Rick Klau:

Set up Feedster queries for you, your clients, your competitors, your friends… you get the idea. If anyone is talking about things that matter to you on a weblog somewhere, you’ll know about it. Within the hour.

My friend Mike puts it best:

We did a Ctrl+Alt+Del on Matt’s car 😀

We got the OBD-2 connection to work on my car this evening.  We plugged an old P75 laptop into my 98 Golf, and whadda you know, the check engine light was due to a misfire in Cyl 2 a few days ago.  (I remember it now, I went into second right after starting the car while going up the hill, it was a mistake)  Mike cleared the error, we ran diagnostics again, error gone.

I’m glad I didn’t have to pay the dealer to find that out.

OSNews:

I installed Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) to see what has changed between it and the previous major version of Red Hat (8.0). The article features some installation screenshots and of course some post-install screenshots showing Bluecurve in Gnome and KDE (more shots here), user experience and discussion of whether you should upgrade or not.

BlueZ is a Bluetooth stack for Linux.  The list of supported devices includes several lower cost USB models (in the sub-$50 range).  I’m not sure what Bluetooth support might be baked into the kernel or OS itself, but Marcel Holtmann’s Bluetooth and Linux site has gobs of info.

I don’t exactly remember why, but Kenneth got me on that tangent.

OSNews:

Adobe put a page up (named ‘pcpreferred.html’) stating that the PC is preffered to run Adobe products. Adobe, along with Quark and Macromedia, are the long standing allies to Apple, offering the most important products that literally drive Mac sales in the Pro market. For historical reasons mostly, it is now of surprise to see Adobe openly verifying and backing up Digital Producer Magazine’s benchmarks and recommending PCs instead of Macs to their customers (even if PCs have indeed overtake Macs speed-wise the last 1-2 years). This is a blow for Apple, sales and marketing-wise and we will wait for a reaction from Apple towards Adobe.

Slashdot notes that Red Hat 9 will be released to paying customers on March 31st and the general public April 7.

CNet:

Although the Linux support software for Centrino is working at Intel’s labs, it hasn’t been fully tested and full completion of the project hinges on the timing of requirements from computer makers, company spokesman Scott McLaughlin said Monday.

[…]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel hasn’t yet decided whether to release its Linux work for Centrino as open-source software, McLaughlin said.

Message to Intel: Submit a patch to the kernel and please please please release your other drivers as open source.  The flavor isn’t as important as people think.  Just make sure that it’s some sort of free and get it out there.  You’ll thank yourselves later.

JavaWorld via Java-Channel:

Security is important for any kind of distributed computing environment. For Web services environments, security is becoming even more important due to Web services’ unique characteristics. In this article, Sang Shin discusses these characteristics and explains why Web services need a different set of security schemes. He then examines the various Web services security schemes being designed and implemented by the industry. These new schemes are expected to accelerate the adoption of Web services, especially in the business community, where security is always a top priority.

Keith:

Via Simon, there’s a slideshow of what’s new in PHP 5. Unfortunately, the server is super slow right now (the slideshow one, not Simon’s), so you may have trouble getting to the slideshow. Lots of interesting stuff.

Diego:

Today it’s been 365 days since I last rebooted the machine that hosts this site.

Linux Rocks.

Congrats.

Scott Johson:

If you go to feedster.com/war/, you can now choose to Include / Exclude / Only search about the war.  Here’s what it looks like:

Thanks, Scott.

Mark Pilgrim:

IE users can blow me. It’s the inline lists. I can either maintain proper markup, or I can make it look right in IE. I don’t know how to do both.

According to Slashdot, the Game Boy Advance SP hit the streets today.

There is a Hiptop developer wiki up.  Check out the recent changes for the good stuff.  I currently have ‘Level 0’ access which allows me to look at the docs and drool.  Hopefully I’ll be able to start playing with the SDK soon.

I’m psyched so far, as it appears that there is lots of Java involved, and Ant is required for building.  More as it unfolds.

Greg Klebus:

Apache Tomcat 4.1.24 Stable Released

[via javablogs.com—ammai.com]

Thanks for the heads up, Greg.

OSNews:

In Las Vegas for Microsoft Management Summit 2003, Microsoft Senior Vice President Brian Valentine revealed that plans for the next two Windows releases–code-named Longhorn and Blackcomb–are very much in flux. Microsoft officials also say they are again considering shipping a server version of the Longhorn operating system after announcing late last year that it would be released for the desktop only. Read the reports at WinInformant and NWFusion.

It’s nice to see that Russ is “keepin’ it real” after becoming a rockstar.

Stand Up Eight (at some new digs):

Watching the News Hour with Jim Lehrer tonight, I was surprised to hear David Brooks (a regular political analyst) refer to the Where is Raed ? blog when discussing political viewpoints from around the world.

Sweet.  I was listening to it in the car and smiled when I heard it.

Here’s a hot tip from Freshmeat today:

1.1 RC2 is being released to get ready to release 1.1 in March. This release serves to get recent bugfixes and improvements out to the testing community so that 1.1 final can be as good as possible. Please bang on the APIs, kick the tires, and let the authors know about any problems you have.

Go grab it here.  I’ll try to play with it when I get a chance.

Update (so far so good):

<getVersionReturn xsi:type=”xsd:string”>
   Apache Axis version: 1.1RC2 Built on Mar 05, 2003 (02:08:42 EST)
</getVersionReturn>

Use Perl:

DC Perl Mongers Presents An Evening with Mark-Jason Dominus, April 8th, 2003 7:30 pm at the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Cool.  I’ll try to attend, but I don’t know what’ll be going on then.