Chris McAvoy: Lonely Lion

Network Forensics: Tapping the Internet. Simson Garfinkel examines the current crop of network monitoring tools and the ethical issues invloved in scanning network traffic. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Radio Has Titles

Just playing.

It BASICally Works [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Parrot, the thing that will execute Perl 6 code, is also capable of compiling (running?) BASIC code.

10 PRINT "Chris"
20 GOTO 10

This is a test of the new Radio - MT bridge. Ignore.

"Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago)"

Excellent. Maybe I'll finally be accepted.

The Onion A.V. Club | Music: "As a modern-day folk hero, ODB has earned a permanent place in the annals of pop-culture history, but Russell Jones seems unlikely to serve as more than a footnote to his increasingly sad tale."

ODB in effect. Poor crazy Wu.

Template Language: "The templates are the language of Smarty. These are the files that the designers work with. They're basically pages made up of static content interspersed with template markup tags. These tags are placeholders for variables or blocks of logic. "

Good to know this is out there.

Congressman on Trial Turns Court Into Theater. Representative James A. Traficant Jr., accused of racketeering, is displaying his flamboyancy in his trial. By Francis X. Clines. [New York Times: Politics]

If you've got to be a monkey, be a gorilla.

TechTV | Animate Lumps of Clay Many desktop video-editing applications make recording one frame at a time with your netcam easy. Some of my favorites are Adobe Premiere and MGI VideoWave.

I might be able to do the stop frame with Adobe Premier...cool.

Stop Motion Animator

I want to do Stop Frame Animation with my intel web cam, it looks like this software will do it.

Apple, Sun Brew Closer Java Ties. After receiving the cold shoulder from Microsoft, Java has been embraced by both Apple's corporate leaders and the Macintosh community. Now, Apple is supporting a Java technology that could give the company a leg up in a market it is intent on pursuing: enterprise. [osOpinion]

I'm becoming more of an Apple fan every day. Now, if they'd just release it for Intel.

XML.com: Basic Training [Mar. 27, 2002] "Is it even possible to explain XML in simple English -- especially in the limited space of an XML Q&A column? Let's give it a try...."

I know you've wanted an article like this for a while. O'Reillynet rules. I've learned so much from this site, and their books. Fantastic.

Mercury News | 03/23/2002 | Dan Gillmor: Bleak future looms if you don't take a stand I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won't be your customer.

Tough guy. Every cause needs an activist, but I can't help but giggle at the amount of energy this guy puts into his "protests". Read this, it's good to know, good to be aware, good to have choices. However, if I'm going to take a stand to prevent a bleak future, I might better served helping feed babies.

Babies are better than computers.

PEAR :: Manual: PEAR DB: a unified API for accessing SQL-databases: "This chapter describes how to use the PEAR database abstraction layer. "

So...PHP, PEAR, etc. What's that McAvoy kid up to now? Last night I started exploring the very cool world of PEAR. PEAR is to PHP as CPAN is to Perl. While CPAN is old and stock full of good stuff, PEAR is new, and stock full of good stuff. PEAR::DB acts just like Perl:DBI.

So, for your reading pleasure, I present to you, the PEAR DB Manual. Enjoy.

Salon.com Technology | Playboy seeks "Women of Enron": "Playboy is hoping to entice some of the women who lost their shirts in the Enron scandal to reveal a little bit more. The magazine is putting together a "Women of Enron" pictorial and is inviting employees past and present to send snapshots of themselves in bikinis if they wish to pose. "

I have no comment.

I really need to get mcavoyrobot going again. I'm just damn lazy I guess.

Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux. Howard Wen takes a look at Sony's upcoming Linux distribution kit for the PlayStation 2. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Excellent.

Ruby: Productive Programming Language. A brief overview of popular languages and how Ruby matches up. [Linux Journal]

Another one of those things that I can classify as "I'd like to learn it, but what for?"

Generating Web Content with Cocoon. Cocoon provides for developers a way to generate content dynamically using XML data. XML expert Michael Classen takes a look at the version 2 release, which, among other things, improves scalability by using SAX instead of the DOM. 0319 [WebReference News]

Cocoon seems like overkill to me. I'm very interested in AxKit. Mainly because Axkit is Perl based, where Cocoon is Tomcat / Java based. Both solutions are out of my reach, in terms of web hosting is concerned, but that doesn't stop me from playing around with either of them at home.

CNN.com - Sony robot sings, dances and isn't cheap - March 19, 2002 The robot also can be programmed to recognize 10 people through their faces, stored as digital images shot with its camera, and their voices, picked up through seven microphones. It also will remember their names.

Robots!

RFC: MetaWeblog API: ". This API views a post as a package of metadata with some well-known names and room to grow on an organized or an ad hoc basis. In my experience those are the kinds of APIs that have legs. They go somewhere."

This sounds good. I'd like to implement it in MT 2.0 when it comes out.

The Linux Virus Writing HOWTO: "This document describes how to write parasitic file viruses infecting ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. "

Boo!

The Blogger API seems to be down...I'm not publishing from Radio to Blogger anymore. I don't know what the deal is.

Significant Vulnerability Afflicts Linux Systems: "Today in a coordinated effort between all major Linux vendors, a vulnerability in the zlib library was announced, potentially affecting every installed Linux system in existance."

Yeesh.

In unrelated news, check out the footage I shot from Dennis / Todd & I's Risk night last week.

blogKomm: comments no popups: "blogKomm for (blogger-) weblogs allows the reader to place comments on your posts as many other scripts do. "

I'll work on this for LL this weekend.

Jon Udell: Radio UserLand 8.0 Is a Lab for Group-Forming. Radio Userland 8.0 brings together blogging, cross linking, RSS syndication, referrer logs, and FTP upstreaming to create a topic-oriented web of smart people. Jon Udell says it's the laboratory for online group-forming that he's been awaiting for years. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]