Blog Around The Corner: 2008-03

2008-03-28

andLinux

andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is free and will remain so, but donations are greatly needed.

andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.

andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications without modification.

2008-03-26

DNS Books

DNS for Rocket Scientists

Chapter 8: DNS Resource Records

Pro DNS and BIND

Dig for Windows

http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/dig/

GNU Utilities for Win32

Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.

DoubleCommand 又把俺的 iBook G4 搞死了

前天 Mac OS X 10.4.11 (PPC) 进行了一次 system update, 之后重启, 结果又出现蓝屏, 起不来了! 再重启, 还是一样. :-( 因为以前出过同样的问题, 怀疑又是 DoubleCommand 捣的鬼, 重启, 按住 Command-s, 进入 single mode, 执行 mount -uw /, 删除 /Library/StartupItems/DoubleCommand 和 /Library/PreferencePanes/DoubleCommand* 目录, 再重启, 一切 OK.

以后再也不用 DoubleCommand 了!

Mac OS X Keyboard Shoutcuts

Follow me

2008-03-25

dnspython

dnspython = DNS + Python

http://www.rfc-archive.org/

DNS Resources

ISC.org: BIND
DNS.net: DNS Resource Directory

BIND9.net: DNS Resource Record (RR) Types and DNS Parameters
IANA.org: DNS Parameters

Acid3 Test for Browsers

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

2008-03-24

Wubi

试用了一下 Wubi, 装了 ubuntu-7.04 在 windows-xp 上, 整体感觉还是很流畅的, 不错.

2008-03-22

Python Something

Coparing Python to Other Languages
What's Wrong with Perl?
Why Python?
What is Python?

2008-03-20

How to disable blinking cursors

One of the most famous methods of torture is Chinese water torture. In this torture a tied person is placed under a bucket filled with water with a tiny hole in the bottom. Water is slowly dripped on to a person's forehead, eventually driving the victim insane.

Software development is not an easy task, and often after a painful process of writing a program developers feel they should share their pains with users, so they put a part of own sufferings onto the shoulders of users in a method similar to the Chinese water torture - blinking cursors.

Fortunately, programmers are not insensitive torturers, and sometimes they provide an option in their programs to turn blinking cursers off. But often these options are not documented, and are not easily accessible.

-- jurta.org