KDE 3.1 is released. Whee! Big compiler fun today, I think.

Lotsa screenshots, and a changelog relative to 3.0.5 (for the poor Lynx users)

I’m getting somewhat annoyed with the firm that hosts this site. Ever since I switched over to MT, I’ve started paying more attention to the load on the machine — because MT often seems slowish — and it’s somewhat distressing to see a 2way 550 MHz PIII with a load that’s never below 5 (and often above 10). Seems like not quite the level of stuff I’m paying for. The super-locked down environment on the server is also sort of annoying in a petty fascist bullyboy sort of way — like it would hurt to give me an unmunged ‘w’, so that I can see how many other people are on the machine?

If those were the only problems, I’d just be pissing and moaning in my head, and not bothering to post this. Sadly, they’re not. There was some sort of datacenter movement or something this weekend, and ever since that, the Better Half has been unable to get her mail. I’ve had a ticket open on this for almost two days, and haven’t even seen an acknowledgement of the problem. I’m starting to get a bit fed up. As a general principal, I don’t want to put all my eggs in a single basket, so I’m not sure that moving the org domain over to CornerHost is how I want to proceed; maybe I’ll have to throw Pair some business.

What really, really frosts my dangly bits, however, is that I recommended this service to somebody last week, and they’re using it now. Grr.

Update the problem now appears to be “better”, in that mail is flowing (no clue if things were bouncing or accumulating during the outage), but there’s still no response to the trouble ticket.

Fugu is an Open Source GUI SFTP client for OS X. We’ll probably need it sooner or later.

While I was at LinuxWorld, I saw the news that Virginia Heinlein, wife of the late Robert A. Heinlein, had passed on. I noted this with sadness, and raised a glass to her memory later that evening, in a rotating bar high over Manhattan. Al reminded me this morning that I hadn’t blogged this, and that I’d meant to. He also gave me pointers to the LA Times obit (warning: obnoxious registration scheme) and some reminiscences from Jerry Pournelle

Once again, I’m off to the LinuxWorldExpo next week. I’ll have the laptop, and it looks like there’s net access available in my room, so there’s at least the possibility that I’ll post something here — it probably depends on how exciting the show ends up being. I’ll certainly be at least looking at email, so there’s still time to plan a get-together with me, if you’re in New York…

Things that might be useful to investigate:

Siege and JMeter.

Anybody used any of these? Leave a comment.

Several people I work with are sure to be happy that Intel is finally ofering a port of vTune to Linux. Fortunately, since none of them read this, I don’t have to worry about requests to install it for at least a week. 8^)=

Sex shop offers ‘clergy discount’:

To people driving towards the church, the sign reads: “And God said go out into the world and have great sex. God’s gift to women. Amen and amen.”

People leaving the church see: “No need to mail order. Gay videos in stock. Clergy discount. Have good sex. Hallelujah!”

Over at Corante, via Politechbot.

What I want to know is, where’s this “movement” that everybody keeps talking about? I’ve got some money I’d like to send them.

John Le Carré thinks America has gone mad; I don’t see much out there to counter the argument. Even GOP Senate leaders are getting fed up with the current administration’s high-handed ways of doing things. Oh, and Donald “Precious Bodily Fluids” Rumsfeld has decided that our inability to find what we’re looking for means that what we’re looking for is there. (I am not, I repeat, NOT making this shit up; read the story for yourself.) It is starting to look like a serious portion of the top leaders are the country are either (a) convinced the entire electorate is a bunch of idiots, (b) certifably bugfuck, or (c) both.

My money being on (c) fails to engender any sort of warm fuzzy when considering the future.

(First two links from Brig over at EatonWeb.)