Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:29:28 AM
Right on schedule, Ubuntu 6.06, a distribution with long term support features, has been released: "Ubuntu,
which has become one of the world's most popular Linux distributions in
recent years, launched its latest version on June 1 following months of
intense testing. The new release is titled Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term
Support), and has a specific emphasis on the needs of large
organisations with both desktop and server versions." For full details please read the formal press release and the more useful release notes, but don't miss the Do the Dapper Dance
post on Mark Shuttleworth's web log either. As usual, Ubuntu 6.06 ISO
images for three architectures are available for download from the many
Ubuntu mirrors worldwide, while free official CD sets can be ordered via ShipIt. A quick link to the i386 CD image: ubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso (698MB, MD5).
Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:26:01 AM
 A specialist server edition of Ubuntu 6.06 designed for high-end SPARC64 processors has been released: "The
Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server
for Sun SPARC 64-bit architecture. Highlights of this release include:
new kernels targeted at server platforms, the server kernels are tuned
differently than the desktop kernels (providing better performance for
server applications); turn-key LAMP installation for this common
deployment scenario; improved support for clusters and SANs." Please refer to the release announcement for further information and download links. Get it from here: ubuntu-6.06-server-sparc.iso (392MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent. |
Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:23:38 AM
more ajax goodies than you can shake your ______ at: 60 More AJAX Tutorials
 With
the popularity of AJAX growing every day I've had the opportunity to
collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months.
These examples and how-to's represent the best tutorials that I've
personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of
the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best
by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with
instructions and source code. I've also categorized all of the
tutorials for easy browsing. Enjoy!
Please let me know through
email or a comment if you know of any other great AJAX tutorials and
I'll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who
produced all of these wonderful free tutorials.
Also See: Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
AJAX Activity Indicator Tutorial
CakeTimer - An Ajax File Uploads Progress Bar
This is a demonstration of an AJAX powered progressbar to monitor file uploads with (Cake)PHP.
HowTo add Ajax in-progress indicators
Ok,
so my little del.icio.us app (click link to read about how I added Ajax
functionality to a simple Rails app) is pretty cool, but it was missing
one big thing. When the user clicks the "Get Results" link she has no
idea that the page is communicating with the server.
AJAX Drag and Drop Tutorial
Drag and Drop Tutorial (with a cool video)
Adding
items to a shopping cart in common e-commerce applications isn't very
close to the actual "add to cart" metaphor, since it requires clicking
an "add to cart" button, watch a new page (the shopping cart), and then
go back to the shop or checkout with buttons. Ajax allows to get closer
to the cart metaphor, by enabling drag-and-drop interactions and giving
immediate visual feedback, without leaving the shop.
AJAX Dynamically Content Loading Tutorials
Dynamically loaded articles
This
is a basic example showing you how to use AJAX. In this script, you
have a list of article titles at the right side. When you click on one
of them, AJAX will be used to request the content of the article from
an external file and show it in the main DIV.
Ajax - Dynamic Content
This small generic script makes it easy for you to load content of external files into HTML elements on your page.
damn there's alot of good stuff in here...!
p.s. Digg This Button On Your Own Site
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Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:22:04 AM
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i saw a link posted somewhere about a "leaked" version of WMP11 a few
days back, but the link turned out to be bunk... glad to see that
there's an official beta download for it.... damn it's looking nice!
/downloads and plays around with it a bit..... shit, $1495 a month for this URGE music service? sounds a bit much, since Y!Music is what... 5-6 bucks? hmmm.
(hat tip: matt)
p.s. New kind of cement absorbs pollution
youtube: death of the internet? -- sk8tr dog
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Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:20:13 AM
vista
Horrific blog by an ex Microsoftie on possible reasons for Vista’s slippages. Comments such as An
architectural diagram of Windows would suggest there are more than 50
dependency layers (never mind that there also exist circular
dependencies) are enough to set any software developer’s hair on fire.
But the silver lining is that if Microsoft by some amazing effort
does manage to deliver Vista after the current death march, it is only
because they were one wafer short of too much. Which does not make Vista just right
like Goldilocks’ third bear; it makes it just wrong. The silver lining
is that MS will have reached the end of the road for monolithic
systems, and will have to re-architect for the OS after Vista.
But if Vista is so complex that it cannot have a future, why would
anyone adopt it? Is that really what all the Windows Live stuff is
about, having a good Plan B in place in case Plan A implodes?
The blog also contains a curious bit of logic. The blogger estimate
programmer productivity at about 1000 new lines of code per year,
compared to 6250 lines average in the US currently, down from 9000 in
the recent past. He says So Windows is in bad shape –but only by a constant, not by an order of magnitude. But what if it is an order of magnitude and a constant? If you catch my drift.
Or is this all a terribly clever development strategy to explore the
limits of monolithic development: announce an impossible set of
features then backpedal until something can be delivered! Embrace that
the reality will fall short of the vision. The Jenny Craig school of
software engineering, serving only pasta.
My Opera
