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And yet another neighbor I didn't know about yet. But he or she won't reveal exactly where in Münster they're located. And the light on the webcam isn't working?
Archive 26.8.2003 - 13.9.2003
Shit Job?
Complaints department?
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Star Trek Dimension - Investigating Trek
If you ever want to read up on everything that's so strange about the Star Trek universe and what explanations Trekkies come up with for it, here's the right URL for some areas. I came across it today while watching an Enterprise episode because I was looking up the relationship between Romulans and Vulcans (in today's Enterprise episode, humans meet Romulans for the first time on the timeline).
Ok, I know it's nothing that would really interest the world.
Berlusconi: Mussolini was "benign"
Is there actually still a limit to stupidity that Berlusconi won't cross? And how long will the Italians accept this? And most importantly: how long will the EU accept such an EU Council President? At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Black Hole Hammers Bass into Space
This is quite a subwoofer that lives up to its name
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
How to Make a Color Your Own
The German Federal Court of Justice joins the series of senseless and absurd verdicts and delivers its own version of judicial dementia. I'm sorry if the judges are too stupid to think of anything other than Telekom when they see Magenta, but why must it now be claimed at the highest court level that the rest of the German citizens are similarly dim-witted? I don't appreciate being insulted, not even by judges...
You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet and here.
Back again...
Just in case anyone was wondering where I was (of course nobody wondered). Hamburg wasn't quite as wet as Münster and the model railway is absolutely top-notch. The rest of Hamburg is great too. Could someone not rent me a small apartment in Winterhude at a bargain price so I have something for the weekends?
Updated Medusa Release
Ah, 0.5.4 is out. I need to remember this for the Python Desktop Server so I can update it in the documentation. Because there are important fixes in there (especially the one with URL analysis).
Open Firmware: Password Not Recognized When It Contains the Letter "U"
There are indeed strange bugs out there. You can't use a password with a capital U on Apple machines. I mean, what the heck is so special about a capital U that this banal letter makes passwords unusable? I can't imagine any bug that would provoke such behavior. Weird.
Politicians discover social welfare as radical savings potential
Oh how wonderfully simple: Social welfare recipients are just potential freeloaders anyway, so what's the difference, let's strip away their every right to data protection, no big deal, they have nothing to say anyway. The fat cats who move their money abroad. The companies that don't pay taxes because they use enough confusing constructs to hide their real income. The parties that can ship millions abroad but still pocket party financing. All of that is perfectly fine, because after all those aren't social welfare recipients.
And as for the work requirement for social welfare recipients: Work makes you free. We've seen all that before.
Every time you think the populism of German politicians can't get any worse, these idiots come up with even dumber and more contemptuous ideas. And then they wonder about political disillusionment. But who's supposed to still have interest in this madness when it's all just about destroying everything we've created so fat cats can keep ripping us off? So shareholders can keep squeezing companies? So managers can keep showing off to those shareholders how they've tightened the organization and cut costs (and in reality destroy the livelihoods of employees and run the company so far into the ground that a foreign company swallows it up)? So lobby clubs and associations can keep feathering their nests? So corrupt politicians can keep pocketing their bribes for themselves or their party? No matter who you vote for, as a voter you're screwed.
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Schäuble apparently to succeed Rau
Oh great: a federal president who at times stirs up more hatred than an ultra-right CSU politician. And has gained experience with black briefcases. Excellent idea. We'll certainly become even more popular abroad with this.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
16,000 Flu Deaths in Germany
I was quite astonished by that. Okay, I was certainly aware that real flu is dangerous. But that it claims so many victims was new to me.
LG Hamburg: .de only for idiots!
I agree with the demand to strip German courts of jurisdiction over domain issues due to their incompetence. The whole thing is taking on increasingly absurd proportions.
I found the original article at dotcomtod.
Doping supply to Belgian professional cyclists confessed
It's interesting when athletes get doped by veterinarians - quite a mess, really.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
LWL - Westphalian Industrial Museum - Henrichenburg Ship Lift - Old Henrichenburg Ship Lift
Just as a tip, if you happen to be in the Datteln area: there's the Henrichenburg boat lift, which now serves as a museum facility. So far I've only looked at it from a distance, but hopefully we'll get there this vacation. It could also offer some nice photo opportunities.
Merkel: Work more for more jobs
What a bunch of utter nonsense Merkelnix is spouting again ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Möllemann Affair: Donor Names on the Table
Good. Maybe the swamp can still be drained a bit after all ...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
Trouble at Bianchi
More talk about money than about cycling again.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Berlusconi: Judges are 'mentally disturbed'
Wow. He's really gone nuts ...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Legal dispute Obelix vs. MobiliX finally concluded
Great. Another proof that these trademark law issues are anything but sensible. Nobody among us should confuse mobile Unix with fat Belgian comic characters anymore. We customers are too stupid to think and the court has now officially confirmed that. Wonderful.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Supermen for the Pentagon
Sounds like some people in the Pentagon have watched too many bad science fiction movies - unfortunately, they seem to mean it seriously.
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Digital Outback Photo Reviews Photokit Sharpener
The description sounds very interesting, it seems to be a very powerful tool. However, I have some concerns about the price: is a tool just for sharpening really worth 99 dollars? The normal PhotoKit costs only half that (and includes a whole bunch of useful tools). Sure, the sharpening functions in PhotoKit aren't as sophisticated, but somehow I'm reluctant to spend 100 bucks just for this one aspect.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
FaceSpan 4.0 Public Beta
Hmm. Does FaceSpan really make sense anymore in times of (free) AppleScript Studio? AppleScript Studio can also create completely AppleScript-based software, and with the help of Interface Builder there's also a very good GUI design tool, and the integration is also very high. And above all, extensions and performance-critical areas can be implemented quite easily in Objective-C. I don't know if FaceSpan really makes sense there anymore.
At welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource there's the original article.
Florida-Rolf and the Right Brain Hemisphere of Social Minister Schmidt
Exactly that - a purely populist decision. With this method, you're giving the Bild newspaper a free pass to make politics. And all this just for very few special cases that could have been left for courts to clarify. Of course, one doesn't need to mention that the Union (at least Stoiber) believes that this is far from going far enough. Politicians are not above letting themselves be made a fool of in such ridiculous ways by a trashy tabloid like the Bild newspaper.
I found the original article at TAZ.
Tobit celebrates ClipInc radio MP3 software as the most important IFA innovation
It's quite amusing when a manufacturer calls itself (or rather, one of its own campaigns) the most important IFA novelty. But things get really ridiculous when the homepage for this project is entirely built in Flash. Marketing gimmickry to get press coverage, that's all this is. Yes, the Website is only Flash. No skip button, no alternative presentation, nothing. Just Flash. But don't worry, even if the browser can't handle Flash, this silly website still sets a cookie. And don't even think that this Flash stuff has realized any special usability – quite the opposite, I've never seen such a pointless structure: a movie that plays, the menu items are points on the movie's timeline. After selecting a point, the movie continues from there.
Well, it seems Tobit really doesn't care about people with disabilities.
At heise online news there's the original article.
20 Years of BTX
Hachja, BTX - and its users. The candy-loving space cadets of the 80s
Of course, people like us were active in mailbox networks (yeah yeah, those animal nets, first Fido, soon then Maus) and of course we didn't have any fancy pictures, no chats (ok, the Fidos had something like that, but they were hardly better than the BTX folks), no commerce and therefore it was all better.
Or so.
At heise online news there's the original article.
AppleScript to open POPFile links from Entourage X
A small AppleScript that jumps to the link to Popfile in messages that were filtered by Popfile. Unfortunately for Entourage, I think I'd need to rewrite it for Mailsmith sometime. For that I'd probably need to know a bit more about AppleScript ... Here's the original article.
Dramatic Budget Situations in NRW and Berlin
At the WDR it says that even though the ruling will have no direct consequences for the state government, - please, what? So the state government violates the state constitution. But of course that has no impact. Weird. Well, if I look at the vultures of the Union who also want to run down NRW, then it might actually be quite good if it has no impact. It's quite scary when you'd rather have the constitutional violators than the alternative that's (not really) up for election.
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
SCO must pay administrative fine
Oh come on, 10,000 euros, SCO will certainly notice that. Ridiculous. They try to get money through extortion and coercion (for which any respectable mobster would end up in prison if he applied the same behavior in the restaurant business), but from the court they just get slapped with a small fine.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Tom Waits, Blood Money ...
... hand me a cup of whisky, a cigar and the right (smoky) dive bar
Ullrich: Poisoned Infusion Responsible for Tour Fever
Yikes. That's not good, stuff like that. But it's pretty crazy what performance athletes will do to themselves. Us ordinary folk find infusions disgusting and unpleasant, and they're having protein run straight into their veins.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Vuelta: Zabel leads Telekom
That's what I like about Zabel: there's no fatigue, no talk of giving up before things have really started, and no complaining – just hard and good work, great performances, and – almost always – a grin in interviews.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
The Big Jackpot
Financial aspects were placed above human suffering. Drop bombs on people, who cares, as long as the cash register rings
And of course no one will hold the war profiteers accountable, no matter how dubious their connections to the US government are.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
The Winner: The Pharmaceutical Industry
How great - people are dying en masse and the pharmaceutical industry continues to secure its profits. At the expense of the dying people, of course. It doesn't matter anyway, money is much more important than human lives
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Ullrich: I Would Have Ended My Career With Tour Victory
Oh boy, is Ullrich already thinking about quitting? And what's this about him saying he wouldn't give up so much to save a team - wasn't Coast in trouble, and wasn't he too? Has he already forgotten about that? Well, I'm not sure that's the right attitude...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Period and Comma in the Brain
Damn, just a reset for brief perception sequences. I was already hoping we could finally boot a few colleagues
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Diggler
Yes, that's quite practical. Together with the Web Developer Toolbar, Firebird is already a really great tool.
Addendum: The Toolbar used to be good - version 0.2 ran well on Firebird under OS X, version 0.3 doesn't work at all. And the author has such wonderful HTML on his pages that you can't find an email address anywhere and the contact form is of course broken (validation with JavaScript code that won't accept my email address). Idiotic communication prevention. Another addendum: ok, that was only with Safari and Firebird 0.6.1, not with Firebird 0.6 - at least sending an email works with that. But the toolbar still doesn't work...
At Markus Kniebes Journal you can find the original article.
Faction on Schill: "He needs help"
Anyone who lets themselves be manipulated by Schill for so long, clings to someone like that, and thinks they can move up in the world that way either desperately needs help themselves or is already so corrupted by power hunger that they can't be helped anymore.
That said, perhaps the Schill faction shouldn't throw stones in their glass house too carelessly...
At tagesschau im Internet you'll find the original article.
Hardware is stupid
Anyway, if it breaks. My Minolta scanner is finally back from repair today (after being away twice for 4 weeks each - the first time it came back unrepaired) and it's in one piece. While testing it, I discovered that my G3 Mac is probably really fried: it only starts sporadically. Based on the symptoms, I'd suspect a defective mainboard. Damn. Can you still get Blue & White G3s repaired?
Freedom of Information from 2004?
It's about time too!
You can find the original article on Telepolis News.
Merkel: Exit atomic phase-out if election victory
Great prospects. Operating nuclear power plants as long as they want - that means for Germany financing this nonsense for as long as the monopolists want to rip people off. And renewable energies would be pushed back again. And of course Merkelnix will certainly busily transport nuclear waste through Germany and protect it with huge police presence. All very sensible ... At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Gerolsteiner has interest in Beloki
Wow - CSC with Jaksche and Voigt as new signings, that would be something. And Beloki at Gerolsteiner - that would be quite a bombshell. Beloki would certainly be a highly motivated rider for the overall classification next year at the Tour - and an Armstrong being attacked by Gerolsteiner, Telekom and Bianchi will definitely work up a sweat.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Strato and MTU
Well, I had to try that right away and sent some pings:
muenster:~# ping -s 1400 www.strato.de PING www.strato.de (192.67.198.33): 1400 data bytes 1408 bytes from 192.67.198.33: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=159.6 ms 1408 bytes from 192.67.198.33: icmpseq=1 ttl=245 time=157.3 ms 1408 bytes from 192.67.198.33: icmpseq=2 ttl=245 time=327.5 ms 1408 bytes from 192.67.198.33: icmpseq=3 ttl=245 time=160.3 ms 1408 bytes from 192.67.198.33: icmpseq=4 ttl=245 time=159.0 ms --- www.strato.de ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 157.3/192.7/327.5 ms muenster:~# ping -s 1500 www.strato.de PING www.strato.de (192.67.198.33): 1500 data bytes --- www.strato.de ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
What's happening here? I'm sending packets with 1400 byte and 1500 byte lengths. The 1500 byte ones are being nicely fragmented at our router - a Telekom router with a DSL fixed connection - and sent as fragments:
goggle# tcpdump -i ppp0 icmp tcpdump: listening on ppp0 09:29:01.223186 62.153.201.130 > 62.226.72.1: (frag 33019:28@1480) 09:29:01.316521 62.153.201.130 > 62.226.72.1: icmp: echo request (frag 33019:1472@0+) 09:29:01.316707 62.153.201.130 > 62.226.72.1: (frag 33019:8@1472+) 09:29:01.317017 62.226.72.1 > 62.153.201.130: (frag 14273:36@1472) 09:29:01.317148 62.226.72.1 > 62.153.201.130: icmp: echo reply (frag 14273:1472@0+)
For example, that's what it looks like when I ping my machine at home. What does that point to? I'd wager that Strato has a firewall strategy where transparent firewalls sit in front of the Strato servers. And fragments are apparently getting lost there. It's possible they do this because TCP/IP fragments are often used in attacks, because fragments with incorrect header data tend to crash TCP/IP stacks. Still, I'd say that's a clear configuration error on Strato's part. At least it smells strongly of that...
W3C sees danger for internet standards
Damn patents.
Even though Microsoft is on the receiving end of the lawsuit here, plugin techniques are used in many places in browsers and that also applies to free browsers. And even if Microsoft could get out of this financially, it's still unclear what will happen to free browser implementations ...
You can find the original article at heise online news here.
Robert also lost his job at Telekom
Finally. That annoying Max Headroom knockoff was really just embarrassing ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Banking service provider GAD closes four locations
Well, I started my apprenticeship as a data processing merchant at that store 17 years ago (to be exact on 1.8.86). It's quite remarkable how much everything has changed - back then it was a store with about 330 employees, fairly compact and with a surprisingly social management and a very pleasant work atmosphere. Today it has all become noticeably sharper and harder. Shame - because somewhere something got lost that had once made the store a dream employer in Münster. Well, for a few years now I've been sitting in a subsidiary of GAD, and in a couple more years it will probably be as big as GAD was back when I started...
Somehow I feel old now.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Bavaria plans 'integration upper limit'
It's certainly not the fault of foreign children that Bavarians can't speak German...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Total Photography
Nice review of the digital snapshot output and collection points for the same ...
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt I found the original article.
12:38:30: Women Are Like Web Servers
Um, yes. Or something like that.
At ::ab::gebloggt:: there's the original article.
bash is new default terminal shell in Panther
Woah! That's almost like changing VI's default editor to Emacs
Well, I think it's good, I'll admit I'm a Bash softie (but please not Emacs. My depravity has limits somewhere!).
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.