And it turns out that all sides once again have no concept other than taking money away from citizens. Except that the Union's approach is supposed to be even more brazen and shows even less respect for citizens.
I don't see a Markdown blog post body to translate in your message. You've provided a link reference to a Linux-Magazin article about CUPS, but there's no actual Markdown content that needs translation.
Please provide the blog post Markdown body that you'd like me to translate from German to English, and I'll translate it while preserving the Markdown structure and leaving code blocks untranslated.
Because I'm currently dealing with GPL-FUD in a discussion again, here's the appropriate link to an explanation of why GPL is not a viral license with contractual character, but simply one thing: a license for the use of source code.
Incorrect use of GPL source does not automatically make the new project GPL as well. The reverse path is indeed correct: if you want to use GPL software as an integral component, then your project must also be under GPL. But that effect works in exactly only this direction. Incorrect use of GPL source at worst only leads to one thing: the withdrawal of the license to use that source. So the project simply has to do exactly what it should have done anyway: write the corresponding part itself.
Equally absurd is the claim that you give up your rights to your source code when you contribute it to a GPL project. Of course you retain all rights to your own source code. My experience with arguments of this direction: I'm not contributing to the project because it's under GPL and therefore I can't freely use my own source code anymore are just lazy excuses for what is actually the case: I'm not contributing to the project because I can't freely use your source code for my other projects because my projects shouldn't be GPL. And that's something entirely different - nobody takes away your rights to your own source code (unless you explicitly give them up - in the context of official GNU projects it's customary to transfer rights to the FSF). But you don't automatically gain rights to other source code just because you contributed something yourself. And another thing: people who threaten that their great innovative ideas won't go into a project because it's under GPL usually don't have anything really innovative to deliver anyway. Actually, the number of innovative contributions to projects is minimal anyway - and strangely enough, the people who really deliver innovative parts have the least problems with the license...
Maybe one of my readers has an idea: my Jaguar has been acting up for a few days. Specifically, the context menu is very slow - it takes about 10-20 seconds to open. While it's not opening, the computer reads lots of data from the disk. It somehow looks like something's mixed up somewhere, but I have no idea what it could be. Any tips? The normal menu isn't exactly fast either, but not as sluggish as the context menu. Once it's been open, it's fast as usual after that - it only seems to be searching for something the first time ...
I originally only noticed it in Safari, but then I realized it happens in other programs too. Apparently generally with the context menu.
Update: it was either Cumulus or Portfolio. Probably the latter - because Portfolio installs a whole bunch of additional components, like a context menu plugin for example. And when I threw it out of /Library/Contextual Menu Items/, the machine was back to its usual speed with context menus. What a piece of junk ...
Already embarrassing the whole thing, especially since SCO now also had to admit that it's real. Of course we're all interpreting that completely wrong ...
Python: module inspect - Introspection for Python modules
Nice. So the Springer Press doesn't like it when it's supposed to taste its own medicine. And what does it do then? Exactly. What all these oh-so-truth-loving and upstanding citizens and institutions do: they hire lawyers and threaten with them.
At Telepolis News (05.03.2004) you can find the original article.
The most problematic test subject: confusing interface (the icons in the toolbar are admittedly coordinated with each other, but are barely distinguishable at first glance) and significantly worse performance compared to the competition (P2008 and P2004) and then there are also display errors. For example, the entire layout would get scrambled when using the scroll wheel of the trackball. Additionally, extracting information for keywords is not transparent without studying the manual. And the view switching options involve too many clicks for me - I want to be able to quickly and easily regroup my database contents according to different criteria. Here too, iView Media Pro wins hands down (P2004). IPTC photo data is also not read by default in Cumulus either; possibly the optional modules could help there. Of course, the option of different server sizes is good - for professional shops possibly the central criterion, more important than handling issues or greater learning curve. But I'm looking for a solution for an individual photographer.
Also good is the seemingly lower price at first glance. However, you pay for it through option packages - many features that are included with the competition are only available here through option packages. And the demo is only for the basic package and a few optional extras - so you can't test everything beforehand. This made it impossible for me to check whether Kodak RAW format is fully supported here. Which is particularly annoying since I would have been interested in this feature specifically.
All in all, Cumulus leaves me with a very mixed impression - perhaps Canto should let some fresh air into development and give the program a complete overhaul; it simply seems a bit baroque and cumbersome.
With as much money behind him as Reemtsma has, one can certainly smile coldly while spouting off. Of course it is completely justified to take action against the publication of texts on the Internet with arrest warrants and similar nonsense. Of course we all understand that the toy of a wealthy moneybags must proceed in this way.
Sure. And pigs can fly ...
At netbib weblog I found the original article.
Also a powerful media database. Nice is the option to support a server installation. Good also that it is a clean Mac OS X application. However, I find the user interface somewhat sparse.
A significant disadvantage is the small number of supported image formats - with my old DCS I'm stuck anyway, but other digital camera users will certainly miss one or another raw format.
Similarly, I find it rather disadvantageous that no information can be extracted from IPTC image data. Apparently only EXIF is supported - but professional cameras (especially the older ones) store image data in IPTC fields. All in all, I find iView Media Pro (see P2004) significantly better, especially the folder overview available in iView I find very intuitive. In Portfolio I have to work with searches and possibly then create collections from them - but these are static again, not dynamically adapting to new imports. Of course, this was only a quick test for me, so it's quite possible that some things are indeed possible, but the first impression is important to me - if I haven't used software for a long time (because I had no time for photography), I don't want to have to reread the manual...
SCO has been given a deadline of 45 days to name exactly which code sections IBM illegally passed from AIX or Dynix to Linux. IBM must provide the corresponding sources within the same timeframe, but SCO cannot insist on receiving the sources first and then taking action themselves. The advantage is that SCO can no longer worm their way out and issue absurd claims to buy more time. The disadvantage is that for another 45 days SCO will continue to confuse the market before their accusations turn out to be hot air ...
IHMC CmapTools - Concept Mapping Software Toolkit - Tools for concept maps
I'm realizing right now that I urgently need an emoji of someone banging their head on a table out of despair over human idiocy...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Fascinating: liquid lenses for rapid focusing, modeled after the human eye.
Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) has the original article.
I always knew that Bonaqua was pure rip-off ...
PyTable RDBMS Middleware - Simplified work with database drivers in Python
RFC: Subscriptions harmonizer - Synchronization of blog rolls via XMLRPC
If your work becomes harder because this outrageous Federal Court of Justice decided that even alleged terrorists have rights, then I'm truly terribly sorry for you. It is certainly extremely annoying when you have to present evidence and cannot simply withhold exonerating witnesses and otherwise base your case on unverifiable claims (because they're kept under wraps) when you want to throw someone in prison for 15 years. It is certainly a real cheek that in the future you'll have to think about how to incorporate information from intelligence services—the same intelligence services that have been wrong at every turn and have sometimes simply fabricated evidence—into proceedings.
I have a good suggestion for you: why not simply use only information that can also be presented in court. And remember the principle of benefit of the doubt for the accused. Then things will go better in the next instance...
Realtime Blocking Lists are actually a good idea for fighting spam. You register open relays or spammers and you can use them to block them well on mail servers. The downside: apparently such services are only run by sociopaths or alternatively complete technical idiots.
SORBS belongs to the latter category. Just enter the IP 62.153.201.130 (a server I administer). What problem does it throw out? High-port-FTP-server. So FTP servers on ports that deviate from the standard.
Great. What's unusual about that? Pretty much every Zope server has something like that (and the high-port FTP on 8021 is exactly that - a Zope). And the other two are simply private FTP servers for two users that happen to run on different ports because the main FTP server is on the same IP anyway...
Hmm. I hope the top-level domain .ms doesn't go the same way as .tv, namely under
At NETZEITUNG.DE Science I found the original article.
Welcome Page - Hierarchical database for Python and large data quantities
Cacheability Engine - Analysis tool for cache suitability of websites
Further reactions. If you look at the whole thing more closely, it's probably not as rosy as all that. Rosy, however, is probably the lens through which Schily is looking, otherwise I can't explain why he thinks the wiretapping has been confirmed as constitutional...
Anyone like me who uses a mail program not provided in iPhoto needs this application. Mailsmith, for example, finally works as a mail program then...
In and of itself, excellent software for managing media data. However, the logic for which image formats are supported is somewhat very leaky. While all Kodak libraries are provided, which are necessary to access all Kodak raw formats, only a single format is supported - the format of the digital medium format back and the 14n. The old format, which at least generates around 10 models, is theoretically included in the supplied library, but is not supported by the manufacturer. Great attitude.
Definitely a sign that speaks against this software. Who guarantees that today's formats will still be in the software the day after tomorrow? This isn't about anything banal, where you'd be happy with conversion software, but rather it's about a media archive solution into which you'd certainly like to do long-term archiving of the images with their metadata. I consider the lack of support for older formats to be fundamentally wrong.
What absolutely convinces, however, is the ingeniously simple integration of keywords and other organizational features, the good support for IPTC and EXIF data, and the very fast display. Also the fact that it's a real Mac OS X application and allows drag-and-drop everywhere you'd expect it. All of this speaks in favor of this application.
Even though Schröder looks somewhat like an offended party-pooper about it, I can understand him. That tabloid rag has been absolutely unbearable lately. And the campaign interference in Hamburg was anything but objective journalism. Unfortunately, though, the press's misconduct is not a problem that can be solved through legal or legislative means, but only through the integrity of journalists - and image journalists probably have to hand over their integrity at the door anyway ...
A functioning press is an important control mechanism in a democracy. But if the press sinks to the level of such sleazy tabloids, and these sleazy tabloids then make politics through their market dominance, then the whole thing becomes a problem. Sure, it wouldn't be a problem if readers didn't believe every bit of nonsense printed in these papers.
But unfortunately, every society gets the press it deserves ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
What a pile of crap the SCO is producing there. They're really hard to beat when it comes to audacity (except perhaps by our Federal Interior Minister ...)
At heise online news there's the original article.
Writing PlugIns - How to analyze Cocoa applications and modify them after the fact
Water, water, water - what's all this nonsense? Is there beer too?
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
Frankly, I'm quite on the side of the browsers that don't support this mess: the fuss over internationalized domain names (why are domains containing national special characters called "international" anyway?) is a complete scam, especially the way it was implemented. It's such nonsense, you couldn't get worse. For example, the limitation to only a restricted number of characters - no ampersand! Or this stupid idea that the browser resolves it and therefore this garbage only works on the web, but not in email (or any other programs that do name resolution). Or the brute-force method how the whole thing was rammed through in some registries. And so on, and so forth. None of this pile of junk is really worth going through all this trouble for ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
That sucks. And then the Karstadt right in front of my door too. Couldn't something like that happen somewhere else, so I could keep the illusion that there's still someone around here with a bit of sense? But apparently the managers at Karstadt have, in good Münsterland tradition, kept the only brain in the bottle ...
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
I like Trackback too. Even better would be if more people would include their trackback addresses in their RSS feeds using the trackback:ping tag, that would help avoid manual steps (and especially make this dreadful trackback autodiscovery unnecessary). The original article can be found at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
From /var/log/exim4/rejectlog:
2004-03-02 12:11:04 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "POST / HTTP/1.1" H=tsunami.onyex.de [213.133.111.162]
elspy: Exim local_scan() with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning alternative method
Gentium Linux - Font under a free license
Fast is putting it mildly
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Wow. The BA bosses are burning out faster than a box of tissues in winter
Scan incoming mail with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning
Die japanischen Schriftzeichen - Information about the Japanese writing systems
The World of Language - The Languages of the World - Information about various languages and their origins
Exotische Schriften lernen - leicht gemacht - Scripts and Languages Information
And since we're on the topic of cease-and-desist nonsense, this time Telepolis is about maps and greetings and the people who think they can make money off everything, no matter how absurd their demands may be ...
At Telepolis News (29.02.2004) you can find the original article.
Isolierte Sprachen - A listing of isolated languages
Wow. 700 euros to the IFPI and 2500 euros to my own lawyer for a lawsuit over the sale of a CD included with Computerbild. And that's only because this ridiculous legislation criminalizes circumvention tools - and once again opens another door for rip-off lawyers and associations to make money.
I found the original article at netbib weblog.
Telepolis is looking for information about image journalists in order to turn the tables: everything that can be found about the journalists mentioned in the Telepolis article, preferably the embarrassing details. As revenge for all those who have been put down by Germany's biggest tabloid because of circulation figures or power-hungry campaigns (such as, for example, the current election support that the Bild newspaper is providing for the Union in Hamburg).
The tabloid hasn't had anything to do with press or journalism for years anyway. So they can certainly get a taste of their own medicine...
I found the original article at ab::gebloggt.
Eben Moglen puts his finger on — among other things — the central wound in the nonsense that SCO is perpetrating: how can SCO derive from its disputes with IBM and other companies a right to collect licenses from Linux users? Even if SCO were right, SCO would at most have a claim against IBM. But deriving from that the ability to extort licenses from Linux users is extremely doubtful...
The speech is otherwise quite worth reading. Eben Moglen is definitely the more interesting speaker.