Archive For February, 2003
Here’s a summary of new features. While it looks nice, I don’t think I’ll be upgrading it manually unless RPMs come out, I’m getting lazy! Still this feature alone is very welcome, ” Support for the RandR extension has been partially integrated into the XFree86 server, providing support for resizing the root window at run-time.” [...]
Russell Beattie once again comes up with the goods. I had downloaded an ebook reader already but ReadM looks so much better. Go over to Russell’s site to get the lowdown on it! BTW – the ReadM site is down because it’s too busy, you can download the program here though.
Simon Willison played Quasar for the first time! Ah, this brings back memories! It used to be quite easy to play a decent game of Quasar in Cork City where I live. 2 places in town offered it and for a few years they even maintained their guns and arenas. Not so now. Guns were [...]
Here’s a review of the upcoming PHP5. *Loads* of new stuff and it’s going to practically be a whole new language to learn. I can’t wait to start working with the new OO features it’ll have. It should make implementing patterns much easier. I wonder what effect it will have on the “home grown” self-taught [...]
After a brief search of freshmeat.net I found darkstat, a nice, easy to install package. It listens on a port for a browser, and displays nice graphs and other information in a web page. Well worth a look!
