HP put online a complete testdrive platform based on all current CPU/OS from Alpha to RISC and from Linux (all distrib) to HP-UX or VMS! Even an Linux iPAQ is available! This is a really great idea! See: Hewlett-Packard/Compaq Test Servers
Month: July 2003
SSH from your mobile?
With new mobiles phones, it’s easy to develop applications for them. Some have a builtin Java virtual machine, others run a specific OS – Symbian. We will more and more see cool applications for our mobile phones. Here is a first one: a Symbian version of Putty the well known
Amiga User Profile: Jim Carey
Who remember Jim Carey? He was very active on the Amiga scene as a fabulous artist… Read an interview from 1994. He explains how he worked with Amiga softwares… Amiga User Profile: Jim Carey
Spammers, keep away of Mr Korotkov’s mailbox!
Andrei Korotkoc, Deputy Communications Minister in Russia, was tired of the amount of spam receilved in his mailbox every day. He had a nice idea, read this story: Don’t spam This Deputy Minister
Home CD changer
Tired of playing DJ with your CDROMs? No money to buy your own CDchanger? Check this: Home build CD changer contraption.
Dilbert zone
I added a small PHP hack in the right frame which display the current Dilbert comicstrip… What? You don’t know who’s Dilbert? Have a look at www.dilbert.com
Severn?
RedHat announced a new beta version of their Linux distribution called ‘Severn’… <quote> Among other things, SEVERN has: – a new graphical boot – GCC 3.3 – an updated 2.4.21 kernel – updated Evolution and Mozilla – and more! </quote>
Global Instability Index
After the new Cisco security flaw (see here) announced by Cisco, the Internet stability was quite disturbed while major backbone operators were busy to upgraded their routers. A guy developed a new model called “Global Instability Index based on some BGP stats. Very nice to “see” the impact of such