I’m back after a network outage at home. I have a few things to post, but they will probably wait until tomorrow.
Author: Matt Croydon
-
Outage
-
Regex, Books, Mail, Guis, Coding, and Rawdog
I was having network trouble earlier today, so here’s a quick roundup instead of the rant that wouldn’t post:
- ONLamp: whitespace makes reading regexen easier.
- Werner has submitted the final version of his book to his publisher.
- Geek Style points out a nice mail graphing application called mailgraph.
- Signals and Slots via Keith.
- Christoph points to a couple of tools for enforcing coding guidelines in Java.
- I’ve been using Rawdog for the past few days, I’m thinking about switching to it as my primary aggregator.
-
Itty Bitty Wiki
WyPy is a fairly functional wiki that is only 23 ugly lines of Python code. [via Daily Python-URL]
-
Wireless Interop Is All
A wireless technology that works in the same band as 2.4 GHz, is proprietary (apparently) to one maker, offers lower speeds than Bluetooth, and isn’t interoperable with anything?
-
Solaris 10 + Gnome
For those interested in looking at the screenshots for Solaris 10 (with gnome pre-installed) and a dmesg checkout here.
The referenced page is currently down. Try here for the screenshot or Sun’s site for more information.
-
Fun Error Message of the Day
Is it just me, or does the second line sound a little British to you? The error was my fault, but I have a feeling that the Mozilla Firebird team is behind the message. Thanks for brightning an otherwise crappy moment.
-
Atomic Rocket Turtle
Atomic Rocket Turtle is a great blog/site that, among other things, documents many hacks (read: modifications), third party compatability reports, and other great info about Plesk Server Administrator.
I really like the SpamAssassin/Qmail/Plesk tutorial. Thanks.
The site runs on a *nuke, so good old backend.php is an rss feed.
-
Canon’s Digital Rebel
Canon really does have something up their sleeve, a 6.3 megapixel Digital Rebel, estimated to come in at an $899 street price, $999 with an 18-55mm (28-90mm in 35mm terms) lens.
-
YAR: Yet Another Roundup
- The latest SoBig variant is causing problems.
- [H] pointed to an announcement from VIA about the Eden ESP7000. It’s a really low power 733MHz chip.
- Sam Gentile has collected his experiences with Rotor under OSX.
- Rafe Colburn reminds us not to jump to conclusions.
- Aaron Swartz notes that Canadians dig free Wi-Fi, eh? This is in contrast to much of the Wi-Fi to be found at airports in the US. “Hey, this guy wants to access the internet. His plane doesn’t leave for another hour. I wonder how much he’ll pay?”
- Newsforge: Damn small linux is damn fine.
- CNet: Nokia grabs multiplayer technology from Sega for their N-Gage.
- CNet: OpenBSD is secure by default.
- CNet: IBM’s Power5 chip will have on-chip multithreading (think trademarks like HyperThreading).
- PCLinuxOnline: The “copied code” that SCO is touting appears to be from BSD. Oops.
- I missed it yesterday, but Apple is shipping G5’s.
- Texting hurts the sales of bad movies, and that’s okay.
- bsd.slashdot.org notes that /bin and /sbin can now be dynamically linked in the CVS version of FreeBSD.
- developers.slashdot.org notes that mod_caml allows you access to the Apache API from Objective Caml. Silly.
-
AMD Has Its Next Duron
AMD will shortly ship a new low-end processor, codenamed ‘Appalbred’, the successor to the Duron.
-
MySQL 4.x Dubbed “Production Ready”
SEATTLE, Wash. – (March 25, 2003) – MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular Open Source database, today announced that the MySQL™ database version 4.0 has been labeled “production,” indicating that it is ready for any MySQL deployment. To reach production status, MySQL software must pass a series of rigorous tests with no fatal bugs and then undergo “battle-testing” in live environments for a minimum of three months. Starting with the newest release, 4.0.12, MySQL version 4.0 is now the standard code base for all MySQL database downloads.
-
LuPy 0.1.5.3 Released
LuPy, a python port of Jakarta Lucene, 0.1.5.3 is out with minor changes:
Some minor changes were made for Python 2.3, although a couple of warnings about bit operations remain. This release breaks some code: field.Keyword() must now be used instead of field.Field.Keyword(). If you are using the Indexer wrapper, searches are now more accurate because the query is tokenized first.
-
Tendra in OpenBSD
OpenBSD Journal notes that Tendra (an open source BSD-licensed C compiler) is now in the OpenBSD ports tree.
-
What’s New in Python 2.4
Already out: AMK’s What’s New in Python 2.4.
That was quick. Luckily the only real content in there is a minor tweak in
curses. -
Palmspring’s New Name
-
Gnome 2.4 Beta & The Fork of the Week
OSNews has two good stories this evening. First off, they cover the Gnome 2.4 Beta announcement.
They also cover the fork of the week: XFree86 has been forked into Xouvert.
-
Tech Evangelist and Worm Support
I think it’s awesome that Scoble and other Microsoft employees are volunteering to help out at call centers in order to help customers get patched and protected from MSBlast.
Talk about above and beyond. Rock on.
-
wxBasic
-
Straw 0.19: Bugfix Release
It’s nice to see a bugfix release of Straw, a Linux desktop aggregator, see the light of day.
-
Consumer Digital SLR Rumblings
I can’t classify this as an official rumor, and I can reveal my source, but there are rumblings out there that Canon is going to announce internally that they are aiming for a Digital Rebel, a consumer-level (or prosumer) digital SLR camera targeting the sub-$1000 price range.
If this is true, it could rock the camera industry. I don’t know any more, but if I find anything out, you know that I’ll post it. No, my information didn’t come from a website somewhere, but a person. I just hope that they’re right.
