Getting ready for November 24th

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives 11/04/2003 08:44 AM
modified a transcript of President Bush's remarks .. scrubbing its transcripts .. Josh Marshall

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Panther released on Oct 24th

Panther released on Oct 24th 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Apple have set a release date for Panther, the next major release of OS X. The date is set for October 24th at 8.00pm. I wonder why they set such accuracy in the release time - are they expecting people to queue up for hours outside Apple Stores? The pricing is similar to when Jaguar was introduced - $129 for a single license (around 99). Also, GUIGalaxy have picked up on the striking similarity between the Panther box and posters for the Malcol m X film. Hmm...

24th Century Interior Design

24th Century Interior Design 09/19/2004 11:03 PM
24th Century Interior Design You've met the man....now have him design your home!

On January 24th, Apple Computer...

On January 24th, Apple Computer... 01/24/2004 12:38 PM
On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984"...

March 24th Security Update?

March 24th Security Update? 03/21/2003 01:19 AM
Apple tightening down security

Tapwave Zodiac in Stores June 24th

Tapwave Zodiac in Stores June 24th 06/10/2004 07:55 AM

Make it or break it time for Tapwave as they confirm a June 24th retail launch date in CompUSA stores for their PalmOS-based gaming PDA Zodiac. Tapland confirms that the Zodiac will have at least a 4-foot dedicated shelf space and a full marketing rollout with all the usual ads and promotions, I would imagine. It's not a CompUSA exclusive, either -- both J&R and Amazon have started dropping information about their intention to carry the Zodiac, as well. I don't have huge hopes for the Zodiac; I hate to be such a fuddy-duddy about it, but I just can't see them blowing up without the support of the major game publishers. Still, if they can capture the Palm purchasers who wouldn't mind playing a game or two on the side, they might be able to carve out a nice little niche for themselves.
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Ohio Highway Shooting Confirmed As 24th
(AP)

Ohio Highway Shooting Confirmed As 24th
(AP) 02/15/2004 09:09 PM
AP - The day after the chief investigator said authorities were closing in on a serial highway shooter, a man stood in plain view on an overpass and fired a handgun at cars below. He then walked to his car and slipped into traffic.

Linux Security Week - May 24th 2004

Linux Security Week - May 24th 2004 05/24/2004 06:07 AM

Linux Advisory Watch - September 24th
2004

Linux Advisory Watch - September 24th
2004 09/24/2004 10:02 AM

Linux Advisory Watch - January 24th 2003

Linux Advisory Watch - January 24th 2003 01/24/2003 06:24 AM
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for wget, xpdf, openldap, libmcrypt, impsql, bugzilla, mod_php, cups, dhcpd, kde, leafnode, libpng, postgresql, mysql, vim, and ethereal. The distributors include ...

iPod Mini Shipping Internationally July
24th

iPod Mini Shipping Internationally July
24th 07/07/2004 09:29 AM

Apple has announced that the iPod mini is finally going to be shipping internationally on July 24th. Worldwide demand has been at a fever pitch, but Apple has previously had trouble just providing enough units for the United States, let alone the rest of the world. Looks like those troubles have gone away ... for now. (Not that I know anything. I just like being ominous.)

Press release after the jump.

Zoo claims record with hippo's 24th baby
(Reuters)

Zoo claims record with hippo's 24th baby
(Reuters) 06/08/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Mary, a hippopotamus in a Russian zoo, has given birth for the 24th time in what her owners claim is a world record.

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Due to busy schedules and the overly complex voting system I put together, the WThRemix contest winners will be announced...

New Invention Grand Final - The New
Inventors '04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV

New Invention Grand Final - The New
Inventors '04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Will FloorBot be the invention of the year? The robotic technology has many applications from farming, security, mining exploration, telecommunication, search and rescue. [PRWEB Nov 24, 2004]

New Invention Grand final - The new
inventors 04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV

New Invention Grand final - The new
inventors 04 Wednesday 24th 8pm ABC TV 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Will FloorBot be the invention of the year? The robotic technology has many applications from farming, security, mining exploration, telecommunication, search and rescue. [PRWEB Nov 24, 2004]

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting
of Monday 24th May 2004

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting
of Monday 24th May 2004 06/04/2004 06:54 PM

Maine & Asmus Announces First
Intellectual Property Forum May 24th

Maine & Asmus Announces First
Intellectual Property Forum May 24th 04/19/2005 03:52 AM
Nashua law firm organizes forum to provide management techniques to technology companies. [PRWEB Apr 19, 2005]

Multiple mozilla.org Service Outages
Planned for June 20th to 24th

Multiple mozilla.org Service Outages
Planned for June 20th to 24th 06/17/2005 07:23 PM

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting
of Monday 24th January 2005

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting
of Monday 24th January 2005 02/05/2005 08:59 PM

Akamai Service Interruption Just a
Symptom - John Quarterman, CEO of
Internet Perils to Speak at SuperNova
2004 Connectivity Conference, June 24th
in Santa Clara, CA

Akamai Service Interruption Just a
Symptom - John Quarterman, CEO of
Internet Perils to Speak at SuperNova
2004 Connectivity Conference, June 24th
in Santa Clara, CA 06/23/2004 02:36 AM
The Akamai service interruption of Tuesday 15 June, that affected Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft shows risks of doing business over the Internet cannot be ignored or eliminated, claims, John S. Quarterman, CEO of InternetPerils Inc. InternetPerils is the industry's leading provider of Internet risk management products for insurers, financial institutions, banks, telecommunications providers, government, and enterprises that need to effectively manage their Internet business risks. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

"November"

"November" 06/25/2004 10:29 AM

November Top 10

November Top 10 12/09/2002 02:07 AM
CNET Dec 9 2002 1:04AM ET

Where will you be in November?

Where will you be in November? 06/16/2004 06:14 PM
I know where I'll be November 7, 2004: in New York City running the ING New York City Marathon! The lottery results have been posted and for once I've gotten lucky with a lottery and I'm in. Woo hoo! Now this means my running and training must get much more serious. But that's OK because I've always wanted to run a marathon, and the NYC marathon looks to be really fun. As fun as 26 miles can be, that is. Five bridges, five boroughs, and more than two million spectators make the ING New York City Marathon a race like no other. Maybe I'll even "marablog" -- blog as I run. ;)

The Fog that was November

The Fog that was November 12/02/2003 01:26 AM
Most every day of November was dark, rainy, foggy and, well, dark. :) Hopefully December will at least bring...

"November 6, 2004"

"November 6, 2004" 08/16/2004 09:56 PM

next (27 November 2002)

next (27 November 2002) 12/01/2002 11:58 AM
[4 pm] Years ago we attended a focus group. Participants were divided into two categories we’ll call Quitters and Crackheads. Quitters had switched to a competitor’s

November 30, 2003

November 30, 2003 12/02/2003 01:29 AM

I spent the long weekend grinding through the backlog of Joel on Software translations. There are a bunch of new articles in various languages including new sections for Esperanto and Greek. All in all there are 264 translations in progress in 32 languages thanks to 242 volunteers around the world. 177 translations are complete and have already been posted.

There are a few articles, already translated, which just need copy editors before I can post them. If you read and write one of these languages fluently and are willing to help out, I'd really appreciate it! What's involved is just looking for typos and errors and improving the translation wherever possible. If I don't find anyone to edit the articles I will probably just go ahead and post them unedited but it would be nice to have a second set of eyes improving the quality of the translations.

Languages I need editors for: Chinese (Trad), Esperanto, Estonian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Port.), Russian, Swedish, and Tamil.

A frequently asked question: why bother with these translations? Surely any real programmer knows English! And my frequently answered answer: First of all, not every programmer knows English, and if they do, they may not know it that well, so they may not really enjoy reading things written in English if they don't have to. Second, even if the programmers have learned enough English to decipher online documentation, their pointy-haired bosses from management may not have.

Another frequent question: why not just use Babelfish or Google Language Tools or another similar translation tool? Answer: They are seriously little. You cannot include/understand simply the exit. Er, what I meant to say was, they are seriously inadequate. The quality of translations produced by automatic software is so horrible that you really can't understand the output. Try asking Google to translate http://french.joelonsoftware.c om from French to English for some real howlers. "Then why does nobody make planning? Two principal reasons. Firstly, it is really difficult. Secondly, nobody believes that that is worth the sorrow of it. Why give so much difficulty to be worked on a planning if it is known that it will not be correct?"

November 07, 2003

November 07, 2003 11/10/2003 11:08 PM
Toronto group forming. Any others?

Marching to November

Marching to November 08/22/2004 03:43 PM
Weekly Standard: GOP is trying to tear Kerry down because of their own lack of faith in Bush .. The ever-nimble Weekly Standard scrambles up the hawser while washing their paws .. Catch of the Day

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rfp (13 November 2002)

rfp (13 November 2002) 11/13/2002 12:01 PM
[11 am] The discussion being generated by ALA’s Flash Satay is as intriguing as the article itself. Topics include alternate methods that work and validate, and

November in Vegas

November in Vegas 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Here we are, in the middle of October already, and I have no idea what I'm going to "be" for Halloween. I haven't even had time to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas yet! I'll be headed to Las Vegas a month from today for both APCUG and Apachecon. They've each asked me to present my position on RSS, so I'll be happy to oblige. Maybe I'll dress up as an orange XML button on the 31st? Nah, that's too friggin' scary. What about Gozer? Or a Doozer? Or a menu like the Chooser?...

November 06, 2003

November 06, 2003 11/07/2003 12:56 AM

Two questions and a font

Question one, for you telecom mavens out there. If you buy DSL service in New York from Covad, aren't they just going to get Verizon to install the actual DSL circuit? If so... why is it cheaper to get it from Covad?

Yes, we seem to be in the market for a new DSL provider. And I'm tired of playing the blame game where your DSL provider blames everything on Verizon and Verizon blames everything on the DSL provider, so I'd be willing to pay the monopoly tax if it meant when our DSL went down there was nobody left to blame. If you know whether Covad uses Verizon, post an answer here.

Question two, for you reliable SQL Server mavens out there. Suppose I wanted to build a Win2K-based web service using SQL Server to store the data. But I'm a reliability nut. So obviously I'll use industrial strength servers with RAID, two power supplies and network cards, etc, and they'll live in secure colocation facilities.

To further minimize failure points, I'll have a hot backup. But the twist is that I figured as long as I'm paying for a hot backup, it would be more reliable if it was somewhere else, say, on the other coast.

So here's the plan I'm working on. Server A in New York, with IIS and SQL Server. Server B in Vancouver, with IIS and SQL Server. Server A is somehow "writing through" any database changes to server B. I know I can do this with transaction log shipping; is this a good way to do it? Is there a better way?

Then if Server A blows up, I simply ask my ISP to route the packets intended for Server A to Server B. (I assume they can do this if it's their backbone).

What do you think of this scheme?

Might I please kindly request in advance that you do not suggest using Linux instead of Windows 2003. Yes, I concede that Linux is "more secure," but not when I'm the one pushing the buttons. Last time a flaw was discovered in Windows, it took me two clicks to patch it. Last time a flaw was discovered in SSH, it took me four hours of compiling and messing around to patch it. I apologize but I don't have the skilz to keep a Linux box secure, so please, let's talk about how to make this particular configuration reliable, not about whether Linux is a better OS than Windows. Or, actually, if you do want to talk about whether Linux is more secure than Windows, do so here.

And a font

Back in the days when I did Mac development (System 6) the biggest monitors available for the Mac were maybe 9", and the only way to see a reasonable amount of code on screen was to use a tiny font. Now that I have two 18" LCD panels, the only way to see a reasonable amount of code on screen is to use a tiny font. The world is awash in lovely TrueType fonts but none of them are monospaced, which is a nuisance for programming because things which should line up won't.

Fortunately, I have found ProFont, and all is well again.

November games

November games 11/06/2003 01:26 PM
Chicago Tribune Nov 6 2003 12:54PM ET

November 22, 2003

November 22, 2003 12/02/2003 01:29 AM

Tidbits

My incoming spam is running at over 200 junk emails a day, but SpamBayes is catching them all, with virtually no false positives. Bayesian filtering, invented by Paul Graham and available in many open source implementations, is the best answer yet.

"I CANNOT SUPPORT HIM IN NOVEMBER."

"I CANNOT SUPPORT HIM IN NOVEMBER." 09/04/2004 02:46 AM

W3C Talks in November

W3C Talks in November 10/31/2003 10:42 PM
2003-11-01: Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

mtm (6 November 2002)

mtm (6 November 2002) 11/06/2002 08:26 AM
[7 am] Josh Davis has been added to today’s free Meet the Makers event in NYC, which also features Hillman Curtis, Eric Meyer, and your

November 14, 2003

November 14, 2003 11/14/2003 07:32 PM

Time for the next Book of the Month.

Almost any argument about managing the software development process inevitably deteriorates into anecdote-ping-pong. “We did wawa and everyone quit.”

“Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Company X? They wawa regularly and their stock is up 20%!”

If you have even the slightest bit of common sense, you should ask: “Where's the data? If I'm going to switch to Intense Programming I want to see proof that the extra money spent on dog kennels and bird cages is going to pay for itself in increased programmer self-esteem. Show me hard data!”

And, of course, we have none.

One set of people will tell you you gotta have private offices with walls and a door that closes. Another set of extremos will tell you everyone has to be in a room together, shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither of them have any hard data whatsoever, where by “hard data” I mean “data that wouldn't be laughed out of a sixth-grade science classroom.” The truth is, you can't honestly compare the productivity of two software teams unless they are trying to build exactly the same thing under exactly the same circumstances with the exact same human individuals, who have been somehow cloned so they don't learn anything the first time through the experiment.

Tom DeMarco was so frustrated at the inherent impossibility of providing any kind of hard data that he went so far as to write a novel in which he fantasizes about a bizarre land in which programmers are so cheap you actually can do experiments where, say, half the people have offices and half the people have cubicles.

But we don't have the data. We don't have any data. You can give us anecdotes left and right about how methodology X worked or didn't work, but you can't prove that when it worked it wasn't just because of one really, really good programmer on the team, and you can't prove that when it failed is wasn't just because the company was in the process of going bankrupt and everybody was too demoralized to do anything at all, Aeron chairs notwithstanding.

But don't give up hope. We do have the collective wisdom of fifty years of building software to draw from. Or at least, it's somewhere. Your typical startup with three pals from college may not exactly have the collective wisdom, so they're going to reinvent things from scratch that IBM figured out in 1961, or go bankrupt failing to reinvent them. Too bad, because they could have read Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Glass, the best summary of what the software profession should have agreed upon by now. Here are just a few examples from the 55 facts and 10 fallacies in the book:

• The most important factor in software work is not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but rather the quality of the programmers themselves.
• Adding people to a late project makes it later.
• Reuse-in-the-small (libraries of subroutines) began nearly 50 years ago and is a well-solved problem.
• Reuse-in-the-large (components) remains a mostly unsolved problem, even though everyone agrees it is important and desirable.

You can read the others in the table of contents on Amazon. One of the best things about the book is that it has sources for each fact and fallacy, so you can go back and figure out why we collectively believe that, say, code inspection is valuable but cannot and should not replace testing. This is bound to be particularly helpful when you need ammunition for your arguments with people in suits making absurd demands (“Can we make a baby in 1 month if we hire 9 mothers?”).

The November Builder.com top 10

The November Builder.com top 10 12/07/2002 03:26 AM
CNET Dec 7 2002 2:14AM ET
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