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Dear Readers,

Nature is binary! I have proof. In the series of seven days in New
Hampshire, we had 12 inches of snow, a series of 60-degree days, another
snow storm, and it will be 65 tomorrow. Who ever keeps flipping the switch
from Winter to Spring and back again, stop it!

While I've been pondering the binary nature of meteorology, life continues
apace over at the ONLamp Family of Web Sites. If you want to offer a
search engine on your web site, but don't want to go to one of the "Big
Three" search providers, Michael Douma offers a rundown of the top search
engines available that are implemented using PHP.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/02/16/search-engine-showdown.html

The bloggers, when not sunning themselves or shoveling snow, have had a
busy week. Juliet Kemp points the afflicted at a solution for ghosting
cursors under Gnome.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/cursor_ghosting_on_x.html

Caitlyn Martin takes Fedora Core to task for what she sees as a poor
record on package management.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html

Microsoft going open source?!! Maybe not for everything, but Matt Asay
reports on Redmond's move to place FoxPro into open source.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/foxpro_going_to_codeplex_ie_go.html

chromatic continues his salute to obscure Linux packages with a hat's off
to Gnumeric.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/thank_you_gnumeric.html

Don't we all just have those days when nothing will do but a hex-dumping
network proxy server? Ok, maybe most of us don't but Jeremy Jones did, and
has a recipe of the week to handle it

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/recipe_of_the_week_hexdumping.html.

Todd Ogasawara has a pointer to a free e-book from MIT that compares open
versus closed source programming incentives.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/free_pdf_book_from_mit_press_p_1.html

According Larry Wall, Perl isn't developed using the waterfall scheduling
methodology, but a whirlpool, and as he says, "a whirlpool sucks." Just
one of the many gems that Ann Barcomb culled from the Perl Mailing List
this week.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_26.html

Matt Asay continues his take on Microsoft and open source with a
suggestion that they embrace the GPL. Bill Gates and Richard Stallman
together? That would be a sight to see.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/microsoft_gpl_match_made_in_he.html

Chris Tyler asks in light of Dell's investigation of pre-installed Linux:
do people want pre-installed Linux or device drivers that work with more
than one distro?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/linux_on_dell_preinstalled_is.html.

Remember those classic Grimm's Fairy Tales, where the evil factory class
is outwitted by the humble but brave persistence layer? No? Then you won't
have heard the tale of the AuthenticationFairy, so let Curtis Poe tell it
to you.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/the_authenticationfairy.html

Next week, there will be two new and exciting articles to look forward on
Thursday. Stéphane Faroult will take us through the first part of a
two-part series on implementing analytical functions in MySQL, and Raju
Varghese shows us how to do 3-D visualizations of logfiles using Gnuplot.

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com

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