Matt Raible notes the release of Tomcat 5.3.0 Alpha, with the following cautionary note:
I’ve found that this release is not worth your time. It’s even worse than 5.0.2.
Well if Matt “bleeding edge” Raible doesn’t like it, it’s definately not worth your time.
Exactly 20 years ago, two computer scientists Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris at the University of Southern California invented a key component that was to become the backbone of the Internet. Reading this article has been made possible mainly due to their pioneering work.
The development of the automated domain name system, or DNS as it is popularly known, was the turning point which allowed computers to locate each other on the network and exchange information on their own.
Keep an eye on the WWDC Quicktime Keynote Stream page later this afternoon.
According to MSNBC, we’ll have to wait until 2006 for the next iteration of the Xbox. Or was that 2005? Who knows.
MacSlash has a good roundup of MacHack happenings.
Via Erik and Cedric, the XML Big Picture is sooo coool though if you look at it too long, you might go <insane/>.
Weird Al Yankovic interviews Chris Pirillo, video.
Via MacSlash, if you’re looking for a Web Publishing Manager position at Apple, it looks like there is an opening all of a sudden.
Coincidence? 🙂
The SquirrelMail QuickAndDirty tutorial made a SquirellMail installation go quicker than an install of Blosxom. Now it’s time to poke around and harden the install.
CNet and others are noting weird things happening on the internet:
Worm? Trojan? Attack tool? Network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.
Any ideas?
While listening to Prozzak this morning, I was reminded that I used to get my obscure Canadian music from HMV online. Their web site rocked, it was easy to use, they had all of the Canadian stuff that you can’t get in the US (well you can, like a year after it’s released), and they were cheap.
It was great, they always did their pricing in Canadian dollars, so my order would always be several dollars less in USD.
It had been awhile since I had visited HMV’s website. I used to get Much Music on cable/satellite and kept it on in the background all the time. I really liked their programming (they actually played music, unlike MTV), their VJ’s, their attitude and their music. It’s been awhile since I’ve had access to Much and so I’m not as in touch with the Canadian music scene as I used to be.
I was horrified when I went to HMV.com this morning. It’s gone. Do you know what’s there in it’s place? I’ll give you one hint:
There goes one of my favorite online stores.
It wasn’t raining this morning.
I opened the windows and moonroof of the car, put some Prozzak into the CD player and hauled ass down 95.
It was nice.
Here’s a press release that I have no problem posting:
June 20, 2003 — The Fink, Gentoo,and DarwinPorts projects are pleased to announce the formation of a cooperative development alliance forged to facilitate delivery of freely available software to Mac OS X. Under this new alliance, the projects will share information and coordinate efforts for porting software to Apple’s Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. Members of the alliance will share information using the www.metapkg.org Web site, which will provide a home for this cooperative effort.
As an aside, is there any way to disable the annoying <!–StartFragment–> That I always seem to get when cutting in Moz/Netscape and pasting in IE?
Matthew Langham has unleashed the Silent Penguin.
Congrats to Jeremy Zawodny for one year of blog. It seems like there was a surge of people starting blogs around June/July last year. My 1 year is coming up in just a few weeks.
<Netminder> hey Jim, Russ, all.
<RussB_> Matt!
<JimH> hi Matt
<RussB_> How was your trip to DC? LOL
<Jim> Hhow was RMS? 😉
<Erik_> Hey Matt.
<JimH> I did that once, turned up for a party a week late 🙁
<JimH> and my mate who was holding the party had buggered off on holiday
<RussB_> JimH: In Washington DC?
<JimH> no, much worse
<JimH> Croydon
<RussB_> LOL
<Netminder> hahahaha!
How many Apple webmasters get fired before major product announcements? MacNN points out the apparent goof and posts the specs that showed up at the Apple Store:
Who can say if these specs are accurate, but either way it’ll be an interesting WWDC.
No! My local Linux box with the most uptime (280+ days) didn’t withstand the thunderstorm. It’s on a UPS that must not have been able to handle it.
Perhaps I’ll move it to its own UPS in the next day or so, since uptime isn’t much of an issue now.
This just in from CNet:
Openwave Systems, a maker of cell phone browsers and messaging products, said Thursday that it plans to cut another 12 percent of its work force in an effort to make a quicker return to profitability.
Ouch. I know that Openwave powers most of the WML 1.x browsers, at least here in the US. The current trends is towards WAP 2.0 and XHTML mobile profile. I’m not sure if Openwave is positioned to take advantage of this shift.
They do have a secret project that is burning through resources, so perhaps they have something up their sleeve.
Ed Cone reports on the recent NASCAR announcement. As a casual NASCAR fan, it’s no longer NASCAR to me if they change the Winston Cup to the NEXTEL Cup.
I’m sure I’ll forget about it soon enough, but NASCAR without the Winston Cup doesn’t seem worth watching or racing.
(The above is a mini-rant. It’s really not a big deal. I’ll get over it)