Just a few pictures again
And once again a few impressions from walks. There's not much action on this vacation
Archive 20.5.2004 - 26.5.2004
Ingres Database Becomes Open Source
Another tuned dinosaur returns to its ancestral world
At heise online news you can find the original article.
digitalkamera.de: DxO Optics Pro image correction software now available
Sure. The software is aimed at professionals, which is why it doesn't support compact cameras with fixed lenses. But because it's so professional, it only supports JPG, not RAW images. However, the price is very professional indeed.
Sorry, but you can do the same thing with some Photoshop actions, and many of these actions can be found online and purchased for little money (or created yourself). Prices of 100 dollars for a lens module are certainly not justified.
Enblend - Blend images together without visible transitions - preliminary stage to panorama software
Haeufige Augenkrankheiten - Description of common eye diseases
Little Snitch - Reverse Firewall for Mac OS X - take a look when I have time
Noise Ninja 2.0 Beta - Noise reduction for digital images - now also for OS X
Skype for Mac OS X announced by developer
Could be quite interesting. I have some acquaintances who use Skype for calls - just Windows users (I can't exactly convert everyone to the one true faith ).
At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.
Xblend - OS X Frontend to emblend
Can someone please fix the Internet?
Since today around 2:00 PM or so:
traceroute to pages.ebay.de (66.135.192.85), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 firewall (10.0.0.88) 0.751 ms 0.437 ms 0.459 ms 2 217.5.98.26 (217.5.98.26) 58.647 ms 49.401 ms 85.632 ms 3 217.237.152.194 (217.237.152.194) 46.751 ms 48.2 ms 46.915 ms 4 paix-gw12.sfo.us.net.dtag.de (62.154.5.245) 232.335 ms 232.182 ms 232.114 ms 5 * * * 6 * * *
Malformed Proteins Found in Sheep Muscle
Pretty cool. Prions have been found in muscle meat of sheep. Well, I don't eat lamb shanks or similar stuff anyway...
At New York Times: Science there's the original article.
Prothon
I had already covered Prothon before - a fusion of Python and Self. Very interesting - and it has received a new version that seems much more polished.
randomthoughts: PyLucene - Lucene Wrapper for Python
Phone Spamming Remains Prohibited
And the spammers will certainly continue trying to get this garbage through the courts. But I hope they also fail in the next instance - these fake calls are an absolute cheek. These absurd advertising measures are just a nuisance for mobile phone users and have no real value - or does anyone really believe that mobile phone users would be so stupid as to use a paid service after it has spammed their phone multiple times? I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet.
When it comes to TV magazines...
Hmm. klack.de isn't so bad after all. Ok, a little colorful, but I find a TV magazine that offers RSS feeds for TV programs right on the front page sympathetic
At ab::gebloggt there's the original article.
The Worst of All Susens
Every time I read upgrade stories like this, I wonder what the actual advantage of Suse over Debian is supposed to be. What good is a distribution that looks nice and colorful during installation but can't be upgraded properly? And don't tell me this is an isolated case with Suse 9.1 - I've read similar horror stories about pretty much every Suse upgrade.
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp you can find the original article.
Giro: Montgomery broke his shoulder blade
Ouch. I always find it amazing how they manage to get back up and then finish the race with some broken bones anyway. Somehow their pain threshold must be way outside the normal range ... I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
tagesschau.de: The Triumph of Horst Köhler
Triumph? Please, what? He has the absolute majority - no wonder given the starting position in the Federal Assembly. But what kind of triumph is it when we get a Federal President that no one knows and no one can do anything with - just because the parties are stubbornly clinging to their stupid party politics again? Just because stupid power-mongering by the Union and silly haggling by the FDP had to turn the presidential election into a farce once more? What kind of triumph could possibly be represented by the election of an absolute candidate of last resort? If such embarrassments are already being counted as triumphs, I don't want to experience what such people would call a debacle...
Eurocity City Festival in Münster
A few impressions from the city festival. Not much - I wasn't really in the mood for more pictures.
Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" wins Golden Palm
Wow!
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Eurocity City Festival Münster
Eurocity Stadtfest Münster
Once a year, blue pennants are hung up in Münster and cheerfulness is ordered. Sometimes it works too - despite the acoustic pollution that comes with the pennants.
Rubicode - RCDefaultApp
Very handy: setting the various default handlers for various file types, URL types, MIME types, etc. Exactly the panel that Apple left out of System Preferences...
WordPress 1.2
The final is out. However, trackbacking still doesn't work quite right - at least not when the target is a topic at TopicExchange. At WordPress WordBlog there's the original article.
Canon Releases EOS Viewer Utility
Every user of a Canon digital camera that produces RAW images should get this update and install it as soon as possible. The EOS Viewer Utility is much more pleasant to use and it is significantly faster. All information is displayed well integrated - the only annoyance is the file tree that is still laid out far too thick, which never fits into the small area if you've created larger directory depths. But you can now hide it by pressing a key.
It's also annoying that you still can't open the EOS Viewer Utility with a start file under OS X - even with the new utility, only the folder of the image is opened as an overview, not the specified image directly. For integration with iView Media Pro, that's not exactly optimal.
Otherwise, it's definitely generations ahead and better than the old File Viewer Utility.
By the way: contrary to its designation as an English version, the updater also contains a German translation - at least under OS X.
At PhotographyBLOG you'll find the original article.
The History of Programming Languages
Cool. Exactly the right food for a programming language freak like me.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Kubrick for Rabbits
Awesome! Absolutely worth seeing remake!
At Ideen und Irrtümer - Streifzüge durch die neue Weltordnung you can find the original article.
Last Man Standing
Currently running on Pro7. This reminded me that I wanted to compile a list of the different versions of this theme sometime, so I'd have them ready when I want them. The original material is certainly Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa. But the most well-known version of the material is certainly For a Fistfull of Dollars by Sergio Leone. And then there's Last Man Standing by Walter Hill. Okay, and now for the puzzle: a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a sci-fi version of it and forgot what it was called. It wasn't impressive, but for completeness I'd like to have it listed here too. Any takers?
NeuroKode Labs, LLC: remoteD - Interesting IPC solution: shared storage across process boundaries with dictionary interface
Thousands of Britons infected with BSE variant?
I could now make the tasteless assumption that these people are concentrated in the British government apparatus. But I would never make such a mean joke at the expense of others.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Scientists at Odds with Software Provider
And once again a software producer that just doesn't get it. In this case, however, the problem can easily be helped along: make GAMESS so good that Gaussian software simply becomes obsolete
At heise online news there is the original article.
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Finding out the number of values the caller is expecting - Using bytecode disassembler to find out how many result values a function caller expects
Image Supply
The advantage of vacation: you finally get to do photography again. The disadvantage: you have to come up with titles and descriptions for all the pictures ...
Federal Government's E-Mail Servers Nearly Shut Down
So they can't do that in Berlin either
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Cologne, Essen or Münster?
Münster it didn't become. And no, Münster is not a normal case in cultural policy. At least I hope that a disaster case like Münster is not the norm ...
Tillmann's blather can be thrown in the bin anyway - as usual. Pure hypocrisy. The only true statement was "Cultural policy in Münster remains a citizens' movement" - exactly. Citizens, not a politicians' movement. The politicians in Münster at best demonetize cultural institutions and projects - the city council hasn't actually built anything.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
The Screw is Not Loose ...
The screw is not loose ...
Yes, we've had this motif before. But it's not the same screw.
Beautiful on Father's Day, eerie on the weekend
Cool. The boozers have good weather today, but at the weekend during the city festival there's a wet and cold ass? Well, we'll see. But if the city festival falls through, I wouldn't like that at all ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
SCO vs. Linux: SCO Demands FSF Disclosure
Speaking of strange again: SCO's behavior probably falls under that term as well. Slowly but surely, SCO seems to be preparing a witch hunt against Free Software.
You can find the original article at heise online news under this link.
Software patent opponents accuse Brussels of dishonesty
So much for our government allegedly being against software patents, as it claimed itself just recently (P2234). It was all just a lie. The original article can be found at heise online news.
From Zero to Linux in 6 Months? Only Through Copied Code.
Somehow the Tocqueville Foundation and their appearance on the topic of Linux seem pretty strange to me...
Well, probably Tanenbaum is right: they simply have no idea what they're writing about.
At heise online news there is the original article.
WordPress Tinkering
Since I'm currently playing around with blog utilities and CMSes, my current WordPress installation has already gotten some content and layout improvements. Of all the alternatives for small sites, I still like it the best. For Drupal (my current favorite for larger sites), I might also find a use case.
Do I have too many domains and sites? Oh well.
Update: since I'm now running this blog with WordPress and the other one had become outdated, I simply shut it down. One less site to maintain...