Archive 12. May 2004

BBC develops 'alternative' codec | The Register

Very interesting, a new video codec. And the BBC put it under an open source license right from the start!

Here you can find the original article.

Emu48 for Mac OS X

The emulator I use for calculators on the Sony Clie also has relatives for OS X

Here's the original article.

Firewalls and Complexity

Ouch. =F6 reports on a rather silly article in Computerwoche that dreams of magical web validation firewalls ...

At The Wonderful World of Isotopp you can find the original article.

ICRC: Our discretion protects human lives

Exactly.

At Der Rollberg there's the original article.

iSync and Daily Appointments

Is there a valid reason why iSync doesn't synchronize all-day events? My calendar displays the all-day event. PHPCalendar also shows the all-day events. iCal also displays the all-day events correctly as all-day events. But neither my Palm nor my mobile phone are syncing the all-day events. However, the iPod does get them and displays them - albeit with a time of 00:00. I really don't understand what that's supposed to be about...

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Rau admonishes elites: "Lost all standards"

They will listen to Brother Johannes just as much as they listen to Chief Silverlock - namely, not at all.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

More Bluetooth Phones Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks

Now I've got the S55 and what's this? It's also vulnerable to Bluetooth attacks. But at least only Denial-of-Service and not Bluesnarf. The latter would be rather annoying - after all, I use the phone and Bluetooth for remote administration of servers ...

At heise online news there's the original article.