You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
Ralph S. Engelschall writes on FreeBSD'sUFS2 Snapshot Management Environment. This is really rather cool stuff for a filesystem in a production environment like at work.
Hi. I'm having a bit of trouble using Roller for Ingeborg's homepage. I've set the characterset to be ISO-8859-1, yet all norwegian characters end up as question marks in the HTML. The database contains the posts with Norwegian characters, so something weird happens on its way through Roller. Checked this with version 0.9.8.1 and 0.9.8.2. Apparently this is still true with 0.9.9. Time to finally ditch Roller (and go for WordPress?)? I like the system, but it keeps failing on me and not having a big community making plugins and such for it, there's not really that much to hold on to. Or is there? Input is most welcome! 
Crhis Anderson answers Miguel de Icaza's concerns about Avalon. I'm very glad he does, and to have discussions like this in a public forum is great. I don't totally buy the SVG and CSS both were passed on because they weren't adaquate to meet our needs. I've heared this way to many times before as an excuse to reinvent the wheel and having to answer to no-one. Although it's not embrace and extend we're used to, I would have preferred them to implement standards correctly and then make additions through contributing to standard bodies like W3C.
Russell Beattie sais it best regarding the iMac: My toddler would knock it over. Besdies, if this thing is going to be wall-mountable, all the wires are coming out the wrong way. And if it is not, it will look like a giant, unelegant octopus (my current imac has presently connected my stereo-system, backup-speakers, microphone, usb hub, negative film-scanner, TV breakout-box and keyboard, that'd fill all the slots in this next iMac and look rather unimpressive). It should have been simple: that one cable into the monitor should go to a little box that connects to all the cables. Break-out boxes are old news, but it works for hiding away the mess. Other oddities: No Firewire 800, slow FSB, default only 256MB RAM, still loving 80GB drives (two years ago I bought an iMac, and then the 80Gb drive that came along was small, what is this?), no DVD+RW, only DVD-R, Bluetooth not by default. I have heared nothing about WiFi, so I expect it's there. And please don't give me that built-in speaker "solution".
An Introduction to HTTP Fingerprinting is a great article, and if you're programming for the web (who isn't these days? 
) you should read it!
Finally Skype is available for OS X users. Been a betatester a while, and it looks great.
A couple of hours ago my blog was spammed with lots of comments. They all got caught, so no worries, but what surprised me was that although they were clearly spamming for the same host, they came almost all from differen IP-adresses, radically different IP-adresses: 12.22.85.3
193.145.88.17, 193.165.223.2, 200.35.83.27
200.56.233.5, 202.125.129.138, 203.150.28.215, 203.169.115.134, 203.246.165.35, 206.163.199.1, 210.3.7.150, 210.4.143.254, 210.5.71.243, 212.47.27.186, 213.253.212.101, 61.19.243.11, 63.81.122.87, 64.19.80.100, 64.3.231.3, 65.112.88.98, 66.178.7.6, 66.192.31.98, 67.136.50.93, 80.53.138.10, 80.55.131.150, 80.58.20.235, 80.58.46.235, 80.84.154.70, 81.118.4.4.
Someone is having a bit more fun with distributed computing than they should.
Having seen Nicer Titles demonstrated at Binary Bonsai, I decided to incorporate it into my page. Don't seem to work too well with Safari, though.
Hi. I came across del.icio.us in an Infoworld article, and figured: What if we make an RFC for categories. If we had a set of standardized categories people could choose to use, we could have blog indexes where we could subscribe on a category in a language as an rss feed and receive only interesting topics on that. An example of a category could be Music/Early Music/Renaissance, as opposed to Art/Renaissance/Vermeer. I'd love to receive blogging on Vermeer and Renaissance music without having to hunt these blogs down and add them to my RSS feed.