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27. August 2007 128GB SSD to replace conventional disk drive Technology (wiki) - urs @ 19:21:56 There is a company building SSD disks up to 128GB that could replace a conventional 2.5 inch disk drive [1]. Super Talent says that their SSD disks are compatible with SATA drives. My question here - has someone tried out such a replacement recently and how did it work? Just wondering. [1] http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/6_53.pdf Related post(s): Walmart sells PC with Lindows at less than $200 (13.1) .htaccess problem on drives other than C (6.68) Apache, PHP, Sablotron, libxml, GD on OS X (4.47) QEMU version 0.6.1 (4.31) FileVault is memory hungry (4.27) Related tags(s): apache, apple, software, open_source, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. August 2007 Behold search engine for images Technology (wiki) \| Creative Commons (wiki) - urs @ 10:58:25 Behold's (image) search engine has the following background [1]: Behold's visual concept search is based on the technique called "automated image annotation". This technique calculates probabilities of concepts being relevant to images based on the pixel content of each image. The models for calculating concept probabilities are estimated using manually annotated training images. Behold implements the automated annotation model proposed in Alexei Yavlinsky's PhD thesis. [1] http://www.beholdsearch.com Related post(s): CreativeCommons search engine (9.42) Indexing PHP search engine (9.31) Plug-and-Play search engine written in PHP (8.56) search.ch with a new CI? (8.09) Feedster RSS search engine (8.02) Related tags(s): intellectual_property, art, random_thought, technology, technology_transfer Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. July 2007 reCAPTCHA - avoid spam Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 17:31:29 reCAPTCHA is a service for your blog, webpage, guestbook what so ever. It helps to avoid getting spammed by providing a CAPTCHA feature [1]. There are e.g. plugins for various blog engines. [1] http://recaptcha.net Related post(s): Spam filter for Outlook 2000 and 2002 (7.21) Visual history of spam email (6.78) Spam in a new suit (6.78) Blog Comment Spam (6.16) TU Activities on Countering Spam (6.09) Related tags(s): software, law, civil_society, technology, php Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 12. December 2006 Lessig's Code v2 Technology (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) \| Copyright (wiki) - urs @ 09:09:16 Nach der Erstausgabe von "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" anno 1999 folgt nun Code v2, eine Art "Update" der ersten Version: Code v2 [1] updates the original work. It is not, as Lessig writes in the preface, a "new work." Written in part collectively, through a Wiki hosted by JotSpot, the aim of the update was to recast the argument in the current context, and to clarify the argument where necessary. [1] http://codev2.cc Related post(s): Blogger code (4.47) Generate barcodes on the fly with PHP (4.15) QR code - decoder to proof the concept (4.10) New PHP Template Class by ISPI geeks (3.86) Zend Code Gallery Spotlight (3.69) Related tags(s): wireless_and_mobile, law, p2p, database, mozilla Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. February 2006 Lightbox - image overlay in the page Technology (wiki) - urs @ 17:39:11 Lightbox JS [1] is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. Once the scripts is loaded, you simply use link tags to get the overlay effect. Update: Have also a look at zenphoto.org that some combined with Lightbox [2,3,4]. [1] http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ [2] http://zenphoto.org [3] http://technorati.com/search/zenphoto [4] http://taggphoto.com/zp/blurp/ Related post(s): List of Rich Text Editors (8.25) Image cropping with PHP and Javascript (5.66) HTMLarea with enhanced Image Handler (4.81) Playing with Qemu (4.81) PNGlets for Netscape 4.06+ (4.77) Related tags(s): random_thought, content_management, projects, creative_commons, rant Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. November 2005 Modifications on the $100 Laptop Technology (wiki) \| Random Thought (wiki) - urs @ 22:25:16 Last Monday I read the first time about the $100 Laptop of the MIT to be built for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative [1]. There will be no shop that is going to sell that Laptop, as I read on the introductional page. The Laptop roughly will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. This rugged laptop will be WiFi-enabled and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel. So far quite impressive, if you keep $100 in mind. Nevertheless I would like to add the following; To add a solar panel on the top of the Laptop case [2]. To add a foil keyboard to make it more robust [3]. To add more fixed Memory (>1GB). To set up a Hardware-Kit to let students build their own Laptop. To find a way to license the schematics, Hardware-Kit etc. under a non-commercial license. I am not yet sure about what an Open Hardware License would look like and even if it even is nescessary. As said, it is just a random thought. But I can imagine that it would push the innovation in the soft- and hardware industries, even though I tend for a non-commercial license. The idea behind is that companies should not re-produce the hardware and sell it at exorbitant prices. The Laptop should be available for approx. $100. So if they are innovative, they produce it for less. [1] http://laptop.media.mit.edu [2] http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/touring/laptop.htm [3] http://www.industrialkeyboard.com/html/internettastatur-folie.html Related post(s): Linux on Laptops (8.58) myNEWS V2.0.2 (3.94) PHP Xpath class on sourceforge (3.77) Echo/Atom/Pie 0.2 feed available (3.35) Open Hardware - SUN opens up UltraSPARC processors (3.28) Related tags(s): open_source, weblog, innovation, social_network Comments (3) Permalink del.icio.us 06. October 2005 QR coded blog entries Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Random Thought (wiki) - urs @ 00:23:26 Innovations is - if it works, but you do not have the technology to prove it. The blogpost title, the blogpost date, the URI to each blogpost and some copyright ("CC") information of this weblog are QR coded. Actually the images have not been decoded yet, since the writer of that code has no QR code scanner nor has he a mobile phone with an appropriate software to decode those codes. But anyway. QR codes are kind of twodimensional barcodes [1]. While conventional bar codes are capable of storing a maximum of approximately 20 digits, QR Code is capable of handling several dozen to several hundred times more information. 20 digits are not enough to encode a typical blog title, a link, a date string and some copyright information. As an example, the QR coded string for this blog post is: "QR coded blog entries, 06.10.2005 00:23:26, http://circle.ch/blog/p1773.html, CC-by-sa_2.5". The QR code library behind my implementation is written by Y. Swetake [4]. If it makes sense, to link from a QR code to a blog post, is not yet plain clear. But I could imagine a simpler, maybe automated navigation for mobile phones: Reading a blog feed (e.g. qr.xml or qr img link in the RSS feed) with QR codes The phone decodes the images and displays the title to the blog entries A single click on the auto-linked title is enough to access the full blog post At least in Japan there are various applications that support QR codes [2]; e-commerce e.g. is a big issue [3]. Is anyone out there with an opensource QR code decoder? ;) Update: The ETH Zürich has a project running called "Visual Code Recognition for Camera-Equipped Mobile Phones" [5]. They also provide so called Recognizer software for Symbian OS based mobile phones. [1] http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/qrfeature-e.html [2] http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/qr-code/sample.html [3] http://www.camreader.jp/eng/service/index.html [4] http://www.swetake.com/qr/ [5] http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/rohs/visualcodes/ Related post(s): Parsing blog entries for StudlyCaps (6.85) Finding related tags to blog posts (6.50) Kaywa Blogger Network is growing (5.86) circle.ch moved myNews to cafelog (5.13) Revision Control on Blog Entries (5.11) Related tags(s): java, wiki, law, creative_commons Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 21. September 2005 OpenLaszlo Open Source development platform Open Source (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 19:39:26 OpenLaszlo is the leading open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web. Although I read the first time of it today, it looks promising, at least if I have a look at the demo applications [1] and the "Laszlo-in-10-minutes" introduction [2]. [1] http://www.laszlosystems.com/demos/ [2] http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/ Related post(s): WW2D - Explore Earth the Open Source Way (8.91) Microsoft view on commodity software (8.80) eXist - an Open Source XML Database (8.78) Jahrbuch zu Open Source und Open Content (8.72) Tägliche Ration Open Source (8.60) Related tags(s): government, technology, software, intellectual_property, economy Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 29. August 2005 Get Tags with Yahoo! Term Extraction PHP (wiki) \| Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 21:54:35 This is a start: The Term Extraction service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. It can be implemented by making use of the Yahoo! API [1]. One might then need to sort out the result set a bit and use them as "tags". Since this blog has no cache and the API only lets me have a limited number [2] of requests a day, I will not dive into it yet ;) For those using PHP, there is a so called yahoolib availabe. [1] http://developer.yahoo.net/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html [2] http://developer.yahoo.net/search/rate.html [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoolib Related post(s): Scaling PHP for Yahoo (9.09) Yahoo! to buy some Blog company? (7.67) Blog backend with recommended tags per post (6.91) Finding related tags to blog posts (6.14) Freetag - a tagging and folksonomy system (5.66) Related tags(s): random_thought, economy, law, technology, weblog Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. August 2005 Working out a category cloud Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 20:32:18 The category cloud above does work with a variable font-size for each item. The font size is related to the number of posts per category. Since some categories have up to 600 items while others only have two, I had to find a suitable scale. A good effect could be found by using a logarithmic value. So I used something like the following: printf("<a href='/blog/p%s.html' title='%s' style='font-size:%s;'>%s</a>", $row->cat_id, $row->cat_name, floor(log($row->items_per_cat) * 20) +100 ."%", $row->cat_name ); I preferred to chose this solution from having e.g. a switch with ranges of posts/category to point to different style classes like size1, size2, size3 etc. Related post(s): Collaborative Events handling with a Wiki (4.33) Get a complete working back-end! (4.27) TagCloud to analyze my blog (4.08) Parsing for trusted FOAFs (3.83) myGBOOK V1.0.2 (2.93) Related tags(s): wiki, crosspost, social_network, open_source Comments (4) Permalink del.icio.us 03. August 2005 PHP Developers for blog.ch PHP (wiki) \| Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 10:55:09 blog.ch is seeking PHP developers to turn the projectlist into reality [1]. Matthias has some good ideas and is eager to fulfil them. [1] http://blog.ch/blog/?p=148 Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (6.80) European Mozilla Developers Meeting 2003 (5.78) PHP developers: Fill your XML toolbox (5.38) PHP and Web Standards Conference UK 2004 (3.31) ReactOS - NT driver compatible opensource OS (3.20) Related tags(s): mozilla, government, law, creative_commons Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 14. June 2005 Favourite URL? Technology (wiki) \| Best Of (wiki) - urs @ 11:51:31 Sometimes you get asked, what your favourite URL is. For some years, this one is among my top three [1] ;) Magnus Bodin came up with this idea years ago. It is just fantastic, regardless of the "USELESS SITE OF THE YEAR 1998" award. From todays perspective it is not at all that useless, just remind what others do [2]. [1] http://$sin(72.0221).x42.com [2] http://www.google.ch/search?q=sin(72.0221)= Related post(s): Sablotron XSLT release 0.50 (3.95) POPFile classifies E-Mail and Spam (3.75) O'Reilly hacks (3.65) fossdays logo - public voting (3.46) nntp//rss - rss news reader (3.37) Related tags(s): open_source, technology, event, weblog Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 06. June 2005 Marklar - reinforcing a background task at Apple? Apple (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 11:02:50 [via infam, 1] It is rumoured that Apple will move to Intel technology. There has already been running a background task called "marklar" [2] that has been working on keeping Apple applications running on Intel processors. It is said, that Steve Jobs will reveal more today [3]. [1] http://infam.antville.org/stories/1138384/ [2] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1656622,00.asp [3] http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ Related post(s): Marklar follow-up (11.3) Jaguar eaten by the Panther (7.13) Safari for Windows soon? (5.65) Apple is offering iBook repair (5.54) Apple users that switched (5.34) Related tags(s): economy, apple, mozilla, civil_society, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. May 2005 Grüfnisch - Geheimsprache für Schüler Technology (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 10:14:14 Auf DRS3 spricht Perry wieder mal auf Grüfnisch. Wie die Sprache funktioniert, hat er bisher noch nicht verraten; wär ja dann auch keine Geheimsprache mehr: "Inefi lienefib denefech" ;) Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 07. April 2005 Legaltorrents taken offline? Technology (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) - urs @ 08:57:53 Legaltorrents is currently down. Has it been taken offline? Related post(s): Wikipedia auf CD-ROM (4.73) RSS Reader for MIDlet capabale handhelds (4.15) Complicated world (3.63) MozPHP - running PHP in Mozilla (3.27) iTunes als Business Modell für CC Musik? (2.76) Related tags(s): open_content, deutsch, content_management, wiki, wireless_and_mobile Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 05. April 2005 Access to Desktop Search results PHP (wiki) \| Open Source (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Privacy (wiki) - urs @ 22:16:07 Today I run across DNKA [1]: DNKA is a search tool for remote computers. It acts as a web server by interacting as a layer between Google Desktop Search (GDS) and the user. It allows other users to search, view and download your files, emails, chats and web history. Basically it is wonderful; you get a full search access to the indexed content of a remote computer. IMHO this application should be filed under "As long as You know what You are doing.". I tried it out in an intranet and got full access to the root drive C:\. Then later on I found Baagle [2]. The principle is similar to the above but the tools are different. Baagle is a set of Perl scripts wrapped around the search engine Swish-e. Baagle provides a standalone webserver and an indexer. But compared to GDS it is up to you to configure and restrict the indexing to the data directories of your desire. If you like to figure out a similar solution with PHP have a look at the earlier mentioned nanoweb or nanoserv webserver built with PHP [3] and a Swish-e wrapper written in PHP [4]. Once decided to go for Swish-e (on Windows) you need a couple of tools to handle various file mime types, among others pdftotext, ps2ascii, antiword and one that I found today to convert Excel files to text, called xlhtml. Just search.ch for them ;) Well, now the only thing I could not find is a few lines of code to get a configurable search field to be integrated in the Windows task bar as we know it from GDS. Anyone up with a solution? [1] http://dnka.com [2] http://floatingsheep.com/baagle.html [3] http://nanoweb.si.kz [4] http://www.neokraft.net/articles/swish-e/ Related post(s): Googles Desktop Search privacy policy (12.3) Google Desktop Search going for Thunderbird (10.5) Beagle - Open Source Desktop Search (9.99) Livesearch - let's talk about usability (6.70) Google and CC sensitive search (6.67) Related tags(s): content_management, privacy, search, art, economy Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. March 2005 PHP Naive Bayesian Filter against Spam Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 21:37:07 As recently mentioned this blog got an awful amount of trackback spam. After a short period of silence it started again today. So I turned off the trackback feature and will live without it for a while. Loïc d'Anterroches by the way has implemented a PHP Naive Bayesian Filter [1] that I could imagine would help me out the most with the trackback spam. Captacha is no solution there and I would rather prefer the "Bayesian Way" compared to semi-automatic solutions like moderation, blacklisting et.al. By the way, the script by Loïc did work right out of the box. ;) [1] http://www.xhtml.net/php/PHPNaiveBayesianFilter Related post(s): Spam filter for Outlook 2000 and 2002 (12.8) Bayesian Filtering of Spam in MT (10.8) Bayesian Filtering of Spam (7.61) Visual history of spam email (6.78) Spam in a new suit (6.78) Related tags(s): software, technology, law, weblog, civil_society Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 21. March 2005 Google Desktop Search going for Thunderbird Technology (wiki) \| Software (wiki) - urs @ 22:33:41 Google Desktop Search is now indexing also: Netscape Mail / Thunderbird Netscape / Firefox / Mozilla PDF Music Images Video Various plug-ins seem to result from the Google Desktop Search SDK. There is e.g. an OpenOffice document indexing plug-in [1]. [1] http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html Related post(s): Googles Desktop Search privacy policy (12.1) Beagle - Open Source Desktop Search (11.8) Sony Ericsson Z520i sync with Google Calendar (9.18) Google and CC sensitive search (9.17) Google search plugin based on XMLHttpRequest? (8.63) Related tags(s): content_management, privacy, howto, creative_commons, search Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. March 2005 Die tel.search.ch Option linkzoom Technology (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 08:40:52 Letztlich bin ich bei tel.search.ch auf die Option "&help=linkzoom" aufmerksam geworden. Zusammen mit der Option "&region=" kann die Suche auf eine Gemeinde reduziert [1] oder aber auf einen Bezirk, also ein grösseres Gebiet ausgeweitet [2] werden. Das kann dann Sinn machen, wenn nicht leichthin durch eine Option im Stile von "&plz=300" eine Einschränkung vorgenommen werden kann. [1] http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=imobersteg&region=d-bern&help=linkzoomd [2] http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=imobersteg&region=z-bern&help=linkzoomz Allenfalls kommt man zu denselben Suchergebnissen, wenn man die Option "&help=linkzoom[d\|z]" auch ganz weggelässt. Related post(s): Google and CC sensitive search (9.74) PHPNuke ::: News system, Web Portal etc. (6.78) search.ch with a new CI? (5.72) New map service by search.ch (5.69) map.search.ch with new feature (5.17) Related tags(s): creative_commons, search, art, technology_transfer, random_thought Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. March 2005 O'Reilly hacks* Technology (wiki) - urs @ 16:36:41 One of my favourite O'Reilly hacks [1] is this one: Command Line Calculator Calculate from the command line thanks to Google and PHP. [1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/797 Related post(s): About SQL ::: some other mini HOTWO's (5.58) hacking and forking b2 (4.40) Gmail as a blog engine (4.18) First steps on ImageMagick (3.97) GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (3.82) Related tags(s): weblog, php, software Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 11. March 2005 Trackback Spam Technology (wiki) - urs @ 00:03:37 Just had to remove a set of over 1600 trackback spams. I will have to come up with an antispam solution in a while. Related post(s): PHP Naive Bayesian Filter against Spam (12.0) Jannis and his PHP Trackback lib (7.57) A trackback-guide (7.57) Spam filter for Outlook 2000 and 2002 (7.21) Bayesian Filtering of Spam (7.18) Related tags(s): weblog, software, technology, php, law Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. February 2005 Tagging for lots.ch Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 11:20:58 chregu [1] pointed out how you will be able to aggregate lots.ch related/linked information via del.icio.us as he introduced the tag "lots.ch". And we aggregate the del.icio.us tag "lots.ch", which will be displayed on the page. If you have an interesting link somehow related to lots.ch, just tag it with "lots.ch" and the link will show up on the OpenBlog. I started yet another tag on Technorati as you can see below [2]. Feel free to link in. But what counts most; just do not forget to visit us in Bern finally ;) [1] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p2019.html [2] http://www.technorati.com/tag/lots.ch Related post(s): Freetag - a tagging and folksonomy system (8.83) LOTS event catalog online (6.52) Keinen Rappen für die Software (6.22) LOTS - Let's Open The Source Overview (5.95) The agenda for the LOTS Event 2005 (5.87) Related tags(s): software, intellectual_property, economy, technology_transfer, travelling Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us Froogle glued to Gmail Technology (wiki) - urs @ 09:46:03 Usually I leave the cookie set for easier login into Gmail. Today I was Froogeling for a product and found my Gmail address displayed at the top right corner. Hmm, what do they have planned? Steering the adwords on behalf of my stored emails in Gmail? Clicking the link to "My Shoppinglist" returned a lovely 404. Let us wait and see what is next ;) Related post(s): Lockdown in sector 4 (9.07) iTrip FM Transmitter (8.53) Gmail photo album (8.32) GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (8.18) Gmail with Atom feed (8.17) Related tags(s): gadget, software, xml, weblog, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 04. February 2005 Sony HMD-A200 quit service Technology (wiki) - urs @ 21:07:40 My first Sony screen [1] just quit the service this evening ;( Need to do some fundraising [2] ;) [1] http://blog.li/trash/2005/02/04/1373.html [2] https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=urs@circle.ch Related post(s): Attorney General of Texas takes action against Sony BMG (9.15) Apache 2 binaries for Sony Playstation 2 available (5.94) Sony FSV-PGX1 Portable File Server (5.83) Pearl Jam Music Video unter CC (4.71) SBB with clickrail service (4.61) Related tags(s): drm, technology, creative_commons, music, content_management Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. February 2005 Migros offers Music Download Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 18:21:14 Migros has launched a Music download service on i-m.ch [1]. Unforutanely Firefox users are not welcome yet: The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 6 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP, 2000, Me or 98. Click Here to use our Doctor Download application to help you check your configuration alternatively Email Dr Download. Please try again. The service seems to be provided by On Demand Distribution [2]. [1] http://www.i-m.ch [2] http://www.od2.com Related post(s): amaroK LiveCD - Open Music Player (8.26) crowded entry in front of migros (8.08) Migros Magazine about Blogging (7.74) Wieder mal Intimes aus der Bloggerwelt (5.79) Music Library in Bern (5.71) Related tags(s): open_content, moblog, deutsch, humor, government Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 31. January 2005 Why does the web work? Technology (wiki) \| Content Management (wiki) \| Rant (wiki) - urs @ 22:52:15 Tell me if I am wrong, but wasn't it one of the key features of HTML at the time of its introduction to have pages linked by <a href=''>link</a>? Linking from inside of page A.html to a page B.html. But if one renames page B.html to C.html and does not rewire it by hand or use rewrite tricks, one gets what currently the NZZ online is playing with. Is it intention or are they just not aware of? Please give us the web back. ;) Unfortunately [2] is not a working substitute to [1] as one would expect: [1] http://nzz.ch/2004/11/05/il/page-newzzE16BRTPJ-12.html [2] http://nzz.ch/2004/11/05/il/newzzE16BRTPJ-12.html Addon: Really positive is the new redirection to the print-edition of a certain page [3]: [3] http://nzz.ch/2005/02/01/wi/newzzE4NR89LK-12.print.html Update: Cool URIs don't change - just refound that link again [4] ;) [4] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html Related post(s): back at work (4.19) pizza work-out kit (4.16) young drummers at work (4.10) DRM bridged by contract (3.58) vcf import problem on Thunderbird (3.51) Related tags(s): moblog, java, copyright, deutsch, office Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. January 2005 Coffee decaffeination Technology (wiki) \| Science (wiki) - urs @ 13:47:28 Just wondering, how that works: Wie stellt man koffeinfreien Kaffee her? Da, wie wir noch sehen werden, Coffein physiologisch hoch aktiv ist und deshalb von vielen Menschen nicht vertragen wird, bemüht man sich, das Gift aus dem ansonsten gern genossenen Kaffee zu entfernen. Das machte man früher zunächst mit Benzol, dann mit chlorierten Kohlenwasserstoffen wie Chloroform, Dichlormethan oder Tetrachlorkohlenstoff, was den Kaffee insgesamt für empfindliche Nasen ungenießbar machte. Die Lösemittelrückstände waren auch ungesund. 1964 meldete K. Zosel vom Max Planck-Institut für Kohleforschung in Mülheim ein Patent zu einem Verfahren zur Hochdruckextraktion an, bei dem als Extraktionsmittel überkritisches Kohlenstoffdioxid genutzt wird. Dieses Verfahren heißt Destraktion, ein Kunstwort aus Destillation und Extraktion. The methods of decoffeination I have found are Swiss Water process, the sparkling water process and the CO2 process [2]. The so called Swiss Water (R) process has been visualized in the following video [3]. The video is really funny ;) [1] http://dc2.uni-bielefeld.de/dc2/tip/09_04.htm [2] http://www.coffeeresearch.org/science/decaffeination.htm [3] http://www.swisswater.com/resources/av/Swiss_Decaf101_400001.mov Related post(s): coffee break (9.00) Lost and found (3.92) Related tags(s): moblog, civil_society Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. January 2005 Gmail accounts Technology (wiki) \| Software (wiki) - urs @ 21:14:19 I have some more Gmail accounts to give away. Just leave a comment and your email below. Related post(s): Lockdown in sector 4 (9.07) Froogle glued to Gmail (8.73) Gmail photo album (8.32) GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (8.18) Gmail with Atom feed (8.17) Related tags(s): software, xml, php, technology, open_source Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 12. January 2005 John towards U3 Mozilla (wiki) \| Apple (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 20:31:11 John Haller [1] has done a remarkable job to let Thunderbird, Firefox and Sunbird as well as NVU run directly from a USB stick. I have some doubts to transport my mails around on a USB stick. Maybe Sunbird? Still not sure. There is a calendar on my mobile phone, which has no caldav yet, but let's wait and see ;) As the computers seem to become smaller too, the fancy stuff above gets even more relativated. Saying this, I have the new Apple mini in mind, which I saw today [2]. Nearly a "PC" to fit in the pocket (PIP) or a small bag (PIB) ;) Nevertheless, definitely enough resources to run Thunderbird, Firefox and Sunbird at once. [1] http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/ [2] http://www.apple.com/macmini/ Related post(s): Voice over IP clients (4.22) Python called by PHP (3.58) Apple users that switched (3.36) Sleepycat DB XML 1.2.1 with PHP API (3.24) Smarty Tidy Output Filter (3.05) Related tags(s): social_network, software, apple, open_source Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 07. January 2005 LiveJournal backend presentation Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 08:10:55 Brad Fitzpatrick presents some LiveJournal backend know-how [1]. Some related information is available about the wikipedia back-end [2]. [1] http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/ [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers Related post(s): Six Apart bought LiveJournal (8.83) Blog backend with recommended tags per post (6.24) PHP Debugger DBG 2.10 released (5.28) Gulf War 2 (4.48) Creative Commons in Berne (3.95) Related tags(s): economy, random_thought, politics, php, xml Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 27. December 2004 Back again Technology (wiki) \| Software (wiki) \| Humor (wiki) - urs @ 17:18:54 circle.ch was off for some hours for technical maintenance. Thank You for waiting. ;) Related post(s): Get a complete working back-end! (5.98) back at work (4.97) get that stuff back (4.94) dani back from canada (4.86) Back online (4.70) Related tags(s): economy, travelling, civil_society, database, php Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 25. November 2004 RFID enabled cell phones Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 13:29:31 The RFID journal [1] has an article about RFID-enabled cell phones [1]. Besides WLAN, Bluetooth and the like I tend to predict that this technology-mix might have a chance in various markets if: an accepted standard of the RFID communication protocol is used; or otherwise, the RFID reader is flexible enough, to read/write multiple RFID formats; enough products have those tags (eq. RFID chips) implemented. Let's consider an example: On a Sunday, where - at least here in Bern - the local stores are closed, I am walking alongside the shopping windows in the city. Oh, Kitchener [2] has some new fancy toys! Unfortunately the price tags are not visible on that certain Uglydoll. I'll grab my RFID-enabled mobile phone and simply scan all the products within the reading range. They get displayed by categories in my phone... shoes, t-shirts, toys etc. Among them there is that Uglydoll Ox [3]. Until here, there has no WLAN, no GPRS, not UMTS been used. What is left to do? Select the product and send the order to the shop. Or maybe I just would like to compare it with an ebay-offer? ;) Bye, bye privacy. [1] http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/1020/-1/1/ [2] http://www.kitchener.ch/html/de/shop/index.php?mg=11&ug=16&br=4803 [3] http://uglydolls.com Related post(s): KEITAI-L - mailing list on the changing role of mobile phones (9.42) RFID course - Technologies and Applications (7.98) Locative Technology on Nokia Series 60 phones (7.13) Google Maps on a mobile phone (7.00) Microsoft dives into RFID (6.82) Related tags(s): technology_transfer, geodata, economy, weblog, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. November 2004 Hoppla Technology (wiki) \| Humor (wiki) - urs @ 17:48:06 via Joi, http://zattevrienden.realroot.be/depanneren.htm Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 07. November 2004 DeLaRue is hiring Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 21:12:19 De La Rue [2] Cash Systems Schweiz is hiring four specialized engineers for their CSD Detector Group at their location just outside Bern. [1] via andi, http://newsli.andudi.ch [2] http://circle.ch/blog/media/delarue_ausschreibung.pdf Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.17) Google in Zürich is hiring (6.34) adfinis is hiring (4.21) Bitflux is hiring (4.01) Related tags(s): best_of, technology, economy, content_management, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. October 2004 Google in Zürich is hiring Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 07:45:29 Google [1] is hiring [..] talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists. Feel free to follow that request! ;) Update: Just found the outlined legal positions [2] ;) [1] http://www.google.ch/jobs/index.html [2] http://www.google.com/jobs/legal.html Related post(s): Liip is hiring - again, again, more and more (8.17) DeLaRue is hiring (7.62) Add the Google Toolbar to your browser (5.85) Doctorow in Zürich (5.58) Google Book Library - Auswirkungen in Deutschland (5.36) Related tags(s): content_management, privacy, civil_society, creative_commons, search Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. October 2004 Bundesrat gegen Spam Government (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 14:10:30 Heute in der NZZ [1]: Mit 86 zu 78 Stimmen befürwortete der Nationalrat, dass der Bundesrat unerwünschte Massenwerbung per E-Mail oder SMS (Spam) bekämpfen kann. Da kann man ja gespannt sein, wie er dies bewerkstelligen will. Vermutlich wird er sich auf das Argumentatorium eines grossen Softwarekonzerns stützen; Stichwort Caller-ID [2,3]. [1] http://nzz.ch/2004/10/07/il/page-newzzE00M06LA-12.html [2] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p1398.html [3] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p1382.html Related post(s): Spam filter for Outlook 2000 and 2002 (7.21) Visual history of spam email (6.78) Spam in a new suit (6.78) Answering back to Spammers (6.60) Blog Comment Spam (6.16) Related tags(s): software, law, weblog, civil_society Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. September 2004 ImageShack - dedicated content hosting service Technology (wiki) - urs @ 08:42:28 ImageShack is a dedicated internet digital content hosting service [1]. [1] http://www.imageshack.us Related post(s): Blogsome - Worpress based Blog Hosting (8.65) VTX mit Blog Hosting (8.44) Easypay by Swisscom for micro content (7.35) Netzone Hosting - MySQL database now included (6.49) SpamPal, ASK et. al. (6.03) Related tags(s): law, geodata, crosspost, moblog, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. August 2004 Bluewin is testing TV over ADSL Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 07:16:37 Bluewin [1] is going to provide 25 TV and five Pay-TV channels in Switzerland; based on Microsoft TV IPTV. The product will be tested in about 600 households. [1] http://www.bluewinag.com/cont/pm/040824_d.html Related post(s): Testing trackback links (6.73) Pingback testing (5.87) PHP 4.3.0 released (4.61) Pure Java PHP Editor (3.33) Denial of service attack for Apache on Windows (2.70) Related tags(s): weblog, economy, deutsch, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 24. August 2004 Back online Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 20:29:29 Thanks to a cablecom service technician I am back on the Net. Just four days ago some other technician installed a filter in the house of the neighbours, which cut down the signal. Strange story. Related post(s): GeoURL is back online (7.60) Get a complete working back-end! (5.98) back at work (4.97) get that stuff back (4.94) dani back from canada (4.86) Related tags(s): travelling, rant, humor, content_management, database Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. August 2004 Off the net Economy (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 14:04:15 Mein Modem ist wieder mal vom Netz gegangen. Bereits vier Tage. Am Telefon bestätigt die Cablecom zwar eine Störung und offenbar habe sich "das Modem nicht wieder einklinken können", doch wird man als Endkunde wieder mal im Ungewissen gelassen. Im Rapport der Störungen, das bezeichnenderweise in der Navigation "Unser Netz" statt "Störungen" heisst, ist nichts davon zu lesen [1]. Statt mir umgehend ein Modem zu schicken, das sich von selbst "einklinkt", muss wieder mal ein Techniker her. "Das kann ein, zwei Tage dauern, bis er sich meldet"; super. "Dabei wird er mit Ihnen einen Termin vereinbaren"; noch besser. Ach ja, beim Einwählen auf die Supportnummer, wird man schon fast standardmässig vier Minuten warten gelassen, um dann ab der 10 Minute mit CHF 2.-/min beraten zu werden. Wie heisst es doch gleich: "Ich liebe es"... ah sorry, das ist ja ein anderes Unternehmen. [1] http://cablecom.ch/internet/hispeed/hispeed_products_support/hispeed_support_net/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. August 2004 Cascading menu in skinable Javascript Technology (wiki) - urs @ 23:43:29 A nice article on evolt [1] describes the principle of coding a skinable cascading menu with javascript. [1] http://evolt.org/article/A_touch_of_class_skinable_Javascript/17/60326/ Related post(s): See cascading button menu in action! (10.5) PHP Layers Menu - dynamic menu trees (9.05) menu im du nord (7.63) Nested menu with Flash on sourceforge.net (5.60) Scripts on PHP (3.82) Related tags(s): open_source, economy, projects, php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. July 2004 Schatzi-Halter Technology (wiki) \| Intellectual Property (wiki) - urs @ 00:18:14 Lars - a friend of a friend - publishes some of his "objects", various types of mostly handy innovations. Tonight I installed the "Schatzi-Halter" to hold a postcard from a Christo exposition [1]. [1] http://www.atelier-v.ch/Seiten/18.html Related post(s): Linux Solutions Group aktiv in der Schweiz (4.80) Keinen Rappen für die Software (4.31) Related tags(s): linux, deutsch, open_source Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. July 2004 TU Activities on Countering Spam Technology (wiki) \| Civil Society (wiki) - urs @ 16:39:43 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), is organizing an ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Countering Spam [1]from 7 to 9 July 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland. Discussion will be structured around five main themes: - Scope of the problem - Technical solutions - Consumer education and awareness - Legislation and enforcement - International cooperation The audiocast of the meeting is available here. Background materials, contributions and presentations will be posted here. [1] http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/spam/ Related post(s): Spam filter for Outlook 2000 and 2002 (7.21) Visual history of spam email (6.78) Spam in a new suit (6.78) Blog Comment Spam (6.16) barratry - the offense of persistently instigating lawsuits (5.90) Related tags(s): software, law, weblog, intellectual_property, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 09. June 2004 X1 Search turns email archives into a knowledge repository Technology (wiki) - urs @ 23:26:31 Stroke by stroke, querying for a word within your email archives, X1 [1] lists and refines the search results. I never had the chance to use Gmail [2] but that is what Gmail seems to offer too. I am not aware of a tool like X1 existsting for Linux. Just let me know... [1] http://www.x1.com [2] http://gmail.google.com Related post(s): CC's second anniversary (8.62) New map service by search.ch (7.08) PHP Faqts - A knowledge database (6.72) search.ch has a blog now (6.48) A Plaze to be with a signed Java Applet? (6.48) Related tags(s): geodata, xml, search, art, technology_transfer Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. May 2004 CCD astro fotography Technology (wiki) - urs @ 09:08:09 A. Moser, M. Auf der Maur and R. Hoog Antink realized a CCD camera to follow an astro-telescope and published their work (2002 ) made at the ETH Zürich [1]. It was tutored by Dr. R. Zinniker and T. Degen [2]. Also some years back, I found it interesting to get a document (in German) explaining what they did and achieved, delivering also the source code and the PCB schematics. [1] http://rs3.ch/~roman/projects/SA01/astrodoc.pdf [2] http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/showcase/members/zinniker.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 14. May 2004 GeoURL on renovation Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 17:06:02 The GeoURL [1] site is currently down for renovation. I am curious what it will look like and what features they present on their comeback. [1] http://geourl.org Related post(s): GeoURL is back online (11.0) Plazes to be (5.11) Related tags(s): social_network, weblog Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 01. May 2004 SpamPal, ASK et. al. Open Source (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 22:10:19 I just come from configuring SpamPal on my local Windows machine. The amount of unsolicited mails is tremendous on my main address these days. My hosting service reported me of something like a thousand mails in ten hours. To rise the filter level once more would not make sense, they said and proposed to install SpamPal [1] which taggs spam and makes filtering more easy. On the other hand you could change your mail policy and make use of a tool like Active Spam Killer [2]. ASK sends a confirmation message back to the unknown sender and keeps the mail pending until the (human) sender confirms the request. ASK is an Open Source solution. A similar service is available through Mailblocks [3]. [1] http://www.spampal.org/usermanual/clients/outlook2000/outlook2000.html [2] http://www.paganini.net/ask/ [3] http://www.mailblocks.com Comments (3) Permalink del.icio.us 23. April 2004 GIS Maps and mobile blogging Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Wireless and Mobile (wiki) - urs @ 10:24:54 Mika Tuupola [1] exemplifies the ease of implementation of GIS data using the PEAR library written by Sebastian Bergmann. That reminds me of an earlier blog post about the GPS bluetooth module SOCKET SOC-GP0804-405 [2] (comparable is the PRETEC OB-GPLXX-A, both about CHF 400); Before we cat get mobile phones with integrated GPS capability, I guess that these module would do a good job delivering GPS data which can be submitted together with the blog content. If I would blog from a certain location, it would be quite nice to display the coordinates and leave a trace between consecutive posts. It simply adds more value to the content. I am aware, that others will track the trace and tease you up "hey, what did you do in Champéry; shouldn't you have been in London at that time?"... but that is up to you, to decide what you reveal of yourself. Isn't it? [1] http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/archives/155/ [2] http://shop.comdirect.ch/default.asp?prono=1538 Related post(s): Google Maps on a mobile phone (11.8) KABLOG - enhanced mobile blogging (7.94) Public transport map offering realtime data (5.72) Davos Blogging Panel Videos (5.48) Kaywa - enhanced (mo)blogging (5.33) Related tags(s): geodata, java, weblog, xml, travelling Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. March 2004 Thoughts on Microsofts CallerID Technology (wiki) \| Software (wiki) - urs @ 15:33:28 nospamproxy.de [1,2] has some good articles on anti-spam technologies and points out, that CallerID works in a very similar way to SPF, RMX and other protocols to verify the sending host. Microsoft introduced its CallerID at hotmail.com as you can test yourself: # host -t txt _ep.hotmail.com So from the technical side it seems that the CallerID(ea) is probably even behind what SPF is capabale of [3,4,5]. On the other hand, some argue, that Microsoft might to "acknowledge Open Source without accepting some of the risks of being truly Open Source might bring": This product may incorporate intellectual property owned by Microsoft Corporation. If you would like a license from Microsoft, you need to contact Microsoft directly [3]. From that perspective, the patent claims by Microsoft might be only defensive [4]. Some searching for latest patents by Microsoft (Title or Abstract: spam, Applicant: Microsoft) only reveals four related patents, one of them published in January 2004 [6]. If - on a legislatory level - Microsoft intends to push its technology, one should point out to the governmental experts and commissions that there are already technical alternatives that should be taken in account as well. [1] http://www.nospamproxy.de/EN/rulez-ms.htm [2] http://www.nospamproxy.de/EN/rulez-spf.htm [3] http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ecommerce/2004q1/001206.html [4] http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/02/26/1448253.shtml [5] http://www.mail-archive.com/cobalt-users@list.cobalt.com/msg61809.html [6] http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?PN=EP1376427&CY=ch&LG=en&DB=EPD Related post(s): Mozilla gets kind of ContentEditable (4.40) PHP a threat for ASP .NET? (3.92) FOAF to doc via XSLT (3.80) How to write small projects really fast (3.75) ASF rejecting Sender ID (3.49) Related tags(s): php, weblog, technology, economy Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 20. March 2004 Cutting dubplates from mp3 sources Technology (wiki) \| Culture (wiki) - urs @ 11:07:10 Flo Kaufmann from Vinylum GmbH told me about his dubcutter some two years ago [1]. The dub cutter allows individual on demand cutting of dub plates. The mechanic is an add-on to the Technics SP 1200/1210 turntables [2]. Flo also used to run one the last vinyl pressing plants around. As he mentions on his site, they shut it down due to lacking human resources and he will concentrate his engeneering forces on a galvanic and processing place for acetate masters together with central dubs in Bern [3] to produce swiss made vinyl in future. [1] http://www.vinylium.ch/dubcut/dubcutter.html [2] ftp://ftp.vinylium.ch/pub/doku/DubcutterManual03.pdf [3] http://www.centraldubs.com Update (6.1.2005): http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/eword.html Related post(s): Unofficial APT repositories (6.22) YAGPB will come up ::: But watch out for it! (4.61) GD Graphics Library (3.58) PHP bcompiler (3.17) OpenOffice.org 1.1 for Mac OS X to build (3.11) Related tags(s): linux, php, geodata, technology Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 28. January 2004 Eventually dropped your mail Technology (wiki) \| Social Network (wiki) - urs @ 00:43:12 Well, if you wrote me a mail today and did not get an answer, then maybe you chose a topic that fitted to one of these: 160 "deliver" 132 "virus" 57 "returned" 38 "notification" 11 "attachment" 7 "message" 5 "scan" How was it the other day [1], when email was not yet existing? 1971 Ray Tomlinson (BBN) sends the first email (probably "QWERTYUIOP"), after having written a first FTP (File Transfer Protocol: "CPYNET") to send files from one ARPANET PDP-10 computer to another in his office. He choosed "@" to start the address after the name of the receiver. I am sure to choose other ways of communication as soon as possible. Services like email seem to be antiquated. But probably it is not the service but the way they get taken over and manipulated by a certain kind of users. It is up to each of us taking occurrences like this as motivation to evolve new ways of communication. It is time we get IPv6 and every wearable offers the possibility to access to the net so we can choose the most suitable "communication environment" depending on the situation. [1] http://noosphere.cc/internet.html [2] http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/home.html Related post(s): Mail appetizer for Mac (5.59) Re: /bin/mail anyone? (5.11) LIBMAIL ::: mail library for PHP (4.97) GMX with 1GB of Mailbox size (4.64) POPFile classifies E-Mail and Spam (4.64) Related tags(s): apple, content_management, open_source, technology, software Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. December 2003 Bundesratswahl online verfolgen Government (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) \| Politics (wiki) \| Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:14:06 Die Bundesratswahlen werden auch online verfolgt werden können. Die Informatikdienste des Bundes haben aufgrund der zu erwartenden grossen Nachfrage auch vorgesorgt: Wie jede Sitzung der Räte, so wird auch die Bundesratswahl durch die Bundesversammlung via unser Live+ übertragen. Allerdings wird unsere Infrastruktur die zu erwartende riesige Nachfrage kaum verkraften. Als Zusatzdienstleistung bieten wir Ihnen deshalb an diesem Tag Bild und Ton von SFDRS über einen externen Provider an. SFDRS: http://real.xobix.ch/live/sfdrs_live_12102003.ram Bitte speichern Sie diese als Bookmark und wählen Sie sich am Morgen des 10. Dezembers direkt über diese Adresse ein - danke für Ihr Verständnis! via parlament.ch Related post(s): Online PHP-GTK class documentation (3.81) Browsing and modifying XML documents online (3.81) GeoURL is back online (3.64) Better or worse to become Musicstar (3.48) LOTS event catalog online (3.33) Related tags(s): content_management, creative_commons, weblog, technology_transfer, travelling Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. November 2003 Solar panel driven Motorglider Technology (wiki) - urs @ 13:33:02 Bertrand Piccard is heading for new horizons. His projects "Solar Impulse" [1], a human scientific and ecological adventure, aims to realize a round-the-world flight by a solar powered airoplane. In Biel I had the chance to work for a lab at the University of applied sciences, where Andrea Vezzini and his staff developed a battery driven motorglider for a German Company [2]. Also read on at Slashdot [3]. [1] http://www.solar-impulse.com [2] http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/E/induel/r_and_d/lange/ [3] http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/11/28/1438236.shtml Related post(s): Davos Blogging Panel Videos (7.03) Modifications on the $100 Laptop (5.84) SteelBlue: Developing Secure Database-Driven Web Sites (4.38) EM 2004 Blog for the Newspaper Der Bund (3.93) Are You ready to rock? (2.65) Related tags(s): economy, social_network, weblog, random_thought, technology Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. November 2003 Answering back to Spammers Technology (wiki) \| Software (wiki) - urs @ 20:48:21 Karl-Friedrich Lenz [1] proposed something similar in his book "Grenzen des Patentwesens. Konkrete Massnahmen gegen die Patentinflation" on the level of software patents, while darkonc [2] comes out with the idea of effectively answering back to Spammers. The question simply is, what would happen, if any spam receiver would answer back to the spam mails or eventually blog spams. Most probably, the spammer its system or organisation would brake down due to the load of requests. But as Lenz argues, it would need a major movement to cause any mattering effects. Samples of handling Nigerian Spams could be read on 419eater.com [3]; via lessig.org [4]. [1] http://k.lenz.name/d/v/index.html [2] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/4/111059/720 [3] http://419eater.com [4] http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001584.shtml Related post(s): Hunting spammers (6.81) Get a complete working back-end! (5.98) back at work (4.97) get that stuff back (4.94) dani back from canada (4.86) Related tags(s): economy, travelling, humor, civil_society, database Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. November 2003 Retype security code before submitting a comment Weblog (wiki) \| Technology (wiki) - urs @ 18:03:24 James Seng provides another - he was the guy that implemented the bayesian filter too - MT plugin to prevent comment spams. The script displays an image with a security code and demands the user to reenter a security code manually before allowing posting to go through. You should make the text on the image as legible as possible to give people with seeing disabilites a chance but it should have a good variation to prevent bots from OCR-reading the information. [1] http://james.seng.cc/archives/000145.html Related post(s): Security resource link list (7.73) no comment (6.40) Modify a comment in a JPEG image (6.28) Using PHP Securely (5.79) Security and PHP, Part 1 (5.35) Related tags(s): economy, law, copyright, wireless_and_mobile, crosspost 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