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Published: Tue, 8 July 2008, 10:06, also tagged: news, linux, crime, murder, reiserfs, hans reiser, file systems, nina reiser
Open Source developer, programmer and creator of the ReiserFS file system Hans Reiser has led the Oakland, California police force to the location of his wife’s body which he has been convicted of murdering.
Hans Reiser had already been convicted of the murder of Nina Reiser before the body had been recovered. Hans Reiser had previously denied any involvement in Nina Reiser’s disappearance, but after conviction and possible promise of a reduced sentence he disclosed the burial location in the 8200 block of Skyline Boulevard in the Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland Hills.
I remember originally coming across this story on Slashdot, where many of the members supported Hans Reiser’s claims of innocence. I guess that can be put to rest now. Hans Reiser is to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th July.
Published: Wed, 2 July 2008, 16:58, also tagged: technology, office, firefox, linux, gnome, ubuntu, openoffice, compiz, hardy heron, canonical ltd
Ubuntu is to many non-technical computer users the face of Linux. From my past use of Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 and more recently 8.04 (Hardy Heron) I’d agree with that it certainly is the distribution of choice among many Linux folk, both geeks and non-geeks.
The latest iteration of Ubuntu brings some improved GUI tweaks with the inclusion of a recent version of GNOME and improves on many other features. One particular thing I like now is the NVIDIA drivers are provided by Canonical Ltd and when new updates are released the system is seamlessly updated. This is a great improvement over the tedious installation required in earlier versions of Ubuntu.
My Linux usage increased in part due to my visits to Russia. On the Dell Inspiron 1520 Ubuntu is responsive, full of great software (thanks to the open source community) and extremely stable.
Published: Wed, 11 June 2008, 15:03, also tagged: technology, rss, news, development, programming, xml, software, java, concurrent programming, atom, syndication, speeple, speeple news, newsbot
Before my visit to Russia I was working primarily on the Speeple control panel and blogging services, but because of my limited internet access I worked on a new version of the news bot for Speeple News.
The new and vastly improved version is multithreaded and makes use of the ROME RSS/Atom syndication and publishing tools library rather than my own RSS/Atom parser. I can't be entirely sure of the performance difference; the main reason for using the ROME library was to get development rolling along quickly.
The new bot performs amazingly well in comparison to the old variant. It manages to crawl 50K news feeds within the hour on a server with 8 CPU cores (using 4 threads per core).