Sunday, March 24, 2002

Hey check this out. The mind bombs are spreading. DJ Adams figured out that our XML coffee mug could map onto any HTTP server running on 127.0.0.1, port 5335. He wired it up to Peerkat, and it worked. This is what bonds us, not whether or not we give our code away in a way that pleases Richard Stallman or Jeff Bezos (to pick two extremes) -- it's whether one can pick up on an eye-twinkle, and let your soul get excited by the possibilities. I love playing tennis with people who hit the ball back. There are so many sad sacks floating around, what a thrill to find someone whose mind is alive.  [Scripting News] 7:46:16 PM

Phillip Pearson is cloning Radio Community Server in Python. Heh. It's fun to watch. He just got comments working.   [Scripting News] 7:44:49 PM

TightVNC 1.2.3 TightVNC optimizes VNC for operation on slow network links. Its improvements include bandwidth-friendly Tight encoding, optional JPEG compression, local cursor support on the client side, automatic SSH tunneling in the Unix vncviewer, and more. The modified servers and viewers are fully compatible with the original VNC software.  [freshmeat.net] 7:44:25 PM

VLAN 1.6 VLAN is an implementation of the 802.1Q VLAN protocol for Linux. It allows one to have Virtual LANs on a single ethernet cable, giving you the ability to segregate LANs efficiently. It should support up to 4094 vlan interfaces per ethernet device. [freshmeat.net] 7:42:53 PM

mnogosearch-perl 0.13 mnogosearch-perl is a Perl frontend for the mnoGoSearch free Web search engine (formerly known as UdmSearch). [freshmeat.net] 9:58:08 AM

MyPHPblog 0.6 (Development) MyPHPblog is a weblog application for those wanting a free and easy way to create their own 'blogs'. MyPHPblog allows for the collaboration of many users on multiple blogs. Changes: A new Web-based installation/upgrade, storing passwords with MD5 hashing, porting all code to use the ADODB database libraries to make MyPHPblog compatible with multiple database platforms, an option to strip out bad HTML from user's comments, users can send updates to weblogs.com via XML-RPC "ping", a dynamically-generated RSS feed, a fix for a "New User/No Blog" login problem, and more secure lost password retrieval. [freshmeat.net] 9:55:42 AM