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DevChannel | The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution Loophole - License specifically for web services - Network operation is equated with distribution

.:index deutsch:. - Book crossing in German

OS X Options Now Include CMUCL

Now CMUCL also runs under OS X - and thus another Common Lisp is available.

At lemonodor you can find the original article.

PEP 324 -- popen5 - New POSIX process module - Python extension for easy integration of external processes

Weise to become new BA director

Are we putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Don't Try This at Home Kids...

It was bound to happen eventually: someone has hacked the firmware for the EOS 300D so that some of the 10D features that the 300D lacks are activated.

You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG.

Eidetic Document Management System - Open Source document management system with web interface

Leo's Home Page - Outliner in Python with TCL/TK interface

ATPM 10.02 - ATPO: Outliner User Interfaces

A lot of info about the development of outliner user interfaces. And the answer to the question of where the triangle for displaying an expanded and collapsed subsection comes from.

Oh, and the unimportant information that Framework (that integrated application package that already had a - albeit character-oriented - window interface under DOS) still exists ...

Here's the original article.

GraphPath Language - Query language for analyzing graphs

RSS Feeds for Apple Knowledgebase

Apple provides a whole bunch of RSS feeds for knowledge base articles, grouped by topic. Maybe interesting for some of you.

Here's the original article.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: A Visit from the FBI

An interesting article about an FBI visit and discussion about various data espionage and manipulation techniques. Also the FBI's tip to rather get yourself a Mac, because it is secure out of the box Here's the original article.

Why your Movable Type blog must die

On Kuro5hin, a blog opponent is having another meltdown. This time he's ranting against Moveable Type and Trackback. So it's not just the established press that has a few problems understanding reality ...

Oh, and the colleague has some pretty harsh names for bloggers — if you have a weak stomach or weak nerves, you'd better not go there.

You can find the original article at kuro5hin.org.

A Retrospective on PAIP - Peter Norvig reflects on where Lisp stands today

André Simon - Startseite - Tool for the shell to colorize by syntax

Astronauts should sacrifice their lives if necessary

Some scientists have a slight roof damage. Some, however, have a severe one ...

At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.

Exploitation of genetic resources in Antarctica

Patent Madness Again

At Telepolis News there's the original article.

Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated - Continuations in Python

No co-payment relief for nursing home residents

What makes one feel so great when you can cut pocket money from residents of care homes ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

PEP 327 -- Decimal Data Type - Decimal numbers in Python - Proposal for a Python extension

Python for Lisp Programmers - Python from the perspective of a Lisp programmer

pyXLWriter - Generate Excel files with Python

SourceForge.net: Project Info - bytecodehacks - The Bytecodehacks for Python.

WAD - Crash debugger for script languages (especially useful for segfaults)

User Guide for Radio Userland 8.0.8 - Instructions for Radio Userland in German

camlFloat - Numerical Algorithms with OCaml

Free Software between Private and Common Property

Found via a Telepolis article. A book about free software and its historical context and its social and societal significance. Worth reading through, especially since the book is alternatively available as an eBook for free download or as a printed book for little money ... Here you can find the original article.

Stories from the Service ...

That's simply brilliant.

I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.

Kästner ./. Schlu

Well, that's the - bitter - end of the whole story surrounding the Kästner quotes. Thus a great poet is defamed by stupid lawyers and stupid laws more than it happened during his lifetime - simply by the fact that people think they have rights to his thoughts that run counter to the dissemination of his ideas. Kästner would probably have written a few biting remarks about it, I can only be sad and hope that the poems of one of my favorite poets are still known when the copyright has expired - which, given the fact that teachers are striking him from the curriculum, is rather questionable.

The banana republic Germany rages not only among politicians. The nation of poets and thinkers, fettered by miserable petty bureaucracy.

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.

Minolta DiMAGE A2, Z2 and XG Rumoured

Minolta is showing once again how to mess with its customers and is teasing a Minolta DiMage A2, even though the A1 is barely more than half a year old. Very future-proof, I think.

At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.

MozPython - Embed Python in Mozilla

Pod2Go - Directions, weather and RSS feeds on the iPod

tagesschau.de: Fata Morgana in Ice and Snow

The biggest critics of the moose were themselves once - camels?

Here you can find the original article.

www. is deprecated. - www. is redundant!

SCPlugin - Context Menu Tool with CVS and Subversion Support

A context menu tool for CVS and Subversion support.

CSU Disputes Financial Problems

Can the difference between the donation declines and solid financing be divided evenly by black briefcases?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

DP Essentials #05 - Improving "Presence" in Digital Images

An interesting report by the author of QImage about the effect of mosaic CCDs (CCDs with Bayer pattern) on image sharpness. He describes a filter that applies different levels of sharpening based on color differences, thereby compensating for the sharpness differences between color ranges that result from color interpolation. Unfortunately, there is no software available for Mac OS X that offers a filter of this type. The original article can be found here.

German Keyboard Layout - German Keyboard Layout

Combat Robots

Actually depressing when visions regarding war see the exchange of humans for machines, but not the abolition of war itself...

Particularly depressing when you think about the fact that these combat robots will certainly only exist on the side of high-tech states - and today they don't fight against their equals, but against technically much less equipped countries. Since no domestic soldiers would be endangered, there would certainly be another inhibition threshold removed for waging wars. It only costs the lives of the enemy.

At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist you can find the original article.

Just wanted to say ...

... that it's really great that the Powerbooks also work with an external keyboard, monitor and mouse plugged in and the display closed

Rainer Brockerhoff :: USInternational - US PC Keyboard Layout for Mac OS X

Splasm Software - Brightness Control

Anyone like me who has a calibrated CRT monitor knows the problem: when you're not doing image editing, the monitor is set way too bright, especially as it gets darker. But you can't adjust the contrast control or especially the brightness setting — the calibration only works correctly if the luminance is set properly!

This little utility comes to the rescue: just start it and you get a small graphical slider with which you can adjust the screen brightness. Works splendidly. And as soon as you're working with images, you can stop it beforehand (and give your eyes some time to adjust, so your brain can adapt and everything doesn't look wrong).

Here's the original article.

XPde desktop environment - Desktop for X-Windows that looks like XP. If you need it ...

BA interim chief prevented Gerster's exoneration

The mud-slinging continues ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Guardian of the Lost Sentence - sueddeutsche.de - Culture

The Commission for Orthography would thus be the only instance of the executive branch to be removed from political control – it had never allowed for societal control from the outset.

And this in a matter that affects everyone's life. Is it stupidity, ignorance, or cunning scheming that is on display here? Were the spelling reformers, driven by a diffuse anticapitalism, not once set out to break the monopoly of a private enterprise, the "Duden" editorial office?

Well. For the political failures for whom there are no serious tasks one could entrust to them, there is always spelling to botch ...

Here you can find the original article.

NASA will reconsider decision on Hubble shutdown

Jo, let the old lens keep spinning successfully for a few more years ...

At WDR: Landing on Mars you can find the original article.

News: Will XFree86 become GPL incompatible?

That's annoying. Do some people never learn? This stupid advertising clause has been causing endless trouble in the original BSD license when combined with other licenses. What's the point?

Here's the original article.

Python Apocrypha - Python example for a multithreaded application that works with a pool of workers.

Disposable DVD turns out to be a slow seller

And that surprises anyone?

At heise online news there is the original article.