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12. February 2003 Reflektor - smart designs General (wiki) - urs @ 14:54:13 Stefan Zbinden has finally put up his portfolio [1]. Keep it simple and concise. [1] http://www.reflektor.ch Related post(s): Optimizing the business - ask for feedback (8.80) Firefox smart update (6.74) Microsoft Office XP - Smart Tags Technology (5.53) CSS by monorom (5.03) PHP Template Engine Smarty 2.0.1 Released (4.36) Related tags(s): best_of, mozilla, content_management, civil_society Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. February 2003 Alpine Ski Worldcup in St. Moritz General (wiki) - urs @ 20:36:13 Today, the Alpine Ski Worldcup in St. Moritz has been opened [1]. Just another big event within these days in this fantastic region of Switzerland. [1] http://stmoritz2003.ch Related post(s): Without any words... (3.85) Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. January 2003 Straw - Desktop news aggregation for GNOME General (wiki) - urs @ 00:22:21 Straw is a tool for Desktop news aggregation for GNOME [1]. [1] http://www.nongnu.org/straw/ Related post(s): Beagle - Open Source Desktop Search (11.6) Google Desktop Search going for Thunderbird (6.59) Virtual Desktops for OS X (6.03) Phat Linux - running Linux on a Windows Host (5.99) SMS package for PEAR (5.59) Related tags(s): content_management, privacy, open_source, software, economy Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 21. January 2003 nanoweb and OpenOffice.org releases General (wiki) - urs @ 18:44:30 I just found some new releases; one on the webserver called nanoweb (2.0.1), which is hacked completely in PHP [1] and a new release of the Office suite OpenOffice.org (1.0.2) [2]. [1] http://nanoweb.si.kz [2] http://openoffice.org Related post(s): Nanoweb - a PHP nano web server (9.83) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.8.3 (9.37) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release (9.00) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.9.0 (8.71) Nanoweb Debian packages available (8.43) Related tags(s): office, culture, apple, database, software Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us HTTP-server written in Postscript General (wiki) - urs @ 11:30:15 PS-HTTPD [1] is a HTTP-server written in Postscript. It is very simple (even if the code is somewhat complex) but can handle the basic tasks of a web-server. There are also Debian packages available [2]. [1] http://pugo.org:8080 [2] http://www.godisch.de/debian/pshttpd/ Related post(s): Hiawata ::: Webserver for XSL cracks (5.72) First VIRUS written in PHP (5.28) Freemind mind-mapping software (5.05) Fenice - Open Media Streaming Server (4.82) Common UNIX Printing System for Mac OS X (4.77) Related tags(s): creative_commons, java, software, wireless_and_mobile, mozilla Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. January 2003 Lightweight Web Browsers General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Kamil Klimkiewicz discusses light weight web browsers on freshmeat [1]. [1] http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/695/ Related post(s): bertrand delacretaz on lightweight tools for successful projects (6.42) XFN to indicate personal relationship (lightweight FOAF) (4.70) CreativeCommons search engine (3.97) Understanding LDAP (3.94) SOAP with PHP (3.73) Related tags(s): moblog, civil_society, social_network, php, software Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Crypto Law Survey General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Crypto Law Survey [1] is a survey of existing and proposed laws and regulations on cryptography - systems used for protecting information against unauthorized access. So if you want to stunnel from France to England, one need to check if there are restrictions on cypher strength by choosing weaker algorithms. Example for allowed 40bit crypto: fritz$ openssl ciphers -v EXPORT40 For Switzerland: Crypto import is not controlled. Import certificates will be given if the country of origin requires this. The export of cryptography is regulated by the Goods Control Decree of 25 June 1997 (Verordnung über die Aus-, Ein- und Durchfuhr zivil und militärisch verwendbarer Güter sowie besonderer militärischer Güter) [2]. [1] http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ [2] http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c946_202.html Related post(s): SOAP with PHP (4.69) PHP on more than 4.5 Million Domains (4.30) 4'253'488 Domains running PHP !!! (4.17) Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. January 2003 Nationale Cybercrime Zentrale hat Arbeit aufgenommen General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Die nationale Cybercrime Zentrale hat ihre Arbeit aufgenommen [1]. [1] http://www.cybercrime.admin.ch/ Related post(s): May 1st - "Tag der Arbeit"; cyber riot (8.06) Tschubby's Karten der Schweiz (4.28) iTunes Shop für die Schweiz? (4.25) Zusammenfassung 1. PHP-Kongress 2000 (4.14) Ein Hotel in Bellinzona (3.27) Related tags(s): civil_society, wiki, music, deutsch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us NSA Backdoor in Microsoft Betriebssystem General (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Eine Unvorsichtigkeit von Microsoft Programmierern deckte spezielle, geheime Zugriffscodes für die NSA auf, die in jedes aktuelle Windows System (ausser frühe Windows 95 Releases und Vorgänger) eingebaut sind. Die für "Sicherheit" und "Verschlüsselung" zuständige ADVAPI.DLL führt u.a. auch speziell von der NSA auf einen Rechner eingeschleuste Programme aus [1]. Die Meldung geht zurück auf 1999 [2]. [1] http://f25.parsimony.net/forum63036/messages/11231.htm [2] http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/03/UPDATE2NewWindowsCryptoBackdoorSaid.shtml Related post(s): view-source Protocol by Microsoft (5.36) Microsoft at ITU (5.25) Microsoft dives into RFID (5.22) Microsoft Warning of serious Windows hole (4.89) Thoughts on Microsofts CallerID (4.76) Related tags(s): politics, software, linux, apple Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. January 2003 PEAR on Mac OS X General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 For those using Max OS X to develop web applications with PHP, might like that installation guide for PEAR [1]. [1] http://www.somebodydial911.com/brainstem/osx_pear/ Related post(s): PEAR installation on Windows from scratch (6.33) PEAR Out of Beta (6.28) PEAR 1.0 is released! (6.18) Work on go-pear for Windows (6.02) Another view on PEAR (5.81) Related tags(s): php, moblog, social_network, wireless_and_mobile, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. January 2003 Debian switches to GCC 3.2 as default compiler General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 According to Debian Planet, Debian is switching to gcc 3.2 on all architectures [1]. [1] http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=895 Related post(s): PHP to IL compiler (8.29) Dev-Cpp - a C/C++ programming language IDE (7.05) Bytecode compiler for PHP scripts (7.05) PHP# compiler project by Alan Knowles (7.04) Installing Debian on a PC (6.66) Related tags(s): open_source, software, database, music, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 09. January 2003 Windows 2004 (Longhorn) Screenshots General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 According to some articles found on the web, next edition Windows OS "Longhorn" is running in alpha version. Paul Thurrott [1] has some screenshots. Other screenshots are available at wxperience.de [2]. [1] http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alpha.asp [2] http://www.wxperience.de Related post(s): WiX - a Microsoft Open Source project on sourceforge.net (5.67) Native win32 port of the qt library started (5.05) Volksabstimmung vom 26. September 2004 (4.96) Programm Gurtenfestival 2005 (4.35) PHP Windows mailinglist (4.20) Related tags(s): politics, government, rant, civil_society, humor Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 06. January 2003 Common UNIX Printing System for Mac OS X General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 [via whump.com] Use CUPS to print to any PostScript printer now also on Mac OS X [1]. [1] http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020827081141461 Related post(s): Sharing folders with VirtualBox (7.56) Designing labels with SVG and convert them to PDF with PHP (5.31) SAPDB to join MySQL (4.94) URU - you are you global ID (4.70) Vodafone live! as a carrier-change motivator (4.40) Related tags(s): database, government, economy, wireless_and_mobile, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 03. January 2003 Exifer - editing image EXIF data General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Exifer [1] is a Windows application by Friedemann Schmidt and allows the editing of EXIF data e.g. if you have set up a wrong date on your camera. [1] http://www.exifer.friedemann.info Related post(s): Parsing EXIF data with a PHP class (14.4) JPEG image problem with PHP GD (6.21) Image cropping with PHP and Javascript (5.66) Converting an Image to standalone SVG (5.50) Handling JPEG metadata with PHP (5.48) Related tags(s): moblog, government, content_management, xml Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. December 2002 PHPEclipse - a development environment for PHP General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 The Eclipse Project [1] is more than just an editor. They offer a whole development environment as OpenSource. PHPEclipse offers the IDE for PHP [2]. It all looks extremly promising. [1] http://www.eclipse.org [2] http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net Related post(s): Quanta - Web Development Environment (9.03) PHP Development IDE for Win32 (8.33) XML Development Environment Overview (6.35) WebShell - A Tcl based scripting language (5.81) XFce - The Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment (5.68) Related tags(s): apache, technology, open_source, moblog Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us PEAR Out of Beta General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 "The PEAR [1] development team is proud to announce that PEAR finally is out of its long beta period. As of PHP 4.3, the PEAR installer is installed by default. Unix support is considered stable, while Windows and Darwin are still of beta-quality."; Stig Bakken. [1] http://pear.php.net Related post(s): PEAR installation on Windows from scratch (6.33) PEAR 1.0 is released! (6.18) Work on go-pear for Windows (6.02) Another view on PEAR (5.81) Apache 2.0 released as beta (5.47) Related tags(s): php, moblog, wireless_and_mobile, weblog, xml Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. December 2002 PHP 4.3.0 released General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 After 8 month of testing and debugging we got a new PHP version with some major improvements [1]. [1] http://www.php.net/release_4_3_0.php Related post(s): PHP 4.0.5 released (4.66) PHP 4.0.5 RC2 released (4.57) PHP Debugger DBG 2.04 released (4.22) PHP Flash - Ming 0.1.0 has been released (4.06) MySQL 4.0 alpha released (3.97) Related tags(s): php, content_management, apache, copyright, creative_commons Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 27. December 2002 Imagemagick as PHP extension on Windows General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Recently, a php_imagick.dll has been released [1]. I downloaded the Imagemagick binary for Windows and installed it [2]. Then I copied all CORE_.dll files to winntsystem32 and put an extension=php_imagick.dll in the php.ini. That got imagick running as extension in PHP, as far as I could see in phpinfo(). So if You can have a look at it, the developpers will appreciate any comments of running systems, since this is all EXPERIMENTAL yet [3]. [1] http://php.chregu.tv/php_imagick.dll [2] ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ [3] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pecl.imagick.php Related post(s): ImageMagick extension for PHP (9.24) First steps on ImageMagick (7.90) PECL extension for SQLite database (6.60) Getting XSL and PHP to work on Windows (6.00) mplayer to extract images from movies (5.26) Related tags(s): mozilla, wireless_and_mobile, random_thought, wiki, deutsch Comments (8) Permalink del.icio.us 26. December 2002 Data Access Object Pattern in PHP* General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Harry Fuecks [1] explores a way to enhance SQL usablility with DAO. [1] http://phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/25/1/1/ Related post(s): XML Access Control (6.00) phpXML as substitute for PHP DOM-XML extension (5.46) float's mobile agent and a T610 (5.24) Bento: An Object-Oriented Markup Language (4.86) wget to POST data (4.86) Related tags(s): music, civil_society, open_content, media Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Doxygen - a documentation system General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Doxygen [1] is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and KDE-DCOP flavors) and to some extent PHP and C#. [1] http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen Related post(s): Sharing folders with VirtualBox (7.24) example.com for your documentation (5.54) Online PHP-GTK class documentation (4.78) SQLite documentation on Zend (4.66) Power PC Debian net installation starting with minimal CD-ROM (4.30) Related tags(s): php, weblog, random_thought, mozilla Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Automated Password Generator with PHP frontend General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Adel I. Mirzazhanov has an Automated Password Generator (APG) [1] covering e.g. ANSI X9.17 RNG. One can use it in server-client configuration. Have a look at the demo [2]. Check out also the article on sans.org about handling password distribution [3]. [1] http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg [2] http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/online [3] http://rr.sans.org/securitybasics/password_page.php Related post(s): RSS as a marketing instrument (7.50) Create RTF on the fly using PHP (6.54) Zulu - a website assembler (5.46) Atom 0.1 feed generator for Wordpress (5.35) Behold search engine for images (4.95) Related tags(s): music, content_management, creative_commons, apple, linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. December 2002 Valgrind - a memory debugger Linux General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Valgrind [1], an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux, a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems in your programs. [1] http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ Related post(s): PHP Debugger DBG 2.04 released (9.40) Running Linux from a USB memory stick (8.55) Free PHP debugger available (7.18) PHP Debugger DBG 2.10 released (6.64) Howto learn from others; or - a Linux install guide (4.97) Related tags(s): technology, linux, economy, talks Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Torch - a machine-learning library General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Torch [1] is a machine-learning library to solve problems like: Speech recognition Speech decoder A lot of things in gradient machines, that is, machines which could be learned with a gradient descent. This includes multi-layered perceptrons, radial basis functions, mixtures of experts, convolutional networks and even time-delay neural networks. In fact a lot of "modules" are available that you can plug as you want to get what you need. etc. [1] http://www.torch.ch Related post(s): im2 with free blog (6.21) phpDOM - Document Object Model for PHP (4.63) Eclipse - class library for PHP (4.59) LIBMAIL ::: mail library for PHP (4.47) Music Library in Bern (4.47) Related tags(s): weblog, government, music, civil_society Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 21. December 2002 X-Mentor Content Management System General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 X-Mentor lite [1] is a news administration tool, offering to add users, givng grants etc. It has a very handy installation routine. [1] http://www.xmentor.de/xmentor/lite.htm Related post(s): Wyona XPS Content Management (11.2) PHPope - content management (11.1) Phase - PHP Content Management System (8.10) CMS based on XML, XSL, PHP and SQL (7.85) Midgard CMS becomes PHP extension (6.74) Related tags(s): php, media, talks, education Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 20. December 2002 PHP# compiler project by Alan Knowles General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Alan Knowles, also known as a contributor to PEAR, has done some basic reflixions on building a PHP# compiler for .NET [1]. [1] http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/PHP_Sharp Related post(s): Bytecode compiler for PHP scripts (16.6) Designing labels with SVG and convert them to PDF with PHP (8.33) CVS commands needed in 98% of all cases (7.50) Dev-Cpp - a C/C++ programming language IDE (7.05) PHP to IL compiler (5.78) Related tags(s): software, mozilla, moblog, wiki, xml Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. December 2002 Phoenix all-the-best-out-of-mozilla browser? General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Phoenix recently came out in version 0.5 [1]. It is some kind of browser spin-off by the mozilla project [2]. Phoenix is fast and offers some really nice features I like. Windows are tabbable and you can select a simple text somewhere and search for it with google by clicking the right mouse button etc. etc. For some of these features you will need a special download [3]. Some help is given at mozilline [4]. [1] http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix [2] http://mozilla.org [3] http://texturizer.net/phoenix/extensions.html [4] http://mozillazine.org/forums/?c=4 Related post(s): Mozile - Mozilla Inline Editor (8.90) Mozilla with SVG (6.68) Mozilla gets kind of ContentEditable (5.88) Firebird browser rebranded (5.85) Xopus Open Source Editor release available (5.77) Related tags(s): php, mozilla, wiki, office, database Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 12. December 2002 Gait recognition - a method against crime? General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 While googeling around for "Video Motion Capture" I came across some interesting discussion on that matter [1]. Chris Bregler [2] actually demonstrates in a video, how far those methodes already are [3]. The more appropriate expression for "how people walk" is "gait" or less specific as "gesture" [4]. Jeffrey E. Boyd is working on a Camera Mark-up Language "CaML", giving a demo of a client in action using CaML [5]. Further, we will not forget about what Microsoft is researching [6]. Finally, there is a site by the University of Southampton dedicated to Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance [7]. A Review on gesture recognition [8]. [1] http://halfbakery.com/idea/gait_20recognition [2] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bregler/ [3] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bregler/cbkin.mpg [4] http://dict.leo.org/?search=gait [4] http://dict.leo.org/?search=gesture [5] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~boyd/ [6] http://research.microsoft.com/~rcutler/Gait/ [7] http://www.gait.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ [8] http://www.dei.unipd.it/~cuzzolin/Review.html Related post(s): wget to POST data (4.49) Jollix - Gentoo Live CD (4.19) Torch - a machine-learning library (3.76) File Upload with PEAR (3.59) Pingback testing (3.41) Related tags(s): software, linux, weblog, social_network Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us PHP and UML Class Diagrams General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Harry Fuecks discusses UML (Unified Modelling Language) as a mechanism for representing software in the form of diagrams in combination with PHP [1]. [1] http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/view/15/1/1 Related post(s): Single-file PHP Auth class (2.33) New file upload script based on PHP PEAR class. (1.70) PHP PEAR offers now Template class (1.66) FPDF class to generate PDF documents with PHP (1.51) Parsing EXIF data with a PHP class (1.48) Related tags(s): technology, database, moblog, linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Richter verlangt Website-Sperrung von Providern General (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Wir hatten auch schon bessere Werbung für unser Land gemacht; heise.de [1] weiss zu berichten, dass ein Waadtländer Richterin die Site appel-au-peuple.org [2] zu sperren verlangt [3]. Dabei liefert das Gericht eine Liste der ISP in der Schweiz, die von der Schliessung betroffen sind; so gibt diese Angelegenheit denn auch einiges zu diskutieren [4]. Ein ähnliches Problem stellt sich auch mit dem Urteil eines Australischen Gerichtshofs zur Verantwortlichkeit von Internetpublikationen [5]. [1] http://heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-12.12.02-000/ [2] http://www.appel-au-peuple.org [3] http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud.pdf [4] http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog@swinog.ch/ [5] http://nzz.ch/2002/12/14/vm/page-article8KMW7.html Related post(s): Zulu - a website assembler (5.32) news on your website (4.30) Andis new page (3.73) Fremder Markenname als AdWord bei Google (3.54) WML is the Unix toolkit for getting your webdesigner's HTML job done (3.43) Related tags(s): xml, content_management, open_source, weblog, intellectual_property Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. December 2002 PHP Examen - Swiss Made General (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Die Innerschweizer Firmen Optimaize und Infeer haben eine Platform für PHP Examen geschaffen [1]. [1]http://www.blueshoes.org/en/developer/syntax_exam/ Related post(s): About neohippie token ring mechanism (5.93) Swiss bleibt Swiss (5.66) mod_authz_ldap - Apache LDAP authorization module (5.15) OS X MySQL binary installer .pkg by Liyanage becomes official (4.49) Swiss Government goes E-GOV (4.36) Related tags(s): database, culture, random_thought, sport, politics Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 05. December 2002 Create RTF on the fly using PHP General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 For 50 Euro you can get an on-the-fly RTF generator written in PHP [1]. If you do not like to spend money but time on that matter, have a look on an article and its comments on phpbuilder [2]. [1] http://www.paggard.com/projects/rtf.generator/ [2] http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/nair20020523.php3 Related post(s): phpChannel to handle RSS files (3.35) Using PHP DOM-XML to create and parse XML files (3.17) Click-fix a PDF with Shimbun (3.14) Real men don't click! (3.08) HTML and WML hybrid adapted Webserver (2.95) Related tags(s): content_management, apple, wiki, xml Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 28. November 2002 Nanoweb Debian packages available General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 For the extraodinary webserver nanoweb, Szilveszter Farkas made Debian packages available [1]. [1] http://linux.psoftwares.hu/nanoweb Related post(s): mono for Debian (11.3) Nanoweb - a PHP nano web server (9.83) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.8.3 (9.37) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release (9.00) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.9.0 (8.71) Related tags(s): linux, database, music, deutsch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. November 2002 Oil Spill in Galicia, Spain General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 esa [1] has some satellite images that might give you an impression of what happens there in Spain and Portugal. [1] http://earth.esa.int/ew/oil_slicks/galicia_sp_02/ Related post(s): Creative Commons License in Court (3.90) Related tags(s): intellectual_property, deutsch, creative_commons Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 22. November 2002 Microsoft Warning of serious Windows hole General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Microsoft has warned of a "critical" security flaw in some versions of its popular Windows operating system. The problem affects older versions of Windows such as 2000, Millennium, and 98, but not its newest version, Windows XP [1][2]. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2498363.stm [2] http://www.microsoft.com/security/ Related post(s): Internet Explorer BUG - Security hole (7.17) NSA Backdoor in Microsoft Betriebssystem (6.57) WiX - a Microsoft Open Source project on sourceforge.net (5.94) Microsoft is transferring information while updating (5.81) view-source Protocol by Microsoft (5.36) Related tags(s): deutsch, law, media, open_source, politics Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 19. November 2002 Saia-Burgess PCD used as webserver General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Saia-Burgess offers a Programmable Control Device with TCP/IP [0] stack which makes it possible to use it as a webserver [1][2]. There are some forums around [3][4]. Uhlemann has an Excel based control for PCD2 [5]. [0] http://www.saia-burgess.com.cn/leaflets/TI%20Web-Server%20e.pdf [1] http://www.saia-burgess.com/e/products/pcd/ [2] http://www.sbc-support.ch/manuals/26_737_D8_PCD2.pdf (german, 9.9MB) [3] http://www.pcd-forum.de [4] http://www.sbc-support.ch [5] http://www.uhlemann.de/pages/scxl.htm Related post(s): Webserver for Symbian phones (4.70) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release (4.69) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.8.3 (4.47) SqliteManager for your Browser (3.58) Jigsaw - The W3C's Server (3.05) Related tags(s): php, open_source, linux, apache Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. November 2002 Walmart sells PC with Lindows at less than $200 General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Walmart sells a PC at $199.86 offering: - 128 MB memory - 10 GB hard drive - CD-ROM drive - Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection - LindowsOS 2.0 operating system [2] - Modem and floppy disk drive are not included Apart from the modem that one probably won't need and a disk that is too small, this sounds quite reasonable. Is it the OS, that "forces" such a low price? [1] http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1957333 [2] http://www.lindows.com Related post(s): Lindows Chief revealed as Xbox-Linux mystery backer (8.69) Related tags(s): linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Judy - C library dynamic array implementation General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 The Judy family of functions supports fully dynamic arrays. These arrays may be indexed by a 32- or 64-bit word (depending on the processor) or a string. Judy arrays are both speed- and memory-efficient, with no tuning or configuration required, across a wide range of index set types (sequential, periodic, clustered, random). As far as I know, there no PHP [2]implementation of Judy yet. [1] http://www.sourcejudy.com [2] http://php.net/array Related post(s): XmlWriter: Generating XML from PHP (9.10) Npgsql adopted in the Mono Class Library (5.97) Handling nested blocks within Templates (5.78) A Dynamic PHP Thumbnail Gallery part 3, 4, 5 and 6 (5.24) Image cropping with PHP and Javascript (5.20) Related tags(s): projects, government, music, wireless_and_mobile Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. November 2002 Rasmus offers some PHP tips and tricks General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Rasmus Lerdorf offers some handy PHP tricks and tips on his page [1]. [1] http://www.lerdorf.com/tips.pdf Related post(s): Fanmail for Rasmus (7.53) Rasmus and his digicam ;-) (7.05) Rasmus has a blog (6.72) PHP introduction by Rasmus himself ::: Superb examples (6.35) Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips (6.12) Related tags(s): weblog, rant, content_management, php, mozilla Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. November 2002 Mozilla gets kind of ContentEditable General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Like Microsofts Internet Explorer there is now also a similar implementation of a ContentEditable feature in Mozilla [1]. Download the latest build or at least 1.3 alpha and try it out [2]. [1] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97284 [2] http://www.kaply.com/work/onepageeditor.html Related post(s): Phoenix all-the-best-out-of-mozilla browser? (8.30) Mozilla with SVG (6.68) MozCE 0.3 Standards-based contentEditable in Mozilla (6.63) aggreg8 - reading RSS in mozilla (5.69) Sunbird Mozilla calendar (5.46) Related tags(s): xml, mozilla, office, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 12. November 2002 WAMP Tutorial in German General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Unter wamp.de [1] ist umfangreiche Installationsdokumentaion zu Windows-Apache-Mysql-PHP Systemen zu finden. [1] http://www.wamp.de Related post(s): German Firefox Campaign (5.50) Apache compile HOWTOs in English and German (5.49) XML Tutorial on webreview.com (5.20) YAGPB will come up ::: But watch out for it! (5.06) PHPLib Template Tutorial (5.05) Related tags(s): mozilla, apache, deutsch, php, database Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. November 2002 PHP News by Powie.de General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Powie's PHP News is a news script based on PHP and MySQL written by Thomas Ehrhardt [1]. It handles also user comments and contributions. [1] http://powie.de/pm/pmagic.php?pmagic=pnews Related post(s): News on circle.ch (4.55) NewsML - New industry standard for news (4.12) News Industry Text Format (4.06) xmlhack: developer news from the XML community (4.01) Google news for Switzerland (4.01) Related tags(s): open_source, economy, weblog, innovation, projects Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 03. November 2002 PHP-GTK Version 0.5.2 is out General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 After a break of about half a year PHP-GTK version 0.5.2 came out [1]. Have a look at the change log too [2]. [1] http://gtk.php.net [2] http://gtk.php.net/changelog.php Related post(s): NeoOffice Version 0.0 (3.82) QEMU version 0.6.1 (3.47) New EditThisPagePHP Micro-CMS version (3.31) Creative Commons license version 2.0 (3.18) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release (3.12) Related tags(s): moblog, content_management, wiki, intellectual_property, howto Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 31. October 2002 Scaling PHP for Yahoo General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Michael J. Radwin, a Yahoo engineer, shows, why Yahoo is using PHP [1]. [1] http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm Related post(s): Yahoo! to buy some Blog company? (7.66) Get Tags with Yahoo! Term Extraction (6.49) Total Information Awareness (4.19) They will miss each other (3.58) Ov(om)altine - Moving from Novartis to ABF (3.36) Related tags(s): php, technology, law, creative_commons, open_content Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. October 2002 nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.9.0 General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 nanoweb came out with a new release and lots of new features and fixes [1]. [1] http://nanoweb.si.kz/?p=changelog Related post(s): nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.8.3 (17.9) nanoweb - new PHP webserver release (16.2) nanoweb and OpenOffice.org releases (13.1) Nanoweb - a PHP nano web server (12.8) Nanoweb Debian packages available (11.3) Related tags(s): privacy, php, xml, open_source, linux Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us e-novative PHP (ePHP) - PHP for Windows solution General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 e-novative PHP is a free PHP installer provided by e-novative, one of the first companies creating commercial software based on PHP. It installs and configures Apache, MySql, PHP and phpMyAdmin on Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP [1]. A support forum is available [2]. [1] http://php.e-novative.de/ephp.php [2] http://www.e-novative.de/forum/list.php?f=4 (Update): They also provide a "Professional multi-format publishing of DocBook XML documents? Try the free e-novative DocBook Environment (eDE)" [3]. [3] http://docbook.e-novative.de/ Related post(s): PEAR installation on Windows continued (5.54) Access to Desktop Search results (4.52) Theme Editor for T68 / T610 (4.43) Beagle - Open Source Desktop Search (4.22) CSS styling on RSS feeds (4.20) Related tags(s): privacy, media, open_source, wireless_and_mobile, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us EM produces world-first IC operating under 0.5V General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 EM Microelectronic announced that it is ready to start producing a high-performance, ultra-low voltage and ultra-low-power integrated circuit using fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD SOI) operating under 0,5 Volt [1]. EM is a Swiss based Chip manufacturer. [1] http://www.emmarin.ch/DetailNews.asp?IdNews=37 Related post(s): world of rolex (5.89) Optimizing the business - ask for feedback (5.62) adi & micaël at the world wide water day (5.03) PHP embedded in Mysql (4.84) Ulf Wendel for Phpresident (4.77) Related tags(s): best_of, moblog, php, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Xdebug extension for PHP General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information [1]. The debug information can provide: -stack and function traces in error messages -memory allocation -protection for infinite recursions [1] http://xdebug.derickrethans.nl Related post(s): Imagemagick as PHP extension on Windows (4.59) phpXML as substitute for PHP DOM-XML extension (4.57) Tabbrowser Extension for Mozilla (4.41) XSLT wrapper in PHP (4.38) Web Developer Extension Features for Mozilla (4.29) Related tags(s): mozilla, xml, random_thought, wiki Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. October 2002 Phat Linux - running Linux on a Windows Host General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Phat Linux [1] can be installed on the same partition as Windows. Whether you have Windows 95/98, NT, ME, 2000 or XP, Phat Linux will work on our computer. Phat Linux comes with XIMIAN GNOME desktop [2]. As this text might intend is, that one can run Phat Linux from within Windows, which is AFAIK not possible. Please read therefore a users contribution [3]. [1] http://sf.net/projects/phatlinux [2] http://www.ximian.com [3] http://community.phatlinux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=281 Related post(s): Amazing - Linux on Windows in a minute (12.4) Sharing folders with VirtualBox (12.2) Linux on Xbox - running without hardware fix (12.2) Howto learn from others; or - a Linux install guide (11.7) Installing Debian on a PC (11.3) Related tags(s): technology, linux, music, talks, mozilla Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 14. October 2002 Eclipse - class library for PHP General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Eclipse [1] is an object-oriented programming library written in PHP. [1] http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/people/voostind/eclipse Related post(s): PHPEclipse - a development environment for PHP (9.55) Yet another PHP graph class library (5.42) phpDOM - Document Object Model for PHP (5.39) Npgsql adopted in the Mono Class Library (4.93) Converting text2rtf and rtf2html with PHP (4.67) Related tags(s): technology, government, music, deutsch, economy Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. October 2002 Bis zu 75 Prozent guenstigere Billette als am Schalter General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Die SBB ermöglichen es nun, dass Bahnticket zu Hause selbst im A4-Format ausgedruckt werden können. Die Preise fliegen dabei in die Tiefe [1]. [1] http://news.ch/print/detail.asp?ID=121376 Related post(s): Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Espace Media Groupe und der Bund Verlag AG genehmigt (3.12) Volksabstimmung vom 18. Mai 2003 (0.97) Related tags(s): economy, deutsch, politics Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. October 2002 Contest - Contribution to Open Source Bitflux Editor General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Roger Fischer announced a contest which aims "Significant contributions to the Open Source Bitflux Editor" [1]. [1] http://advogato.org/person/Roger/diary.html?start=1 Related post(s): Bitflux is hiring (16.2) Donate! - to get an exciting WYSIWYG editor GPLd (13.8) Bitflux Editor goes Open-Source today (13.2) Bitflux Editor Howto Part I (11.0) Inkscape - Open Source SVG Editor (10.5) Related tags(s): content_management, mozilla, government, social_network, software Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us "Cheap" Perl HTTPD for Windows 95/NT General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 "Cheap" Perl HTTPD for Windows 95/NT is one of the smallest HTTPD implementations i have seen so far. [1] http://www.lightner.net Related post(s): Setting Filters for PHP in Apache2 (7.23) Perl embedded in PHP (6.57) perlre - Perl regular expressions (5.93) POPFile classifies E-Mail and Spam (5.53) Einführung in PHP (5.24) Related tags(s): apache, education, privacy, database, wireless_and_mobile Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 09. October 2002 XML to PDF using fpdf General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 The fpdf library class by Olivier Plathy has been extended by a users contribution to convert XML structured data in PDF [1]. [1] http://fpdf.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=3359&t=3359 Related post(s): FPDF class to generate PDF documents with PHP (9.03) HTML To PDF Conversion with PHP (5.46) Designing labels with SVG and convert them to PDF with PHP (5.27) Multi-user blog, pictures handling and PDF generation with Wordpress (2.66) Related tags(s): open_source, php, xml, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Nobel Price for Kurt Wuethrich General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00 Kurt Wüthrich has been honored with the Nobel Price today for "his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" [1]. He is professor at the ETH in Zürich [2]. [1] http://www.nobel.se/chemistry [2] http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich Related post(s): kurt (10.6) The correct price of a new product (6.03) Debian GNU/Linux on Xbox (3.72) Blog Rolls at Marks and Spencer (3.63) Sleeping in Berlin (3.59) Related tags(s): moblog, economy, linux, civil_society, travelling Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in /home/circle.ch/htdocs/blog/b2comments.php on line 184