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Archive for March, 2004Sharp Zaurus SL-6000LWednesday, March 31st, 2004The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L has finally made it to the U.S. The new handheld has reached enterprise level and is will be very usful tocorporate users, high-end gadget lovers andmobil hackers PHP 4.3.5 released!Tuesday, March 30th, 2004The PHP Development Team announced the release of PHP 4.3.5. This is a bug fix release only, without any new features or additions. This release includes a fix for more than a hundred known bugs. Check the change log and see if you need to make the update. Synchronize your clocks with NTP Time ServerMonday, March 29th, 2004NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. NTP is now in it’s 3rd version. NTP version 4 will be a significant revision of the NTP standard, and is the current development version, but has not been formalized yet. Send mail through SMTPSunday, March 28th, 2004Back in the old days we used to use this method to send mail all the time. That is beside the tendency to trick our less knowledgeable friends. They used to get mails from god@earth.net or devil@hell.org and so on. Java won’t be open sourceFriday, March 26th, 2004Despite urging from competitors and open source advocates, Sun Microsystems will not open the source to its Java programming language, said Sun CEO Scott McNealy during a news conference at the 2004 FOSE conference. “We’re trying to understand what problem does it solve that is not already solved,” McNealy said. Fascination by randomnessTuesday, March 23rd, 2004I have been fascinated by randomness and the “game” of probabilities for a long time. This is the main reason I was happy to find this website. The underlying technology for this showcase was developed by the Group of Applied Physics of the University of Geneva in 1998. The system exploits an elementary quantum optical Microsoft is guilty in the EUTuesday, March 23rd, 2004Microsoft faces an unprecedented European Commission decision on Wednesday that will brand it an abusive monopolist (like we didn’t know it so far), order it to change the way it does business and fine it a record 497 million euros ($612.7 million). After a decade of investigating Microsoft and making deals only on small issues New Double-Layer DVD BurnersMonday, March 22nd, 2004If you bought a DVD burner last year you are due to be disappointed. Sony Electronics is looking to heat up the DVD recording arena. The company is adding two DVD+R Double Layer (DL) DVD drives to its line of Dual RW burners. An internal DRU-700A drive and an external DRX-700UL drive represent the company’s Validate corrupt RPMsSaturday, March 20th, 2004Have you ever tried installing an RPM and things seem to go wrong even before anything substantial is happening? During those occurances you will get errors like “V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID” or sometimes the installation process will not generate any errors while the application doesn’t seem to work properly. This might be a When the guardsman turn on youSaturday, March 20th, 2004security researchers warned on Friday about a software component of Norton Internet Security could allow hackers to use the application as a backdoor. MP3 streaming with PerlSaturday, March 20th, 2004After publishing a PHP and ASP MP3 streaming tool now I have found this simple Perl script program to stream MP3’s on your website. Supposedly, works with WinAmp. This would also be a nice introduction to socket programming in Perl to those who are interested. The Regex CoachSaturday, March 20th, 2004The Regex Coach is a GUI app for Windows or Linux that helps you figure out Perl-style regular expressions. Verify matches, step through the regex one character at a time, grouping behavior, view the regex parse tree, get an English description of what the regex is doing, it can single-step through the matching process as Turn your weblog into a bookFriday, March 19th, 2004Out of the many types of blogs there is one in particular that can use the blogbinders service. blogbinders offers to turn your weblog into a book. So if you ever considered turning your online journal into a paper book, you know where to go. New News search feature in GoogleFriday, March 19th, 2004Google news now let you do news search for a term but restrict your results to a geographic location. (ie State, City). Pretty cool and works well. PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 has been releasedFriday, March 19th, 2004PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 has been released, bringing the first production-ready release tantilisingly close. This is definitely an exciting upgrade. Many issues raised lately by PHP developers has been addressed by PHP 5. The new libxml2 powered XML features seem very powerful, and now SQLite is an on-board database and should be easy accessed Microsoft to acquire AOL?Friday, March 19th, 2004Is Microsoft getting ready to acquire AOL? The New York Post claims the two have had several acquisition-related discussions over the course of the last several months. But AOL parent Time Warner says The New York Post is blowing smoke. No doubt Microsoft and AOL are collaborating, but more in the areas of digital rights Hitachi Introduces 300GB Hard DriveThursday, March 18th, 2004Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the Ultrastar 10K300, a 300GB enterprise hard disk drive. According to the company, Hitachi’s newest 10,000 rpm hard drive satisfies the requirements of mission-critical storage applications such as online transaction processing, data analysis, and media streaming. The new drives will be available in Ultra 320 SCSI and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel Bidclix advertising marketplaceThursday, March 18th, 2004I don’t know what to do with it really. But this advertising service claims to be “the most efficient marketplace for buying and selling online advertising. That means more targeted customers for advertisers, and better prices for website publishers.”. If you believe it, check it out. The perils of GooglingTuesday, March 16th, 2004The Register features an article about the perils of Googling. The article opens: “Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman. Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would YasexhooTuesday, March 16th, 2004This was so funny I couldn’t give up webmarking it: Yahoo now has its own sex parody site, YaSexHoo! Parody? You decide on your own. MPC audio formatSunday, March 7th, 2004Yesterday, I received from a friend a bunch of .mpc audio files of his own music. Quickly I discovered that neither Winamp nor MMP played the files. I thought they should have built-in support by now, but no. So I embarked on a short web journey to find an appropriate plug-in to do the job The joke is on BalmerFriday, March 5th, 2004Just check out Steve Ballmer who heads the largest software maker in the world. This is the same software which runs most of the PCs in the world. What he has to say about developers. His dancing skills. And this funny clip. Roaring Penguin PPPoE for LinuxThursday, March 4th, 2004Most DSL Internet Service Providers require you to install some kind of software to be able to connect to them. They generally call it “Access Manager”, “Connection Manager” or “dialer” and most of the time they do not have a version for Linux or any OS that is not MS Windows. NetBackup Performance Reports with MySQL/PerlThursday, March 4th, 2004Backups are always a problem. Often, even in large companies where you would expect such an important task to be a high priority, backups are given to a new guy, an intern, or anyone willing to pay attention. Many excellent systems administrators began their careers changing tapes and monitoring or restarting failed backups. |
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