Sunday, January 25, 2004

Automatic Personalized Search at the Internet Archive. Anna Patterson is the Queen of the geeks, at least for me :-) On the side, while pregnant, she wrote a search engine for the Internet Archive which clocks in at 150,000 lines of plain POSIX C code for the indexer and 50,000 lines for the server side, with some neat features like automatic personalization. Wow. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs] 5:58:38 PM

CRM-CTT 1.9.6 23012004 CRM allows you to create entities to which you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual and customizable. It can be used for any department in which something comes in, must be handled, and goes out, such as bug tracking, systems management (including assets) or helpdesk call tracking. Installation is done using a simple script, and a clear manual is included.  [freshmeat.net] 1:25:40 PM

magpierss magpierss-0.6a released (MagpieRSS). Total project downloads to date: 9279 Project description: MagpieRSS is a simple, functional PHP inteface for parsing RSS 1.0 (and earlier versions). Built on PHP's XML (expat) parser, and with an integrated cache for storing the parsed RSS objects, Magpie is designed by simple, and 'PHP-like' to use. [Download] [Release Notes] By kellan@users.sourceforge.net (Kellan Elliott-McCrea). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:54:23 AM

Diamond's Casino Software 1.0 Diamond's Casino Software lets you setup your own online Web-based casino using a Web-based installer. Games already developed include poker, blackjack, slots, and Keno.  [freshmeat.net] 10:53:41 AM

WordPress 1.0.1 released (WordPress). Total project downloads to date: 69756 Project description: WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, weblogs.com ping, and more! [Download] [Release Notes] By saxmatt@users.sourceforge.net (Matthew Mullenweg). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:50:03 AM

Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, @06:59AM from the guerilla-marketing-tool-of-choice dept. prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech published a review of 4 Linux live distributions that do not require installation and run off a CD. Knoppix, Feather Linux, Gnoppix and MEPIS Linux were researched, with Knoppix winning the competition (and Gnoppix not graded, since it's still in beta)." One more (of the seemingly infinite number of live distros) I've recently tried and been happy with is called Slax, and is what it sounds like -- a live Slackware distribution. Slax worked great with my finicky older Toshiba laptop. (However, slax.org appears to be down.)  [Slashdot] 10:47:15 AM