Archive for March, 2008
On the weekend I committed quite a bit of material for my book (my publisher and I use a subversion repository for communication). We're about half way through with the first review (there will be at least one more), and I feel pretty good about it.
My editor warned me that I'd get a heart attack when I saw the results of the first "pass", and I admit I almost did. My beautiful text, lovingly written, now smeared in red ink:
I got over the attack rather quickly, mainly because not all pages looked like the one above; most changes involved moving [...]
Photo: Franck Olivas
Our friends at Symas are great. They have generously set up a Web site for readers of my upcoming book, where readers will be able to download a working package of Symas OpenLDAP (the product formerly known as Connexitor Directory Services.)
Readers who want to set up one of the DNS servers with an LDAP back-end, [...]
Being faced with the task of thinking carefully about whether or not to deploy thin clients on a customer network, I read Linux Thin Client Networks by David Richards (Packt). The book is thin, in both respects of the word; on 150 pages, the author splashes us with product names, program names, and protocol names, [...]
IKEA plans to sell cars, albeit to experienced customers only:
All the required tools are included in the package:
Thanks, Nic.
Do you remember the xeyes program that follows your mouse pointer?
There is a new version.
via.