Exotic deep-sea shark caught in the net - interesting, this is a living fossil that I didn't know about yet.
Archive 25. January 2007
frozen waves - wow!
Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD - "With the HD-DVD, I wasn't able to play my movie on my non-HDCP HD monitor. Not being able to play a movie that I have paid for, because some executive in Hollywood decided I cannot, made me mad... After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where "unbalanced" by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-ray too. "
"Münstersche Zeitung": Publisher puts entire editorial staff on furlough - yes yes, the Münster local press. The MZ was at least somewhat usable - at least compared to the Westfälische Zeitung, which only passed on DPA reports and whose local editorial staff was simply terrible. And now the MZ has simply fired the entire local editorial staff, because you don't need such things. The difficult market situation? Well, that was simply the stupidity of management. As everywhere in the field. The arrogance and stupidity of the store is one reason why I never subscribed to the paper - the "better than Westfälische Nachrichten" is just a relative quality statement ...
Reddit.com User Agreement - "You agree that by posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication with or through the Website, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication (including your identity and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes". Web 2.0, my ass.
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast - why grep and awk match faster than Perl or Python.
The Text Editor sam - interesting historical document. Some ideas are still brilliant today - the integration of text commands and mouse operation is much better than in many other editors.
The truth about working in the IT industry - just like a prostitute.