Check it out: [dragList StandAlone 0.5][1] - Javascript drag and drop ordered lists. [1]: http://freshmeat.net/projects/draglist/?branch_id=58404&release_id=197354 ... Read Full Article

As many of you know I've been in javascript hell for the last too many weeks. I've been involved in the open source [Xinha][1] project which is a browser based WYSIWYG editor component. The idea had been to make Xinha the editor behind the formVista tag. After much deliberation, I decided to fork th ... Read Full Article

Found this article on slashdot, a [description of the Linux Virtual Server project.][1] For future reference. [1]: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/27/0612243&from=rss ... Read Full Article

Fedora Core 4 is now available: ... Read Full Article

A very interesting article speculating about Google and RSS: ... Read Full Article

This is something I have been saying for years. Simple coding, and to some degree even software design, is an inherently outsourceable commodity. However, technologists with a deep understanding of business processes will continue to be in extremely high demand for ages to come. From [slashdot][1]: *"[Ya ... Read Full Article

Heads up. A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in zlib 1.2 and later: ... Read Full Article

As reported by News.com, open source databases are starting to have an effect, finally: "But despite the big three's commanding presence, several upstart database companies are making a go at the relational database industry, counting on open-source products and business models to lure away customers." ... Read Full Article

Several major vulnerabilities have been found in FireFox 1.0.4. [Upgrade to 1.0.5.][1] [1]: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.5.html ... Read Full Article

We are now experiencing our first commercial power outage in about 1.5 years.  The [Generac LP powered 15Kw][1] standby generator kicked in within 45 seconds and we've been running flawlessly on generator power ever since. No beeping UPS's. (our UPS's can only keep us online for an hour.) No crashed server ... Read Full Article

Google has this incredibly cool system of overlaying street maps onto satellite photos for an incredible effect: Check it out: ... Read Full Article

From the "tidbits of rarely used wisdom I don't want to forget department", to figure out what version of Windows Scripting engine you're running, if you ever need do, run the "cscript" command in a command window. Version 5.1 as [mentioned in this post][1] seems to have some serious problems ... Read Full Article

Here's an excellent article on how there's no replacement for excellent programmers; a rant I go on fairly often as people try to "commoditize" creative work ... and don't ever let yourself believe that developing software isn't a creative endeavor: "... does it even make sense to talk about having the ... Read Full Article

### Hot-swapping with SCA With SCA, it is possible to hot-plug devices. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it should be, but it is both possible and safe. Replace the RAID device, disk device, and host/channel/id/lun numbers with the appropriate values in the example below: * Dump the partition table from ... Read Full Article

From slashdot: *"It looks like mandatory validation of your Windows XP license is now voluntary again. A simple [hack has been found][1] that disables the check. BoingBoing has the story. " *Full article at [slashdot.org.][2] [1]: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html [2] ... Read Full Article

From slashdot.org: *"So how many of the almost 4 dozen default-enabled services does Windows XP really need in order to preserve basic functioning, like web surfing and running applications? [Zero, as it turns out][1]. Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals demonstrates that if certain steps are followed, Windows X ... Read Full Article

Though not many folks are likely to observe it :-) [Official Sysadmin Day Site][1] [1]: http://www.sysadminday.com/ ... Read Full Article

I picked up an old IBM ThinkPad T20 to use as a beater laptop and tried to install Fedora Core 4. The first problem I encountered was any CD I tried to boot from, whether FC4 or Knoppix 3.8, would produce endless I/O errors. Knoppix 3.4 booted fine. (Had I been paying attention I would have realized the CD was fi ... Read Full Article

When attempting to compile Jabberd 2.0s9 under RedHat 9 with Mysql installed under /usr/local/mysql, the configure script will error out with: *checking for mysql.h in /usr/local/include/mysql... no configure: error: MySQL client libraries not found* Contrary to the Jabber documentation, the configure scri ... Read Full Article

To avoid the mio.c compile error under RedHat 6.2 when compiling Jabberd 2.0s9: *mio.c: In function `mio_listen': mio.c:360: structure has no member named `ss_family' mio.c:361: structure has no member named `ss_family' mio.c:364: structure has no member named `ss_family' mio.c: In function `mio_connect': ... Read Full Article

Well, no one can say this is a surprise. Some Toyota Prius hybrid drivers are winding up on the side of the road because of [software bugs][1]. [1]: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1849825,00.asp ... Read Full Article

Heads up, [FireFox 1.0.7][1] is available which fixes some serious security issues. [1]: http://www.mozilla.org ... Read Full Article

As reported on Slashdot, our favorite search engine company is now 7 years old. *"On this day, in 1998, [Google was born][1]. Seven years later, and it has not only become the most popular search engine on the internet, but it has also become an integral part of many people's online life. From [Google search] ... Read Full Article

As reported on Slashdot.org: *"Perhaps many, who viewed [Zimbra presentation from yesterday][1], thought about other office-related applications they would like to see moved to the Web. Richard McManus on ZDNet [provides a list of the currently available AJAX apps][2]. Did you know there was [AJAX word proces ... Read Full Article

Richard Stallman discusses the possibility that GPL version 3, as yet to be released, will force web companies that base their services on GPL software to release the source code: The article can be read at [ZDNet][1]. How bad this will be will depend on the "linking" clauses. If, for web applicati ... Read Full Article