Wednesday 11th August
New: Ryan Gough: A spin-bowler in the making
New: Lightning Pool: Just about the best game of online pool
New: Chickstop: Games for girls who like to play
New: GrokItBot: A Bayesian/AIML instant messaging bot for AIM written in Python

Over and over
I have to acknowledge that what pervades my thinking, what has done for years, is an insistent question.
Do the people who die young, know that they will die young?

Recently I have concluded that they do not know this.
I am now convinced that they were asking the same question as I am. Over and over.

Links
http://miniml.com/  Flash fonts
http://sebsauvage.net/  This page contains a bunch of miscellaneous Python code snippets, recipes, mini-guides, links, examples, tutorials and ideas, ranging from very (very) basic things to advanced.
http://www.20q.net/  20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets.
http://forum.ev1servers.net/  Ensim - HOWTO Tune Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix
http://forum.ev1servers.net/  Ensim - HOWTO: block email viruses w/o using crappy MailScanner
http://forum.ev1servers.net/  Ensim - Remind me again why catch-all is a disaster waiting to happen?
http://rfxnetworks.com/  Ensim - BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures. There is not much complexity or detail to BFD yet and likewise it is very straight-forward in its installation, configuration and usage. The reason behind BFD is very simple; the fact there is little to no authentication and brute force auditing programs in the linux community that work in conjunction with a firewall or real-time facility to place bans
http://www.macdevcenter.com/  Making the Jump to Subversion
http://fun.drno.de/  Hnng
http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/  SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux supporting ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago and SQLite with APIs for C, C?, Perl, Perl-DBI, Python, Python-DB, Zope, PHP, PHP Pear DB, Ruby, Ruby-DBI, TCL and Java, drop-in replacement libraries for MySQL and PostgreSQL, command line clients, a GUI configuration tool and extensive documentation. The APIs support advanced database operations such as bind variables, multi-row fetches, client side result set caching and suspended transactions. It is ideal for speeding up database-driven web-based applications, accessing databases from unsupported platforms, migrating between databases, distributing access to replicated databases and throttling database access.

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