Stoiber praises Schröder
If Schröder were actually a Social Democrat, that should give him pause to think. But as things stand now, that won't bother him much further ...
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
Archive 8.4.2003 - 19.4.2003
Dream Over: No US Funds for OpenBSD
I would have been surprised if it had actually worked - Theo is not exactly the most accommodating and cooperative person, and conflicts with the idea of "whoever is not with us is against us" were pretty much inevitable. Still, it's a shame that the Americans let themselves be guided by ideology and nationalism once again, instead of simply implementing what is actually a good idea. After all, work on OpenBSD benefits the entire open source community - just think of OpenSSH.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Biblis A shut down due to safety concerns
Have they been quietly shrinking in recent years, or why hasn't anyone noticed this before?
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
The Rollberg ...
With this whole server shared apartment story, I keep wondering if the servers regularly argue about who's supposed to do the backup, or who's doing the filesystem check, and why the edge server is already responsible for content delivery again, even though the other servers do much less ...
At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog there's the original article.
Unpaid advertising through linking or "How to successfully bring a commercial weblog server...
Jutta settles accounts with the hype surrounding 20six in the media and other blogs (some of which also do so indirectly through constantly repeated links). What strikes me about the whole story is this claim that 20six (or other similarly structured systems) would be a community - but is it really?
The term community is gladly used in an inflationary way as soon as someone has a great idea and benefits from the — sometimes voluntary and free — services of others. Sure, for the operator it's marketing (and nobody will be too explicit about the true core, that they live off and profit from the voluntary work of their users — that would be economic suicide). Can you simply declare a community into existence, like the chancellor declares a state of emergency?
Why do users accept being co-opted like this? Without having the true freedoms of a community? Herd mentality? Is subordination cool? Or is learning how to do it yourself (or how to properly participate with others) simply too tedious and too much work?
Is it simply more convenient to go to a server where the operator exploits your own work, but in return proudly holds up the community sign to the outside world, without having to do anything for it yourself?
I'd find it boring if I didn't get to experience all the problems and frustrations of doing things yourself. When I have the choice between taking something ready-made or building it myself, I choose the build-it-myself route. Maybe I'm just perverted ...
At Hexentanz, there's the original article.
Oil or Culture
I don't see much difference between the Afghan Taliban, who shot up the Buddha statues with anti-tank weapons, and the US administration, who deemed the oil ministry important enough to protect but allowed the National Museum and National Library to be ransacked and destroyed. And the fact that the Americans are confirming the prejudice about their cultural barbarism here is no consolation either.
I found the original article on Telepolis News.
Technical stuff from Rollberg
I'm curious to see how SQLite performs there. I've looked at it several times myself and have been searching for a project to use it in. There are also Python bindings for SQLite (even on the Zaurus - I think that's where it will first be used for me).
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
US experts to search for weapons of mass destruction
The Americans will make sure they find weapons of mass destruction. If they can't find them based on their sales receipts, they'll just bring some themselves
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Dentist develops drill for Mars probe
And when Mars has brushed its teeth properly, it means here too: Mom, he didn't drill at all!
At Astronomische Kleinigkeiten you can find the original article.
Heise wins against spammers
Strike! At heise online news you can find the original article.
Interesting Programming Language: Goo
Goo is a compact and simple programming language from the Lisp family with complete object orientation and some nice technical features (for example, dynamic compilation of Goo code into native code with the help of a C compiler). In some ways, Goo seems to be an alternative to Paul Graham's Arc - Goo with a focus on object orientation, Arc with a focus on functional programming. I should take a look at it sometime, could definitely be interesting.
SPD-Left warns of government failure
Great arguments from the Chancellor. The Left is simply suffering from a loss of touch with reality. Sure: on the A7 a wrong-way driver comes towards you. - One? Hundreds!
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
Migration of muensterland.org to a new machine
If there are any strange effects over the next few days: I'm moving muensterland.org to a different machine and there may naturally be occasional disruptions. It shouldn't really happen, since the system architecture is relatively well-suited to moves and restructuring, but well, there were still the horses and the pharmacies ...
(and no, I wasn't with Strato before, I'm moving for financial reasons)
Man dies in forest fire in Nottuln
Wow. That's just two villages over, and a colleague of mine is in the volunteer fire department there!
I found the original article at WDR.de.
Did CNN cheat on the Moore Oscar speech?
Hmm. If that's true, then CNN turned up the volume on the boos during Michael Moore's Oscar speech. But maybe the CNN cameraman just happened to be standing closer to a group of opponents than the ABC cameraman?
At [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][0] I found the original article.
Is Freenet the AOL of weblogs?
It somehow reminds me a lot of the time when AOL opened the gates to Usenet and hordes of AOL users stormed into Usenet - and of course did everything wrong that could possibly be done wrong. Is Freenet developing into the corresponding counterpart in the weblog sector? Will Freenet eventually become a synonym for mindless, copied, and nonsensical weblogs?
I found the original article at ::ab::gebloggt::.
Lower Saxony wants to privatize the judiciary
And did she also privatize and outsource her brain?
I found the original article on RP Online: Politik.
So that the monkeys are recognized?
Not so the monkeys can be recognized - it's simply just the first zoo with facial recognition. If you look too stupid, you end up in the cage, not on the paths.
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Explosive increase in birch pollen
Achoo! I found the original article at RP-Online: Science.
Reform package: Schröder threatens to resign
So really, a chancellor is already finished when he has to blackmail his own party to push through his ideas against the base.
Which raises the question of what should actually determine a party's culture: clinging to the power of the chancellor and his direct supporters, or the opinion and wishes of the base. Yes, I know the chancellor's answer to that. On this point, he's no different from his portly predecessor ...
But if you want to experience something truly undemocratic, you just have to look at the internal structures of unions or parties.
I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.
Safari Public Beta 2 is here
Yay! Tabbed Browsing! That was indeed still an annoyance of the previous beta. I just always had way too many windows open.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft I found the original article.
Thierse: Lafontaine is not capable of majority
So I like that photo
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
BDI wants to strip employee representatives of power
Great. So it's supposedly untenable for unions to strike against companies where they have seats on the supervisory board? And workers' representatives certainly shouldn't be allowed to sit in the personnel committee that sets executive salaries, because otherwise the executives might get the impression they are dependent on the unions? What do you actually call this form of loss of reality that Mr. Rogowski is suffering from?
The constant attempts and initiatives to dismantle every workers' representation and workers' protection that has been fought for over many years is now really audacious. Sure, entrepreneurs smell opportunity when even an SPD government starts talking against unions and thinks it has to attack every form of social security.
We really are not heading into good times.
You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet under this link.
'No Question' Some Senior Iraqis Fled to Syria, Rumsfeld Says
Further Preparations of Syria as the Next Theater of War?
At New York Times: NYT HomePage there is the original article.
Former Chancellor Kohl was Adviser to Kirch
So if Kirch took advice from Kohl on the subject of sitting things out, then Kirch could certainly see why that wasn't the right strategy...
Well, Theo Waigel (also called "Das Brauen"), Wolfgang Bötsch and Rupert Scholz were also involved. It's somehow strange how a company can go bankrupt with such competent advice. Oh, wait, I forgot, the same team had previously mismanaged the FRG, so maybe it is explainable after all.
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
Pictures with the 2.8/180 on the RTS III
I uploaded a stack of images (though they haven't been accessible since 2007 because I destroyed the domain), which I took in Hamburg with the RTS III and the 2.8/180 I picked up that day. A truly magnificent lens - nicely compact for its aperture and really excellent in optical performance. And I like the focal length too.
Cool Animal of the Week: Hairy-legged Bat
(Sorry to Safari users, the link could send your Safari into the desert - no idea what's broken there) Why cool? Well, what would you say about a bat that catches fish at night using radar guidance or trawl net technique? Yes, you read that right, fish.
With the first technique, the bat dives down real eagle-fisher style at its prey, with the second it drags its claws through the water and fishes for fish. The catch is put straight into its mouth while flying and then eaten head-down while hanging at rest.
And it looks cute too
The Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
I find it quite interesting in general how differently the British and Americans are acting in Iraq. Yesterday on the night news, a journalist said he had the impression that the Americans are simply overwhelmed by the task of taking on police functions in addition to security duties. In a way, it's quite perverse: one has no problem destroying everything, but when it comes to securing and enforcing what is constantly talked about in the US administration, they are overwhelmed.
The statements from Rumsfeld on this are extremely interesting: essentially, he said that such things happen, that people who are free are also free to commit stupidities and crimes. Well, great. Wonderful attitude.
I much prefer the British approach, which at least tries to contain part of the chaos they have brought upon the people in Basra, instead of talking nonsense about how it's all just fine ...
Postscript: on http://lies.com/ someone posted some excerpts from and comments on Rumsfeld's briefing. And the Guardian also has an article about it.
At Hexentanz I found the original article.
FDP demands entry fee from journalists at party conference
Who would pay admission to see these blockheads anyway? Although, as an absurd theater piece it might actually be interesting
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
Human Trafficking and Temple Prostitution in South Asia
A link for Jutta: > The following is a contribution by Sudeshna Chakravarti, professor and social scientist at the University of Kolkata in India. She spoke about sexual exploitation in South Asia in the context of interstate and regional migration. Here is the original article.
More, more!
Soso, Soso, Soso's colleague from http://retrogra.de/ is attempting virtual stock market manipulation. Where on earth is the virtual stock market regulator where one can report him?
At No Retreat, No Surrender you can find the original article.
Post without title
And if someone could now explain to me what kind of ridiculous mess of topics I have here today and where the common thread is, I would be very happy
Ace of Spades Hussein
I don't know why, but somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that entirely new poker variants will emerge now
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
Chocolate can relieve pain
OK, so I'm treating myself to a bar of pain therapy
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
TopicExchange Channel for German Blogs
Jutta has created a channel on http://topicexchange.com/ where you can send a ping when you write an article about a new blog. It would certainly be nice if the usual suspects now update their software and send trackback pings to it.
The channel can be pinged at http://topicexchange.com/t/blogs_deutsch/ with trackback. Users of the Python Desktop Server only need to enable the channel in the settings under the Topics page. If you want to subscribe to the channel in your aggregator, you can do so using the address http://topicexchange.com/t/blogs_deutsch/rss.
What does Trackback have to do with the historical Web?
Seth Gordon provides an answer in which he draws connections between the original hypertext vision of Tim Berners-Lee (from his previous work on hypertext) with the Web and shows where Trackback fits into Tim Berners-Lee's ideas. Interesting, brief and concise, with a few aspects illustrated with Perl code.
Currywurst can make mice addicted
May I use that as an excuse now?
At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.
Home is where CVSROOT is...
Not such a bad idea, simply synchronizing the home directory via CVS to a server and then updating from mobile devices.
And another thing: the Zaurus stores quite a lot as XML - you can use that wonderfully with CVS. And that would give you an exchange option for calendars and similar things with desktop tools. And via transconnect I could also synchronize that with the computer at the office.
Hmm ...
At [/ndy's Weblog][0] there's the original article.
The Save Farscape Library Project
Hmm. To be honest: that sounds a lot like library spam to me.
I found the original article on netbib weblog.
Office Software at No Cost
Hey, the WDR is advertising OpenOffice!
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Christian Fundamentalists on the Rise
Found at Shock Wave Rider: an article in the Guardian about the quiet (or not quite so quiet) advance of creationists and other distortions of science in America. The new tactic is to attack weak points in established theories and through the back door open the same to absurd theories. It's shocking that such things actually find resonance in the scientific community and in education, and are even partially supported by law...
Hands up, who believed that with the third millennium perhaps a time of reason could dawn? Fooled.
At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.
Jan Ullrich in good form
Getting off to a good start. Now it'll really be exciting to see how he positions himself in the Tour. Of course, he certainly won't have a chance against Armstrong this year, but it'll be interesting to see how he compares with other top riders (who would that be this year? Beloki again?).
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
New risk assessment required
This could indeed represent a decisive turning point in assessing radiation risks.
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
Paul Graham speculates about programming languages in 100 years
Nice thoughts from Lisp Guy No 1 (ok, he's had the title only since Guy L. Steele defected to the Java camp).
Ok, that reconciled me again...
Ok, that reconciled me again ...
... one is unpretentious, a few blooming trees and you forget that your ass is freezing.
Seehofer accuses Union leadership of mismanagement
Come on, Seehofer, stop the nonsense. Stop giving the Union any advice - eventually they'll listen to you and then things will get uncomfortable for us. After all - thanks to the SPD's relative incompetence - the even greater incompetence of the Union leadership is our only hope of still being spared a new Union government.
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
World's largest digital camera delivers first images
A 340 megapixel digital camera - well Canon and Kodak, any idea how you want to top that?
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Science.
Worldwide dumbest security measures 'honored'
With such absurd security measures, one could almost become paranoid
I found the original article on heise online news.
ARD team proves use of uranium-containing ammunition
Yes great, so they haven't learned anything from the recent deployments of this crap (not that that would surprise me - military and learning sounds a bit like Christmas and Easter on the same day)
At tagesschau on the Internet there's the original article.