red... 20 October 2002

Grok Headline matches for red... 20 October 2002

up (31 October 2002)

up (31 October 2002) 10/31/2002 10:23 AM
[10a] Fox Searchlight Pictures has soft-launched. That means it’s gone up without the usual publicity attendant on movie co. site premieres. It also means the site

welcome (26 October 2002)

welcome (26 October 2002) 10/26/2002 11:47 AM
[11:00 a | 12:00 p ] Our site is so old that for seven-plus years, its default root directory document has been titled welcome.html. As in,

mao (22 October 2002)

mao (22 October 2002) 10/22/2002 09:56 PM
Jury duty consumes us. After a day in court we have no creative juice to expend on the redesign of this site, no strength to

up... 9 October 2002

up... 9 October 2002 10/09/2002 09:46 AM
[10 am] One down, one to go. Fox Searchlight Pictures has left the building and will launch in the next few days.

buriedalive... 16 October 2002

buriedalive... 16 October 2002 10/16/2002 11:40 AM
[noon] Where have we been? We’ve been digging. Brand development tasks. Final fixes on a site that’s about to launch. Design and production on a new

factsoflife... 1 October 2002

factsoflife... 1 October 2002 10/02/2002 04:39 PM
[8 pm] Puppies are cuter than earthworms. Death lasts forever. These are the facts of life. Best Halloween party invite ever — from the creators of Jerkbox

trust (29 October 2002)

trust (29 October 2002) 10/29/2002 11:40 AM
[11a] The Fox Searchlight Pictures site will soon go live. Meanwhile ... This site’s redesign continues as subpages are slowly filled in along with additional navigational

pixelism (17 October 2002)

pixelism (17 October 2002) 10/21/2002 03:32 PM
[? | 3 pm] Pixelism In yesterday’s Report we alluded to Mozilla’s inability to display all frames of GIF animations in Rollovers. Visit K10k with Mozilla and

simple (27 October 2002)

simple (27 October 2002) 10/27/2002 01:06 PM
[12:00 p] When in doubt, force-Reload. Classics is now more complete. The redesign of My Glamorous Life is well underway. Click back through a few entries, and you’ll

courtandspark (23 October 2002)

courtandspark (23 October 2002) 10/23/2002 07:16 PM
Jury Duty continues to absorb our time and attention, leaving us limp as a dishrag at the end of the day. Hence no work on

sniff (24 October 2002)

sniff (24 October 2002) 10/25/2002 07:23 AM
Late this afternoon we completed jury service. Our case was criminal. The circumstances and people involved were deeply tragic. The juror seated to our right had

pixelism... 17 October 2002

pixelism... 17 October 2002 10/17/2002 02:08 PM
[3 pm] Pixelism In yesterday’s Report we alluded to Mozilla’s inability to display all frames of GIF animations in Rollovers. Visit K10k with Mozilla and another browser.

challenge... 12 October 2002

challenge... 12 October 2002 10/15/2002 07:15 AM
[noon] The Real Challenge In yesterday’s quite lengthy Report (prompted by the release of the Wired redesign and the many issues it raised) we touched on purity

prince... 3 October 2002

prince... 3 October 2002 10/03/2002 09:33 AM
[10 am] Party like it’s 1997: Microsoft has redesigned. Its new layout uses font tags and other deprecated junk straight out of the mid-1990s. Below are

flyingblind... 7 October 2002

flyingblind... 7 October 2002 10/08/2002 11:18 AM
[11 am | 10 am] Meet the Makers San Francisco will include interface design legend Jeffrey Veen; a Web Standards panel featuring Microsoft’s Tantek Çelik and

princeoftidy... 4 October 2002

princeoftidy... 4 October 2002 10/08/2002 11:18 AM
[11 am | 9 am] My Glamorous Life No. 73: Worked For Me. Ahem.

startingover (25 October 2002)

startingover (25 October 2002) 10/25/2002 11:27 AM
When in doubt, force-Reload. So this, we believe, is the new layout, give or take a subnav and a few additional nuances yet to come. There’s

feedme... 8 October 2002

feedme... 8 October 2002 10/08/2002 01:21 PM
[1 pm] Indie web publishers ask when we’ll offer an RSS feed. We hand code The Daily Report, hence no middleware, hence no feeds. Fortunately a

hits... 10 October 2002

hits... 10 October 2002 10/11/2002 07:55 AM
[noon] The hits keep coming More and more personal sites have become daily annotated linkfests AKA weblogs, and more and more weblogs have begun incorporating automated referrer

wired... 11 October 2002

wired... 11 October 2002 10/11/2002 11:46 AM
[noon | 11 am] The big news today is the Wired redesign, whose launch we’ve been anticipating for months. Team leader Douglas Bowman, Network Design Manager

ala152... 13 October 2002

ala152... 13 October 2002 10/15/2002 07:15 AM
[2 pm] In this week’s double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites:         Build A PHP Switcher, by Chris

Release Digest: KDE, October 28, 2002

Release Digest: KDE, October 28, 2002 10/29/2002 01:33 AM
Today's KDE apps: KickPIM 0.3.0, VariCAD 8.2.0.4, Kile 1.3, Portos Commander 1.0, SambaLink Q 2.0.2, MySQL Control Center 0.8.5, KMuddy 0.2.1, KickPIM 0.3.1, QScintilla 0.2, Freesplitter 0.3.0, LibChipCard 0.6, Ksetiwatch 2.5.1, RPM Wizard 0.6.9, KMameleon 0.2pl1, KTagebuch 0.55, GuardDog 2.1.0, KFish 2.0, KickPIM 0.3.2, Mango 0.19, Rosegarden 0.8, KCDSpeed 0.6, Freesplitter 1.0.0, XmmsKDE 3.0.0, KCDSpeed 0.6.1, Scribus :: Scripter 0.3, KTagebuch 0.55.1, xsldbg :: kxsldbg 0.1, KickPIM 0.3.2, and Mango 0.19.

Release Digest: KDE, October 24, 2002

Release Digest: KDE, October 24, 2002 10/25/2002 07:23 AM
Today's KDE apps: Freesplitter 0.2.1, LibChipCard 0.6beta6, Kconfigure 1.2, GUIPod 0.101, KickPIM 0.2.1, Anthem 0.0.17, KPrayerTime Applet 0.9.4, Atlantik :: Monopd 0.6.0, MySQL Navigator 1.4.1, Video4Linux Grab 0.1.1, KDE Web Applet 0.6, Direct Connect 4 Linux 0.2beta1, Direct Connect 4 Linux 0.1, kppp_logger 1.9, WebConfig 1.2, KExchange 0.2.2, and REBECKA 0.9.6.

Editors' Newswire for 22 October, 2002
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October 2002 myITforum Daily Newsletter
Archive

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29th Annual New York's Village Halloween
Parade > Thursday, October 31st, 2002

29th Annual New York's Village Halloween
Parade > Thursday, October 31st, 2002 11/01/2003 07:26 AM
IF ANYONE IS LOOKING FOR ME TOMORROW NIGHT .. Greenwich Village Halloween Parade .. 30th Annual NYC Halloween Parade .. Hallooboobooweegeran .. manhattan .. parade

halloween-nyc.com
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UPDATE! October 2002 Google Update

UPDATE! October 2002 Google Update 10/31/2002 06:18 AM
Official. The halloween update is on.

October 14, 2003

October 14, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

PHP and Unicode

Scott Reynen shows how to use integer arrays in PHP to handle Unicode manually.

There are also functions available called the Multi-Byte String Functions which handle many encodings. Please ignore the part in the documentation that says that this is "developed to handle Japanese characters." It actually appears to handle lots of encodings including the Unicode ones. However it is turned off by default so you must recompile PHP to enable it.

October 10, 2003

October 10, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough.

So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

October 01, 2003

October 01, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Slashdot reviews my book: “Aimed at programmers who don't know much about user interface design and think it is something to fear, Joel Spolsky provides a great primer, with some entertaining and informative examples of good and bad design implementations, including some of the thought process behind the decisions. Spolsky feels that programmers fear design because they consider it a creative process rather than a logical one; he shows that the basic principles of good user interface design are logical and not based on some mysterious, indefinable magic.”

October 15, 2003

October 15, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

DoSomething()

Ned Batchelder has written a spi rited defense of exceptions.

With status returns:

STATUS DoSomething(int a, int b)
{
STATUS st;
st = DoThing1(a);
if (st != SGOOD) return st;
st = DoThing2(b);
if (st != SGOOD) return st;
return SGOOD;
}

And then with exceptions:

void DoSomething(int a, int b)
{
DoThing1(a);
DoThing2(b);
}

Ned, for the sake of argument, could you do me a huge favor, let's use a real example. Change the name of DoSomething() to InstallSoftware(), rename DoThing1() to CopyFiles() and DoThing2() to MakeRegistryEntries().

OK - Cancel

Kevin Cheng: “There are four major classes of problematic programmers that I have worked with...”

And Back To Exceptions

There's no perfect way to write code to handle errors. Arguments about whether exception handling is "good" or "bad" quickly devolve into disjointed pros and cons which never balance each other out, the hallmark of a religious debate. There are lots of good reasons to use exceptions, and lots of good reasons not to. All design is about tradeoffs. There is no perfect design and there is certainly never any perfect code.

Announcing the Joel on Software Book Club

The imperfection of design is the theme of October's Book of the Month. Did you ever think about why calculators have 1, 2, and 3 on the bottom row while phones put those keys on the top row? Why did the high beam headlight switch migrate from a floorboard pedal to a toggle on the steering shaft? Whatever you're designing, from the error handling facilities of your software to the fat handle of a toothbrush which is highly ergonomic but can't fit in anyone's toothbrush holder, you have to trade off things that can't really be balanced against each other. And no matter what you do, you'll be subject to criticism, much of it valid.

Henry Petroski, who can write a 448 page book about the common pencil and make it fascinating, has done it again, this time with an excellent book about why there is no perfect design. All design is about tradeoffs, and if you don't believe me, this book offers dozens of examples from everyday life. It even offers a candidate for the best designed object on the planet (the three-legged plastic nubbin that keeps your pizza box lid from sticking to the cheese) and shows why even that is imperfect. Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design is another great read and it's the first Joel on Software book of the month.

October 17, 2003

October 17, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Developers Developers Developers Developers

< img style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px" height="150" alt="Empower program for ISVs -- the box" src="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/17empower.JPG" width="200" align="right" border="0" />Ok, the video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the advanced stages of ecstatic frenzy chanting the "Developers" mantra was funny, but his company took it seriously, and Microsoft really does a better job than any other platform vendor encouraging small companies to write software that runs on the Windows platform. If you're a software company willing to commit to developing software for any variant of Windows, you can join the E mpower Program for ISVs, which entitles you a huge pile of software at the ridiculously low price of $750. You get 5 copies of MSDN Universal (normally $2600 each) ... this is the package that includes top-of-the-line versions of every single Microsoft development tool and compiler, and Office, and Visio, and developer copies of every server product, and the MSDN library, and copies of every operating system ever shipped (Greek Windows 98SE? You got it!). Empower also includes 5 copies each of Windows XP, Office XP, and a bunch of servers with 5 client licenses... basically everything you need to develop software for Windows with a team of five programmers for $750.

There was one catch, which is why I refrained from signing up for Empower in the past: you had to go through a fairly annoying sign up process which included lots of non-optional questions about things like your annual revenues and how many employees you have... information points that I didn't really feel like Microsoft needed to have in their big fat Potential Competitors database, for when Bill Gates woke up one morning and decided to do a SQL query to find all the software companies that were ripe for a little friendly competition from Redmond.

One day Paul Gomes, a developer evangelist working out of Microsoft's New York office, called me up, as he does quite frequently, to complain about the fact that we were recommending our customers use Windows Server 2000 instead of 2003 for hosting FogBUGZ due to some incompatibilities in the threading model of IIS 6 (which we have since resolved, by the way). "Why didn't you sign up for Empower?" he asked.

I told him how I thought it was offensive that Microsoft wanted data on my sales and number of employees. "You're a platform vendor, but also a potential competitor, so I'm sensitive about that stuff," I said.

"I hear you," he said, and proceeded to call up the ISV relations group back at Redmond. They called me back and walked through the signup procedure, and I told them which questions I thought were inappropriate. Then they did something which surprised me: they made every one of those questions optional. Not just for me, for everyone.

So I signed up, and got a great big box in the mail with piles and piles of DVDs.

(Now if I could just figure out how to convince them to include Flight Simulator in MSDN Universal...)

Exceptions in the Rainforest

Ned: “The debate over exceptions and status returns is not about whether error handling is hard to do well. We all agree on that. It's not about whether exceptions make it magically better. They don't, and if someone says they do, they haven't written large systems in the real world. The debate is about how errors should be communicated through the code.”

And Now For Something Completely Different

Did you see the mention of the new Fog Creek Office in the Wall Street Journal?

and...

AutomatedQA's TestComplete is such a slick product and seems to be just as capable as the market leader, Mercury Interactive WinRunner, at less than one tenth the price. Why does anybody pay $6000 a seat for WinRunner?

October Surprise!

October Surprise! 06/09/2004 04:20 AM

octobersurprise.net
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October 23, 2003

October 23, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Tokens

It's hard to believe that here it is, what, 2002? No, I think it's 2003, and when you want to send a really big file or a folder full of little files to someone, you generally wind up messing around with ftp servers and whatnot.

Well, no longer. “A token is like a shortcut or alias that you can send via e-mail or instant message. With just one click you can create a token, and no matter how large the files you want to send are, the token representing them will be very small—just a few KB. Anyone you send a token to can then download the free Creo Token Redeemer software, and with one click redeem the token and download the files. It works for anything—a single file, an entire folder, a huge movie.”

It's quite cool. When you send a token via email your computer becomes a server, holding the files until the recipient redeems the tokens to get the file. The UI is really really simple, and you don't have to worry about whether the recipient already knows about tokens (if not, they'll get a link to download the free redeemer) or if there are firewalls in the way (if there are, the file transfer will automatically bounce off of Creo's giant-reflector-in-the-sky). This is a great implementation of a simple idea that brilliantly solves the nagging problem that it's just not easy enough to transfer large files down the hall, let alone halfway around the world, and it's going to take off like wildfire.

New MSN TV2 Set-Top Box to Debut October
5

New MSN TV2 Set-Top Box to Debut October
5 09/24/2004 02:08 PM
Microsoft plans to take the wraps off the "MSN TV2 Internet & Media Player," its latest incarnation of a set-top box, at the TechXNY show in New York on October 5. The product, which is designed to allow users to display photos, music and video content streamed over broadband to TV sets, is due to hit retailer shelves in mid-October.

October 25, 2003

October 25, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

I'm off to LA. If you're at the PDC remember to ride your Segway into the ASP Today/Apress booth, say hi, meet other Joel on Software people, and get a free copy of FogBUGZ.

Monday 12:30 - 1:30
Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00
Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00

October 13, 2003

October 13, 2003 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Exceptions

People have asked why I don't like programming with exceptions. In both Java and C++, my policy is:

1. Never throw an exception of my own
2. Always catch any possible exception that might be thrown by a library I'm using on the same line as it is thrown and deal with it immediately.

The reasoning is that I consider exceptions to be no better than "goto's", considered harmful since the 1960s, in that they create an abrupt jump from one point of code to another. In fact they are significantly worse than goto's:

1. They are invisible in the source code. Looking at a block of code, including functions which may or may not throw exceptions, there is no way to see which exceptions might be thrown and from where. This means that even careful code inspection doesn't reveal potential bugs.
2. They create too many possible exit points for a function. To write correct code, you really have to think about every possible code path through your function. Every time you call a function that can raise an exception and don't catch it on the spot, you create opportunities for surprise bugs caused by functions that terminated abruptly, leaving data in an inconsistent state, or other code paths that you didn't think about.

A better alternative is to have your functions return error values when things go wrong, and to deal with these explicitly, no matter how verbose it might be. It is true that what should be a simple 3 line program often blossoms to 48 lines when you put in good error checking, but that's life, and papering it over with exceptions does not make your program more robust. I think the reason programmers in C/C++/Java style languages have been attracted to exceptions is simply because the syntax does not have a concise way to call a function that returns multiple values, so it's hard to write a function that either produces a return value or returns an error. (The only languages I have used extensively that do let you return multiple values nicely are ML and Haskell.) In C/C++/Java style languages one way you can handle errors is to use the real return value for a result status, and if you have anything you want to return, use an OUT parameter to do that. This has the unforunate side effect of making it impossible to nest function calls, so result = f(g(x)) must become:

T tmp;
if (ERROR == g(x, tmp))
errorhandling;
if (ERROR == f(tmp, result))
errorhandling;

This is ugly and annoying but it's better than getting magic unexpected gotos sprinkled throughout your code at unpredictable places.

PHP

If someone wants to write up a nice article about how to develop multilingual, Unicode applications with PHP or point me to an existing article on the subject I will link to it here. Right now both the PHP documentation and a google search for "PHP Unicode" make it look like you're pretty screwed if you really want to do Unicode in PHP. There is some existing documention of mb_ functions that people have pointed me to, which is badly written and confusing, and appears to only support a handful of encodings, not Unicode in general. It also seems to be an extension that you have to turn on, which means, I think, that the average PHP installation does not support this out of the box.

Grok Description matches for red... 20 October 2002
GrokA matches for red... 20 October 2002

Will Gas Wells Dirty Alpine Air?

Will Gas Wells Dirty Alpine Air? 12/27/2003 06:36 AM
Even the BLM says potential impacts of plans to drill more than 10,000 natural gas wells over the next 30 years in the Four Corners region include poor visibility and air quality. Environmentalists say it's worse than that.

"Will Gas Wells Dirty Alpine Air?"

"Will Gas Wells Dirty Alpine Air?" 12/27/2003 08:57 PM

Alpine iPod Ready

Alpine iPod Ready 01/11/2004 10:13 AM
Alpine are set to introduce iPod Ready — a new car stereo that links up with your iPod :

With a simple one-cable connection, iPod users will be able to operate key playback features from the Alpine receiver's buttons and have display of playlists, album, artist and songs on the head unit. The iPod can then be safely stored in the glove box or console because it acts like a portable hard drive connected to the head unit through Alpine's powerful Ai-Net system bus. The Alpine connectivity solution also provides charging of the iPod's internal battery.

Cool. The unit won't be available until the summer, and there's no mention of pricing yet, but hopefully it'll reach the UK — and maybe even fit the Mini's dash... { via Stepwise }

More Details About Alpine iPod Interface

More Details About Alpine iPod Interface 07/29/2004 01:10 PM

MacCentral has more details about Alpine's upcoming in-car iPod interface, including the single-greatest quote ever to slip past the lips of a VP of Marketing, "Consumers love a knob more than anything." I've been saying that for years.

The Alpine unit looks nice, though. I think the best thing is that it's part of a whole system, so that any Ai-Net-equipped head unit can interface with the iPod, including using the aforementioned knob to scroll through like you would with the iPod's built-in wheel. Better than iPod Your BMW, that's for sure.

R ead - Alpine offers details on forthcoming iPod interface [MacCentral]

Related
Alpine's KCA-420i iPod Interface Available in September [Gizmodo]

Piste pressure on alpine plants

Piste pressure on alpine plants 04/18/2005 02:04 PM
The way ski pistes are currently managed is changing the number and type of plant species in the Alps, a study finds.

Alpine: iPod interface coming this fall

Alpine: iPod interface coming this fall 07/02/2004 09:48 AM
Apple and BMW's recent "iPod Your BMW" promotion offers a way for owners of recent-model BMW vehicles to interface their iPods with their stereos. But if you don't own a BMW or don't have a compatible model, what are you to do? One solution comes from venerable car audio maker Alpine, which in January announced the development of its Interface Adapter for iPod. With Apple and BMW's recent announcement making the rounds, Alpine recently offered further information about its product, which it now says will ship in the fall.

Notes and Tips: Alpine iPod Stereo

Notes and Tips: Alpine iPod Stereo 09/23/2004 11:22 AM
Alpine has an advanced car stereo for iPod owners.

Alpine Ai-NET Stereos to Offer XM and
Sirius Options

Alpine Ai-NET Stereos to Offer XM and
Sirius Options 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

Alpine has announced that their newer Ai-NET series head units will now support either Sirius or XM satellite radio (although not both at the same time, I don't think). Really, all it means is that the satellite receivers use the generic Ai-NET interface to connect, much like the Alpine KCA-420i iPod Interface, so you can add components piecemeal as you see fit. You can use one of the satellite receivers with the KCA-420i units in the same system, though, so maybe you could have both satellite radios as an option. (Thanks, Aaron!)

Alpine is the very first to offer Sirius or XM!
[Alpine-USA]

Update: I have confirmed that you can have both XM and Sirius at the same time. Sounds good.

Announcement: Alpine iPod Ready program

Announcement: Alpine iPod Ready program 01/07/2004 02:09 PM
Alpine Electronics announced plans to deliver "iPod Ready" auto sound systems that will enable control of an iPod through the controls of the in-dash receiver.

Alpine Network devel-00072 (Development)

Alpine Network devel-00072 (Development) 05/03/2004 10:14 PM
Decentralized searching/discovery with modular extensions.

Alpine Network devel-00071 (Development)

Alpine Network devel-00071 (Development) 04/12/2004 02:20 AM
Decentralized searching/discovery with modular extensions.

Alpine prepares iPod head unit adapter

Alpine prepares iPod head unit adapter 07/01/2004 05:05 PM
Alpine has announced that its iPod car adapter will be available in early fall...

Alpine offers details on forthcoming
iPod interface

Alpine offers details on forthcoming
iPod interface 07/29/2004 08:28 AM
Many iPod users have seen "iPod Your BMW" television ads, which advertise the ability to connect your iPod or iPod mini to the stereo included with several late-model BMW vehicles. That's not the only way to directly connect an iPod to a car stereo, however, and one of the most hotly anticipated solutions is coming this September from aftermarket car audio manufacturer Alpine, the same company that designed and manufactured BMW's solution. The KCA-420i is a new interface box designed to work with Alpine car stereos that include "Ai-Net" command capabilities, and the solution actually offers more functionality than BMW's offering, including the ability to view artist, album and track information.

Alpine: iPod interface coming this fall
(MacCentral)

Alpine: iPod interface coming this fall
(MacCentral) 07/02/2004 09:43 AM
MacCentral - Apple and BMW's recent "iPod Your BMW" promotion offers a way for owners of recent-model BMW vehicles to interface their iPods with their stereos. But if you don't own a BMW or don't have a compatible model, what are you to do? One solution comes from venerable car audio maker Alpine, which in January announced the development of its Interface Adapter for iPod. With Apple and BMW's recent announcement making the rounds, Alpine recently offered further information about its product, which it now says will ship in the fall.

Lance Leads Tour Into Tough Alpine Stage
(AP)

Lance Leads Tour Into Tough Alpine Stage
(AP) 07/22/2004 06:22 AM
AP - Lance Armstrong led Tour de France riders up the final Alpine stage Thursday, the most punishing mountain trek so far in the three-week showcase race.

Alpine to Release iPod Interface in
Autumn 2004

Alpine to Release iPod Interface in
Autumn 2004 07/02/2004 07:46 PM

Alpine offers details on forthcoming
iPod interface (MacCentral)

Alpine offers details on forthcoming
iPod interface (MacCentral) 07/29/2004 11:26 AM
MacCentral - Many iPod users have seen "iPod Your BMW" television ads, which advertise the ability to connect your iPod or iPod mini to the stereo included with several late-model BMW vehicles. That's not the only way to directly connect an iPod to a car stereo, however, and one of the most hotly anticipated solutions is coming this September from aftermarket car audio manufacturer Alpine, the same company that designed and manufactured BMW's solution. ...

Alpine debuts car audio head units with
iPod integration

Alpine debuts car audio head units with
iPod integration 01/07/2004 06:46 PM
Alpine today announced the world's first solution that enables consumers to connect and control their iPod from their in-vehicle sound system...

Activists Protest Plan to Light Alpine
Peak (Reuters)

Activists Protest Plan to Light Alpine
Peak (Reuters) 07/09/2004 12:10 PM
Reuters - Local politicians and environmental activists are protesting Swiss chocolate manufacturer Milka's plans to bathe Germany's highest mountain in beams of purple light, the brand's trademark color.

Linux in Government: Providing a
Successful Model for OSS Enterprise
Users and Linux Companies

Linux in Government: Providing a
Successful Model for OSS Enterprise
Users and Linux Companies 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
JBoss offers insight to raising open-source businesses.

Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens
New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and
IBM G5 servers

Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens
New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and
IBM G5 servers 09/17/2004 12:43 AM
A win in the nuclear submarine cluster market suggests that IBM's POWER architecture is joining the Linux HPC big leagues.

Linux Journal: Making a PHP Site on
Linux Work with a Microsoft SQL Server
Database

Linux Journal: Making a PHP Site on
Linux Work with a Microsoft SQL Server
Database 02/17/2003 09:09 AM
"It's a LAMP site, but the M isn't MySQL. Can PHP on the Linux box make the connection to Microsoft SQL Server?"

Unisys suddenly loves Linux: Should
Linux users return that love?

Unisys suddenly loves Linux: Should
Linux users return that love? 08/16/2004 02:19 PM
Unisys has long been the main booster -- possibly the only one besides Microsoft -- of Windows as a mainframe operating system. Now Unisys says it loves Linux -- but still claims to be a staunch Microsoft partner -- and it seems like most of its contributions to the Linux kernel are only useful to Unisys customers. And then there's the specter of the Unisys GIF patents (now expired), and how the company used them as weapons against free and open source software projects only a few years ago. In light of all this, should we welcome Unisys as a "member of the Linux community" with open arms, or maintain a skeptical distance until the company proves that it has truly seen the open source light?

McObject’s eXtremeDB - First In-Memory
Database for BlueCat Linux 5.0 and Linux
2.6 Kernel

McObject’s eXtremeDB - First In-Memory
Database for BlueCat Linux 5.0 and Linux
2.6 Kernel 06/22/2004 02:43 AM
With McObject’s release of its eXtremeDB 2.3 in-memory embedded database for LynuxWorks’ BlueCat Linux 5.0 operating system, developers of embedded Linux applications for the first time have an in-memory database system (IMDS) available for LynuxWorks’ powerful embedded platform, and for the Linux 2.6 kernel on which BlueCat Linux 5.0 is based. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 12/06/2003 03:55 AM
An application-layer packet classifier for Linux.

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 10/31/2003 02:44 AM
A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

Linux in Government: Linux Lab at the
University of South Florida Opens Eyes

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A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

O'Reilly Releases Linux Unwired, Guide
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O'Reilly Releases Linux Unwired, Guide
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In Europe, Apple threatens Linux; Mac OS
X superior alternative to Linux

In Europe, Apple threatens Linux; Mac OS
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