hOp - Haskell Micro-Kernel

Device drivers in Haskell? Cool

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

Smileys ...

... are really something nice. I've now got a set for this blog (ok, I got them from a theme set for Gaim), which aren't as terribly conspicuous as the old ones. Yes, I know the world won't get any better from it. Still, I like that sort of thing.

Using the iPod Hold switch to prolong battery life

I'm not saying I'm stupid, but I still learn something new from time to time - this time, for example, that you can actually turn off the iPod by holding down the pause/play button longer. No idea why I never noticed that before.

Here's the original article.

GROKLAW - RedHat Also Joins In

Looks like RedHat is now also getting caught up in the fuss surrounding SCO. They're filing a letter in which SCO attempts to coerce a RedHat customer into concluding the nonsensical SCO license. Similar actions are currently underway in other places as well (in Germany this has been settled for a long time, in Australia things are also starting to stir a bit).

Here's the original article.

ModelingObject-Relational Bridge for python - Framework for object-relational mapping of Python classes to SQL databases

Interview: "Greed Has Clouded the Mind"

Toll Collect thought it was invincible with its mothers backing it up. But that doesn't help at all when the child goes way too far. Then you have to watch as this child possibly dies an early death. I just find some metaphors plain shit.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Toll Collect must go - not Stolpe

What fascinates me again and again is the persistence with which the opposition knows only one single demand: the resignation of whoever happens to be in the spotlight. Regardless of whether that person is now doing something that the opposition itself demanded a week earlier. How boring. Exactly one single form of reaction. Always the same reaction.

The opposition is simply too stupid to be interesting.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Obligation to Censor?

Association of Democratic Lawyers - does that mean all lawyers not organized there are undemocratic? Or is that something like the Holy Roman Church, where really only the Roman part is correct, and that only because of the location? Would fit, because I really can't see it as democratic when people cry out loudly for (demonstrably non-functioning!) censorship measures, instead of considering whether democracy itself, carried in their own title, isn't endangered by excessive allocation of power ...

At Telepolis News (17.02.2004) there's the original article.

3.3 weakref -- Weak references - How to create weak references with Python

dp-now.com - News - Epson shows retro-style Leica rangefinder-compatible digicams at PMA

A few more details about the Epson and Cosina rangefinder digi prototype.

Here is the original article.

my-zope - LocalFS-1-1-0.tgz - LocalFS for Zope 2.7 - the one on Source Forge is too old

Python Dispatch Package - Complex signal dispatcher for Python

XML-RPC Client/Server Protocol Reference - LiveJournal XML RPC API

BBC - OneMusic Sample Bank - Drums - Drum loops for GarageBand

Dent du Midi - MIDI File Converter for GarageBand - Tool to decompose MIDI music into individual tracks (for GarageBand)

Der Apfelbaum - Links around GarageBand

Elf Kings and Helicopters -- On the 70th Birthday of Niklaus Wirth

While his languages are no longer relevant to my current work, they accompanied my education, professional activities, and private programming projects for many years. So, my hearty congratulations to Switzerland!

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Long-term unemployed should perform civil service

Oh man, our politicians can't be any more stupid than this. Let's just turn the long-term unemployed into modern slaves. We can certainly expect that from them given the support they've received.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

myelin: Feed Normalizer - Normalizer for feeds - can also convert Atom to RSS

Pantani found dead in Italian hotel

Too bad. A colorful rider who was often good for surprises. :-(

At VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling you can find the original article.

"Sunday Times": BBC should be broken up

Oh, great, so the dishonest British government now wants to flatten an important organ of free reporting.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Violin loops,Fiddle loops,violin samples - Violin loops for Garageband

The Secret Heart of the Lie Factory

The edifice of lies is wobbling and shaking, and still there are people even outside the US Administration who defend the Iraq War and see it as necessary. Built on lies, a pure power game of the Bush Administration, yet it continues to be defended as necessary again and again. The lies sit very deep in people's heads ...

At Telepolis News (14.02.2004) you can find the original article.

del.icio.us API documentation - An API to access data from del.icio.us (social bookmarking service) and send new bookmarks

macosxhints - More info about remote wake and sleep - More tips on Wake on LAN

macosxhints - Wake a sleeping Mac from the network - Tips for waking a sleeping Mac over the LAN

The Common Lisp Cookbook - Creation of an open book with Common Lisp code snippets

On the "Victims of a Worldwide Religion"

Anyone in Brandenburg/Havel or the surrounding area should probably go see the play.

At Telepolis News (14.02.2004) you can find the original article.

Wake550 Help - Small service utility for waking up other computers from the Mac

GROKLAW - Novell Follows Up

Since SCO hasn't responded, Novell has now denied SCO the right to view Sequent Dynix in any way as a derivative of Unix System 5. Let's see if SCO responds to that, after all the Dynix code is quite an important part in the proceedings against IBM.

Here you can find the original article.

ITmedia PCUPdate: Epson, worldwide first "range finder type digital camera"

I have no idea if this is real, but if it is, then that's incredible: a Bessa R2 retrofitted to digital by Epson!

Here's the original article.

Shot at alternative sparrows with police cannons

Of course, according to Schily, genetic fingerprinting should only be used for serious crimes such as sexual offenses or terrorism. As you can read here, in Hesse (naturally, where else, in Koch's personal swamp) this apparently means property damage with political motivation. In other words: damage to election posters.

At Telepolis News (13.02.2004) you can find the original article.

Why some lawyers lend their names online

In the comments to the previous posting ( P1951) I received a tip to take a look at something:

• as a Windows user, refrain from clicking on any links!
• take a look at the website www.malvorlagen.de, especially with regard to the target audience mentioned (no, I'm not linking to it directly)
• do a Whois query at DENIC on the domain malvorlagen.de and pay special attention to the ADMIN-C entry
• then take a look at what all those links on this supposedly great site for children have in store

Any questions?

By the way, the imprint on the site is not accessible without JavaScript ...

"Domain Kidnapping" is Back

Really cool, the rip-off artists at Verisign want to exploit their special status as root registry again - they've learned nothing from the last debacle. So it looks like wildcard blockers for TLDs will have to be built into the nameservers after all.

At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.

Television: For They Know Not What They Do

A quality code for public broadcasting corporations? That would be an approach. However, I doubt that it will produce any usable result - the broadcasting corporations are far too entangled with other interests. I increasingly doubt whether the public broadcasting corporations are even serious anymore about their actual mandate - ultimately, they're only chasing ratings. You can see this nicely over and over again in how they squander millions on ridiculous football broadcasting rights.

Moreover, there is no longer any political support for public broadcasting - politicians are only eyeing the money and letting themselves be manipulated by media moguls like Saban or Murdoch and put to work for their power interests.

Of course, it would be nice to end up with an offering comparable to the BBC (curiously, BBC content is apparently being bought primarily by private television stations at the moment and unfortunately only served in ad-interrupted snippets), but I don't believe that will happen in the foreseeable future. And I base this claim on the existence of all these dreadful quiz shows, tralala music programs, public stupefaction events (including silly carnival sessions) and similar aberrations of public entertainment ...

I found the original article at DIE ZEIT: Feuilleton.

Firefox is quite nice, but ...

... I find it somewhat annoying that I can't use bookmarklets anymore that open their own windows. These custom windows end up behind the current window as a matter of principle. Really inconvenient, that.

Gravenreuth Law Firm Issues Cease and Desist to P2P Portal emule.de

Pretty cool, yet another rip-off attempt with an already existing domain. Hopefully the Gravenreuth law firm will fall flat on their face with this.

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7 Digital

Took quite a while for Minolta to enter the DSLR world.

At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.

Mars Express sends new photos

Beautiful images.

At WDR: Landung auf dem Mars you can find den Originalartikel.

PalmSource dropping Mac support

Bah. Idiots.

At Gizmodo you can find the original article.

Polaroid launches new Polaroid material

This is almost even more amazing than the announcement of the digital Leica M: Polaroid is bringing a new format for Polaroid film to the market that is specifically designed for medium format cameras. Old film backs can be adapted, or you can also get new film backs. Also included is the ingenious positive-negative material again (here as 85 film), with which you can simultaneously produce a positive and a negative using the instant image process.

Here's the original article.

The Omni Group - Applications - OmniWeb - Beta

Hey, the Omniweb beta is really great. Ok, there are still issues, but it's a beta after all. But the new user interface is really slick. And the implementation of tabs in Omniweb is pretty cool - I could get used to this browser, even though I'm actually a Safari fan. By the way, the feature that lets you open a textarea in its own window is really nice when, like me, you edit your weblog through the web browser. Finally, better editing options than with these boring textarea peepholes...

Here's the original article.

Behavior Engineering - BE - AiS

Well, I don't know if I'm a tech heretic now, but I'd say that at a price of 3500 euros for a Volksbot, widespread adoption will be significantly difficult.

Here's the original article.

The Enemy of the Whole World

Just so you notice: some newspapers could learn a thing or two from the way Zeit does it. It's already pretty remarkable that under the official Zeit label, journalists and editors maintain weblogs.

And the fact that they can actually write is of course also a pretty nice thing.

At Beruf Terrorist The Enemy of all the World there's the original article.

GROKLAW - Novell still mixed up in it

Ok, that should have given SCO some heartburn: Novell is giving SCO an ultimatum to drop its interpretation of the restrictions on Sequent code (Dynix - one of the Unix derivatives that SCO views as problematic in its lawsuit against IBM, since code from it allegedly made its way into Linux). Novell's key argument is that the protection clause only applies to the original AT&T code and not to code that was newly added in Sequent. That of course directly undermines one of SCO's arguments. SCO's case is getting shakier and shakier.

Here's the original article.

Cabinet paves way for gene-modified food

And once again reason and common sense have to take a backseat to the purely monetary interests of large corporations (and not even necessarily domestic ones). To hell with the will of the citizens, the only thing that matters is the sound of cash registers ringing for con artists and fraudsters, no matter what kind of crap they're selling.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

European Capital of Culture 2010: "Münster makes it"

Sorry, folks, but Münster is just provincial. The State Museum for Archaeology is gone, the theater is provincial, the city's cultural funding can only be described as non-existent, and otherwise there's really nothing here about being a cultural capital. The application is ridiculous. Big talk and grand speeches, but nothing but hot air.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

OpenMCL 0.14.1 - now with Cocoa Bridge!

Finally, I've been waiting eagerly for this. OpenMCL now has a Cocoa bridge. This allows you to use Objective-C frameworks from Common Lisp. The advantage: virtually the entire OS X API (at least the part that came new with OS X) is now potentially available for Common Lisp. Integration with other Objective-C programs is also much easier. And there's finally a chance to develop a usable GUI via OpenMCL. There's also already documentation on Cocoa programming under OpenMCL. Here's the original article.

Workbench: Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Google appears to be in the process of removing support for RSS feeds from Blogger or at least restricting their use to users who have had an RSS feed for a longer time. New blogs will probably only be set up with Atom. What's the problem with that? Well, Atom is still only a 0.3 version - it's still in flux, still being discussed, and the format is far from complete. Why does a company jump on such a bandwagon, especially why does a company do this when they already have functioning infrastructure for RSS? One can really assume that Google (or rather the Blogger team) is trying to use their market position here to strengthen Atom against RSS.

Of course, this is particularly ridiculous from the perspective that there are currently significantly more RSS readers than Atom readers. Blogger's behavior is more than just impolite toward the existing community.

Here's the original article.

CLORB - a Common Lisp ORB

You've probably heard of Corba Bindings for Common Lisp. But here there's a whole Corba Implementation in Common Lisp.

The original article is here.