Gentoo 1.0 Released

I was just looking at this last night, and today I go to Slashdot, and I find an annoucement, that Gentoo Linux 1.0 has been released. Man, as soon as I get my life under control a little more, and I get to install my 40gig hard drive I have sitting on my other chair, I'm going to download the images and install this blickety! I was actually hoping they'd wait long enough to have KDE 3.0 included, but oh well. Maybe if I wait a little longer?

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21:58 (utc-5)

 

Ensuring an HTTPS connection

For the site I'm developing, I'm trying to make sure that if the user types in http://site.com/order/ it'll automatically redirect to go to https://site.com/order/. How can I do that? It seems like it'd be an obvious thing...

On the page for getenv in the PHP manual, someone mentions the $HTTPS variable, which has the value "on" if you're using HTTPS. That's great, but where is it documented?

Hey, turns out it's an Apache variable, which is documented here, in the mod_ssl reference. Glad I didn't bother e-mailing the PHP mailing list.

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StructuredText comments

Ok, in an attempt to slowly start integrating StructuredText into my blog, I've enabled basic StructuredText parsing in my comments. This is bold, this is italic, and this is underlined. In a minute I'll finish the URL highlighting so that'll work too

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15:59 (utc-5)

 

FS as database

Via Slashdot, an interview at The Register with former Be engineers on database-oriented filesystems. Seems like a very interesting read.

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14:42 (utc-5)

 

AI in Video Games

Via Slashdot, MissingMatter: Dr. Ian Lane Davis On AI in Video Games. Contains a great description of the differences between academia and industry:

AI as taught at academic institutions covers a much broader range of problems than what's in the game industry, including intelligent data mining, computer vision, and the like. Which is not to say the the game industry won't need to take advantage of that sort of thing in the future, but we're still gathering momentum. It's also true that in academia there are a lot of what we would call "toy problems" because they are of such a small scope that they don't solve a real world problem yet. But that is usually the proper first step in exploring new techniques before committing too much time barking up the wrong tree. The real difference comes down to a focus on "result" versus "method". Academia develops methods. Industry applies them. Each needs the other, because industry is frequently shortsighted and cannot spend the research time developing new techniques.

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14:39 (utc-5)

 

Regular Expression Library

Check out the Regular Expression Library for regular expressions for common problems.

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06:27 (utc-5)

 

Snatch

Just saw Snatch for the first time. Fun. Glad I'm not alone: "As an unfolding event, "Snatch" is fun to watch, even if no reasonable person could hope to understand the plot in one viewing."

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02:48 (utc-5)

 

KDE 3.0 is out!

Newsforge: KDE 3.0 is out on CVS

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