Streitfall: Telekom will einheitlichen De-Mail-Domainnamen per Gesetz - state-subsidized scam free from technical expertise. The entire de-mail debacle can hardly be surpassed in absurdity.
Archive 7. February 2011
Carl Zeiss joins Micro Four Thirds System - and this makes things more interesting for my Panasonics again, as the Zeiss video lenses could really be great additions to the system. And what Schneider-Kreuznach will bring is not yet known, but they have already delivered interesting things for the field of digital large format cameras. I say photography technology is really exciting at the moment.
Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good idea. And it also explains why avatars have disappeared again from my blog for commentators - not that I suffer from paranoia, but why open up the possibility of determining an email address for a gimmick?
IN-12 / IV-12 Nixie / VFD Clock. Well, tubes are just awesome. However, I would rather go for the "ready-assembled clock" option, my fingers often end up on the wrong (hot) end of the soldering iron ...
RUR-PLE is something like Logo, only with Python instead of Logo as the language. So actually just the graphical environment of typical Logo implementations. In any case, a nice toy.
using negotiate authentication (GSSAPI Kerberos) with Firefox. We have looked at this from time to time and wondered how to link Firefox to Kerberos logins.
Newcomer: Kenko to offer system camera with C-mount lenses. Simply interesting because this brings another somewhat unusual system camera - C-mount are compact video lenses, there are also some from Zeiss (so with quite good quality) and the image circle of these optics is rather suitable for compact camera chips. This naturally means worse low-light capability, but chances for very compact bodies (although my NEX with its APS-C chip already delivers a very compact body). It's a bit like the heyday of analog photography in the 35mm format again, when the market became really colorful with the Olympus Pen, the Pentax 110 and other camera exotics. I like it.
what a superb owl
Probably from here (I only heard about it indirectly via Twitter).