I hate broken mail servers and mailfilters going haywire. Today bmf played up on me and trashed some mail. Of course there was bound to be some interesting content in there, but I don't know, since I can't read them. fsck. So bmf is out again. But how to get rid of spam? At least bmf filtered enough of the shit out so I didn't have to wade through them all by hand. Now I have to set up some redirection to only filter stuff that's probably spam to protect important mails. Damn, that's bound to be work.
Here's an example of what comes out of my new scanner and Photoshop 7. The original is a Velvia slide from the Rollei 6008. I mainly post-processed the colors, as after brightening it (to bring out the detail in the tree on the right) the sky had become very washed out. In the original, it's really as vibrant as it appears in this image. I also had to do quite a bit of spot removal, since this is my test slide that has accumulated quite a bit of dust over time. Still, the result turned out pretty nice.
The ''Scheibenwischer'' comes to an end - a shame, one of the last truly great figures of political cabaret is retiring. Ok, he's not the youngest anymore, but unfortunately there's a lack of new talent in the political sphere. Too bad.
Found at tagesschau im Internet.
The Commercialization of Knowledge - yeah great, rosy prospects. Whoever creates something is screwed. Whoever uses something is screwed. Only those who sell and exploit the parts that others also thought of get to skim off the fat profits. That's probably what many managers imagine the future to be like ...
And incidentally, you can also strip the annoying competitor Open Source of its breeding ground (the information). This idea stinks.
Found on heise online news.