Mark Pilgrim introduces his 100 stories of unfamous people:
They are not syndicated. They are not categorized. They are not archived in reverse chronological order.
Mark is an amazing storyteller and I look forward to those little squares filling up.
The .NET Framework offers basic support for cryptographic operations inside of the
System.Security.Cryptographynamespace in themscorlibassembly. Out of the box, you are provided with implementations of many common symmetric key and public key-based algorithms. In addition, the cryptography framework was designed to be extensible, so that your implementation of any algorithm can be plugged in quite easily.
TechnoWarehouse has released “Windjammer,” a $4000 PCI card that contains dual-PowerPC G4 processors. The “self-contained super computer ” card can run Linux, and can be installed in a “standard desktop computer” or can be “scaled-up” for industrial applications. It uses 25 to 50 Watts, contains one serial connector, two Ethernet ports, an IDE controller, two RAM sockets, and other connectivity and upgrade options.
Pretty cool in that too expensive for me kind of way.
CNet:
Moore’s Law will continue for at least another 10 years, according to Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, but it’s going to take a lot of work.
PostgreSQL 7.3.2, a bugfix and vulnerability release, is out:
This release addresses several overrun and memory leak issues that were found in recent weeks, so it is highly recommended that those running the 7.3.1 branch upgrade at their earliest convenience. This release is backwards compatible with the previous v7.3.x releases, and does not require a dump/restore to upgrade.
It sure it odd to use +=, -=, &= and Return with VB.NET
CNet:
In its Xserve server line, Apple added faster 1.33GHz processors. A single-processor server with 256MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory, a 60GB ATA drive and Gigabit Ethernet networking sells for $2,799. A dual 1.33GHz processor model sells for $3,799 and includes 512MB of DDR memory and a 60GB hard drive.
[…]
The Xserve RAID systems introduced Monday feature up to 2.5 terabytes of storage in a 5.25-inch-high rack-mounted system. With standard prices ranging from $6,000 to $11,000, depending on the configuration, Apple says it is offering storage as low as $4 per gigabyte.
As with a lot of Apple’s high end stuff, it’s nice, but too expensive for me. *Sigh*
Brian Graf found a new apartment:
We won’t have any more deadlock conditions waiting for the shared bathroom resource.
What a geek! Congrats, though.
It is nearly a year since NewsWireless Net warned of the disasters looming if American wireless manufacturers went ahead with 802.11g – the go-faster WiFi standard. Now, we hear of incompatibility problems between rival 11g products – discovered in “secret” testing sessions. Are we really supposed to be surprised?
Apple has Airport Extreme, Linksys has Wireless-G (and the worlds most confusing packaging) and that’s just the beginning. It’s like building software around alpha APIs. They’re gonna change. Compatability should be possible once the standard is ratified. You can upgrade their firmware.
Exploring Plone has been fun. After much anticipation, version 1.0 of the Zope overlay was released on Friday. Plone provides a great set of tools for tapping into Zope quickly.
Python is a great language for web programming. Zope and Plone are built with this solid OO scripting language. I am interested to see how others with be utilizing this new release.
I only ever played with zope for a little bit a year or two ago, before I had any “real” Python experience/knowledge. It seemed incredibly cool, but I didn’t really see how I could apply it to things that I deal wtih. I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it since.
Russ:
Releasing your code as open source is a pain in the ass. I never realized this before, but after six months or so of having code out there, I’m realizing the truth of this. You’re always responsible for your code and it suuucks. The whole idea of OSS sounds great, “build it and they will come” and all that… but in reality it’s just a headache.
Most of the projects (or prototypes) that I have released are pretty much Flagpoleware: run them up the flagpole and see if it is useful to anyone else. I’d highly suggest reading the rest of Russ’ rantlet on small open source projects and support if you’re into that kind of thing.
There’s something I’d like to see more bloggers do: print stylesheets.
Read on for how to easily add this to your weblog with CSS. Thanks for pointing out the erroneous link, Wesley.
The secret is already out. Several forums and web sites have posted the URL where you can see the last Coolpix SQ shockwave teaser. We can’t tell you anymore at this time, Nikon has us under NDA. All will be told (and seen) in a little over a week — we’ll also be posting a First Look of this radically styled digicam.
A special thanks goes out to my friend Tony who pointed me to the link (on the phone no less!)
Joey Gibson explains how easy it is to upgrade from 2.1 M4 and points out the new and noteworthy features list. Don Park says “Eclipse will become the second most popular IDE behind Microsoft’s Visual Studio.” I said something similar a couple of months ago.
Thankfully Sam Ruby is filtering spam out of his comments. I subscribe to his comments feed but was getting ready to unsubscribe after having to scroll past several spam messages while skimming my news aggregator.
I get enough spam in my inbox.
Sam is also tackling trackback spam on his weblog by verifying that there is indeed a link to his site. He is also looking at upgrading the backend to intertwingly:
However, that part will have to wait as I’m in the midst of evaluating a wholesale upgrade of the software running my weblog, and in the process evaluating Blosxom 1.2, Blojsom, PyBlosxom, and Vellum.
Oh ho, he said, this is different — it has a smaller flame than your lighter.
So I flipped off the wind-shield, and cranked the little valve-control lever around counterclockwise, and then lit the lighter. A foot-long jet of flame shot out of it.
Frank is looking for someone to test whether his Trackback works. Radio doesn’t support Trackback – so perhaps some kind person will help. Thanks!
I use Radio, and therefore don’t have trackback support, but I did ping his weblog manually with a python trackback library that I wrote. His trackbacks seem to be working fine.
[user @ box tb]$ ./tbclient.py -tburl http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204 -title "Testing Trackback" -excerpt "I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib." -blogname "Matt Croydon::postneo" -url http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
Trackback command line client here. Preparing TrackBack...
TrackBack URL: http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204
TrackBack Title: Testing Trackback
TrackBack Excerpt: I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib.
Your Weblog Name: Matt Croydon::postneo
Your URL: http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
Pinging http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204...
HTTP Response: 200 OK
TrackBack Error Code is: 0 (zero is okay)
Done!
