AK deletes 60 child porn sites in 12 hours - and why can't our Ursula do that?
Archive May 2009
bobo v0.2 documentation - wow! Bobo is back!
Reading and Writing to Excel Spreadsheets in Python - if you ever have to interface with the devil's tools.
Roland Schulz: SSH ProxyCommand without netcat - very nice hack on how to get over ssh gateways without netcat and without intermediate stops.
The Online Photographer: Sigma DP2 Review - well, the DP-2 is not what I'm looking for either. Maybe that will be the upcoming Olympus.
iSqueak - and here is the development environment with which you can program the iPhone in Smalltalk.
Mobile Wiki Server - cool thing, a Wiki server created in Seaside and Squeak (Smalltalk) that runs on the iPhone or iPod Touch and allows, for example, local editing or remote editing from the desktop. I doubt that a web server on the iPhone really makes much sense, but it's always funny.
Geeking out with Lisp Flavoured Erlang - I really need to finally deal with Lisp Flavoured Erlang.
Nanojit - compact library for native code generation. Used in Tamarin and SpiderMonkey.
pickled-object-database - a simple small object database based on the Pickle API and SQLite. Looks quite interesting, reminds me quite a bit of Wood, a similar object database for Common Lisp.
Whither Eucalyptus? - Apple continues to mess around with the AppStore. Now they are refusing to approve an eBook application because you can (if you explicitly search for it and actively download it) read the Kama Sutra with it. How stupid is that? Shouldn't they maybe give the reviewer, who seems to be so compulsively fixated on the Kama Sutra, a round with the house psychiatrist?
Lamson: Lamson The Python SMTP Server - interesting project, especially if you plan to build on email as an interface.
Gluster - interesting cluster filesystem under free license.
Nimrod Programming Language - interesting Python variant with explicit support for parse trees (and thus macro capabilities at the level of Lisp) but native code compilation.
SCO should be liquidated - will we actually not get any more silly SCO vs. Linux stories in the foreseeable future? Amazing!
Animeeple Software - Animation software with animation market and seemingly good support for Second Life.
Federal incompetence and wobbly dachshund - "In view of the 'numerous violations of intellectual property on the Internet', the minister also wondered whether, for example, stronger regulation of the network is necessary. This will certainly 'occupy politics for the next few years', what will follow from the planned blocks of child pornographic pages 'will follow', she did not completely rule out an expansion to illegal offers of protected works" - oh, first she warned about the evil Zensursula, and now she is already tipping over in exactly the direction she warned about. What was that about the desires that are awakened? They seem to have been awakened in her. As could generally be expected from the prolethicians in Berlin.
Search of forum operator's home unlawful - "The mere fact that third parties may offer links to pirated copies in an internet forum does not yet justify a search of the operator of this forum." - says the Federal Constitutional Court. Which is also logical, forums are usually not operated from home computers, but from servers. But apparently some of the overzealous "law enforcers" still don't understand this ... (and again, why does the Federal Constitutional Court constantly have to protect us from things that should be clear to any half-witted person?)
MonoDevelop on MacOS X - is though Microsoft junk, and the executable programs are called .exe, but at least there are a few interesting programming languages under Mono that you can now also meaningfully try out under OS X.
Murdoch will behind the paywall - well, that's okay, then his trash will be read less. But his whining, "the times of the current Internet are soon over" is really cute. Of course it is - as the term "current" already says. But does the fool really believe that the future Internet will actually develop into his backward understanding of the world?
Packet Garden - a nice graphical toy that generates virtual landscapes from network traffic data. And there's also the Python source code, so you can learn about network programming and Python at the same time.
Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin - interesting for various reasons, not least the fact that Mercurial runs significantly better on Windows than Git.
New Survey Suggests Modern Humans Originated in Southwest Africa - "Dr. Tishkoff’s team has also calculated the exit point from which a small human group — maybe a single tribal band of 150 people — left Africa some 50,000 years ago and populated the rest of the world. The region is near the midpoint of the African coast of the Red Sea."