Xen growing up. In August, XenSource will release Xen 3.0, software for running multiple operating systems on a single server. The Register's Ashlee Vance writes about big companies helping to make Xen a strong competitor with VMWare. New Xen features coming August and soon include better SMP support; x86 64-bit, Itanic, Power, and Intel VT… Continue reading Xen growing up

Getting Real: The alone time zone. To Get Real, get alone. 37signals is spread out over 4 cities and 8 time zones. From Provo Utah to Copenhagen Denmark, the five of us are 8 hours apart. We embrace this constraint. We’re always looking to embrace constraints. The presence of constraints make you creative. The more… Continue reading Getting Real: The alone time zone

Gateway Won't Honor Its Published Specs. Many things have changed for Gateway — most of it for the worse — since its mega-growth days that led to the much lamented Hill v. Gateway case. One thing apparently remains the same, though. The company still feels it has the right to shortchange customers on its published… Continue reading Gateway Won't Honor Its Published Specs

Battle declared for Roman wall. The next stage in a bid to have Scotland's greatest remnant of Roman occupation recognised on equal terms with the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China was launched yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Exchange Patch Coming June 14. Among the 10 patches to be released by Microsoft this coming Tuesday, June 14, there is one for Exchange Server. The maximum severity rating for this update is 'important' and a restart should not be required. … [MS Exchange Blog]

ConnectViaBooks: “Find people who share your interests, your hobbies or just read the same books.” [Scripting News]

The Hero of WWDC. (Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.) At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It… Continue reading The Hero of WWDC

Debian vs Fedora (again). This weekend I set aside some time to upgrade my wee Debian server. They've finally released “sarge”, an update that was years in the making, and I figured it was time I spent some time on that machine getting it back in shape. As it happens, I also wanted to tweak… Continue reading Debian vs Fedora (again)

InformationWeek > Malicious Code > From Russia With Malware > May 30, 2005. IframeDollars.biz says it pays Webmasters to place a one-line exploit on their sites. The code exploits a number of patched Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, including some that go back as far as 2002. Systems that haven't been updated would be vulnerable… Continue reading InformationWeek > Malicious Code > From Russia With Malware > May 30, 2005

Enough Keyword Searches. Just Answer My Question.. For anything but simple queries, even the best search engines are surprisingly ineffective. By JAMES FALLOWS. [NYT > Technology]