chumby - damn. Still only available in the USA. I also want a useless gadget on the table!
Archive 18. February 2008
Command line Haskell and error handling examples - those who want to know why I decided at some point that Haskell is a stupid language should check out the link. A language in which such a banal problem as summing numbers in a file undergoes such extreme changes just by adding error handling may excite mathematicians and computer scientists, but is simply unproductive. And yes, I know that large projects with Haskell are successful and the programmers are enthusiastic about it (pugs and darcs come to mind spontaneously). Doesn't change my judgment about Haskell.
Cooperative Linux - crazy, the Linux kernel recompiled as a Windows executable. Booting Linux happens by running the Linux kernel and all drivers are redirected to Win32 APIs.
Comment: Stasi statement a super-GAU for Die Linke - why the demand of a Left Party deputy of what the Interior Minister is diligently implementing should now be a super-GAU ... (ok, ok, I understand, the Left should distinguish itself argumentatively from the CDU - and whoever believes that there are significant differences between parties, for whom I have a cheap bridge in Brooklyn). The way in which the press is now stirring up this - admittedly stupid - statement, while at the same time a federal minister sworn in on the constitution tramples this constitution underfoot, is already highly embarrassing.
Pisa losers are victims of their media consumption - no wonder. Just take a look at the current reporting in the media. A child can't learn anything decent from that. And the brutality in the business section. Or did I misunderstand something?
Steueraffäre: Mehr Fahnder und härtere Strafen gefordert - ah, right, it's election campaign. Only the stupid Westerwelle hasn't noticed again and quickly takes the side of the tax evaders. The real joke, however, is the appeal from the Union's mouthpiece Pofalla to the code of conduct and morality of the economy. I'm actually just waiting for an explicitly formulated "Tightening of tax law harms the economic location Germany" from some party blowhard. Preferably something from the allegedly left spectrum, for entertainment purposes.
WiebeTech Micro Storage Solutions - HotPlug - Move a computer to battery power and transport it without ever shutting it down. - coolio, easily pack up and carry a computer while it's running. And thus, for example, negate disk encryption - because if the user is logged in, access to the encrypted media is usually possible (at least if the encrypted drive is logged in). Clever idea.