The internet is shit
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Archive 1.7.2004 - 6.7.2004
Because yesterday was about online oldies...
I searched groups.google.com for when the first newspostings appeared in which the provider association I started with (as a user and founding member) was referenced. We founded ourselves (OUT e.V. - Domain westfalen.de) in 1993. You can read about this in the association history. However, we initially only had UUCP because we couldn't get an IP connection - the University of Münster refused to connect us, contrary to the DFN's directional guidelines. From 1995 onwards we had a connection through a local provider. And on May 1, 1995, the first posting was archived in which one of our users provided his homepage. Unfortunately http://archive.org/ doesn't go back far enough, the first homepages would be quite interesting... Here's the original article.
Resistance to 50-hour week
What kind of economic experts are these supposed to be? Probably some university armchair theorists who have never had to do serious work and therefore have no idea what work actually means. How workers toil themselves to exhaustion, and that's already at the 40-hour workload that's unfortunately become normal again. But that doesn't interest any of the experts, on none of the involved sides. They couldn't care less - as long as they can spout their intellectual nonsense.
I experienced firsthand with my father how his health suffered more and more from work and was relieved that he was able to take early retirement. But for these armchair theorists, work apparently consists of spouting stupid comments in some tabloid interview...
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.
Old Sacks Online
Too bad. I don't have such clear-cut proof. Only that I appear in a statistics from early August 1992 with my ancient address under the mouse COE in Usenet. I must have been online for at least 12 years by that month, assuming the statistics included at least July. My first archived posting is a bit later and then already from the Maus ST2 (of which I was one of two operators) from October 1992. I feel old...
At Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp I found the original article.
Ego-Blogging
I just wanted to point out that I'm the top 5 Georg Bauer results on Google
(However - as I noticed from a comment by Kai - only on google.com, not on google.de)
MUTE: Simple, Anonymous File Sharing - File sharing based on "chaotic" routing
Schröder suggests relief for pharmaceutical industry
Great. The pharmaceutical industry typically shows itself in public either by bringing overpriced drugs to market to finance bogus expenses while ripping off the sick, or by throwing drugs like Lipobay onto the market that in the form they come to market then kill people, or by vehemently refusing to take urgently needed action against AIDS or other epidemic diseases for example in Africa, or by diligently trying to manipulate medical associations, doctors, hospitals and whatever else.
But now the Chancellor wants it to be relieved of burden. The patients - who are first and foremost the victims of the pharmaceutical industry and its rip-offs - are being diligently burdened more.
And with such conduct, the SPD wonders why citizens no longer believe that they stand for social issues? What kind of complete idiot does a politician have to be to spout such nonsensical remarks and then still be amazed when he loses elections by a landslide?
A relief for the pharmaceutical industry would be a slap in the face to all patients. Schröder, that's appalling!
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
Steffen Wesemann hit by car
Oh man. Training accidents seem to be piling up lately. And it's constantly car drivers and trucks that are running over cyclists.
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Backlight-Kits für HP Handhelds | backlight4you.com - Retrofittable backlighting for HP 200 LX
Report: Software Project for Tax Authorities Failed
Shoddy work. Since 1991 and nothing finished yet? What nonsense. If we did something like that, we would have been out of business for years ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Digital Research's GEM (Intel 8086 version!) - GEM Software binary downloads
DOS Palmtops - Memory cards, updates and software for the HP 200 LX
GEM for HP200LX - Running GEM on the HP 200 LX
HP 100LX/200LX Technical Information - Technical information about the HP 200 LX - including repair guides and open devices
HP 200 LX
If anyone is wondering about the many links on the right side about the HP 200LX Palmtop - I picked one up on eBay and want to tinker with the device a bit. The main reason is nostalgia - the little box was simply great, and a DOS-based palmtop has the advantage that I can fall back on various beloved software packages from back then (for example, the fantastic PC Scheme from TI and Lotus Agenda, which was pretty cool for its time as a personal data agent).
Index of /ftp/software/lotu[...]/Magellan/2.x/misc - Magellan Disk Manager for DOS - now freely available for download
Index of /ftp/software/lotu[...]top/Agenda/dos/2.0 - Lotus Agenda Originaldownloads
Infrared communication with the palmtop HP 200LX - Switch HP 200 LX to IRDA
MindMap/LX - MM/LX - Complete mind mapper on the HP 200 LX - Freeware
Morons in the News: Conservative response to Fahrenheit 9/11: A conservative film festival
If anyone ever needs a little reassurance that the world is far more insane than anything our federal comedians can come up with: in the USA, Republicans want to hold their own version of the Cannes Film Festival in protest against Michael Moore's new film, and they're planning to do it in Dallas (for me, ever since the TV series of the same name, the epitome of shallow film torture). Because apparently Cannes is to blame for Michael Moore's film making it to cinemas.
You can find the original article at morons.org headlines at the original article.
The S.U.P.E.R. Site by Category - Downloads for the HP 200 LX
WWW/LX - the Internet Solution in Your Pocket! - Complete Internet stack and client package for the HP 200 LX
Zypries plans levy on PCs and printers
And the personified incompetence of the German federal government continues working to implement everything as absurdly as imaginable. Eventually, copyright fees will be levied on pencils and paper because they are basically suitable for copying too.
One thing will never see a copyright fee, though: politicians' brains. They're far too small and limited to copy anything ...
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
BSI provides government desktop for download
Nice. Especially that they're based on Debian.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Trade unionists and SPD critics found left-wing alliance
The SPD and their fear of the Left. But the rightists within the SPD scare me much more ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Index of /afs/cs.cmu.edu/pr[...]ng/scheme/impl/s88 - Another small, very fast implementation of Scheme for small PCs
Index of /afs/cs.cmu.edu/pr[...]pl/pcscheme/geneva - PC Scheme 4.02 - Geneva Version, extended from original TI version
Index of /pub/scheme-repository/imp/pcscheme - Source and binary for PC Scheme 3.03 - interesting on HP 200 LX
LX2Palm - Exchange notes between HP 200 LX and Palm via infrared
Palmtop Information Central - All possible links to the HP 200 LX
SPD politicians turn their backs on ver.di
Dear Ms. Kastner, even if this might hurt now: you are foolish. Just admit it.
Particularly foolish, however, are SPD politicians who are now starting to play unions off against each other.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
The HP Palmtop Paper Online - Shop around the HP DOS Palmtops - even tuned versions are available there
The HP200LX TCP/IP Suite Home Page - A TCP/IP stack and utilities from freeware for the HP 200 LX
The Mysterious Web Page of Dr. Dubs - Minix on the HP 200 LX DOS Palmtop
The PAL Page - Programming applications with native look and feel for the HP 200 LX
TuxMobil: UniX on the HP200LX Palmtop - Even more information about Minix on the HP 200 LX
Less vacation for more jobs?
And the dismantling continues. Because of course workers are to blame for everything. And because it makes so much sense to have too many unemployed people and then make those who have jobs work even more.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Agenda Links Page - A couple of info links around Lotus Agenda
Inaugural Address
Next he starts lisping and shouting Tschaka ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
Clotho - Development environment for Common Lisp on OS X
Dashboard III
Some more background on what Dashboard is technically and how it works. Cool construction: Bundles (basically marked directories) with a web page, CSS, JavaScript and optionally native code that gets loaded into this whole mess. And all the graphical effects are simply CSS3 possibilities, so everything is built on standards. Sounds quite interesting.
At Surfin' Safari there's the original article.
Glibc-based Debian GNU/kFreeBSD - Debian on the FreeBSD Kernel
Open Source Applications Foundation - Interesting PIM with reference to Lotus Agenda
Symbolic decision against software patents in The Hague
The Dutch once again. Showing us what reason and parliamentary democracy can be. But nothing like that will come our way, surely. After all, our members of parliament would have to show something like an independent opinion and even criticize the government ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Knowledge management, data mining and information mapping with Grokker. - Visual search tool
Leica Announces Summilux-M f/1.4/50mm ASPH. Lens
You can still teach old dogs new tricks.
At PhotographyBLOG you'll find the original article.