I just discovered that Fedora Directory Server is now called “389″. First, the awesomely named “firewire” becomes IEEE1394, and now this? Sheesh. I don’t even like using 389 for a tag, much less the name of a major FOSS project.
Seems that Gallium 3D acceleration is being ported to AROS. Haiku, another non-mainstream OS, has some support already, and of course, Linux and Windows have always been target platforms for Gallium. At this rate, Gallium might just be the thing we’ve been missing, that can bring 3D features to all platforms, in the same way [...]
Hmm. I’m running debian/KDE in virtualbox. A lot of syslog entries just popped up from the systray, quickly followed by some analysis/explanation: the kernel just panicked, and I can submit a bug report. This is highly cool. Last I knew, kernels just locked up on panic. But to keep going, present nice GUI prompts, and [...]
In a move right out of The Art of War, Google have announced Google Chrome Frame, which turns IE into Google Chrome. Obviously great for web developers (django or otherwise) who want an up to date, standardised web platform on major browsers. It seems Google haven’t really studied the book though, as they’re not making [...]
I just noticed a Request for Comments: Auto-Installation of Apps in Django by Corey Oordt, which ties in with something I’ve been meaning to finish up and publish. Some time ago, I blogged about Pluggable Django and How I hate repetiting myself. Since then, I’ve been re-working this code a little. It hasn’t been high priority, since django is not a tool I’ve needed on current projects, but I did manage to get something up on github a few days back:
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I just discovered this Mother of All Demos. It’s a very early (1968) IT presentation from Stanford, with the goal of augmenting human office work by giving them a desktop computer. What’s amazing is that Doug Englebart presents mice, hierarchical information organisation, hyperlinks, diagrams and charts, and email. Conceptually, it’s really not that far from [...]
Canonical have now released Launchpad as open source. This is really good news, considering Shuttleworth’s previous stance, which I found quite wrong-headed. Just having Launchpad alone as an Open Source project is great, as it’s a very powerful tool. It’ll be interesting to see if they follow suit with the rest of Ubuntu’s proprietary offerings. [...]
I don’t know if this has been publicized yet, but a quick google doesn’t show much up about it. I was checking out Amazon’s Mechanical Turk the other day, and it give a Django error page due to an unhandled URL. Interesting. Update: I stand corrected. Seems Amazon MT just embeds other sites’ pages in [...]
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Wherein I create a python program to evolve beasties that can say hello.
