"John Rabe" picks up Germany's Lola Award

Director/writer Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe" picked up the awards for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at Germany's Lola Awards last Friday. "John Rabe" is being hailed as "China's Schindler", as it tells the tale of a German manager of Siemens that tries to save Chinese civilians during the Japanese invasion...

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Supply

Update: Added sorting and changed the order of assigning values to variables, so that manually set variables through command line options override those from the .supplyrc file. Oh, and also I added the verbose switch. (Apr 27, 11:44 PM)Supposing you go on trains a lot, and you listen to audiobooks and/or podcasts when you do. I know of two problems that tend to arise then. The trains are too damn loud and you can't actually hear your shows, even if you set your audio player on full blast and your...

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Pirate Bay: a writer's perspective

The Pirate Bay ruling has unleashed a lot of emotion on the web. It's interesting that the discussions have centred on movies rather than music this time. Coming from the music biz, I can safely say to the movie businesses: "you ain't seen nothing yet" in terms of piracy. For creators, trying to find justifications for Pirate Bay is a very dangerous...

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Comment mettre le flux (fil) de son blog sur un site ?

Voici comment mettre le flux (atom) de votre blog sur un site grace à Feedburner.Pour cela, il faut avoir un compte et enregistrer le flux (atom) de votre blog sur Feedburner.Il suffit de cliquer sur l'onglet "Publicize" et sélectionner "BuzzBoost".Il faut ensuite régler les parametres du flux ("Feed Settings") : nombre d'éléments à afficher ("Number of items to display") ...Cliquez ensuite ...

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"Il Divo" opens in Germany

Paolo Sorrentino's explosive account of Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti opens in Germany. The film takes a look at the secrets behind power in Italy during Andreotti's successive spells as the Prime Minister. Andreotti was known as the untouchable, with possible links to the Masonic lodge and the Sicilian mafia. Not surprisingly, Sorentino's...

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Convert file encodings

Here's to a new bit of code!I wrote this program once, called Tester, which my dad is using in his day-to-day language teaching. I wrote the thing quite a long time ago, so it's a bit buggy here and there, and one of the problems is that it doesn't handle encodings well. Since dad is thinking about using Ubuntu, the mishandled encodings are a problem: he used to have them encoded as WINDOWS-1250, but the current settings allow him to use only UTF-8 on Ubuntu.Hence, this program, to convert between...

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Google : recherche d' images par couleur

Avec Google il est désormais possible de rechercher des images par couleur.Meme si l'option n'est pas visible dans google images en version française vous pouvez ajouter à la fin de votre requete &imgcolor=couleur en remplacant couleur par la couleur que vous recherchez (il faut utiliser la langue anglaise si vous tapez la couleur en français ça ne fonctionne pas).voici un exemple :je tape...

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Rhino JavaScript working on App Engine Java Edition

I was super-excited this morning, when I saw the announcement that Google had released a Java version of their App Engine environment. My heart sank a bit when I read that they had a class white-list for security reasons, and told myself that I wouldn't be surprised if that means that you cant run Server-side JavaScript at all.However, after reading...

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New Adjani film debuts on TV

Purely by accident, I caught most of the new Isabelle Adjani film "La journée de la jupe" written and directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld on Arte recently. I was impressed by the young cast and wondered why I hadn't heard about it before. The reason is that the film actually premièred on television, and is only now being released in France and Belgium....

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