Of Sorbs and Helmets

The essential questions of life.

You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Reports: Gerster concludes another consultant contract

Gerster just doesn't learn ...

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Digital Camera batteries - Source for compatible batteries for DCS 520

Europe's PR Crash on Mars

Exactly that is the problem. A technical success with Mars Express. A small disappointment through the lost Beagle, which due to its immobility would have been able to provide only very limited information anyway. And terribly bad public relations. Quite a shame.

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there is the original article.

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GROKLAW - Comments on SCO's 'Evidence'

As usual, not much good can be said about SCO's statements. Not only has SCO apparently badly missed deadlines (started too late, caught off guard by Christmas - if they have such problems with the calendar, I'm hardly surprised =), they also still haven't provided explicit information about copies, but only mentioned general subsystems. And they're demanding 90 more days after IBM gave them even more versions of AIX and Dynix.

All of this stinks of stalling tactics, especially since SCO has started building an international distribution network for their hot air. The fact that they're demanding truckloads of source code versions and documentation also points to these stalling tactics - SCO couldn't possibly work through these mountains of information in 90 days.

I'm curious to see what IBM gets out of this in court and how the court will react. Maybe SCO will simply be thrown out of court, since according to some opinions on Groklaw, what SCO is delivering in no way meets the court's demands.

Compared to SCO, the Softram executives of those days were solid businesspeople who at least had a somewhat realistic business plan.

Here's the original article.

iPod Battery FAQ - Answers about iPod batteries

Cancer from Artificial Light

Is also not only used as permanent lighting in almost all open-plan offices ...

At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the den Originalartikel.

Simon Willison: This could be the most ludicrous tech patent yet

Another ridiculous patent...

Here's the original article.

Tear Your iPod mini Open To Get The 4GB Hard Drive?

Cool. The mini iPod is the cheapest 4GB drive for Compact Flash ports. It might hurt to disassemble the iPod and rip out its innards, but anyone who wants a large drive for their digital camera might find one here ...

Of course, no one's taking responsibility for whether it actually works. But if someone tries something like this, they can get in touch with me to let me know if it works. I could still use an affordable large storage for my digital camera ...

You can find the original article at iPoding.

The New Python - Book about the new features of Python 2.2 in the type system

Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 - Guido van Rossum on the new class system in Python 2.2

Voigtlander Bessa R2S R2C - Current rangefinder cameras for Contax and Nikon rangefinder camera lenses

Bavaria wants to reduce curriculum content by 60 percent

Oh, are all the other federal states now allowed not to recognize the Bavarian Abitur anymore, the way Bavaria did that nonsense with the NRW Abitur? Or are they only cutting insignificant parts like independent thinking, reason, logic and similar obstructive things?

I found the original article at RP-Online: Wissenschaft.

Canon 100mm Macro USM vs Tamron 90mm Macro - Comparison between the Tamron 90mm and Canon 100mm macro

Canon UK - EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro - 50mm macro for Canon EOS - 1:2 and 1:1 with optional adapter

debtakeover - Conversion to Debian

For people with root servers running Red Hat or Suse, this might be quite useful: the linked script converts a machine running Suse or Red Hat to Debian while the system is running, and even transfers some configuration settings. However, it's still beta, so the application could also leave behind a useless pile of rubble - you probably shouldn't apply it to a fully configured system that's already in operation. It's better to use it with a still-virgin configuration.

Here's the original article.

FingerWorks - Product Overview - Portable, Programmable, USB Touchpads and Keyboards - Genius keyboard with gesture control

FM Software - Very good ready-made Photoshop actions for digital photo editing

Objective Test Overview - Comparative test of various macro lenses for Canon EOS

Registration data via bookmarklet

I don't know where Mr. Pepilog got the bookmarklet from either, but it's very practical.

At Pepilog - Registrierungsdaten per Bookmarklet you can find the original article.

Phew. Mindstorms will continue to exist.

Ok, toy supplies are secured

At Nochn Blogg. you can find the original article.

Anti-counterfeit software: implications for Open Source

A fair question: what happens if the CBCDG (which is behind the banknote recognition software in Photoshop) wants their software to be built into, for example, Gimp?

On Advogato there's the original article.

CDU politician: offset holidays with vacation

Is that just a creative paraphrase or is that already an outright lie?

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Deutsche Bahn AG: The Problem Child Celebrates Anniversary

Loss of reality by a manager: running in the red for years. Being punished by customers for a new pricing model. Despite customer exploitation through arbitrary train upgrades, not reaching break-even. Failing to achieve even the most basic success parameters of a transport company - punctuality, reliability. Despite this, drawing a positive conclusion and proclaiming success.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

German Economy Still Hopes for Iraq Contracts

After all, we all want to be war profiteers ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Digital Black and White

A very interesting article about digital black and white images and their processing. With good tips and tricks and pre-made Photoshop actions.

Here you can find the original article.

Eichel makes fewer debts than feared

Surely the Union is now demanding his resignation because he failed to achieve the goal they set for him

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politics.

Hanau: Proceedings against former mayor discontinued

Corruption in Hesse is This Cheap

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Jaap Weel's Homepage - Information page on Lisp machines

PanoTools plug-ins

Panorama Tools for macOS

Anyone editing panoramas under OS X needs this software. Finally, the integration of Panotools into classic OS X graphics programs (at least those that can use Photoshop plugins). Correct lens distortions, convert panoramas between different projection types, everything you need when you want a wide field of view.

Here's the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: ... and then Santa Claus came

Well, Christmas does surprise you completely every year after all.

At heise online news there is the original article.

Grinning Cats Forever?

It's alarming how we're getting closer and closer to Aldous Huxley's vision in Brave New World and even making moves to go beyond it... At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

Immunity lifted for Berlusconi

Will his opponents now pounce on him? One would certainly hope so.

I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.

Kanther, Sain-Wittgenstein and Weyrauch go to court

Yay! Kanther in the box!

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Class, Jörg Schönenborn

Agreed. Why public broadcasters still think they're something special when they submit everything to ratings and viewership numbers anyway remains a real mystery to me. Nobody needs a trashy channel financed by fees.

The original article can be found at kulturnation.de.

MySQL 5 knows Stored Procedures

Wow! Just a few more years and this hyped-up B-Tree management can call itself a database

At heise online news there's the original article.

News: Red Hat Transfers eCos Copyright to FSF

Wow! That's cool!

Hier gibts den Originalartikel.

PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACES - Moveable Type XMLRPC API

SubrosaSoft.com Ltd - Product Information - Background with Earth image, day/night boundary, clouds, moon and sun

TV Nostalgia: 'The Waltons' Are Back

All I can think of is: Who can fart like the horn of the Waltons?

At RP-Online: Medien I found the original article.

Ben Bucksch - Projects - Various - TV Movie als XMLTV - Create XML-TV from TV Movie XML - unfortunately no longer functional

DVD player manufacturer KiSS defends itself against allegations from MPlayer developers

It's possible that the MPlayer developers used code from Kiss. - ah yes, that sounds to me like someone wants to ride the SCO wave

At heise online news there's the original article.

Genetically modified corn soon in supermarket shelves

Who wants this? Why does this crap have to exist?

For the first time, consumers are getting the right to choose, and farmers are getting safe framework conditions - yes, thank you. Farmers actually wanted security against this crap, because genetically modified plants cause problems for organic farmers, for example, if they mix with their seeds. And the consumers - has anyone ever asked them whether they even wanted this idiotic choice?

I can also choose whether to nail a meatball to my knee.

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

Html sucks completely - Manual - HTML preprocessor for the command line

Intel contributes to anti-SCO Linux fund

A clear statement from Intel. Sure, they want to sell hardware - and SCO's activities are anything but designed to sell hardware.

At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.

LizardTech, Inc - Genuine Fractals - Genuine Fractals also has an LE version

Localfeeds: Münster(50)

I really like this: GeoURL+RSS results in Localfeeds. And with that, an RSS feed for Münster and the surrounding area.

However, umlauts and such are pretty chaotic and the result isn't really usable with PyDS. I should try it with NetNewswire to see if it handles it better.

Here's the original article.

Aftermath of the Verisign Certificate Expiration

That a manufacturer of IT security products recommends not checking whether a certificate is still valid would probably set off alarm bells for some customers. - if I considered Symantec to be a manufacturer of security products, then that would set off my alarm bells, that's correct.

At heise online news there's the original article.

News: New Year's Eve Again for Unix Users

Very funny at the timing: There is a place in the PowerDNS daemon that stumbles over exactly this. At one point the C expression 1< <31-1 is calculated instead of (1< <31) -1. Result: since Saturday noon all PowerDNS installations have been running at maximum load, because the wait time between database queries is no longer being maintained and the database server is being bombarded with a massive number of database queries.

The problematic expression is in pdns/communicator.hh in the earliest method, which finds the domain that most urgently needs to be forwarded to the slaves, or most urgently requires an update from the master, depending on whether the server functions as master or slave or both. Details can be found in the archive of the pdns-dev mailing list. Here is the original article.