Matt Croydon::Postneo

Month: September 2002

  • Neatest. Site Stats. Evar!

    I was looking at my site stats for yesterday earlier this morning and this pie chart (generated by wusage) popped up.  #1 is my home machine of course, but this was the first time that I saw so many sites represented accessing my weblog.  Usually the top three or four are displayed, then everything else is lumped in with ‘other.’ The amusing thing is that each of sites 2 through 24 had 15-20 accesses, probably my RSS feed and probably about once an hour.  It looks darn pretty though!

  • Crossbar: an open-source Java web reporting app, now has a JIRA site. [via rebelutionary]

  • OSNews: Minimalist linux distros for people who need to recover data.

    When the desktop arrived, it would not boot. It took me a little bit too long to figure out that the primary IDE controller on the motherboard was damaged. I had to get on with my work, so my mission was to rescue my data from that computer. My resources: one Windows 98 computer (at my temporary summer home) that I bought at Tiger Direct a long time ago for only $500, connected to the Internet at roughly 48 Kbps; one Red Hat Linux computer that won’t boot; and one Windows 2000 laptop. The Linux box had 3 hard drives in it. One contained the operating system and applications (13 GB), another contained all my data (100 GB, but not full), and the third was small and I used it exclusively for the swap file. Because my data disk was formatted with ext2, I couldn’t just plug it into the Windows computer. I needed something that will read ext2.

  • Hot Blogs: What are the hottest blogs on the planet according to blog.hotornot.com? [via evhead]

  • SpamAssassin News: Jeremy Zawodney has set up a news site for the spam filtering program. Rock on!

  • Dan Rosenbaum: A New Yorker’s eyewitness account of September 11.

  • Sam Ruby is crawling 1000 random RSS feeds to see how many times different elements show up.  Here are the results.

  • Kenneth Hunt points out that today is Aimee Mann’s birthday.  I picked up her newest cd, Lost in Space, and it’s great.

  • Spurrier leads the Washington Redskins to a 31-23 win over the Cardinals.

  • Ed Cone’s year after 9/11 column was posted/published today.  It was a personal story amid the metanews.

  • Straw: A Gnome 2 desktop RSS aggregator.  It is a GPL’d app written in python.  It’s still in early development, but it already includes auto-rss-feed-finding.  Given the author’s screenshots, it looks like the two of us share at least several feeds that we read.  Good stuff.

  • So I had every osOpinion story since November 7, 2000 hit Radio’s RSS aggregator this morning.  It was amusing and annoying.

  • Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync: Slashdot coverage of Mike Rubel’s tutorial for backing up a system with rsync and some scripts.  The original site is here, though you might try the google cache, as the site is barely responding right now.  Mental note: read this later, Matt.

  • BSDatwork: I just subscribed to the sites rss feed.  It looks like a good site for *BSD info and news, and it will help keep track of The Big Picture.

  • PHPSlash: A Slashdot-like content management system and a great candidate for a CMS running on a web hosting provider.

  • Slashdot: The Blender community has raised the required 100k euros to open the source of Blender.  That’s a lot of people contributing a lot of money.

  • 0xDECAFBAD:

    A strange little idea I had on the way home today: Movable Type on a Sharp Zaurus equipped with wireless ethernet? Or maybe Bloxsom if/when it has static publishing? Just use rsync to publish whenever the thing finds itself on a network, wireless or otherwise. Maybe that happens while you’re out Warwalking – better yet, maybe that wireless network detector you cobbled together autoblogs what it finds while in your pocket.

    There is more to the blog entry.  Various thoughts on portable metadata for posting, covering news and events, lots of good brain candy.  I can’t wait until these ideas become second nature to us.

  • AMD Releases x86-64 platform tech docs: They’re available in PDF form. [via OSNews]

  • John Clyman:  An article about Content Management Systems at PCMag. [via Column Two]

  • My First XML-RPC App

    I hacked together a quick php script this afternoon to access a Syndic8 XML-RPC method, based off of an example from Meerkat.  The result:

    Number of Syndic8 feeds: 16061

    You can get the current output here (syn.php).  I’ll post the source a little later, lame as it is.