ARD and ZDF: Back to the Middle Ages? - because it is slowly becoming apparent that the ridiculous business models of private broadcasters do not work, one draws the logical conclusion in Germany and destroys the added value created by fees. Because it is known to be much better when advertising junk and trash television is subsidized (because that's what it is - just banal indirect subsidization). One could of course also take a look at what the BBC does, for example, and orient oneself accordingly, and demand from public broadcasting (and exert pressure through the control bodies) to produce meaningful content from the fees, which might then be published under meaningful licenses (have you heard of CC?) and directly benefit the citizens (for whom the state is actually supposed to be there, not for the ridiculous scammers from the private broadcasting corner). But that would be a sensible approach. And presumably fewer bribes would be paid or something like that ...
Archive 11. April 2008
Digging into Factor’s compiler - very nice overview of how the Factor compiler works. I'm having more and more fun with Factor, I think I'll play around with it a bit more.
Filesharing becomes more dangerous - or not - as usual, botched construction. Because the federal prolethicians just can't do anything really right. Except then go ahead and further erode the rights of citizens - that they can do really well.
GitHub - "Secure Git hosting and collaborative development". Looks quite nice and git is, alongside Mercurial, one of the more interesting new version control systems.
Google App Engine for developers - nice overview of the features and the people behind the App Engine.
Network Solutions: Not Just Thieves and Hijackers, Now Using Tactics That Can Get Your Site Banned From Google - oh wow. Network Solutions set up a wildcard A-record for unused subdomains on domains using their DNS, and put ads on them. Someone registers a name to connect it with their business, uses Network Solutions' service for operating the name server, and then is simply screwed over by their service provider.
Strange TCP-networking problems with Mac OS X 10.4 and Solaris 10 - obscure TCP parameters you might want to tweak to possibly boost OS X's sluggish networking.
Unicode 5.1 contains ß as a capital letter - because, it's important.