Wow! That's quite a positive sign. Even if only a small group, but still. Maybe that will open Israelis' eyes to what their government is actually doing. Maybe that will have an impact in the next elections. Maybe pigs will fly too ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Ouch.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Oh, are we heading back to education only for the rich? At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
There are things that are even more absurd than German court decisions ...
At Telepolis News there is the original article.
Not a good time for administrators at the moment. First the multiple holes in OpenSSH, now ProFTPd. Fortunately, Debian works quite pragmatically and delivers the patches relatively quickly - although I'm still waiting for the ProFTPd patch there (and the latest ssh patch isn't here yet either - and that's not entirely uncritical, since Debian works with PAM support).
At heise online news there's the original article.
Cool. And when will someone find the first prehistoric lambda?
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Could it be that the cup has passed us by after all? Let's wait for the assessment of the passed version.
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Whether Sophos will really have the same commitment in the open source community as ActiveState? They'll have to prove that they really do it that way. I'm rather skeptical about it.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Nice. That's what makes cycling exciting when lesser-known riders perform so outstandingly. Not always just the usual suspects up front ...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Ugh. Apple seems to have made a bit of a mistake here. The battery life reduction (what a word) is at least one reason for me to wait for now (and the broken network can't really motivate me to do the update either)...
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
Cool, Rainer has a weblog (sort of). Ok, no RSS feed, but at least a Lisp website again. He used to have a big link dump there, but somehow it disappeared and I kind of lost track of his web pages. Rainer is the one who got me into Lisp years ago — and infected me with the desire to get a Symbolics Lisp machine (which I now have). Besides that, he got me my first Lisp machines - boxes from Xerox - and was also my first net dealer, even if I had to take the FTP downloads home on floppy disks ...
Man, now I feel guilty again because I work with Lisp way too little
Auja, throw the fat one in the dungeon!
At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.
Oh, I think if Merz doesn't want to anymore, then you should just let him go ...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Sure, the cause is always in Berlin, but certainly not in the misanthropic policies from Düsseldorf and the backroom dealings with Koch. No, certainly Steinbrück is not to blame, it's all the federal government. The loss of touch with reality in Düsseldorf is taking on truly alarming proportions. A good part of the withdrawals can certainly be attributed to Steinbrück's crowd. They're not showing the right perspectives either. And at some point, the Black votes alone won't be enough to keep the SPD government in NRW. Unfortunately. Because under a CDU government we can bury NRW ... At WDR.de you'll find the original article.
According to AP, the owner of the Dewey Decimal System (a widely used classification system for literature) is suing a hotel that numbers and furnishes its hotel rooms according to the same schema. The demand is amusing: either three times the hotel's profit since opening or three times the damage to the rights holder, whichever sum is larger. Can bibliophiles also spell the word "profiteer"? Here's the original article.
Nice little tutorial for AppleScript Studio. At least to create a starter project and get an initial introduction.
... when Spock cites Sherlock Holmes as one of his ancestors
There are certainly ways out of dependency: free software, independent music, privately organized providers, etc.
The sad thing about it is that media and business often go hand in hand, and therefore the alternatives get less public attention than the mainstream (okay, in the Linux area that's just changing — but what about the other alternatives like the BSD variants?)
If there were still well-researched journalism, reports about the RIAA would have to be followed by reports and mentions of the quite active independent scene — but these are often missing. And that applies, for example, also in the area of internet providers — who has already reported on the small, privately organized ones? Even back when the IN e.V. still existed, such reports were scarce.
Ultimately, consumers do have it in their hands how strong their dependency really becomes. Sure, not every area is overflowing with alternatives — for example, mobile networks are beyond private feasibility. Still, the consumer can certainly strive for a certain degree of technical competence and doesn't have to subject themselves to dependency on rip-off artists in all matters.
Unfortunately, dependency is much more convenient though...
At anoteron weblog there's the original article.
Here are a few teasers about the new Neal Stephenson novel
At New York Times: Technology you can find the original article.
The CSU won the Bavarian state election on Sunday with an overwhelming majority. The party of Minister-President Edmund Stoiber received 59 percent of the vote according to initial projections. The SPD, with its top candidate Franz Maget, only achieved 20 percent. - that's how an article begins in the DigiTAZ that has just been released. The commentary also refers to Sunday in the past tense. Truly remarkable. But what I find really remarkable are the lottery numbers from Saturday's drawing that are already available at the TAZ today at 01:12. They revealed it: a white gloss on a white background. To scare an old man like that so late in the day is really almost criminal.
Just plain awesome (found at delta-c) Here you can find the original article.
Great class. People are upset that the disk capacity in gigabytes is in the decimal system, but computers work in the binary system. Dumbasses - the binary information on a 1024 basis would not be called gigabytes, but gibibytes. Specifying disk capacities in decimal basis is completely correct, as you can read for example at Wolfram Research. Here's the original article.
Great prospects for women in Hesse. And of course Koch will announce his rubbish as an absolutely important program and of course he will demand that the same garbage is also done at the federal level. Koch would really be a worthy successor to Kohl - just as corrupt, just as contemptuous of humanity, just as a catastrophe for the Federal Republic.
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Just a warning: I'm still using an outdated version of POPFile. Jutta uses a newer one, but not Mailsmith, rather Mail.app - anyway, you can easily combine the two scripts. The main difference is that my script looks for a colon and space and uses what comes after as a link, while Jutta's version uses the text between a < and a > as a link. If someone could just tell me how to do string manipulation properly in AppleScript, I could clean up the somewhat cumbersome source a bit - because at the moment I'm breaking the string down completely into individual characters and working through them. Somehow inelegant.
What was nice, however, was that porting from MailSmith to Mail.app only required minimal changes. These standard dictionaries of Mac programs are really a fine thing ...
Over at Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Great explanation. Unfortunately, that occasionally also drives away commenters of the human variety. Maybe an upgrade to a somewhat more powerful platform would make sense? Nochn Blogg. has the original article.
A quite interesting article with discussion on Kuro5hin about statements from an eBay official regarding their practice of releasing data to law enforcement. If things really happen as described there - release of data that goes far beyond mere personal information, and based solely on fax or email requests - then that's a massive scandal. And as stupid as the whole thing sounds, it's very likely that things really do work that way. The original article can be found on kuro5hin.org here.
Well - did anyone really believe that Schill actually took effective action against crime? But it's nice that it's now definite that he only lied. Another nail in his political coffin.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Who uses POPFile for spam filtering and Mailsmith as a mail client can quickly jump from an email to the reclassification page in POPFile with the linked AppleScript. The script simply extracts the X-POPFile-Link header from the email and navigates to the specified URL. Without this script, you always have to first show the headers, find the link, click on it, and then hide the headers again. Annoying. But solvable with AppleScript. Here's the original article.
Now that's really something. Hopefully the project organizers have done their homework properly, then such a large project - if it runs successfully - could finally put the brakes on these silly anti-Linux discussions. I also like the reference to the increased comfort that has been achieved with Linux.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
One of the most beautiful (and largest) moated castles in Westphalia. Not for nothing also called the Versailles of Westphalia.
Lucky. If I imagine having to watch the Tour on RTL, I feel sick. What on earth does RTL think they can do better? Their commentators are even worse than the already appallingly bad public broadcasters' commentators. Best to watch the Tour with the sound off anyway, but with RTL the constant commercial breaks would be even more annoying ...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
We were there again today. Nice park, and the light was great. So here are the photos without much ado:
Wired. It works. At least for me.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
muenster:~# exim -bt gb@blubberfaselblubb.com gb@blubberfaselblubb.com deliver to gb@blubberfaselblubb.com router = lookuphost, transport = remote_smtp host blubberfaselblubb.com [64.94.110.11]
So an email is sent normally to the A-record (the one with the wildcard). What happens there? You can see it here:
telnet blubberfaselblubb.com smtp Trying 64.94.110.11... Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready HELO blubberfaselblubb.com 250 OK MAIL FROM: blah@blubberfaselblubb.com 250 OK RCPT TO: blah@blubberfaselblubb.com 550 User domain does not exist. DATA 250 OK quit 221 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host.
So there's a mail rejector running at that address that rejects every mail delivery with 550 - User domain doesn't exist. Want some paranoia? Sure? OK: it's trivial to modify the mail rejector so that it collects and archives the sender addresses provided at MAIL FROM: of the misdirected emails. I'm not saying VeriSign does that - but wildcard A-records at such a central location are an abuse waiting to happen ...
At Forbes, anyone can tell the CEO of VeriSign in a poll whether he's doing his job well or poorly. Oddly enough, he's polling pretty negatively. I wonder why that could be?
I think it's great the way he's starting it, not letting his career fade out like a Cipollini, but stopping the way he's always been known: as a workhorse among cyclists. And perhaps he'll get one more chance to finish things off at the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour. He'd deserve it.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
That's what's great about Debian: the updated patches are already available on http://security.debian.org/, simply:
apt-get update apt-get install ssh
and the system is up to date again with all patches. That's what I like about it.
Apple has not yet released a software update for OS X ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Get involved, generate a letter and send it!
At Wortfeld you can find the original article.
Well - I hope that this isn't implemented the way Jake Savin announced it on the radio-dev mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/7946
The problem: for weblogs that don't yet have comment notification, it's quite easy to hijack the comment notification, even if option 2 from the email is used (option 1 isn't an option anyway because of its immutability).
The scenario is quite straightforward: since the setPrefs function doesn't just send the password (or rather its MD5 hash), but also all the data to query another server for validity, you can simply set up a small XMLRPC server that generally returns "ok, password is correct". You then include this in the setPrefs calls as the server to be queried. And just like that, you can use a loop to steal comment notifications from all numeric users on Userland. A classic case of not thinking things through far enough. It's quite astonishing how few people actually think about security and what it ultimately means. Too often you encounter half-baked solutions. Granted, comment notifications aren't really critical. But the function that's supposed to be protected here is called setPrefs - it's foreseeable that programmers will soon store additional settings there, and how these can then be set externally.
Where exactly is the error here? In communication with the server, that's clear. But the real error lies in the fact that a security-relevant area is implemented using a coupled system, where the coupling of systems is determined by the end user. And that last small part - determined by the end user - is the problem. System couplings in security-relevant areas must be pre-configured by the administrator; users may at best be able to choose from options. Because only the administrator can determine which sources are trustworthy for authorization. At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
A few more comments and opinions on the VeriSign nonsense.
At heise online news there's the original article.
A few more links to Verisign's wildcard A record. However, the extremely critical monopoly status of Verisign as the operator of a TLD (and the associated registry) is not addressed here. But the peripheral areas are also not without problems - such as the aforementioned issue that users can no longer decide for themselves how they want to respond to such problems.
Apart from the fact that this procedure doesn't help against typosquatters anyway: they can continue to register their typo domains and will of course be preferentially served (a wildcard A record only applies if no explicit A record is available).
At Wortfeld you'll find the original article.
Of course. I bought myself a 12 inch PowerBook and an iPod. Of course, these exact things were just updated in the technical specs and naturally cheaper than I bought them. I should really offer myself as a price barometer: whenever I buy something, it comes out cheaper and more powerful a short time later.
Nice music - guitar, voice, not much else. Melodic and pleasant to listen to. Also has audio samples to download (complete songs, not just 30-second clips!).
Ahlen, Borken, Coesfeld and Ibbenbüren. Somehow they interpreted the Münsterland quite freely.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
And since we're on the subject of voice and guitar: Nicki Jaine. Wow. You get chills down your spine listening to "Animals" or "A Pigeon named Crow". I think I've featured her here before, but her music is so great that it's worth promoting again. Oh, and here too there are complete audio samples available for download.
After a long time, I took my digital camera with me again and shot a few pictures of the city library.
Here's a picture of the main entrance. Lots of glass, lots of metal, slanted sides and impractical corners. No idea what possessed the architect, apparently it's supposed to be a special feature, but it doesn't suit my taste. But at least it provides a few motifs.
And here's the view back from the main entrance. A small passage that runs between the main building and an aimlessly standing side building and is crossed by a kind of bridge.
And to match the architecture, the lamps too, which somehow look like they could only illuminate the lower part of the building. Which is actually also true.
If architects want to call me a philistine now, go ahead, I can take it. I still think the building is ugly.
Fitting the strange architecture of the city library, the lamps are also a bit different ...