Anke Engelke becomes the new Harald Schmidt
A mutation that somehow frightens me – from a purely biological standpoint.
Archive 23. December 2003
CMake Cross Platform Make - Finally a usable alternative to the GNU autotools?
Divmod Lupy Overview - Full-text index in Python - Port of the Lucene database from the Java world
DocIndexer - Document indexer in Python, uses Lupy
GROKLAW - Linus Comments on Alleged SCO Files
SCO not only claims trivial files to be theirs (ctype.h and errno.h are really nothing extraordinary), but they even claim ownership of versions that were demonstrably already used by Linus in Linux 0.01. If SCO has nothing better to show, this will be a laughingstock for the entire industry.
LWN: SCO's copyright letter
And here is the letter with the files that would allegedly be illegal in Linux due to copyright claims on APIs. Which is of course particularly amusing when a file is named bsderrors.h - and the comments on the letter point out a few other problems in SCO's claims.
MBS: Temperature Monitor - Temperature monitor for the CPU in newer Macintosh computers
moviemistakes.com - welcome! - Website about mistakes in movies
Novell Registers Unix Copyrights
One could almost feel sorry for SCO. But only almost.
At New York Times: Technology you can find the original article.
NSF - OLPA - PR 03-147: RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NANOSCALE FIBERS THAT ARE THINNER THAN THE WAVELENG ...
Weird. Glass fibers that are thinner than the wavelengths of light they transport - because of this, the light waves don't lie within the fiber, but around the fiber instead, yet are still guided.
Powerbook Fan and Safari Tabs
Cool class. So what else about Panther should stop me from upgrading my little PowerBook? First all kinds of things are broken, then you have to patch the system if you don't want a loud noise machine. I think I'll stick with Jaguar for a while.
At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
PreFab UI Browser - Remote control OS X GUI applications and generate Apple Script for it
Taco Software - Freeware for Mac OS X - HTML editor with live preview that uses many system features of OS X
Unreliable Guide To Locking - Documentation of the various locking mechanisms in Linux 2.6