Archive 24. May 2004

Can someone please fix the Internet?

Since today around 2:00 PM or so:

 traceroute to pages.ebay.de (66.135.192.85), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 firewall (10.0.0.88) 0.751 ms 0.437 ms 0.459 ms 2 217.5.98.26 (217.5.98.26) 58.647 ms 49.401 ms 85.632 ms 3 217.237.152.194 (217.237.152.194) 46.751 ms 48.2 ms 46.915 ms 4 paix-gw12.sfo.us.net.dtag.de (62.154.5.245) 232.335 ms 232.182 ms 232.114 ms 5 * * * 6 * * *

Malformed Proteins Found in Sheep Muscle

Pretty cool. Prions have been found in muscle meat of sheep. Well, I don't eat lamb shanks or similar stuff anyway...

At New York Times: Science there's the original article.

Prothon

I had already covered Prothon before - a fusion of Python and Self. Very interesting - and it has received a new version that seems much more polished.

Here's the original article.

randomthoughts: PyLucene - Lucene Wrapper for Python

Phone Spamming Remains Prohibited

And the spammers will certainly continue trying to get this garbage through the courts. But I hope they also fail in the next instance - these fake calls are an absolute cheek. These absurd advertising measures are just a nuisance for mobile phone users and have no real value - or does anyone really believe that mobile phone users would be so stupid as to use a paid service after it has spammed their phone multiple times? I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet.

When it comes to TV magazines...

Hmm. klack.de isn't so bad after all. Ok, a little colorful, but I find a TV magazine that offers RSS feeds for TV programs right on the front page sympathetic

At ab::gebloggt there's the original article.