On Paul McNett’s Weblog, Paul blogs:
Twenty minutes later and I’m logged in to my new install – no GUI as this is a pure server box… and 10 minutes later my system is completely up to date… and about an hour later I have myself the beginnings of a killer server. And I still haven’t had to compile a single thing. This is really sweet, the best experience I’ve had yet getting a server up and running.
Read more at Ubuntu Server Success!
The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group (CentraLUG) holds free meetings that educate computer hobbyists and professionals alike about Linux, Open Source Software and Linux-related technologies. The monthly meeting will be held on April 4th at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library in Concord, room 146 from 7 pm to 9 pm. Meetings are open to the public. Details and directions at http://www.centralug.org.
This month, Bill Sconce will debrief his trip to Washington DC and report on Python Conference happenings and prognostications: new projects, show-and-tell, an outlook for Python 3.0, one difference between Python and Perl and more! Ed Lawson will present Scribus, an Open Source desktop publishing system. An open question and answer session will be held — bring your Linux questions!
Scripting News points out “Why Darren Barefoot isn’t smoking the podcasting dope.”
I’m holding off on getting into audiocasting myself. Unlike text, you don’t have the ability to compress, skim, index and cross-reference (although metadata will help those last items) and you have to devote 1:1 time to consume it. I can power-skim 500 articles in the news aggregator in a few minutes, dipping in and out of articles of interest, skipping to the bottom of the list or searching for a keyword or phrase with Apple/Control-F.
On Slashdot, Python Moving into the Enterprise. Qa1 writes “Seems that Python is moving into the enterprise. At the recent PyCon it has become apparent that it’s not just Google, GIS, Nokia or even Microsoft anymore. The article points out that Python is increasingly becoming a perfectly viable and even preferred choice for the enterprise. More and more companies are looking at Python as a good alternative to past favorites like Java. Will we finally be able to code for living in a language that’s not painful? Exciting times!”
I knew several attendees at PyCon, although I was tied up that week (teaching MySQL) and couldn’t make it. Ed Leafe, former FoxPro MVP and host of several great email and web forums at http://leafe.com, presented the promising business development framework dabo. The Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group is building up a Python SIG (developers on all platforms welcomed) and will be holding debriefing sessions about the conference as part of meetings state-wide.
“When they hear “world domination”, they don’t hear the irony, and thus tend to write us off as nutcases or flakes. That’s good; it gives us time and room to blindside them.”
Eric S. Raymond
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3676
OSNews says that Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” Gold. “According to AppleInsider, build 8A428 has been declared gold master.”
Check out the OS X Tiger Tour on the Apple site.
Missed posting this earlier in the week. Looking forward to giving this one a spin around the block:
MySQL takes database upgrade for test-drive. “MySQL AB has released MySQL 5.0.3, the first beta version of a major upgrade to its open source database for platforms including Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows and Mac OS X. ”
InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/30/HNmysqlupgrade_1.html