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Connecting to Fedora's X Server Running Fedora and trying to connect to its X server, only to continue to get a can't open display or cannot connect ot display ? Turns out Fedora has TCP connections to its X server disabled by default. I like how they default to more secure, but isn't that what xhost is for? I am blogging this so that google can push this link up to the top. Hopefully save someone else the time.

Metadata Specifications Index Page Call me jaded, but here's another attempt to solve the problem of link local discovery. You know, since Jini, JXTA, UPnP, Rendezvous, and others did it so horribly. Oh, I know... their downfall was that they didn't use bloated SOAP! Ah ha! Luckily, we now have a discovery protocol that uses XML and SOAP. Can't wait to try to fit all that XML into a single datagram. I dig XML. But there might be a better way to ask "Is there a printer here?" than a huge SOAP message.

OJR article: Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing Publishing to the Web from your cell phone or other mobile device -- moblogging -- is all the rage with Tokyo

Google Press Center: 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist The 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted over the past year by Google users from around the world. Whether you are tracking the global progression of the latest news or learning about healthy searches in Japan, the 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist enables you to look at the past year through the collective eyes of the world on the Internet.

Matz on Craftsmanship Programmers can get a lot of benefit from reading source code. You can't simply tell people how to be good programmers. You can offer them some principles of good programming. You can describe some good design experiences you've had. But you can't give them a real knowledge of how to be a good programmer. I believe the best way for that knowledge to be obtained is by reading code. Writing code can certainly help people become good programmers, but reading good code is much better.

Ars Technica: Linux.Ars (12/24/2003) Welcome to this week's edition of Linux.Ars. Today we feature a detailed description of one of the most important parts of the newly-released Linux 2.6 kernel: the scheduler. The new scheduler features several improvements over that in 2.4; we will not only explain the improvements, but also describe how the scheduler works and why these improvements are important.

World of Ends Fortunately, the true nature of the Internet isn't hard to understand. In fact, just a fistful of statements stands between Repetitive Mistake Syndrome and Enlightenment...

Quit Slashdot.org Today! Welcome to the home of the Quit Slashdot movement.

Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 - Joe Pranevich Although it seems like only yesterday that we were booting up our first Linux 2.4 systems, time has ticked by and the kernel development team has just released the 2.6 kernel to the public. This document is intended as a general overview of the features in the new kernel release, with a heavy bias toward i386 Linux. Please also be aware that some of the "new" features discussed here may have been back-ported to Linux 2.4 after first appearing in Linux 2.6, either officially or by a distribution vendor. I have also included information on a handful of cases where a new feature originated during the maintenance cycle of Linux 2.4, and those will be marked as appropriate in the text.

FrontPage - Atom Wiki We're writing specifications for syndicating, archiving and editing episodic web sites. RSS is SOOOOO last week.

ONJava.com: Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project [Dec. 03, 2003] By the end of this article, you will understand the motivation and need for the P2P Sockets package, how to configure and set up the P2P Socket libraries to run on your system, how to create and run P2P server and client sockets, how to work with the P2P InetAddressclass, and security issues and limitations in the framework.

O'Reilly Network: one more post about ApacheCon 2003 [Dec. 02, 2003] i got the opportunity to attend ApacheCon 2003 in Las Vegas (Vegas baby! ) two weeks ago. i thought i'd blog my notes so that you could get a feel for what was presented and how it was received. given BEA's growing commitment to open-source and Apache, i was looking forward to an interesting conference (and i wasn't disappointed). oh, there's also an official conference wiki you can check out too

Ben Pfaff: GNU libavl Binary search trees provide O(lg n) performance on average for important operations such as item insertion, deletion, and search operations. Balanced trees provide O(lg n) even in the worst case. GNU libavl is the most complete, well-documented collection of binary search tree and balanced tree library routines anywhere.

Fortune.com - Technology - Can Google Grow Up? When the numbers pertain to Google, they look very, very good. In 18 months the company has quadrupled in size, now employing more than 1,300 people. Annualized revenues have sextupled, to about $900 million. Annualized pretax profits have grown by a factor of 23, to about $350 million, according to a handful of people who have been told the figures. Only a few high-tech companies in history, like Apple, Compaq, Sun, and more recently Amazon.com, have generated that kind of revenue growth so fast. None has made as much money doing it

Wireless Internet access through cellular/PCS networks Wireless Internet access through the cellular/PCS networks For U.S. markets.

SuSE mailinglist: Re: [suse-oracle] 9.2 iAS installation fails on linking $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk Installing Oracle on SuSE tricks. It's like giving birth to a demon.

NIC Inc. - The People Behind eGovernment Need to build eGovernment services? Partner with NIC to enhance how your government does business. My new company!

Open Source in Government Run by Todd Ogasawara, the eGovernment Team Leader for the State of Hawaii ( my home state ).

Wired News: Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster? Speculation about Wallop began immediately following the company's low-key announcement at last month's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles that it was working on a tool that incorporates blogging and social-networking capabilities. Some observers surmised it was a blogging tool for the 2006 launch of Microsoft's Longhorn operating system. Others suggested it was knowledge-management software,

Politics1 - News Blog Coverage of American politics, especially Presidential Race 2004.