Internet Alchemy

After a bit of a break, they’re back - more RSS maker channels for you to add to your favourite portal or offline reader. The new batch consists of Technotronic, GeekNews, 32bitsonline, BeOSCentral, SolarisCentral, ScienceDaily and CBS Sportsline. They’re all linked to from the RSS Maker page. As usual if you’ve got any requests for new channels send them to me at id@openjava.org

You can now download the CSS validator linked to at the bottom of these pages. It’s written in Java and there’s a command line version as well as a servlet version.

Well it had to happen somehow, Slashdot has been acquired by Andover.net. Hop on over and read their (very valid) reasons for doing it, read the ‘you sold us out maaan’ posts and then start looking for the next big thing.

Version 0.3 of OCS has been released. Only a few minor changes this time - the removal of the <ocs:channel> and <ocs:directory> elements and any Dublic Core elements are now valid in the OCS file. We’re also publishing the RSS Maker channel listing as OCS

Not my usual sort of reading but very interesting nonetheless. Covers everything you could possibly ask about anarchism, and then some.

One thing that has come out of these benchmarks pitting NT against Linux is the reams of tuning information. Here’s Microsoft’s paper on tuning IIS and another on tuning Apache.

An alternative view of the results of those PCWeek benchmark test, via Scripting News.

This FBI report puts the spotlight on strong encryption from the law enforcement side. It discusses how encryption can hamper criminal investigations and puts the case across for tighter controls. It seems to miss the point that it’s too late to control teh use of encryption software - it’s out there and it will be used by whoever needs to. There’s no point in restricting it’s use, the criminals already have it and they’ll use no matter what anyone says.

Stumbled across this site looking for Mylex SCSI adapter for Linux today. It’s like a search engine for obscure drivers for Windows, OS/2 and Linux.

This article by Richard Stallman discusses the merits of free hardware and how the concept is entirely different from that of free software.