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Re:Old News, Old News by SILIZIUMM · 2005-03-24 18:59 · Score: 1 · on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux

Same here, I saw an article on Heise.de though. Using it since the 14, works great !

Re:Uh, that's not how they detect planets by Lars+T. · 2005-03-22 20:19 · Score: 2, Informative · on Spitzer Telescope Discovers Planets Via Infrared

This German article lists a number of ways to detect planets. In addition the two you mentioned, they have the Pulsar-Timing-Method which can of course only find planets around Pulsars, Gravitational Microlensing, and the Transit-Timing-Method . And occlusion of starlight IS an important way to find planets.

Of course, you can always check this site for all extra-solar planets found, and method they were found with.

Re:Right to be sceptical, but .... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-20 09:35 · Score: 0 · on Batterylife Activator Reviewed

The best review I found was at the bottom of this article. Apparently even Heise did not check with the TÜV (for whatever reason).

Re:What a drag ... by foobsr · 2005-03-16 14:22 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software

Don't forget this baby: SGI Indigo. Astounding graphics, raw power, and a gorgeous blue case.

Blue? More like purple. Never mind.

Anyway, thank you for giving me the chane to post as follows.

I recall that I would have been in the position to afford an Indigo @ ~DM 10K from the person (Dr. Fred Hantelmann, biggest asshole in the known universe, always sitting on his finger) who wrote a review on this machine (when it was state-of-the-art; do not buy the article here) but who refused the deal (he was granted a rebate on behalf of him writing this review from Heise). I got over it when I managed to have the department buy a Personal Iris 4D35 @ (roughly) DM 120.000 for me (it had the sound of a vacuum cleaner :).

CC.

Heise reports Mono has been dropped, true? by egghat · 2005-03-16 04:01 · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available

Yesterday Heise had a stroy about the new Fedore beta and they mentioned, that Mono had been dropped from Fedora Core due fears regarding patent infringments. Read the translated news here.
The part that matters ist this:

"That contains however also the free NET implementation mono, which is probably not taken up to Fedora from fear of patent claims on the part of Microsoft."

which means sth like this:

Suse however contains the free NET implementation mono, which is probably not included into Fedora due to fear of patent claims on the part of Microsoft.

Anyone has more insight?

Bye egghat.

Re:226,585 unique hosts!? by geggo98 · 2005-03-15 11:16 · Score: 1 · on Observing Botnets with Honeynets

There's no explanation for such a botnet other than a professional full-time organization specifically created for profit.

You're right. Criminals are making profit from botnets and they to for at least a year from now.

Re:This is certainly not news by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-14 02:56 · Score: 0 · on Reuters On Telephone Cultures

An articl at heise.de cites that 90% of german kids between 13-20 own a cellphone and that 14% of them have outstanding debts.

Re:Another CeBIT story? by sbryant · 2005-03-13 21:31 · Score: 2, Informative · on CeBIT 2005: SLI Shuttle Surfaces

Oddly enough, there hasn't been that much CeBit stuff on /. in comparison to what is actually going on there. I've read articles about some really cool stuff. If you can read German, there's good coverage on the German tech news site Heise.

-- Steve

Re:Apple already tried to stop it by FroBugg · 2005-03-13 03:05 · Score: 2, Informative · on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT

Or you can read Heise's own translation into English, which actually makes sense from the start

Apple already tried to stop it by Lars+T. · 2005-03-13 02:02 · Score: 4, Informative · on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT

Heise News article (in German) and the Google-Translation (replace "conditions" with "booth", and it makes more sense). LuxPro had removed the notPod from their booth on Friday, but put it up again on Saturday.

Of course Apple's lawyers are after it, see here by leif.singer · 2005-03-13 01:39 · Score: 5, Informative · on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT

Apple to stop CeBIT presentation of iPod shuffle clone

Re:speed boost... but detremental power savings... by moonbender · 2005-03-11 05:15 · Score: 1 · on AMD Launches Turion Mobile Processor

Many things you say are true, but with respects to speed you are simply wrong. You say in another comment that you don't have any hard data - well, I'm looking at hard data, namely the current issue of the German computing mag c't. The average sustained transfer rate (read) of the 5400 rpm 2.5in drives are within 20 to 30 MB/s, while the 7200 rpm 3.5in drives routinely transfer at 45 to 55 MB/s, with 10krpm and 15krpm drives scoring even higher, obviously. And in a recent test on StorageReview a 10krpm (!) 2.5in HD targeting servers doesn't fare very well, either.

Re:what a goddamn bad idea by moonbender · 2005-03-11 02:17 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Tray And Play Unveiled

SATA goes now at a speed of 150, IDE HDDs go at 133, slower ones go at 100. Corect me if I am wrong, but CD/DVD ROM drives go at a speed of 66.

The numbers you are citing are in MB/s, and are the theoretical bus speed of SATA and various PATA UDMA modes. There is currently no single consumer hard drive able to sustain even the slowest mode you refer to (UDMA4), although modern HDs are pretty close. SATA was introduced because it's conceivable that UDMA6 won't be fast enough in the not-too-distant future, but mostly because it has other features that are, as one might put it, kewl. Obviously, CD (1x = 150 KB/s) and DVD (1x = 1.32 MB/s) drives are far from that, HDs are about 10 times as fast as CDs in terms of throughput and I assume they difference is even larger in terms of latency.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you - while you can do great stuff by smartly streaming data from the CD, you could also try smartly streaming data from the HD and get 10 times the data to display. So obviously, there is a tradeoff involved, either accept loading times or compromise the quality of the presentation.

References: c't 6/2005, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDMA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM

not new by cwebb1977 · 2005-03-09 04:40 · Score: 0 · on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song?

this isn't entirely new. The german magazine C'T proposed something similar a few months ago.

And YES, I would pay five cent. It's less than I pay now...

Re:Link to original article, not translation by wertarbyte · 2005-03-05 22:21 · Score: 1 · on German Railways To Get WLAN RailNet

Here it is.

I think... by game+kid · 2005-03-05 15:35 · Score: 5, Interesting · on German Railways To Get WLAN RailNet

...Google does a better translation; at least it has no odd question marks.

Most interesting: "In order to lead the data from and to the driving course to, the British set on a Wimax net along the distance, which is to transfer up to 32 MBit/s" If that means download rates will be up to that much, I wouldn't mind something that fast on my DSL (mine barely reaches 3MBit/s). Especially in the middle of a railroad (unless that 32 MBit/s is shared by every commuter on the train).

FWIW, here's the original I believe, for those that understand such a language.

Update: Denmark will stop it! by henni16 · 2005-03-04 06:25 · Score: 4, Informative · on EU Patents Won't Stay Dead

As heise reports, the Danish parliament has bindingly instructed their secretary of commerce to vote AGAINST software patents,
so the law can't be nodded through.
According to their parliaments some other ministers are instructed (more or less bindingly) to support another country's approach to restart the whole process:
Poland, Netherlands, Spain (had already voted against it in the last session), maybe Germany (but represented by some stubbor a..hat, so..)
Also it is likely that some countries that were neutral during the last voting (like Austria, Belgium, Italy) will support a complete restart.

Actually, they are as good as dead by CharonX · 2005-03-04 06:20 · Score: 5, Interesting · on EU Patents Won't Stay Dead

According to this article in the German IT magazine Heise.de (use the fish), the danish parliament has giving their minister for economy, Bendt Bendtsen, binding orders to request a complete restart of the whole negotiations.
The parliament of the Netherlands have giving their representative orders to support any demands for new negotiations.
Finally, the German representative would face sever pressure (he'd probably have to resign) should he ignore the German parliants demands for new negotiations.
As for many of the "new" EU members, they will probably not support a decision that might severly restrict their fledgeling IT economy - no matter how much Microsoft and the other "big players" try to lobby.
So, all in all, its as good as dead - at least for now.

hohoho by bitspotter · 2005-03-02 05:55 · Score: 2, Informative · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More

English version of the article

Re:Encryption would have accomplished nothing... by LittleBigLui · 2005-02-28 08:06 · Score: 1 · on No Encryption For RFID passports

You are wrong here.

If you wanna read a non-RFID passport, you have to take it from the owner and open it. This usually involves the owner willingly giving it to you.

If you wanna read a RFID passport, you have to get close to the owner (think next few places in a queue here) and use an active (power transmitting) reading device, or you use a passive device that doesn't have to remotely power the RFID chip and eavesdrop on a conversation between a legit passport reading station and the passport. This allows you to stay further away (think across the room).

The security degradation that the conversion from non-RFID to RFID implies is that you now don't need consent from the passport owner to read it, and actually the owner won't even notice you reading it.

Thus, you don't need to distribute the decryption key for encrypted RFID at all. You just print it (in a machine readable way) into the passport. Like for example Germany intends to do, after they successfully managed to get optional encryption into the standard (against US pressure).

This was explained in one of the last issues of german c't magazine.

Covering up a scandal? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-26 02:53 · Score: 0 · on Bank Of America Loses 1.2 Million Customer Records

According to German IT publisher Heise ( http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56836, in German), among 900,000 data sets of the lost tapes belonged to U.S. Department of Defense employees.

Who could benefit the most from the fact that information about how DoD employees spend their money gets destroyed? Sounds like an attempted cover-up for a scandal to me...

StartCom doesn't even check any identity by stiebing.ja · 2005-02-24 03:11 · Score: 1 · on Free SSL Certificate Project

Well, like the german IT magazin Heise reports the new StartCom are really unsecure because of the point that Heise was able to get certicicates for any desired site with falsified owner 'information'.
And StartCom doesn't let you generate your private key by yourself - they generate it for you and send it via SSL web to you, so one doesn't know if they perhaps keep a copy of your private key.

After having read this I surely will not accept any SSL certificate from StartCom - I would rather accept a certificate from a private person.

Certificate generation by mikrorechner · 2005-02-23 21:07 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Free SSL Certificate Project

According to this article on heise.de, StartCom generates the SSL certificate you order on their server, sign it, and send it to you.

How do I know that they don't keep a copy of the cert for their own use? They could impersonate my server any time with this.

article by 545fun · 2005-02-23 14:23 · Score: 1 · on Free SSL Certificate Project

if you speak german, there is an interesting article about the consequences of giving a certificate without authenticating the requesting person: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56750/

basically they say - since "starcom.org" gives ssl certs even for 3rd party websites - any user installing their CA certificate is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. this could be interesting for pishing websites; with this kind of certificates they would look even more authentic to the victims.

therefore - if you don't want to spend the money for a versign/thawte/...cert,- i see no point in _not_ using a (openssl) self signed cert

Heise News article by derphilipp · 2005-02-22 20:48 · Score: 5, Informative · on Music Site AllofMP3 Under Investigation

Theres also an article on the german newsswite Heise : http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56678
Babelfish Translation

Linux VDR by D4C5CE · 2005-02-22 08:46 · Score: 1 · on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag?

the idea of posting an ISO of the completed system is really the antithesis of the Gentoo concept.

Widely used throughout Europe, there are many precompiled distributions of the open source VDR (mostly ready-made on some flavor of Debian Linux), one of them maintained by what is probably Germany's most renowned IT publisher (c't etc.), as a CD-ROM ISO and also published every few months on approximately half a million magazine cover disks.

If you prefer to "compile a little longer", of course it works on Gentoo as well - which makes sense, since the goal for the living room should be an optimized, fanless PVR. (Of course, the ultimate challenge is porting this to a Mac mini with some USB or FireWire dongle receiver...)

So come July, (if the EU is spared from software patents - heed the call of your alpha geeks and join the campaign... Europeans now need all the help they can get to continue providing a refuge for otherwise patent-encumbered projects) chances are that the source is here to stay.

Just try and get a compatible card, i.e. one with open source drivers.

An American VDR site can be found at HoochVDR (need to register to see the forums), while the bulk of the discussion goes on at the VDR Portal - much of it is in German, but scrolling down the page, the International (i.e. "English only") section is not hard to find...

Re:Link? by Lonewolf666 · 2005-02-22 04:47 · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued...

Here are two links:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/19650
http://www.golem.de/0307/26462.html

Both in german, however, because the lawsuits were in Germany and probably not big news in english speaking countries.

Here's another article... by MadMoses · 2005-02-15 01:39 · Score: 5, Informative · on Gates tried to Blackmail Danish Government

...from heise.de (in German).

Here's more: press release, Heise interview by D4C5CE · 2005-02-12 08:38 · Score: 1 · on Los Angeles to Consider Open Source Software

From an earlier submission when the story first broke:

On the heels of Austin, Munich, Vienna and entire countries e.g. in South America, LA City Councilmembers have unveiled plans for an extended transition to FOSS in their press release conspicuously labelled "FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE MEANS MORE POLICE ON THE STREETS - COUNCIL BETS THAT OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT CAN SAVE CITY MILLIONS".
Despite the telling omission of "AND" in its caption, the statement actually does look beyond the "...as in beer" part of the equation.
A spokesman also explained the project and its inspiration in greater detail to German heise online news.
For Ballmer and Gates, the good news is that they won't have to travel quite as far any more to try and win back their latest defectors.
The "bad" news (for them!) can be summed up as "Tux ante portas": their arch-enemy and worst nightmare already knocking (or should we say: pecking?) right at their porch now.

Re:Server by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-08 04:54 · Score: 0 · on Hardware Reuse Contest Entries Revealed

May be they use this one: http://www.heise.de/ct/machflott/projekte/55848

That would explain anything.

Re:Server by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-08 04:51 · Score: 0 · on Hardware Reuse Contest Entries Revealed

Yes, they also have a new webserver planned:

The PicoWebServer, built from an old NE2000 ISA NIC and an Atmel microcontroller.