Archive 1. April 2003

Does Merkel have anything to do with 'merken'?

Clear answer: Nope.

At Zickenterror I found the original article.

New QuickTime Version

Question: (Why do I actually have a Unix kernel if I have to restart the machine anyway?)

Answer: Because Apple didn't build more sophisticated mechanisms (restart server process, reload services, update frameworks, etc.) into the installation routines, but only a restart of the entire computer.

Yes, that's stupid.

I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.

NewCode, a secure PL

Now that's quite an innovative approach! I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

Polaroid 600 SE completed

I recently finally tracked down the last important piece for the Polaroid 600 SE: a 6x9 roll film back. Now the camera is complete. I think I'll take some photos of all the equipment soon and post them here. Really fine gear!

Series production for IBM's "Universal Business Adapter"

So when they posted it, it was still March 31st and not April 1st.

At heise online news there is the original article.

US Special Adviser Forges Post-War Plans

Hmm. A US American colony with military rule. Hmm. So far the USA has only supported such governments through the CIA, but hasn't established them itself ...

(Quite apart from such trivial matters as the fact that the USA first has to win the war)

At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.

USA criticize treatment of religious minorities in Germany

Ok. So to clarify once more: the state whose soldiers are currently killing people in Iraq without a UN mandate and firing on civilians, which locks up hundreds of terrorism suspects in camps without trial, without a lawyer, or contact with anyone, and has its own citizens arrested by the FBI and then allows them no contact, doesn't even tell them why they were arrested in the first place—this state is complaining that we discriminate against Scientology (a fascist sect) and Moon (ditto)?

So "complete loss of reality" is still far too positive a description for what people in the States are suffering from...

I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.

Whitespace

And that's just one innovation: I could fit a second program in Python's indentations

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

Yahoo! Store Switches Back to Lisp

Bitter. That's a really bitter April Fool's joke

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.