Archive 19. August 2004

Agfa snaps photo business shut

Oh Menno... :-(

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

"Coffee and Cigarettes" - Jim Jarmusch's new film

Hmm. Episode films aren't really my thing. On the other hand, Jim Jarmusch is simply a brilliant filmmaker. And now? In or not in, that is the question here ...

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

details about the shebang mechanism

Details on script interpreter invocation - that is, the shebang (#!) line. And the list also reveals a problem with Linux: the path of an interpreter in the #! line is ignored. Classic example: a Python 2.2 installation in /usr/bin, another in /opt/pyds/bin. Now a script is supposed to run with /opt/pyds/bin/python - but if you enter that in the #! line, Linux ignores the path and takes the installation in /usr/bin anyway, and thus the wrong libraries. ! is a nasty hack that sometimes does what you expect. Sometimes. But not always. And certainly not more often than not.

Here you can find the original article.

Infection through Internet Explorer vulnerability despite Service Pack 2

Yeah, so that's what the IE development blog said recently: IE in XP SP2 stops all currently known critical exploits, so it's a heck of a lot more secure than pretty much any other browser. Well, that turned out to be nothing ...

You can find the original article on heise online news here.

Modeling Object-Relational Bridge for python - Database modeling and mapping to Python

SCO vs. Linux: IBM strikes back

Slowly IBM lawyers are letting their vicious streak run free

At heise online news there's the original article.