Wednesday, April 03, 2002

OPML and XSLT:"OPML is "Outline Processor Markup Language" and is a very simple XML format for storing information in outline format. Of course, XML itself is perfect for representing hierarchies, but OPML constrains the format enough that a wide variety of applications can build in OPML support with the comfort of knowing it will work with any other OPML tool. For information stored in hierarchies, such as web browser bookmarks, web directories, collaborative outlines, song playlists, and even web-site content, OPML is a great balance between the wide open freedom of raw XML and the feeling of security of a formal vocabulary. You should be able to read and understand the very small specification in just a few minutes." 2:27:32 PM

Getting IPv6 Using Freenet6 on Debian:"IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including vastly increased address space--128 bits vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits--easier autoconfiguration and better support for encryption, just to name a few. The Debian project has done a good job of making its distribution IPv6-ready. In this article, you'll learn how to setup a IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel using the free Freenet6 tunnel service. Note that I'm assuming you're using Debian testing (woody) or unstable (sid) and understand how to install packages through apt. I'm also assuming you know a little bit about IPv6, such as what an address looks like. " 1:52:49 PM

Linux Today - LinuxPR: Yale Boosts Beowulf Supercomputing Clusters with Turbolinux EnFuzion:"Thanks to Turbolinux' Enfuzion, which Yale is now running on both Beowulf clusters, that's no longer the case. Enfuzion, says Schultz, is easy to use, because it takes care of distributing programs across the various nodes in the cluster, so they run without having to be modified. Researchers and students at Yale can now take advantage of the super-computing level of power provided by the clusters, without having to do any special programming." 1:50:10 PM

Exploring Apache's SOAP Serialization APIs Exploring Apache's SOAP Serialization APIs Posted by Hemos on Tuesday April 02, @11:28PM from the programming-with-dial dept. Irish writes "This IBM developerWorks article discusses the theoretical underpinnings of SOAP's type system. Its a good article for anyone who wants to learn more about SOAP's programmatic support or to simply better understand Apache's SOAP."  [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 1:47:02 PM

freshmeat.net: FormMail.php 1.3:"FormMail.php is a PHP script conversion of the original FormMail.pl, but with many security and spam related fixes and improvements. Some customization options are removed for simplicity while keeping functionality and improving it where neccessary. " 1:45:31 PM

freshmeat.net: Freenet 20020402 (Development):"Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand." 1:45:08 PM

freshmeat.net: Simple Flash Menu 1.1.5:"Simple Flash Menu is a Macromedia flash script which constructs nested menus for HTML pages from configuration information in an XML file. " I'm keeping an eye on this one. 1:44:09 PM

freshmeat.net: PHPortal 0.1.7 (Alpha):"PHPortal is a PHP application development environment similar to Zope. It is a pipeline or tunnel application that can help you quickly create dynamic Web applications such as portal and intranet sites. It comes with membership, search, news, and more. Its easy-to-use tools allow teams to productively and safely work together. It provides access to databases and other legacy data. Its support for Web standards such as SMTP, POP, FTP, and XML-RPC allows you flexibility and interoperability. It consists of a number of components which work together to provide a complete, yet flexible, application server package. It includes an XML-RPC server, an object-oriented database schema, a search engine, a database virtual file mapping system, a Web page templating system, a Web-based development and management tool, and comprehensive extension support. " 1:40:49 PM

Linux Today - Linux Orbit: Linux on a Floppy, An Intro to Mini Linux Distributions:"If you've ever been stuck on the freeway with a flat tire and no jack, you know what it's like to have a Linux system crash and not have a boot disk. And although nearly every Linux distribution company asks you make a boot/recovery floppy when you install Linux for the first time, many users skip this important step. Out of the boot/recovery disk concept was born the Mini-Linux distribution. " I'm always looking for a good 1 disk ditro. 9:57:31 AM

freshmeat.net: archivemail 0.2.0:"archivemail is a tool written in Python for organizing and storing old email choking any of your mailboxes. It can move messages older than a certain number of days to a separate 'archive' mbox-format mailbox which can be compressed with bzip2, gzip or compress. It can save a lot of disk space and will significantly reduce overhead on your mail reader, and currently works on mbox, Maildir, and MH-format mailboxes, and requires Python v2.0 or greater. It also supports deleting old mail instead of archiving it with the '--delete' option." 9:55:08 AM

Linux App Writer Wows Skeptics. SashXB is a scripting language just released by IBM that lets non-Linux programmers write Linux code using HTML and JavaScript. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] Linux 'Weblications' with SashXBPosted by michael on Tuesday April 02, @01:07PM from the programming-for-dummiez dept. Ches2000Pro writes "Via Wired News, IBM has announced a new Linux scripting environment called SashXB. From their description: SashXB is an open source application environment that exposes native functionality to JavaScript. It's ideal for web developers with HTML and JS skills who want to write full-featured native applications, as well as experienced programmers who'd appreciate the convenience of rapid application development. SashXB is being released under the LGPL license." It's not exactly new, but seems to be quite usable now. Has anyone used this? Sash also exists for the windows platform. 9:40:59 AM

ZDNet: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 First Take:"Sharp's new Linux-powered Zaurus SL-5500 may be one of the few PDAs that is able to challenge Pocket PC devices in terms of power, speed, and features. We've only just received a final production model for review and are deep in the midst of testing it. We'll have a complete review ready shortly, but here are our initial impressions." 9:38:37 AM