Archive 11. April 2004

30-meter spruce for Easter bonfire

This Easter bonfire nonsense is getting on my nerves big time. The whole area stinks like a cold ashtray. Disgusting. And every farm thinks it has to burn its own Easter fire. Nothing but pyromaniacs around here ...

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Apple protects itself from 'Playfair'

Was to be expected that Apple would take action against it. Hosting the project on Sourceforge was really a bit too bold.

It could be interesting to observe how this develops further. For Apple, it could become a real problem if the music industry thinks their DRM implementation is too lax - and, for example, prefers Microsoft's model.

On the other hand, Apple now has such a large market share in music downloads that it's probably somewhat difficult for the music industry to take action against Apple without shooting themselves in the foot. Though they're dumb enough to try anyway.

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft there's the original article.

For Radio Programmers

I wasn't familiar with him. Very practical! Especially since I finally got access to cable radio yesterday.

At Wortfeld you can find the original article.

Sun discontinues development of UltraSparc V

Ouch. Ok, it was foreseeable - the new chips were announced repeatedly, but never appeared. Still - that's quite a debacle. SUN simply doesn't have enough resources to abandon a chip line in the sand without it having an impact on the company ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.