Wednesday, June 09, 2004

SCO may restrict Solaris, moves to push IBM trial back. SYDNEY - Less than one week after Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz pledged to open source its Solaris operating system, The SCO Group Inc. has stated that license restrictions prevent Sun from contributing its work to the GPL (General Public License). [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:23:52 PM    comment []  trackback []

SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Using Jabber as a log monitor. Jabber, the streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging, is well-suited to its most common task. However, Jabber is a far more generic tool. It's not a chat server per se, but rather a complete XML routing framework. This has some pretty far-reaching implications. [NewsForge] The article also includes the following tidbit: "There are other Jabber-related tools out there I'm thinking about hacking to make jann-log a more complete solution for more distributed administrative environments. One to have a look at is JAnchor, which polls RSS feeds and routes the headlines through Jabber to whichever clients are subscribed to the RSS feed in question via the Jabber server. The client is presented with links to the stories, and if they look interesting, the user clicks on the links to go to the Web site of the publisher to read the rest. The nice thing about this model is that it saves webmasters from having 30,000 hits to the RSS page per day from what looks like a single machine. Meanwhile, it's actually an entire department made available behind one IP address via network address translation. " Imagine that: centralized RSS feeds through jabber.  Now if you cluster feeds into topics and make the topics available, that would be really cool. 11:59:49 AM    comment []  trackback []

New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, liquid cooled New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled Posted by Hemos on Wednesday June 09, @09:13AM from the making-the-fast-faster dept. no_demons writes "Apple have just announced the new, completely dual-processor PowerMac G5 lineup. The models all sport an 8x SuperDrive, whilst new the dual-2.5GHz model also features an 'innovative liquid cooled heat sink,' available in July." [Slashdot] 11:44:34 AM    comment []  trackback []

Centre 0.92. A student information system. [freshmeat.net] 11:41:25 AM    comment []  trackback []