Development

Today FreeBSD has upgraded CVS in their source tree, from 1.11.5 to 1.11.15, which addresses numerous security issues.

It’s so common to provide information feeds through RSS feed and today Ceri has committed FreeBSD’s RSS transform.

ShapReader was introduced to me by junsu@ and I liked it very much. Today, it turns one (The first release was released last year), let bless it :-)

Bruce M Simpson has added Daniel Hartmeier to the active committers’ rank. Daniel is from the OpenBSD campaus and is one of the authors of OpenBSD’s stateful firewall, pf(4).

Today I got in a rush to implement a XML+XSL -> HTML translation at server side. I looked at MSDN and found that there is a simple implementation which can fit my requirements, the code is the following (for some reasons I have to use ASP and not .net technologies):

I don’t use Access for serious applications, and the biggest problem with it is performance concerns. It does not support concurrent accesses, and hence we will have a big trouble if our server is heavily loaded.

Yesterday I have talked with Max Laier about the pf accessories, say, the spamd. He explained me why it is kept in ports/ and not the base system - this is to keep the base system small, and I completely agree this.

今天是Microsoft DevDay 2004，一大早起床和sater一行人冲向北展剧场，另外分散到场的还有null, heallven, monyu等人。

态度决定一切，我一直坚持这么认为，而微软对于一个一经推出这么多年的产品仍然花如精力去维护的精神，实在是令人钦佩。

Today, NetBSD has announced their start of 2.0-RELEASE works. NetBSD is an excellent operating system that supports many platforms, if not most.