An Apple retail store will open at Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 4. The grand opening will be from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Busy making things: @mc, notes, tinycast, github, links, photos.
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Richmond Gets Apple
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September 25th is Free Wi-Fi Day in the US
Posted in Web ServicesWi-Fi Networking News relays the news that on September 25th, Intel is footing the bill for Wi-Fi pretty much across the United States:
The list of participants includes AT&T plain and AT&T Wireless, Boingo Wireless, Cometa, iPass, Sprint, STSN (iBahn), Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, and Wayport.
So that’s pretty much every Starbucks, hotel lobby, resturant, and airport in the US that has Wi-Fi connectivity.
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Why I’m Happy With T-Mobile (All Over the World)
Posted in Web ServicesSome background: I signed up with T-Mobile a couple of months ago after many unhappy years with Sprint PCS. I snagged a Nokia 3650 for free after rebates through Amazon. I pay about $40/mo for service (600 anytime, unlimited nights and weekends) and about $10 for GPRS service, an additional $3 for 500 text messages, plus various taxes.
I called T-Mobile’s customer service the other day to enable international roaming ($.99/min in the UK), and while I had the very helpful service rep on the phone, I asked if I could switch my $9.99/mo 10MB GPRS plan to the current $9.99/mo unlimited plan. It took her a few minutes of computer wrangling, but she switched it over without a problem.
I also asked her how much GPRS roaming in the UK would be. She put me on hold for a minute or two, and came back with the wonderful information that GPRS roaming costs $0.99/MB in the UK.
That’s actually cheaper than some GPRS plans for people that live in the UK.
The difference that a world phone makes is amazing. It can go almost anywhere. T-Mobile’s GPRS coverage is spotty in the midwest and away from major urban/suburban areas, but it works everywhere that I’ve been around the US and all over Europe. Try that with your CDMA phone.
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LOAF.py
Posted in PythonI released version 0.3.1p1 of my LOAF project this evening.
LOAF.py is released under a BSD license. More information can be found at the project page.
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Notable Software Releases: Subversion and Sharpdevelop
Posted in Open SourceHere are a few quick links to some new software out this weekend:
- Christoph Cemper notes the release of Subversion 0.28.
- BetaNews mentions SharpDevelop 0.96, a really good oepn source IDE for working in C#.
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Craig’s List Via RSS!
Posted in WeblogsI was looking at one of my favorite sections of Craig’s List DC: the Computer and Tech forsale section.
I was thinking that it would be excellent to have this information in my RSS aggregator, so I viewed the source of the page, curious how hard it would be to scrape. In doing so, I found this gem:
<link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml href=index.rss title="Craigslist - computers & tech in washington, DC">I added index.rss to the end of the usual URL, and lo and behold, there is a valid RSS feed. It’s RSS 1.0 for those of you keeping score.
Does anyone know how long this has been out there? Needless to say, I’m subscribed.
It also looks like their local job listings have an RSS feed. Rock on! Also, because they use the <link/> tag in their HTML, it’s RSS autodiscoverable!
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Widescreen NetNewsWire
Posted in WeblogsJonathan Rentzsh has tweaked his copy of NetNewsWire to better fit his widescreen Mac. He has also published the steps that you can take to do the same.
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Outage
Posted in Web ServicesI’m back after a network outage at home. I have a few things to post, but they will probably wait until tomorrow.
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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.
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Itty Bitty Wiki
Posted in PythonWyPy is a fairly functional wiki that is only 23 ugly lines of Python code. [via Daily Python-URL]
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Wireless Interop Is All
Posted in Web ServicesA 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?
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Solaris 10 + Gnome
Posted in Open SourceFor 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.
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Fun Error Message of the Day
Posted in .NET
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.
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Atomic Rocket Turtle
Posted in LinuxAtomic 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.
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Canon’s Digital Rebel
Posted in Web ServicesCanon 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.
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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.
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AMD Has Its Next Duron
Posted in Web ServicesAMD will shortly ship a new low-end processor, codenamed ‘Appalbred’, the successor to the Duron.
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MySQL 4.x Dubbed “Production Ready”
Posted in Open SourceSEATTLE, 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.
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LuPy 0.1.5.3 Released
Posted in PythonLuPy, 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.
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Tendra in OpenBSD
Posted in *BSDOpenBSD Journal notes that Tendra (an open source BSD-licensed C compiler) is now in the OpenBSD ports tree.
