CLORB - a Common Lisp ORB
You've probably heard of Corba Bindings for Common Lisp. But here there's a whole Corba Implementation in Common Lisp.

You've probably heard of Corba Bindings for Common Lisp. But here there's a whole Corba Implementation in Common Lisp.

This is gradually starting to sound quite concrete. Until 2006, I still have some time to save up
Well, all these attempts by industry to dictate what we're allowed to do with our computers according to their ideas are a constant annoyance. If it were up to the industry, we'd soon have to get permission from various manufacturers for any application use, and free software development would be banned anyway. It's already absurd that some people invest hundreds or thousands of euros in a device over which they're supposed to have only very limited control...
You can find the original article at J-O-S-H DOT NET - DIARY here.
But even now there are considerable protests against the comic, which according to its own advertising is about "office politics in the workplace, where this workplace is the Vatican and the boss is the Pope". He is supposedly depicted as abundantly childish and scatterbrained, the workplace, the Catholic Church, as corrupt and the cardinals as sinister. - and where is the satire in that? That's bitter earnest!

I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Russian experts believe, according to a report from the Interfax news agency, that it is possible that insulation material or a fastening tape has come loose from the space station. - so are the rumors true that the ISS is only held together by duct tape?
Now that's quite interesting - an open source version of Palm OS. Could do the system a lot of good. If only the new Palms weren't such power-hungry devices...
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
PycURL Home Page - Python Wrapper for libcurl
shwebyhshandler.py - Handler for Medusa that supports gzip transfer encoding
A few sources for iPod batteries and battery replacements in Germany.
At MacGuardians you can find the original article.