Glos wants more flexible apprentices - what a windbag. Of course, prospective trainees who are not yet fully grown, fresh from school, why do they make a fuss, they should just travel all over the republic. Do the Prolethicians in Berlin ever think about the nonsense they talk?
Archive 2.10.2006 - 16.10.2006
Innen-Staatssekretär: Internet wichtiges Mittel für Islamisten - oh yes, the evil Internet and the bad users who download things there. By the way, this Hanning guy is with the SPD, just in case someone might think that he is from the right-wing camp because of his outbursts. He is. The SPD was never really left-wing, but nowadays it has also left the center to the right ...
Terror-Dentists - at least in the UK, former members of the British National Party are better equipped for terrorist attacks than the usually media-effective arrested Islamic terrorist suspects. Are dentists now being put on the general suspects list in the UK?
Would you like fries with your spyware? - funny. Our most hated fry factory (hey, their working conditions are at UPS level and their customers - who go to the factory next door - are too stupid to pay attention to traffic lights) distributes SpyWare.
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use - Elsewhere in the license, Microsoft forbids users from installing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium in a virtual machine. "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.
World’s worst use of a jpeg - security by stupidity?
Concrete and Clay - nice music blog with CC music
doctor paradox: the metaphysician. - electronic, funky, funny.
G2Image - Plugin for Tiny-MCE to select images from a Gallery2 installation - should be able to be rebuilt for Django.
HotBitchArsenal - cool and relaxed.
Paulo Sacramento - creative commons soundtracks and photos - what you see is what you get. And it's good, in a Herbie Hancock style of good.
Simple image manager/uploader - another image picker, but much simpler. Maybe a better basis (integrate into the upload!)
Power outage at Hetzner hosting took thousands of servers offline - ouch. Good thing my server is in one of the older data centers ...
TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor - GUI editor for HTML textareas with plugin interface
Schünemann demands ban on downloading hate messages - neither the Vatican nor the Federal Government had provided a statement on the blocking of their offers by the time of publication ...
Evil big publishers, poor little translators - regardless of the facts, I find comments where the commenter repeatedly emphasizes that no one (except himself, of course) knows anything about the subject, always very strange. The gentleman from the publisher insists a bit too much on that ...
Fabjectory - 3D plots of Second Life avatars. Sounds pretty good, but expensive.
Genealogical Database: First Names - only one first name starting with Sch, and it's also so obscure? (And yes, I read the Titanic RSS feed)
Geonames - maps names of cities, mountains etc. to geographic information (and vice versa). Plus a web service to use this data. The whole thing as a community project with data content under CC license. Very cool.
Google code search - funny games with the code search.
Lightning exits woman's bottom - autsch.
MoinX - very nice. MoinMoin with OS X Controller in the menu bar. Ok, not the feel of VoodooPad - it is still a web application - but the performance of MoinMoin is not to be underestimated.
100,000-year-old camel bones found - rumored to be the party chairman of a large conservative people's party.
China's Cheap Goods: Who Really Benefits? - worth thinking about.
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Security vulnerability in Python 2.3 and above - definitely not just Ubuntu, but also Debian. Ubuntu is only linked because there is no security advisory from Debian yet. Is someone sleeping?
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)
Your Ancestors Disgust Me - you inbred spawn of illiterate, unhygienic, penis-worshipping child molesters!
3D-Scanner aus Webcam und Laser für jedermann - wow, cool!
6502asm.com - 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript - completely crazy. I love it.
Fefe's Blog - about the media's "reactions" to the voting machine hack.
How to create a new generation of scientists. - awesome. Bringing science closer.
Parallelport-Adapter with USB and Bluetooth - I still have an old Epson (A2 inkjet printer - you don't just give something like that away), which I could actually revive with this ...
Scribus/Aqua - manual installation (why don't they package the libs in the application bundle?), but maybe still worth a look.
Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up - Background of a game console manufacturer. Reads like a John LeCarre ...
iCalamus.net - sometimes they come back ... (hey, what's the panic, they only want to eat your brain!)
Nedap-Wahlcomputer gehackt - these are the same voting computers used in our country ... (which, by the way, received a certificate from the PTI - so much for the suitability of the PTI for testing such devices)
New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus - wow. If there's something to it, wow.
Chess computer - a few more small details about the voting computer hack. Only fh's hope that this would have done away with voting computers, I do not share. Politicians are forgetful and resistant to learning.
Publishers demand unrestricted right to information from providers - Data protection? Oh, forget it. Nobody even knows that word anymore. Terrorists, child abusers, and copyright infringers - with these, you can push through anything today, even a total police state or a snitch state.
Exploding Hello Kitty toys recalled - that was. definitely.
immaterial music - a label run by the musicians. Music under CC license.
Novell will SCO an die Kriegskasse - and wants to relieve SCO of 25 million from license sales. Nice move by Novell ...
PubSigs - another band under CC license - they deliver their music as a podcast for iTunes right away.
Shearer - kick ass rock. Under CC license.
A-Bike - a super-compact folding bike by Sir Clive Sinclair (yes, the guy who brought us the ZX 81). At 200 pounds not even overpriced - it would be interesting to read some ride reports (and about the stability - so far none of the Sinclair products have been overly stable ...)
ATI-Graphics Chips Fold Proteins Faster - of course. Just a matter of time until the GPUs become more powerful than the CPUs.