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Linux Networking Wiki - LinuxNet

Oh this should be good: Main Page - LinuxNet

I never knew netem existed, and if they keep adding to it, this could be simply marvelous. It should help with internal testing, to say the least.

Python Paste Power

A nice post about Paste/Turbogears: Python Paste Power

I need to hack at some of this stuff - I have some internal applications I want to build - in python of course.

python :: mechanize

This looks interesting: mechanize

I've implemented an internal form manipulator using pycurl and a few other bits, this might be a good replacement.

NewsGator - NewsGator Buys NetNewsWire

WTF: NewsGator Technologies Acquires NetNewsWire

I love NNW - it's what I use to scan RSS feeds like a crack whore. I have to read up on this.

Edit to Add: Another link Oreilly Article

Another Edit: DrunkenBlog has a good write up that sets some of my fears at ease.

Ultimately, I simple hope NNW stays as light as it is, and I'm not forced in any way to adopt the NewGator centralization for the cross platform/web/iPhone/Toaster synchronization features - I only have 1 machine, and I only care about 1 machine. It's my Mac. I use NNW because it's light, organized and simple.

Now, MarsEdit is going to be interesting. I'd be using that to post more often, except that it doesn't support some of the advanced blogger features (i.e: Simple picture addition, Titles, etc) but them's the breaks. I hope somehow it doesn't become abandonware.

Otherwise - I'll just have to write something myself. ;)

A note on "what python is used for" - and a Storage note.

First, I saw this:Question: "What exactly is python used for...

The question itself is inane - but the answer is what caught my eyes.

To Quote:
Too busy to answer properly, but I'll just mention that Fermilab uses a home-grown python package called Enstore to manage their data store of 3 Petabytes of physics data, growing at 1PB/year. The transfers of ~25TB/day to and from that system is what keeps me busy.

And then he provides this link: Presentation about the Enstore System

The answer was from a Mailing List.

The full response is at that link Googling Enstore up yields a few links:

Access to Mass Storage at FNAL

And: Dcache.Org

This is some code I have Got to see.

And to add: Information on the Enstore Project

Welcome to Romeo

Oh Look: Welcome to Romeo

I can use my bluetooth telephone as a remote control for my mac. Which is sort of crazy. Of course, I have Verizon "We like to Cripple Bluetooth" so me using this would require some SEEM hacking, and I still haven't bought my damned data cable.

Releases Releases Releases

Ian Bicking has a new post up: Releases Releases Releases

In it he details the numerous projects he's working on - the most tasty one for me is the SQLObject project which allows you to abstract out the DB "intelligence" from the actual program (i.e.: A DB Layer).

This might be interesting for me if I can free up a thread or two to figure out how to leverage it in my (getting) db heavy apps internally.

I hate code bloat, and handling the DB for multiple database with multiple consumers and updaters is adding quite a bit of duplicate code, etc.

MacDevCenter.com: Installing Fink on Mac OS X

A good article here on Fink on OS/X: MacDevCenter.com: Installing Fink on Mac OS X

I like darwin ports more overall, it seems to be a better citizen on the system.