Archive For November 21st, 2002
Dublin Bus pilots real-time service – it’s also happening in the UK and elsewhere, but I don’t think it’ll help alleviate the traffic problems in Dublin. We Irish have a “must drive there” attitude, of which I’m guilty of too!
Why Red Hat Owns Linux – no they don’t, but this is still a good overview of where RH are and what might happen in the future. (from a business perspective)
The Register reports on a leaked internal document from Microsoft that touts Unix in Hotmail’s Win2k switch. Of course, that’s presuming it’s real, but the article is an entertaining read anyway.
Black Hole Breakaway: Supernova Gives Birth to Cosmic Monster – Fascinating. It makes me feel really small and inconsequential when I read stuff like, “There are two main types of black holes. The most massive variety anchor large galaxies; our own galaxy has a black hole that weighs as much as 2.6 million suns” and [...]
Hot Babe Hot-babe is a small graphical utility which display the system activity in a very special way. When the CPU is idle, it displays a dressed girl, and when the activity goes up, as the temperature increases, the girl begins to undress, to finish totally naked when the system activity reaches 100%. Of course, [...]
Mark discusses mod_gzip. We’ve been using it for years at work and although it does have some minor problems with certain browsers (gzipped content sometimes doesn’t get unzipped).All I can say is that our bandwidth usage is just a fraction of what it might be without mod_gzip.Now, does anyone know how to make Java applets [...]
