Mathias Bank

Wie heise.de heute berichtet, ist man als Betreiber von Weblogs und Foren verpflichtet, die Netz-Publikationen der deutschen Nationalbibliothek zur Verfügung zu stellen, damit diese das aktuell vorhandene Wissen und auch Denken für spätere Generationen festhalten können.

In die erweiterte Ablieferungs- und Sammelpflicht sind alle Publikationen einbezogen, für die man sich entsprechende Ausgaben in der Printwelt vorstellen könnte, wie z. B. elektronische Zeitschriften und Monografien, Lexika und andere Nachschlagewerke, die auf freiwilliger Basis seit 2001 geliefert und gesammelt wurden. Daneben sind auch Websites zu sammeln, die online verfügbar sind und deren Informationsgehalt aber über reine Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Warenangebote, Arbeitsbeschreibungen oder Bestandsverzeichnisse / -kataloge hinausgeht.

An sich finde ich das eigentlich sehr sinnvoll, stellt es doch eine Erweiterung des bisherigen Vorgehens auf Web-Inhalte dar. Ob jede Diskussion in einem Forum archivierbar gehört oder nicht (viel Spaß, ihr Abmahn-Anwälte!) ist natürlich die eine Sache. Einen Einblick auf das kulturelle Leben in dieser Zeit gibt es aber wohl immer.

Das Problem an der ganzen Geschichte: Man soll die Daten in gepackter Form per FTP an die Bibliothek senden (Ablieferung). Wer das nicht tut, riskiert nach heise.de Geldbußen in Höhe von 10.000 Euro. Das wird sicher wieder eine interessante Abmahnwelle geben.

Das Vorgehen ist also mal wieder sehr kompliziert geregelt, vergleicht man das Vorgehen mit archive.org. Das Problem ist also: wissen die Leute das nicht besser? Ich schreibe mal eine offene eMail an die deutsche National-Bibliothek. Ich hoffe sie antworten - evtl. sogar hier.

These days, I have written a software, which extensively uses JavaScript. In this way, I wanted to call functions after the user has done specific actions. How can I do this?

The old way:
After each action, I have to write my functions, which should be called. This method works, of course. But it is not clear. It is more interesting to define my functions and than I want to define, after which actions these functions should be called. That should be done without changing the action. So I have tried to use jQuery for this way.

The new way:
jQuery offers the ability to abstract event handling between browsers. And this abstraction is done very well. It allows to expand possible events.

Imagine, you have an action called “action1″. I want to register some functions, which should be called in this action. So try this:

It’s easy to call function1 and function2 in action1 now: Just write…

… to the end of your action. That’s it. You can add new functions easily by binding them. Even no binding is possible (if there is no function, which should be called).

A friend of mine has organized cards for the German comedian Paul Panzer. So, we are going to Munich this afternoon.

You don’t know, who Paul Panzer is? Look here or here.

I’m surfing a lot. And I really mean a lot! So, I need a browser, that does not need too much memory and which is really fast.

Firefox is not really fast and needs a lot of memory. Microsofts Internet Explorer is no option. But there is still Opera. Opera is really fast and needs less memory than Firefox. But there is one problem: Opera has no extensions like firefox (p.e. firebug: I have not seen any plugin for opera which is as comfortable and as powerful as this extension). So I need a method to make Firefox faster.

And here you can find, what I have done:

1. First of all, I have installed FlashBlock, which blocks every flash tool, but gives the individual possibility to enable it. This extension is really very helpfully, because many pages uses flash to make advertisement. Flash has one big problem: it needs memory and - that’s more problematically - it needs system resources. That will become a problem, if there are a lot of tabs with flash advertisements. The plugin helps and makes Firefox faster.
2. Firefox is faster now, but it still needs much memory: so I have changed the config. Go to your address bar and type “about:config”
3. Search “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer” and change it to 0. Firefox saves the last page (or next page - Back Forward Function) to load visited pages faster. If you have Broadband, that’s not a problem. So change it to 0.
4. Load files from one page faster: search “network.http.pipelining” and “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change them to true. Search “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” now and change it to a bigger number (p.e. 15). Be careful and don’t choose a too big number, because there are some servers, which will block you, if you load too much files simultaneously.
5. Right click and choose “New”->”Integer” and insert the value “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
6. Lastly, trim memory, if Firefox is minimized: right click and select “New”->”Boolean” and insert the values “config.trim_on_minimize” and “true”. Firefox frees used memory now.

You have to restart Firefox to apply changes. If you are looking for more information, look at mozillazine.

Even German groups can play very interesting music: Today: All:My:Faults - Secrets (style: gothic, alternative rock)