leyrers online pamphlet

But somebody is wrong

Dem, was poti über den aktuellen xkcd Cartoon geschrieben hat, kann ich nichts hinzufügen:

 
Ich seh den m3 schon vor mir
 
Erinnert mich doch stark an m3s gute alte Zeiten im WCM-Forum (Das übrigens schon wieder down is -.-)
Er schrieb damals stets, wenn jemand "wrong" war im Internet

Wie Who-T einmal so schön meinte:
"Das Internet hat nur zwei Seiten. Eine gute und eine schlechte.
Die Schlechte ist, dass scheinbar das Internet nur für die Verbreitung von Porno da ist.
Die gute ist, dass scheinbar das Internet nur für die Verbreitung von Porno da ist." :D
 
Du meinst wahscheinlich Webseiten, oder? ;)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www

Tagged as: carton, fun, personal | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Mittwoch, 20080220, 23:54 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Listen All Of Y'all It's A Sabotage

Ars Technica reports:

From January 30 to February 6, various undersea cables responsible for much of the Internet traffic into and out of the Middle East were cut or broken.
…
Reports from those vessels have apparently indicated that the may not have been caused by accident or through natural events. According to the ITU’s (International Telecom Union) head of development, Sami al-Murshed, „We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,”

I KNEW IT !!! Sabotage

Tagged as: connectivity , conspiracy, internet | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Mittwoch, 20080220, 02:05 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Joel on the (old) Office File Formats

Joel on Software: Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

IÂ’ll show you how those file formats got so unbelievably complicated, why it doesnÂ’t reflect bad programming on MicrosoftÂ’s part, and what you can do to work around it.
 
The first thing to understand is that the binary file formats were designed with very different design goals than, say, HTML.
 
They were designed to be fast on very old computers. For the early versions of Excel for Windows, 2 MB of RAM was a reasonable amount of memory, and an 80386 at 20 MHz had to be able to run Excel comfortably. There are a lot of optimizations in the file formats that are intended to make opening and saving files much faster
…
They were designed to use libraries. If you wanted to write a from-scratch binary importer, youÂ’d have to support things like the Windows Metafile Format (for drawing things) and OLE Compound Storage. If youÂ’re running on Windows, thereÂ’s library support for these that makes it trivial… using these features was a shortcut for the Microsoft team. But if youÂ’re writing everything on your own from scratch, you have to do all that work yourself.
…
They were not designed with interoperability in mind. The assumption, and a fairly reasonable one at the time, was that the Word file format only had to be read and written by Word. That means that whenever a programmer on the Word team had to make a decision about how to change the file format, the only thing they cared about was (a) what was fast and (b) what took the fewest lines of code in the Word code base.
…
They have to reflect all the complexity of the applications. Every checkbox, every formatting option, and every feature in Microsoft Office has to be represented in file formats somewhere.
…
They have to reflect the history of the applications. A lot of the complexities in these file formats reflect features that are old, complicated, unloved, and rarely used. TheyÂ’re still in the file format for backwards compatibility, and because it doesnÂ’t cost anything for Microsoft to leave the code around. But if you really want to do a thorough and complete job of parsing and writing these file formats, you have to redo all that work that some intern did at Microsoft 15 years ago. The bottom line is that there are thousands of developer years of work that went into the current versions of Word and Excel, and if you really want to clone those applications completely, youÂ’re going to have to do thousands of years of work. A file format is just a concise summary of all the features an application supports.

Follow the link and read the whole pice.

Tagged as: file format , knowledge, microsoft, office | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Mittwoch, 20080220, 02:02 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Joel on the (old) Office File Formats

Joel on Software: Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

I’ll show you how those file formats got so unbelievably complicated, why it doesn’t reflect bad programming on Microsoft’s part, and what you can do to work around it.
 
The first thing to understand is that the binary file formats were designed with very different design goals than, say, HTML.
 
They were designed to be fast on very old computers. For the early versions of Excel for Windows, 2 MB of RAM was a reasonable amount of memory, and an 80386 at 20 MHz had to be able to run Excel comfortably. There are a lot of optimizations in the file formats that are intended to make opening and saving files much faster
…
They were designed to use libraries. If you wanted to write a from-scratch binary importer, you’d have to support things like the Windows Metafile Format (for drawing things) and OLE Compound Storage. If you’re running on Windows, there’s library support for these that makes it trivial… using these features was a shortcut for the Microsoft team. But if you’re writing everything on your own from scratch, you have to do all that work yourself.
…
They were not designed with interoperability in mind. The assumption, and a fairly reasonable one at the time, was that the Word file format only had to be read and written by Word. That means that whenever a programmer on the Word team had to make a decision about how to change the file format, the only thing they cared about was (a) what was fast and (b) what took the fewest lines of code in the Word code base.
…
They have to reflect all the complexity of the applications. Every checkbox, every formatting option, and every feature in Microsoft Office has to be represented in file formats somewhere.
…
They have to reflect the history of the applications. A lot of the complexities in these file formats reflect features that are old, complicated, unloved, and rarely used. They’re still in the file format for backwards compatibility, and because it doesn’t cost anything for Microsoft to leave the code around. But if you really want to do a thorough and complete job of parsing and writing these file formats, you have to redo all that work that some intern did at Microsoft 15 years ago. The bottom line is that there are thousands of developer years of work that went into the current versions of Word and Excel, and if you really want to clone those applications completely, you’re going to have to do thousands of years of work. A file format is just a concise summary of all the features an application supports.

Follow the link and read the whole pice.

Tagged as: file format, knowledge, microsoft, office | Author:
[Mittwoch, 20080220, 01:02 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)

Web Club Austria

Flattert mir in einer meiner XING-Gruppen eine Einladung/Info herein:

Ab Mai 2008 starten in Österreich regelmässige Veranstaltungen über spannende Web-Themen, dazu Workshops, Networking, Download-Section und eine Studien - / Whitepaper - / Präsentations - Tauschbörse.

Dazu gab es noch einen Link zu einem Online-Fragebogen. Dort gibt es so tolle Fragen wie „Würden Sie ein eigenen Clubraum mit Bibliothek und wöchentlichen Gesprächsmöglichkeiten nutzen?” oder „Würde sie eine Informations-Börse interessieren, wo Sie Studien, Whitepaper, Präsentationen etc. zu aktuellen Web-Themen mit anderen austauschen können?”. Unterhaltsam, oder? Dass es Events wie die BarCamps oder das Metalab gibt, düfte den Organisatoren bis jetzt entgangen sein, sonst würden sie nicht „Würden Sie regelmäßige Veranstaltungen über aktuelle Web-Themen interessieren, wo sie sich auch mit Gleichgesinnten austauschen können?” bzw. „Kennen Sie einen Ort, der sich ideal für Vorträge und Networking-Treffen eignen würde?” fragen. Der Hammer ist aber, dass man zwar brav (Englisch beschriftet) Name, Adresse, E-Mail und Telefonnummer angeben soll, es aber weder ein Impressum noch sonstige Betreiberinfos auf der Seite gibt. Aufgrund des Einladers bzw. der whois-Informationen des Betreibers der Umfrageseite kann ich mir zwar denken, wer den Web Club Austria betreiben will, aber sowohl das Layout als auch die fehlenden Kontaktdaten, etc. hinterlassen bei mir keinen sehr professionellen Eindruck. Abgesehen davon, dass sich der Personenkreis, der sich bezgl. „Web-Themen” informierne will, schon lange nicht mehr in closed user groups bewegt, sondern in Blogs, Foren, facebook, twiter und Co. Aber so ist das, wenn Pre-Web people versuchen, post Web 2.0 Personen zu erreichen.

Tagged as: community , media, rant, web 2.0 | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Mittwoch, 20080220, 00:02 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)