Archive 22. March 2003

Bruhaha!

This is really funny (translation by me): > Microsoft Software is carefully designed so that your company's data stays in and unauthorized people and viruses stay out. This means that your data couldn't be safer, even if you kept it in a safe. That's good news for a company's survival, but tragic news for hackers. So in the age of Outlook viruses, security holes as big as barn doors, and security patches after which the system won't boot up anymore, Microsoft really shouldn't make such statements

Devil's grin

At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick you can find the original article.

CSU board united on social reforms

Nice. So Seehofer backed down to Stoiber. Reassures me that backbone and brains are nowhere to be found in the CSU, I wouldn't have expected anything else. And the program is predictably misanthropic.

Teufelsgrinsen

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Life without Micro$oft ///

I'm sorry, Papyrus may have been innovative back then, but I'm still waiting for the OS X version of Nisus Writer

At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.

Luminous Landscape has a brief comparison test Canon 1Ds vs Kodak DCS 14n

And the results don't look good for Kodak at all. Higher nominal resolution, but in the image comparisons rather lower effective resolution and noticeable artifacts and noise at 400 ISO. Not exactly an impressive result for the Kodak camera. Kodak will need to do significantly better than that.

Here's the original article.

Seven-League Boots with Internal Combustion Engine

Oh man, there really is no idea that's too stupid not to be realized. > Every step ignites one of the motors, which with a quiet hiss and rattling over two cylinders presses the sole weighing 450 kilograms downward and propels the wearer of the boots forward. The first steps may still feel unfamiliar to the owner of the seven-league boots, but after just a few minutes, the new gait can be mastered. The tester disappears in giant strides, leaving behind a small cloud of exhaust fumes. That sounds pretty wild somehow. Whether the Russians can compete with the Segway People Transporter with this, I doubt. Even if they are cheaper.

Here's the original article.

Un-CDs, no thanks!

Ok, folks, if you buy CDs that are not labeled but contain copy protection: report them to ct's register!

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Blog Post

I feel discriminated against. I use Python scripts for my thought purges, not Perl or PHP. That's oppression. I want to belong to the privileged luxury people too.

Teufelsgrinsen

At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.