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Einmalnummer.de dead.

"Einmalnummer.de" was a project that helpes Webmasters to ensure their privacy: In Germany you have to put a phone number on your site (or you might get sued). And "Einmalnummer" (translated one-time number) was perfect to protect your privacy, as no call center was able to use that number that fast.

But these times are gone: It seems that a governmental agency (the one responsible to regulate telecommunication -- The Bundesnetzagentur) had objections against the services....

Stopp?

The stopp sign is to show protest against the latest censorship laws passed the Bundstags this week.

The law claims honerable goals. But the at the same time it is unsuitable to reach its goal. In medicine, you would call it placebo.

The only goal is might acheive is, that it will open Pandora's box of censorship.

The maxime must be "deletion over blocking".

That this fear is not fiction showed the comments from some politicans, demanding that the law also should be applied to other topics as well: killer games and gambling. At that point, only some hours have passed.

By the way, the are ignoring more than 130000 citiziten daring vote for the fears in the most successful (online) petition forever.

By the way -- the stopp sign will only appear every five days. If you want to see it again, just delete all cookis of this domain, or open it in another (brand) of browser.

Further Reading:

A English article covering all that: 

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/19/germany-builds-infrastructure-to-block-the-internet/

Libucommon for debian

During my recent programming on solarpowerlog, I discovered that  the Lib Common C++ seems to have some bugs, at least in the TCPStream class. (bugreport)

So I decided to check its supposed succeedor. But this one is not packged for debian.... (RFP pending)

Short stort: Here it is.

Mini trick: Don't show printers in samba shares

To help Windows understanding, that your local samba server does not support a printer, add to your smb.conf in the [global] section

    disable spoolss = yes
 

Reload samba, add it will vanish ;-)

Nominations for Community Open Source Awards are open!

I  think "NAVIT" is a break-through project that should be nominated for the award:

So I did for:

1. NavIt for Best Project
2. NavIt for Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything

If you share this opinion, please feel free to click that button!

WebSpace

php based home inventory system

I'm currently looking for a system for keeping an overview over my electronic parts I have "on stock", storing the datasheets and keeping and especially where I put them.

During this I found "home-inventory". Looks ok, but also lacks some features, like it can only store images...

PS: I have to rethink about the "looks ok". The first peek on the source code reveals, that the author did not care about sanitizing user input:

                // delete first picture if exist
                $sSql = 'SELECT ITM_Picture FROM Item WHERE ITM_ID = ' . $_REQUEST['id'];
                $pictName = fetchFromDb($sSql, true);

Aarrghh.