Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro - use the motion sensor of the new MacBook Pro to switch between virtual desktops. Just give the MacBook Pro a slap ...
Archive 21.4.2006 - 26.5.2006
O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views - and demands a name change of a conference not organized by them. Well, Web 2.0 is just marketing jargon ...
Safari Tidy plugin - tidy as a Safari plugin. Nice. Safari is slowly growing up.
x48 emulator - and on the Nokia Pad! Genius, hopefully there will soon be an installable package.
Picture pinches in front of flower
And he has the appropriate answer to the editor-in-chief of this sleazy rag:
You're shitting your pants that the machinations of the BILD newspaper will be revealed in the debate I proposed. That's the reason for your cancellation. You even ran away from the Monitor editorial team when they wanted to ask you uncomfortable questions. You're a coward!
Are you generic? - Wilson Miner describes how he, as a non-programmer, can create applications himself without programmer assistance using Django and its simple generic view functions.
Free42 for Zaurus X/Qt and Nokia 770 - an HP42S emulator that runs on the Nokia tablet. Brilliant.
MyTunesRSS - nice little tool, starts a web server and generates dynamic podcast feeds (as well as a simple web interface) from the iTunes library.
Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast for Mac OS X - Stream iTunes to a ShoutCast server (or locally on the LAN).
Klinikstreik: Are cash patients not emergencies? - the types of surgeries performed despite the strike, I'm not surprised. But the strong preference for private patients that comes through - something like this can already reduce the acceptance of the doctors' strike.
US judge dismisses Masri's torture lawsuit against CIA - fuck human rights. When will there finally be sanctions against this unjust regime?
MGTalk - Google Talk for mobile - unfortunately doesn't work on my V600i yet. No idea why.
What Happened To Dynamic Range - Dynamic range in CD recordings and the (negative) development over the years.
Adactio: Journal - The ugly American - yep, Paul Graham == Wanker. After all, if he really spouted such nonsense.
Kauder warns against the publication of the BND report - due to alleged endangerment of the work of the BND. That this work of the BND endangers our constitutional rights, of course, does not matter at all ...
New MacBooks - sorry, but a notebook with chipset graphics instead of mobile ATI and then still 5 cm wider and 1 cm deeper - something like that is no replacement for a 12" PowerBook. I hope Apple comes to their senses ...
Debunking Linus's Latest - Shapiro also has a few thoughts to share about Linus's latest misstep.
Nokia Announces the Internet Tablet 2006 OS Update - very nice, especially since the new release will also work for the old tablet. However, the update is a bit tricky - reinstallation of all applications and data ...
Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate, Part II - Tanenbaum's counterarguments to Linus' Microkernel-stupid claim ...
In the mills of welfare - what it used to mean to be a foster child - and what it might mean again?
RWE: The profit that came from the cold - if anyone now thinks this will change the prices downward, forget it. We also have to continue financing RWE's nonsensical expenses in other industries.
Nokia will preinstall Google Talk - not bad, especially since Google Talk is based on Jabber.
Schneier on Security: Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines - is this finally the end for this dreadful Diebold disaster? Or will they try to wriggle out of it again and suppress the reports?
Bluetooth SIG - Idiots at the Helm
Whoever wonders which Bluetooth hardware works with BlueZ (Bluetooth stack for Linux) will come across the following statement from the Bluetooth SIG on the compatibility list:
Whether or not you're selling them makes no difference. The problem is due to the distribution of them from your Web site. Please note that the use and distribution of non-qualified products is a violation of the Bluetooth License Agreement. As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use.
Due to this idiotic attitude, it is no longer possible to refer to the compatibility of Bluetooth products with Linux on holtmann.org. Can it get any more stupid?
heise online - LG Düsseldorf: Forenhaftung erst ab Kenntnis des Rechtsverstoßes - great legal certainty. Now there are two contradictory rulings on the same topic.
Rotten Effort - how Microsoft tries to pressure consultants in companies with almost extortionate tactics ...
HashCaml - an extension of Objective Caml, which allows type-safe data to be serialized and deserialized. Basis for example for remote function calls.
Off to the Welfare State?
ZAF does not recognize the FRG at all - and I also have my difficulties finding what I once understood as a youngster under the FRG. That I once took an oath to a constitution in a Trachtenverein, which was so undermined and shattered by the proletarians in Berlin, is somehow absurd. Ok, the whole Trachtenverein is absurd, but the oath to the constitution is completely ridiculed if it is so easy for politics to throw the basic values overboard.
Django for non-programmers - Django from a web designer's perspective.
Rolf wins his own farewell race - Goodbye Rolf!
Django Weblog "magic-removal" branch merged - gaaaah. Work. Crap.
How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide || kuro5hin.org - well. doesn't sound very nice, the method.
Workbench: Settlement Reached with Dave Winer - and now Dave Winer has lost his last advocate that one could still take seriously. Well. Will Dave now taste his own medicine? So far, he was the one who has put others down in blogs ...
When companies meet their doppelgänger - A particularly creative form of piracy
This was the Roots: How the Internet came to Germany - and not a word about the IN e.V. at Heise either - which was also significantly involved in private internet activity.
Oberon Script. A Lightweight Compiler and Runtime System for the Web - an Oberon compiler in JavaScript. Now that's weird.
World Press Photos 2005: Germany Premiere in Hamburg - and starting this Saturday, I'll be in Hamburg for a few days.
Mamiya to sell camera division - and the next old name in photography is sold off
WASG-Bundesvorstandsmitglied switches to NPD - because there's no difference between left and right in Germany anyway ...
Hyperlink-Prozess: Netzaktivist erneut freigesprochen - good. Very good!
Network Games
Well, that's the thing with games or virtual worlds that are operated somewhere on the internet. You have access, your own access is running smoothly. And the operator's servers are also working fine. Only some stupid backbone provider in between has a faulty router in the route, with around 30 percent packet loss over longer periods of time. Which of course makes playing significantly more difficult.
But: where do you complain now? I mean, he's taking away my evening entertainment, that damn place
Pur3d.de | TEXTURES - a lot of textures that can also be tiled.
UVMapper - 2.5D Software
AOL.de Zugang - WiFi Hotspots. And yes, that's the devil. But what can you do when network withdrawal threatens ...
Critical security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X - yuck. Please people at Apple - get your act together and use current and fixed versions of the various libraries. Otherwise, I might as well install Windows in the long run ...
Outrage over Schäuble - oh kids, now you're suddenly outraged about him. Do you really think he only came up with his ideas today?
Gazprom threatens EU with gas cut-off - again, great surprise all around. Did you really believe it would just stay with the threats against e.g. Ukraine?
Metasploit: Exploit Development: GroupWise Messenger Server - those who still convince themselves that the time from the discovery of a software vulnerability to an exploit is correspondingly long: forget it. Here someone shows an example development of a complete exploit one day after a hole in the GroupWise Messenger Server became known ...
News from the Christianism Mullahs
«Education Alliance» with Churches launched - what is this nonsense? The church has no place in the state. And why on earth should their outdated and partly simply absurd (I'm thinking of their stance on abortion, birth control, homosexuality, etc.) now also be state-sanctioned? Are we in America, or what?
And the press? They are at most outraged that other religions were excluded. What is this nonsense - we should finally leave this behind. If someone thinks that values education is necessary, then introduce ethics classes, but please ones that are free of religious nonsense!