the register: "top web design firm deepend goes under".

puns are urging me, but i resist. friends of christine are among the fired staff. apparently, the terror-shaken markets have its effect on the already doddering new economy...

games people play pt. ii: spaced penguin (via oliver wrede). addictive!

self-overestimation has a finger in every pie these days: bush jr. nominated for nobel peace prize – subject to the condition that he solves the terrorism conflict peacefully. whatever that means, it's such a nonsense! do these northern light intellectuals really think they could educate the us cowboy like that?

ghandi was never awarded the prize. does that explain anything?

"apostroph ist, was ihr draus macht" – ein fall für die apostroph-gruselgalerie: du schein'st es ja nicht kapiert zu haben, fanta...

games people play: duden besserwisserspiel.

meanwhile back in the jungle: assoziations-blaster was offline (7 – 11 september 2001).

hey, what a cool feature: p3k.org wrapped into web-blaster.

last night i watched a documentary about the german constitutional court, a bunch of eight judges, being something like an ultimate instance of adjucation (nevertheless it's not a divine power and it made some remarkably bad decisions as well).

although the court is not involved in any trial about germany's role in the upcoming war actions (at least at the moment), one of the judges (which seem to be very deliberate and smart people, btw. – as far as i can tell) said something very insightful about the difficulties to find the right sentence on controversal issues: you have to argue with the other judges, to wriggle with their arguments, to step into the "purgatory of decision making" – because there is so much at stake.

now back to the war mongers in the us and europe: many leaders recently were empowered by parliament or senate to have exclusive control over military action to be taken. they don't have to negotiate about controversial issues with anyone of their staff anymore (although they still can).

reminder: the overall tenor in mainstream media and the public concerning what to do with the terrorists (and especially the countries that became suspects of nurturing terror) was "act now, negotiate later".

i think this was the wrong approach. sure, there was a lot of action to be taken immediately to prevent further attacks (aka defense). sure you defend yourself! but concerning the upcoming raids of the oh so "civilised western world", this "purgatory of decision making" would have been more than just necessary. for the media, for the public and especially for politicians. not despite – but because there is so much at stake.

unix 101, an overview of unix illustrated with several examples (command reference, vi editor, shell script workshop).

"auch dave winer ist ein beispiel dafür, wie sehr patriotismus das hirn zuscheißt." – jörg kantel, der schockwellenreiter.

and i thought i was the only one thinking so... anyway, craig jensen rebutts dave winer at booknotes. i can be thankful as well.

on the week-end i installed some new stuff on my netbsd performa: netatalk (the version patched for afp/tcp by adrian sun) and samba.

bill mcgonigle's netatalk faq and this how to by anders brownworth helped me a lot with installation and configuration.

now i can easily connect from any other mac or windows machine to the pizzabox – well, almost easily: strangely enough, it worked from a windows 2000 machine but it did not from a computer running windows nt... i think due to misconfiguration on the nt box (otherwise it wouldn't work at all, would it?).

certainly i did enable plain text passwords in nt just as i did with windows 2000 (but i probably should undo this when i turn to ssl and security issues once).

update: after some fiddling around i finally made it! unfortunately, i cannot tell exactly what i did... but i assume it had to do with a missing FqdnUsesSmbServerName key in the nt registry. here is a full description of the circumstances.

btw. php is now also working seamlessly with apache. i had to recompile both packages enabling dso support (which was not too difficult thanks to 10 essential php tips for developers from india).

think i'll have to update my netbsd report.

it was good to blog some news when the big news sites went down. but now i am sick of self-proclaimed war correspondents formerly known as tech-bloggers. i wish a lot of those would return to their "normal life" again. more and more i read about careless suggestions and pretty dumb agitation. what a mess.

i'll have to re-invent my link list on the left. erase and rewind.