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Sun Mar 02 17:02:11 2008 GMT: Django Hosting

Sun Feb 24 20:40:24 2008 GMT: Django

Sun Feb 17 15:49:49 2008 GMT: Wt

An article in Dr. Dobb's drew my attention to Wt, a C++ Web toolkit. This really looks impressive: it essentially hides all the details of web development (incl. AJAX, JavaScript and DHTML) behind a nice C++ widget library.

Fri Feb 08 22:37:10 2008 GMT: Alcatel-Lucent Reports Loss

Alcatel-Lucent has reported a net loss of EUR 3.52 billion for 2007. According to the press release it got rid of 6700 employees last year. More information is available from "Uncertain economy and seasonal sales decline hit Alcatel-Lucent", "Alcatel-Lucent Posts $3.74 Billion Quarterly Loss (Update7)" and "Alcatel-Lucent sees loss, uncertain 2008".

Mon Feb 04 19:34:55 2008 GMT: Yahoo!

What's more worrying: the number 3 in the market taking over the number 2, or the number 1 working together with the number 2?

Mon Jan 21 21:23:32 2008 GMT: Tiscali Blocking Port 119

Just noticed that my ISP is filtering data on port 119 - in fact they are even filtering connections to their own news server. Here is a tcpdump:

000000 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: S 2818442646:2818442646(0) win 5840 
015899 IP 212.74.114.194.119 > 88.106.196.46.44288: S 2767715672:2767715672(0) ack 2818442647 win 24616 
000152 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: . ack 1 win 365 
1219006 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
213934 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
431989 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
864012 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
1728002 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
3456003 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 
6912001 IP 88.106.196.46.44288 > 212.74.114.194.119: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 365 

SYN and FIN packets are not affected, but any data is just silently dropped (resulting in retransmissions).

Thu Jan 17 21:28:42 2008 GMT: Sun to Acquire MySQL

So why does Sun want to acquire MySQL? In the past they appeared to lean much more towards PostgreSQL. And in fact PostgreSQL for Solaris still says: "If you want a database that offers the assurance of a high-end SQL database on Solaris and the cost benefits of open source, PostgreSQL for Solaris is it."

Thu Dec 27 21:47:03 2007 GMT: Trennen sich Alcatel und Lucent wieder?

Sun Dec 23 22:28:48 2007 GMT: Economist's Three Fearless Predictions

Sat Dec 15 12:51:00 2007 GMT: Amazon SimpleDB

Sun Nov 25 21:44:27 2007 GMT: Visual C++ 2008 Express

Mon Nov 12 19:00:06 2007 GMT: SEO Link Builder