time compiler, but at least you can play with the language on the Mac. As a reminder: Alice is an ML dialect with a strong focus on good support for parallelism.
Basics of Wave Propagation and Antenna Construction - some information about the propagation of longwave, mediumwave, shortwave, and VHF. Reflection on atmospheric layers and wave behavior.
Microsoft on patent raid - and they simply steal ideas from the IETF Working Group on IPv6, which they were once involved in. Also a patent that, under Clements' interpretation - and possibly even that of the BMJ - of the EU Patent Directive draft would also be enforceable here. And this could cause quite a few problems when using IPv6. Of course, due to prior art, one could challenge such a thing - but someone would first have to do that and be able to afford it.
Hackers re-enable PyMusique access to iTMS - Hase und Igel :-)
Kasia did a bit of research (15 minutes on Google) on Dr. William Hammesfahr, who is frequently cited in the US press in connection with the Shiavo case and is allegedly a Nobel Prize candidate, and found: Journalism is a joke. Because the good Dr. seems to claim a lot, but has nothing to show for it. Above all, no Nobel Prize nomination - only a letter from a congressman who suggested the Dr. to the Nobel Prize committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine. Quality journalism of the highest order.
PythonEggs are like .jar files for Python. Only they are based on ZIP. It's about time that Python applications can be downloaded as a single file with dependency definitions and that the installation of Python applications finally becomes easier.
Sybase stops publishing details of security vulnerabilities - and another manufacturer who doesn't understand security
Ajaxing the Rails - the latest release of Ruby on Rails also offers Ajax support. Here, the actual Ajax part is much more integrated than in other frameworks - could be interesting, as so far Ajax has been rather tricky to use in larger projects.
All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites - Read command!
TidBITS: What You Get Is What You CSS, With Style Master 4.0 - sounds very interesting, a program with which you can edit CSS files and display them directly in connection with various websites. I must take a look at it, because manually tweaking CSS files and experimenting with them can sometimes be quite annoying. Being able to prepare something offline would be quite nice. Update: sorry, but after a first test, the thing has been kicked off the plate. Good idea, slow and unintuitive implementation.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - everything you always wanted to know about Bash scripting but were afraid to ask. And a little bit more that you never would have thought to ask. And then there's the stuff you really never wanted to know, but it's in there anyway.
BFI-Banker sentenced to nearly six years in prison - there are also positive news sometimes. A model that I could warm up to. Of course, the prison sentence should be appropriate to the size of the bank: Ackermann could then be locked up until the end of his life
Hastymail is a webmail program that works with very minimal browser requirements and supports an essential feature that is missing in many clients: comment threading.
Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets is a very interesting article about botnets and how they are structured - analyzed with a Honeynet.
Found at photomatt: Nifty Corners are rounded corners that do without images. Optionally directly with HTML and some CSS or CSS and some JavaScript, which rewrites the DOM tree accordingly.
Black hole in the lab - weird.
The Man in Blue > Experiments > widgEditor is a WYSIWYG editor for HTML that replaces textareas in the browser and is written in JavaScript. It has an integrated fallback to normal textareas, so that browsers without JavaScript can still work with normal text. And it produces clean XHTML. And: it actually works properly for me.
Hondo came in second at Milan - San Remo. Wow. He seems to really want it this year.
Image cropping with DHTML and PHP behind it. Could be quite practical in a photo plugin.
Agata Report is something like Crystal Reports, but for Linux and Open Source. Could be quite practical at times, especially since it can also generate reports that can easily run on a web server.
Basic rights without reason or ground - how citizens' basic rights are trampled on in the name of security.
Gmail invitations: First interim injunction - please notify Wonko the knowledgeable.
Honestly? Just scrap the ProTour and its silly jersey again. It's just marketing hype and nobody will miss it.
US Senate approves oil drilling in Alaska and once again sacrifices reason at the altar of the oil industry. Well, if a state even wages wars for oil (sorry, but apart from Blair, nobody believes in weapons of mass destruction anymore), you shouldn't be surprised that environmental protection is even less valuable to them.
Found in the young world: Bayerns Blinde sollen gefälligst zu Hause bleiben. As a blind person, you probably feel really well taken care of with a health insurance like that ...
Those who want to play with XMLHTTPRequest and Common Lisp should check out CLiki : cl-ajax, which provides the necessary framework for easily integrating Common Lisp functions into web applications based on Araneida.