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Sun Studio 11 and the Solaris 10 OS keep shattering performance barriers.
Optimizing compilers and tools from Sun deliver the highest performing
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Greetings, readers of the Linux newsletter. Autumn is well on its way
in the northern hemisphere (as it's raining in Portland this week).
Stay inside and warm your hands by the exhaust vents of your computers
as you read the latest news on free and open source software from the
O'Reilly Network.

Apache httpd has a well-understood plain-text logfile format. It's
usually readable and useful, but in certain situations, it's not exactly
what you need. Apache httpd can write its logs to other places in other
ways--including Unix syslog. Rich Bowen explains why you might want to do
this and how to do it sensibly, safely, and effectively:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html

Network applications can be tricky to write if they have to deal with
large volumes of traffic in short bursts. Latency is more important than
raw speed, but that often means handling requests quickly. Stas Bekman
and his colleagues at MailChannels recently built an anti-spam system
using the latest in event-driven, asynchronous IO tools. Here's how they
did it:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/10/12/asynchronous_events.html

In weblogs this week, your editor asked challenge-response mail-system
users to filter his mail over the telephone:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/dear_psychopathic_challengeres_1.html

Curtis Poe demonstrated the use of traits and roles to maintain state in
OO designs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/using_traits_to_maintain_state.html

Jeremy Jones reviewed the state of eye candy on the Linux desktop:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/compiz_beryl_and_the_future_of.html

Nitesh Dhanjani followed up on the use of Google's code search to find
security bugs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/using_google_code_search_to_fi.html

Andy Oram suggested that peer-to-peer distribution models--and large media
hosting sites--could help creators keep control of their creations:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/maybe_its_time_for_creators_to.html

Steve Mallett started a customer-mutual-help society to deal with
ineffective customer-support requests:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/customerservice20_supportus_1.html

Ann Barcomb summarized a week of changes in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_6.html

Carla Schroder pointed to her series of articles on managing Linux's Udev:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/10/showing_udev_whos_boss.html

... and argued against crimes of web design:

Mitch Tulloch reported a statistic about IIS overtaking Apache httpd in
certain contexts:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/iis_overtakes_apache.html

pat eyler considered domain-specific features in languages such as COBOL
and Fortran:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/robert_glass_dsls_and_ruby.html

Curt Hibbs opined on Ruby entering the TIOBE mainstream category:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/ruby_declared_mainstream.html

Tom Adelstein recommended buying Windows XP (even for free software users)
before it disappears:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/10/should_you_buy_windows_xp_now.html

Brady Forest analyzed the Chinese Wikipedia's increasing accessibility:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/wikipedia_china_gfw.html

Nat Torkington called COBOL undead:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/cobol_the_undea.html

Allison Randal reported news from the Government Open Source Conference:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/open_source_in.html

That wraps up this week. Your editor now needs black and orange jellybeans.

Why do so few people like the licorice ones?
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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