Archive 5. January 2004

Commerzbank terminates occupational pensions

Isn't that just great? The bank executives mess up and the employees are supposed to pay for it with their retirement benefits. That's how business bosses imagine life: take no responsibility, because you have employees you can squeeze when customers no longer cover the costs. :-(

Update: As I just heard in the news, of course the board of directors is exempt from this.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

CVS Module for Apache - An Apache module that serves files from a CVS repository and performs a checkout when needed

Data from the Socket - Garbage in the Radio

And here we learn how once again something useful (shortwave radio) is being sold off for something useless (Internet over power lines), simply because economic interests have changed.

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

The Unbearable Lightness of Stone, Part 2

Here we learn how physics solves the fundamental questions of life and engages in active problem-solving.

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

mailman-discard home - Batch processing of Mailman administrative requests

NeoOffice/J Home - Porting of Open Office to Mac OS X Native via Java

News: GPL Violation by KISS-Technology

Once again a company that believes licenses are only for them but not for others. I'd wager if someone were to copy their products and use them to create their own products, they'd scream bloody murder. But licenses for free software can simply be ignored, apparently that's what they think.

Here's the original article.

Seven See Offending SCO Code (LinuxWorld Feedback)

So so. SCO shows the allegedly stolen code to various people under their NDA. And what kind of people? Employees of analyst groups and reporters. Very competent people, especially at assessing code origin in an operating system kernel. So again just hot air from SCO.

Here's the original article.

The Best Page In The Universe.

This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong. - is there a better motto for a blog?

Here's the original article.

www.alscher.ch > podboard - A completely pointless stainless steel stand holder for the iPod