EU: Heavy fuel oil no longer in single-hull tankers
Finally. It only cost a couple of years and oil catastrophes. We could and should have had this much earlier!
You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
Archive 27. March 2003
France boycott to extend to cellphone standards?
Great. Now some stupid American wants to prevent GSM from being implemented in the US anymore and use CDMA instead - because GSM was developed in France, after all. Good Lord, what a fucking idiot ...
I found the original article on Gizmodo.
No Patch for RPC Security Hole in Windows NT
Somehow that's a rather absurd stance. Just not closing a security hole. Well, if you put an NT server unfiltered on the internet, you probably deserve nothing better than to be screwed over by Microsoft.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Lispworks Beta for OS X
Hey! If they're making this thing native Aqua now, that's a real killer - because so far there's only Macintosh Common Lisp, since Allegro doesn't come with a GUI. However, Lispworks is unfortunately not exactly cheap, so you could almost just use MCL again.
Or OpenMCL, which costs nothing
At lemonodor there's the original article.
Once again something about us: Trackback
I was asked to do so, so I've now implemented Trackback for myself. For now, just for incoming pings, but I will also tackle outgoing ones.
Update: Outgoing pings are working now, so I went ahead and pinged my colleague right away
Panorama rules
Panorama is currently running and breaking down some alleged war reports, showing what's really behind them - in some cases just staged war games for the media, so they have flashy exploding tanks and soldiers firing wildly to show. And everyone showed them, each with appropriate commentary
Too cool for secure code
An interesting opinion from a Security Focus columnist on the topic of secure software. His basic thesis – the macho posturing of programmers who think their code in particular has no bugs, and the excessive use of low-level languages – is correct. It's really sometimes absurd with what primitive tools programs are created. And then people wonder why bugs occur that have been known for decades – well, of course tools are used that have existed just as long.
What he overlooks in his article, however, is the main motivation of many programmers in the open source area: fun. Many things come into being precisely because someone has fun doing them – but they only have fun because they use the tools of their choice.
From that perspective, we in the open source area will have to live with the fact that there are both bus drivers and fighter pilots among programmers – even if that means that parts of the system have holes from time to time. Because someone who simply enjoys C programming is not motivated by the fact that buffer overflows keep occurring to switch to Perl or Python. Even if that would eliminate entire classes of errors.
At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick I found the original article.
Uproar over Al Jazeera website
Very dubious the whole thing. But it wouldn't be the first time Verisign messed up with domain changes - so I wouldn't be surprised. Or simply a stupid mistake when changing the domain by the sender - I see that often enough, where people just don't pay attention to what they're doing. But of course it's also possible that some wheeling and dealing is going on to slow down an unwelcome sender.
I found the original article on heise online news.