Category: General

Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us

I'm excited to learn that Yahoo has acquired the "social bookmarking" site, del.icio.us. This should lead to some del.icio.us integrations with Yahoo! MyWeb, Flickr, Upcoming.org, Konfabulator and who knows what else... Links...

GeneralMac

CornerClick: interesting Mac freeware

CornerClick is a nice freeware program that lets you assign actions (including AppleScript) to the screen corners (with or without modifier keys) in Mac OS X Panther and up. It worked well for me on Tiger, except that I couldn't...

GeneralProgramming

UNIX event notification mechanisms

The following page talks about the "C10K problem", that is how to get Web servers to scale to the point that they can handle 10,000 concurrent connections. Along the way, there are some interesting tidbits about how to design...

General

Boarding the bus to the Yahoo Year End Party (YEP)

Boarding the bus to the Yahoo Year End Party (YEP), originally uploaded by msabramo. The theme is Bayou by the Bay and it's at the San Mateo Expo Center. Featured act is Earth, Wind, and Fire....

General

Bird flu reaches Orange County

FirefoxGeneral

Firefox 1.5 is out

http://www.mozilla.com/ (note the .com, not .org...) Faster back/forward Automatic updates Drag n drop tabs SVG, Canvas, JS 1.6 support more details at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html...

GeneralMac

X11 ssh forwarding

Since I've been running Eclipse on my FreeBSD box and displaying it over X11 to my PowerBook, I wanted to enable X11 forwarding over ssh so that I wouldn't have to manually set the DISPLAY environment variable. I tried ssh -X and...