Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Whoever thought that Microsoft would not be up to every trick to push their document format, should read some of these blog postings. To quote one of the blog, in which a blogger writes about the standardization process in Portugal:
Let me remark the fact that representatives of Sun and IBM ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Nach dem initialen Treffen gestern Abend einiger Mitglieder des Chaostreffs und einer Vertreterin der Leipziger Kamera ist nun offiziell der AKVL gegründet. Die Wiki-Seite des AKVL fasst die Beschlüsse und das weitere Vorgehen für die nächsten Wochen zusammen. Falls sich noch Mitstreiter finden sollten, sind sie natürlich herzlich eingeladen, sich ...
Posted in AK-Vorrat, German | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
This is mainly a compatibility release so that guitone 0.6.x keeps working with newer monotone versions like the recently released 0.36. There are no new features or bug fixes included.
Please note that it won't be possible to use monotone 0.34 or monotone 0.35 with this version of guitone due to ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
I'm sure most of the techies out there already know about the effort of Microsoft to push their XML-based file format "Office Open XML" (OOXML in short) of the Office 2007 Suite as open standard. The problem with it is though, that the whole format description is way too bloated ...
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Since August 1st, when my son Vincent (13½ months old) decided to take his first own steps without holding the hand of mommy or daddy, the times have been very exciting. Its very cute to see how his skills evolve from day to day, and while he usually felt ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Der Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (kurz AK Vorrat) macht Mobil!
Der Arbeitskreis ist gegen die geplante Einführung der Aufzeichnung und Speicherung von Telekommunikations-Verbindungsdaten (Handy, Internet) aller Bundesbürger zum Zwecke der Abwehr und Aufklärung von Straftaten (mehr Informationen hierzu auf der Webseite).
Aus diesem Grund findet am 22. September 2007 ab 14:30 in Berlin eine ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Appcasts are RSS feeds which make use of the <enclosure> tag which links to a binary file (usually a software package) somewhere on the internet. Sparkle, a library drop-in for Objective-C/Cocoa Mac OS X development, implements and expands this format to use it as transport description for application updates. With ...
Posted in Appcasting, Coding, Free Software | 3 Comments »
