keyspan drivers
Mostly for me, but KeySpan has released a new version
of the driver for their USB serial port adapters. I use one of thses
heavily on my TiBook for connecting to routers and such.
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Mostly for me, but KeySpan has released a new version
of the driver for their USB serial port adapters. I use one of thses
heavily on my TiBook for connecting to routers and such.
Hard-core tech article
from Linux Journal on tuning Linux for running Oracle. Glad to
see articles like this come out. There are tons of articles on
tuning Solaris for Oracle, but not many for Linux.
Sun Blueprints Online has a new article
about using the Live Upgrade framework to manage multiple versions
of the Solaris OS on the same system. The software allows you
to perform upgrades, patches, and other updates with more safety,
keeping a "fall back" known-good OS available.
Here
is an interview with Jim Fulton, one of the head tech guys that
designed and built the Zope Python web framwork.
Tech-heavy interview
with Andrew Morton, the kernel hacker, not the guy that writes
trashy biographies.
StandaloneZODB,
the object persistance engine that is at the core of the Zope
web application server, has been released as a standalone module.
ZODB is by far one of the coolest bits of technology that make up
Zope.
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is a very
well-known and well-respected computer science text, used
(among other places) at MIT for introductory programming
classes. It's based around LISP/Scheme. An online version of
the full text of the book was made available as part of the (now
defunct) ArsDigita University. The download site appears to be
either dead or overloaded, but thanks to the
Internet Wayback Machine, the book
is still available.
NMIS is a VERY
cool-looking web-based network management system written
in Perl.
Heh, Lisp P0rn,
slick-looking applications written in Macintosh Common LISP.
In a similar vein to O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook, The Common Lisp Cookbook
provides examples of how to accomplish various tasks in that programming language.
IBM developerWorks has an introduction
to cfengine for automating
system administration.
mod_python is cool.
That is all.
Great tip
(from Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software) for saving considerable
amounts of memory in MacOS X. Basically, you tell the window
manager to compress the window content buffers in memory if
they haven't been recently updated. Looks like it's a feature built
into OS 10.1, but not enabled by default by Apple.
There's a new Mozilla release
out there: 0.9.8. I've been running nightly builds for a while and
the quality is *really* improving.
O'Reilly has an AppleScript Primer for Mac OS X
available on their Mac DevCenter site.
Metrowerks has released CodeWarrior 7.2,
the latest version of their Macintosh and x86 development environment.
I wish I could afford to get the latest version of CodeWarrior, but
for my programming hobby I'll have to stick with Apple's free
development tools (which aren't that bad at all).
Interesting, but somewhat non-geeky article
from Red Herring about id Software
and John Carmack.
Paul Graham's book, "On Lisp" book is now available
online (Postscript only). Paul worked for Viaweb, which became
Yahoo Stores, written pretty much totally in LISP.
An amusing Perl-related article
from Randal Schwartz on ensuring only one instance of a given
app is running at any given time. The title? "There can be only one ...
way to do it!"
No Python-to-Cocoa interface yet, but we're getting closer
Cisco has a great page
of hardware troubleshooting documents for their products. Not
all of their devices are listed (by far), but a lot of the most common
ones are there.