Mr. Scoble has a good reason make me do this.
At my age, being a meme follower is starting to make up for exercise. Sad.
Archive for February, 2006
Can I get a little brrreeeport?
February 16th, 2006Shiny new things…part 1
February 13th, 2006update: 14/2 Got the OPML from Akregator and imported it without problems. Bit of a hiccup with the .htaccess on this server, but getting rid of all the rewrite rules fixed that. All working a treat, and it seems to hit the main points that I need in a feed reader.
Joe is having a hard time with bloglines for various reasons he outlines. Seems a few bugs that he’s had the courtesy to inform the developers about just aren’t getting looked at, so he’s on the hunt for something better. Tom posted about Gregarius yesterday and I’ve had a quick look – very nice so far. There are probably a few problems waiting to rear their ugly heads but you get the source, you get the chance to fix it yourself, if so inclined. I’m off to try it out for myself.
NOVELL Releases the latest Xgl
February 7th, 2006This looks so sweet. You could say that it’s just eye candy, but it’s eye candy that uses the (mostly) redundant 3d hardware in modern video cards. The cube desktop looks a bit like 3D Desktop which I used for a while, but more complete. It hope it works nicely with the proprietary Nvidia driver for 3D but I suspect there’ll be some caveats there.
Link: NOVELL: Xgl
Spectacular development cycle.
February 6th, 2006Sometimes, the pace of software developement in the Open Source world just blows you away. Today was one of those days. Firing up Akgregator, what should I see but Peter Rockal going from first test of Adept, through alpha, beta and release in less than a minute. Fantastic work Peter, I wish I could do the same and so does my boss and wife (two different people for now)
A slight update to blogging software might have something to do with this, but it amused me for a moment
Guestblogger Paul Coletti
February 5th, 2006Hi folks and thanks to Pete for allowing me onto his excellent site. It’s only fair and proper that my first post should concern our favourite Internet Loon Jeff V. Merkey. Former NetWare coder, iguana ignorer, Torvalds annoyer and fantasist.
Jeff’s software project is called Wolf Mountain and you can find some of his software here : http://www.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/nwfs/
A quick glance however, through some of the code reveals much NetWare-related source. How about this comment from line 8729 of nwfs1121-01.tar . . .
// Below is the method Netware uses to perform striping for multi-
// segmented volumes. the method employed by Netware is more
// efficient than raid or the block striping typical of NT and Unix,
// and is incredibly simple.
Jeff to distribute someone else’s copyrighted proprietary code . . . now surely that could never happen could it ??
