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Archive 21.9.2004 - 24.9.2004
CL-PREVALENCE - In-Memory Database and Serialization as well as Deserialization for Lisp
GROKLAW - SCO never compared current sources
Well, that's really embarrassing when you have to admit in court that you haven't actually compared the current sources, but instead rely on an internal study from 1999 - not a bunch of experts constantly combing through the sources. All that time wasted and in the end you had to admit you did nothing. Embarrassing, very embarrassing. But the "we need help" from SCO is really amusing. Sorry folks, but nobody can help you anymore
Also amusing is the fact that Kernel 2.4, which SCO was particularly targeting, was only started in 1999 - and wasn't available until 2001. In 1999, 2.2 had just been released, so SCO could hardly have had access to the 2.4 kernel back then. Yet they claim that precisely 2.4 and 2.6 are problematic - even though according to their own statement they never compared the sources.
heise online - IETF's anti-spam working group MARID strikes its sails
Since there is no prospect of consensus and achieving the stated goal -- a standard proposal by August 2004 -- he and the MARID chiefs decided to close the group. - yes, sorry, but if it's not until the end of September that one realizes the deadline in August can no longer be met, then perhaps one should put a calendar on the desk.
Otherwise, the whole procedure is an absolute debacle. I agree with the voices that the prevention of discussion about patent problems is a reason for the debacle. Patent claims on IETF algorithms should be cleared up early - because especially with such important infrastructure decisions, one must not hand over the reins to corporations that can then exploit it. And anyone who believes that Microsoft wouldn't have used such leverage to hinder the GPL is someone who puts on their pants with pliers...
And yes, it is a serious problem that there will now be no IETF proposal for the foreseeable future. Because this opens the door wide for Microsoft's unilateral action. Let's hope that spam prevention doesn't become the crowbar with which Microsoft cracks open the server market on the Internet.
Intel against 'Inside' websites
And the brand squabble continues. However, claiming the word inside as a trademark is already pretty audacious. At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Lispix Table of Contents - Image processing system in Common Lisp
MetaOCaml Homepage
A very cool project: OCaml - already one of the most beautiful functional programming languages - is being extended with multistage programming. In principle, this is comparable to macros from Common Lisp or Scheme - but of course defined in a functionally clean way. Through multistage programming, OCaml now allows the creation of mini-languages for specific problem domains and code generation in these mini-languages - without the whole thing becoming inefficient due to execution overhead. However, I haven't yet looked into whether it comes anywhere close to the power of Common Lisp macros.
Persistent Lisp OBjects - Persistent Lisp Objects - current version, client-server architecture
Pg: a Common Lisp interface to PostgreSQL - PostGreSQL client entirely in Common Lisp
Projects at Common-Lisp.net - Yet another bunch of more projects in Common Lisp
py2app builds its first .app
Bob Ippolito has developed a tool for the simple creation of Python-based OS X applications to the point where it compiles its first Python application. The advantage of his method: no compiler is needed and you work entirely in Python - for small tools certainly useful, since the development environment is often simply overkill for that purpose.
Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste
A nice and detailed explanation of meta tags with character set specifications, the HTTP Content-Type header with character set specification, and what browsers do with it. I always say it: the web is a technical garbage heap that just happens to work amazingly well despite that.
SZOn - "Sammlung Cremer" goes to Münster
The painting "Monochrome bleu" by Yves Klein and the "Cremer Collection" with more than 180 works of Nouveau Réalisme and the Fluxus movement will now be on view in Münster. - so if you're looking for a reason to visit Münster, this stuff is hanging in the Landesmuseum
VIPS image processing library home page - Open Source Image Processing - an alternative to the usual suspects (Gimp, ImageMagick etc.)
AllegroServe - a Web Application Server - Homepage of the original AllegroServe web server - with documentation that is also relevant for Portable AllegroServe
Bavaria Abolishes Free Learning Materials
Another step towards denying or making education more difficult for those with little money. Because whoever has little money will think twice about whether to send their children to a gymnasium - paying 3 years more in book fees hurts.
Education is far too important to be prevented through cost-cutting measures. When you then look at what money is squandered on in Bavaria and how funds are lost through dubious dealings, something like this makes you even angrier.
But that was already clear from the discussion about elite universities: today elites are defined only by how much money the parents have.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Clean Corpus - Cleaning the Popfile (from 0.20) corpus to remove unnecessarily recorded words
Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) - the classic Common Lisp HTTP server
Common Lisp Opensource Center - diverse Allegro Open Source Projects - e.g. an FTP and an NFS server
Fall Hamilton: Vuelta B Test Positive
Sounds somehow like a career end.
At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
Jenoptik Announces 22 Megapixel Eyelike eMotion²² Digital Back
Weird. Jenoptik is actually rather known for extremely cheap digital cameras that are preferably marketed through Aldi and similar retail chains. I associate high-end digital backs for medium format cameras much less with Jenoptik. But at least they love extremes
At PhotographyBLOG there's the original article.
Lisp news from Rainer Joswig
Very interesting. Unfortunately still no RSS feed, but I found quite a bit on it that wasn't on Planet Lisp or my other Lisp sources. For example, the fact that Loom is now open source (back then I had to put in considerable effort to get a license - though it was free). When I read through all this Lisp stuff, I'm really itching to do more with it. I just have no idea where I'm going to find the time...
Update: a friendly spirit dropped a link to the RSS feed in the comments
lisp tools for xml - Yet another XML parser - this one is very comprehensive, supporting common models. It also includes a SOAP parser.
LyX WikiWiki - LyX.Mac
Great – there's a native Mac version of LyX. One of the most interesting word processors – the structured text entered is converted to LaTeX or DocBook and then processed into print output with correspondingly powerful formatting tools. Installation is a bit fiddly though, due to the additional required software (teTeX, Ghostscript and a few other things).
OpenMCL-McCLIM-beagle-backend.jpg
Very cool! OpenMCL apparently will soon have a CLIM based on Cocoa — a prototype is already in CVS. Now if only the tools from Genera were ported to OpenMCL and I wouldn't need to turn on my Symbolics anymore
Portable AllegroServe - Compatibility layer for Allegro CL network and threading code for the AllegroServe web server
S-XML - Simple XML Parser for Common Lisp
S-XML-RPC - XML-RPC for client and server in Common Lisp
Statistical programming with R
Part 1: Dabbling with a wealth of statistical facilities
For all number crunchers.
Suchmaschinen-Eintrag & Optimierung - Everything about search engines
TeX on Mac OS X
A distribution of teTeX and various useful utilities for TeX as an installer. This makes the installation of LyX easier, since all the installers are GUI-guided.
woodshed productions: Dialogue between web designer and search engine robot
Great! Definitely worth reading!
woodshed productions: Consulting: Search Engine Optimization - Nice short explanation of what matters when it comes to search engines and websites
XML/HTML parsers - XML and HTML parsers in Common Lisp - for Allegro, but possibly portable?
Disgusting ...
... when you listen to arrogant officials talking about how a man detained in Guantanamo lost his residence permit because he failed to report within 6 months after leaving the country - even though he was imprisoned there where he couldn't report. Because contact restrictions apply there. And nobody knows what he's accused of - sometimes it's not even told to the detainees. Even if he is released without being charged or convicted, he cannot return to Germany to his family - because the German authorities do not consider detention in Guantanamo to be sufficient reason to suspend the reporting deadline. Long live bureaucratic pedantry and red tape.
Office Frustration
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that is the Joersch
No, he doesn't have a blog. That was just a demo of the camera in the Clie and the web browser (and moblogging). The camera quality is still terrible |:-)| ![139-400-300.jpeg][P1]
ImageWell - small utility for image editing and uploading
Inventory: you have no tea
Cool, the Hitchhiker Infocom Adventure as a Flash application. I'm not really into Flash, but that's a funny application.
I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
lispmeister: Assembler Guru: Randall Hyde
Yep - assembler knowledge is very useful. You can only understand certain optimization approaches if you know how the machine works internally. And understand why something is slower than perhaps expected at the abstract high-level language level. My first seriously used language was Z80 assembler and I absolutely don't consider that a waste. And yes, I love the disassemble function in Common Lisp and get annoyed every time again when other interactive environments don't offer something like that. Because with it you can very well check what the compiler actually created from the code - and with basic knowledge of the assembler used, you can definitely guide optimizations for time-critical routines. disassemble is like the scientist's microscope. At Planet Lisp there's the original article.
Make hard drives in to speakers
Crazy - using open hard drives as speaker replacements. Somehow cool
I found the original article on Engadget.
Microsoft announces MTP protocol
What a mess. There are already finished protocols for this. But Microsoft, of course, invents its own protocols again, so that end devices work as well as possible only with their garbage heap. And the users are the stupid ones again.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there's the original article.
Bicycle Parking House Münster
Bicycle Parking House Münster
One of the remnants from our 4 years of SPD mayoralty: a bicycle parking house with bicycle wash station and repair workshop. Not bad at all and certainly more sensible than the monstrous Ludgeri car park that the current CDU mayoralty came up with to waste taxpayer money ...
Odds and ends
Krimskrams
A small antique shop at the beginning of Wolbecker Strasse. Actually just a small exhibition room - I can't imagine how a salesperson could fit in there.
Fuzzy Sedge
Wuschel Segge
Yes, I've read Tad Williams' War of the Flowers. And I've got a new digital camera.
:: radiant data :: - replicating file system on P2P basis for Linux
Bosco HOWTO - Description of how to create OS X applications with OpenMCL