ANNUAL METEOR SHOWERS is a schedule of view of considerable meteor streams. The nearest from them are Virginids and Delta Leonids which can be visible from 5 February to 19 March.
A fork of ImageMagck – GraphicsMagick
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including popular formats. It allows API for C, C++, Perl, Borland’s Delphi, Java, PHP, Python, Scheme, Tcl, and Ruby. The main advantage of new tool for work with images is independence application which uses GraphicsMagick from modifications of core of GraphicsMagick. To use […]
Funny Russian Livejournal Services
Today morning I found two cool LiveJournal services (both of them are Russian). The first is LJ user biorhythm calculator. It uses LJ user’s bithday to calculate that. Second one is LiVEJOURNAL COUNTER. It’s a good idea to put your personal counter into your journal and see how many people read it.
Detecting hardware from outside the box
“Detecting hardware from outside the box” is an article which shows hooks of getting an information about hardware on the Linux machine. I think it will be useful for both beginners and advanced Linux users.
FedoraNEWS.ORG
FedoraNEWS.ORG is a very very useful web site for all users, developers and administrators who work with Fedora. You can find there many howtos, opinions and tips which can make your life easier 😉
Python for Series 60
Nokia has announced a Python for Series 60. Python for Series 60 brings the Python programming language to the Series 60 Platform. With Python for Series 60 installed, developers can write Series 60 applications in Python, or embed the Python interpreter into Symbian C++ applications for the platform. Personally, I don’t like Nokia mobile phones. Their price is completely unjustified – it’s too hight! But […]
Native XML DBMS
Sedna XML DBMS is a native full-featured data management system. § Support for the W3C XQuery language § Support for a declarative update language § Native XML data storage structures designed for efficient support for both queries and updates (no underlying relational or another DBMS). The XML data storage is based on descriptive schema (also called DataGuide) § Efficient support for stand-alone XML documents with […]
LJ: Power-loss post-mortem
I had a little problems with update my Livejournal last week. So, I’ve found an explanation what happened with LJ: Power-loss post-mortem written by Brad Fitzpatrick. It’s really difficult to recover so complicated system.