First, I’m really astonished! SmartGWT – GWT NextGen – is here…

• is fully done in AJAX, has therefore all the possiblities of XML
• and so also XHTML and all the browser capabilites
• is faster then the great Ext.JS
• offers an increadibly amount of interface widgets
• keeps beeing fast after loading a couple of examples
• is easier to use probably easier to use than FLEX
• because everything is done via server side Java Code
• and it is licensed under LGPL!

Congratulations! This will set new standards for AJAX driven web applications… we will see how it compares to GWT-EXT 2

„This message was sent from my iPhone.“ How often do I have to read this crap?! Is it so cool to send an eMail from a mobile device? Don’t wonder if you read soemthing like „This message was not sent from an iPhone, but Thudnerbird E-Mail Client“.

The Simpsons sum up what i think about a Apple really well:

But no reason to be sad. Despite all usability gimmnicks on the iPhone, the iPhone Linux guys have now managed to boot Linux on the iPhone. So rescue is on it’s way

And as you probably know i’m a fan of Google ANDROID:

• I don’t need Mac OSX to develop applications for.
• ANDROID is OpenSource, so if we don’t like the software we it take from Google and modify it
• The project is as far i really can use the device (in oppiste to OpenMoko)

This blog post was not posted by an iPhone!

So, mal ein Link, der bei mir schon länger im Postkasten liegt. Es geht wieder mal um das Thema Server-Security:
http://www.searchsecurity.de/themenbere…rticles/120182/index2.html

rkhunter wie auch logwatch scheinen ein nettes Tool zu sein, dass ihre Jobs besser erledigen als chkrootkit und Konsorten.

Nachdem gestern das BKA-Gesetz durchgewunken wurde, und uns einen Schritt näher an die Neue Weltordnung Banenrepublik DDR. 2.0 bringt, mal eine positive Nachricht: Soeben sind auf Wikileaks die IP Ranges des BND geleakt!

Endlich kann der Bürger sein virtuelles Hausrecht wieder etwas stärken. Nach der .htaccess zum BKA Terror-Bot, nun die .htaccess gegen den BND Terror-Kracken. Das hilft nur nix gegen Schäubles neue Schnüffelbehörde nach NSA Vorbild, aber seien wir wenigstens froh, dass unsere Bundeskanzlerin keine eigenen ihr unterstellten Geheimdienste á TALON & Co. hat  – oder doch?.

Alle anderen Stellen sind ja gott-sei-dank von inkompetenten Pack und Internetausdruckern besetzt. Tja, da klappt es dann doch nicht so schnell mit dem Polizeistaat

How to calculate CIDR:

Usage:

Alternativ vll. ma auf diese Seite gucken:
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/

Log-Files nach IPs durchsuchen:

grep -E ":(`cat bnd-ips.txt | sed 's/\./\\./g' | tr '\n' '|'`)"  access_log_2008-*

Someone should really print this on a T-Shirt. You know Disney, “New” Viacom, TimeWarner, News Corporation, Bertelsmann AG, and General Electric together own more than 90% of the media holdings in the United States. I have no numbers for the world here, but just do a little research 

Sources

• http://invisiblethings.org/papers/redpill.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership

But it’s like browsing mp3.com in the old days and you can find great new artists. Just downloading promo MP3s is stress since you have to be logged in now.

I tried for over 30 minutes to login and request a new password. The „Forgotten Password“ mails never arrived, using fake accounts did not work, and after i finally got a userrname/password from a friend it told me to enter CAPTCHA and then told me „too much login retries“. If DoS-attacks would be legal you know i would have destroyed their servers! Damn you myspace! After trying to contact myspace and seeing an FAQ instead of an e-mail or contact-form i was finaly pissed off.

I must say my dear artists: if a user cannot download any promo MP3s you’re lucky if user remember a bands name. As it goes for me i don’t make any notes. Sometimes I just bookmark some cool artists and then again forget them. It doesn’t often happen that i immediately buy an album – and you probably know i dislike iTunes. So if i don’t find it – no work.

Myspace is indeed censoring an artists promo actions by having the user need to register (and this just doesn’t really work).

But i didn’t give up…

…and so i found finally a way download my promos by using the nice service from File2HD. But i shall inform you that you’re not allowed to, since – according to File2HD – you need rights to access the original files the artists uploaded.

Anyway, as it goes for File2HD, it just demonstrates how weak those crappy commercial sites are coded. Almost every major social platform has major security leaks – otherwise downloads won’t be possible. I just want to encourage the guy behind the site to continue his war against the copyright mafia.

And since the service puts out nice URL-lists not only for myspace but also for YouTube including HiQuality Downloads i just can recommand it. Use it at your own risk!

P.S.: Have you ever disassembled the YouTube Flash Player? Have a nice day…

I hate all those low quality videos from YouTube. You know there is that trick to concenate &fmt=18 to YouTube-URLs to have it access the new servers with higher quality videos and better bandwidth performance, but still that does not makes me happy.

Having FLV is ok for me, although I dislike non-standard container formats. But the point is copying those FLVs for friends often ends up by them complaining not beeing able to play the files on their Windows or Mac. The same problem persists on the iPod or my mobile phone that just understands 3GP in the moment.

So i end up having to convert the files… or transcoding them.

Conversion vs. Transcoding

Converting usally means decoding the video to a full video-picture – probably with or without any post-processing– and loosing the visual information that was artifically added again by encoding. Also, most of the  bitstream-information on the decoded stream is also lost, because you only see a the picture and not what abstract data is behind.

That is the place where transcoding comes into play: It transcodes the data be going deep into the input stream directly translating it the the output stream. The “visual step“ between encoding and deocoding is skipped, because not necessary. In the end we have not only faster conversion process, but have also retained all possible quality. 

Ok, if input and output en/decoding algorithms differ too much or you wanna resize the video you still have to convert the videos. Point is that the algorithms used in input and output stream have to be similar to each other (beeing often MPEG4 on nowadays video material).

I discovered vixy (which is based on ffmpeg) und does a nice job on transcoding. On windows and Mac you have a GUI limited to YouTube. The Online-Converter itself seems to be always overloaded. So, time to compile our FLV 2 MPEG4 Tool ourselves (for Ubuntu/Debian):

A last word to YouTube. I don’t suggest uploading to it in no way!

• They manipulate view counters on videos with strong political content (e.g. 200 views and 300 comments?)
• Everything you upload, belongs to them! Read the terms!
• Quality still sucks  (it’s for the american market; but we have broadband here in germany!)
• Servers are often damn slow, espacially at 23:00 CEST+1 when all americans go on the site

Great technology for resizing pictures while maintaining important details via image energy fields:

Das Paper zum Thema gibt es hier auf Dr. Ariel Shamir’s Homepage. Warum fällt sowas uns Deutschen nur nicht ein?

Hier der verabschiedete Gesetzesentwurf. Das Bundesministerium für Justiz, bzw. unseren Poltiker strotzen mal wieder mit Kompetenz und zeigt uns auf deren Website gleich die geilsten Parlamentarsschlampen, und die coolsten alten Playboys. Ihr könnt gerne euren Spass haben dort, aber bitte unterlasst die Gesetzgebung Juristen, die auch wirklich Ahnung haben, und ihre Experten nicht belächtend beäugeln!

Ja, Deutschland hat keine Sicherheitsprobleme, da die gesamte Sicherheitsindustrie bald im Ausland sein wird und Deutschland auch kein Internet mehr haben wird. Nach tollen Videos, die unsere Gesetzesgebenden vom Internet in einer BKA Dokumentation gesehen haben, dient das Internet ja nur der Pornographie und Kriminalität. Und es soll angeblich was mit Computer zu tun haben. Aber wer braucht das schon! Das Leben kann ja so schön sein ohne Computer und Co., vor allem in dem tollem Badeort Rotterdam oder in Berlin oder anderswo, wenn mal wieder alle Strassen gesperrt sind, um das Präkariat aussen vor zu lassen. Klingt links, ist auch so, aber mehr als Zynismus und Depressionen bleibt mir bei der gegenwärtigen Situation auch nicht.

Und wer noch weiß was abgeht soltle mal hier gucken:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/search.shtml?T=202c

Trotzdem, schöne Aktion, lieber CCC! Habt ein tolles Wochenende (vorm Schirm!) *G*

Appearently a good joke for an april’s fool joke. SSH Client for iPhone, you may ask? Apple does now support real applications instead of their webby 2.0 server applications? An SSH client? Unsecure!

Not really. And it’s a really wellthouhht out solution. You can check it out here . If you haven’t any SSH server just click connect to connect to the demo server.

Happy iPhoning!

UPDATE: Das iPhone besitzt entgegen den Infos auf der Seite eine Kamera, und wird wohl auch MMS bieten. Somit wären die ärgsten Kritikpunkte weg. RSS-Reader und derarten kann ja alles web-only via AJAX sein