Archive 1. June 2004

Adventure Earth - To Hell

Just stumbled upon it while flipping through channels. Absolutely well done! And interesting - the giant Andean vulture with an 8-meter wingspan (extinct) was just as new to me as the fact that New World vultures (including the condor) are related to storks and not to birds of prey, like Old World vultures are.

Here's the original article.

drbs - Distributed Replicated Blob Server - Server system modeled after Google File System

GDL - GNU Data Language - Another one for the number crunchers

Maypole / Apache::MVC - Perl framework for creating web applications

mnot's Web log: Ubiquitious Fragment Identifiers - Interesting fragment link solution with CSS

paramiko: ssh2 protocol for python - SSH2 protocol implementation in Python

PYSH: A Python Shell - Shell that uses Python as a shell language

SoftPear - PC/Mac Interoperability

Wow - now they've got a recompiler for machine code in there too. That sounds increasingly interesting - a recompiler is the most important step for usable performance for such systems.

Here's the original article.

Sony's Clié Says Goodbye

Was obvious. After all, I bought one myself and I'm quite happy with it. Whenever I get something like this, the manufacturer goes bankrupt or discontinues the product line or does something else crazy. I'm starting to feel like the rain god in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. At heise online news you can find the original article.

Sun Insists that Red Hat Linux is Proprietary

Just to show that the IT world has more crazy people than just the SCO boss. The SUN boss's loss of touch with reality is also quite remarkable.

Here's the original article.

Telekom wants to collect customer data from internet users

They must be out of their minds. What a mess - since when can providers decide which of my email addresses are allowed to be published? The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous!

At heise online news there's the original article.