Hula

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Feb 162005
 

This is interesting: Novell is going to release their Netmail product as Open Source under the name Hula Server. Primary target is Linux, while Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware will follow later.

Hula is a mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) and a calendar server, with an integrated listserver and anti-virus capabilities. More features here (in progress).

Since they promise carrier grade performance (serving 50.000 concurrent connected users (out of defined 200.000) on a US$4000 server does not sound too bad…) and the webinterface looks very good, I think I’ll switch. Having good things for free can never harm ones business.

 Posted by at 00:55

Fav Icon

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Feb 162005
 

I finally created a favicon.ico, so the bookmark to my site can be recognized. It’s just a resized version of my company’s (RaRe IT Services) logo, so it still needs a little work. But it’s there for your viewing pleasure.

 Posted by at 00:03

Python 2.3.5 – final

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Feb 152005
 

Last week Python version 2.3.5 was released. There are specific Windows-binaries on the download page, all others should download the source release. The changelog can be read here, an important fix being the security update to SimpleXMLRPCServer.

Note: this is a release for 2.3.x users not being able to switch to 2.4.x for some reason. If you already use 2.4.x, don’t bother (but don’t forget about the security fix).

 Posted by at 13:30

New skin

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Feb 152005
 

Please be sure to check out the new skin I installed: Kubrick. You can view this blog using the sking by clicking here. If you don’t like it, just choose one of the others skins from the sidebar on the right.

Mind you, the other skins have the skin-chooser removed. Please let me know how you like the new skin. How does it perform on Pocket IE? In RSS-readers? Etcetera. If things go smooth, I might make this a forced skin (no more choosing).

 Posted by at 00:18

Webmatters

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Feb 132005
 

While reading some posts about the discussion between Opera and Microsoft’s Bill Gates (Google for it, there’s plenty), I found this website about web-pages, and how to create them in a decent, compatible way. Very nice stuff to read, and very usefull.

 Posted by at 11:13

Want to learn ASP.NET 2.0?

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Feb 122005
 

Then Microsoft has just the right FREE trainingkit for you. That’s right. You can download an ISO image here, for nothing, and it contains a complete training in ASP.NET 2.0 by using Visual C# 2005. The complete course is also available as PDF on the CD.

 Posted by at 20:23

404.pl

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Feb 092005
 

After installing perl on the server, it seemed like a logical thing to actually do something about it, since the intended use (awstats) did not quite like the setup for some reason (it just runs for hours doing nothing).
So, I started creating the 404-redirect as I mentioned waaaaaay back. It’s a simple perl-script, that looks at REQUEST_URI, REDIRECT_URL and REDIRECT_STATUS. The last one will always be 404, since I only call the script when a 404 occurs.
The script actually does not redirect or do something yet, but it prints out the variables and the basic for the redirection-logic is in there. As for something with “cmd.exe” in it (which I see a lot when I look at the serverlogs) and it will state that you requested an URL with cmd.exe in it.

Now I need to define some nice redirects. To a random anti-virus site (McAfee, Sophos, Norton, etc), to the BSA (people searching for cracks and that kind of stuff), etc.

If you know a nice combination of a requested url (or keyword) and the appropriate redirection, please let me know.

 Posted by at 00:29

One perl lesson learned

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Feb 072005
 

If you configure Apache to serve Perl-scripts via mod_perl, and you get an “500 Internal Server Error” each time you access a perl script, you might want to check the first line in the script.

#!/perl/bin/perl.exe

Is what you can find, but…is that where you installed perl? I didn’t! So change the line to point to the correct location of perl.exe (#!c:/progra~1/perl/bin/perl.exe) and try the script again. It worked for me.

 Posted by at 21:28

Qt switches to dual-license for Windows too

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Feb 072005
 

Qt from Trolltech had a dual-license since its beginning, but not for Windows. If you wanted to use Qt on Windows, you had to buy a commercial license, even if you were creating an open-source application. This has changed today, as you can read in this press-release.

Qt is a C++ application framework, and having that on Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS/X and some other operating systems means that you can write an application that compiles to NATIVE code without recoding. But the guys from Trolltech can convince you better than I can, so read more about Qt here.

 Posted by at 21:23

VS.NET vs Delphi

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Feb 032005
 

Allen blogs about the Visual Studio versus Delphi debate. Quite an interesting piece of Borland propaganda, if you ask me. As I see it: Delphi is not Delphi anymore, it’s just Visual Studio with a Delphi (read: able to compile Object Pascal) core. What is left out of the equation is (and I have ranted about this before) the price. If you’re a one-man band (like I am) you will choose VS.NET because it’s cheaper, has more support for it’s price and it’s easier to get new (preview, early access, beta) material. If you’re a big company and you need a license for say 20 developers, it sure is a difference to shell out 20 times €3500 for Delphi (total 70,000 plus quite some more for support), or 5 times MSDN Universal (no need for every developer to have everything) and 15 times VS.NET Enterprise Architect (total of 5×2800 + 15×2500 = $51,500 ~ €40,000).

What I miss in VS.NET? Live data at design time. That’s it. And Borland only has live data with their own dataproviders, and we all know that Borlands drivers are not known for their speed. Remember BDE?

Mind you, I have Borland Delphi 6 Enterprise, but I still don’t see why I need to shell out so much money for the upgrade to Delphi2005, when more and more (potential) clients are asking for C# programmers and I can have basically the same IDE (VS.NET) as FULL product for less than the Borland upgrade. How’s that for keeping your customers?

 Posted by at 15:56
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