Ted Leung points out Howl, a Zeroconf/Rendezvous implementation for Windows and Linux/BSD:
Now the rest of us who have been hearing about the MacOS X Rendezvous Bonanza have a chance to get in on the action. The folks at Swampwolf have produced howl an open source Rendezvous/ZeroConf library that works on Windows and Linux. They’ve release the source on SourceForge under the BSD license.
Charles Miller presents the Placebo mini-pattern.
If the IPv6 adoption rate is as abysmal as it appears to be, how are you going to get millions of server to switch away from SMTP?
Just a thought.
The Netcraft Webserver Survey is 8 years old this month. Happy Birthday!
The first Web Server Survey ran in August 1995 and found 18,957 sites. NCSA and CERN were the leading web servers of the day, in front of Netscape which had recently IPO’d, and the Apache project which started a few months earlier in March 1995. Microsoft-IIS, HTTP/1.1 hosting and domain name registrars were not then on the horizon.
It’s a vastly different landscape today, and thanks for keeping track of it, Netcraft!
This is just a quick public service announcement:
Don’t let them fool you. The name on the front of the bank may have changed, but it’s still First Union.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming…
Shelly posts a great RDF primer at O’Reilly’s XML.com. She points out cool stuff (like FOAF) that you can do with it as well as tools available so that you can get your hands dirty with semantic goo.
CNet notes a drop in prices for AMD processors:
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD lopped as much as 31 percent off its list prices for Athlon XP-M processors and reduced prices on a handful of Opteron server chips by as much as 35 percent.
According to Pricewatch, it looks like the sweet spot in Athlon XP processors is on the 333FSB Athlon XP 2600 (currently at about $97 + shipping).
Now where is my Athlon64?
Update: Kenneth definately has the right idea: go with the Barton core 2500+.
I checked out Live For Speed this morning. It’s a racing game. I checked it out because of a Slashdot Games story from last night. The game is published online, no in-store boxes. It’s not really a new idea, but a definately a cool one.
I don’t think the wheel that I have works with XP, so I was only able to try out mouse and keyboard combos. It was definately entertaining for a racing game, the ability to race 8-10 people online is very cool. In the end I’ll probably stick to playing console racing games, and silently waiting for Gran Turismo 4.
A consortium lead by Sun today announced the publication of the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF). The framework is a collection of three specifications and “designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination to support information sharing and transaction processing”.
Don’t worry, I stopped paying attention to the WS-* specs several silly specs ago.
Bob Hope is dead at the age of 100.
It looks like Werner Vogels will be doing some hardcore research into high-performance XML/soap processing for pub/sub systems.”
Brad Wilson has a good wrapup of Gnomedex for those of us who were on the other side of the country when it happened.
I’m back from California.
I’ve got some catching up to do.
I’m off to bed. I’m catching an early flight in the morning. I’ll be posting here and moblogging at textamerica. I’ll be bringing a laptop to sniff the WiFi out there, but most of my connectivity will be via GPRS. I’ll try to stop in on freenode while I’m out there.
I’ll be keeping up a little bit with my wap aggregator, but I don’t have all 278 feeds in there.
Kathleen Day reports on the Freddie Mac investigation in The Washington Post today:
The report is the result of an eight-month investigation by James R. Doty, a former Securities and Exchange Commission general counsel. Among the steps he and his team of lawyers and forensic accountants took were sealing the offices of 20 employees when they learned documents may have been altered and listening to 11,000 minutes of taped calls by company traders completing the transactions used to smooth earnings.
The emphasis is mine. In the current climate of corporate scandal, it looks like at least one job will be in demand.
testing to see if I can still post to my blog via email. I’m getting ready for a weekend in California.
From a Nikon newsletter:
“…pricing will not be provided until approximately 30-days prior to planned beginning of delivery. The current delivery is scheduled to begin during the early part of this calendar’s 4th quarter.”
I caught part of an episode of MI-5 on A&E last night. It is an imported version of Spooks renamed and reworked a little for the US.
MI-5 is, in my opinion, the best parts of CSI, 24, and every spy flick ever made. Someday I’ll have to find the DVD box set of Spooks and scare up a region-free DVD player…
It looks like new episodes are airing Tuesday nights at 10pm. They seem to be rebroadcasting the current episode several times in the middle of the night throughout the week. I’ll have to set the VCR up for that one. (Yes, technofreak that I am, I do not own a TiVo.)
Can anyone hook Russ up with his dream job?