nf0:
PalmVNC 2.0 is a high resolution VNC client for palm. It looks really nice, guess i’ll give this a try soon.
Wow. It’s even GPL’d. I haven’t found a whole lot of open source software in the Palm/Pocket PC arena. Props are due to Oliver Gerardin, author of the program.
Dane Carlson points to the full text of the State of the Union.
Michael Radwin notes that MovableType 2.6 is nearing completion. It looks like MT users have a nice set of features to look forward to in 2.6. I installed 2.51 in order to test TrackBack stuff, and it looked really nice.
TheServerSide reports that The Middleware Company has released a white paper about J2EE best practices. I guess they learned the hard way.
Installed Oracle last night (to see what it’s got over MySQL) and found that, along with about 1.5 Gb of other stuff, it installed a perfectly functional copy of Apache/1.3.22 (Win32), with mod_perl, mod_ssl and mod_fastcgi, (along with mod_oprocmgr and mod_plsql, which presumably let you get at Oracle’s internals a little better).
Been there. That 1.5 gigs of ‘other stuff’ takes quite a bit to install.
TheServerSide did a little bashing of eXtreme Programming this morning. If you’d rather not apply XP and pair programming to your project, take a few things out from the XP philosophy (use Ant, integrate continuously, generate tests, etc) and apply it to a traditionally managed project.
I think you can get a lot out of taking just one or two things from the XP philosophy. Even if you’re one programmer on an assignment, generate tests and run them constantly. Use JUnit to test your Java stuff, other test frameworks for other platforms. Think about giving the customer something useful quickly, then adding features.
You might not be pair programming, but it just might help.
Here’s a quick lunchtime roundup from my RSS feeds:
Kevin Mitnick was on the Kojo Nnamdi show this afternoon on WAMU. I’ve got two words after hearing the interview/Q&A session:
Social Engineering.
PyXML 0.8.2 has been released:
Version 0.8.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It should be considered a beta release. The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules.
From my limited experience, the built-in XML tools that ship with the Python Standard Library are quite good. Of course, I’ve been parsing extremely small and simple files, and I’m sure it could be done more efficiently.
I haven’t had a chance to check this package out, but I’ll let you know if I do.
Same old ‘scary cyclops’ quicksilver face. Up to 1.42 Ghz, FireWire 800, 802.11g and entry-level pricing has dropped.
Apple today announced speed-bumped Power Mac G4s, featuring up to dual-1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processors. The updated Power Macs also feature FireWire 800 and offer internal support for 54Mbps AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth wireless networking. Based on Apple’s Xserve (up to 2MB of DDR Level 3 cache and 333 MHz DDR memory), the new Macs offer up to 21 gigaflops (21 billion floating point operations per second) of performance. The Macs bundle both iLife and QuickBooks for Mac New User Edition. The 1GHz Power Mac G4 ($1,500) and dual-1.25GHz Power Mac G4 ($2,000) are available now, while the dual-1.42GHz Power Mac G4 ($2,700) will be available starting next month.
Mac Rumors has similar information, announcement of a 20 inch LCD, as well as some discussion on the new hardware. Mac Rumors also reports that OSX 10.2.4 and iLife are due out soon.
Ed Cone:
This [weblogs at Jupiter Research] could be very useful to me. It’s a great commercial use of weblogs.
The Apache WSIF (Web Services Invocation Framework) team is proud to announce the first open release of Apache WSIF. A WSDL-based API for invoking WSDL-described services. With WSIF, developers work with the same programming model regardless of how the Web service is implemented and accessed.
NewsFactor has the obvious story about why Apache 2.0 is not widely adopted yet:
Another reason Rackspace is not rushing to switch is the lack of module support for Apache 2.0. Many of the standard modules used with Apache 1.3, such as PHP and mod_perl, are still considered “experimental” in the latest version. According to Elmendorf, “Apache is great, but it really serves as a platform to build all this other stuff on…. When you look at a core module like PHP not being supported, there’s no rush getting into it.”
[via NewsForge]
Dru Lavigne has some really cool FreeBSD tips and tricks.
Dane Carlson redesigned his weblog. (I like it btw) This begs the question:
If a redesign happens and everyone is reading via RSS, did a redesign happen?
nf0:
I finally got around to setting up CVS on one of the Red Hat 8 servers today. This is an excellent guide for doing it.
The openMosixApplet allows users to see the real-time status of an openMosix cluster. It consists of a daemon which the applet connects to in order to grab the necessary info, and uses the Chart2D library.
Very nice. I’ve tested a 2-node OpenMosix cluster which went quite well. I’ve recently come across a plethora of ancient hardware. I’m thinking of setting up a diskless OpenMosix cluster, I’m just waiting for the free time to materialize.
Two quickies from PC Linux Online: Red Hat changes their support model and KDE 3.1 has been released.
Linux Security pointed to an Earthweb article about using rsync to do backups:
There’s a new kid on the backup software block: rsync. rsync was originally designed to replace rcp, the venerable old Unix remote copy program. Because of its sophisticated means of synchronizing and transferring file trees, rsync is widely used for mirroring Web sites. rsync transfers only the changes in files, using the devilishly clever rsync algorithm. It calculates diffs without needing both files to be present. This little bit of magic is described in the documentation accompanying the program (for those interested in such). rsync then does on-the-fly compression, making network file transfers very fast and efficient.