Archive 20. August 2004

Form submission and the ENTER key? - Discussion of the problem of Enter=Submit in HTML forms

Hacker Attack on Research Station at the South Pole

Should I be concerned that I just imagined a bunch of hackers dressed as Eskimos with clubs in their hands? I mean, that's pretty silly - Eskimos only exist at the North Pole...

I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Science.

Internet telephony not with any area code

I am very much afraid: Contrary practices endangered the national numbering plan. - that would be the true catastrophe, the downfall of Western civilization, the annihilation of all being! The national numbering plan must be protected, come what may! Save the national numbering plan! At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet I found the original article.

PmWiki - very extensively developed wiki

With PmWiki there is a really very powerful version with translations, templating, various ready-made layouts (which also don't just look ugly in wiki primitive styling) and mountains of options. And funnily enough, it's much easier to understand than many high-end CMS systems. I like it very much, even though the thing is written in PHP - a language that I simply find disgusting. Well, as long as good systems come out of it, that's fine with me.

Here is the original article.

Newspaper: Authorities can access bank accounts from 2005

Because recipients of unemployment benefits II are by definition suspicious and you can't trust them anyway. That's why they have fewer rights than normal suspects - for those you still need a court order for something like this ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.