RasterWeb!

Spotted on a mailing list, where the author describes how to do something on a *nix based system:

I wish it was that easy under Windows.

Isn’t that the official Windows motto?

SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine and DBD::SQLite – Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver are a great combination for the perl hacker on your gift giving list this year. It seems like the perfect solution to those problems that don’t quite require MySQL or another RDBMS, but need more than flat files or dbm files…

GnuPG for OS X 1.2.1 is now available. Which is good, since the last GPG update I attempted seemed to hose a few things in the process.

File under save for later: sysctl

(As in man sysctl, or sysctl -a)

Also see: Getting List of All Processes on Mac OS X

Hmmm, I had thought Go Daddy was a good registrar, but upon trying to hit their site today I see:

We’re performing system upgrades that require us to take this site down temporarily. We’ll be back up and running in about three hours — so please check back! You’ll have a faster, more secure, higher capacity site to enjoy when you do!

Is it just me, or does that seem pretty unacceptable? I was worried because they used Microsoft servers, but had hoped for the best… arrgghhh…..