Building simplicidade.org: notes, projects, and occasional rants

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Tim Bray on OOXML

Tim Bray has been writing about the entire OOXML standardization process recently. Tonight he posted a very nice summary of all the major issues he sees with the OOXML format and with the process itself. Recommended reading.

Perl hackers using Git

I was wondering if all Perl hackers that are using Git, do you keep a separate repository for each module, or a single repository for all your modules?

Fez

Ok, I need to get my hands on this Fez game. Such a beautiful design and concept. Really, take the 5 minutes it takes to watch the video. It starts normally, but less than a minute into the video, your jaw will drop. update: the Fez author website.

git hosting sites

A couple of weeks back I started looking for Git hosting sites. My two picks where Gitorious and Github. At the time, and in the weeks that followed, I was too busy to start comparing the sites. But this week I want to start pushing my code out to these sites to see how they work. In terms of feature list, Github received a lot of love in the past weeks, as you can read from their new blog.

Hiveminder IMAP access

Ok, this is very cool. Best Practical announced yesterday that they now support IMAP access to your task list in Hiveminder, including the most common operations. They are so getting my money now.

IPv4

So IPv4 address space is running out. Again. There is a ARIN proposal to auction IPv4 space to the highest bidder. Although the proposal is not totally insane, I find it much more interesting to think about a future world, past the depletion of IPv4 address space. fade in, a alley, with our character walking in the center, entering and exiting zones of light from old-style lamp posts. suddenly a call from a darken door frame

Security report for RedHat 4

Excellent report about the Risk to users of the RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. This is not an endorsement of RedHat by itself. I cannot do that due to the lousy commercial department. But I wish other vendors where so up-front with this information. Oh, and in case you where wondering, I'm a happy CentOS user.

Temptation

I don't have a iPhone nor an iPod Touch because I would like to have 3G on the device. 3G is more important than Wifi where I live. Anyway, for the first time today, I saw an application that really tempted me to buy one: Labyrinth. Yes, my desire for this kind of thing is not natural.

Dinosaur

Three weeks ago I powered down my oldest Linux server. It started is useful life as a NFS server for mail.pt site, moved to MySQL server of EVOLUI.com, and now is going to rest a bit. It went online March 1999. I pulled the plug in 27th, January 2008. It still has the original CPUs (dual PIII, 450Mhz), the original memory (although half of it is from an upgraded after I moved it to MySQL server, for a total of 1Gb), and this is the real kicker, the same 4 data SCSI disks, connected to a DAC9660 RAID SCSI controller.

Dinosaur

Three weeks ago I powered down my oldest Linux server. It started is useful life as a NFS server for mail.pt site, moved to MySQL server of EVOLUI.com, and now is going to rest a bit. It went online March 1999. I pulled the plug in 27th, January 2008. It still has the original CPUs (dual PIII, 450Mhz), the original memory (although half of it is from an upgraded after I moved it to MySQL server, for a total of 1Gb), and this is the real kicker, the same 4 data SCSI disks, connected to a DAC9660 RAID SCSI controller.