Via Ken MacLeod, Wallop is a place “where you can share photos, blog, and interact with your friends.”
It’s by invite only right now. If anyone has the hookup, I’d love to hear from you (<%radio.macros.mailTo ()%>). The idea is scary but exciting at the same time.
Via EntLinux, Novell is picking up SuSE:
PROVO, Utah — Nov. 04, 2003 — Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell’s ability to provide enterprise-class services and support on the Linux platform. With the open source expertise of SUSE LINUX and Novell’s world-class networking and identity solutions and support, training and consulting services, Novell will be able to deliver Linux and all its components – from the server to the desktop – and give organizations a secure, reliable and mature Linux foundation. Novell will pay $210 million in cash to complete the acquisition. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the winding up of shareholder agreements. Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004).
I must not have been paying attention, because I didn’t see that one coming. I really hope that Novell manages to do well with Ximian and SuSE, kicking butt in the enterprise without forgetting the little guy that runs SuSE in his basement…
More coverage:
So many links, so little time:
Joel announced the redesign on Fog Creek Software’s web page by Dave Shea.
I like it.
According to Netcraft, it looks like a lot of people jumped ship from IIS to Apache. Apache gained 2.8% of the market, while MS/IIS lost 2.44%. Here’s why:
Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously. Barely weeks ago its largest rival, Network Solutions made a similar switch from Microsoft-IIS back to SunOne, nee Netscape-Enterprise, for its own domain parking system.
Hi, My name is Matt, and I’m addicted to Pensacola: Wings of Gold. It comes on at 6am on TNT in the DC Metro area. I’m usually up anyway, and it is one of those things that I can watch without devoting 100% of my attention to it (most of the time).
P:WoG was around for 3 seasons. Season 1 is more action oriented and centered around the Sea Dragons. Seasons 2 and 3 seem to be a lot more soap-ish. Either way, I can’t seem to stop watching it.
I wonder if season 1’s rantings started to slip, as only the main character played by James Brolin continued on the second (he was an executive producer). I’m sure that there are all kinds of continuity issues lurking about, but I choose not to think about it. It makes great background for multitasking at 6am.
Linkage:
Now back to your regularly scheduled geekblog.
Freevo 1.4rc2 is out. A few features, more translations, bugfixes, and more are in this release.
OpenBSD 3.4 has been officially released. Of course I’ve been rocking out to the release song for a few weeks. I should probably upgrade my Sparc Classic…
The October 31 MOTOCODER Newsletter is out. It hit my mailbox sometime between 5am and 8am. Here are a few interesting things from the newsletter:
Moto looses points in my book though:
<meta name=”GENERATOR” content=”Microsoft FrontPage 5.0″>
<meta name=”ProgId” content=”FrontPage.Editor.Document”>
<title>New Page 1</title>
<title>Newsletter</title>
It announces itself as “New Page 1” at least in IE. Oops.
Diego has posted a monster blog entry about blogging. If you want to learn about blogging and/or start a blog, go read it.
Jonathan Knudsen at Sun has a write up about mobile blogging. It is a good roundup of mobile blogging in general, and also accessing/updating blogs from the J2ME environment.
Hani at TheServerSide has written up some Ant anti-patterns. My favorite so far:
8. Ask users to prove their loyalty and dedication to your cause by demanding they add jar files to ANT_HOME/lib. For extra points, do not tell them what these jar files are. It can be a test of the true faithful to see if they can figure it out from an ant stacktrace and find out what jar to download from where.
Sam Gentile takes us through building your first app on Longhorn.
Update: At least we will still feel at home with Longhorn BSODs. Actually, Virtual PC seems to be the one to blame.
Dealmac has two excellent deals on older B&W G3 Macs: a G3/300 (128/6/CD/Zip) for $299.95 and a G3/350 (192/6/DVD) for $349.99 from MegaMacs. Both of these come with 17″ Studio Displays. I consider both of these excellent deals and would jump on one of them if I were liquid for it. I’m trying to scrounge together enough to get my hands on something to properly run Panther on.
XPostFacto for Panther should make it work on my 8500 soon, but it’s going to be dog slow if it will work at all. I’m hoping that something really cheap crops up on my local craigslist.
If anyone else out there is looking for user Macs, Baucom Computers is another great source. Right now they’ve got some attractively priced G3 and G4 desktops.
I just saw the Cadillac of strollers: the Chariot Cavalier 1. It is a lot like your typical joggersport stroller, but it’s just a little bit more beefy and a and just looks so cool in person. It has the required handbrake and all the goodies. It’s really sturdy but only about 21 pounds.
My kids are so going to roll around in something like this.
These Whidbey screenshots definitely evoke a Pavlovian response. Previous versions of Visual Studio .NET have been some of the most pleasing to work in. Hopefully Whidbey will feel even better.
Of course the more powerful client-side apps will be the ones taking advantage of the Longhorn SDK. [Via Scott Hanselman, who has been covering the PDC extremely well, as have all the other bloggers at the PDC]
I was reading a BBC News article on multimedia mobile phones via BBC’s WAP site this evening. Jo Twist gave an excellent overview of Series 60 phones and also hinted at the enhanced capabilities of Series 90.
I’ve got a 3650 in my pocket, but I have seen the light, and it is tinted Series 90.
I’ve been going through the examples included in the Wireless Toolkit on the s90 emulator. I’m starting to jive with the emulated interface. Of course I should expect it, but it’s nice to take a stock MIDlet and have it conform to the sexy Aqua-like s90 interface.
In order to run your MIDlets on the s90 emulator from within the WTK2.0, just copy the Series_90_MIDP_Concept_SDK_Beta_0_1 directory in to the wtklib/devices directory of your WTK2.0 install. When you restart the application, you should be able to select the Series 90 emulator.
At first glance, I thought of this device as a high end taco. After tinkering with the Emulator, I think that it is going to be a whole lot more. Hopefully the 7700 will be the first in a fleet of Series 90 devices. That would rock.
Russell Beattie’s weblog and Mobitopia were down this morning. The guys on #mobitopia were trying to get in touch with him to let him know, but we should not have been worried:
<RussellB> My *Mom* called me at 7:00 a.m. this morning to tell me
