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Interesting article from net.architect about Orbitz (the online travel site)
and their use
of LISP on the backend.
The original paper
that the co-founders of Google wrote while at Stanford, entitled
"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."
Tangram
is an excellent object-relational persistence system for Perl. I
need to play with this for my comics manager toy.
NewsForge interviews
Akkana Peck of the Mozilla team, who was one of the original
developers on the project when it "spun off" from Netsacpe.
There's a new interview
with Marcello Tosatti (current Linux 2.4 kernel maintainer) over
at IBM developerWorks.
Nice, long interview
with Miguel de Icaza of Ximian on a variety of subjects, including Mono,
Gnome, and Microsoft.
Linux Journal has a new article
on Hardening Sendmail when running under Linux.
A draft of David Mertz's
new book "Text Processing in Python" is available online.
LinuxOrbit has a good article
on dual-booting RedHat Linux 7.2 and Windows XP. I have no plans
to install XP any time soon (I'm doing just fine with my Win2k vmware
instance), but it's still nice to know.
Bouncer is an AppleScript for Microsoft
Outlook Express or Entourage to "bounce" a spam message back to its sender, hopefully making the
spammer think the receiving address is invalid.
An article
from O'Reilly's "ON Java" site looks at The Top Ten Cool New Features of Java 2SE 1.4
From Forwarding Address: OSX, a list of some keyboard
options for when working with the OS X Finder's Dock:
Nvidia has released new Linux drivers for
their 3D-accelerated video cards.
Apple's eNews newsletter has an excerpt from "MacOS X: The Missing Manual" that describes what
Apple calls multihoming -- the operating
system automatically picks a networking method (AirPort, ethernet, modem) based on a list of preferences
and on what interfaces are up. I'm using it at home to switch between wired and wireless and it works
really well. I just have to plug in my ethernet cord and my TiBook automatically switches over. Unplug
and it's back to AirPort.
Another good Linux Journal
article on Linux Optimization and Fine Tuning. They're really covering this subject well.
Awesome article on The History of Flash,
as told by its inventor, Jonathan Gay.
Mactracker
has been around forever, but that makes it no less wonderful. It's
a complete database of every Macintosh ever made, including
specifications and upgrade options. Awesome.
Here's a cool (if somewhat creepy) piece of software: Dead Man's Switch
requires you to periodically pull it up and click a "reset" button.
If you don't (within a certain period of time), it can automatically
encrypt your files and send out a notice email or web page
posting. Useful I suppose if you're a spy (or a hacker).
Here
is a link to part 2 of Linux Journal's article on tuning Linux to run
enterprise applications such as Oracle.
MacOS X Hints has a tip
which links to an Apple document on how to integrate MacOS X
with Microsoft Active Directory. By setting this up, you can
authenticate your Macs against AD instead of NetInfo, which is
especially useful if you're a big Win2000 shop.