Following the source and binary release of NetBSD 1.6.1, now the ISOs are up and ready for your downloading pleasure. Choose among almost 40 architectures.
I haven’t installed NetBSD on anything recently, though I still have 1.5.x installed on a 486.
I got an email this evening from Mike Cannon-Brookes. It turns out that he’s moved his blog and I managed to miss it. That has been corrected. I’ve subscribed to his new RSS feed and the blogroll will update automatically.
Russ:
I think we may have come back around to the point where anyone can throw up a web site again! Remember back in the mid 90s when anyone could throw up a server and be on the web? Then things got out of hand. Application servers demanded more power, hardware was relatively expensive and hosting centers cost a ton. I remember when I was looking around in 1999 for similar disk space/bandwidth for my multimedia project and it thousands of dollars a month for this type of service. But now, it’s really possible!
I’m currently reading Jeremy‘s three month old MySQL 4.x article from Linux Magazine.
I knew before that 4.x rocked, but now I’m starting to get a better idea of how much it rocks.
Honestly, in my Big List of Programming Projects, I no longer automatically move mobile applications to the bottom of the list — .NET CF makes them absolutely approachable. I’m convinced the next five years in software will be all about mobility: handhelds, phones, and Tablets.
Coil is an MVC framework for Python. It is based largely on the ideas and design of Struts and allows you to cleanly separate models, views, and controllers via an XML configuration file. A very basic login example that demonstrates the basic work flow is included.
Here’s what’s new in 0.3:
This version features Cheetah support for the “view”, form objects with validation support, action objects for controller abstraction, DispatchAction support that allows multiple method entry points on the same action object, and ActionForward for abstracting a page location by name.
This is definately worth checking out!
Mark is fed up with standards again. This time it’s RSS.
That’s really not supposed to sound absurd, I understand his frustration. RSS in all of its various forms has baggage. A lot of baggage.
Someday his trunk will have one of those safety latch things that lets you escape.
Then again, there is no trunk.
Update:
Speaking of RSS, here’s Dave from earlier today:
Mark Nottingham has prepared a draft of a spec for RSS 2.0 suitable for submission to the IETF.
I’ll shrug my shoulders just about as much as Sam.
Congrats to Steve Makofsky, his forthcoming Pocket PC Network Programming is now officially “coming soon“!
I used check 404 out of my checkbook the other day. There was only one thing that came to mind.
Apple’s Darwin team has released the Darwin 6.5 source code, which is designed to work with the just released Mac OS X 10.2.5 and includes a large number of source projects.
Dave Johnson released Roller 0.9.7 today with all the goodies.
Sam Gentile on Brad Abrams on Whidbey, the next .NET release (not Everett):
There is a lot implied in your paragraph.
Lots of goodies indeed.
LWN:
Theo de Raadt has sent out a note stating that the DARPA funding for the improvement of OpenBSD has been withdrawn. There are guesses as to why that has happened, but DARPA is not saying. Meanwhile, OpenBSD looks like it’s going to be stuck with a big bill for next month’s “hackathon,” which was to be partly funded by the DARPA grant.
This is definately a blow to the OpenBSD hackers and OpenBSD community.
Greg Klebus lets us in on apache (httpd) and tomcat cohabitates on his blog box.
CNet:
The Opteron 240 will run at 1.4GHz and cost around $340 in volume quantities, said sources, while the Opteron 242 and 244 will run at, respectively, 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz and cost around $800 and $900. Prices could change, sources cautioned, and, historically, wide discrepancies have existed between AMD’s posted price and the actual prices that the chips sell for.
While the chip speeds fall within the range of expectations, the pricing underscores the confidence AMD has in the chip’s selling power and performance.
Hmm. I might be waiting for Athlon64, though hopefully street prices will end up being less than this.
Meld is a diff/merge tool for GNOME that looks a lot like the one in CodeWarrior.
I saw it scroll by on freshmeat and thought it was cool, but if I see something like that mentioned again within 24 hours, it’s probably worth looking in to.
Hummer H2 vs. Volkswagen Golf
I was killing some time at a Best Buy this afternoon before class. I parked my car, browsed for a bit, and came out to find a brand new Hummer H2 Soccer Assault Vehicle parked next to me. I took a step back to view how absurd this looked. To the right you’ll see my ’98 Volkswagen Golf. You’ll notice that the bottom of the mirror on the H2 is above my roofline. The top of the brush guard on the H2 is a few inches below my 5’10” shoulder height.
It’s funny but scary. I’m in that car on the highway with these H2’s. Down the road when I’ve got kids in my car, I’m going to have no choice but to become part of this arms race and buy something bigger and safer.
If I lived in the UK, I’d probably be running around in a Lupo GTI or some other small zippy fun car. Now I’m rethinking this whole compact car thing in the States.
Bill Kearney has an excellent piece on using compression for your web sites:
As pages get larger and sites become popular the drain on available bandwidth can become a problem. The worst thing that can happen to a site is for it to become suddenly popular. Or an RSS feed gets pulled repetitively by dumb aggregator programs.
Eventually I’ll be migrating this blog to a server that supports mod_gzip or mod_deflate, and you know that I’ll take advantage of it. Definately check out the rest of his entry for links to tutorials and many other great points.
Scott Johnson has a great idea about spicing up automated administrative emails. He added a fortune to the bottom of an email containing df -h information:
We all get way to many automated things via email and if you at least make them interesting then you might bother to read them.
Speaking of Firebird (the database), they released 1.5RC1 today.
Something tells me that Phoenix will only be named Firebird for a short time.