- TheServerSide: ASF Announces Geronimo as an Official Project
- Martin Fowler talks about DiffDebugging.
- DeviceForge and others are talking about Intel’s move to open source the core of the next gen PC BIOS. It will be released under the Common Public License.
- El Reg and others reported yesterday about the Sun/Fujitsu Sparc partnership. I hope things start turning around mid-2006.
- Python news via the Daily Python-URL
- 2.4a1 is a few months away
- HTMLCalendar generates one or twelve month calendars in HTML form
- Who needs bash when you can have pysh?
- Speaking of Python, Juha polished his Pythonic answer to Einstein’s Riddle. He has also written an article in Finnish explaining it.
- Jim has meta-coverage of Rear Talkin’
- OSNews points to an InformIT article about Java cryptography.
- Reiter: Qualcomm posts information about Qcamera camera phone firmware
- Mono Beta 2 is fresh and hot with a shiny new button.
- Pocket PC Thoughts: Keep Mobile Apps Simple, Say IT Managers
- RootPrompt talks about AMD’s Socket 939.
- The reason they’re called smartphones is because you can actually do stuff with them!
Month: June 2004
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Windows Mobile 2003: What Comes Next?
Wei-Meng at the O’Reilly Widnows DevCenter has a great roundup of what is new in Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. It looks like there are some new display sizes: VGA for the Pocket PC (640×480), QVGA (320×240) for the Smartphone, and a new square 240×240 or 480×480 screen size that could be fun.
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The Clie has Left the Building
Gizmodo is the first in my aggregator covering the story:
Ill tidings for the Palm world as Sony announces they will be withdrawing the Clie line from the US at least throughout the end of the year.
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G4TechTV Update
I updated my comment from yesterday about G4TechTV.
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Pythonic SSH: paramiko
PyPI listed this little gem this evening: paramiko. What is paramiko? It is an SSH2 implementation in Python. Here’s some more information from PyPI:
This is a library for making SSH2 connections (client or server). Emphasis is on using SSH2 as an alternative to SSL for making secure connections between python scripts. All major ciphers and hash methods are supported.
SFTP client mode is now supported too.
paramiko relies on PyCrypt, which is like a Pythonic Bouncy Castle.
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G4TechTV: So Sad
Wow. I didn’t realize that the G4TechTV “content” was going to be this bad. I hope that for the last few hours I’ve been seeing G4 drek, and that somewhere in all of this mess there still is some TechTV.
Update:
In Lieu of actual programming, the wunderbrains at G4TechTV have decided to nix the re-airing of The Screen Savers at 8am. They also replaced quality TechTV filler with Paid Programming straight through till they pick up G4 crap programming at 9am.
I have to conclude that G4TechTV did not do any research before jumping in to all of this. I’m usually at work when The Screen Savers is on in the evening. I happen to be at home getting ready for work during the 8am re-airing. I’ve been out of my usual schedule recently, but for months on end I’ve been an almost-daily viewer of the 8am show. I can’t be alone. I know that the DC Market was one of the stronger TechTV markets, so the viewers had to be there.
Ahh, it’s okay. The Screen Savers is on the schedule twice a day: at noon and at seven pm. Of course I’m not able to catch either of those times. In these TiVO times aparently I should be able to “deal with it.”
I know that I mourned the loss of TechTV a few weeks ago, but I’m really sad to see it actually happen. I can’t decode the actual content from all the ads on the G4TechTV main page. The, uh, Screen Savers page has about a paragraph and a half of content on it, as opposed to the old feature rich page that had more info than you can shake a stick at.
Maybe I’m growing old and bitter. Maybe I just miss my old friend, TechTV.