I've been keeping a small Antlib for GWT and a DLL with NAnt and MSBuild tasks to run Ant in a local darcs repository. Now I've decided to not maintain them here anymore but rather move them to github, so they now are at https://github.com/bodewig/gwttasks and https://github.com/bodewig/Ant4NantAndMSBuild respectively.
For the migration of my - trivial - darcs repos I used https://github.com/purcell/darcs-to-git and it worked like a charm.
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After being happy with xCHM for a while now, I discovered a serious limitation, it doesn't support frames.
Not that I'd understand why anybody would need a frame to nail a header that contains nothing but the chapter's title inside the documentation, where the title is perfectly visible and the page isn't longer than a single screen anyway ... But there really are documentation files out there that require a frame enabled HTML viewer. The various "Microsoft Application Blocks for .NET" are examples.
Right now I've switched to split up the whole archive using chmlib's extract_chmLib and use a "real" browser to view the ".htm" files, but this is not really satisfying. Any better options for Linux and MacOS X out there?
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It happened twice to me during the past two weeks that I've been working on my iBook in a semi-public place and suddenly realized that I was connected to a wireless network - and had access to the internet. Both times pinging the broadcast address revealed that only the router and my laptop were part of the network.
So twice I've found a WLAN router that offered DHCP services and internet access without a password or even encryption - and Apple's WLAN implementation simply takes advantage of this by default. I'm pretty sure that those networks have not been supposed to offer the service to me.
Germany's DSL providers are currently selling WLAN routers packaged with a new DSL line at reasonably low prices. I assume their default configuration is to accept everything - for ease of installation. I wonder whether they tell their new customers to change the configuration (and the customers simply don't care) or if the non-tech-savvy customers don't even know they offer public services.
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I had to scratch ice from my car's windows for the first time this season. We are even expecting snow today.
When did we have 20 degree for the last time? Less than three weeks ago IIRC.
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Steve talks about the UK enacting the EU copyright policy and calls it the EU version of DMCA.
Well, from his description and the recent laws being discussed in Germany it's kind of obvious that different countries of the EU have very different views of what would be required to follow the EU.
Let's use music CDs as an example. Under German law you have the right to take private copies of a CD you've purchased, you may even take copies for your friends (as long as you do so for a limited number of friends and don't charge money for it).
This remains true even with the new copyright laws in Germany, with some silly changes. You still are allowed to make copies if you can. But it is illegal to defeat a copy protection mechanism, or to distribute software that can disable copy protection - I don't know whether pressing the Shift key is now illegal as well. You may even copy MP3s you've obtained, unless it is from an "obviously illegal" source.
How copy protected CDs and the right to obtain private copies can get together is still in some kind of flux. Things like shipping three CDs instead of one per box are being discussed.
Oh, if you have any legal problems getting your Tour de France coverage next year, Steve, we can certainly arrange something for the German coverage. You won't understand the famous commenters Emig and Watterot, but I wouldn't say you'd miss much either. I expect next year's media coverage in Germany to even exceed this year's hype now that Jan Ullrich has re-joined Team Telekom (will be T-Mobile next year).
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