dahamwirdensalat

Na, da haben die Kollegen von geeksaresexy was nettes ausgegraben.

Was finde ich interessanter? Dass ein globales Ranking der Firma Cryptohippie Österreich als Nummer 21 bei der elektronischen Überwachung reiht … oder dass es eine Firma namens “Cryptohippie” gibt?

http://designnotes.info/?p=1551

(Via Neatorama)

Gerade eben habe ich zwei Stunden meines Lebens vergeudet, als ich versucht habe, über eine mehr als wacklige FTP-Verbindung Gallery2 auf einen Webserver zu spielen.
Nur, um dann festzustellen, dass der Hoster – zum Glück und natürlich – Safe_Mode aktiviert hat. Und Gallery2 mit Safe_Mode an leider nicht läuft.
Tja, Pech gehabt.
Kein Bier im Haus, trink ich halt noch einen Genmaicha. Is eh viel gesünder, und kühlt das Mütchen ebenso, wenn nicht sogar besser.

War das alles vielleicht nur ein Werbegag?

Man achte auf die Taskbar

Mal schauen, wie lang das oben bleibt.

(Von TheDailyWTF)

Den ganzen Tag über stosse ich auf Seiten, die ich gerne lesen würde – nur nicht jetzt, sonder irgendwann mal. Früher habe ich diese Seiten dann gebookmarked, was zur Folge hatte, dass meine Bookmark-Sammlung unverwendbar wurde.
Dann habe ich die Seiten einfach in Tabs offen gelassen. Nach ein paar Tagen und einigen Dutzend offenen Tabs hat dann Firefox ein paar hundert MB Speicher gebraucht und ich konnte den Rechner nicht mehr einfach rebooten.
Aber jetzt hab ich Read It Later gefunden. Genau das richtige.

All Last.fm recommends to me is electroclash or signed on Ed Banger. Would you still marry me?

http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

Halb berufliche Notwendigkeit, halb private Neugierde – jedenfalls ab sofort Google Analytics hier auf diesem Blog. Wer das nicht will – was ich wirklich gut verstehen kann – wende sich bitte an einen Anonymizing Proxy seines Vertrauens.

Das ist ja auch spurlos an mir vorüber gegangen, dass die GPL V3 veröffentlicht wurde. Sachen gibts …ich hätte mir einen grösseren Knall erwartet. Zumindest so gross, dass man ihn mitkriegt, auch wenn man nicht auf ihn hört.

My friend and ex-colleague Christof’s summary paper of his masters thesis about free networks got published on the german IT new portal Golem.

It’s a good write up, and I can recommend the thesis paper (which I had the honor to proof-read) to anyone who wants to know more about the topic.

Do you know that fold-out (or fold-together) things with a sentence or a word on it, and when you fold it, it says something else? The Mad magazine often had pictures working that way on the last page, and Beck did a video with it. Often, they are very clever.

Interestingly, I got the notification that a certain stock “will hit the sky” and I should not “pass it by”. First I thought, this was just another stupid spam trying to trick me into buying some penny stocks from a company lingering on the verge of doom since its founding. But once my mailclient “folded together” the sender and the subject of the mail, I suddenly realized that it was a very clever message about the dangers of buying stock because a GIF image in a mail told you so:

Finally a project that allows me to try out a bit of this AJAX-thingy you youngsters out there keep talking about.
Neat, actually. I still hate JavaScript (who doesn’t?) and the DOM (again, who doesn’t?) but for this project, it actually makes a lot of sense.
I still wouldn’t touch this method with a 10-foot pole if I had write a real webapplication, but for a small pet project, it’s ok. Then again, maybe it’s just because I don’t have a useful development environment for js and php. Writing and debugging with a simple text editor and the JavaScript console from Firefox is a bit tiresome, to be honest.
There are some very interesting AJAX frameworks out there, I hope I’ll be able to check them out sometimes.
But now back to the texteditor.

While idly skimming through our webserver’s access log, I stumbled across this:

17.230.17.111 - - [13/Jul/2006:09:16:07 +0100] "HEAD /swingerklub/podcast.pdc HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0"

And a whois 17.230.17.111 tells us:

OrgName:    Apple Computer, Inc.
OrgID:      APPLEC-3
Address:    20740 Valley Green Drive, MS32E
City:       Cupertino
StateProv:  CA
PostalCode: 95014
Country:    US

Slyck reports that the United States government pressured the swedish government to take action against the Pirate Bay torrent tracker site.
It is one of the rare cases when a foreign nation influences the local government, prosecutors and police forces to press a criminal charge (or, in this case, take actions in an alleged criminal case) against someone. It is worth noting that there is some serious doubt wether there actually was any suspicion of criminal activity that would have warranted the police action against TPB. After all, there seems to be a broad consensus that providing tracker services is legal under swedish law, and the police apparently used a rather weak crutch to justify their actions. They argued that if TPB enabled others to illegally distribute copyrighted materials, it is quite plausible that TPB personnel themselves engaged in such activities (which I would actually argue as being quite unlikely, if they are intelligent persons).
I think it is highly disturbing that the United States tried (and succeeded) to put up so much pressure against an european government that this government actually put that pressure forward to its own law enforcement agencies. Even more so as the factual basis for such actions apparently is very weak, and there is no formal way for the swedish government to influence the actions of its prosecutors.
The fact that states around the world side with the copyright mafiacontent creators by turning something that is basically a civil law dispute into a fellony is worrying enough. When the one country with the most strict copyright regime starts to bully other countries to fall in line, and succeeds, we need a new term to describe this phaenomenon:
Copyright Imperialism

I wasn’t funny the first time, and it can hardly improve.

How often will I have to read a 2.0 after “Web” in the next couple of months? Please. Get over it. Ajax is a household cleaner, not the second coming of Jesus. Your software is as “social” as a bunch of bytes can get. The fact that your webapps screens aren’t bookmarkable doesn’t mean it’s cool and social and so 2.0.

Although geeks have a problem with admitting it, technology is one of the most unimportant things in the world. Its complete unimportance borders on ridiculous. The only thing that matters is what people can do with it.

And if this is 2.0, I’ll wait for 3.0 before I upgrade.

Am I the only one that is under the impression that everytime somebody wants to do something nifty, they invent some sort of pseudo-schema for URIs?

When you want somebody to add an iCal calendar to their application (like iCal or Sunbird), you end up using an URI like “webcal://www.example.org/calendar.ics”, although it is still HTTP. Or “itpc” for podcasts and iTunes, or “feed” for rss-documents.

Personally, I find this a bit annoying, especially since I thought that was what the “Content-Type” HTTP header was for? Why bother sending back the client a “Content-Type: text/calendar” when it purely relies on the fact that you put a “webcal” in front of your URI?

So, when you’re trying to develop a feature-rich website that supports more than just webbrowsers, you end up double- and triple-checking every possible combination of client application and operating system to make sure that they all get that webcal/feed/whatever mess right, instead of relying on the browser to decide what to do based on the type of the content you are sending it.

Or you’re stuck with a real compatibility problem, when browsers like Safari want a “feed” schema, while RSS readers like RSSOwl want a “http”. I think this was done just so you can decide who to annoy: Users who browse your website, or users who want to add it to their newsfeed.