Matt Croydon::Postneo

Month: December 2002

  • On This Day…

    On this day four years ago, DPReview opened their doors.

  • Early & Adopter

    Sean and Scott have some great tidbits:

  • America’s Army: Operations 1.5.0

    I have not had a chance to play any video games lately, but America’s Army 1.5.0 has been released.  It looks like the major thing in this version (besides bugfixes and tweaks, of course) is an expanded Weapons Cache map which they claim is almost twice as big.  Hopefully that will rock, as Weapons Cache is my favorite newer map.

  • Happy

    Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year and all that good stuff.

    Looks like there’s still some snow on the ground here in DC.

  • Open Source Databases

    LinuxWorld Australia has an article on the present and future of open source databases.

    My one sentace summary of the article: Open source databases are not 100% buzzword compliant yet, but they’re working on it. [via NewsForge]

  • Cayenne Java persistence framework

    Cayenne “Holiday Release” 1.0a5:

    A new release of Cayenne is out. It plugs a few gaps in the core functionality, fixes tons of bugs and provides a much improved documentation. Cayenne is an object-relational persistence framework written in Java. It provides tools and libraries to work with relational databases in an object-oriented way. Cayenne consists of class libraries and a GUI tool for O/R mapping and deployment.

  • Egg PC

    This morning, Slashdot linked to a ball pc, something that I (and Slashdot Japan) mentioned over a week ago.

    Old news for nerds, stuff that mattered last week.

  • Emacs Blogging

    Among things that were discussed yesterday in North Carolina: Blogger.el, post to your weblog from Emacs using the Blogger API.

  • Blogging vs. journalism

    Chris Gulker:

    Bloggers are to big media what Open Source and shareware coders are to Microsoft and Intel.

    We’re disruptive.

  • Monday Linkfest

    I roadtripped to North Carolina today to do lunch with some of the RTP bloggers.  Excellent food and great conversation.  I also did some last minute (except for me it’s just getting started) xmas shopping this evening.  Instead of any real content, here are a bunch of things that I need to read in detail:

    • Michael J. Radwin: “YHOO is buying INKT”
    • Slashdot (and the rest of the planet) announced Red Hat 8.0.96, codenamed Phoebe.  XFree updates, Moz 1.2.1, and glibc-2.3.1 seem to be the major points here.
    • Sean & Scott install .NET Server RC2 using VMWare, with Sam Gentile‘s help. (I’m downloading RC2 myself right now, will try to throw it on a lonely box when I get a chance)
    • Chris Gulker digs further into weblog statistics.
    • DSpace 1.0.1 is released.  “DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia publications).”
    • Rick Klau is making me drool over the Matrix sequels.
    • Learn MIDP (J2ME) with a game.  Mental note: I need to download the wireless toolkit, as it is much sexier than the barebones SDK.
    • There is a fullblown service called Wapblogger which allows you to do much more than my whipped together WAPBlog script.
    • Sadness: Joe Strummer of The Clash has died.
    • Silicon.com reports that IBM is releasing its “Storage Tank” as open source.

     

  • XFree86 4.3.0 Soon

    XFree86 4.3.0 just around the corner:

    The 4.2.99.3 snapshot, which should become the 4.3.0 release after bug testing and their appropriate fixes have been applied can now be found in our repository. It is tagged in our public CVS server as xf-4_2_99_3. Inquiries and issues should be directed to the Xpert mailing list (you need to subscribe before posting); bug fixes should be clearly marked that they are pertinent to this release and submitted to fixes@XFree86.org. Binaries will becomes available as they uploaded by our members; this should be completed by 24 December 2002. If bandwidth is a problem please use our mirrors.

    [via PCLinuxOnline]

  • RTP Roadtrip Eve

    As I said about a week ago, I’m going to be daytripping down to the Research Triangle Park area for lunch with a bunch of RTP bloggers.  The DC to RTP distance is just a little longer than the San Louis Obispo to San Jose trip that I made while I was in California over the summer.

    I drove four hours each way from SLO to San Jose in order to visit the geek Mecca of Fry’s.  Tomorrow I’ll be driving to North Carolina in order to have lunch with a bunch of bloggers.

    I’m a geek.  A hopeless geek.

    Note to self: You’ll probably get better gas mileage if you take that monitor and Sparc crap out of your trunk.

  • Creative Commons RSS 1.0 Module

    Ben Hammersly:

    The latest draft of the RSS 1.0 Creative Commons module is up. After a great deal of good thinking from Shelley Powers (who added Creative Commons licenses to here stuff today) and many others over the RSS-Dev list and other blogs, I’ve made some pertinent clarifications. Of course, if anything is unclear, or you disagree with something, I’d love to know.

  • 2002 Real-Time Linux Workshop

    LinuxDevices has put abstracts and papers from the 2002 Real-Time Linux Workshop online.  Lots of embedded and real-time goodies to trawl through. [via NewsForge]

  • SOAP RSS Validator

    Sam Ruby allows us to validate our RSS with SOAP:

    Well now you can.  Simply POST your feed to the RSS Validator.  Since this code is liberal in what it accepts, neither a SOAP Envelope nor a SOAP Body is required.  Since it is conservative in what it does, you will always receive either a fully compliant SOAP response or a SOAP fault back.

  • NVIDIA releases Cg Compiler 1.0

    [H]:

    NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced the availability of the NVIDIA Cg Compiler version 1.0. The NVIDIA® Cg Compiler is designed to generate real-time shaders from the high level shading language syntax developed by NVIDIA. The Cg Compiler version 1.0 is compatible with Microsoft DirectX® 9.0, released earlier today. NVIDIA’s Cg Compiler generates code for both DirectX and OpenGL® platforms and is compatible with any graphics processing unit (GPU) that is OpenGL 1.4 (or higher) or DirectX 8.0 (or higher) compliant.

    I’ve heard mixed things about Cg.  Some people think that it might change the world, other poeple think that it’s not quite right.  Time will tell.

  • Ingo Blogs From Exchange Server 2000

    Ingo “Mad Scientist” Rammer has pulled it off again.  He’s blogging using Exchange Server 2000.  The screenshot included in his post looks like an enterprise weblogging app.  Truly wicked.

  • Java Outline Editor 1.8.10 Released (Thanks Erik!)

    Via Erik, Java Outline Editor 1.8.10 has been released.  It looks like a well-featured outliner, and also contains XML-RPC support.

    This is an outliner editor and MDI implemented in Swing. The GUI is similar to the outliner found in Userland’s Frontier. Starting with version 1.8.10, Java 1.4 is required. Previous versions require Java 1.3.

  • The LWN 2002 Linux Timeline

    LWN has put together their 2002 Linux timeline.  I’m still in January, but it should be a good read. [via NewsForge]

  • RSD Sneaks into NetNewsWire Pro

    Brent Simmons:

    I wasn’t planning for the first public beta of NetNewsWire Pro to include RSD support. In fact, I wasn’t sure I would do it for 1.0 at all.

    But then the folks who make weblog publishing systems supported it so quickly and I realized—hey, RSD is here, time to do it. So this first beta does indeed include RSD support.