Now there's a forced redirect:
When customers of the provider 1&1 in Karlsruhe establish a new DSL connection and then start the browser, they are now always shown the 1&1 portal.
Great. And if these first requests come from some scripts of a server at the DSL connection, the scripts will fail. Just because 1&1 had another rarely stupid idea. And we have to explain to the customers again why something obscure doesn't work - and all of this just for marketing nonsense.
Because the sky will fall on our heads. Which is a good thing, because in 2037 the Unix epoch will expire and all computers will go crazy. And so we are spared the chaos.
Oh, and whoever believes all this, I have a very nice bridge to sell ...
Django has taken an important step for the release 1.0: anonymous sessions. Sessions were previously tied to user login in Django, but now it also works without registration. Much nicer than creating thousands of cookies for the user.
Cooperative Linux is a port of the Linux kernel as a Windows application. This allows you to run Linux as a Windows application without needing a virtualizer like VMWare.
Create, Read, Update, Delete - the standard functions of classic interfaces - can be easily assembled with Django. For this, there are Generic Views. On Postneo there is now a CRUD Tutorial, which shows how simple such interfaces can be put together with Django.
There are legitimate doubts about the police version in the Menezes case in London:
A surveillance video shows that the 27-year-old was wearing a light denim jacket and did not behave suspiciously in the subway station, the broadcaster reported. He calmly entered the station, accepted a free newspaper, and took the elevator to the platform. Only there did Menezes run to a train and take a seat in a carriage. A witness also stated that the trained electrician was overpowered by an officer. Shortly afterward, police officers shot Menezes multiple times in the head. An autopsy revealed that the body had seven headshots and one entry wound in the shoulder. However, the police had fired three more shots whose projectiles had not yet been found, ITV continued.
And how do all the shoot-to-kill advocates explain this away now? So they don't have to think about the madness of their stance?
Finally an application in Ruby on Rails that goes beyond the usual example applications - and is not just a weblog or a totally pointless to-do list management or something similar: VitalSource is an iTunes-like application for books with a corresponding backend and a frontend also based on Rails (but integrated into the application):
Apparently their backend applications have been running Rails for a while. But they've recently released their client software, and it runs Rails as well. Except... you won't see it running in a conventional browser. As the picture shows, the Rails app runs embedded within the client executable: in the case of the Mac client it uses WebKit to render the responses from the Rails app.
I was already fed up with all the Rails applications - which all sounded like textbook exercises.