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Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Alpha Released 62

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 05, 2008 @03:31PM from the they-really-spell-it-that-way dept.

JonRob writes "The first development snapshot of Fedora 9 (Sulphur) has been released, providing both a KDE and a GNOME live CD. This is the first of three test releases before the final version of Fedora 9 this April. The alpha features many changes including KDE 4 by default, GNOME 2.21.4, support for creation of encrypted partitions and for resizing EXT2/EXT3/NTFS partitions during install, speed improvements to X, the Linux 2.6.24 kernel, and much more."

Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' 162

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 04, 2008 @09:49AM from the i-sure-wouldn't-complain dept.

Open Standard Lover writes "XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has been getting a lot of attention during the last month and it seems that the protocol is finally taking off as a general purpose glue to build distributed web applications. It has been covered that AOL was experimenting with an XMPP gateway for its instant messaging platform. XMPP has been designed since the beginning as an open technology for generalized XML routing. However, the idea of an XMPP application server is taking shape and getting supporters. A recent example shows that ejabberd XMPP server can be used to develop a distributed Twitter-like system."

Comment Re:Not surprising... (Score 1) 751

by jodonoghue on Monday January 14, 2008 @06:53AM (#22032878) Attached to: Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back

Completely OT, but...

I have the CD of that recording (which does the digital cannons bit even better - if CD is good at one thing, it's low frequencies).

The last time I ever used the PA rig at University, I sound-checked using that CD (IMHO, the best way to sound check a rock rig is against classical music). Not really audiophile quality, but if you haven't heard digital cannons coming out of an 8kW horn-loaded PA system, you haven't lived...

We had people come in from other parts of the building saying 'what was that - do it again...)

Happy memories

Journal Journal: Ocaml for scripting

Journal by jodonoghue on Saturday June 26, 2004 @05:39PM

I've been finding myself using Ocaml more and more recently, mainly as a scripting language.

Journal Journal: Python for simulations

Journal by jodonoghue on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @10:44AM

Have been using Python for some simulations of cell reselection in GPRS recently. Mostly straightforward stuff, but it is remarkable how easily the algorithms translate to Python, and equally impressive how easy it is to prototype bits of the algorithms and then integrate them.

Only problem is that the Python debugger (I'm using PythonWin, as we have to work on Windows) is no great shakes.

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