--- title: links for 2006-12-18 date: 2006-12-18T05:27:27Z modified: 2006-12-18T05:27:27Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/12/17/links-for-2006-12-18/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1263 categories: - Links timestamp: 2006-12-18T05:27:27Z tags: - Links --- - [Minor League Ball :: Minor Leagues blog featuring John Sickels](http://www.minorleagueball.com/story/2006/12/11/16155/586) for the Sox fans in the audience – the news from the farm looks decent (tags: [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball) [minor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/minor) [leagues](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/leagues) [farm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/farm) [report](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/report)) - [Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/17/2006 | Incites | Head-butt from horse helps partially restore trainer’s vision](http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/16256069.htm) Buster’s right: the story is bizarre, but good news (tags: [weird](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/weird) [horse](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/horse) [injury](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/injury) [cure](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cure)) - [Brian “Krow” Aker’s Idle Thoughts – Debian, MySQL, and why am I working on this bug?](http://krow.livejournal.com/466437.html) “If you call MySQL and you have support we support you if you are running Debian (the same with Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu and others..).” – Brian responds to the /. assertion that MySQL dropped support for Debian (tags: [Krow](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Krow) [MySQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MySQL) [Debian](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Debian) [/.](http://del.icio.us/sogrady//.) [Ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ubuntu) [Aker](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Aker) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [support](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/support) [redmonkclient](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonkclient)) - [Monkey Bites](http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/microsoft_testi.html) “Microsoft’s VoIP will use the Session Initiation Protocol, the standard signaling protocol for internet conferencing and telephony, unlike Skype for instance, which uses its own proprietary network.” – this is definitely an area to watch closely (tags: [VOIP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/VOIP) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [SIP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SIP) [Office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Office) [standards](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/standards)) - [Andrew Cowie – On the politics and economics of dual-licencing](http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/db4o/free-riding.html) “If you are open source/GPL, we are. If you don’t want to comply with the GPL, we’re not open source and not free either — in this case we’re as commercial as you are…It is as simple as this.” – perfect response from Christof; love working w/ th (tags: [db4objects](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/db4objects) [redmonkclient](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonkclient) [Wittig](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Wittig) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community)) - [Joining EnterpriseDB – Dave’s PostgreSQL Blog](http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dpage/index.php?/archives/47-guid.html) man, EnterpriseDB is growing quickly; Andy and co are growing quickly, backed by good customer uptake (tags: [EnterpriseDB](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/EnterpriseDB) [Astor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Astor) [Oracle](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Oracle) [Postgres](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Postgres) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring) [redmonkclient](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonkclient)) - [Jokosher on Solaris](http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/12/15/0) audio editing software porting to Solaris (tags: [Solaris](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Solaris) [Jokosher](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Jokosher) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [audio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/audio) [editing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/editing)) - [The availability game : Pensieri di un lunatico minore](http://blog.amber.org/2006/12/11/the-availability-game/) “I usually tell people that every additional nine costs 2x what the previous one cost…You best be able to write a business case for that.” – precisely; great to see others making the case for sanity (tags: [Petrilli](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Petrilli) [availability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/availability) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [cost](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cost)) - [Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Blog Archive » VMware as operating system?](http://ianmurdock.com/?p=384) “Finally, what about standards?…There are going to be multiple application platforms if history is any indication…so how do applications take advantage of the new platforms without the inevitable fragmentation?” – an excellent question (tags: [Murdock](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Murdock) [VMWare](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/VMWare) [standards](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/standards) [virtualization](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/virtualization) [operating](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/operating) [systems](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/systems)) - [Mark Anders on Flash development | The Register](http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/12/15/mark_anders_flash/) “What we’re seeing with Eclipse is tremendous innovation; I think the Microsoft tools have a bit more polish but there’s a lot more innovation in Eclipse.” – interesting feedback from Adobe on Eclipse (tags: [Eclipse](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Eclipse) [redmonkclient](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonkclient) [Adobe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Adobe) [feedback](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/feedback) [Flex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Flex)) - [Zend Technologies » Blog Archive » Is Stefan Esser right(eous)?](http://blogs.zend.com/2006/12/15/is-stefan-esser-righteous/) “Stefan Esser announced that he will retire from the PHP Security Response Team. He is frustrated with the slow response he receives for his alerts.” – the pace and process of security improvements is always tough to manage (tags: [security](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/security) [Esser](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Esser) [Zend](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Zend) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/PHP) [patching](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patching) [governance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/governance) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource)) - [Everybody Loves Eric Raymond – Bruce Schneier Facts](http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/156) some pretty funny ones in here (tags: [Schneier](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Schneier) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [facts](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/facts)) - [snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Perfect](http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=566) “This is perhaps the absolute best non-techy, two-sentence description of current trends that I’ve read yet.” – i concur (tags: [Snell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Snell) [Time](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Time) [Web2.0](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Web2.0) [collaboration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/collaboration) [architecture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/architecture) [participation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/participation)) - [del.icio.us: im in ur serverz, upgradin ur bookmarkz](http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/12/im_in_ur_server.html) del.icio.us upgrading to new hardware: outstanding news (tags: [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/del.icio.us) [server](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/server) [Yahoo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Yahoo) [migration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/migration) [upgrade](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/upgrade)) - [WordPress Tiger Administration // Ordered List by Steve Smith](http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/) this skin for WP’s admin front end is terrific (tags: [WordPress](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WordPress) [admin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/admin) [skin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/skin) [Tiger](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Tiger) [Smith](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Smith) [via:Alex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Alex)) - [Ordered List by Steve Smith](http://orderedlist.com/) Smith – a dev for Notre Dame – is using Mephisto to power his site. interesting. (tags: [Mephisto](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mephisto) [Ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Ruby) [Rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Rails) [Smith](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Smith)) - [WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software](http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom) interesting concept. i could probably use something like this, though as Alex noted not being able to easily extract links would be inconvenient (tags: [writing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/writing) [OS-X](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OS-X) [software](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/software) [innovative](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovative) [idea](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/idea) [continuous-partial-attention](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/continuous-partial-attention) [via:Alex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Alex))