Archive 20. May 2004

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Finding out the number of values the caller is expecting - Using bytecode disassembler to find out how many result values a function caller expects

Image Supply

The advantage of vacation: you finally get to do photography again. The disadvantage: you have to come up with titles and descriptions for all the pictures ...

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Federal Government's E-Mail Servers Nearly Shut Down

So they can't do that in Berlin either

Teufelsgrinsen

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Cologne, Essen or Münster?

Münster it didn't become. And no, Münster is not a normal case in cultural policy. At least I hope that a disaster case like Münster is not the norm ...

Tillmann's blather can be thrown in the bin anyway - as usual. Pure hypocrisy. The only true statement was "Cultural policy in Münster remains a citizens' movement" - exactly. Citizens, not a politicians' movement. The politicians in Münster at best demonetize cultural institutions and projects - the city council hasn't actually built anything.

At WDR.de there's the original article.

Old and New

Old and New

Alt und Neu

Rusting barrel and fresh green. The winner is clear.

Excavator Arm

Excavator Arm

Excavator Arm

Photographed near the train station.

The Screw is Not Loose ...

The screw is not loose ...

The screw is not loose ...

Yes, we've had this motif before. But it's not the same screw.

Fundus

Fundus

Fundus

Interior of Cafe Fundus at the train station.

Harley Davidson

Harley Davidson

Harley Davidson

Seen at the Luv on the canal.

Wood Furniture

Wooden Furniture

Wooden Furniture

Near the Pinkus brewery close to Rosenplatz.

Beautiful on Father's Day, eerie on the weekend

Cool. The boozers have good weather today, but at the weekend during the city festival there's a wet and cold ass? Well, we'll see. But if the city festival falls through, I wouldn't like that at all ...

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: SCO Demands FSF Disclosure

Speaking of strange again: SCO's behavior probably falls under that term as well. Slowly but surely, SCO seems to be preparing a witch hunt against Free Software.

You can find the original article at heise online news under this link.

Software patent opponents accuse Brussels of dishonesty

So much for our government allegedly being against software patents, as it claimed itself just recently (P2234). It was all just a lie. The original article can be found at heise online news.

From Zero to Linux in 6 Months? Only Through Copied Code.

Somehow the Tocqueville Foundation and their appearance on the topic of Linux seem pretty strange to me...

Well, probably Tanenbaum is right: they simply have no idea what they're writing about.

At heise online news there is the original article.

WordPress Tinkering

Since I'm currently playing around with blog utilities and CMSes, my current WordPress installation has already gotten some content and layout improvements. Of all the alternatives for small sites, I still like it the best. For Drupal (my current favorite for larger sites), I might also find a use case.

Do I have too many domains and sites? Oh well.

Update: since I'm now running this blog with WordPress and the other one had become outdated, I simply shut it down. One less site to maintain...

WordPress Support › Static "like" pages - Discussion about creating pseudo-static pages (e.g. imprint) in WordPress