Archive 7.1.2004 - 12.1.2004

Rob Galbraith DPI: Photo transmission from Kodak cameras nearing release - Send images from the Kodak DCS 520 via mobile phone

I'd be happy to help, but I need clarification. You've provided:

  1. A blog post title/link in English
  2. A German description

To translate the blog post body from German to English, I need the actual Markdown body content of the blog post. Could you please provide the Markdown content that needs to be translated?

For example, the body text that starts with something like "# Heading" or "Wie man eine Kodak DCS Batterie..." etc.

The E3 Project

Awesome: a project that writes an emulator for the TI Explorer II. So an emulator for a Lisp machine. No idea how good it already is, but maybe I'll give it a try when I have some time. Today's computers should have enough performance to bring this emulation to the same level as the original machine.

Here's the original article.

The E3 Project - Ti Explorer II Emulator Project

US Bomber Accidentally Drops Bomb Over Britain

First they ruined the Queen's lawn and now they're also bombing Northern England.

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

VPWiki Spec 0.1 - VoodooPad Wiki API

Chair of Interior Ministers' Conference Calls for More Genetic Fingerprints

And further, the threat of terrorism and the supposedly endangered public safety are used to express desires for further surveillance and control.

At heise online news there is the original article.

We are forced to support genetic engineering

That's exactly the problem: we don't have real freedom of choice. Genetically modified organisms are not easy to detect - and their spread is not easy to control. Life finds a way, and if it goes across the neighbor's field or through the stomach of the pig that ends up as a steak on the plate. And all of this just to boost the profits of individual biotech companies. There's no real economic reason for this nonsense in Europe, there are no extreme environmental conditions that make growing normal plants impossible. On the contrary, there are overproductions. Genetically engineered plants designed to be resistant don't make sense in Europe. But the biotech corporations have to rip off consumers once again.

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there's the original article.

FDP politician for abolition of public holidays

Great. Abolishing public holidays. Of course, ones that are employee-friendly and either always fall on working days or - like May 1st - are a sore point for employers anyway. Somehow, all the great concepts these days only consist of taking away and scrapping. Maybe we should just scrap the politicians. Would save costs and be good for public health. That would be a real reform.

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

Lego builds on bricks again

I see this with mixed feelings: on the one hand, it's great when Lego really focuses again on the classic bricks. After all, that's the part that makes Lego so brilliant. But if Mindstorms has to go away because of it, I'd find that a shame. Mindstorms is simply brilliant. Ok, the other computer kits are rather mediocre, but the original RCX kit is really great.

Fortunately, I already have two RCXs and enough small parts; I can already tinker quite a bit with them.

At heise online news there's the original article.

LinkTagMeaning - Atom Wiki - Collection of link tag variants in Atom

Practice Fee: In for a Penny, In for a Pound

Instead of blaming each other, all the politicians involved could simply resign collectively. That would be a measure. But of course, the Union is never guilty of the mess it causes, it's always the others. We all just imagined the blockades in the Bundesrat and the mediation committee. Just like the fact that Rüttgers was actively involved. When I imagine that we could get this windbag and shirker as Minister-President, if Steinbrück ruins NRW even further and people don't want to see the SPD anymore, I feel sick. The talk of the devil and Beelzebub takes on completely new dimensions ...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Schleswig-Holstein's Interior Minister Wants Police Access to Internet Customer Data

Another superfluous politician. Not only does he want to forcibly expand data retention at providers, but he's also demanding that cryptography must have access points for police decryption. The Clipper Chip and similar harebrained ideas come to mind.

You can find the original article at heise online news under the original article.

Traffic costs for larger hosting projects

Because I just saw Dirk's costs, here's a tip for anyone wanting to set up blog services: take a close look at the different pricing plans from various providers! There are some that are significantly cheaper. I don't advertise often, but I want to give a shout-out to Hetzner, they provide me with an entry-level server for 40 euros per month with 100 GB traffic included. And the next larger plan comes in at 70 euros with 150 GB. With something like that, you can already do a lot more cool stuff without running out of money right away. Disclaimer: I don't have much more to do with them than having simon (the server that this all runs on) hosted with them.

Here's the original article.

Fears about the European Arrest Warrant are being exceeded

Slightly intoxicated Swedes are therefore terrorists according to Spanish opinion, or did I misunderstand something there?

At Telepolis News there's the original article.

The HP iPod

Carly and Steve are quite an adorable couple

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.

The ceiling is falling on our heads ...

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... and literally so.

Elmo - The Electronic Mail Operator - Mail program as a possible competitor to Mutt

Project info for Jellybean - Application server in Perl

Rapid Application development using PyQt and Eric3 ... in realtime! - Example of a GUI application in Python with PyQT

Blogger API - Blogger API documentation

chaotic intransient prose bursts: ecto is here! - ecto Announcement der Beta

High Pressure: When the Penguin Has to Go

The important questions of life ...

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

Children's DNA database for 'theft kids'

And once again another step in the direction of total control

At Telepolis News there's the original article.

quickSub - Simple subscription in various aggregators as JavaScript popup

RFC: MetaWeblog API - Documentation of the MetaWeblog API

RFC: Really Simple Discoverability 1.0 - Description of Really Simple Discoverability

Programmed on Lies

Furthermore, Binalshibh is supposedly programmed to lie as a matter of faith. The Muslim religion supposedly commands the faithful to speak "non-truth" if their own lives or property or those of people close to them are endangered. - oh yes. Clear, terrorists belong - if they are convicted as terrorists of the acts they are accused of, they belong in prison. But could one please reserve a cell right next door for the prosecutor for this audacity?

At Telepolis News there is the original article.

ESA writes off 'Beagle 2'

Well, literally left in the sand.

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

Keyspan launches USB Device Server

Not quite uncool: being able to put any (ok, certainly not just any) USB devices on a server part hanging in the network and then use them throughout the entire network. Could definitely be interesting for shared scanner use or similar purposes.

At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.

KODAK: Cleaning Imager Coverglass and Filters - Reinigung von Kodak DCS Chips und Filter

Kodak DCS 520 - Test report on version 3 firmware for the DCS 520

Majority of Germans consider politicians corrupt

After the perceived inflation, the perceived corruption. For the former, there is now evidence that it is not only perceived ...

Teufelsgrinsen

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

NRW threatened by flu wave

Oh man.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Photoshop: No License to Print Money

Adobe has a slight defect. Either the sluggish thing only recognizes part of banknotes anyway, or the filters also recognize data other than banknotes. Or both. In any case, the time and energy spent on implementing such a silly feature would have been better used elsewhere. But Adobe also felt the need to build in silly copy protection ...

At heise online news there's the original article.

Rau's Successor: "Schäuble can do it"

Not the porter.

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

Preview version of Gimp 2.0 available

That all sounds quite good already. OK, it won't tear me away from Photoshop just yet, but color profile support in particular is already an important point.

At heise online news there's the original article.

ACEROLA Fruit Facts - What all can be found in my buttermilk ...

Aduna - Full-text search software with cluster maps

AsciiDoc Home Page - Possible alternative to DocUtils?

Bizarre Twin Reveals His Secret

So black holes can also overeat ...

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

blogroll visualized

Funny idea: enter the OPML blogroll there in the field and then have your own feeds displayed as a world map. Of course, this only works with blogs that not only are listed in the OPML blogroll, but also have GeoURL coordinates stored. Here's the original article.

CL-SDL: Common Lisp bindings for SDL - Graphics library for Common Lisp - also OpenMCL

DrPython - IDE with strong focus on learners for Python

Hearing and Seeing Only for the Wealthy?

Bad eyes? Bad teeth? Bad ears? Out of luck - the state doesn't like you. So that only wealthy, healthy, strong, blonde and blue-eyed citizens may be gainfully employed...

At Hexentanz you can find the original article.

HP-12C for Mac OS X - Another emulation of an HP calculator

Mambo at the Yard - Mamblog Homepage - Blogs for Mambo Open Source

Movitz: A Common Lisp OS development platform

A very interesting project: a minimal system with a cross-compiler and Common Lisp as the programming language. Not quite a Lisp machine, more like a platform for embedded Common Lisp - so a minimal runtime for the target system, while development takes place on the PC. The target code runs directly on standard PCs, for example via a boot disk.

Here's the original article.

OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan - VPN solution for heterogeneous networks, also Mac OS X

Photo.net Reviews HP Photosmart 7960

Interesting for Jutta since she is considering whether this might be a usable photo printer - so far she has a Deskjet 840c, which is not really optimal for the purpose.

At PhotographyBLOG there is the original article.