Ancient LAND attack works again in current Windows - wow, Microsoft has a heart for outdated bugs and gives them a new life
Linkblog - 23.2.2005 - 8.3.2005
Another bug in Linux security extension grsecurity - of course, something like this had to come up just when I'm writing about grsecurity, right?
If you want to authenticate your WordPress against external user databases: the Authentication Plugins Patch extends WordPress with the necessary hooks to secure it, for example, via Apache authentication.
OSER is a project that aims to replace Exchange while keeping Outlook. Although I don't like Outlook as one of the biggest virus and trojan vectors, it is popular in companies because of its good integration of various information services. Switching to an open source server solution can be the first step to gradually replace Outlook with other programs. However, at the moment it is still mainly vaporware - at least if you look at the websites.
The controversial vehicle registration plate patent has been declared invalid - take a good look at this nonsense, we'll probably have to deal with more of this thanks to proles like Clement. And no, we can't be sure that such patents will be deleted.
cyrusharmon.org: More GCC-XML (new and improved -- now with pr0n!) - crazy title, but a brilliant thing: SBCL gets native bindings to the Carbon API. And thus becomes the second Open Source Lisp system with integration into the OS X world (although Cocoa bindings would of course be cooler - but so far in the Open Source area only OpenMCL offers that).
In the Law Blog, it is explained what we can expect due to the blacklist against corruption in NRW.
Sometimes Wikipedia surprises me with things that are actually quite obvious. For example, the very nice descriptions of the Münsterland and of course Münster itself.
WordPress Theme: Gila - looks quite nice, is three-column and has a flexible middle column.
Outrage over statement by JuLi chairman - well, Westerwelle was also once a JuLi Hansel and he also had some dumb remarks - so this guy seems to be the future leader of the FDP in 10 years ...
Tabacco industry bribed scientists - what do you expect from legalized drug dealers? That they are honest? Pfffft ...
Researchers generate different X.509 certificates with the same MD5 hash - ouch. This really kills MD5 for signatures.
Great. The company Winkhaus builds locks that use cryptographic methods to verify the authorization of a key and you can crack these with a simple magnet. Security by Stupidity ...
Who believes that small politics works better than big politics, read about Hotel Falckenstein regarding Nr. 1737 and a Veto.
Officially approved data mining of an intelligence service mailing list - cute when the NSA people are analyzed. But also mean to refer them to their regional data protection organization - after 9/11, the word "data protection" is almost as an insult to Americans as the word "liberal".
SCO vs. Linux: SCO demands insight into IBM's construction plans - I would be interested in the medical term that describes what the SCO management team is suffering from
SOS Children's Villages waiting for donation from Laurenz Meyer - did anyone really believe he meant it? Sorry, but he will only do it if public pressure becomes too great - and he has blocked that through his resignation. If it is pushed through the press, he might still do it - and come up with some flimsy excuse as to why it took so long ...
Stu Nicholls Cutting Edge CSS An amazing CSS puzzle is a small maze game that was implemented using only CSS - no JavaScript. Wow. (found at photomatt)
blo.gs: for sale - oops. The operator of blo.gs wants to sell his entire system (domains, software, database).
Seen at Lummaland: BlogFox: everything just stolen - about a search engine that simply sucks up content from blogg.de and bags it. Not exactly the fine English way ...
Microsoft relies on marketing for «Longhorn» - and stamps it as vaporware and a marketing show even before its existence
PIXELPOST - Small Photoblog Software - looks quite nice, as do the demos. Fun is the small strip calendar in the demo - I think I'll do something like that for WordPress, it takes up significantly less space in the sidebar than the classic calendar. For someone who just wants to photoblog, PixelPost looks quite nice.
I didn't know that the SmartEiffel The GNU Eiffel Compiler now also compiles to Java bytecode. Maybe you could use it on the Mac together with the Java-ObjC bridge to write programs there and play with Eiffel again.
Billing via IP? explains more about the absurd IP-based billing procedure. The whole self-presentation is already confusing enough. The procedure itself is even more confusing. So no wonder that T-Systems hitches itself to this cart - if there are stupid ideas, they always seem to shout "Here!" ... (found at Isotopp)
Back to the Future: The Story of Squeak - how one of the coolest Smalltalk environments came to be.
At concord.antville.org there is a reference to these color photographs from the First World War made by the French army.
And while we're on the subject of marketing lies: does anyone remember SoftRAM95? It's been 9 years now ...
Giant ground drawings discovered in Peru - then we can look forward to a lot of "interpretations" from ufologists again ...
SPD: "No tax relief for foreign top earners" - Koch wants to make it even easier and more lucrative for the Ackermanns of this world to fleece the German economy ...
Found in Lummaland: We will all be fired. Wow, exciting, a filter that blocks employees of a company from accessing weblogs so that no corporate secrets are published and no false image of the company is drawn. Nonsense. But you can make money with such marketing lies.
Blogs! Why Verisign or Jamba Six Apart and Livejournal will be bought - and why Don Alphonso sometimes scares me ...
GeoURL (2.0) - the other GeoURL, meaning the original one, is back. Not entirely original because it's operated by someone else, but it has the same URL and apparently the same database. Essentially, it's the same map and everything. So essentially everything is the same. Also the slow speed. Doesn't matter - geourl.info works just as well and a bit of redundancy never hurt anyone.
Nice Firefox extension: JustBlogIt with a simple right-click. And in the 0.2 version found there, it also works with blogging pages with umlauts in the title. The 0.1 version on the Firefox Extensions page is quite buggy.
morons.org reports: Kentucky Student Charged with Felony Thoughtcrime - his terrible crime: a short story about a high school overrun by zombies. $5,000 bail due to the severity of the accusation.
NZZ Folio: DIN A4. About the origin of the DIN paper formats.
Record labels considering price increase for music downloads - these idiots are only destroying their own industry. But then they cry about how the evil pirates are to blame. They'll probably never get it ...
Software patents: EU Commission officially rejects directive restart and our government remains inactive. It would be so simple: the state governments whose parliaments have issued the recommendation that the directive must not pass in this form, would only have to do what their damn duty is: to follow the wish of their national parliament. Instead, everyone plays the yes-man and hides or lies to themselves a perfect world, while EU democracy is trampled on. And all this for the benefit of multinational corporations and at the expense of the European middle class ...
Sales plan: Deutsche Bahn wants to offload its faulty ICE trains to Austria - ouch. Don't the Austrians have access to German media, or why do they want to be sold this stuff?
ARD-Hörfunk schaltet ARI-Verkehrsfunksystem ab - hey! We don't want to buy a new car radio just because of this ...
IBM to drop Itanium support - nobody wants these Itanium parts. Somehow, this was quite a big flop for Intel. But if this gives the Power architecture a boost, I'm all for it.
PL/I for GCC is an implementation of PL/I as a frontend for GCC. Very interesting, as it is not a precompiler with C output and, unlike earlier projects, does not aim to be only a subset implementation (although, of course, at the moment only a subset is implemented - but it is constantly growing). I admit, I still like the baroque syntax of PL/I, even though it has been many years since I programmed with it.
The LetterHead Theme for WordPress 1.5 is an extremely minimalistic theme - just two columns and text. No images. Could be ideal for people who need a "blank canvas" experience to implement their own design ideas - there's really nothing in Letterhead that could distract you much.
Microsoft restricts Windows XP activation via the Internet - People, get decent operating systems whose manufacturers do not have such absurd notions of ownership. Or take the opportunity to buy a real computer.
The WordPress IP to Country Plugin converts an IP address to a country and provides the country code. For example, you could (no, I haven't implemented this here, so test comments won't help) display the commenter's country based on their IP address (though this would obviously be misleading for Tor users). Also interesting is the reference to the IP-To-Country Database, which appears to be freely available. Useful for your own projects, such as analyzing log file statistics.
Artists of the Brücke in Essen and Münster. In Münster I will definitely go, but Essen is only a regional train ride away and I probably won't miss that either.
US-Ministerium hires adware manufacturer as privacy advisor - gives the saying of the goat made gardener a whole new dimension. Maybe they should also make the KKK chief an advisor for multicultural affairs? The Unabomber a security advisor? Bush president? Oh well, they've already done that ...
BA will Betreuung älterer ostdeutscher Arbeitsloser abgeben - how to create new serfs and at the same time beautify the unemployment statistics ...
Bush in Mainz reports on the restrictions residents in Mainz received during the Bush visit. Welcome to the police state Germany - where even peace symbols in the window are not allowed for flimsy security reasons ...
EU-Parliament decides to end paper driver's licenses - Scoundrels!