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29. December 2020
Rudimental Drumming Notation in SMuFL But in the very beginning of the 20th century, an outstanding initial work has been performed by Fritz Berger, who initiated a new notation for the Rudimental Drumming performed in Switzerland, including the variations used in Basel. Nearly seventy years later, a group of drum instructors did a substantial redesign of Berger's notation and called it "Zündstoff Schrift", later renamed to "Trommelfont". This font took the key glyphs of Berger and simplified it on behalf of better legibility. Especially the rolls were simplified. The Trommelfont is a True Type Font, which allows proper reproduction of notation sheets - but - as one of its drawbacks, it is no available within the standard fonts used within Music Notation software. This was the trigger for me to push the Rudimental Drumming notation to a new level, so that we can take benefit of all the digitization initiatives, especially in the education of young rudimental drummers. I learnt, that the entry gate for such a discussion is a place, where all the glyphs are consolidated into a standard. That place - it took me quite a while to find out - is SMuFL. So I sat down and tried to identify the real requirements and differences of the Rudimental Drumming notation, including the specialities of Swiss and Basel rudiments, formulate those basic requirements and bring them into the SMuFL community. The process lasted months. But with Version 1.4 of SMuFL, we will see two first basic glyphs that are unique to Rudimental Drumming notation based on Berger. Those two rudiments are - what we call - the "Schlepp" (flam) and the "Doublé" (doublé). The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) is a specification that provides a standard way of mapping the thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation into the Private Use Area in Unicode’s Basic Multilingual Plane for a single (format-independent) font. My request formulated as "Add special noteheads used in Swiss rudimental drumming notation #118" can be followed under https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/118 As those two glyphs are only a start, I would assume, that they work as catalyzer and trigger for further improvement of our notation. Once being available in a standard font set in the relevant notation softwares around the world, this will be for sure an enabler for innovation and improvement in the education sector of our Rudimental Drumming culture. Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 27. August 2007
128GB SSD to replace conventional disk drive [1] http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/6_53.pdf Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. August 2007
Behold search engine for images 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. July 2007
reCAPTCHA - avoid spam [1] http://recaptcha.net Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 12. December 2006
Lessig's Code v2 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. February 2006
Lightbox - image overlay in the page 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/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. November 2005
Modifications on the $100 Laptop 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;
[1] http://laptop.media.mit.edu [2] http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/touring/laptop.htm [3] http://www.industrialkeyboard.com/html/internettastatur-folie.html Comments (3) Permalink del.icio.us 06. October 2005
QR coded blog entries 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:
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/ Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 21. September 2005
OpenLaszlo Open Source development platform 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/ Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 29. August 2005
Get Tags with Yahoo! Term Extraction 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. August 2005
Working out a category cloud printf("<a href='/blog/p%s.html'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. Comments (4) Permalink del.icio.us 03. August 2005
PHP Developers for blog.ch [1] http://blog.ch/blog/?p=148 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 14. June 2005
Favourite URL? 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)= Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 06. June 2005
Marklar - reinforcing a background task at Apple? [1] http://infam.antville.org/stories/1138384/ [2] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1656622,00.asp [3] http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. May 2005
Grüfnisch - Geheimsprache für Schüler Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 07. April 2005
Legaltorrents taken offline? Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 05. April 2005
Access to Desktop Search results 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/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. March 2005
PHP Naive Bayesian Filter against Spam 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 21. March 2005
Google Desktop Search going for Thunderbird
[1] http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. March 2005
Die tel.search.ch Option linkzoom [1] http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=imobersteg®ion=d-bern&help=linkzoomd [2] http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=imobersteg®ion=z-bern&help=linkzoomz Allenfalls kommt man zu denselben Suchergebnissen, wenn man die Option "&help=linkzoom[d|z]" auch ganz weggelässt. Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. March 2005
O'Reilly hacks Command Line Calculator[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/797 Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 11. March 2005
Trackback Spam Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. February 2005
Tagging for 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us
Froogle glued to Gmail Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 04. February 2005
Sony HMD-A200 quit service [1] http://blog.li/trash/2005/02/04/1373.html [2] https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=urs@circle.ch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. February 2005
Migros offers Music Download 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.The service seems to be provided by On Demand Distribution [2]. [1] http://www.i-m.ch [2] http://www.od2.com Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 31. January 2005
Why does the web work? 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. January 2005
Coffee decaffeination Wie stellt man koffeinfreien Kaffee her?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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. January 2005
Gmail accounts Comments (5) Permalink del.icio.us 12. January 2005
John towards U3 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/ Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 07. January 2005
LiveJournal backend presentation [1] http://www.danga.com/words/2004_lisa/ [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 27. December 2004
Back again Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 25. November 2004
RFID enabled cell phones
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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. November 2004
Hoppla Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 07. November 2004
DeLaRue is hiring [1] via andi, http://newsli.andudi.ch [2] http://circle.ch/blog/media/delarue_ausschreibung.pdf Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. October 2004
Google in Zürich 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. October 2004
Bundesrat gegen Spam 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. September 2004
ImageShack - dedicated content hosting service [1] http://www.imageshack.us Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. August 2004
Bluewin is testing TV over ADSL [1] http://www.bluewinag.com/cont/pm/040824_d.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 24. August 2004
Back online Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. August 2004
Off the net 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 [1] http://evolt.org/article/A_touch_of_class_skinable_Javascript/17/60326/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. July 2004
Schatzi-Halter [1] http://www.atelier-v.ch/Seiten/18.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. July 2004
TU Activities on Countering Spam - 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/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 09. June 2004
X1 Search turns email archives into a knowledge repository [1] http://www.x1.com [2] http://gmail.google.com Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. May 2004
CCD astro fotography [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 [1] http://geourl.org Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 01. May 2004
SpamPal, ASK et. al. 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 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. March 2004
Thoughts on Microsofts CallerID # host -t txt _ep.hotmail.comSo 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 Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 20. March 2004
Cutting dubplates from mp3 sources 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 Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 28. January 2004
Eventually dropped your mail 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. December 2003
Bundesratswahl online verfolgen 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.via parlament.ch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 30. November 2003
Solar panel driven Motorglider 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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. November 2003
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 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. November 2003
Retype security code before submitting a comment [1] http://james.seng.cc/archives/000145.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 05. November 2003
GPS Drawing The gallery offers amazing drawings such as the "Oxford Don" [2] Complete with pointed nose and stiff upper lip, the Oxford Don was made in three stages: His eye was drawn around Farmoor Reservoir (average speed 3.7 kph, max speed 10.1 kph), his mouth along the River Thames (3.5 km and back again), and his profile along the A34, A338, A415, B4449, A40 right through Cornmarket Street in the centre of Oxford.Breathtaking images [3] are delivered by Koichi Mori. He recorded his journeys with a GPS receiver and a heart-rate monitor and captured his physical activities over the earths surface. [1] http://www.e-geo.ch [2] http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/oxdonon.htm [3] http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/contributions/hrgps.htm [4] http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/archives/000496.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 17. October 2003
Bayesian Filtering of Spam There is currently no PHP implementation so I started to convert the C implementation of Paul Graham's "A Plan for Spam" [1] by Craig Morrison [2]. Unfortunately I got stuck because the PECL sqlite extension does not yet include the sqlite_compile and sqlite_step functions which are used in Craig's version to do some fun stuff with SQLite: sqlite_compile() is used as a precursor to sqlite_step(). It takes anCraig was answering me via email as I asked him if there is a possible workaround to come along without the mentioned functions. Thanks to Craig. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/bayesiancfilter Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 01. October 2003
.NET Managed User Group of Switzerland Artikel 2: Zweck [1] http://www.compisoft.ch/blog/ [2] http://www.dotmugs.ch Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. September 2003
SD (Secure Digital) WiFi for more connectivity [1] http://www.brighthand.com/article/SanDisk_SD_WiFi_Card_Reviewed [2] http://www.sandisk.com/consumer/sdwifi.asp [3] http://www.socketcom.com/product/WL6200-480.asp Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 18. September 2003
About browsing the web and why Lotus Notes matters What is it about? Ray Ozzie and others have worked on the development of Lotus Notes. He recently became aware of the patent US 5,838,906 and the Eolas lawsuit against Microsoft about the browser experiance. Ray explains in deep how Lotus Notes was built and worked at that time and finally states that We even shipped it about 18 months before his filing. Lotus was a public company and at the time one of the biggest forces in the personal computing industry, so surely the person or persons doing the patent filing must have or should have known about our hypermedia innovations. Given all the press coverage, he was likely also influenced by them in envisioning his own distributed hypermedia enhancements to the then-nascent Web browser technology.Jon summarizes that Ray's essay could have saved [3] Microsoft more money than Ray invested in his company Groove and finally points out: Innovation is an act of willful imagination. What you dream up can indeed change the world. But the world keeps changing too, in ways that can require you to refocus your dream. Not an easy thing to do. [1] http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/09/17.html#a798 [2] http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html [3] http://www.rkmc.com/firm_news.asp?newsId=167&iba=Yes Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. September 2003
Bluetooth GPS Receiver [1] http://www.emtac.com/products/bluetooth/datasheet_btgps.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 02. September 2003
Create Windows forms using ink [1] http://www.inkblog.com/2003/06/09.html [2] http://www.leszynski.com/tabletpc/tpcinTegrate.htm Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 31. August 2003
Humming songs to get their titles 1. Clocks ColdplayKey words: query by humming, music [1] http://www.emt.iis.fraunhofer.de/ [2] http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche [3] http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/clipserve/B000069AUI001005/ (RealAudio) [4] http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069AUI/circlech/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 29. August 2003
Altavista toolbar [1] http://www.altavista.com/toolbar/default Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. August 2003
Microsoft dives into RFID [..] announced on June 10 that it will join the Auto-ID Center, a joint venture of the Uniform Code Council (UCC) and European Article Number (EAN) International.Microsoft gives an overview on RFID technology in an own article [3]. Auto-ID Center has been mentioned earlier [4] while talking about the EPC (Electronic Product Code). Auto-ID Center is a unique partnership between almost 100 global companies and five of the world's leading research universities. [1] http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?qu=rfid [2] http://microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/jun03/06-11rfid.asp [3] http://microsoft.com/businesssolutions/manufacturing/highlights/scm_chip.mspx [4] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p957.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 15. August 2003
CSS styling on RSS feeds I came across a developer paper at Apple [3], where they give an example on how CSS styling on RSS [2] could be done. Nevertheless, it needed some more tuning to fit to my needs. As far as I could test it, it only works for RSS, not for RDF or even pie/echo/atom [4]. Having jumped that hurdle, I was looking around for yet another RSS feed aggregator and found an alpha version of a quite amazing solution being realized as OpenSource project. The reader is called FeedReader [5] and runs on Windows 95/98/2000 and most probably on XP. Unfortunately Java JRE 1.4 made some troubles on my system, so I am stuck to 1.3 and that is finally the reason, why I could no have a go on Newsmonster, which is said to be an RSS news reader plug-in for Mozilla [6]; there is a Free and a Pro version. [1] http://www.bger.ch [2] http://circle.ch/media/?type=rss&channel=bger [3] http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/xmltransformations.html [4] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/08/05/atom02 [5] http://feedreader.sourceforge.net [6] http://www.newsmonster.org Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 14. August 2003
Instant Windows in days of worms [1] http://greg.abstrakt.ch/archives/000329.html [2] http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/ Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 12. August 2003
Webserver for Symbian phones [1] http://my-symbian.com/7650/applications/applications.php?fldAuto=568&faq=6 Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 09. August 2003
Anonymous sign-up process [1] http://www.mailinator.com Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 08. August 2003
Bluetooth Protocol Stack for Linux [1] http://affix.sourceforge.net [2] http://affix.sourceforge.net/hardware.shtml Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us
Theme Editor for T68 / T610 [1] http://members.lycos.co.uk/themecreator/ [2] http://www.thai.net/gnulinuxt68i/default.htm [3] http://homepage.mac.com/tobiaslidskog/T68ThemeEdit/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 06. August 2003
Synchronizing SonyEricsson T68 [1] http://www.eflame.com/fma/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 23. July 2003
GPRS upload transmission performance a) The Phones (Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola etc. ) b) The Transmission Standard (GPRS, HSCSD etc. ) c) The Telcos (Swisscom, Sunrise, Orange et.al. ) Roger does not have the same Telco as I have; so my first thought was, that it is simply a question of the provider. Your experiences, facts and comments on that topic are kindly welcome. [1] http://www.cs.hut.fi/~hhk/GPRS/gprs_index.html [2] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1182.html Update: Chregu pointed me to a posting [3] where it is stated, that the down- and upload performance actually depends on the phone. That is still not satisfactory since the weak upload rate is at about 12 kbps (about 1.5kB/s ) which is still five times higher than the rate the T68 reaches (20kB/60s is approx. 0.33kB/s). Maybe it is too hot for maths these days. Furthermore attached images will be usually encoded by base64 and therefore increase the size by about 30%; this of course for both the phones. [3] http: //groups.google.ch/groups?q=max+kb/s+gprs Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us 17. July 2003
Java for SonyEricsson T68i [1] http://www.petitiononline.com/8520/petition.html [2] http://www.sonyericsson.com/ch/spg.jsp?template=PS1&R=1&B=ie&PID=10055&LM=PSM_V Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 16. July 2003
Location based API The main element of this package is a location provider that delivers the device's current location to the application. [..] This API not only will enable "what's near me" restaurant services, but also could be the basis of some cool games.[1] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p970.html [2] http://greg.abstrakt.ch/archives/000278.html [3] http://www.forum.nokia.com/mobile_java_technology Update: Just found that site [4] via the "Related Links" engine: The Alternis Location Mediation System (LMS) allows mobile network operators to develop and offer personalised, private, billable applications and services with no adverse effect on network performance or quality.[4] http://www.alternis.com/overview.php Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. July 2003
ascii video live streaming [1] http://ascii.dyne.org [2] http://ascii.dyne.org/live-screenz.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us
Electronic Product Code (EPC) This technology needs to be discussed. RFID offers lots of advantages compared to a simple barcode. Starting from here, RFID transponders can basically cover the same functionality as barcodes but depending on the integrated features or algorithm within such a chip there is more to come. RFID chips e.g. can not only carry a serial number but also memory like ROM or EEPROM to read or read/write data to the chip. Since most of these chips are passive and have no internal power supply they do nothing unless they are asked for. So you need to have a reader or a basestation that emits energy via radio waves and simultaneously communicates with a single or multiple transponder chips. Common frequencies are 125kHz and 13,56MHz. There are trends to other, mostly higher frequencies though. Having that technical information in the back of one's mind it is kind of obvious, that if such systems want to be successfull in a global spectrum, it cries for standardization. Communication protocols and chip specification need to be based on common sense. If an Italian teacher talks to German pupils, they will not understand each other unless they find a compromise. So privacy concerns are legitimate if such a uniformed techonlogy will spread globally. And to come back to the barcode, it is hardly to see why this should not happen. [1] http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/download/0/1653/p106.pdf [2] http://quintessenz.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=view&id=000100002644 [3] http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70503&cid=6402887 [4] http://www.autoidcenter.org [5] http://transpondernews.com Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 07. July 2003
Linux on the Xbox games console without a mod chip [1] http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20275810,00.htm [2] http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net [3] http://www.linuxtag.org Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 25. June 2003
Metakit - efficient embedded database library [1] http://www.equi4.com/10 [2] http://www.equi4.com/pub/mk/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 24. June 2003
Sony FSV-PGX1 Portable File Server [1] http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/06/21/sony_fsvpgx1_portable_file_server.html [2] http://www.golem.de/0302/23833.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 19. June 2003
Open Wiki for IIS [1] http://www.openwiki.com Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 23. May 2003
Radio ID chips may track banknotes Businesses finds it hard to judge a note's authenticity, as current equipment cannot tell between bogus currency and old notes with worn-out security marks. Among the security features in the current euro are threads visible under ultraviolet light. [..] The main objective is to determine the authenticity of money and to stop counterfeits [..] [2] So watch the RFID builders stocks. Unfortunately I do not own the patent [2]. [1] http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/23/1347204.shtml?tid=126&tid=98&tid=99 [2] http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1009155.html [3] http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=WO0054209&CY=ch&LG=en&DB=EPD Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 28. April 2003
Infineon might settle in Switzerland [1] http://nzz.ch/2003/04/28/wi/page-newzzDF266C15-12.html [2] http://finfox.nzz.ch/s/markets_quotedetail.xhtml?symbol=IFX.ETR Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 26. April 2003
Back to the roots of CGI @ECHO OFFThe file move to "/cgi-bin" runs perfectly on Tiny [2]. [1] http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ [2] http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/ Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 08. April 2003
Linux on Xbox - running without hardware fix [1] http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 21. March 2003
Run PHP, Apache and MySQL from a CD-ROM So David Shield [3] has written a VB wrapper for handling apache, PHP and MySQL providing the source with the words "... whatsoever - use it, change it, sell it, give it away, swap it for chocolate cookies - I don not care!". There is also an approach with Borland C++ builder discussing the API to mysqlembedded [4]. [1] http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mysql-win32&m=103176361132101&w=2 [3] http://www.broadowlersystems.co.uk/democd [4] http://lfe.developpez.com/BCBmySQL/ Comments (2) Permalink del.icio.us 15. March 2003
Making bootable CDs [1] http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 13. March 2003
SQLite - Embeddable SQL Database Engine [aloha]# sqlite test.db SQLite version 2.8.0 Enter ".help" for instructions sqlite> create table tbl1(one varchar(10), two smallint); sqlite> insert into tbl1 values('hello!',10); sqlite> insert into tbl1 values('goodbye', 20); sqlite> select * from tbl1; hello!|10 goodbye|20 sqlite> [1] http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite [2] http://sf.net/projects/sqlite-php Comments (1) Permalink del.icio.us
Npgsql adopted in the Mono Class Library [1] http://www.go-mono.org [2] http://www.postgresql.com/news.php?NewsID=124 [3] http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mono/?cvsroot=mono Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 04. March 2003
Webserver on a Fly [0] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/0442212 [1] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p488.html [2] http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/ [3] http://www.fairchildsemi.com/pfPrint/AC/ACE1101.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 22. February 2003
Complicated world What I actually wanted to post on Monday was an image of a banner, that I found Sunday, just after the big anti-war demo. It gives a bit an impression of how delicate and difficult, or rather complicated the world actually is [2]. [1] http://www.cablecom.ch [2] http://dict.leo.org/?search=boycott Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 11. February 2003
FASTY - faster typing for disabled persons [1] http://dbs.cordis.lu/fep-cgi/srchidadb?ACTION=D&CALLER=PROJ_IST&QF_EP_RPG=IST-2000-25420 [2] http://www.fortec.tuwien.ac.at/reha.e/projects/fasty/english/ Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 10. October 2002
iPic - World's Smallest Webserver ![]() (Photo courtesy of Stephen Bannasch) Also dated back to 1999, some applications will come in focus as you might want to read some application notes [3]. A glance at the file structure is available too [4]. [1] http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic/fs/ [2] http://google.ch/search?sitesearch=microchip.com&q=12C509 [3] http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic/fs/iPic-AN02.pdf [4] http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic/fs/layout.html Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us 21. May 2002
Diesel engine for Piper PA 28 and Cessna 172 series Comments (0) Permalink del.icio.us |
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